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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.
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It was ag1.--eed by the Pa11el that no government-sponsored program of optical nation-wido sky patrol is worthwhile at the present time, and that the encouragement of amateur astronomers to undertake such a program 111:i,eht have• the adverse offeot of over--omphasizi.ne; "fiyini saucer" stories in the public mind .. However, the issue of radar scope cameras for recording peculiar radar echoes would serve several pur poses, including the better understanding of radar interference as well as identification of U.F.O.•s. RA.DAR PROBLFM, OF' MUTUAL INTERFERENCE This characteristic problem of radar operation wherein the pulse signal (of approximately the same frequency) from station A may be picked up on the screen of station B and show as a high-spe.ed track • or series of dots was recognized.to have probably caused a number of U.F .o. reports. This problem was underli.n0d by ir1forma.tion ·received indicating ADC concern in solving this problem of signal identification . •• before service use of very high-speed aircrart·or guided missiles (1955-1956). Dr. Berkner believed that one answer to this problem was the use of a "doppler filter" in th~ receiving circuit. Dr.---· suggested that the problem might be better solved by the use of a "controlled jitter" wherein the operator receiving "very fast tracks" (on the order of 1000- 10,000 m.p.h.) would operate a circuit which woul.d alter slightly his station's pulse frequency rate. If the signal received on the screen had been caused by mutual interference with another station, the track would now show itself at a different distance - 18 - NW 90306" Doclrl:34714841 Page 66
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