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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. 6 …Between 1948 and 1969, the Air Force investigated 12,618 reported sightings. The following is a…
  • p. 7 …cov,red by the Air Foree that sightings categorized •s ~unidentified" represent technological developments or principles…
  • p. 10 …The Report states that nearly all UFO sighting are of short duration, seldom last an hour…
  • p. 11 …It is also clear, as one goes through the descriptions of UFO sightings, whether in the…
  • p. 12 …On defense. (a) I~ there eVidence that OFO sighting! may represent a defense hazard? No such…
  • p. 13 …apply scientific methods to the occasional transient sightings with any chance or success. While further study…
  • p. 17 …The Air Foree base nearest the location of a reported sight- ing is charged with the…
  • p. 18 …Some examples are the omission of the duration of the sighting, date, time, location, position in…
  • p. 20 …or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized u unidentified represent teetmo\ogical dnelopme_nts…
  • p. 23 …Between 1948 and 1969 we investigated 12,618 reported sightings. · Of these sightings, 11,917 were…
  • p. 26 …Batween 1948 and 1969 the Air Force investigated 12.618 reported UFO sightings. Of these, 11…
  • p. 27 …that further ~xtensive s~udy of DFO sightings is not justifi ed in the expectation tha…
  • p. 28 …has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidenti- fied" are extraterrestrial vehicles. .• . - Project Blu…
  • p. 29 …Between 1948 and 1969 we investi- gated 12,618 reported sightings. The following is a stat13t1oal…
  • p. 30 …A computerized data base in Chicago prints out pattern analy- ses ot UFO sightings, seeking a…
  • p. 31 …White the vast majority of UFO sighting reports are made by hon- est. perplexed. often reluctant…
  • p. 34 …Unidentified Sightings • 8 November 0600 EST . . . ' 1.975 • -- .. ~ ..- - . ... .. . 1. 0308 EST FONECON from NORAD Command Director…
  • p. 35 …SAC s~te c-1 still had a visual sighting on objects. 4. NORAD stated that…
  • p. 36 …dis- covered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as nunidentified" represent technological developments or principles…
  • p. 38 -- • ' TOTAL UFO (OBJECT) SIGHTINCiS (CompUed 1'1 Jan 66) TOTAL YEAR SIGHTINGS UNIDENI IFIED SOURCE 194…
  • p. 43 …the Am.v-bJ;t to was sighted over the we~pons storag~ · l~a~ional…
  • p. 55 …These requests will be made in conjunc- tion with sightings of unusual phenomenon along the northern…
  • p. 57 …c=. ..: ""~- ~~ 2400 EST • Uni~enti!ied Flying Object Sighting 1. J:.t 310805 received nhoncon from…
  • p. 58 …0345 ·-An Ar.my ~olice Sgt _on the way to work at reported sighting a UFO…
  • p. 59 …ects4 "' { t:TOs ) ;' allege~ sightings. ~he first exten~e~ !=orn t~e su~!ace to : I…
  • p. 64 …At 2902.00 EST AFOC informed IDICC that an unidentified helicopter, possibly two, had been sighted…
  • p. 67 …i~9~med NMCC that the arcy helo assisting on the scene had not sighted the…
  • p. 70 …the thehelico-:;ter- Guard helo, and was sighted over ~ • • resocncec to•J...my · 1\c:~ional…
  • p. 71 …At 290300 EST the helicopter was sighted over the weapons sto:age area and t."le…
  • p. 85 …Low Flying Aircra£t/Belicopter Sightings at rrortsmith AFB, l-1!. • ll75 1. The SAC Command…
  • p. 89 …l - • (U) ....-as to of The uro sightings occurred on an ·extremely clear night. miles. Although…
  • p. 91 …f oll oo;...· -u-o• info:-mation. __....._•.· ··~ -,.. _.....,....-..~ ... ·-·-..,..:-"" _......~ ··-- -- » ~ r . .. !.JLJ.....,· • • ' - sightings "-'i th NOR;.D "'al ..... s…
  • p. 97 …Air Force no longer investigates reports of UFO sightings. This was not alwavs the case. On…
  • p. 98 …or discovered by the Air force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represent technological developments or principles…
  • p. 99 …to NASA concerning UFO sight- ings address themselves to the reported sightings by astronauts during Earth…
  • p. 100 …The • regional N!CAP repres~ntative investigated the sighting and reported there was no evidence to…
  • p. 101 …In addition, a nunber of private domestic and foreign groups continue to review UFO sighting reports…
  • p. 102 …A computeriZed data base in Chicago pnnts OUt pan em analy- ses of UFO sightings. seeking…
  • p. 103 …While the vast majotity of UFO sighting reports are made by hon· est. perplexed. often reluctant…
  • p. 113 …Although some pro-UFO researchers argue that sightings of UFOs go back to Biblical times, most…
  • p. 114 (although some researchers claim there were as many as 800 sightings during that period). Interestingly, the…
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MEZ.lORANDUM FOR RECORD.
Subje~t: Unidentified Sightings
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1. 0308 EST FONECON from NORAD Command Director: at 0253 EST
Malmstrom AFB Montana received seven radar cuts on the-height-
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finder radar at altitudes between 9,500 1 and lS,SOo•. Simultaneously,~~
. ground witnesses observed li9hts in the sky and the sounds of jet
engines similar to jet· fightens. ·Cross-tell with FA.~ . revealed
no jet aircraft within lDONM of the sigh.tings. Radar tracked the .
. objects .. over Lewistown, Montana ·at a speed of sewn (7) knots.
Two F-106 intercepters from the 24th NORAD Region were scrambled
at 02~4 . EST and became a~rborne · at 0257 EST. At the time_of tne
initial voice . report personnel at· 1-!a.lmstrom AFB and SAC sites
Kl, \K3, L3 and L6 were\reporting lights i~ the sky acc~panied
·by jet engine· noise. ·
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2. 0344 EST FONECON, •same source·: : •..
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Objects could not be intercepl;eu. Fighters had to maintain a
minimum of 12~000' because of mountainous terrain • . Sightinqs
had turned west, increased speed to 150 knots. ~o tracks were
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apparent on height~finder radars 10-1~ Nl4 apart. SAC site K3 .
reported sic;htings be·t,..-1een 300 • and 1, 000' · while sit~ L-4 reported -
sightinqs SNM NW of their positicn. · Sightings disappeared from
radar at position 46SON/10920W at a tracked speed of three {3}
knots. .
3. At 0440 EST, NMCC intiated contact with the NORAD Command
Director who reported the following: •
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0405 EST: Malmstrom receiving intermittent tracks on both
search and height-finder radars. SAC site C-1, lONM SE of ·
Stanford, Montana, .reported visua·l sightings of unknown objects •
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0420 EST: Personnel at 4 SAC sites reported observing inter-
cepting F-106's arrive in area; sighted objects turned off their
lights upon arrival of interceptors, and back on upon their
departure.
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