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#ProjectBlueBook

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People (1)

  • J. Allen Hynek Astronomer who served as scientific consultant to the Air Force's UFO projects from 1948 to 1969, attended the Robertson Panel as an associate member, and in 1973 founded the Center for UFO Studies.

Organizations (2)

  • Battelle Memorial Institute Columbus, Ohio contract research institute that held the Air Technical Intelligence Center's UFO support contract (Ruppelt's Project Bear, the Robertson Panel's Project Stork) from late 1951 and produced Blue Book Special Report No. 14.
  • Foreign Technology Division Wright-Patterson scientific and technical intelligence unit, the Air Technical Intelligence Center from 1951, Foreign Technology Division from 1961 and NASIC since 2003, which housed Project Blue Book and analyzed UFO reports by regulation.

Events (1)

  • Robertson Panel CIA-convened panel of five scientists (January 1953) that found no threat in unidentified flying objects and recommended a training and debunking program and the watching of civilian UFO groups.