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This Clinton Presidential Library FOIA release (2006-0483-F), filed under Stephen Greer, holds a NASA letter dated July 17, 1996. Laurie Soeder, NASA Associate Administrator for Public Affairs, wrote it in reply to Dr. Steven M. Greer's May 1996 letter to President Clinton. The letter says no government agency investigates UFOs because there is no factual evidence of alien life. It encloses a February 1996 NASA fact sheet that summarizes Project Blue Book's conclusions and lists contacts, including the Air Force Roswell report.
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The project. headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, was terminated December 17, 1969. Of the total of 12,618 sightings reported to Project Blue Book, 701 remain "unidentified." The decision to discontinue UFO investigations was based on an evaluation of a report prepared by the University of Colorado entitled, "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects;" a review of the University of Colorado's report by the National Acaciemy of Sciences; previous UFO studies; and Air Force experience investigating UFO reports during the 1940's. '50's and '60's. As a result of experience, investigations. and studies since 1948, the conclusions of Project Blue Book were: (1) no UFO reported, investigated. and evaluated by the Air Force was ever a threat to our national security; (2) there was no evidence submitted to, or discovered by, the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represented technological developments or principles beyond the range of modern scientific lmowledge; and (3) there was no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" were extraterrestrial vehicles. With the termination of Project Blue Book, the USAF regulation establishing and controlling the program for investigating and analyzing UFO's was rescinded. Documentation regarding the former Project Blue Book investigation was permanently transferred to the Modern Military Branch, National Archives and Records Service, in Washington, DC 20408, and is available for public review and analysis. Since the termination of Project Blue Book, nothing has occurred that would support a resumption of UFO investigations by the USAF or NASA. Given the current environment of steadily decreasing defense and space budgets. it is unlikely that the Air Force or NASA will become involved in this type of costly project in the foreseeable future . . Since neither NASA nor the Air Force is engaged in day-to-day UFO research, neither one reviews UFO-related articles intended for publication, evaluates UFO-type spacecraft drawings, or accepts accounts of UFO sightings or applications for emplo~ent in the field of aerial phenomena investigation. UFO Points of Contact 1. For further information on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, please contact the SETI Institute, 2035 Landings Drive, Mountain View, CA 94043, (415) 960-4530. 2. News media requiring Project Blue Book files should contact the National Archives Public Affairs Office, (202) 501-5525. Public queries should be addressed to the Project Blue Book archivist at (202) 501-5385. For queries not related to Project Blue Book, contact the National Archives receptionist at (202) 501-5400. Documentation is available from: Modern Military Branch. National Archives and Records Service, Eighth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20408. . -MORE- REPRODUCED AT GOVT. EXPENSE
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.