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rec WN in Release 200oue: at | pone eo nano ViGen ok RDP81 R00560R00010001000 at Mo inv estigate.. the questo Aub. Defense ee the ret jamper qnonster. emna so-called Morr e cula. as vesuigative pe ol ar vidnece sium: ure magne as ctiized. 115 Terie goted 6 a ‘acomr, Herm! ut ind. : ole were ; en he # ne cooP’ ppearcd ” a ‘and r petped in a rportes rn Who's Minding The Store? PROJECT BLUE BOOK: Public excitement aroused by a series of UFO sightings in 1947, prompted the Air Force to inau- gurate a clearing house for such reports, and a public information official to announce the conclusions arrived at by Air Intelligence as to what those UFOs really were. The Project was born under the name Sign, later became Grudge and is known today as Blue Book. Its history has been a stormy one. Private investigative organizations have accused Project Blue cd Book of concealing information, distorting reports and dismissing witht earth dents important evidence as irrelevant or misconceived. The Air Force’s tet a Vor of an own consulting scientists have indicated something less than satis~ wee is faction with the final conclusions released to the press by Air ‘pers i O. Autho ity. Intelligence. Air Force pilots have been quoted as being thorough- ane : Qs a] ly out-of-patience with the treatment their objective and detailed i By eit BARTOS. traveling at, abont, 18,000 pr Jo Neth af 742 (val 1952 sir. Many UFO y — reports have been given by Project Blue Book and its guiding intelligence. - There have been charges that the Air Force knew more than it was revealing and that its weasel-worded reports were an affront to the public’s intelligence and an insult to the reputable persons who submitted the reports. There have been suggestions that the Air Force was convinced of the existence of interplanetary craft and had accepted the likeli- hood of actual landings and of exploratory operations. The ac- knowledged incidents of ‘‘dogfights’’ between our own jets and UFOs, plus the known occurrences of jets ordered up to intercept these aerial phenomena lent support to these suggestions. In 1952 Edward Ruppelt was placed in charge of Project Blue maint Book. His efforts at honest appraisal of the major sightings, pitted if ease unidenti- ada ne flying against the sometimes confusing, sometimes conflicting and often jarge num earls saw ar be ‘be airplan’ downright aggravating obstinancy of ATIC to accept and/or to re- Flying Obj ie ig News! coe a phenome lease for publication the whole story, provide the material for Rup- a The MO He aa pelt’s comprehensive, no-punches-pulled, account of his years as Be ye chief of Project Blue Book, The Report on Unidentified Flying Ob- ‘obi: jects (Doubleday). seeing an na norineasterld airection © Mspraney ys Sineter with blue and Te k 50 waewerss weit zon eis. and” lights move over | ‘the|farmer ancopect 300. feet in fe pol a