Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
Today's topic? Project Blue Book.
Now I found this article on mentalfloss.com.
It's written by Lucas Riley from January 28th, 2019 and the title
is 9 Facts About Project Blue Book, the Government's top
Secret UFO Program. Blue Book's something we've all
kind of heard about and it's just part of the UFO phenomenal
lore, so I thought this would be cool to look at.
The article starts off it says Between 1952 and 1969, the US
Air Force conducted a series of studies on UFO sightings called
Project Blue Book. Not only is there a new History
Channel series about the program, this year also marks
the 50th anniversary of the project's termination.
Get to know the security program better?
Well, if you stop to think about that, 1952 to 1969.
Seventeen years is quite a long while actually for the
government to be investigating UFO's, and we can only imagine
what they found out and haven't told us.
Now. The very first point here starts
off #1. Project Blue Book wasn't the
government's first UFO study. In 1947, a private pilot named
Kenneth Arnold reportedly spotted 9 glowing UF O's zooming
over Washington's Mount Rainier. The public went wild for the
socalled flying saucers. Shortly after, the US government
launched Project Sign, It's SIGN to determine if such objects
were a threat. In 1948, Project Sign
purportedly published a document called The Estimate of the
Situation, which suggested that extraterrestrials were a
possible explanation for UFO sightings.
As the story goes, Air Force officials destroyed the document
and launched a more skeptical investigation in the late 1940s
called Project Grudge. Blue Book came a few years
later. I suppose if you're working on
Project Grudge and you know the first project was Pro at UFOET,
Possibility, the name of your project should probably give you
an idea of where your expectations land.
OK, point #2. The estimate of the situation
was inspired by a mind boggling event in the 1960s.
Air Force officials denied that the estimate of the situation
document ever existed. Those who vouch for its
authenticity, however, say the report was inspired by A1948UFO
sighting in Alabama after two experienced pilots saw a torpedo
shaped glowing object zip pass their aircraft and rocket into
the clouds. The report shocked and baffled
many of Project Science researchers.
The scientist would later claim the sighting was consistent with
a bolide, or bright meteor. Point #3 Blue Book was named
after a college testing staple. Whether UFO's are
extraterrestrial in origin is debatable.
What's undeniable is that during the 1950s, people routinely
spotted, or thought they spotted, objects flying over the
United States. And it was the and it was the
onus of the US military to figure out what they were and
whether they pose any danger. Blue Book would earn its name
because as the time at the time Air Force officials equated
studying the phenomena with preparing for a Collegiate Blue
Book final exam, interesting officials developed a special
protocol for handling UFO sightings.
A central part of Project Blue Book was the creation of a
standardized questionnaire for UFO sightings.
Some sample prompts says draw a picture that will show the shape
of the object or object. What was the condition of the
sky? Did the object suddenly speed up
and rush away? At any time?
Change shape, flicker, throb or pulsate?
Eventually, every US Air Force Base ended up designating a
special officer to collect these UFO reports.
So we can see here how the investigation, or at least the
reporting of the UFO's was evolving over time and how they,
the military at least, was taking an interest in it.
And they were analyzing reports and they were developing
methodology to report UFO's, all the while saying they didn't
exist. By the way, thousands of reports
were collected and some haven't been explained.
This is the fifth point. By the time Project Blue Book
was closed, officials had gathered 12,618 UFO reports.
Of those, 701 were never explained.
Let's just stop and consider of how many times before
explanations such as swamp gas, Venus, distant lights.
So you can imagine that these 701 that were never explained,
there probably were quite a few more that were never explained
but were just brushed off with the canned explanations they had
at hand. So when they tell me the 701
reports were not explained under the conditions these reports
were made and the way that they were more or less just doomed to
to failure to begin with, that tells me these 701 reports must
have really been outstanding. UFO reports that were just but
the evidence was so on your face that they just couldn't turn
away from it, goes on. It says nearly half of those
unidentified UF O's appeared in 1952 when a whopping 15101 UF
O's were cited. Interestingly, that following
year it became a crime for military personnel to discuss
classified UFO reports with the public.
The risk of breaking the law could mean up to two years
imprisonment. It's also interesting.
Why would you need to classify a UFO report if UFO's don't exist
and it just tells you that UFO's certainly must exist and the
government Government must know this or they wouldn't be
classifying the information, number one, and they wouldn't be
threatening people from the military or the prisoner for
talking about it. Point number six they bring out
here in the article Project Blue Book saw five leadership
changes. Each person in command saw the
purpose of Project Blue Book differently.
Captain Edward J Rupell, for example, treated the job as a
serious scientific quest as often lauded as the project's
most impartial leader. Notably, he is responsible for
coining the term UFO major. Hector Quintella, who took over
the project in 1963, was more interesting in turning Blue
Book, Blue Book into a PR front and focused on quelling the
public's interest in UFO's. A desire that would eventually
lead to changes of a government that would eventually lead to
change to charges of a government cover up.
Well, what I see here and the difference between these two
Project Blue Book leaders is just a movement from
transparency to nondisclosure. Basically, the military is
probably understanding that these UFO sightings, the data
they generate has value and it's value that they don't want to
share at the public. So they start to 1st off pretend
like the data has no value. They're talking it down, trying
to delegitimatize it. And then at the same time
they're they're engaging, as I said, nondisclosure.
And they're making sure that they control the narrative.
And at that time, the thing for them to do, the narrative was to
say that the UFO sightings are are fake and people that see
them are, are crazy. So that's kind of where it
headed to goes on here, says #7 Blue Book made such bad
scientific mistakes that Congress had to get involved in
1965. Oklahoma police, the Tinker Air
Force Base, and a local meteorologist using weather
radar independently tracked for unexplained flying objects.
Under Quintanilla's advisement, Project Blue Book would claim
that these witnesses had simply observed the planet Jupiter.
The problem with this explanation?
Jupiter wasn't even visible in the night sky.
The Air Force must have had its star Finder upside down during
August, Robert Reiser and Oklahoma Planetarium director,
said at the time. A series of more badly botched
scientific explanations eventually led to a
congressional hearing. Well, you can see what's
happened here, this military project blue book.
I mean, they just got apparently so comfortable with hiding the
truth from the public that they began to just create fantastical
lies to explain away the UFO's. This is where the whole thing of
arrogance comes in. It's the first signs of what we
talked about, this breakaway society where one group of
people has the working knowledge of what's going on.
While they completely deny that to the other group, this fellow
running Blue Book probably felt that he was so important and
that he was on a need to know basis and that the rest of
society was not on a need to know basis.
Therefore, when they reported 4U F O's moving across the sky and
they had him on radar, he didn't care.
He didn't care what they thought.
He just said, hey man, that's Jupiter, leave me alone.
He's so comfortable in his own knowledge of the UFO phenomenon
and his position of power that he doesn't feel like he has to
entertain questions from other people about this whole UFO
thing. Therefore, he doesn't.
It's as if he's talking to a small child.
And we see this over and over again in government.
People ask legitimate questions about UF O's, whether it's about
missing people in our national parks, whether it's about cattle
mutilations, whether it's about abductee experiences or implants
that have been removed from people.
People have serious questions, and what did they receive from
the government? They receive answers that are
deserving to a child, and so they're talked down to.
Our own government talks to us like we're children, and we can
see this happening with this whole blue book thing that goes
on. It says #8.
The project's desire to dismiss unidentified phenomena bothered
its soul scientist. Wow.
Let's just stop by thinking about that for one second.
It's soul scientist. It's only scientist.
So you're doing a scientific investigation of the UFO
phenomena, but you only employ one scientist when you want to
have more than one scientist on staff on the 17 year project.
If you're doing it in scientific investigation, Seems like it.
Project Blue Book had one consistent scientific
consultant, astronomer Doctor Jay Allen Heinek, in 1986.
Heineke wrote the staff of Blue Book.
Both, excuse me, 1968, Heineke wrote.
The staff of Blue Book, both in numbers and in scientific
training, is grossly inadequate. There is virtually no scientific
dialogue between Blue Book and the outside scientific world.
The statistical methods employed by Blue Book are nothing less
than a travesty. Heineke held Quintanilla in
particularly low regard, saying Quintanilla's method was simple
disregard any evidence that was counter to his hypothesis.
Well, there you go. Sounds like he was the king of
debunkers, the original debunker.
No matter what somebody tells you, just deny it.
Point #9. In 2007, a new government
inquiry into UF O's was launched.
Between 2007 and 2012, the US government spent $22 million on
a new UFO study called the Advanced Aviation Threat
Identification Program. Nowadays, UFO's are called
UAP's, or unidentified aerial phenomena.
Well, they're called that by some people.
You can watch one here and it has a link.
This January, more than three dozen of the program studies
became publicly available, revealing the government's
interest and everything from warp drives to invisibility
cloaks. And then below that there's
another article, a couple more, a couple more here on this site,
mentalfloss.com. They kind of just end abruptly
there with the whole point of a tip.
Now, if you've been listening to the program, you can.
You can go ahead and and and find out some more stuff about
what ATIP was about. You can.
We all know how Atip's former
head now works for Tom Delong. And then the government comes
out and says, no, we don't know this guy.
So we get right back into the same sketchy routine that we
have with Blue Book. The government claims to be
trying to solve the mystery surrounding the whole thing
about UFO's, but what we see over and over again is that
there's little no transparency, there's little to no disclosure.
And even when these projects like Blue Book or A Tip do find
out something significant, they want to dribble it out through
their chosen sources. Just like we saw with a Tic Tac
UFO. It wasn't posted on a government
website somewhere for everybody to use the C or whatever.
It was given to a former A TIP employee who then sticks the
watercolor mark of his company on it, TSTSSA.
And it's disseminated to the public through a private
company. That's what we see happening
over and over again with government research, Whether
it's blue book, a tip, whatever. When we do come up with usable
UFO data, it's not released to the public.
Instead, it's given to private corporations, which can monetize
that data and control the narrative any way they see fit.
But the important part about this article is it shows that
this has been going on for a long, long time, at least since
1952 and even before 1952. This is a pattern that we see
with government and UFO investigations over and over and
over again. Personally, I think it's because
the UFO data from these investigations is so valuable
that the people doing the investigating, they recognize
that and they want to keep it for themselves.
Another aspect could be that they see the reality of this
thing and they're afraid. They're afraid of what it could
do as far as the power structure on this planet is concerned, and
it, in effect, displacing them as the decision makers.
And they're afraid of what would happen if the rest of society
knew what they already know. The fact is, if we're going to
have any kind of real UFO investigation, it's going to
have to come on an individual grassroots label level.
And with the Internet here, now anybody is able to do their own
UFO research and post those results online.
Just like I'm posting this podcast right now.
Sharing that information, sharing different strategies and
sharing our own analysis of the UFO phenomenon.
Not having to depend upon an authority figure to tell us what
to believe. But but but creating our own
beliefs. That's the important thing and
that's what the Internet offers us.
Now once again, that article was on mentalfloss.com and it was
back at 2018. You check it out.
Hope everybody had a Merry Christmas.
And until next time, this is UFO warning saying over and out.