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This document, released by the Central Intelligence Agency and held by the National Archives of Australia, is an Australian Department of Defence paper from about 1971 on the scientific and intelligence aspects of the UFO problem. It traces the history of US official handling of UFOs through Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book, the Robertson panel and the Condon report, and it argues that a covert programme and gravity research continued. It recommends that another Australian government department take over UFO investigation from the RAAF.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: 1971, Australia. Dated to 1971, an Australian review of the USAF Project Blue Book. This document was released by the National Archives of Australia.
“The Pentagon”1 page
U.S. OPFICIAL ATTITUDE TO U.P.D•:s
In June of 19,17 the Air Techni~ o.l Int('lligcncc Centre
(ATIC) near Dayton, Ohio, assumed a. re·,pcnsibili ty to investiga.te
the ioi tio.l 1 ::.:ports of 'flying saucers'. Vi tldn a month ii, 1ou
cons:iderc~I tho:!. tlui plHWDllH!llct. Wt!.tl~ I"F!tLl o.nd !H·obably of Soviet
origin. Ey the end of' the y .. a.r 1 when ATIC was offie ial ly author iso-i
to invntiga.to under the project code no.n.c of SIGN and with a. high
priority,most nf the investigators lrl'er:: focus:dng on an inter
planetary ra~her tha11 a. Soviet origin. TJJese opi n:i ans were
cry:stalliz:;-d into 11 "'ri tten csti:nate that .,,·as sent to the Pentagon
in September 1948. Vnen the inte rplo.nc to.ry cone lusions were re ,:j ~c .od
on th nev personnel 1-0 form Project tHtUJJGE. A defini·te
attempt vas mado during !.9·19 to use Project GRUDGE to destroy any
acccptani::o of UPO'!!!. The motives for this ;ue not t:lear: po:s:o.ih!y
Air Pore,~ embarnLssmE!.n t at being incap.,.ble of controlling tha
situation c ided. thi'.t a fresh approo.ch to the JJr1,bl em "'HS
ne-ccs~ary. Between Se1,t.r1m·:Jr:r 1951 unu I.he establ:i.shnent of Pro,i(•Ct
BLUE BOOK in March 1952, UFO investigation rugn.incd ndcquo.tc finrinC'inl
and o.dministra:tive :JUpport to once a.gain aaa.ly:se the col lee teu uc.ta,
Projttct BLUE IlOOK was a.ble tu process !Jiu data frci::n 3,200 report,E int.o
a form suitable for their consul tan Ls to bl' :!.blc to use IBM card-
National Archives of Australia NAA: A 13693, 3092/2/000 Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 19 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.