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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. 27 …Secretary of the Air Force Robert C. Seamans, JT., announced today the termination of Project Blue…
  • p. 31 …But an- other expert, computer specialist Robert Sheaffer, concluded that the photo was made w•th…
  • p. 32 …But pro-UFO scientist Robert Mc- Campbell has done Klass one bener. He has offered to…
  • p. 82 …NMCC) eeoc (Nl-1CC) OPS C. D. ROBERTS, JR. Brigadier General, OSHC Deputy Director for Operations…
  • p. 95 …Office of the President, wrote to Dr. Robert A. Frosch, the NASA Administrator, suggesting NASA should…
  • p. 101 …of Claims of the Paranormal UFO Subcommittee Robert Sheaffer, Chairman ~805 Mcf'1illan Avenue Silver Spring…
  • p. 103 …computer spec1alist Robert Sheaffer. concluded that the photo was made wnh a smudged lens and that…
  • p. 104 …But pro-UFO scientist Robert Me· Campbell has done Klass one better. He has offered to…
  • p. 113 …4). Subsequently, the then-Administrative Assistant, Mr. Robert J. McCormick, issued a tasking memorandum dated March…
  • p. 115 …Additionally, the Robert Stack-hosted television show ''Unsolved Mysteries" devoted a large portion of one show…
  • p. 117 …Klass, who writes The Skeptic's UFO Newsletter, and Robert Todd, a private researcher. The concerns…
  • p. 120 …recommended by serious private researchers such as Robert Todd, who had independently obtained almost encyclopedic knowledge…
  • p. 125 …I do not remember it having any design or embossing on it ... ." Robert R. Porter (B…
  • p. 130 …Moore, Robert Todd, and coincidentally, Karl Pflock, a researcher who is married to a staffer who…
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"I wish in no way to indicate that NASA has come to any
conclusion about these phenomena as such~ institutionally, we
retain an open mind, a keen sense of scientific curiosity and a
willingness to analyze technical problems within our competence."
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Reports of unidentified objects entering United States air
space are of interest to the military as a reqular part of
defense surveillance. Beyond that, the U.S. Air Force no longer
investigates reports of UFO sightings.
This was not alwavs the case. On December 17, 1969, the
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Secretary of the Air Force announced the termination of Project
Blue Book, the Air Force program for UFO investigation started
in 1947.
The decision to discontinue UFO investigations, the USAF
s aic, was based on: (1) an evaluation of a report (often called
t~e Condon Report) prepared by the University of Colorado and
entitled "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects;" (2)
a review of the University of Colorado report by the National
Acace~y of Sciences: (3) past UFO studies; and (4) Air Force
exper~ence investigating VFO reports for two decades •
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