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This U.S. Air Force file gathers records of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book, dated 1965 to 1969. It holds Major General LeBailly's 1965 request for a review, meeting records from Wright-Patterson AFB, and Secretary Harold Brown's approval of a university scientific study. There are also 1969 letters praising the Condon Report, a 1968 NICAP request for records, a 1967 attendee list for a meeting with Dr. James McDonald, and a copy of the 1953 Robertson Panel report.
From the source:Release of 2026-07-10 Incident: 4/17/67, Various. This file documents the 1966-1967 deliberations and recommendations of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Scientific Advisory Board’s Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book. Project Blue Book was a 1952-1969 USAF program to investigate the nature and origin of unidentified flying objects (UFO). The Committee recommended that the USAF contract a scientific team composed of university-affiliated representatives to investigate selected UFO sightings. The USAF subsequently adopted the Committee’s recommendation.
“Fuller”2 pages
... NW 90306, Docld:347"14841 5. SAFOI wants some pr igious scientific group to look at the UFO problem i.n de th and come up with a position that will help get the Air Force off the hook. SAFOI expects to gain a report that will permit them to stand before the most re own critics and say that the AF position on UFOs is sound or action is being taken to make it sound. 6. The questions that SAFOI wants answered are typically as follows: a. Is Project Blue Book adequate? b. Is there or is there not scientific evidence that UFOs exist? c. What can be done to make the Air Force position credible? 7. SAFOI claims, and rightly so, that they cannot get to the heart of the public relations problem until they get some scientific evidence upon which to base their opinion. For this reason they are very emphatic that they do not want a "for motherhood and against sin" type of connnittee report. AB far as SAFOI is concerned the problem is critical. 8. As evidenced by the Fuller article in the Saturday Review (which is a prestigious news media that is read by highly influential people both in and out of government), the level of criticism of the Air Force is getting on a higher and higher plane. The recent Wall Street Journal article is another ex ample of Air Force criticism appearing in a high-class news media. SAFOI clearly defined the criticality of the problem when they concluded by saying that none of the current Air Force problems, such as sonic boom, supersonic transport, and integration, etc., have created the poor public image for the Air Force that the UFO problem does. HAROLD A. STEINER, Major, USAF Assistant Secretary USAF Scientific Advisory Board 3 Atch 1. UFO Report 2. FTD Form 164 3. Sat Review Article Page 43
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