S.O.T.T: In 1969, the U.S. Air Force closed down their "Project Blue Book"
investigation of "Unidentified Flying Objects" by claiming their
evaluations of more than 12,000 sightings had not yielded a single
instance where a UFO had ever posed a threat to national security, nor
demonstrated technology "beyond the range of present day scientific
knowledge", nor been categorized as extraterrestrial. Headquartered at
the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio where legend long
suggests recovered salvage from the 1947 Roswell incident was taken for
further research and development, all of the project's declassified
records were allegedly transferred to the National Archives and Records
Service.
But did the Air Force really shut down the project, or just move it into
a private sphere where the public could be kept at arm's length? A
handful of government documents have slipped out over the years pointing
to the latter scenario. A look back at Project Blue Book is insightful
here, for knowledge of how the project evolved remains relevant to
modern assessments as well as the effort to gauge what current
high-level insiders might know. Historical information indicates that
the Army Air Force took serious attention to UFOs when reports of "foo
fighters" started coming in from pilots during World War II. Further
sightings at military installations in 1947 led to classified orders
that UFO reports be sent to division offices at Wright-Patterson Air
Field where General Nathan Twining was selected to oversee any type of
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