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SUBJECT: UNEXPLAINED CASES FROM THE BLUE BOOK FILE: UFO142
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PART 1
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THE BLUE BOOK UNKNOWNS
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The unexplained UFO reports from the files of the U.S. Air
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Force's Project Blue Book UFO investigations.
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Compiled by Don Berliner, for the Fund for UFO Research
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the conclusions or views expressed in this
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publication are the views of the author(s)
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and do not necessarily reflect the opinions
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of the Fund for UFO Research, Inc.
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THE UNEXPLAINED UFO CASES FROM THE PROJECT BLUE BOOK FILES
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In January, 1974, I visited the U.S. Air Force Archives at
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Maxwell AFB,.Montgomery, Ala., to review the files of Project
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Blue Book as the first step toward writing a book on the subject.
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In a full week, I read all the "unexplained" cases in the
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original files and made extensive notes, including the names and
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other identifying information on all witnesses where given. The
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cooperation of the staff of the Archives was excellent, and no
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restrictions were placed on my work.
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A few months later, the files were withdrawn from public
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view so they could be prepared for transfer to the National
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Archives in Washington, D.C. This process involved making a
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xerox copy of almost 30 file drawers of material, blacking out
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the names and other identifiers of all witnesses, and then
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microfilming the censored xerox copy. The microfilm has been
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available to the public at the National Archives since 1976. The
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original Project Blue Book files remain under lock and key at the
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Archives.
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On almost every page of the 12,000+ case files, there are
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big black marks where information that could be used to cross-
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check Project Blue Book's controversial work has been censored.
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This includes the names of witnesses to widely-publicized cases,
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and even names in newspaper clippings!
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As it was perfectly legal for me to copy witness' names when
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I visited the Air Force Archives, those names can be found in
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this report of 585 (less 13 missing) unexplained cases. And
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since the Privacy Act, which motivated the Air Force to censor
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the files in the first place, does not apply to reporters or
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anyone else outside the Government, they can be used as the
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reader pleases.
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Inasmuch as the book I planned to write has never progressed
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beyond the manuscript stage, I see no reason to keep this
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information under wraps any longer. Perhaps it will encourage
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others to re-investigate cases and make the results known.
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"Unidentified" says a great deal...and it says almost
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nothing.
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Probably the most controversial aspect of the entire Air
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Force investigation of UFOs was its handling of individual cases.
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The means by.which one case was determined to be "identified" and
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another "unidentified" has no doubt fueled more arguments about
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Project Blue Book than anything else it did.
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For many years, Blue Book's most vocal opponents have
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insisted that the standards by which cases were allegedly
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explained were grossly unscientific. Blue Book's goal, according
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to those who held it low esteem, was to attach some explanation
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to every case, regardless of logic or common sense. Examples of
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Blue Book saying a violently maneuvering disc was an aircraft, or
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of blaming a puzzling radar tracking on a supposedly
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malfunctioning radar set which it never bothered to check out,
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are numerous in the popular UFO literature.
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End of part 1
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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