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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. 30 …Pieces of metal picked up near. .. . alleged landlnQ.Sites undergo speCtro- scopic examinaiion in well-equipped…
  • p. 31 …Ex- otic space metals or artifacts continue to oe reported. but none have passed the in…
  • p. 102 …Pieces ot metal picked up near..aJieQed landing. sites undergo spectr~ scopic examination in weU-eQuippecl…
  • p. 103 …Ex- otic space metals or anitacts continue to oe reponed, but none have passed the in…
  • p. 114 …There was no sign of any metal in the area which might have been used for…
  • p. 116 …and tinfoil has since grown to exotic metals with hieroglyphics and fiber optic-like materials. Most…
  • p. 124 …a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish-black plastic- like material, like Bakelite…
  • p. 125 …fine kidskin glove leather and a dull metallic grayish silver, one side slightly darker than the…
  • p. 129 …a "service flight'' that included a cylindrical metal sonobuoy and portions of a weather instrument housed…
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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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