SUBJECT: 1969 BLUE BOOK CLOSES FILE: UFO3128
Article #: 20
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 07-20-1986
Subject: 1969 BLUE BOOK CLOSES
SOURCE: NEW YORK ( NYT )
DATE: DECEMBER 18, 1969
SYSTEM: CUFON Computer UFO Network
Air Force Closes Study Of UFO's
USAF Secretary Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr. said: in a menorandum yesterday that
Project Blue Book is closed since continuation of the study of UFO's "no longer
can be justified either on the ground of National Sesurity or in the interest
of Science."
Project Blue Book has investigated 12,618 sighting reports during the past 22
years, at a cost of "several million dollars." Both a committee of the
National Academy Of Sciences and a U Of Colorado group concluded earlier this
year that further studies of the so-called flying saucers would be a waste of
time and money.
Surprisingly, the USAF decision was hailed by a number of UFO activists, but
Dr. James McDonald, a meteorologist at the U Of Arizona, said: USAF was
"writing off the UFO problem, which cries for serious scientific study ." Dr.
Edward U. Condon, the U Of Colorado physicist who headed the UFO study, said:
recently that his investigation "was a bunch of damned - nonsense" and that he
was "sorry I ever got involed in such foolishness."
USAF said: UFO reports had fallen from a high of 1501 in 1952 to 146 this year.
Stuart Nixon, secretary-treasurer of NICAP, said: sightings still occur almost
weekly and cited the report from a group of Richmond, VA policemen who said:
they saw an object maneuvering over the city at 5:45 on Dec 5.
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