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NASA Information Sheet 78-1, prepared by the Public Services Branch at NASA Headquarters and dated February 1, 1978, answers public UFO inquiries sent to the White House and NASA. It quotes Administrator Robert Frosch's December 1977 letter, which declines to start UFO research but offers to analyze credible physical evidence. It also summarizes the Air Force's 1969 termination of Project Blue Book and the Condon Report, and discusses astronaut sightings and Jimmy Carter's 1969 sighting over Leary, Georgia.
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INFORMATION SHEET Number 78-1 PrepQXed by: LFF-3/Public Services Branch Office of External Relations NASA Headquarters Washington, DC 20546 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS The information contained here has been compiled to respond to queries on Unidentified Flying Objects directed to the White House as well as NASA. NASA is the focal point for answering public inquiries to the White House relating to UFOs. NASA is not engaged in a re- search program involving these phenomena, nor is any other govern- ment agency. BACKGROUND In July of 1977, Dr. Frank Press, Director of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, wrote to Dr. Robert A. Frosch, the NASA Administrator, suggesting NASA should answer all UFO-related mail and als6 to consider whether ~ NASA should conduct an active research program on UFOs. In a letter dated December 21, 1977, Dr. Frosch agreed that NASA will continue to respond to UFO-related mail as it has in the past and, if a new element of hard evidence that UFOs exist is brought to NASA's attention from a credible source, NASA will analyze the ~nexplained organic or inorganic sample and report its findings.
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