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