HO Input for 8 Feb 89 Staff Meeting
The following are two old items from the AFOSI archives. *Forty years ago*, representatives of US investigative and intelligence agencies met in the southwestern United States. They decided District 17, Kirtland AFB, NM, would be responsible for the overall collection and reporting on aerial phenomena. These phenomena, later termed unidentified flying objects or UFOs, had been sighted with some frequency in the New Mexico area. This program was initially called Project Sign, then Project Grundge, and was renamed Project Blue Book in 1951. NOTE: AFOSI turned over all its investigative files pertaining to this project to the National Archives in 1976.* *Twenty years ago*, in response to the increasing drug problem in the Air Force, OSI took steps to provide additional training. District 17 sponsored a narcotics seminar at Kirtland AFB, NM, which 225 people from state and local law enforcement agencies as well as OSI agents attended. OSI also developed an advanced Narcotics Investigations Course designed to teach the latest technics in combatting drug abuse.
*Actually, on 19 Dec 1975.