Recently the files of Project Blue Book, a once secret United States Air Force project that sought to carefully document reported sightings of unidentified flying objects, were made public and declassified for the first time in decades. Project Blue Book was launched in 1947 and was over by late 1969, after amassing over 130,000 documents on some 12,618 alleged UFO sightings by military members and civilians.
The Air Force project was based out of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and ran from 1947 to 1969. Through the project, the Air Force amassed a total of 12,618 recorded sightings. Out of that total, 701 incidents remain “unidentified.” A University of Colorado report called the “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects” found that “there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as ‘unidentified’ are extraterrestrial vehicles,” according to a 1985 Air Force fact sheet. Project Blue Book officially ended on Dec. 17, 1969.
Military Times reports:
UFO enthusiast John Greenewald has spent nearly two decades filing Freedom of Information Act requests for the government’s files on UFOs and other phenomena. On Jan. 12, Greenewald posted the Blue Book files — as well as files on Blue Book’s 1940s-era predecessors, Project Sign and Project Grudge — on his online database, The Black Vault.
Project Blue Book was based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Between 1947 and 1969, the Air Force recorded 12,618 sightings of strange phenomena — 701 of which remain “unidentified.”
The National Archives has made these files available to public on microfilm in its Washington headquarters. Parts of the Project Blue Book files have previously been posted online in various locations, Greenewald said. But his webpage is the first time the complete files have been posted in PDF form in a searchable database.
According to an interview with the UFO news website OpenMinds.tv, Greenewald started The Black Vault when he was 15 and, after nearly two decades of relentless FOIA-ing, now claims to host the largest online collection of declassified government data on everything for environmental issues to terrorism and mind control. But the most exciting part about Greenewald’s latest acquisition is that, according to the U.S. Air Force, 701, or 5.5 percent, of the 12,618 reported sightings included in the Blue Book files remain “unidentified”—a challenge UFO enthusiasts and researchers will surely be eager to accept.
“It is a project that lasted for over 20 years, and they investigated thousands of cases. Sure, many of them they claimed were all explanatory, but you still have a few gems that remain a mystery,” Greenewald told Open Minds. “But further, you can use this data to compare and contrast to what it is today and start drawing conclusions or, rather, maybe pose new questions that investigators haven’t thought of yet.”
According to reports, these documents were previously available in a non-searchable format over at the Project Blue Book Archive and Fold3
A sketch from Project Blue Book case 2853 shows an unidentified flying object reported at Toms River, N.J., on Nov. 1, 1945. Nearly 130,000 pages of declassified UFO records were put online by UFO enthusiast John Greenewald, who spent nearly two decades filing Freedom of Information Act requests for government UFO files. (Photo: U.S. Air Force via theblackvault.com)
A photograph from Project Blue Book case 24-185-19-7X shows an object over Phoenix in June 1947. (Photo: U.S. Air Force via theblackvault.com)
The Project Blue Book Incident 33 report from Jan. 7, 1948, details an unidentified object report from Godman Air Force Base in Kansas. (Photo: U.S. Air Force via theblackvault.com)
A sketch of an object reported on Aug.31, 1949, over Sacramento, Calif. According to the Project Blue Book report, “Observers sighted an object with short round nose, very short wings rounded at the tips. There was no trail or noise. It appeared as a dark object having a dull gray or silver finish. It was very fast.” (Photo: U.S. Air Force via theblackvault.com)
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UFO reports declassified
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