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Black Vault compilation, pp. 91-93

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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.

  • p. 107 …Additionally, many claims of a flying saucer crash at Roswell rest on the description of debris…
  • p. 108 …not compare the descriptions of the suspect debris with that of the components of a Project…
  • p. 111 …Prior to that, the incident was dismissed because the AAF originally identified the debris recovered as…
  • p. 114 …When the debris was gathered up the tinfoil, paper, tape, and sticks made a bundle about…
  • p. 115 …Marcel, claimed that he had recovered UFO debris near Roswell in 1947. Also in 1978, a…
  • p. 116 example, it was originally reported that there was only recovery· of debris from one site. This…
  • p. 118 …the exact location(s) of the purported debris, and the extent of the wreckage. Such discrepancies…
  • p. 121 …forth as a possible explanation for the debris recovered near Roswell. Since much of this testing…
  • p. 124 …There were three categories of debris: a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish…
  • p. 125 …The debris looked like pieces of a large balloon which had burst. The pieces were .small…
  • p. 126 accompanied Major Marcel to the ranch to recover the debris, sometimes along with his Counter Intelligence…
  • p. 129 …Lt Col Cavitt described a small area of debris which appeared, "to resemble bamboo type square…
  • p. 130 …Pflock concluded from his research that the Brazel Ranch debris originally reported as a "flying disc…
  • p. 132 …This organiza- tion was able to obtain measurements from the "sticks" visible in the debris after…
  • p. 134 …Photos of ML-307C/ AP Device, With Vintage Neoprene Balloon and Debris 32. Synopsis of Balloon…
P UIIUC AF,.AI"S
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
1400 DEFENSE PENTAGON .
WASHINGTON , D C 20301- 1400
2 3 SEP "''
Ref: 97 - F- 1677
>:>ear r-rr . Greenewald:
This iee ~er responds t o your Sep~ embe r 2, 1997 , Freedom o f
I nfo rmation Ac t ( POI A) reques t .
Enclo sed are a l l t h e document s that this Dir ectorate has on
• u Pos • and they are provi ded a s responsive t o your r equest.
There may be additional records on "UFos• at the National
Archi v es and Records Admin i str ation (NARA). Their address is:
Di!:ector
Records Decla ssification Div (NND)
Room 6350
The National Archiv es at College Park
860 1 Adelphi Road
Col lege Park , MD 2 07 40-600 1
Also , the Deparbment o f the Air Fo r ce ' s World Wide Web
a ddress has a fac~ sheet on "UFOs .• That address is :
http: I / ww,.; .dtic .mil/ airforcelink/ pa/ facts heets i
You can purchase two r eports, "The Roswell Report: Fact vs
Fi cti on in the New Mexico DesertN and nThe Roswell Report: Case
Closed," through the Gove rnment Printing Office. That address
~ s:
U.S. Government Printing Office
Superintendent of Documents
Mail Stop ; SSOP
Washington, DC 2 04 02-9328
Th e r e :ue no ass e ssable fee s for t h is res pons e .
Enc l osures:
.1\.s sta t ed
Sincerely,
~Director
Freedom of Informatio n
and Security Review
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