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The unexplained UFO reports from the files of the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book UFO investigations. Compiled by Don Berliner, for the Fund for UFO Research The conclusions or views expressed in this publication are the views of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Fund for UFO Research, Inc. THE UNEXPLAINED UFO CASES FROM THE PROJECT BLUE BOOK FILES In January, 1974, I visited the U.S. Air Force Archives at Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, Ala., to review the files of Project Blue Book as the first step toward writing a book on the subject.

The "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects" (Condon & Gillmor 1969; often referred to as the "Condon Report") presents the findings of the Colorado Project regarding a scientific study of unidentified flying objects. It remains the most influential public document concerning the current scientific status of the UFO issue.

Cosmic Conspiracies were recently surfing the internet looking for new articles for this site when we came across some very interesting documents that were posted on the FBI Website (www.fbi.gov). We were all led to believe that Project Bluebook fronted by Dr. J. Allen Hynek was terminated on 17th December, 1969. However, as these documents reveal, it appears that it was re-opened in 1989.

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.

Blue Book, the final more or less public U.S. Air Force UFO investigation took over from Project Grudge in 1952 and lasted until December 1969. By this time, almost 13,000 sighting reports had been collected by all three projects combined. Approximately 600-700 cases remained unexplained (depending on which Air Force statistics are accepted).

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."

There was no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represented technological developments or principles beyond the range of modern scientific knowledge.

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?"