United States Air Force
Project BLUE BOOK — Unidentified Flying Objects (NARA holdings)
Collection · written 1947 · released 1976
Why this matters
NARA's guide to the Air Force's 1947–1969 UFO investigation files: more than 12,000 sighting reports, most of them explained, plus 701 never identified. The records went to NARA in the 1970s and exist mostly on microfilm, with names redacted. This page explains how to reach them and what was withheld.
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https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos
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Declassified UFO Programs
Twelve thousand cases on microfilm: how to reach them today.
Cite
United States Air Force. "Project BLUE BOOK — Unidentified Flying Objects (NARA holdings)." 1947. Released 1976. https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0019).
Shelved nearby
- 1954 QA-0147USAF · Study
Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (1955)
The Battelle Memorial Institute's statistical analysis of more than 3,000 UFO reports for the Air Force, the most rigorous data study of the Blue Book era.
- 1969 QA-0148DTIC · Study
Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, Vol. 1 (Condon Report, DTIC AD0680975)
The University of Colorado study, led by physicist Edward Condon, that concluded further UFO study was unlikely to advance science and led directly to the end of Project Blue Book in December 1969.
- 1947 QA-0007FBI · Case file
FBI ‘UFO’ file (flying disc reports, 1947 onward)
The FBI's main file on 'flying discs', opened during the 1947 sighting wave when the Army Air Forces asked the Bureau to help vet reports.
- 1950 QA-0006FBI · Memo
Guy Hottel memo on ‘flying saucers’ recovered in New Mexico
A one-page memo from the head of the FBI's Washington field office passing along a second-hand story that three 'flying saucers', each holding small bodies, had been recovered in New Mexico.