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USAF Fact Sheet 95-03 Unidentified Flying Objects and Air Force Project Blue Book From 1947 to 1969, the Air Force investigated Unidentified Flying Objects under Project Blue Book. The project, headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, was terminated Dec. 17, 1969. Of a total of 12,618 sightings reported to Project Blue Book, 701 remained "unidentified."

Many UFO researchers said that the project was the governments way to downplay the UFO phenomenon. The investigations of the UFO sightings were unprofessional and unscientific performed.

(pdf file)Official FOIA FBI Synopsis of file: This small file relates to an Air Force program for the investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects. The Secretary of the Air Force discontinued this program in 1969.

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the letter I submitted to a TV Q&A column about "Project U.F.O." The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel finally dropped its own columnist (who handled simple questions), so maybe the new syndicated one can tackle this.

After the U. S. Air Force released it's Project Blue Book Special Report 14 in October 1955, a couple of questions were raised that have not been answered to this day. Over the years possible answers to these questions have been given quasi-mythic status by some in the UFO reporting community. As the story goes, from 1951 through 1953 the Air Force prepared twelve (12) status reports about the progress of Project Grudge, later named Project Blue Book. When the summary report was published, it was numbered fourteen (14), raising the obvious questions, "Was there a Report 13 and, if so, what happened to it?"

The Project Blue Book report, also known as the Condon Report, is titled "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects." This study was conducted at the University of Colorado in 1968 under contract with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, under contract F44620-67-C-0035. Dutton and Bantam Books also published versions, however, these editions contained 967 and 965 pages respectively, while the report published by the University of Colorado was four volumes with 1465 pages. The report was not distributed to depository libraries nor given a SuDoc number.

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The United States Air Force actively investigated UFO sightings under a program named Project Blue Book. The program was started in 1947 and was terminated on December 17, 1969. Project Blue Book investigated 12, 618 UFO sightings and 701(5.6%) of those sightings remained unidentified.

The director of Intelligence himself, General Cabell, had called wanting a response. Lieutenant Cummings, the head of UFO investigations at the time, had to go to the Pentagon to explain the events and the status of UFO investigations. Cummings brought up the fact that since the termination of project Grudge, investigations had been lackluster at best. Ruppelt was asked to step in and assume a leadership role for UFO investigations. The new Project Grudge was back in business in October of 1951.

The decision to discontinue UFO investigations was based on an evaluation of a report prepared by the University of Colorado entitled, "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects;" a review of the University of Colorado's report by the National Academy of Sciences; previous UFO studies and Air Force experience investigating UFO reports during 1940 to 1969.

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