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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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-- 2 Quoting from Dr. Frosch's December 21 letter: " ..• If some · new element of hard evidence is brought to our attention in the future, it would be entirely appropriate for a NASA laboratory to analyze and report upon an otherwise unexplained organic or inorganic s~~le; we stand ready to respond to any bona fide physical evidence from credible sources. We intend to leave the door clearly open for such a possibility. "We have given considerable thought to the question of what else the ··United States might and should do in the area of UFO research. There is an absence of tangible or physical evidence available for thorough laboratory analysis. And, because of the absence of such evidence, we have not been able to devise a sound scienti.fic . procedure for investigating these phenomena. To proceed on a research task without a sound disciplinary framework and an exploratory technique in mind would be wasteful and probably unproductive. "I do not feel that we could mount a research effort with- out a better starting point than we have been able to ide~tify thus far. I would therefore propose that NASA take no steps to establish research in this area or to convene a symposium on this subject.
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