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This Black Vault compilation gathers records tied to Jimmy Carter and UFOs. It contains NICAP and International UFO Bureau sighting forms, filled out in 1973, on Carter's October 1969 sighting at Leary, Georgia. He described a bright object, bluish then reddish, that about ten Lions Club members watched for 10 to 12 minutes. The file also holds White House, OSTP, NASA and NSC letters and memos from 1977 and 1978. In them, NASA declines to open a new UFO investigation and agrees to handle public inquiries.
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Prepared by FGM/Office of Public Affairs NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C. 20548 ## UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS NASA is not involved in research concerning unidentified flying objects. Reports of unidentified objects entering U.S. air space are of interest to the U.S. military as a regular part of defense surveillance, but no government agency is conducting an ongoing investigation of UFOs at this time. An extensive study known as Project Blue Book was undertaken in the 1960's by the U.S. Air Force through a contract with the University of Colorado. Based on the findings of this study as reviewed by the National Academy of Sciences, the Air Force terminated the project December 17, 1969. The University of Colorado report, entitled Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, was published in paperback by Santam Books. A three-volume photoduplication (AD 680:975-6-7) may be purchased for $18 from the National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, Virginia 22151. The complete reports were transferred from Air Force storage in July 1976 to The National Archives, 8th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20408. Those wishing to view the report must obtain a researcher's permit from the National Archives and Records Service. The University of Colorado study reached the following conclusions: (1) there was no evidence that the subject of UFOs had been "shrouded in official security"; (2) UFOs did not constitute any hazard to national security; (3) two decades of UFO study had made no significant contribution to scientific knowledge; and (4) further extensive study of the general topic could not be expected to contribute meaningfully to the advancement of science.
Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 19 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.