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Project Blue Book
19 declassified cases mention this, always in the body of the document rather than as an official record field. Documented incidents span 1952 to 2008.
4 agencies are involved: CIA, Department of War, FBI, and NASA. The case files here include documents, videos, and audio recordings. 3 cases carry visible redactions.
Cases
| File ID | Date | Agency | Type | Pages read | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOW-UAP-D167 | 12/10/08 | Department of War | Document | 42/42 | This is "Report no. 001" from Documatica Research, LLC (San Francisco) to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), dated 10 December 2008, titled "Project CAPELLA: Towards the development of a data warehouse in support of research… |
| DOW-UAP-D168 | 12/2/08 | Department of War | Document | 49/49 | This is the Project Management Plan (Overview Paper) that Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) delivered on 2 December 2008 under Defense Intelligence Agency contract HHM402-08-C-0072, the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applic… |
| CIA-UAP-019 | 1971 | CIA | Document | 19/19 | CIA-UAP-019 is a 19-page Australian Department of Defence, Joint Intelligence Organization minute paper (reference 3092/2) titled "Scientific and Intelligence Aspects of the UFO Problem", with a covering note signed by O.H. Turner, Hd. Nucl… |
| DOW-UAP-D092 | 4/17/67 | Department of War | Document | 63/85 | An 85-page file of USAF Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) records on its Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book, with 63 pages legible and the rest blank or redacted scans. The review was requested by Maj. Gen. E.B. LeBailly (Director o… |
| DOW-UAP-D096 | 1955 | Department of War | Document | 179/220 | This 220-page file of Air Force correspondence, filed under INT 2-2-7 (Unidentified Flying Objects) and dated from January to October 1955, shows how the Directorate of Intelligence and the Air Technical Intelligence Center handled public a… |
| CIA-UAP-003 | 1954-1974 | CIA | Document | 382/406 | This document is the CIA History Staff's declassified 1992 official history 'The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974' by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, a 406-page book… |
| CIA-UAP-007 | December, 1953 | CIA | Document | 3/3 | This is a three-page CIA memorandum dated 17 December 1953 from the Chief, Physics and Electronics (P&E) Division, SI, to the Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence, titled "Current Status of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOB) Project"… |
| DOW-UAP-D102 | 7/2/52 | Department of War | Document | 128/156 | This Project Blue Book case file concerns the 16mm color film shot by Delbert C. Newhouse (a Navy chief petty officer in one message, a warrant officer in other papers) on 2 July 1952, about 7 miles north of Tremonton, Utah, at roughly 11:0… |
| DOW-UAP-D103 | 7/2/52 | Department of War | Document | 3/5 | This is a 5-page excerpt of a Project Blue Book photo file relating to the Tremonton, Utah film. Page 1 is a file header reading 'Files 1377 & 1415, Tremonton, Utah, 2 photos', with a date line (July 1952) carrying a handwritten correction.… |
| DOW-UAP-D105 | September - December 1952 | Department of War | Document | 243/253 | This is a general Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) and Air Force Directorate of Intelligence (AFOIN-2A2) correspondence file from the intense 1952 flying-saucer reporting wave, compiled under Project Blue Book and signed variously b… |
| DOW-UAP-D154 | 3/26/52 | Department of War | Document | 19/19 | This is a verbatim transcript of a March 1952 briefing given by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, newly appointed project engineer of the U.S. Air Force's reorganized UFO investigation (soon to be named Project Blue Book). Ruppelt traces the project… |
| DOW-UAP-PR159 | 7/2/52 | Department of War | Video | — | Archival 16mm color film with a heavy blue color cast, visible film grain, vertical scratches, and a soft focus consistent with handheld footage. Most frames show a plain sky with no visible object; several frames contain a cluster of small… |
| DOW-UAP-PR160 | 3/26/52 | Department of War | Audio | — | This is an audio recording of a March 1952 briefing given by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, newly appointed project engineer of the U.S. Air Force's reorganized UFO investigation (soon to be named Project Blue Book). The recording opens with equi… |
| CIA-UAP-002 | 1952-1953 | CIA | Document | 41/42 | This 42-page CIA file documents the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, known as the Robertson Panel, convened by the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence in January 1953 at the direction of Director of Central Inte… |
| FBI-UAP-D012 | August 1952-1967 | FBI | Document | 66/66 | This 66-page FBI Newark Field Office file (classification 100-36998, copied for FOIPA in 1985) collects UFO-related reports and correspondence from 1952 to 1967. It opens in August 1952 when the Air Force Office of Special Investigations as… |
| CIA-UAP-015 | No date | CIA | Document | 296/312 | CIA-UAP-015 is Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, 'Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects' (Project No. 10073, May 1955), prepared by the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and mark… |
| DOW-UAP-D087 | No date | Department of War | Document | 218/253 | DOW-UAP-D087 is a 253-page U.S. Air Force compilation titled "Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States" (this file covers pages 1-100 of the full set), bearing a declassification authority stamp (NND 917033). The scanned pages consis… |
| DOW-UAP-D088 | No date | Department of War | Document | 190/210 | DOW-UAP-D088 is a 210-page U.S. Air Force compilation titled "Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States" (this file covers incident numbers roughly 101-172), bearing declassification authority NND 917033. Like its companion volume (D0… |
| COMETA report: UFOs and Defense (1999) | No date | NASA | Document | 92/94 | This 94-page file is a copy of the English translation of the 1999 French COMETA report "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?", an independent, private report by a committee of former auditors of France's Institute for Advanced Nat… |
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