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HARRY G. BARNES, SENIOR AIR ROUTE TRAFFIC CONTROLLER FOR…
p. 17 …projects ’ 133–4, 136
Blanchard, Roy 110
Blériot, Louis 13
Blount, Bertie 42
Blue Book project see Project Blue
Book … p. 20 …Project Blue Book 46, 51, 57, 60,
61, 63, 66, 74, 81, 127
Project Condign see Condign
Report
Project Grudge… p. 21 …closing
down Project Blue Book 81, 105;
formation 39; and Project Blue
Book see Project Blue Book ;
sightings by personnel… 2 more pages mention it p. 2 …Cabell ordered a new UFO project in 1952. Project BLUE BOOK became the major Air Force effort to study the… p. 7 …By checking with the Agency's U-2 Project Staff in Washington, BLUE BOOK investigators were able to attribute many… p. 13 …See Air Force, Projects GRUDGE and BLUE BOOK and Jacobs, The UFO Controversy, p. 67. 3 more pages mention it p. 1 …Special Report #114, Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects (Project Blue Book ) by ATIC, dated 5 May 1955
1… p. 6 …in your l>ower to make Air Force
Project Blue Book (the AF name for its ttudy and verdicts on… p. 9 …everything in your power to make Air Force
Project Blue Book (the AF name for its study and verdicts on… p. 14 …While complimenting the Air Force on the organization of Project
Blue Book , the Board recommended that the program be expanded… 1 more page mentions it p. 6 …in your l>ower to make Air Force
Project Blue Book (the AF name for its ttudy and verdicts on… p. 9 …everything in your power to make Air Force
Project Blue Book (the AF name for its study and verdicts on… p. 14 …While complimenting the Air Force on the organization of Project
Blue Book , the Board recommended that the program be expanded… 1 more page mentions it p. 1 …I have been to Wright-Patterson at Project Blue Book three times and I have examined 150 or so cases… p. 2 …Hector Quintanilla Jr., chief of Project Blue Book and also a convention speaker) indicated, began in 1947. The pivot point… p. 8 …I think it is time for the Air Force to wrap up Project Blue Book . It has produced little of… 3 more pages mention it File 1501 July 16, 1952 Salem, Massachusetts 16 photos
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p. 7 …1/16th " wide) Major asked him to send a piece addressed to Project Blue Book . He agreed to send it. p. 21 PROJECT Blue Book WRIGHT PATKESON A.E.B.
OH10 # 454.33
ATT MJK GUITANILLAp. 22 …it was advised to send any fragments to Project Blue Book , WPAFB, Ohio. Two calls have been received from newspapers… p. 10 …Information on the conduct of the Air Force Project Blue Book was forwarded to your office at an earlier date… p. 19 …Majo , USHF
Chief , Project Blue Book
Wright Patterson AFB
Dayton, Ohio
David Hunt 90 Jahre alt . p. 22 …Sincerely,
ECTOR QUINTANILLA, Jr, Major, UBAP Chief, Project Blue Book
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# HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS
District Office No…
p. 1 …and ground-radar report, it was decided that Project Blue Book would send an investigator to the scene. The controller… This audio file records a March 1952 presentation by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, outlining the U.S. Air Force’s reorganized investigation into unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The presentation previews prospective technical methodologies, such as diffraction-grating photography and radar-scope synchronization, that were subsequently incorporated into Project Blue Book, a U.S. Air Force program active from 1952 to 1969 that investigated the nature and origin of UFOs. Ruppelt explains that out of approximately 800 historical cases reviewed by the Air Force, approximately 20% remained unexplained after technical analysis. These unresolved reports were sourced from credible military personnel, commercial pilots, and other qualified technical observers. He highlights geographic report concentrations around sensitive national security and nuclear weapons installations (including Los Alamos, Albuquerque, and Oak Ridge National Laboratories) and notes recurring anomalous characteristics, including silent high-speed flight and radar detections indicating unconfirmed air speeds between 1,000 and 3,500 miles per hour. Emphasizing that the Air Force found no conclusive evidence regarding the nature or origin of the phenomena, Ruppelt underscores the national security need for a systematic physical data collection effort to better evaluate these sightings.
…It has a stellar magnitude of –1.56, has characteristic colors of blue -red- white-
green, and would…
This archival footage is a digitization of a 16mm print of Kodachrome color motion-picture film shot on a handheld Bell & Howell Auto Master camera near Tremonton, Utah, on July 2, 1952. U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse reported observing and filming a group of bright airborne objects and shortly thereafter submitted the footage to the U.S. Air Force. The film later became one of the visual cases reviewed by Project Blue Book, the 1952–1969 U.S. Air Force program that investigated the nature and origin of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The film’s limited detail and lack of fixed reference points prevented a conclusive resolution. From the 55-second mark onward, the film transitions to unrelated footage appearing to show a demonstration of sewing equipment. The presence of unrelated sewing-equipment footage suggests that the surviving footage may be a composite or reused print, though the available record does not establish how or when the materials came to be combined. As documented in records submitted with the film, contained in this collection under the title DOW-UAP-D102, the footage originally was paired with mountain scenery from Idaho, which is not preserved in this digitization.
…Special Report 51, Analysis of Imports of Unidentified Serial Objects (Project Brain Book ) by AITC, dated 5 May…
p. 19 …Climatology Data for Project Blue Book .
d. U.S. Navy Correspondence File - Letter, 9 Sep 52, to Air Branch, CIR… p. 12 …The 1947 to 1969 USAF investigations studied UFO's under Project Blue Book .
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REPRODUCED AT GOVT. EXPENSE p. 13 …Of the total of 12,618 sightings reported to
Project Blue Book , 70l remain "unidentified."
The decision to discontinue UFO… p. 1 …scientific investigation?
The now-defunct USAF twenty-year
"Project Blue Book " UFO study never
had a chance to receive the… p. 1 …scientific investigation?
The now-defunct USAF twenty-year
"Project Blue Book " UFO study never
had a chance to receive the… p. 1 …scientific investigation?
The now-defunct USAF twenty-year
"Project Blue Book " UFO study never
had a chance to receive the… p. 51 …Project Blue Book concluded, that it was the release of a barium cloud from an upper atmospheric research rocket launched… p. 64 …The Project was born under the name Sign, later became Grudge and is known today as Blue Book . Its history… p. 65 …If not, become just a town of the past
Project Blue Book passed through several hands after the conscientious direction… 14 more pages mention it p. 1 …by Captain Edward Ruppelt of „Project Blue Book ’, the
USAF‟s official 'UFO project ', to replace flying saucers, a term… p. 6 …collected by the USAF Project Blue Book between 1947 and
1969 (Blue Book followed Projects Sign and Grudge in 1952… p. 7 7
Project Blue Book was closed by USAF following publication of the Condon report in
December 1969. In the UK… 1 more page mentions it p. 13 …SUBJECT
(Restricted) Project Blue Book , Our Camera Pils
TO Chief, Air Technical Intelligence Center
Wright-Patterson AFB
Ohio FROM Dept… p. 58 …Reviews USAF's Project Blue Book investigation of UFO reports and sum-
marizes aims of independent 15-month study by… p. 176 …Reviews USAF's Project Blue Book investigation of UFO reports and summa-
rizes aims of independent 15-month study by… p. 181 …Author describes his activ-
ities as head of USAF's Project Blue Book , 1951-!953. He states that while
balloons… 19 more pages mention it …Joel D Wall, DHS, S&T, Special Projects Office,
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p. 4 …ATIC Status and Progress Reports of Project GRDUCE and Project BLUE BOOK (code names for ATIC study of subject).
3… p. 1 …by Captain Edward Ruppelt of ‘Project Blue Book ’, the
USAF’s official 'UFO project ', to replace flying saucers, a term… p. 6 …collected by the USAF Project Blue Book between 1947 and
1969 (Blue Book followed Projects Sign and Grudge in 1952… p. 7 7
Project Blue Book was closed by USAF following publication of the Condon report in
December 1969. In the UK… 1 more page mentions it p. 6 …ATIC Status and Progress Reports of Project GDUGE and Project BLUE BOOK (code names for ATIC study of subject).
3… p. 1 …by Captain Edward Ruppelt of „Project Blue Book ’, the
USAF‟s official 'UFO project ', to replace flying saucers, a term… p. 6 …collected by the USAF Project Blue Book between 1947 and
1969 (Blue Book followed Projects Sign and Grudge in 1952… p. 7 7
Project Blue Book was closed by USAF following publication of the Condon report in
December 1969. In the UK… 1 more page mentions it p. 1 …by Captain Edward Ruppelt of ‘Project Blue Book ’, the
USAF’s official 'UFO project ', to replace flying saucers, a term… p. 6 …collected by the USAF Project Blue Book between 1947 and
1969 (Blue Book followed Projects Sign and Grudge in 1952… p. 7 Project Blue Book was closed by USAF following publication of the Condon report in
December 1969. In the UK the…1 more page mentions it p. 4 …unidentified flying object1 sightings from 1946 to 1953
(Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14), did not mention the crash… p. 9 …Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14
National Security Council meeting minutes, 1947-48
National Archives, National Record Center, Suitland… p. 4 …ATIC Status and Progress Reports of Project GRUOGE and Project BLUE BOOK (code names for ATIC study of subject).
3… p. 4 …In its Project Blue Book Special Report #14, released in October 1955, the Air Force showed that evaluated sightings in… ## EVALUATION
A/C
Insufficient Data
Other (MISSILES)
Insufficient Data
Other (CONTRAILS)
Birds
Balloon
Balloon
A/C
Other (MIRAGE…
p. 5 …unidentified flying object1 sightings from 1946 to 1953
(Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14), did not mention the crash… p. 10 …Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14
National Security Council meeting minutes, 1947-48
National Archives, National Record Center, Suitland… …Sea book ___
114. Time in sight: Around 60 seconds
15. Speed (time to cover given angular distance): Measured…
p. 1 …an intelligence officer assigned to monitor the UFO project , "Blue Book " for the Air Force headquarters and now a NICAP… p. 4 …ATIC Status and Progress Reports of Project GRDUGE and Project BLUE BOOK (code names for ATIC study of subject).
3… p. 4 …For the first few months of my association with what is now Project Blue Book —the name of the very… p. 8 …For many months at Project Blue Book , we received frequent letters from an inmate of a mental institution, who exhorted…