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Seeker - issue 2
Project
Blue Book
Started Because
of War Threats
By: Melody Dareing
Post World War II fear and the onset of the Cold War did more
of UFO knowledge.
to fuel a military investigation called Project Blue Book than
the increased amount of strange sightings in the sky.
Project Blue Book utilized reports submitted by military
service members all over the world. Military personnel were
The U.S. Air Force began investigating aerial phenomena
told to report all unexplained sky activity in a logbook, which
in 1948 under the code name Project Sign. The theory was
was submitted regularly to Project Blue Book for review. Most
these sightings were Soviet military, prompting a new
contend sightings never received full investigation, even when
line of thought for defense. Some subscribed to the idea
documented.
of extraterrestrials visiting Earth, but that was a fringe
hypothesis. The military was sure these events were a threat
There were more than 12,000 sightings and events recorded
from the Soviets using highly sophisticated equipment that
in Project Blue Book before it disbanded in 1969. The
warranted investigation.
consensus was the vast majority of sightings and events were
rationalized as natural or human-caused phenomena. Only 6
Some of the events occurring prompting the space alien
percent remained unsolved due to insufficient information.
theory included the July 1947 Roswell crash, as it was heavily
publicized. However, the military was dealing with number
Fifty-nine of the more interesting events were given to
of reports of other crashes occurring around the same time.
a second committee in 1966 to probe further. A separate
A UFO crash was reported in July 1947 in Twin Falls Idaho and
committee of the National Academy of Sciences then reviewed
there was the 1948 crash south of Laredo, Texas, in Mexico.
the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, commonly
A crash was reported in San Antonio, New Mexico, in August
called the Condon Report, issued by the 1966 committee.
1945 as well as a crash and recovery operation in Aztec, New
The result, according to the National Academy of Sciences
Mexico in 1948.
committee, was there was nothing extraordinary in the reports
and the listed events didn’t require further inquiry.
After a year of investigations, Project Sign evolved into project
Grudge, which then became Project Blue Book. Project Blue
The report and the decreased number of sightings resulted in
Book was headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in
the dismantling of Project Blue Book.
Dayton, Ohio, largely believed by ufologists to be in the thick
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