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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.

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OFO FACT SHEET
The Air Force investigation or UFO•s began in 1948 and wa~ known
a3 Project Sign. Later the name w&3 changed to Project Grudge, and
in 1953, it became Project Blue Book. Between 1948 and 1969 we investi-
gated 12,618 reported sightings.
The following is a stat13t1oal listing of reported UFO sightings
during the Air Force 1nve3tigation:
YEAR
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
195~
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
TOTAL
TOTAL UFO SIGRTINGS, 1947 - 1969
TOTAL SIGRTINGS
122
156
186
210
169
1,501
509
487
545
670
1,006
627
390
557
591
474
399
562
887
l 1 112
937
375
146
12,618
UNIDENTIFIED
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7
22
27
22
303
42
46
24
14
14
10
12
14
13
15
14
19
16
32
19
3
1
701
Of these total s1ghtings, 11,917 were round to have been caused
by material objects (such as balloon3, satellites, and aircraft), immaterial
objeet3 (such as lightning, reflections and other natural phenomena),
astronomical objects (such a3 stars, planets, the sun and the moon),
weather conditions and hoaxes. As indicated only 701 reported si~~tings
remain unexplained.
Attachment 2. pg I

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