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(.#098).- Project Blue Book.
Project Blue Book
Project Blue Book is a commission set up by the US Air Force to study and investigate the UFO phenomenon. This commission was created in 1952 and remained in operation until 1969.
Historical
The first sightings of UFOs following the end of the Second World War (including the famous story of Kenneth Arnold) promptly alerted the US military. As early as 1947, the US Air Force launched the Sign project which was to study the reality or not of these phenomena. It was renamed the Grudge project in 1949. In 1951, following a large wave of UFO testimonies, the army decided to restart the project with more resources.
On April 12, 1952, the "Blue Book Project", led by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, began. This commission will be divided into a study section, an investigative section, a liaison officer with the Pentagon and civilian scientific consultants. Following an upsurge in UFO testimony during 1952, the government began to take a closer look at the problem and decided to investigate. In September 1953, Captain Ruppelt resigned from his post. In 1955, he published The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, a book about the most significant cases he had been able to deal with in the Blue Book project.
Captain Charles Hardin took over command of the project in March 1954. He decided to declassify and make public Special Report No. 14 of the Blue Book project. This report, which concludes that UFOs do not exist, is being sold to the general public in October 1955.
Captain George T. Gregory was appointed to lead the project in April 1956; he will be replaced by Major Robert J. Friend in October 1958. In April 1963, the Blue Book project was commissioned by Major Hector Quintanilla. In March 1966, several civilian scientists of the project (including J. Allen Hynek) took a public stand for the reality of the UFO phenomenon (thus against the official position of the Blue Book project), which they never managed to prove. These discrepancies will lead the US government to sponsor, in 1969, an expert report to Dr. Edward Condon of the University of Colorado to establish or not the reality of the UFO phenomenon. The Condon Report will conclude that UFOs do not exist and that all evidence is based either on a mistake with natural phenomena or on hallucinations and that any scientific research in this area is of no interest. The Blue Book project will be officially dissolved in December 1969 and will cease operations in January 1970.
Fields of study and objectives
When it was officially created on April 12, 1952, the US Air Force very clearly defined the three objectives of the Blue Book project:
• find an explanation for all the testimony of UFO sightings;
• determine if UFOs pose a threat to the security of the United States;
• Determine if UFOs have advanced technology that the United States could exploit.
Added to this was the role of government spokesperson on the UFO phenomenon, which on many occasions forced the Blue Book project to abandon scientific objectivity in response to more political considerations.
Facts and figures
• The Blue Book project studied 12,618 cases and retained 3,201 cases for statistical analysis.
• Secretary of the Air Force, Donald Quarles, announces the figure of 3% unexplained cases at the press conference of October 25, 1955.
• The Blue Book project archive includes 8,360 photos, 20 reels of film (representing 6:30 of film) and 23 audio recordings of witness interviews.
• Kept until 1974 in the US Air Force archives, the Blue Book project archives have been stored since 1976 in the US National Archives after the censorship of all witness names.
Conclusions
In his annual report, Major Quantanilla, director of Project Blue Book states: "Only 30 of all cases submitted to the Air Force are unexplained and only 676 of the 11,107 observations reported since 1947 fall into this category ..." there is no evidence that UFOs still "unexplained" represent technological creations or principles beyond our current scientific knowledge "1. On a panel of more than eleven thousand cases, ninety-seven percent have been clarified and, in the opinion of those who worked on the project, there is no indication that the few remaining cases are of a different nature. , and that the "unidentified" status results from a lack of information and not from a new category.
Note: The last modification of this page was made on March 17, 2018.
F I N .
Project Blue Book
Project Blue Book is a commission set up by the US Air Force to study and investigate the UFO phenomenon. This commission was created in 1952 and remained in operation until 1969.
Historical
The first sightings of UFOs following the end of the Second World War (including the famous story of Kenneth Arnold) promptly alerted the US military. As early as 1947, the US Air Force launched the Sign project which was to study the reality or not of these phenomena. It was renamed the Grudge project in 1949. In 1951, following a large wave of UFO testimonies, the army decided to restart the project with more resources.
On April 12, 1952, the "Blue Book Project", led by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, began. This commission will be divided into a study section, an investigative section, a liaison officer with the Pentagon and civilian scientific consultants. Following an upsurge in UFO testimony during 1952, the government began to take a closer look at the problem and decided to investigate. In September 1953, Captain Ruppelt resigned from his post. In 1955, he published The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, a book about the most significant cases he had been able to deal with in the Blue Book project.
Captain Charles Hardin took over command of the project in March 1954. He decided to declassify and make public Special Report No. 14 of the Blue Book project. This report, which concludes that UFOs do not exist, is being sold to the general public in October 1955.
Captain George T. Gregory was appointed to lead the project in April 1956; he will be replaced by Major Robert J. Friend in October 1958. In April 1963, the Blue Book project was commissioned by Major Hector Quintanilla. In March 1966, several civilian scientists of the project (including J. Allen Hynek) took a public stand for the reality of the UFO phenomenon (thus against the official position of the Blue Book project), which they never managed to prove. These discrepancies will lead the US government to sponsor, in 1969, an expert report to Dr. Edward Condon of the University of Colorado to establish or not the reality of the UFO phenomenon. The Condon Report will conclude that UFOs do not exist and that all evidence is based either on a mistake with natural phenomena or on hallucinations and that any scientific research in this area is of no interest. The Blue Book project will be officially dissolved in December 1969 and will cease operations in January 1970.
Fields of study and objectives
When it was officially created on April 12, 1952, the US Air Force very clearly defined the three objectives of the Blue Book project:
• find an explanation for all the testimony of UFO sightings;
• determine if UFOs pose a threat to the security of the United States;
• Determine if UFOs have advanced technology that the United States could exploit.
Added to this was the role of government spokesperson on the UFO phenomenon, which on many occasions forced the Blue Book project to abandon scientific objectivity in response to more political considerations.
Facts and figures
• The Blue Book project studied 12,618 cases and retained 3,201 cases for statistical analysis.
• Secretary of the Air Force, Donald Quarles, announces the figure of 3% unexplained cases at the press conference of October 25, 1955.
• The Blue Book project archive includes 8,360 photos, 20 reels of film (representing 6:30 of film) and 23 audio recordings of witness interviews.
• Kept until 1974 in the US Air Force archives, the Blue Book project archives have been stored since 1976 in the US National Archives after the censorship of all witness names.
Conclusions
In his annual report, Major Quantanilla, director of Project Blue Book states: "Only 30 of all cases submitted to the Air Force are unexplained and only 676 of the 11,107 observations reported since 1947 fall into this category ..." there is no evidence that UFOs still "unexplained" represent technological creations or principles beyond our current scientific knowledge "1. On a panel of more than eleven thousand cases, ninety-seven percent have been clarified and, in the opinion of those who worked on the project, there is no indication that the few remaining cases are of a different nature. , and that the "unidentified" status results from a lack of information and not from a new category.
Note: The last modification of this page was made on March 17, 2018.
F I N .
