DISCLOSURE / FILEAir Force Announcement of Termination of Project Blue Book, Project Blue Book Records, National Archives Research Page.html
December 17, 1969 Air Force announcement terminating Project Blue Book, citing the Condon Report's conclusions.
Brief
On December 17, 1969, Secretary of the Air Force Robert C. Seamans announced the termination of Project Blue Book, the Air Force's two-decade UFO investigation program. The decision rested on the University of Colorado's Condon Report, which concluded that further study could not be justified on grounds of national security or scientific advancement. The source provided here is a National Archives research page describing the announcement, not the underlying memorandum itself, and no extractable page text was supplied.
Metadata
- Agency
- U.S. Air Force
- Release
- 1969-12-17
- Type
- PDF • .html
- Length
- 42.4 K
- Programs
- Project Blue Book, Condon Report
- Tags
- Project Blue Book, Condon Report, program termination, 1969, USAF
Key points
- Project Blue Book was terminated effective December 17, 1969 by Secretary of the Air Force Robert C. Seamans.p.1
- The termination cited the Condon Report's finding that continued UFO investigation was not justified for national security or science.p.1
- The listed source is a National Archives research page for the Project Blue Book records collection, not the original termination memorandum.p.1
Most interesting
- Project Blue Book ran from 1952 until its formal December 17, 1969 termination, the last of three sequential Air Force UFO study efforts after Project Sign and Project Grudge.
- The Condon Report (formally the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, University of Colorado, 1968) was the institutional basis the Air Force cited for ending official UFO investigations.