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This Black Vault compilation contains a September 1997 reply from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense to John Greenewald's FOIA request, enclosing its UFO records. The enclosures include a Navy information sheet dismissing the Philadelphia Experiment and an Air Force UFO fact sheet listing 12,618 Project Blue Book sightings, 701 of them unidentified. They also include the National Academy of Sciences review endorsing the University of Colorado report and the concluding pages of a 1994 Air Force Roswell report attributing the wreckage to Project MOGUL.
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or man-made phenomena, twelve provided insufficient data for anal~is, and seven were considered to be possible fabrications; none proved to be "real objects with high strangeness." ) Teohni call y trained personne 1 were utili zed by the Uni. ve r s 1 t y. The University gz'Oup included a sub-group on field investigation:s of UFO reports; their narration and interpretations or cases are reasonable and adequate. Leading gt'Cups were engaged uncler contract for specialized work-- e.g., Stanford Research Institute on radar anomalies and a subsidiary or the Raytheon Corporation for photograDIII.etric analyses. Divergent Views or those rev scientists who have looked into · UFO:s were taken into account. The history or the subject was also surveyed, including the experiences in some other nations. Finally, extensive use was made or many specialists in various public and private laboratories. The Report makes clear that with the best means at our disposal, positive correlation or all UFO reports with identifiable, known phenomena is not possible. No study, past, current or future, can provide the basis for stating categorically that a familiar phenomenon will necessarily be linkable to every sighting. The Report 1! free or dogmatism on this matter. It is also clear, as one goes through the descriptions of UFO sightings, whether in the Report or in other literature, that while some incidents have no positive identification with familiar phenomena, they also have no positive identification with extraterrestrial visitors or artifacts. We think the methodology and approach were well chosen, in accordance with accepted standards of scientific investigation. UI. FINDINGS The study concludes (a) that about 90 percent of all UFO reports prove to be quite plausibly related to ordinary phenomena, (b) that little if anything hu COlle fraa the stuey or UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge, and (c) that further extensive study or· UFo sightings is not justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby. At the same time it is emphasized in the Report that (c) is an opinion based on evidence now available. The Report's findings and evaluations -- essentially eight in number, presented in its first section -- are concerned with official secrecy on UFOs, UFOs as a possible defense hazard, the future governmental han411ng or OFO-sighting reports, and five of them relate to the question or wbat it any further investigation of O'FOs appear warranted in the light or the study. We paraphrase and s•mnarize these findings and · evaluations be:ow, appending our comments. 1. On secrecy. Is the subject "shrouded in official secrecy"? The study found no basis for this contention. We accept this qnding or the stu.dy. Attachment 2, pg 7
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