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This undated Air Force UFO fact sheet, filed as Attachment 2 in an Office of the Secretary of Defense release, traces UFO investigations from Project Sign in 1948 through Grudge to Project Blue Book. It gives yearly sighting counts from 1947 to 1969: 12,618 reports in all, 701 of them still unexplained. It records that Blue Book was ended on December 17, 1969 and lists its three conclusions: no threat to national security, no technology beyond present knowledge, and no evidence of extraterrestrial vehicles. It also notes that NASA declined to resume investigations in 1977.

  • p. 2 …review of the Univer- sity or Colorado's report ~Y the National Academy of Sciences; past…
  • p. 3 …Review of report by a panel of the National Academy of Sciences. National Academy of Sciences…
Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects. Study conducted
by the University of Colorado under contract F44620-76-C-0035. Three
volumes, 1,465 p. 68 plates. Photoduplicated hard copies of the official
report may be ordered for $6 per volume, $1!-the set of three, as AD
680:975, AD 680:976, and~ 680:977.
Review of University of ~olorado Report on Unidentified
Flying Objects. Review of report by a panel of the National Academy
of Sciences. National Academy of Sciences, 1969, 6p. Photoduplicated
hard copies may be ordered for $3 as AD 688:541.
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