CIA-UAP-019, Aspects scientifiques et de renseignement du problème des OVNI selon le ministère australien de la Défense

[PAGE 1] Approved for Release 2026 Under Section 1842 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 [PAGE 3] SUMMARY analyses of UFO reports by USAF intelligence phenomena were being reported which had far in advance of U.S aircraft that only an rigin could be envisaged A rument agency ndicated to be the CIA Office of Scientific studied the UFO reports with the intention of UFO propulsion methods At that time OSI was telligence on foreign research and deve ent in nuclear and missile matters Ae ELE ce eee A became alarmed at the cverloading of military communications during the mass sightings of 1952 and considered the poss bility that the USSR may take advantage of such a situaticu As a result acting through the Robertson-panel meeting of mid-January 1953 persuaded the USAF to use Project BLUE BOOK as oa meansc licly debunking UPO's and at a later stage to allceste funds for the Avro advanced “saucer” aircraft and the launching of crash programme into anti-gravity powér To initiate such programmes decades ahead of normal scientific development would indicate that the U.S Government acknowledged the existence of advanced “aireraft which presumably used a gravity-control method of propulsion An additional motivation could have been the fear that the USSR would achieve this goal before the U.S erecting a facade of ridicule the U.S hoped to public alarm reduce the possibility of the Soviet takin a of mass sightings for either psychological or actual warfare cover for the real U.S programme of deve te UFO performances The RAAF together with many other countries of the world give credence anly to the public facade and vr to have uncritically actepted the associated information This information has been widely discredited by retiring U.S service personnel formerly engaged on UFO investigations as ce aa Sh oe [PAGE 4] ou the recommendations of the Condon report Project BLUE BOOK was terminated but presumably this weuld have little effect on the main programme It would appear wrong for Australia to remain ignorant the true situaticn We lack an intelligence viewpoint thut can assess the nature and possible consequences of the problem a scientific viewpoint that could derive scientifically valid data from the reports and a public relations viewpoint that can honestiy satisfy public interest To overcome these deficiencies in the Australian investigation of UFO's it would seem that a strong caso exists for the acceptance of the RAAF suggestion that another government department assume responsibility for the investigation and analysis of UFO reports NAA A13693 3092/2/000 [PAGE 5] U.S OPPICIAL ATTITUDE TO U.F.O's In June of 1947 the Air Technical Intelligence Centre atic near Dayton Ohio assumed a.respensibility to investigate the initial reports of ‘flying saucers Within a month it was eonsidersd thet the phenomena were real and probably of Soviet origin By the end of the year when ATIC was officially authorised to investigate under the project code nane of SIGN and with a high priority,most of the investigaters were focussing on an inter—- Planetary ravher than a Soviet origin These opinions were exrystallized into a written estimate that was sent to the Pentagon in September 1948 When the interplanetary conclusions were rejoc ved on the grounds of insufficient hard evidence a reaction set in at ATIC against trying to unravel the UFO problem In Februsry 1949 ATIC personnel on Project SIGN were replaced with new personnel to form Project GRUDGE A definite attempt was made during 1949 te use Project GRUDGE to déstroy any acceptance of UFO's The motives for this are not clear possibly Air Force embarrassment at being incapsble of controlling the situation and/or a fear of national panic prompted USAF to try and remove the problem by denying its existence Another possible motive may have been to previde a breathing space for another “investigative agency to reach some conclusion the agency had been assisting ATIC through 1948 and contrary to official USAF policy was maintaining a high level of interest during 1949 This governmental agency was not the FBI end had recket nucleay and intelligence experts their purpose was to study UFO veports in an effort toa gather design date on interplanetary spaceships In the light of later developments this agency was almost certainly the CIA Project GRUDGE failed to eliminate the UFO problem UFO reports in 1949 actually exceeded.the number in 1948 and several people who had gained access to earlier official reports were able to contradict the USAF Journalists generally felt that GRUDGE reporting represented a cover to a more serious knowledge Eventually USAF intelligence decided that a fresh approach to the problem was 1951 and the establishment of Project BLUE BOOK in March 1952 UFO investigation regained adequate financial necessary Between Septen ye and administrative support to once again analyse ihe collected a Project BLUE BOOK was able te process the data from 3,200 reports into a form suitable for their consultants to be able to use IBM card— Archi Australia NAA A13693 3092/2/000 [PAGE 6] sorting machines The gummer of 1952 sav a more than twenty-fold rise in the normal rate of reporting and included the two extensive July sightings invelving Washington D.C This marked increase in sightings had diverse effects A component of USAF intelligence considered that USO's were interplanetary spaceships which were about to make closer contact To prepare the public for this possibility 41 previously classified reports were released for publication between August 1952 end February 1953 These reports contradicted the earlier official USAF policy of dismissing the reports as mis- identifications etc On the other hand the CIA regarded the summer UFO activity asa threat to national security mainly because the resulting crowded communications and defence forces involvement lessened the level of national alertness against possible enemy ettack A scientific panel chaired by H.P Robertson was sonvened by the Office of Scientific Intelligence ef CIA during mid-January 1953 for the purpose of recommending future action on the UFO problea Briefings were made both by CIA and USAF ATIC personnel showed thie then classified two mevie films of UFO's and the early results of statistical analysis of 3,200 reports Bocause of the vital issues involved the panel felt restricted to recommending that the investigation be continued but with increased personnel and equipment The USAF responded promptly with an instruction to comply with these recommendations The CIA however in a report dated 16 February 1953 showed a preference to publicly abandon the investigation whilst intensifying the collection of data By September 1993 the CIA position had been largely achieved with Project BLUE BOOK reduced from a staff of ten qualified personnel operating at a top secret level to a virtually inactive project involving one airman The investigating component hed been transferred to the 4602nd Air Intesligence Service Squadron which was trained in rapid intelligence procurement and reported to Air Defence Command and USAF Intelligence Washington rether than BLUE BOOK Direet access between the 4602nd AISS and 211 USAF units was authorized by AFR 200-2 whereas previously this privilege had been given te BLUE BOOK Althowgh only the airman first-class remained in September 1943 BLUE BOOK was later built up to one officer one sergeant one secretary and a part-time*consultant [PAGE 7] Dr Allen Hynek staying at about this level until it was closed woin December 1969 During this time BLUE BOOK served mainly Ss a means of supplying unclassified summaries of UFO identifications ‘to the public and did not form a vitei link in collection or serious analysis Control of public awareness of the UFO situation was tightened by the issuing of JANAP 146 in 1953 which prohibited service personnel from discussing UPO's by threatening defaulters with up to 10 years gaol and up to a $10,000 fine When service personnel resigned or retired however was possible to reveal USAF attitudes om opinions even if actual data was still restricted In this way many Intelligence Officers associnted- with the UFO problem including Major Fournet who was BLUE BOOK Project Officer at the Pentagon until late 1952 Captain Ruppelt who headed Project GRUDGE ard Project BLUE BOOK until September 1953 and Admiral Hillenkoetter who directed CIA from its inception until October 1950 on retiring from the services all publicly stated that the U.S Government knew UFO's were extra-terrestial but was withholding this fact from the public When the National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena NICAP was fornied in 1956 to counter the publicly suppressed USAF investigation of UFO's the first Chairmen was Admiral D.S Fahrney who had directed the Navy's guided missile programme from its inception Apart from Admiral Hillenkoetter Major Keyhoe and Major Fournet other Directors have included Rear Admiral H.B Knowles General A Wedemeyer and Col J.J Bryan who was a special assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force To reduce the effect of these and similar defections from official policy after retirement the revised JANAP 146E passed in 1960 made it an offence under the Espionage Act if data on UFO's were revealed The change in style of USAF reporting before and after the Robertson panel meeting is clearly indicated in the Project BLUE BOOK Special Report No 14 The body of the report prepered between March 1952 and early 1953 although biased in favour of a natural explenetion for UFO's nevertheless showed mathematically that the evidence favoured an explanation that was scientifically unknown This seetion of the 316 page report was not released to the public other then as a copy to be consulted assuming the reader knew of NAA A13693 3092/2/000 National Archives of Australia [PAGE 8] its existence Public distribution was made however of a so called “summary™ which in fact did not summarise nor scarcely allude to the 1947-52 data but concentrated on 1953-55 reporting which was cleurly designed to reduce the residual unknowns to an insignificant number no matter how senseless the identification became 10 Within the body of the diffieult-to-obtain report there is an interesting diagram The product of the estimated observer reliability and the report reliability became the sighting reliability The percentage of reports that had to be registered as wnknown i.e incapable of being éveu approximately identified as a known object increased as the sighting reliability improved Conversely the percentage listed as “insufficient information decreased with improving reliability Sighting No of Unknown Insufficient Reliability Reports Informstion Poor 435 16.6 21.4 Doubtful 794 13.0 14.0 Good 757 24.8 3.6 Excellent 213 33.3 4.2 li Throughout the years of the UFO phenomenon there has been a persistent form of official pronouncements which state that the were available percentage of unknowns would he reduced if more dat The above table contradicts that statement Reports of excellent reliability generally stem from astronomers pilots scientists surveyors meteorologists radar operaters ete complete with instrumented values and aceitately @e¢tailed accounts The introduction of good reliable reporting prevents the ready proaaic interpretation In all probability the overall average percentage of unknowns 19,7 dgte had been more reliable would have been substantially inereased if the 12 Project BLUE BOOK consultants statistically “tested the unknown object population to determine the likelihood thet it was similar to the population of identified objects and found that the probability was less than one in 1028 ive esing ‘the American NAADA13693 3092/2/000 [PAGE 9] its existence Public distribution was made however of a so called “summary™ which in fact did not summarise nor scarcely allude to the 1947-52 data but concentrated on 1953-55 reporting which was cleurly designed to reduce the residual unknowns to an insignificant number no matter how senseless the identification became 10 Within the body of the diffieult-to-obtain report there is an interesting diagram The product of the estimated observer reliability and the report reliability became the sighting reliability The percentage of reports that had to be registered as wnknown i.e incapable of being éveu approximately identified as a known object increased as the sighting reliability improved Conversely the percentage listed as “insufficient information decreased with improving reliability Sighting No of Unknown Insufficient Reliability Reports Informstion Poor 435 16.6 21.4 Doubtful 794 13.0 14.0 Good 757 24.8 3.6 Excellent 213 33.3 4.2 li Throughout the years of the UFO phenomenon there has been a persistent form of official pronouncements which state that the were available percentage of unknowns would he reduced if more dat The above table contradicts that statement Reports of excellent reliability generally stem from astronomers pilots scientists surveyors meteorologists radar operaters ete complete with instrumented values and aceitately @e¢tailed accounts The introduction of good reliable reporting prevents the ready proaaic interpretation In all probability the overall average percentage of unknowns 19,7 dgte had been more reliable would have been substantially inereased if the 12 Project BLUE BOOK consultants statistically “tested the unknown object population to determine the likelihood thet it was similar to the population of identified objects and found that the probability was less than one in 1028 ive esing ‘the American NAADA13693 3092/2/000 [PAGE 10] system the odds wore ten thousand trillion trillion to one against the unkhowns being the same as the knowns Since the “consultants had arbitrarily called all green fireballs and short “duration i.e less than five seconds night-time sightings as “noun astronomical objects there was an undue preponderance in that category Hence assuming that no astronomical objects were left in the unknowns the statistical tests were repeated with astronomical identifications removed The odds were reduced to 00.” trillion trillion to one The analysts could not find a way to reduce those odds sufficiently further to warrant additional testing and irrationally considered the results to be “inconelusive™ 13 While PROJECT RLUE BOOK endeavoured to reduce the official number of unknowns in 1957 they claimed enly 14 out of 1,006 sightings remained unidentified the covert programme expanded considerably The government agency almost certainly CIA thar had been collecting data on UFO performance and propulsion methods during 1948-52 presumably influenced U.S governmental funding of certain advanced projects One project was the Canadian Avro saucer A drawing of this saucer released in Gctober 1955 showed a typical flying dise as described in many UFO reports The Secretary of the Air Force D.A Quarles appeared moderately confident that such a vehicle would be successfully developed by the U.S 14 A more astounding decision on the part of the U.S Government was to allocate considerable funds to investigate gravity and a means of controlling gravity Despite the fact that science had not attained a level of competence to deal with either gravity or anti-gravity problems and the only theory that might be applicable was Einstein's Unified Field Theory which was still incomplete at the time of his death the U.S chose to support six universities and government agencies in an all-out drive to conquer the problem It is significant that at this time the current theories on UFO propulsion were a mixture of gravity control and electro~magnetic propulsion 15 During 1955 because insufficient staff could be recruited for the project recourse was made to an urgent appeal for theoretical physicists and mathemeticians from ARRE Harwell U.K The six Gravity Research Centres being established were atthe Institute for Advanced Study Princeton N.J Princeton University University NAA A13693 3092/2/00 Natio al Archives of Australia [PAGE 11] sch of Indiana Purdue University Research Foundation University of North Carolina and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through the Roger Babson Gravity Research Institute New Boston N.H The latter institute is a non-profit organization founded in 1949 with George Rideout as President It was believed that to make a gravity motor a gravity differential was required which necessitated the discovery of an insulator deflector or absorber of gravity By 1955 485 essays had been written on this subject and awards totalling $10,800 made for eriginal contributions 16 The scientists involved included Teller from University of California Cppenheimer and F.J Dyson cf the Institute of Advanced Studies J.A Wheeler and Richard Arnowitt of Princeton Vaclay Hlavaty University of Indiana who hed worked with Einstein in Prague and Stanley Deser The objective was to control gravity During 1955 the following firms entered into gravity and/or electromagnetic programmes Lenn Martin Aviation Co specifically Dr Heirn from Goettingen University and Dr Jordan from Hamburg University Convair of San Diego Bell Aireraft of Buffalo Sikorsky Division Lear Ine of Santa Monica Clarke Electronics of Palm Springs California and Sperry Gyroscope Division of Great Neck Long Island N.Y 17 Such an intensive onslaught on the gravity enigma was entirely irrational from the standpoint of conventional science and can only be rationalized within the context of a firm belief that UFO's were real and that the intelligences behind them knev how to control gravity The drive to harness this power before the USSR could do so would be strong incentive for the U.S Government to fully support an anti-gravity programme By 1966 46 separate projects of this nature were being financially supported 33 of which were under the supervision of the U.S Air Foree Although details of most of these projects have been kept classified it would appear thet generally they have not been successful Work on gravitational waves by Weber and his associates under USAF Cambridge Research Laboratory jurisdiction has been reported fairly extensively since 1966 18 During August of 1965 Project PLUE BOOK received 262 reports which was about six times the average number for a month and was twice any previous month since November 1957 On NAA A13693 3092/2/000 [PAGE 12] Nati 28 September 1965 Maj Gen LeBailly Director of Information formally requested the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board te review Project BLUE BOOK The review suggested that the Limited Project BLUE BOOK staff and the official investigating officers did not possess the technical competence to properly identify the phenomena and that university teams should be appointed to investigate selected sightings This conclusion was supported by the House Armed Services Committee which met on April 5th 1966 in the shadew of a public furore consequent to the USAF identifying the well-publicised Michigen.sightings as being swamp gas The Colarado University was selected for the task and Dr Edward Condon appointed to lead the project with an initial allocation of $313,000 later raised to $525,000 19 The Colorado project became discredited when Dr Condon stated publicly on 254h January 1967 thet “my attitude right now is thet there's aothing to it but I'm not supposed to reach a ¢onclusion for anether year The reyeeling of a memorandum outlining a method to trick the public combined with a general dissatisfaction at Condon's biassed attitude led to the dismissal and resignation of most of the staff.after most of the investigations had been made but not completely written up The final report of 965 pages lacked coherence Gondon's conelusions were ef variance with individual staff conclusions although only Condon'’s conclusions were publicised As a result of the Condon report USAF closed down Project BLUE BOOK shortly before the American Association for the Advancement of Science held special meeting to counter-act the effect of the Condon report The Chairman of the Special Committees Dr Thornton Page was one of the signatories to the Robertson report 20 Dr Allen Hynek scientific consultant to Project Blue Book 1948-69 began his association with a conviction that #11 sightings could be conventionally explained Even though doubts grew in his mind he found himself obliged to support official USAP public policy Since 1966 however he has become more outspoken against the USAP attitude and has assisted to convene both congressional hearings and scientific symposia on the subject Although initially supporting the Condon Committee he became disillusioned and critical of it with the passage of time It is quite clear that Dr Hynek along with many other reputable scientists not ateept the USAF explanation of misidentification hysteria or Rich 13 2i0 [PAGE 13] alam RAAF ATTITUDE TO UFO's The Divectorate of Air Force Intelligence is the component of the RAAP that is responsible for the analysis of all official reporting of Unidentified Flying Objeets At no stage has there beod tore than one part-time officer allocated to this task Initial investigation of reports is often undertaken by a part-time investigator from near-by air bases The RAAF admits that its interests lie solely in the area of air defence and it lacks both interest and competence to consider the scientific aspects 1957 request for the Scientific Intelligence section of JIB to agcept UFO responsibility was rejected by JIB In 1968 the Department cf Air stated that it intended to take up further the question of Commonwealth departments e.g Defence Supply Education and Science Prime Minister's Department etc to see whether some other Commonwealth Agency is better placed to assume responsibility for Unidentified Flying Qbjects At the same time we would maintain our interest in the matter and work with any other Commonweal th agency who is considered to be more appropriate as a co-ordinating agency for the Commonwealth as a whole There does not appear to have been any fulfillment of this intention to seek Commonwealth assistance In support of the RAAF's admission of scientific disinterest an identification list of all sightings made between 1960 and 1965 eontains 15 identifications of Venus not one of which is valid In every case Venus vas in a totally different part of the sky or not even above the horizon Out of 37 meteor identifications only could possibly be meteors and even several of those eases would be doubtful This off-hand unscientific attitude to identification did not escape the notice of the press or various scientists In general the RAAF attitude has been guided by the USAF public releases which were aimed at allaying public interest by denying the reality of UFO's Consequently most of the Australian reports were given identifications without a great concern for rational correlation Most investigators and collectors regarded their UFO tasks as an intrusien inte ir -more legitimate tasks As a result there has been a negligible scientifie analysis of the data and most opinions expressed by DAFI have been largely a reflection of the USAF public attitude With the present reduced staff of DAFT NAA A13693 3092/2/00 National Archives of Australia [PAGE 14] filing If Australie following the public “it is unlikely that UFO reports will receive any treatment beyond is to follow the U.S lead instead of USAP attitude it would he preferable to follow the USAP/CIA role of cancéntrating on gaining knowledge of the power sources act independently of scientifically sound the UFO mystery In involved However it may be preferable to the U.S and initiate a programme that is and intellectually honest towards unravelling such a venture it may be worthwhile working Somewhat closer to the public than is usual in the U.S and U.K te [PAGE 15] 24.6.47 6.47 26.7.47 23.9.47 30.12.47 15.1048 22.1648 24,7.48 9.48 13.12.48 1.49 2.49 ry CHRONOLOGY OP U.S INVESTIGATION INTO U.F.0 PHENOMENA Event Arnold sighting of nine saucers creates public interes+ Investigations initiated by Air Technical Intelligence Centre hue of Air Material Command AMO Army Air Forces at Wright-Patiergon Air Poree Base near Dayton Ghia Initially Soviet ‘advanced aircraft were suspected National Security Act ¢reates both the USAP and CTA Lt Gen Twining AMC requested the Commander Army Air Forces to issue an authority priority and code name or the investigation of flying dises Freliminary conclusions by AMC were that the phenomena were real and not visionary or ficvitious that the objects were mostly dise-shaped about the size of man=made aiteraft and were intelligently controlled Any U.S attempt to design aircraft of similar performance would be costly time-consuming and detrimental to other prejects Investigations by ANC would continue pending further advice Authority given to AMC to investigate the phenomena on a priority basis under the eode-name Projeet Sign Minimum classification was Reatrieted reports were te be made quarterly and data exchanged with interested parties USAF officially a separate service Project Sign starts officially Near-collision between DC3 and UFO prompt ATIC to write an Estimate of the Situation The Top Secret Estimate was forwarded to the Pentagon The con¢lusion that UFO's were of interplanetary origin was not acceptable to the Air Force Chief of Staff Generéi Vandenberg whe insisied on demonstrable proof not circumstantial evidence ATIC wes unable to grovide UFO hardware or detailed photographs Dr JE Lipp of the Rand Corporation replied to the Direetor or Research and Development USAT that if the flying objects were inter-planetary they would most likely originate fron Mars although intelligent life as we knew it would be more occupied with survival than we are on Earth Our present technology cannot conceive as to how an inter-stellar race could reach Earth even though it is conceded that there is a high probability that intelligent life does exist within say 16 light-years from Earth USAF orders Project Sign te become Project Grudge which should terminate before the end of 1949 Final report of Project Sign TR-2274-IA of the Technical Intelligerce Division AMC recommended that only a minimum effort be devoted to recording analyzing and evaluating reports but on the other hand where factual National Archives of Australia NAA A13693 3092/2/000 [PAGE 16] 11,2449 8.49 evidence such as phetoegraphs radar physical i and data on size and shape is involved every effort should be made to eolleet this evidence Radio alerts to other military units should be made Project Sign officially becomes Project Grudge According to Rupvelt Sign personnel either volunteered to leave or were compelled to leave after Which they were teplace by personne willing to ridicule the concept of UFO's During 1949 Grudge personnel did not follow up reports Secret Technical Report No 102 AC 49/15~L00 Unidentified Flying Objects Project Grudge"of about 600 pages issued with tha cenclusion that all reports were the result of hisidentifie¢atians mass hysteria and hoaxes even though 27.12.49 3.50 14.9.5 27.10.51 3.52 2924.52 June-—Aug 32 19/26.7.52 National Archives of Australia they admit to 23% of the reperta as being “ullknown The report was declassified August 1952 Bepartuent of Defense news release stated that the Air Porce'’s flying saucer project had beer terminated Publication of a report previowsly ¢leared by the U.S Army describing the tracking of a UFO by an official team led by Commandery NeLaughlin et the White Sends missile proving ground Prom the tracking data it was concluded that the UFO required an extraterrestial origin On learning that ATIC was not investigating UFO reparts the USAF Director of Intelligence General Cabell ordered Project Grudge te be revitalized This was acted upon at once Peoject Grudge now headed by Capt Ruppelt Project Grudge renumed Project Blue Bock By this stage the staff had built up to 16 all with Top Secret ci@arances and a highly qualified research group ef consultants provided expertise As part of Project Stork this research group RAND is a possibility started to transcribe data onte IBM cards for future analysis Air Force Letter 200-5 ordered all USAF units to wire UFO reports direct to ATIC sith a copy to the Pentagon Froject Blue Book was permitted to contact any VEAP unit direetly allowing vapid investigation During 1948-51 the averege monthly number of reports was 15 but during dune July and August of 1952 the average was 337 including 336 daving July The UPO's were not only seen in gredter numbers but there was a greater number of reliable witnesses Several sensitive Atomic Energy Commission plants and defenee units vere subjected to close approaches Defence communications were being overloaded and there were fears that U.S reaction time ageinst enemy action was being hindered Two series of radar-visual sightings over Washington National airport the Capitol and White House electrified the nation As result of the upsurge of interest in scientific and military circles the interplanetary hypothesis gained gioiund despite official efforts to explain away the sightings [PAGE 17] 21,8.52 21.11.52 14/17.1,53 1642.53 +53 26.8.53 al Archives of USAF started releasing ATIC reperts te the UPO author Major Keyhoe for publication This was a completely unexpected change of pelicy The contents of these xceports refuted the public pronouncements made by the USAF Tn adaition a USAF spokessian agreed thet the attempt to expi#in the Washington sightings as due to anomalous propagation could not be opheld CIA arranged four government scientiats to meet at ATIC for three days as a preliminary review panel to decide on recommendations for a higher-level panei of six scientists The Office of Scivntifie Intelligence CIA convened in Washington D.C panel of six scientists Drs H.P Robertson Chaitman Luis Alvarez Lloyd Berkner Samuel A Goudsmit Thornton Page and one othér After three days of evidence a two-page secret report that was prepared on the fourth day concluded that there was no direct threat to national security but that there was an indirect threat to “the orderly funetioning of the proteetive organs of the body politic lt was recommended that national security agencies should “strip the UFO's of the special statua they have been given and to educate the public accordingly CIA ivsued a larger but still secret report on the meeting summarising the cight half-day sessions and outlining panel members individual viewpoints The lack of artifacts of clear extra-terrestial origin vas a strong argument agaius acceptance of the extra-—terrestial hypothesis The pane agreed with CIA concern that enemy artifacts may be misidentified by defence personnel that emergency reporting channels be overloaded ard that the public may become vulnerable to ehesy psycholio#icel warfare The pibrie should be educated to recognise balleons meteors ete and a policy of “debunking” should be introduced in order te reduce public interest This training and debunking progremme would be required for minigun ef ome and ote half to two years “Some expansiow of the ATIC effort would certainly be requived to suppert such pregramme” A professional staff of 12 supported by an administrative staff was suggested Section 11 Title 18 of the Joint Army Navy and Air Foree Publication JANAP 146 legislated that servicé personnel talking about UfO sightings were liable te 1-10 years gaol and/or a fine of up te $16,000 Air Force Regulation AFR 200-2 removes investigation authority from Project bine Book in faveur of ‘the wir Defence Command's 4602 Air Intelligence Service Squadron aunit dispersed over area commands and trained beth for rapid access to remote areas and to interrogate enemy personnel The Aim Force requires immediate reporting to évdluete the threaty dnd detailed reporting to assist technical analysis All written reports are te be sent to USAF Tntelligence in Washington mainland reports first going to Air Defense Command for distrifution to “interested investigative agencies Electrical reports are addrdssod to both these headquarters and te ATIC The-publie is to be informed of the results of individual cases only when “the ohject is positively identified as a familiar Bs jest [PAGE 18] 9.53 1.12.53 17.2.54 15.5 54 10,6.54 262655 23.8,55 25.10.53 Nati chives of Au Headquarters USAF will release summaries of evaluated data to the public When the head of Project Blue Book departed the staff was reduced to just one eirman first-class ALL instramentation phans had been negated except for diffraction cameras which had been shown ta be us#lese The distribution of 279 diffraetion-grating caxeras 200 to U.S bases and 75 to overseas bases was completed Airline pilots of a meeting at the Roosevelt Hotel Hollywood were coerced by military intelligence vsing JANAP 146 te agree to not informing the public of their sightings and confine thei reporting to official channels USAF Chief of Staff General Nathan Twining stated The best orains in the Air Force are working on this provlem of Unidentified Flying Objects trying to solve this riddle General Twining vas not referring to Project Blue Book Deputy Commander of Tntelligeney at ATIC Colonel O'Mara stated that more than a theusand peaple were vorking on the problem William Lear Chairman of Lear Inc Santa Nonica stated that because of flying saucers serioug efforts were being made in the U.S to prove the existence of anti-gravitationel forces Revealed that the U.S Government had taken over the Canadian Avro ‘flying saucer project This was a circular aerofoil powered by jets and designed to take-off and Land vertically hover travel at 1500 mph and change direetion rapidly the design specifications for performance and shape were clearly directly related to UFO reporting The project was started in 1951-52 and in 1054 after $400,060 had been spent the Canadian Gevernment withdrew its financial backing When the U.S assumed control over the project it imposed a high level of security preventiag ever Canadian officials from inspecting the premises At the press release meeting on 25 October 1995 fer the Special Report Ne 14 photegraphs of a drawing of ihe proposed version showed a typical flying dise Release of Project Blue Book Special Report No 14 dated May 1955 The report was originally compiled by Project Blue Bock research consultants whd analysed 3,200 reports out of 4,065 received by the end of 1952 These resulis vere used to brief the Robertson panel in dan 1953 To this basic 316 page report page so-called “susimary” has been added dealing mainly with the 1953-55 period and dismissing UFO's as mainly misidentifications The more uncomfortable conclusions of the main report were.concealed Only LOO copies of the onin report Were digtributed ov a restvicoted non-public basis the only Awstralign copy wes destroyed by he RAAF in 1959 whereas copies of the misleading summary were freely available to press and public A1S6 3092/2/000 [PAGE 19] i 58 24.12.59 +60 28,9.65 3.2.66 5.4.66 6.6.66 20,.6,.66 199.66 6.10,66 29.7.68 8.1.69 +69 17.12.69 26/31.12.69 First sanitized version of Rebertson short report released InspestorsGeneral of Aix Forte circulates classified UPO'S Serious Business in an effort to stimulote and improve the reporting ef UFO's Llnovestigating officers are to equipped with geiger counters as well as a camera binoculars and sampling containers JANAP 1462 invokes espionage laws to prevent the revso1ring of UFO data Following the August ‘peak of UFO activity the USAF Office of Informstion requests a review of Project Blue Book USAF Scientific Advisory Board Ad Hoc Committee reviewed Project Blue Boek Although the Committee considered mest wnidentifieds were due to inadequate analysis they also accused Blue Sook of identifying objects when the evidence collected was too meagre or too indefinite It vas recorimended that University contracts be made and that more scientifically trained investigators be used UlS8 Congress House Committee on Armed Services recommends that Project Blue Book reports be investigated by University contract Dr Mc Donald reads Robertson complete report which had been declassified under 12 year rule Robertson report reclassified Second sanitiaed version issned AFR 80-17 replaces APR 200-2 and transfers responsibility from Intelligence to Research and Development Para 12(b states Air Torde echelons receiving suspected or actual UFO material will safeguard it to prevent any defacing or alterations which might reduce its value for intelligence examination end analysis Contract signed with Colorade University U.S Congress House Committee on Science and Astronautics held a one-day symposium on UFO's at which many promineat scientists testified in faveur of UFO's being real and requiring international investigation Condon report published Condon's conclusions were not supported by the staff conclusions Allen Hynok’s contract ag Scientific Consultant on UFO's to the USAF Project Blue Book was not renewed after 21 years Project Blue Book ¢losed down The American Association far the Advancement of Sctence met at Heston to discuss UFO's One cuteome was a reselytion appealing for Blue Book date to be released NAA A13693 3092/2/000