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This office recently received a public inquiry regarding gc: UFOs, referred to us from the Bu e u. As the inclosed fact §~w sheet indicates, the A ' I~.- Project Blue Book" investi- gation of UFOs wasterminated on cember l7, 1969, and all related documentation was turned o to the National Archives and Records Service. The inquirer referred to us has been apprisedof these events. Hopefully,the inclosedfact sheetwill be of help in respondingto anyfuture inquirieson this subject.
Sincerely, . 1 § é; A$ H. A. MCCLANAHAN, LtCO1, USAF - '" i -1 Chief, Civil Branch Conmunity Relations Division Office of Information
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On December 17, 1969 the Secretary of the Air Force announced the termination of Project Blue Book, the Air Force program for the investigation of UFOs.
The decision to discontinue UFO investigations was based on an evaluation of a report prepared by the University of Colorado entitled, "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects;" a review of the University of Colorado's report by the National Academy of Sciences; past UFO studies; and Air Force experience investigating UFO reports during the past two-decades. .
As a result of these investigations and studies, and experience gained from investigating UFO reports since 1948, the conclusions of Project Blue Book are: l! no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given gs. any indication of threat to our national security; ! there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air 92 Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present day scientific knowledge; and ! there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified ¬L! are extraterrestrial vehicles. with the termination of Project Blue Book, the Air Force regulation establishing and controlling the program for invest- igating and analyzing UFOs was rescinded. All documentation regarding the former Blue Book investigation has been per- manently transferred to the Modern Military Branch, National Archives and Records Service, 8th and Pennsylvania Avenue, 1 Washington, D.C. 20408, and is available for public review 5 and analysis.
Attached for your information is the Project Blue Book sighting summary for the period 1947-1969. Also included is a listing of UFO-related materials currently available.
Since the termination of Project Blue Book, no evidence has been presented to indicate that further investigation of ".1 UFOs by the Air Force is warranted. In view of the consider- able Air Force commitment of resources in the past, and the I extreme pressure on Air Force funds at this time, there is no likelihood of renewed Air Force involvement in this area. *2
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1956 TOTAL SIGHTINGS" UNIDENTIFIED
1957 122 12 1958 156 7 166 6 22 1959 210 27 1960 169 22 1,501 303 1961 509 42 497 46 1962 545 ' 24 1963 670 14 1,006 14 1964 627 10 390 12 1965 557 14 591 ' 13 1966 474 15 399 14 1967 562 19 887 16 1 112I 32 1968 937 19 375 3 1 1969 1 4 6 1 "-- TOTAL 12,618 701 I
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conducted_byScientific Stugye ofUniversity tUnidentified of ColoradoFlying under 0b'ects. contractStudy F44620-76-C-0035. Three volumes, 1,465 p. 68 plates. Photoduplicated hard copies of the official report may be ordered for $6 per volume, $18 the set of three, Z as AD 68O:975, AD 680:976, and AD 680:977, from the National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22151. T Review of University of Colorado Report on Unidentified Flying' 50b iec t R s. e v iewof p re ort b yanel a p of the National Aca emy o Sciences. National Academy of Sciences, -1 1969, 6p. Photoduplicated hard copies may be ordered for $3 as AD 688:54l from the National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22151.
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thanking you for sending us a copy of your UFO Fact Sheet ._i-1 and for appriaing us of the termination of your project.
'92 sincerely yours, __ J AV oneld W. Moore, Jr. 92O'92'/Assistant DirectorAffairs ExternalDivision 1 1 @;-z.2zz-15¢ .4 .8-"'2-.4
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Hem.i ""f.?' "<,a>%1> i> 192~* * lnuponiun i lnhll. i__ L Lebonvoryi Lop!Ceun..__ '77 Plea. InEvl|.__ 92A / Rae. llgnhi S c.P. lnv. Twining ___ ' "'~"~I|l.___ Q -nu . UNIT G I cro = mu r92 '-iii DQH._._ The NEW [email protected]._ LDDIIV. AQN; Atn.larn._ termini T tt____._ BLUE IQ_.._._ l ._._i 'nQ92 BOOK A 7 Iii Lag|lOe92n.__ and name-approved, by the United Slates Air Force. ~ l92ne.lleIl_...._ L 7< l'ech.senn._._. hiiqi 1- 12, 1989 °°'92l-AIIQOI-__ . William S. Sessions on.e_e.uc Director Federal Bureau of Investigations on.92.unn U.S. Departmentof Justice"";---~~~¢,--'jj'_'; 1 j'_'jI _-11': Washington, D.C. 20535 " ' " mm one E7 nupaunnn__
Dear Mr. Sessions : ilYour letterof P- eptember 1 has been received, and Iam very I8 ppreciative of hearing from you. Your letter presented information that I had already mentioned to you, in my letter of July 21.; so this was information I knew. I had given this to you as "advance" information that you would probably receive from other Government agencies, and departments, and which is the standard release material. Again, the new Project Blue Book is a civilian continuation of the original Project Blue Book, which did close in 1969. Here, twenty- years later, som e of the same original Blue Book, Pentagon, and other persons are, still, looking for the real answer to the UFO phenomenon. That is the reason, too, I gave you the information I did - about J. Edgar Hoover, President Carter, Senator Barry Goldwater, etc. I was hoping to go "deeper" into the intelligence- gatheringwhich never did goagencies -which toreceived Project Blue someBook. __t oe "better"};RO _ reports I h.ve5 it been to t..e National Archives, an have 3 lookedQ a {@577sohe f he original Blue Book material that is there....I met with persons at NASA's headquarters,in Washington, following their receipt of the request fran President Carter....I met with President Carter's chief Scientific Adviser's personnel, at the New Executive Offices of the President....I sent reports to the original Project Blue book, and know some of it's former personnel, etc. So, I know the whole scheme of things, pertaining to UFO 's- except for the hidden Intelligence- gatheringreports, agencywhichare, participation andthis with regarddate,toreal, hardéun@wns'@& to the better UFO sighting Your responseis appreciated and please accep?my best very wishes. 5 1.nu! ' - 'THE NEW cg. En:.3 IQ 1 0'..13.I "1... 3 TI. ,_ F A332. C11:.38. C: .:a !.-:.- Adm lC;. .!C:.".~:s. - - u an» lj Ic/ }*"-.. e_-an 00 --b92 092" -1
O4 Inspired, and name-approved, by the United Slates Alr Force. > . 92.._ _ u P|____, ....-._..._ ..._ R:_ct.1_~ 1 c:.*a C;..:. C Ti Oil-|-E-2I :."-3 III. M... .-. Jul Y 2:, t 1989 "?*"""'-"""" : Nm o vni ' -"1 T0 -£51231: Rf QVQZQT3 C-Z3 ']6/Mr. William S. Sessions, Director HI U..S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau_ of Investigations Washington, D.C. 20535,i r Dear Mr. Sessions: You may recall.3hat,vvhile you were in Fort Smith visiting your fw Fath:r,dE!calle yo -~ andto» and,_briefly,_mengioned discussthe phennenon. of m . Eisirein general, to meet:' and the role of U. S. Government participation, in particular. I said gat I wished to issue a "challenge" to you notthat you do notjc allenges on a daily basis! pertaining to UFO's. You .stated that you were interested, and to write you - and which I am now doing. Icnuld write "pages" on the matter, but rather than to do so - it will be lengthy enough for me to endeavor to give you information I wish to convey in this letter. In any event, the U.-S. Government has played important roles in the evaluation of UFO reported sightings. The new Project Blue Bookis a "continuation" of the original Project Blue Book, established by the Air Force, and was located at wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. some of the most important sighting "announcements" came from the Air Force, and which were, later, stated to be something not in the original announcements - in a cover-up of the initial announcement. This repeatedly happened much to the chagrin of the Air Force. Original members of the Project thisgroup, butBlue Book went found to that intelligence-gathering many reports never agencies. were received by A l{7L! E'While Director of the F.B.I., Mr. J. Edgar Hoover ts %Lhose I1personnel lv reported some of the sightings themselves and who were, otherwise, I brought in to some of the cases! repeatedly asked the Air Force for complete information about the UFO's - to no avail. They the Air Force! would not release certain case reports to Mr. Hoover. Even with the present F.O.I., mostly sanitized version/copies are received and with information requested completely blocked-out. .~ p 7 1,7 L °3'° ° @/an' I ° ,=~:/l % b1e 121 4/ //sq! 57¢. Mr.' .'William sea ns- F.B.I. 1 . - 2 _ ,.
while Chairman of the Senate Committee on Science, Senator Barry Goldwater asked for information and was told that he was not on a "need to know" basis. This request, of Goldwater, had to do with an initial announcement from the Air Force that a "saucer" had crashed and that alien bodies were at thn point in time! located in a hanger, or other building, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, at Dayton, Ohio. Senator Goldwater was refused any information in this matter, along wit not being allowed to personally look inside of the alleged building. Before taking office as President, Jimmy Carter announced to the public that, if elected, he would give the American people the Government's information about UFO's. Thisdid not happen, and Mr. Carter was given a complete run-around and I could tell you more about this, because I was contacted by the Pentagon on the matter.
The new Project Blue Book has 1&8 present, and/or former, Air Force, NC NASA, and intelligence gathering agency personnel, among others, acting as adviser-consultants to PBB - anonymously. These are persons who, fo the most part, have/had been actively engaged in earlier UFO reports fo their respective agencies, and who are still muchly interested. So, with this brief back-ground of information about me and about Gover ment participatiaz, the "challenge" I have mentioned would be to have you make inquiries at the highest levels of "officialdom" about what ou Government really knows, whether or not there ARE alien bodies located ANYWHERE, what happened to the crashed "flying saucers", where are the photo's takenby Air Force personnel through on board gun cameras, and similar questioning. I am positive you would find that even you would be getting a general run-aroun and could not receive satisfactory answ to the above. I think you will/would find that you are not receiving all the information you should be receiving and which should be very evident to you after making several inquiries. You may tend to drop th matter, thinking you are receiving answers to your questions, but this will not b_e the case, Ia ssure you. 0 s ' /1 MI . A'1{ ' FQBQIQ 3
I -Lr. Sessions, I will not take more of your time in this matter, but, if you are interested, I would appreciate your looking into the matter. Youinquiry may wish about to UFO appoint 's,in one general, of our and office; see whichpersonnel Agencies to startto which making you would be directed. Keep in mind, however, that some present office personnel, in the other agencies, may not know what you would be inquiring about - and will tell you that the Air Force Project Blue investigqtesBook closed it's SightiniUFO "doors" in 1969, reports and-this that the I already Air Forceknow. no longerTheimportant key is to go beyond the ir Force and into the other agencies; such as UFO's,the Office ofthe Defense, gersontold askirg C.I.A., etc. "Youdo President notknow Bush, the half when of askedit". As about ym know, President ush was formerly with the C.I.A@ His comments are on tape, by the way.. Well, I think this should suffice for this time. I appreciate your patience in reading this letter, and should you desire any additional infonnation, please do not hesitate to let me know. I would like, ver; much, to work through you, and with you, to endeavor to bring the matte of UFO'sto a conclusion - if that conclusion is an honest one. I hope you had a nice visit,with your Dad, and c ome back for a visit again, soon.
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for myhelp I have in securin received your information July 24threlative letter in toinvestigations which you ask of unidentified flying ob ect UFO! sightings. I have discussed your request with my colleagues, and I would first like to explain that the investigation of UFOs is not now nor has it ever been the responsibility of the FBI. The Department of the Air Force conducted investigations and studies of UFO reports from 1947 to 1969. On Deceber 17, 1969, the Secretary of the Air Force announced the termination of "Project regardingBlue Book," and investigationsits the Air Force hasUFOs furnished of the Modernto all documentsMilitary Branch, National Arch ves and Records Administration, Eighehn Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20408. I understand this data is available for public review and analysis. You may wish to make an inquiry of the Modern Military Branch for the answers to some of your questions.
Also of possible interest, the National Aeronautics and theSpace Administrationpossibility of resumin was askedUFO b President investigations Carterin to 1977. look Afterinto studying allthe factsavailable, itdecided thatnothing would Air be gained by further investigation, and the Department of the > . Force agreedwith thatdecision.. Youmay alsowant tocheck with the Nat onal Aeronautics and Space Admin stration in connection with your research. ,
I am not aware of any Federal O agency 15- taskedPo wi the-121?! responsibility of investigating UFOs and hope this information CL. dill be of helpto youand your organization. Ll-I sincerely yours, U! §iZ2. . . 3.":_ _ Wd am S. Session! em no Lu __ _ Azxfm William S. Sessions mmm__jjj Director doll!-.i..i - Imp.______l .- _ '>,}92 9292 '.'Z'.1"_"'_1E"°;:::f=.. - 2.3, O3 " Q I-Iwww -_-_ .- ON.c 00¢. a 1 PublicAlla. c/ Roe. IA9'"- Toch. Sent. SEE NOTEPAGE TWO bl Training i. ON. LlallnlI Int. Alli. _i Yolophono7lrO¢QI'I Rm._._ ROG C] i x ab 92 92:. h NO l"F!.' .._ ,_. ngm» identi ablein Bufiles, . A70 what appears to be e brie! 9 phone conversation hehad witb..t.heDirector while the Director. - was visiting his father in Fort Smith. He says he dis C1158 Ums-and-the role=__o£ U.S_ , and he indicates the
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