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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.

  • p. 75 …2.· ATIC Status and Progress Reports of Project GRUOOE and Project BLUE BOOK (code names for…
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SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL ON
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS•
.14 - 17 January 1953
EVIDENCE PRESENTED_,_ ■ I
1. Seventy-five case histories of sightings 1951 - 1952 (sele~ted by
ATIC as those best documented).
2.· ATIC Status and Progress Reports of Project GRUOOE and Project
BLUE BOOK (code names for ATIC study of subject). •
J. _Pr~gress Repo:r:-ts of Projec~ STORK --· _)·---··---..,·-·---·=·-·=-•..--1;"!',J
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•contract work supporting ATIC •.___..,,
L}. Summary Report of Sightings at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.
5. Report of USAF Research Center, Cambridge, Mass., Investigation of
"Green FirE'ball" Phenomena (Project TWlNKLE).
6. Outline.of Investigation of U.F.o.•s Proposed by Kirtland Air Force
Base (Project POUNCE).
7. Motion Picture Films of sightings at Trem,nton 1 Utah, 2 July 1952
and Great Falls, Montana, August 1950.
8. Summary Report of 89 selected cases of sightings of various ..categories (Formations, Blinking Lights, Hovering, etc.).
9. Draft of mo.nuel: "How to Make a FLYOBRPT", prepared at ATIC.
10. Chart Showing Plot of Geographic Location of Unexplained Sightings
in the United States during 1952.
11. Chart Showing Balloon Launching Sites in the United States.
12. Charts Showing Selected Actual Balloon Flight Paths and Relation
to Reported Sightings.
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lJ..Charts Showing Frequency of Reports of Sightings, 1948·- 1952..
14. Charts Showing Categories or Explanations or Sightings. •
15. Kodachrome Transparencies of Polyethylene Film Ba.lloons iri Bright
Sunlight Showing High Reflectivity•
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