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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. 11 …Leading gt'Cups were engaged uncler contract for specialized work-- e.g., Stanford Research Institute on…
  • p. 12 …the National Center tor Atmospheric Research, Whose work is sponsored by the National Science Foundation." The…
  • p. 30 …The system works well in drills-but nothing substan- tive has resulted. The most exciting recent…
  • p. 31 …Their work has raised howls . of protest from traditional UFO groups be- cause many of the…
  • p. 32 …Concentrating only on the generally acclaimed "best cases.' KlaS$ often has exposed the super1iciality of work…
  • p. 58 …0345 ·-An Ar.my ~olice Sgt _on the way to work at reported sighting a UFO…
  • p. 103 …Their work has raised howls o1 protest from traditional UFO groups b• cause many of the…
  • p. 107 …The ruse worked. However, too much activity was going on for the project to remain completely…
  • p. 114 …The palloon which held it up, if that is how it worked, must have been about…
  • p. 117 …These works included: The Roswell Incident (1980) by William Moore and Charles Berlitz; ''Crashed Saucers: Evidence…
  • p. 120 …specialists, including experienced persons who have continually worked in Anny and Air Force records systems since…
  • p. 128 …or classified about their work; they were told only that their work dealt with meteorological equipment…
  • p. 129 …of umbrella cover story to protect our work with MOGUL." Although the Air Force did not…
  • p. 130 …who is married to a staffer who works for Congressman Schiff. Some of these persons provided…
  • p. 134 …Synopsis of Balloon Research Findings by 1st Lt James McAndrew 33. "Mensuration Working Paper," With Drawing…
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Colorado study. The panel concurred in the University of Colorado's
rec o mmendation that "no high priority in UFO investigations is
warranted by data of the past two decades." It concluded by stating
that, "On the basis of present knowledge, the least likely explanation
of UFO s is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitations bi intelligent...
beings."
Past UFO studies include one conducted by a Scientific Advisory
Panel of UFOs in January, 1953 (Robertson Panel); and, a review of
Project Blue Book by the Air Force Scientific Advisory !card Ad Hoc
Committee, February-March, 1966 (Dr. Brian O'Brien, Chairman). The1e
studies concluded that no evidence has been found that any of the UFO
reports reflect a threat to our national security.
As a result of investigating UFO reports since 1948, the
conclusions of Project Blue Book are: (1) no UFO reported, investi-
gated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication
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of threat to our national security; (2) there has been no evidence
submitted or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized r·
" u n i d en t if i e d " r e p r e s.en t t e c h n o l o g i e a 1 de v e 1 op men t s or p r inc i p 1 e s \..._.
J nd t h e range of present-day scientific knowledge; and (3) there •.
has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidenti-
fied" are extraterrestrial vehicles. .•
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Project Blu e Book records Yill be retired to th~ USAF Archives,
Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Req uests for information will
continue to be handled by the Secretary of t h e Air Force, Office of
Information (S AFOl), ~ashington, D.C. 20330.
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