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   SUBJECT: UNEXPLAINED CASES FROM THE BLUE BOOK                FILE: UFO142   
      
   PART 1   
      
                       THE BLUE BOOK UNKNOWNS   
      
       The unexplained UFO reports from the files of the U.S. Air   
      
       Force's Project Blue Book UFO investigations.   
      
      
       Compiled by Don Berliner, for the Fund for UFO Research   
      
      
              the conclusions or views expressed in this   
              publication are the views of the author(s)   
              and do not necessarily reflect the opinions   
              of the Fund for UFO Research, Inc.   
      
      
      
      
      
        THE UNEXPLAINED UFO CASES FROM THE PROJECT BLUE BOOK FILES   
      
         In January, 1974, I visited the U.S. Air Force Archives at   
   Maxwell AFB,.Montgomery, Ala., to review the files of Project   
   Blue Book as the first step toward writing a book on the subject.   
   In a full week, I read all the "unexplained" cases in the   
   original files and made extensive notes, including the names and   
   other identifying information on all witnesses where given.  The   
   cooperation of the staff of the Archives was excellent, and no   
   restrictions were placed on my work.   
      
        A few months later, the files were withdrawn from public   
   view so they could be prepared for transfer to the National   
   Archives in Washington, D.C. This process involved making a   
   xerox copy of almost 30 file drawers of material, blacking out   
   the names and other identifiers of all witnesses, and then   
   microfilming the censored xerox copy.  The microfilm has been   
   available to the public at the National Archives since 1976. The   
   original Project Blue Book files remain under lock and key at the   
   Archives.   
      
        On almost every page of the 12,000+ case files, there are   
   big black marks where information that could be used to cross-   
   check Project Blue Book's controversial work has been censored.   
   This includes the names of witnesses to widely-publicized cases,   
   and even names in newspaper clippings!   
      
        As it was perfectly legal for me to copy witness' names when   
   I visited the Air Force Archives, those names can be found in   
   this report of 585 (less 13 missing) unexplained cases.  And   
   since the Privacy Act, which motivated the Air Force to censor   
   the files in the first place, does not apply to reporters or   
   anyone else outside the Government, they can be used as the   
   reader pleases.   
      
        Inasmuch as the book I planned to write has never progressed   
   beyond the manuscript stage, I see no reason to keep this   
   information under wraps any longer.  Perhaps it will encourage   
   others to re-investigate cases and make the results known.   
      
       "Unidentified" says a great deal...and it says almost   
   nothing.   
      
        Probably the most controversial aspect of the entire Air   
   Force investigation of UFOs was its handling of individual cases.   
   The means by.which one case was determined to be "identified" and   
   another "unidentified" has no doubt fueled more arguments about   
   Project Blue Book than anything else it did.   
      
        For many years, Blue Book's most vocal opponents have   
   insisted that the standards by which cases were allegedly   
   explained were grossly unscientific.  Blue Book's goal, according   
   to those who held it low esteem, was to attach some explanation   
   to every case, regardless of logic or common sense.  Examples of   
   Blue Book saying a violently maneuvering disc was an aircraft, or   
   of blaming a puzzling radar tracking on a supposedly   
   malfunctioning radar set which it never bothered to check out,   
   are numerous in the popular UFO literature.   
   End of part 1   
      
           
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