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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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"I wish in no way to indicate that NASA has come to any conclusion about these phenomena as such; institutionally, we retain an open mind, a keen sense of scientific curiosity and a willingness to analyze technical problems within our competence." Reports of unidentified objects entering United States air space are of interest to the military as a regular part of defense surveillance. Beyond that, the U.S. Air Force no longer investigates reports of UFO sightings. This was not always the case. On December 17, 1969, the Secretary of the Air Force announced the termination of Project Blue Book, the Air Force program for UFO investigation started in 1947. The decision to discontinue UFO investigations, the USAF said, was based on: (1) an evaluation of a report (often called t~e Condon Report) prepared by the University of Colorado and ·entitled "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects;" (2) a review of the University of Colorado report by the National Acacemy of Sciences; (3) past UFO studies; and (4) Air Force experience investigating VFO reports for two decades. 3
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