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FBI file: Project Blue Book, Project Blue Book (UFO) Part 01

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 13 pages · text from the file's own layer

This FBI file gathers correspondence about Project Blue Book. In a January 1977 letter, the Department of the Air Force sent the FBI a UFO Fact Sheet. It says Blue Book ended on December 17, 1969, and found no evidence that UFOs posed a threat, used technology beyond known science or were extraterrestrial, and it lists 12,618 sightings, 701 of them unidentified. The file also contains 1989 letters from the civilian group calling itself 'the new Project Blue Book' to Director William Sessions, plus his reply that UFO investigation was never FBI responsibility.

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TOTAL SIGHTINGS" UNIDENTIFIED
122 12
156 7
166 622
210 27
169 22
1,501 303
509 42
497 46
545 '24
670 14
1,006 14
627 10
390 12
557 14
591 '13
474 15
399 14
562 19
887 16
1112 32
937 19
375 3
1 6 1
12,618 701

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