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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. 11 …Leading gt'Cups were engaged uncler contract for specialized work-- e.g., Stanford Research Institute on…
  • p. 12 …the National Center tor Atmospheric Research, Whose work is sponsored by the National Science Foundation." The…
  • p. 30 …The system works well in drills-but nothing substan- tive has resulted. The most exciting recent…
  • p. 31 …Their work has raised howls . of protest from traditional UFO groups be- cause many of the…
  • p. 32 …Concentrating only on the generally acclaimed "best cases.' KlaS$ often has exposed the super1iciality of work…
  • p. 58 …0345 ·-An Ar.my ~olice Sgt _on the way to work at reported sighting a UFO…
  • p. 103 …Their work has raised howls o1 protest from traditional UFO groups b• cause many of the…
  • p. 107 …The ruse worked. However, too much activity was going on for the project to remain completely…
  • p. 114 …The palloon which held it up, if that is how it worked, must have been about…
  • p. 117 …These works included: The Roswell Incident (1980) by William Moore and Charles Berlitz; ''Crashed Saucers: Evidence…
  • p. 120 …specialists, including experienced persons who have continually worked in Anny and Air Force records systems since…
  • p. 128 …or classified about their work; they were told only that their work dealt with meteorological equipment…
  • p. 129 …of umbrella cover story to protect our work with MOGUL." Although the Air Force did not…
  • p. 130 …who is married to a staffer who works for Congressman Schiff. Some of these persons provided…
  • p. 134 …Synopsis of Balloon Research Findings by 1st Lt James McAndrew 33. "Mensuration Working Paper," With Drawing…
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The Air For.ce investigation of UFOs began in 1948 and wa.s known as Project Sign.
Later the name was changed to Project Grudge, and in 1953 it became Project Blue Book.
Between 1948 and 1969, the Air Force investigated 12,618 reported sightings.
The following is a statistiCal listing of reported UFO sight ings during the Air Force
investigation:
YEAR
. 1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952 .
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
TOTAL
LFO SICHTINGS I 91&7 - "''
TOTAL SIGHTINGS
122
156
186
210
169
I,501
509
487
545
670
1,006
627
390
557
591
474
399
562
887
I, 112
937
375
146
12,618
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Lt-.IIDENT IFlED
12
7
22
27
22
303
42
46
24
14
14
10
12
l4
13
15
14
19
16
32
19
3
I
701
Of these total sightings, II ,917 were found to have been caused by material objects
(such as balloons, sateUites and aircraft), immaterial objects (such as lightning,
reflections and other natural phenomena), astronomical objects (such as stars, planets, the
sun and the moon), weather conditions and hoaxes. As indicated, only 701 reported
sightings remain unexplained.
On December 17, 1969, the secretory of the Air Force announced the termination of
Project Blue Book •

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