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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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“Project 1947”15 pages

  • p. 6 …Later the name was changed to Project Grudge, and in 1953 it became Project Blue Book…
  • p. 29 …Later the name w&3 changed to Project Grudge, and in 1953, it became Project Blue…
  • p. 97 …of Project Blue Book, the Air Force program for UFO investigation started in 1947. The decision…
  • p. 108 …with that of the components of a Project MOGUL balloon train. MOGUL reports and documents that…
  • p. 111 …Records were located and thoroughly explored concerning a then-Top Secret balloon project, designed to attempt…
  • p. 113 • USAF in September, 1947, the USAF inherited equipment, personnel, records, policies, and procedures from the AAF…
  • p. 115 …EVOLUTION OF THE EVENT FROM 1947 TO THE PRESENT General Ramey's press conference and rancher…
  • p. 117 …This included directing searches at current offices where special or unusual projects might be carried out…
  • p. 121 …USAF records showed that between June 24, 1947, and July 28, 1947, there were five crashes…
  • p. 127 …Its name was Project MOGUL (Atch 19). Project MOGUL was a then-sensitive, classified project, whose…
  • p. 128 …These interviews confirmed that Project MOGUL was a compartmented, sensitive effort. The NYU group was responsible…
  • p. 129 …It is very probable that this Top Secret project balloon train (Flight 4), made up of…
  • p. 130 …Trakowski provided specific details on Project MOGUL and described how the security for.the program was…
  • p. 131 In order to provide a more detailed discussion of the specifics of Project MOGUL d how…
  • p. 134 …Copy of Vandenberg's Appointment Book and Diary, July 7-9, 1947 16. July 9, 1947…
P ~ rsonnel a~ the Fourth Naval District believe that the ouestions
-surrounding the so-called -Philadelphia Experiment" arise from quite
routine research which occurred during World War 11 at the Philadelphia
Naval Shipyard. Until recently, it was believed that the foundation for
the apocryphal stories arose from degaussing experi~nts which have the
effect of making a ship undetectable or "invisible" to magnetic mines.
~ther likely genesis of the bizarre stories about levitation, telepor-
tation and effec:;ts on human crew menbers might be attributed to experi-
ments with the generating plant of a destroyer, the USS TI~. In
the 1950's this ship was part of an experiment to test the effects of a
small, high frequency generator providing l,OOOhz instead of the standard
400hz. The higher frequency generator produced corona discharges, and
other well known phenonena associated with high frequency generators. None
of the crew suffered effects from the experiment.
ONR has never conducted any investigations on invisibility, either in
1943 or at any other time (ONR was established in 1946.} In view of
present scientific knowledge, ONR scientists do not believe that such an
experiment could be possible except in the realm of science fiction.
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