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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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REPORT OF THE SCIENTIFIC PANEL
ON
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
1. Pursuant to the requost
·---:--~~, th~. undorsigned Panel of Scientific Consultants has met to
evaluate any possible threat to national security posed by Unidentified
F'lying Objects ("Flying Saucers"), and to make recommendations thereon.
The Panel has recoived the evidence as presented by cognizant intelli
gence agencies, primarily the Air. Technical Intelligence Center, and has
reviewod a solectj_on of the best documented incidents.
2. As a result of its considerations, the Panel concludes:
a. -That the evidence presented on Unidentified Flying
Objects shows no indication that these phenomena constitute
a direct physfcal threat to national security.
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We firmly believe that there is no residuum of cases which indicates
phenomena which are attributable to foreign artifacts capable of hostile
acts, and that there is no evidence that the phenomena indicates a need
f <>r the revision of current scientific concepts.
3. The Panel further concludes:
a. That the continued emphasis on the reporting of
these phenomena does, in these parlous, times, result i.n a
threat to the orde1·ly functioning of the protective organs
of the body politic.
We cite as examples the clogging'of channels of communication by irrelevant
reports, the dangP-r of being led by continued false alarms to ignore real
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