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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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ilYour letterofP- eptember1 hasbeenreceived, and IamveryI8 ppreciative ofhearing from you.
Your letter presented information that I had already mentioned
to you, in myletter ofJuly 21.; so this was information I knew.
I hadgiven thisto you as "advance" information thatyou would
probably receive fromother Government agencies, and departments,
and which isthe standardrelease material.
Again, the new Project Blue Book is acivilian continuation ofthe
original Project Blue Book, which didclose in 1969. Here, twenty-
years later, som e ofthe sameoriginal Blue Book, Pentagon, and
other persons are, still,looking for the real answer to the UFO
phenomenon. That isthe reason, too, I gave you the information
I did - about J. Edgar Hoover, President Carter, Senator Barry
Goldwater, etc. I was hoping to go "deeper" into the intelligence-
gathering agencies-whichreceived some ot e"better"};ROreportswhichneverdid go to Project Blue Book. __ _
5it 3 Q {@577I h.ve been to t..e National Archives, anhave looked asohe f he
original Blue Book material that isthere....I met with persons at
NASA's headquarters,in Washington, following their receipt ofthe
request franPresident Carter....I met withPresident Carter's chief
Scientific Adviser's personnel, atthe New Executive Offices ofthe
President....I sent reports to the original Project Blue book, and
know some ofit's former personnel, etc. So, I know the wholescheme
ofthings, pertaining to UFO 's-except for the hidden Intelligence-
gathering agency participation with regard to the better UFO sighting
reports, andwhichare, tothis date,real,hardéun@wns&
Your responseisappreciatedandpleaseaccep?my verybest wishes
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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 13 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.