Project Blue Book

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[JoeProBono]

"....I sat down with Major Q. in his living room where he quietly proceeded to feed me the same old standard Air Force pap that I'm sure he had been required to feed to countless subcommittees, panels and newspapers for the previous six years. No, there were no UFOs; yes, every sighting had been disproved or was faked; absolutely, the Air Force stood by its findings, etc. etc.

Finally, I asked him if he believed that UFOs existed. The major smiled, thought for a few seconds, and said, "OK, but this is off the record. You can't use it." I agreed, put my pen away, and he continued.

"I'm a Catholic. I believe in God, and I believe that God created this universe. It seems to me that one would have to be extremely arrogant and close-minded to think that we are the only intelligent beings out here in this great big universe."

Lt. Col. Quintanilla later retired. In 1975, he wrote a memoir that documented his experience with Project "BlueBook" and his personal beliefs about UFOs. It wasn't published until after his death in 1998."

-Harley Campbell

pdf - Preface to “UFOs, An Air Force Dilemma” by Hector Quintanilla, USAF (retired) National Institute for Discovery Science

Project Blue Book:

Blue Book, the final more or less public U.S. Air Force UFO investigation took over from Project Grudge in 1952 and lasted until December 1969. By this time, almost 13,000 sighting reports had been collected by all three projects combined. Approximately 600-700 cases remained unexplained (depending on which Air Force statistics are accepted). However, it is notable that hundreds of other cases have been labeled as explained without adequate justification and often in ways counter to known facts. Thousands of reports received conditional explanations (e.g., "possible balloon"; "probable aircraft"). But when the annual statistics were compiled, the qualifiers were dropped and "possible balloons" would become definite balloons, as if speculative answers were established facts.

The project was closed down in late 1969, concluding that the continuation of Project Blue Book "cannot be justified, either on the ground of national security or in the interest of science... A panel of the National Academy of Sciences concurred in these views, and the Air Force has found no reason to question this conclusion."

The memorandum recommending this action made it clear that the system which had long dealt with "reports of UFOs which could affect national security would continue to be handled through the standard Air Force procedures designed for this purpose," namely as it had all along - separately, "not part of the Blue Book system and in accordance with JANAP 146 or Air Force Manual 55-11."

146 After the end of Project Blue Book, its case files were opened to public inspection at the Air Force Archives.

They were withdrawn in 1974, to reappear in 1976 in the U.S. National Archives, after the names of all witnesses had been censored, thus preventing the reinvestigation of cases until the names were later republished by ufologists.

[JoeProBono]

Happy New Year!

[wally_bert]

I would like to see the series by Jack Webb on DVD.

[JoeProBono]

Ping

[KoRn]

A while back I saw a documentary on the History Channel about the Apollo missions. On the way to the Moon during the Apollo 13 mission, they saw a UFO as they were approaching the Moon. It was a bright flashing light out in the distance, and they didn’t know what it was. Aldrin was about to tell mission control about it, but Armstrong told him to not say anything. I’d never heard anything about that, and thought it was very interesting.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Pinging the unidentified aerial phenomena list (ufo) ..

And also wishing all a Happy New Year!

May 8, 1950-This is one of the most famous UFO pictures ever taken.
Photographed by Paul Trent, and first witnessed by his wife.
They were published in a local newspaper in McMinnville, Oregon shortly thereafter.
Soon, the Trent photos were published in Life magazine edition of June 26, 1950.
The rest is history.
These photos have been deemed authentic for over 50 years.

Those interested in the uap/ufo ping list, please Freepmail
Quix, DCPatriot and LasVegasDave (freepmail works best)
if you would like your name added to the list.
( Approximately 150+ freepers are currently on the ping list ).

[TexasCajun]

[K-oneTexas]

http://www.bluebookarchive.org/

[JoeProBono]

Jack Webb's Close Encounters Project, 30 March 2003 Author: SanDiego from The Beach

Jack Webb's DRAGNET, ADAM 12 and EMERGENCY were such big hits that his Mark VII productions always had a few other series on the networks (mostly NBC) with various success.

Project UFO was definately Jack Webb's baby and he was the one who did the talk show circuit to promote it. Besides his narration, the show followed Webb's trademark of stiff, unemotional acting that gave all his shows a semi-documentary look. His earlier shows introduced the day-to-day realities of police work, paramedics and emergency rooms long before Hill Street Blues and E.R. and without the soap opera scripts.

Project U.F.O. was Webb's attempt to bring the then current hit film CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND to television via a straight forward telling of the real people who investigated UFO sightings (known as Project Bluebook, that title was eventually changed to PROJECT UFO because it sounded more interesting).

A typical episode would open with a discovery of a burnt out portion of field where a UFO appeared to have landed and took off and the two investigators gathering evidence to support or dispute the premise that a UFO had actually landed. Sometimes the evidence pointed to fraud and sometimes there were no answers and sometimes it was left to the audience to come to their own conclusions. Since there wasn't an attempt to conclude that there actually were aliens the series was a bit dull, there was never any big payoffs. Think of M. Night Shyamalan's SIGNS if it had ended a half hour sooner and that would pretty much sum up Project UFO. Perhaps M. Night Shyamalan was a fan of the series and wanted to do a better version and that's where SIGNS came from.

[dennisw]

Jack Webb on Dragnet was known for his preaching to “hippies” and drug takers and trying to straighten them out on Dragnet

Then Jack Webb goes “hippie” on us by chasing after UFOs? Very humorous!

Not that there aren’t real UFOs among the thousands of fantasies and faked sightings

[Missus]

I remember when I was a kid, growing up in Montgomery, Alabama, Home of Air Training Command, Going to the library on base (Maxwell AFB), to do a school project. I was looking up Stuff on the supernatural, and finding several books of interest in the card catalog, located on the second floor. When I tried to access the second floor, it was locked out. Apparently, all of those books were classified. It was pretty cool to find a “secret” so close to home.

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

I was once stationed at Maxwell AFB and you’re right.

[Raul Raul]

Facinating stuff!

[Interesting Times]

Blue Book ping.

[JoeProBono]

“When Project Blue Book was closed down in January 1970, the original files were transferred to Maxwell AFB where they were made available on request for public viewing until 1975. In 1975 these documents were microfilmed by the Air Force for internal use and then transferred to the National Archives for public release. Before microfilming these documents for public release, however, the Air Force blacked out witness names and other personal information in accord with its policy of protecting the privacy of witnesses despite the fact that the files had been available for copying and inspection for years without these deletions. In 1998 a set of the original unredacted Air Force microfilm was discovered at the National Archives. In addition to witness names and information, it has been confirmed that these rolls contain some pages that are not on the NARA rolls.”

[dennisw]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYsfvoIQ9ok

[JoeProBono]

Bwahahaha!

[ErnBatavia]

[dennisw]

Great advertisement!

Looks like Jack Webb was a radio personality before TV..... Because I see a microphone in front of him
Fatima cigarettes means implies suggests it has Turkish tobacco which used to be a selling point

A real blast fr the past