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As the inclosed fact
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gation of UFOs wasterminated on cember l7, 1969, and all
related documentation was turned o to the National Archives
and Records Service.

The inquirer referred to us hasbeen apprisedof these

events. Hopefully,the inclosedfact sheetwill be of help
in responding
to anyfuture inquirieson this subject.
Sincerely,
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Conmunity Relations Division
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On December 17, 1969 the Secretary of the Air Force

announced the termination of Project Blue Book, the Air Force
program for the investigation of UFOs.

The decision to discontinue UFO investigations was based

on an evaluation of areport prepared by the University of
Colorado entitled, "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying
Objects;" areview of the University of Colorado&#39;s report by
the National Academy of Sciences; past UFO studies; and Air
Force experience investigating UFO reports during the past
two-decades. .

As aresult of these investigations and studies, and

experience gained from investigating UFO reports since
1948,
the conclusions of Project Blue Book are: l! no UFO reported,
investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given
gs. any indication of threat to our national security; ! there
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has
been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air
Force
that sightings categorized as
"unidentified" represent
technological developments or principles beyond the range of
present day scientific knowledge; and ! there has been no
evidence indicating
that sightings
categorized as
"unidentified
L! are extraterrestrial vehicles.

with
the termination of Project Blue Book, the Air Force
regulation establishing and controlling the program for invest-
igating and analyzing UFOs was rescinded. All documentation
regarding the former Blue Book investigation has been per-
manently transferred to the Modern Military Branch, National
Archives and Records Service, 8th and Pennsylvania Avenue,
1 Washington, D.C. 20408, and is available for public review
5 and analysis.

Attached for your information is

the Project Blue Book
sighting summary for the period 1947-1969. Also included is
alisting of UFO-related materials currently available.

Since the termination of Project Blue Book, no evidence

has been presented to indicate that further investigation of
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UFOs by the Air Force is warranted. In view of the consider-
able Air Force
commitment of resources
in the past, and the
I extreme pressure
no likelihood
on Air Force
funds
of renewed
at this
time,
Air Force
there
involvement
is
in
this area.
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1948
1949

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1955 TOTAL_pF0 szsurzncs, 1947 - 1969

1956 TOTAL SIGHTINGS" UNIDENTIFIED

1957
122 12
1958 156 7
166 622
1959 210 27
1960 169 22

1961 1,501 303

509 42
1962 497 46
545 &#39;
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1963 670 14
1,006 14
1964 627 10
390 12
1965

1966
557 14
591 &#39;
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474 15

1967 399 14
562 19
887 16

1968 1112
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937 19
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1 1969
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UFO MATERIALS

Scientific Stugy
conducted_bye of tUnidentified
University Flyingunder
of Colorado 0b&#39;ects.
Study
contract
F44620-76-C-0035. Three volumes, 1,465 p. 68 plates.
Photoduplicated hard copies of the official report may
be ordered for $6 per volume, $18 the set of three,
Z as AD 68O:975, AD 680:976, and AD 680:977, from the
National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department
of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22151. T

Review of Universityof Colorado Report on Unidentified

Flying iect Rs. e v ofiew p re ort
&#39; 50b y ap
b anel of the National
Aca emy o Sciences. National Academy of Sciences,
-1 1969,
6p. Photoduplicated hard copies may be ordered for
$3
as AD 688:54l from the National Technical Information
Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22151.

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There are a number of universities and professional

scientific organizations such as the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, which have considered UFO
phenomena duringperiodic meetings and seminars. In addition,
alist of private organizations interested in aerial phenomena
may be found in Gale&#39;s Encyclopedia
of Associations Edition 8,_
Vol I, pp. 432-3!. Such timely review of the situation by
private groups insures that sound evidence will not be over-
looked by the scientific community.
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hearing
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received, and Iam
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Your letter presented information that I had already mentioned
to you, in my
letter of
July 21.; so this was information I knew.
I had
given this
to you as "advance" information that
you would
probably receive from
other Government agencies, and departments,
and which is
the standard
release material.

Again, the new Project Blue Book is acivilian continuation of

the
original Project Blue Book, which did
close in 1969. Here, twenty-
years later, som e of
the same
original Blue Book, Pentagon, and
other persons are, still,
looking for the real answer to the UFO
phenomenon. That is
the reason, too, I gave you the information
I did - about J. Edgar Hoover, President Carter, Senator Barry
Goldwater, etc. I was hoping to go "deeper" into the intelligence-
gathering
whichnever
did
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the
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President Carter....I met with
President Carter&#39;s chief
Scientific Adviser&#39;s personnel, at
the New Executive Offices of
the
President....I sent reports to the original Project Blue book, and
know some of
it&#39;s former personnel, etc. So, I know the whole
scheme
of
things, pertaining to UFO &#39;s
-except for the hidden Intelligence-
reports,
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andthis date,
gathering agency
to
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hardun@wns& participation with regard to the better UFO sighting

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Dear Mr. Sessions:

You
may
recall.3hat,vvhile
you
wereinFortSmith
visiting
your
Fath:r,dE!calle
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and,_briefly,_mengioned
m Eisire tomeet:&#
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of
. in general,
and the role of
U. S. Government participation, in particular.
I saidgatI wished
to issue
a "challenge"
to younotthat
you
do notjc allenges on adaily basis! pertaining to UFO&#39;s.
You
.stated that
you were interested, and to write
you - and which I
am now doing. Icnuld
write "pages" on the matter,
but rather
than to do
so - itwill be lengthy enough for me to endeavor to
give
you information I wish to convey in this letter.
In any event, the
U.-S. Government has played important roles
in the evaluation
of UFO reported sightings. The new Project
Blue Bookis a "continuation"
of the original Project
Blue Book,
established
by the Air Force, and was located at wright-Patterson
Air Force Base, Dayton,
Ohio. someof the most important sighting
"announcements" came
from the Air Force, and
which were, later,
stated to
be something not in the original announcements - in
a
cover-up of the initial announcement. This repeatedly happened
much to the chagrin of the Air
Force. Original members of the
Project Blue
Book found that manyreports never were received
by
thisgroup,
but went
tointelligence-gathering
agencies.
Al{7L!
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ofthe
F.B.I., Mr. ts %Lhose
J. Edgar
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personne
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reported some
of the sightings themselves and who were, otherwise,
brought in to some of the cases! repeatedly asked the Air Force
for complete information
about the UFO&#39;s
- to no avail. They the
Air Force! would not release certain case reports to Mr.
Hoover.
Evenwith the present
F.O.I., mostly sanitized version/copies are
received and with information requested completely blocked-out.
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while Chairman of the Senate Committee on Science, Senator Barry

Goldwater asked for information and was told that he was not on
a "need to know" basis. This request, of Goldwater, had to do with
an initial announcement from the Air Force that a"saucer" had crashed
and that alien bodies were at thn point in time! located in ahanger,
or other building, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, at Dayton, Ohio.
Senator Goldwater was refused any information in this matter, along wit
not being
allowed to personally look inside of the alleged building.
Before taking office as President, Jimmy
Carter announced to the public
that, if elected, he would give the American people the Government&#39;s
information about UFO&#39;s. Thisdid not happen, and Mr. Carter was given
a complete run-around and I could tell you more about this, because I
was contacted by the Pentagon on the matter.

The new Project Blue Book has 1&8 present, and/or former, Air Force, NC
NASA, and intelligencegathering agency personnel, among others, acting
as adviser-consultants to PBB -anonymously. These are persons who, fo
the most part, have/had been actively engaged in
earlier UFO reports fo
their respective agencies, and who are still
muchly interested.
So, with this brief back-ground of information about me and about Gover
ment participatiaz, the "challenge" I have mentioned would be to have
you make inquiries at the highest levels of "officialdom" about what ou
Government really knows, whether or not there
ARE alien
bodies located
ANYWHERE, what happened to the
crashed "flying saucers", where are the
photo&#39;s takenby Air Force personnel through onboard gun cameras, and
similar questioning. I am positive you would find that even you would
be getting ageneral run-aroun and could not receive satisfactory answ
to the above. I think you will/would find that you are
not receiving
all the information you should be receiving and which should be very
evident to you after making several inquiries. You may tend to drop th
matter, thinking you are receiving answers to your questions, but this
will not b_e the case, Ia ssure you.
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I-Lr. Sessions, I will not take more of your time in this matter, but,
if you are interested, I would appreciate your looking into the matter.
You may wish to appoint one of our office; personnel to start making
inquiry about
UFO &#39;s,
in general,
and see
which Agencies
to which
you
would be directed. Keep in mind, however, that some present office
personnel, in the other agencies, may not know what
you would be
inquiring about -and will tell you that the
Air Force Project Blue
Book closed it&#39;s "doors"in 1969, and that
the Air Force no longer
investigqtes Sightini
UFO reports
-and
key is to go beyond the
thisintoI already
ir Force
know. The
the other
agencies;
importan
such as
the
Office of Defense, C.I.A., etc. President Bush, when asked about
UFO&#39;s,
know, President
the ush
gerson
told askirg "You
was formerly with
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His comments are on
tape, by the
way..
Well, I think
this should suffice for this time. I appreciate your
patience in reading this letter, and should you desire any additional
infonnation, please do not hesitate to let me know. I would like, ver;
much, to work through you, and with you, to endeavor to bring the
matte
of UFO&#39;s
to a conclusion -if that conclusion is an honest one.

I hope you had a nice visit,with your Dad, and come back for avisit
again, soon.

Very sincerely ,
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P.S. As sort of an "ultimate" challenge -why not ask President Bush,

himself?

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I have received your July 24th letter in which you ask

for my
help in
securin
unidentified flying
information
relative to
ob ect UFO! sightings.
investigations of
I have discussed your request with
my colleagues, and I
would first like to explain that the investigation of UFOs is not
now nor has it ever been the responsibility of the FBI. The
Department of the Air Force conducted investigations and studies
of UFO reports from 1947 to 1969.
On Deceber 17, 1969,
the
Secretary of the Air Force announced the termination of "Project
Blue Book," and the Air Force has furnished all documents
regarding investigations
itsArch ves and Records
Branch, National
UFOs
of Administration,
the
Modern
to Military
Eighehn
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20408. I
understand this data isavailable for public review and analysis.
You may wish to make an inquiry of the Modern Military Branch for
the answers to some of your questions.

Also of possible interest, the National Aeronautics and

Space Administration was asked b President Carter to look into
the possibility
of resumin
UFO investigations
in 1977.After
studying all
the factsavailable, itdecided that
nothing would
Air be gained by further investigation, and the Department of the >.
Forceonal
the
Nat
agreed
with that
Aeronautics
decision..
and
Space
You
Admin
may also
stration
want to
check with
in connection
with your research. ,

I am
not aware of any Federal
O 15-Po -121?!
agency tasked wi
the
responsibility of investigating UFOs and
hope this information
CL. dill be of helpto youand
your organization.
Ll-I sincerely yours,
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