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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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  • p. 107 …Additionally, many claims of a flying saucer crash at Roswell rest on the description of debris…
  • p. 108 …not compare the descriptions of the suspect debris with that of the components of a Project…
  • p. 111 …Prior to that, the incident was dismissed because the AAF originally identified the debris recovered as…
  • p. 114 …When the debris was gathered up the tinfoil, paper, tape, and sticks made a bundle about…
  • p. 115 …Marcel, claimed that he had recovered UFO debris near Roswell in 1947. Also in 1978, a…
  • p. 116 example, it was originally reported that there was only recovery· of debris from one site. This…
  • p. 118 …the exact location(s) of the purported debris, and the extent of the wreckage. Such discrepancies…
  • p. 121 …forth as a possible explanation for the debris recovered near Roswell. Since much of this testing…
  • p. 124 …There were three categories of debris: a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish…
  • p. 125 …The debris looked like pieces of a large balloon which had burst. The pieces were .small…
  • p. 126 accompanied Major Marcel to the ranch to recover the debris, sometimes along with his Counter Intelligence…
  • p. 129 …Lt Col Cavitt described a small area of debris which appeared, "to resemble bamboo type square…
  • p. 130 …Pflock concluded from his research that the Brazel Ranch debris originally reported as a "flying disc…
  • p. 132 …This organiza- tion was able to obtain measurements from the "sticks" visible in the debris after…
  • p. 134 …Photos of ML-307C/ AP Device, With Vintage Neoprene Balloon and Debris 32. Synopsis of Balloon…
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AFSINC/ 11 August 1985
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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
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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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