Inspired by this article by Cooper....

"Cooper said he first encountered UFOs as a military pilot in Germany in the early 1950s, when unidentified craft were spotted over an air base.
"I had a camera crew filming the installation when they spotted a saucer. They filmed it as it flew overhead, then hovered, extended three legs as landing gear, and slowly came down to land on a dry lake bed! These guys were all pro cameramen, so the picture quality was very good. The camera crew managed to get within 20 or 30 yards of it,filming all the time. It was a classic saucer, shiny silver and smooth, about 30 feet across. It was pretty clear it was an alien craft. As they approached closer it took off." When his camera crew handed over the film, Cooper followed standard procedure and contacted Washington to report the UFO and "all heck broke loose," he said. "After a while a high-ranking officer said when the film was developed I was to put it in a pouch and send it to Washington. He didn't say anything about me not looking at the film. That's what I did when it came back from the lab and it was all there just like the camera crew reported." When the Air Force later started Operation Blue Book to collate UFO evidence and reports, Cooper says he mentioned the film evidence. "But the film was never found supposedly. Blue Book was strictly a cover-up anyway."


http://www.bibleufo.com/quoteastro.htm




and this video... the alien here looks very human to me..except that it had too many cosmetic surgery trips for the nose...( Michael Jackson's surgeon?? Was it his inspiration??? )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwyeK36Gh-s...ted&search=



I thought I'd look into the Blue Book further.....

...From the CohenUFO.org

Response to James Oberg's:
"..... GORDON COOPER'S UFOs"
by Jerry Cohen


HYNEK TAKES US INSIDE BLUEBOOK

Excerpts from "The UFO Experience"
Oberg/Cooper rebuttal.5a
continued from 4b


Skeptics, I hope you're still reading this. This is where
things really begin to get interesting. It's why Hynek became
a believer.

----------------------
Getting back to Dr. Hynek. In "Oberg/Cooper rebuttal 1a" (Preface,
¶ 3 ) I mentioned that "it was that Air Force's own scientific
consultant who actually proved to us that the Air Force has not
been completely honest with us concerning UFOs."

This next section focuses on what the Air Force's main civilian
scientific consultant had to say concerning Project Blue Book
after it was closed and his job there had ended. His revelations
would have shattered every skeptic's "illusion" concerning the
accuracy of Air Force statistics and made them realize that
Project Blue Book was a sham and the Air Force had to know a lot
more than it was telling. The only problem was that most of the
skeptics never read it and/or, if they did, refused to believe it.
It is my fervent hope that those following these essays will
become more enlightened in this regard.



The accuracy of the following can be confirmed by
consulting the sources provided via your local libraries
-----------------------------------------

HYNEK & PROJECT BLUE BOOK
(The study that wasn't)
-----------------------------------------

{ . . . . .Spock said to McCoy . . . . . "Remember!" }



When Blue Book closed, Dr. Hynek, having had access to Blue Book
files for approximately twenty years, and realizing how little
study had been done on some of the best cases, had decided that
there was a lot more to UFOs than most other people realized.
The problem was, how was he going to get this information out to
the public? He needed to let them know, what *he* knew; that Blue
Book was a "sham", that the Colorado Study had come to the wrong
conclusions and that he had information he felt proved there was
indeed something to at least a core of these UFO reports.

In 1972, his book "The UFO Experience" was published and was
earthshaking to those of us that had been following the UFO
controversy closely. Besides the classifications he delineated
concerning the phenomena, etc., Hynek also included revealing
inside details on both Blue Book and the Condon Study. The most
shattering to our consciousness regarding Blue Book concerned twenty
pages described as "Excerpts from a letter by J. Allen Hynek to
Colonel Raymond S. Sleeper" on Oct. 7, 1968. 1

It aptly demonstrated that Blue Book had been a "non-study" and
made those of us who read his book painfully aware of how little
was accomplished by the project the Air Force touted as its
"scientific analysis" of UFOs. The letter is both his evaluation
of Project Blue Book and a plea for the Air Force to take the UFO
subject more seriously.

After reading this, it is hard to imagine that someone, somewhere
wasn't taking it more seriously. Our Air Force has been and is,
the finest "human" Air Force in the world.

In "Oberg/Cooper rebuttal.4" I made several statements that may
have appeared controversial to some. Three of them were:
1) ". . . things concerning the Air Force weren't as we
had thought";

2) "Eventually other things surfaced that made it
crystal clear the Air Force had to know a lot more
than it was willing to tell."
and
3) ". . . a project (Blue Book) that, as we will discover
later, had become an embarrassment to itself."


To say the following data "is extremely important," is definitely the greatest
understatement I have ever made in my life. It proves, beyond all reasonable doubt,
that Dr. Hynek was held back from studying the repository of "verified" evidence in
existence. In other words, the same people that had claimed all along this important
evidence didn't exist, were keeping much of it buried from Hynek and outsiders. As
you will see in these excerpts from his 1972 book, by his own words, Hynek was not
permitted to peruse the files himself. The question was "Was it incompetence, a need
to feel important on the part of members of the Blue Book staff or a directive from
upper echelon?"

There are five sections of Hynek's letter to which I wish to draw everyone's
attention. One of the sections I haven't included was their own (the Air Force's)
consultant's plea to take UFOs more seriously. Those wishing to view this text in
its entirety can view it in Appendix 4 of his book, delineated in the bibliography below.
The following, labeled by section and general area, are quotes directly from Hynek to
Sleeper.

---------------------------------------------------

Section A:
HOW "BLUE BOOK" DEALT WITH ITS MISSION:

One "Case Example" of what Hynek thought was a report going unheeded. Do
we really think someone else higher up didn't get to read this case when it occurred?
Hynek's words to Colonel Sleeper:

"Blue Book has been charged with two missions by AFR 80-
17, both ostensibly of the same weight, since the regulations do
not specify otherwise. They are: (1) to determine if the UFO is a possible threat to the United States, and (2) to use the
scientific or technical data gained from study of UFO reports.
Neither of these two missions is being adequately executed.

First, the only logical basis on which it can be stated
that UFOs do not constitute a possible threat to the United States
is that so far nothing has happened to the United States from that
source. First, many reports are not investigated until weeks or
even months after they are made; clearly, if hostility were ever
intended, it would occur long before the report was investigated.
(That is akin to having the Pearl Harbor radar warnings [which
went unheeded] investigated three weeks after Pearl Harbor.)
Nothing did occur, so it can be gathered that UFOs, whatever they
may be, have not so far had hostile intent.

Second, many reports of potentially high intelligence
value go unheeded by Blue Book. Examples: (a) [Extract from a
classified document of reported sighting of 5 May, 1965, contents
unclassified, classification refers to name, and location and
mission of vessel.] " . . . leading signal man reported what he
believed to be an aircraft. . . . When viewed through binoculars,
three objects were sighted in close proximity to each other; one
object was first magnitude, the other two were second magnitude.
Objects were traveling at extremely high speeds, moving toward
ship at undetermined altitude. At . . . . four moving targets
were detected on the . . . . air search radar at ranges up to
twenty two miles and held up to six minutes. When over the ship
the objects spread to circular formation directly overhead and
remained there for approximately three minutes. This maneuver was observed both visually and by radar. The bright object which
hovered off the starboard quarter made the larger presentation on
the radar scope. The objects made several course changes during
the sighting, confirmed visually and by radar, and were *tracked
at speeds in excess of 3000 (three thousand) knots. * (jc:
Asterisks, bolding and italics are mine.) Challenges were made by IFF but not answered. After the three minute hovering maneuver, the objects moved in a southeasterly direction at an extremely high rate of speed. Above evolution observed by CO, all bridge personnel and numerous hands topside."

This report was summarily evaluated by Blue Book as
"Aircraft," and to the best of my knowledge was never further
investigated. By what stretch of the imagination can we say that
the sighting did not represent a "possible threat" to the United
States? Only because nothing happened. Do we ascribe such
incompetence to the officers of the ship, and to the CO, to have
such a report submitted unless all witnesses were truly puzzled?
Is it conceivable that these officers could not have recognized an
aircraft had it had the trajectory, the apparent speed, and the
maneuvers ascribable to aircraft? No mention is made in the
report of even the possibility that ordinary aircraft were being
observed. The very fact that IFF challenges went unanswered
should have been a spur to further investigation. This implies
enemy craft. But the report does not even suggest the possibility
that these were ordinary enemy aircraft. The classified document
in Blue Book files does not contain further technical data
concerning the sighting itself. Should not the director of Blue
Book have exhibited at least SOME curiosity about this sighting?
Yet when I brought it up on more than one occasion, it was
dismissed with boredom. . . . . . *It is hard for the public to
understand how a country whose military posture is so security
geared could dismiss a case like this out-of-hand unless the
military knew more than they were telling." * (J.C. asterisks are
mine but the words are Dr. Hynek's.)

--------------------------------------------
J.C. Was Hynek only talking about the public
understanding or his own as well?

After giving a second example similar to
the above he says the following:
--------------------------------------------
ON HYNEK's ROLE IN BLUE BOOK (GUESSING GAME PLAYED)
Appendix 4, Section A, Paragraph 9
"It must be pointed out that neither of these cases were
shown to me by Blue Book personnel. I happened upon them
by accident during one of my visits as I scanned through
material lying on a desk, and not in the files; I am not
permitted to peruse the files themselves. I have access
to the files only when I request a specific case. But
how can I request a specific case, to examine its
possible scientific merits, if I don't know of its
existence?"
-------------------------------------
J.C. Does the above sound as though they
wanted him to examine all the cases?
-------------------------------------
...for the rest of the article see...

http://www.cohenufo.org/ocr.5a.html

Worth a read.... The book is a summary in Quintanilla's own words.of his involvement as head of project Blue Book...

http://www.ufologie.net/doc/quintanilla.pdf

The following paragraphs are from the Project Blue Book's unexplained case listing. For the USAF who conducted Project Blue Book, these are the cases that have not been explained in conventional terms.
INTRODUCTION:
Along with a short summary, the location and dates, the witness or witnesses name are given! This might suprise many readers, as these names have been censored from the files before they were archived and later available to the public under the FOIA law.

Please read the reference information at the end of the page to learn how I found out the witness names. Please refer to my main page on Project Blue book for more information on this Project.

http://www.ufologie.net/htm/bluebooku49.htm

Blue Book, the final more or less public U.S. Air Force UFO investigation took over from Project Grudge in 1952 and lasted until December 1969. By this time, almost 13,000 sighting reports had been collected by all three projects combined. Approximately 600-700 cases remained unexplained (depending on which Air Force statistics are accepted). However, it is notable that hundreds of other cases have been labeled as explained without adequate justification and often in ways counter to known facts. Thousands of reports received conditional explanations (e.g., "possible balloon"; "probable aircraft"). But when the annual statistics were compiled, the qualifiers were dropped and "possible balloons" would become definite balloons, as if speculative answers were established facts. The project was closed down in late 1969, concluding that the continuation of Project Blue Book "cannot be justified, either on the ground of national security or in the interest of science... A panel of the National Academy of Sciences concurred in these views, and the Air Force has found no reason to question this conclusion." The memorandum recommending this action made it clear that the system which had long dealt with "reports of UFOs which could affect national security would continue to be handled through the standard Air Force procedures designed for this purpose," namely as it had all along - separately, "not part of the Blue Book system and in accordance with JANAP 146 or Air Force Manual 55-11." 146 After the end of Project Blue Book, its case files were opened to public inspection at the Air Force Archives. They were withdrawn in 1974, to reappear in 1976 in the U.S. National Archives, after the names of all witnesses had been censored, thus preventing the reinvestigation of cases until the names were later republished by ufologists.



http://www.ufologie.net/htm/blulst.htm

...some updates ?...from the UFO updates site...
which has over 66578 Messages Archived Since Dec. 1996!!!!!!!!!


http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/



It's nice to know that so many people around the world are taking the time..and effort to get things straight....


LOL...take 5.....( I'm having problems posting this URL !!!)

http://www.cohenufo.org/Blue######Book####...S######Site.htm


Ohhh well....


I'll do what I'm sdo good at... ...cut and paste....


Blue Book UFO Unknowns On NIDS SiteFrom: Colm Kelleher <nids@anv.net> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:07:22 -0700 Fwd Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 16:47:33 -0400 Subject: Blue Book UFO Unknowns On NIDS ...
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For those interested in the ongoing re-appraisal by Brad Sparks
of Project Blue Book cases.

Colm Kelleher
NIDS http://www.nidsci.org/

Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project BLUE BOOK UFO Unknowns:

Work in Progress (Version 1.6, June 18, 2003)

Compiled by Brad Sparks
Copyright 2001-2003

The main purpose of this catalog at present is to help identify
and fill in where possible missing or difficult-to-obtain U.S.
Air Force documentation on better quality Unexplained UFO cases,
not to present here the "proof" of UFO reality nor to discuss
possible IFO identifications, subjects reserved for later
analysis once full files can be examined. Here the goal is
preliminary and to compile more complete documentation, not the
perfection of the analysis or categorizations. This catalog will
be used eventually to produce another catalog of UFO Best
Evidence after a screening process based on Hynek's and other
criteria and for that reason columns for data on Duration, No.
of Witnesses, Angular Size and "Instrumentation/Scientists etc."
have been separately presented from the available case data
and/or calculated where possible.

When Project Blue Book (BB) closed down on Jan. 30, 1970 (it was
not on Dec. 17, 1969, which was merely the announcement date by
the Secretary of the Air Force) the total number of Unidentified
sightings was thought to be 701 and this is the number given on
all subsequent press releases and so-called "fact sheets."
However, based on the review by Hynek and the CUFOS staff of the
released sanitized BB microfilm and Hynek's personal records
which included many missing (and unsanitized) BB documents, the
final number was determined to have been approximately 587,
apparently reflecting an IFO elimination process carried out on
old historical cases by the last BB Chief, Major Hector
Quintanilla in the 60's (and of dubious scientific validity
based on examples McDonald studied), which must have reduced the
number of Unexplained cases by 114. Evidently the AF did not
update its annual historical UFO statistics to reflect this
gradual winnowing process, not realizing it could improve upon
its anti-UFO PR position by reducing the perennially
embarrassing number of Unidentifieds.

However, in reverse, Hynek re-evaluated 53 Blue Book IFO cases
as Unexplained UFO cases, bringing the total partially back, up
to 640, unfortunately a complete list identifying these is not
available, though some of the worksheets have been copied by Jan
Aldrich from CUFOS-Hynek files. A number of the re-evaluated
cases have been included in The Hynek UFO Report book published
in 1977.


Much more disturbing are the indications from my limited review
of BB cases that there may be as many as possibly 4,000
Unexplained UFO cases miscategorized as IFO's in the BB files.
McDonald similarly stated in 1968 at his CASI lecture that from
his review of BB cases he estimated that 30-40% of 12,000 cases
were Unexplained, or about 3,600 to 4,800. These are mostly
military cases and many involve radar.

The BB files total some 13,134 cases altogether, UFO and IFO,
according to the Hynek-CUFOS revised statistics, or about 14,613
when 1,558 "info only" cases are included, per the FUFOR Index.
Many cases are actually multiple incidents filed under one
date/location. For simplicity I am therefore rounding up to
15,000 as the approximate total number of UFO incidents in the
BB files.

This catalog is based primarily on the outstanding catalog
prepared by Don Berliner of the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR)
from his exhaustive review of the then unreleased Project Blue
Book (BB) files at Maxwell AFB (Air Force Base), Alabama, in
Jan. 1974, which included many witness names that were later
sanitized out ("blacked out") of the public release of the BB
files by the Air Force in 1974-5. Berliner's effort ought to be
supplemented with the tremendous intelligence coup by William
Weitzel and FUFOR in early March 1998 in discovering and later
securing copies of the unsanitized pre-redaction record copy 16
mm Maxwell AFB microfilm of the BB files that the National
Archives inadvertently made available (at the College Park,
Maryland, facility in Record Group 341 / 190 / 68 / 08 / 03,
boxes 1-6, 70 films numbered 30,362 through 30,431), but no
resources are available for such a large-scale research project.
All of UFOlogy owes an enormous debt of gratitude to FUFOR for
this lasting contribution to the preservation and disclosure of
this vast treasure of priceless military UFO records.

The Berliner catalog has been heavily augmented here with:

(a) Listing of BB Unknowns selected from the National Archives
index of BB cases (published by Steiger in Nov 1976 and
available on the World Wide Web at various websites) but lacking
descriptive sighting details.
Partial case listings of re-evaluations by Hynek and CUFOS
staff (primarily in The Hynek UFO Report, Dell, Dec. 1977), who
personally retained many thousands of unsanitized BB case files
in his personal papers which are now with CUFOS.

© The 1969 Magonia catalog of landing/close encounter cases by
Jacques Vall=E9e who as Hynek's assistant in the 60's examined the
BB files and Hynek's copies of BB cases, when many reports had
not yet "disappeared."

(d) Battelle Memorial Institute list of 12 Best Unknowns which
also caught a few cases before records vanished (May 5, 1955,
report issued as Blue Book Special Report No. 14).

(e) Lists by James McDonald who saw and copied BB files on five
research trips from June 1966 to Aug. 1970 and conducted his own
exhaustive and independent investigations, especially see his
prepared statement in the 1968 House Committee on Science and
Astronautics hearing (McDonald 1968) and his 1969 AAAS paper as
revised and published posthumously by Sagan & Page (McDonald
1972).

(f) Records obtained by Jan Aldrich of Project 1947 directly
from unsanitized BB files on the Maxwell AFB microfilm, from
McDonald, CUFOS and Keyhoe/Richard Hall/FUFOR files, from FOIA
requests, and from SHG oral history and file recovery efforts.

(g) Condon Committee investigations of BB cases published in the
Condon Report (Bantam Books edition, New York, Jan. 1969;
especially see the convenient "Sightings, Unexplained" listing
in the index, p. 961).

(h) FUFOR's Index to the Case Files of Project Blue Book (1997)
which consists of a computer printout reportedly prepared by
David R. Saunders of the Condon Committee, but which
inexplicably includes cases up to Dec. 1969 near the end of BLUE
BOOK and over a year after the AF contract with the Condon
Committee had ended.

(i) National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena
(NARCAP).

(j) Willy Smith's case evaluations (On Pilots and UFOs, UNICAT
1997).

(k) NICAP website compiled by Francis Ridge.

(l) Dominique Weinstein's Aircraft/UFO Encounters (Nov. 1997;
and rev. 5th ed. June 2001, Aircraft UAP Encounters).

(m) H. B. Darrach and Robert Ginna, LIFE magazine article,
April 7, 1952.

(n) Various USAF records obtained by Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) requests, especially a collection of long-missing Project
SIGN/GRUDGE records found at the St. Louis records center,
however please note that it is uncertain whether all of these
cases are in the BB/predecessor files or had ever been and got
lost or were removed.

(o) U.S. Air Force Intelligence TOP SECRET analysis of flying
disc incidents, April 28, 1949, Report No. 100-203-79 or "AIR
203."

(p) Martin Shough catalog of radar UFO incidents, 1987, revised
2002, and augmented by Jan Aldrich.

(q) My personal investigations and research (especially all
bracketed [ ] material and most parenthetical ( ) material).

The New Project Bluebook






Cosmic Conspiracies were recently surfing the internet looking for new articles for this site when we came across some very interesting documents that were posted on the FBI Website (www.fbi.gov). We were all led to believe that Project Bluebook fronted by Dr. J. Allen Hynek was terminated on 17th December, 1969. However, as these documents reveal, it appears that it was re-opened in 1989.

Sypnosis
FBI File 62-83894 (1), released under the Freedom of Information Act, contains copies of high level correspondence about the role of various US federal agencies regarding the investigation of UFOs. The file, from 1989, highlights the concerns of a seemingly well-placed individual from Arkansas, who alleges a high-level cover-up, and issues the Director of the F.B.I., William S. Sessions, a ‘challenge’ to personally investigate the allegation. That the letter receives a reply from the Director himself indicates the esteem with which the correspondent is held. The correspondent alleges that Project Blue Book was on-going at the time of writing, albeit unofficially, under the name ‘The New Project Blue Book’. Copies of all the relevant pages of the file are reproduced here for further scrutiny by interested parties.





http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicbluebook.html

From the ABC network....
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Primetime...8712&page=1



Feb. 24, 2005 — Today, if you ask the Air Force about UFOs, it will cite its own 22-year study called Project Blue Book, which said there is no evidence that they are extraterrestrial vehicles and there is no evidence that they represent technology beyond our own.

Blue Book, based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, investigated hundreds of UFO reports yearly throughout the 1950s and 1960s.


But the truth is Blue Book never became a serious, full-scale, scientific inquiry. The main purpose of the Air Force's UFO office was public relations, says Robert Goldberg, author of "Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America."

"That mission was denounce the UFOs, dismiss the UFOs, debunk the UFOs and anybody who believes in them — just come up with answers and get this UFO thing out of the newspapers," he told ABC News.

Blue Book was far from a massive institute with a staff of white-coated lab technicians, said UFO researcher Mark Rodeghier. "There was a guy at a desk and a secretary and a private or someone there typing stuff. It was a very, very small project," he said.


Explaining It Away

Blue Book may have done some investigating, but it was overwhelmed by the volume of reports that were coming in.

Col. Robert Friend, the project's director from 1958 to 1963, told ABC News: "We wanted to explain as many sightings as possible, but we recognized that the amount of resources that would have been necessary in order to do this would have been far beyond those that we were ready to commit at the time."

He also recognized Project Blue Book's real purpose: "What they wanted to try to do was, I think, to re-educate the public regarding UFOs, to take away the aura of mystery."

And the best way to keep UFOs out of the newspapers — and therefore, out of the public mind — was to say repeatedly that they were nothing more than weather balloons or rare atmospheric conditions, like a star on the horizon.


Insistent Scientist

The man most often responsible for making these explanations was Blue Book's one civilian scientist, Ohio State University astronomer J. Allen Hynek. Between 1948 and 1969, he was the lead investigator on thousands of cases.


In a 1965 interview with one witness, Hynek argued with a woman who said she saw a UFO, insisting it was actually a meteor.



She asked, "Don't you think it would be kind of unusual for a meteor to just fall across the road and hover over there a minute and then drop to the ground?"



Hynek replied: "The coming over wouldn't be bad. It's the hovering that would bother me."




Seeing Stars


Project Blue Book even dismissed a sighting by experienced military personnel on high alert during the middle of the Cold War.



On the night of Oct. 24, 1968, Mike O'Connor was dispatched to make a repair at a missile site at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.



En route, he says he saw a bright light "lift off the ground, and parallel us down the road, until we came to the missile site." When he got out of the truck, the light "just kind of hovered there," he said.



The Minot control tower diverted a B-52 to investigate. The navigator on the B-52, Capt. Patrick McCaslin, remembers what he saw on the radar screen: "This thing was climbing out with us and maintaining the same heading we were. That was unusual. But what really watered my eyes [was] when this thing backed away and allowed us to turn inside of it."



Capt. Brad Runyon, the B-52's co-pilot, says he remembers the "overall object was a minimum of 200 feet in diameter and it was hundreds of feet long."



"It had a metallic cylinder attached to another section that was shaped like a crescent moon. I felt that this crescent moon part was probably the command center. I tried to look inside the thing, but all I could see was a yellow glow."

He says at that point he was fairly sure it was an alien spaceship, and when the crew members returned to base, they reported their sighting.



According to Blue Book's investigation, the crew of the B-52 and 16 witnesses on the ground said they saw a UFO that night. In its final report, Blue Book concluded that they were all probably just seeing stars.