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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.
I I . •. •I l•• I i• , •.. CONCLUSIONS To date, the firm conclusions of ProjeetBlueBook are: (1} no unidentified flying object reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force bas ever given any indication of threat to our national security; (2} there ha8 been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized u unidentified represent teetmo\ogical dnelopme_nts or prtnclples beyond the range o! present day scientl!ic Jmowledge; and (3) tbere bas been no eVidence indicating that sightt.ngs catecor- 1zed a.!l unidentified are extraterrestrial vebicles. The Air Force will continue to investl«ate all reports of unusual aerial phenomena over the United States. Tbe services o1 qual1!1ed scientiSts and technicians w1ll continue to be used to investigate and analyze these reports, and perioc:Ue reports on tbe subject will be made. The former Chairman of tbe Bouse Armed Services Committee, Mr. Carl Vinson, recently com- mented on the conduct ot the UFO procra.m by the Air Force and stated that Concressional bearinp on this subject are mmece•aary. The Air Force does not deny the possibWty that aome form of life may exist on other planets in the universe. However, to date, the Air Foree bas neither received nor discovered any evidence wblcb proves the eXistence and lntra.. space mobWty of mraterrestriallJfe. The Air Force continues to a- tend an open invitation to anyone who feels that be possesses any eVidence of extraterrestrial vehicles operating within the earth's near space envelope to submit bi.l evidence for analysts. ln.ttial contact for this purpose ls through the foUowmg addrear. PROJECT BLUE BOOK INFORMATX)N OFFICE SAFOI W ASHlNQTON, 0 C 20330 Anyone observing 'Vibat he considers to be an unidentified flying object should report 1t to the nearest Air Force Base. Persons submittln&' a UFO report to the Air Foree are free to discuss any . aspect of the report with anyone. The Air Force does not seek to limit discussion on such reporU and does not withhold or censor any information pertaining to this u.nclassl!ied program. • ..
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