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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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DEPARTMENT OF" THE NAVY O~FICE Of" NA\IAL RESEARC.l-'1 . ARLINGTON . \IIRGIN I .l. ZZ217 Information Sheet Philadelphia Experirrent: UFO's . .. "l"l" .. (l(lo ' '· Over the years the Navy has received innumerable gueries about the socalled •Philadelphia Experiment" or "Project" and the alleged role of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in it. The majority of these inauiries are directed to the Office of Naval Research or to the Fourth~ Naval District in Philadelphia. The frequency of these queries predict- ably intensifies each time the experiment is mentioned by the popular press , often in a science fiction book. Tne genesis of the Philadelphia Experiment myth dates back t o 1955 with the publication of The case for UFO's by the late Morris K. Jessup. 0 Some time after the publication of the . book, Jessup received correspond- ence from a Carlos Miguel Allende, who gave his address as R.D. tl, Box 223, New Ik. and showed it to Jessup. Jessup concluded that the writer of the co~nts on his tx>ok was the same person who had written him about the Philadelphia Experiment. These two officers personally had the book retyped and arranged for the reprint, in typewritten form, of 25 copies. Tne officers and their personal belongings have left ~~ rrany years ago, and 0~ 6oes not have a file copy of the annotated book.
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