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SUBJECT: DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER FILE: UFO2406
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Judging from the Air Force's press notices, Project Blue Book had the UFO
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problem well in hand. But in reality, for almost all of its nearly 20-year
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existence, it was a low-priority operation headed by a lower ranking officer.
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A well-funded but highly classified project (even now its name is not known)
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handled sensitive UFO cases. The staff for Project Blue Book was small and,
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according to astronomer J. Allen Hynek (Project Blue Book's scientific
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adviser), less than hardworking. Nonetheless, the Air Force regularly assured
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reporters, who then uncritically passed the line to newspaper readers, that
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thorough, scientific investigations had proved the nonexistence of UFOs. In a
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1968 letter to the project, Hynek leveled several charges against Project Blue
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Book: It lacked the trained personnel necessary for the job, had conducted
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"virtually no dialogue" with the "outside scientific world," and employed
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statistical methods that were "nothing less than a travesty."
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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