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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.
“Project Blue Book”16 pages
-- On December 17, 1969 the Secretary or the Air Force announced the termination of Project Blue Book. The decision to discontinue UFO investigat1on3 was based on an evaluation or a report prepared by the University or Colorado entitled, "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects;" a review of the Univer- sity or Colorado's report ~Y the National Academy of Sciences; past UFO studies; and Air Force experience investigating UFO reports for two decades. As a result or these investigations and studies, and experience gained from investigating UFO reports since 1948, the conclusions or Project Blue Book were: ( 1) no 01.''0 reported, investigated, and evalu- ated by the Air Force has ever given any indication or threat to our national. security; (2) there has been no evidence submitted to or dis- covered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as nunidentified" represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present day scientific knowledge; and (3) there has been no evidence indicating that si&htings categorized as "unidentified" are extrater- restrial vehicles. With the termination of Project Blue Book, the Air Force regulation establishin& and controlling the prosram tor investigatins and analyzins UFOs was rescinded. All documentation regardinS the termer Blue Book investisat1on was permanently transferred to the Modern Military Branch, National Archives and Records Service, 8th and Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20-08, and is available ror public review and analysis. In 1977, President Carter asked the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to look into the possibility or resuming UFO investi- gations. After -studying all tbe racts available, they decided that nothing would be gained by further investigation. The Air Force agrees with that decision. It, however, firm evidence is round justifying further investigation, an appropriate agency will be directed to under- take the effort. There are a number or universities and professional scientific organizations such as the American Association for the Advancement or Science, which have considered UFO phenomena during periodic meetings and seminars. In addition, a list of private organizations interested in aerial pben~mena may be tound in Oale'a Encyclopedia or Associations (Edition 8, Vol I, pp. 432-3). Such timely review or the situation by private groups insures that sound evidence will not be overlooked by the scientific community. For further reference material, two documents are available from the National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department or Coomerce, Springfield, VA 22151: 2 Attach.ent 2, PI 2 •
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