6.04:US Government Offical Studies

On Sep 30, 1947 Lt General Twining of ACM expressed his opinion that there was sufficient substance in reports to warrant a study on UFOs. On Dec. 23, 1947 Project Sign was established to collect, collate, evaluate, and disseminate all information concerning UFO sightings and phenomena. Project sign completed it evaluations in Feb of 1949 and concluded "No definite and conclusive evidence is yet available that would prove or disprove the existence of these UFOs as real aircraft of unknown and unconventional configuration." Project Sign was changed to Project Grudge on Dec.16, 1948. Project Grudge recommended that the investigation and study of UFO reports be reduce in scope. In early 1950 UFO reports by the public increased. This prompted Project Grudge to be changed to Project Blue Book in March of 1952.

Project Blue Book goals were :-

1: To find an explanation for all the reported sighting of UFO's.
2: To determine if the UFO posed any security threat to the United States.
3: To determine if UFO's exhibit any advanced technology which the U.S. could utilize.

In 1966 the USAF commisioned a report on UFOs from the University of Colorado. This project was headed by Dr Edward Condon. Condon was a well respected physicist who gather a panel of experts from a variety of fields to assist him. They reported in 1969, the report being referred to as the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, also known as the Condon Report. They concluded:-

1: There is no evidence that any UFOs are "extraterrestrial vehicles"
2: No UFO has ever given any indication of a threat to the national security.
3: There is no evidence that UFO's represent technological developments or principals beyond present-day scientific knowledge.

As a result the USAF closed down Project Bluebook. Although it has been suggested on many occasions that some members of the panel had deceided the conclusions of the study before the work started there is evidence that at least Condon took the task seriously. He appears to have joined a number of different civilian UFO research groups, including the British UFO Research Association, around the world.

Main Source:

 
Project Blue Book: The Top Secret UFO Findings Revealed,
  By Brad Steiger, 1976 
sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
BUFORA Journal, Summer 1974

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