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Department of the Air Force Committee to Review Project Bluebook, 1966-1967

U.S. Department of War · 1967-04-17 · 85 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

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officer (Project Officer, BLUEBOOK for 15 months) could not be
slighted. However, the Panel could ~ot accept any of the cases
cited by hi:m because they wore raw, unevaluated reports.
Terrestrial oxplnnations of the sicht:'i.ngs wore suceestod in some
cases· and il) others the t:i.me of si.ghtine was so short as to cause
suspicion of visual impressions. It was noted by Dr. Goudsmit and
others that extraterrestrial artifacts, if they did exist, are no
cause for alarm; rather, they are in the realm of natural phenomena
subject to scientific study, just as cosmic rays were at the time
of their discovery 20 to JO years ago. This was an attitude in
which Dr~ Robertson did not concur, as he felt that such artifacts
would bo of immediate and grea.t concern not only to the U.S. but
to all cotmt:r.ies. (N.othine like a coITlDlon threat to unite peoples l)
Dr. Page noted that present astronomical 'knowledge of the solar
system Il1'.).kes the existence of inteliigent beings (as we know the
term) elsewhere than ~n the earth extremely unl..~kely, and the
concentration of their attention by any controllable means conf~~-~}•" ,, •,,;t,t,.,.,,,,., .. _,.,,,, ~
to any one continent of the earth te preposterous.
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This case was cons~dered sigpificant because of the excellent
documentary evidence in the form of Kodachrome motion picture films .
(about 1600 frames). The Panel studied these films, the case history,
ATIC's interpretation, and received a briefing by representatives of
the USN Pho+.o Interpretation Laboratory on their analysis of the
fi1m. This ·tca1r: had expended (at Air For~e request) approximate1y
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