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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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and the role ofU. S. Government participation, in particular.
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do notjc allenges on adaily basis! pertaining to UFO's.You
.stated thatyou were interested, and to writeyou - and which I
am now doing. Icnuldwrite "pages" on the matter,but rather
than to doso - itwill be lengthy enough for me to endeavor to
giveyou information I wish toconvey in this letter.
In any event, theU.-S. Government has played important roles
in the evaluationof UFO reported sightings. The new Project
Blue Bookis a "continuation"of the original ProjectBlue Book,
establishedby the Air Force, and was located at wright-Patterson
Air Force Base, Dayton,Ohio. someof the most important sighting
"announcements"camefrom the Air Force, andwhich were, later,
stated tobe something not in the original announcements - ina
cover-up of the initial announcement. This repeatedly happened
much to the chagrin of the AirForce. Original members of the
Project BlueBook found that manyreports never were receivedby
thisgroup,but wenttointelligence-gatheringagencies.Al{7L!
ts I1'WhileDirectoroftheF.B.I., Mr.J. EdgarHoover%Lhosepersonne
reported someof the sightings themselves and who were, otherwise,
brought in to some of the cases! repeatedly asked the Air Force
for complete informationabout the UFO's- to no avail. They the
Air Force! would not release certain case reports to Mr.Hoover.
Evenwith the presentF.O.I., mostly sanitized version/copies are
received and with information requested completely blocked-out.
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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.