1 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:06,440 Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning. 2 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,080 Today's topic? Project Blue Book. 3 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:14,720 Now I found this article on mentalfloss.com. 4 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:21,280 It's written by Lucas Riley from January 28th, 2019 and the title 5 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:25,440 is 9 Facts About Project Blue Book, the Government's top 6 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:30,240 Secret UFO Program. Blue Book's something we've all 7 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:34,520 kind of heard about and it's just part of the UFO phenomenal 8 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,320 lore, so I thought this would be cool to look at. 9 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:43,000 The article starts off it says Between 1952 and 1969, the US 10 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,840 Air Force conducted a series of studies on UFO sightings called 11 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:51,120 Project Blue Book. Not only is there a new History 12 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,320 Channel series about the program, this year also marks 13 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,240 the 50th anniversary of the project's termination. 14 00:00:58,060 --> 00:00:59,860 Get to know the security program better? 15 00:01:00,780 --> 00:01:04,420 Well, if you stop to think about that, 1952 to 1969. 16 00:01:04,580 --> 00:01:07,820 Seventeen years is quite a long while actually for the 17 00:01:07,820 --> 00:01:11,700 government to be investigating UFO's, and we can only imagine 18 00:01:11,700 --> 00:01:14,540 what they found out and haven't told us. 19 00:01:15,500 --> 00:01:19,140 Now. The very first point here starts 20 00:01:19,140 --> 00:01:21,980 off #1. Project Blue Book wasn't the 21 00:01:21,980 --> 00:01:28,270 government's first UFO study. In 1947, a private pilot named 22 00:01:28,270 --> 00:01:32,470 Kenneth Arnold reportedly spotted 9 glowing UF O's zooming 23 00:01:32,470 --> 00:01:36,190 over Washington's Mount Rainier. The public went wild for the 24 00:01:36,190 --> 00:01:39,870 socalled flying saucers. Shortly after, the US government 25 00:01:39,910 --> 00:01:45,110 launched Project Sign, It's SIGN to determine if such objects 26 00:01:45,110 --> 00:01:48,550 were a threat. In 1948, Project Sign 27 00:01:48,550 --> 00:01:51,670 purportedly published a document called The Estimate of the 28 00:01:51,670 --> 00:01:56,090 Situation, which suggested that extraterrestrials were a 29 00:01:56,090 --> 00:01:58,890 possible explanation for UFO sightings. 30 00:01:59,570 --> 00:02:03,370 As the story goes, Air Force officials destroyed the document 31 00:02:03,730 --> 00:02:07,690 and launched a more skeptical investigation in the late 1940s 32 00:02:07,690 --> 00:02:11,610 called Project Grudge. Blue Book came a few years 33 00:02:11,610 --> 00:02:14,810 later. I suppose if you're working on 34 00:02:14,850 --> 00:02:22,880 Project Grudge and you know the first project was Pro at UFOET, 35 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:27,080 Possibility, the name of your project should probably give you 36 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,640 an idea of where your expectations land. 37 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,680 OK, point #2. The estimate of the situation 38 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:40,480 was inspired by a mind boggling event in the 1960s. 39 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:44,920 Air Force officials denied that the estimate of the situation 40 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:50,400 document ever existed. Those who vouch for its 41 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:55,400 authenticity, however, say the report was inspired by A1948UFO 42 00:02:55,400 --> 00:03:01,360 sighting in Alabama after two experienced pilots saw a torpedo 43 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:06,280 shaped glowing object zip pass their aircraft and rocket into 44 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,600 the clouds. The report shocked and baffled 45 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:11,920 many of Project Science researchers. 46 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,840 The scientist would later claim the sighting was consistent with 47 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:22,380 a bolide, or bright meteor. Point #3 Blue Book was named 48 00:03:22,380 --> 00:03:26,820 after a college testing staple. Whether UFO's are 49 00:03:26,820 --> 00:03:28,900 extraterrestrial in origin is debatable. 50 00:03:29,340 --> 00:03:33,780 What's undeniable is that during the 1950s, people routinely 51 00:03:33,780 --> 00:03:37,900 spotted, or thought they spotted, objects flying over the 52 00:03:37,900 --> 00:03:41,140 United States. And it was the and it was the 53 00:03:41,180 --> 00:03:45,270 onus of the US military to figure out what they were and 54 00:03:45,270 --> 00:03:48,990 whether they pose any danger. Blue Book would earn its name 55 00:03:48,990 --> 00:03:53,310 because as the time at the time Air Force officials equated 56 00:03:53,310 --> 00:03:56,390 studying the phenomena with preparing for a Collegiate Blue 57 00:03:56,390 --> 00:04:02,630 Book final exam, interesting officials developed a special 58 00:04:02,630 --> 00:04:06,430 protocol for handling UFO sightings. 59 00:04:07,950 --> 00:04:11,230 A central part of Project Blue Book was the creation of a 60 00:04:11,230 --> 00:04:14,510 standardized questionnaire for UFO sightings. 61 00:04:14,980 --> 00:04:19,260 Some sample prompts says draw a picture that will show the shape 62 00:04:19,260 --> 00:04:22,300 of the object or object. What was the condition of the 63 00:04:22,300 --> 00:04:25,260 sky? Did the object suddenly speed up 64 00:04:25,260 --> 00:04:26,780 and rush away? At any time? 65 00:04:27,260 --> 00:04:30,180 Change shape, flicker, throb or pulsate? 66 00:04:30,860 --> 00:04:35,140 Eventually, every US Air Force Base ended up designating a 67 00:04:35,140 --> 00:04:39,220 special officer to collect these UFO reports. 68 00:04:39,780 --> 00:04:43,700 So we can see here how the investigation, or at least the 69 00:04:43,700 --> 00:04:47,300 reporting of the UFO's was evolving over time and how they, 70 00:04:47,780 --> 00:04:50,660 the military at least, was taking an interest in it. 71 00:04:51,100 --> 00:04:54,540 And they were analyzing reports and they were developing 72 00:04:54,540 --> 00:04:59,580 methodology to report UFO's, all the while saying they didn't 73 00:04:59,580 --> 00:05:03,260 exist. By the way, thousands of reports 74 00:05:03,260 --> 00:05:06,220 were collected and some haven't been explained. 75 00:05:07,540 --> 00:05:10,260 This is the fifth point. By the time Project Blue Book 76 00:05:10,260 --> 00:05:15,410 was closed, officials had gathered 12,618 UFO reports. 77 00:05:16,050 --> 00:05:20,410 Of those, 701 were never explained. 78 00:05:21,250 --> 00:05:24,210 Let's just stop and consider of how many times before 79 00:05:24,290 --> 00:05:31,730 explanations such as swamp gas, Venus, distant lights. 80 00:05:32,770 --> 00:05:36,090 So you can imagine that these 701 that were never explained, 81 00:05:37,150 --> 00:05:39,710 there probably were quite a few more that were never explained 82 00:05:39,710 --> 00:05:43,950 but were just brushed off with the canned explanations they had 83 00:05:43,950 --> 00:05:46,830 at hand. So when they tell me the 701 84 00:05:46,830 --> 00:05:52,830 reports were not explained under the conditions these reports 85 00:05:52,830 --> 00:05:57,830 were made and the way that they were more or less just doomed to 86 00:05:57,830 --> 00:06:01,750 to failure to begin with, that tells me these 701 reports must 87 00:06:01,750 --> 00:06:07,260 have really been outstanding. UFO reports that were just but 88 00:06:07,260 --> 00:06:10,980 the evidence was so on your face that they just couldn't turn 89 00:06:10,980 --> 00:06:13,860 away from it, goes on. It says nearly half of those 90 00:06:13,860 --> 00:06:22,420 unidentified UF O's appeared in 1952 when a whopping 15101 UF 91 00:06:22,420 --> 00:06:26,020 O's were cited. Interestingly, that following 92 00:06:26,020 --> 00:06:30,780 year it became a crime for military personnel to discuss 93 00:06:31,380 --> 00:06:34,380 classified UFO reports with the public. 94 00:06:35,180 --> 00:06:39,060 The risk of breaking the law could mean up to two years 95 00:06:39,060 --> 00:06:42,940 imprisonment. It's also interesting. 96 00:06:42,940 --> 00:06:46,860 Why would you need to classify a UFO report if UFO's don't exist 97 00:06:46,980 --> 00:06:54,420 and it just tells you that UFO's certainly must exist and the 98 00:06:54,420 --> 00:06:57,260 government Government must know this or they wouldn't be 99 00:06:57,260 --> 00:07:00,220 classifying the information, number one, and they wouldn't be 100 00:07:00,220 --> 00:07:03,380 threatening people from the military or the prisoner for 101 00:07:03,380 --> 00:07:06,970 talking about it. Point number six they bring out 102 00:07:06,970 --> 00:07:10,330 here in the article Project Blue Book saw five leadership 103 00:07:10,330 --> 00:07:13,810 changes. Each person in command saw the 104 00:07:13,810 --> 00:07:15,930 purpose of Project Blue Book differently. 105 00:07:16,490 --> 00:07:20,010 Captain Edward J Rupell, for example, treated the job as a 106 00:07:20,010 --> 00:07:24,130 serious scientific quest as often lauded as the project's 107 00:07:24,130 --> 00:07:27,810 most impartial leader. Notably, he is responsible for 108 00:07:27,810 --> 00:07:33,080 coining the term UFO major. Hector Quintella, who took over 109 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:37,440 the project in 1963, was more interesting in turning Blue 110 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:42,320 Book, Blue Book into a PR front and focused on quelling the 111 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:46,520 public's interest in UFO's. A desire that would eventually 112 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:49,840 lead to changes of a government that would eventually lead to 113 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:52,480 change to charges of a government cover up. 114 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:55,920 Well, what I see here and the difference between these two 115 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,880 Project Blue Book leaders is just a movement from 116 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:06,790 transparency to nondisclosure. Basically, the military is 117 00:08:06,790 --> 00:08:09,790 probably understanding that these UFO sightings, the data 118 00:08:09,790 --> 00:08:13,230 they generate has value and it's value that they don't want to 119 00:08:13,230 --> 00:08:17,670 share at the public. So they start to 1st off pretend 120 00:08:17,670 --> 00:08:23,030 like the data has no value. They're talking it down, trying 121 00:08:23,030 --> 00:08:26,110 to delegitimatize it. And then at the same time 122 00:08:26,510 --> 00:08:30,590 they're they're engaging, as I said, nondisclosure. 123 00:08:31,030 --> 00:08:34,190 And they're making sure that they control the narrative. 124 00:08:34,789 --> 00:08:38,350 And at that time, the thing for them to do, the narrative was to 125 00:08:38,350 --> 00:08:42,990 say that the UFO sightings are are fake and people that see 126 00:08:42,990 --> 00:08:45,950 them are, are crazy. So that's kind of where it 127 00:08:45,950 --> 00:08:51,110 headed to goes on here, says #7 Blue Book made such bad 128 00:08:51,110 --> 00:08:54,990 scientific mistakes that Congress had to get involved in 129 00:08:54,990 --> 00:08:58,560 1965. Oklahoma police, the Tinker Air 130 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:01,760 Force Base, and a local meteorologist using weather 131 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:06,960 radar independently tracked for unexplained flying objects. 132 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:11,920 Under Quintanilla's advisement, Project Blue Book would claim 133 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:15,720 that these witnesses had simply observed the planet Jupiter. 134 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,320 The problem with this explanation? 135 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:20,840 Jupiter wasn't even visible in the night sky. 136 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:25,040 The Air Force must have had its star Finder upside down during 137 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:28,330 August, Robert Reiser and Oklahoma Planetarium director, 138 00:09:28,330 --> 00:09:31,450 said at the time. A series of more badly botched 139 00:09:31,450 --> 00:09:34,130 scientific explanations eventually led to a 140 00:09:34,130 --> 00:09:37,810 congressional hearing. Well, you can see what's 141 00:09:37,810 --> 00:09:40,930 happened here, this military project blue book. 142 00:09:41,810 --> 00:09:47,890 I mean, they just got apparently so comfortable with hiding the 143 00:09:47,890 --> 00:09:52,690 truth from the public that they began to just create fantastical 144 00:09:52,690 --> 00:09:58,420 lies to explain away the UFO's. This is where the whole thing of 145 00:09:58,420 --> 00:10:03,500 arrogance comes in. It's the first signs of what we 146 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:06,940 talked about, this breakaway society where one group of 147 00:10:06,940 --> 00:10:09,380 people has the working knowledge of what's going on. 148 00:10:09,740 --> 00:10:14,740 While they completely deny that to the other group, this fellow 149 00:10:14,740 --> 00:10:18,380 running Blue Book probably felt that he was so important and 150 00:10:18,380 --> 00:10:21,660 that he was on a need to know basis and that the rest of 151 00:10:21,660 --> 00:10:24,140 society was not on a need to know basis. 152 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:29,920 Therefore, when they reported 4U F O's moving across the sky and 153 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,160 they had him on radar, he didn't care. 154 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:33,920 He didn't care what they thought. 155 00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:38,080 He just said, hey man, that's Jupiter, leave me alone. 156 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,600 He's so comfortable in his own knowledge of the UFO phenomenon 157 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:47,120 and his position of power that he doesn't feel like he has to 158 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,840 entertain questions from other people about this whole UFO 159 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:52,520 thing. Therefore, he doesn't. 160 00:10:53,140 --> 00:10:54,980 It's as if he's talking to a small child. 161 00:10:54,980 --> 00:10:56,900 And we see this over and over again in government. 162 00:10:57,580 --> 00:11:00,620 People ask legitimate questions about UF O's, whether it's about 163 00:11:00,620 --> 00:11:03,620 missing people in our national parks, whether it's about cattle 164 00:11:03,620 --> 00:11:09,660 mutilations, whether it's about abductee experiences or implants 165 00:11:09,660 --> 00:11:11,020 that have been removed from people. 166 00:11:11,660 --> 00:11:15,500 People have serious questions, and what did they receive from 167 00:11:15,500 --> 00:11:20,580 the government? They receive answers that are 168 00:11:20,580 --> 00:11:23,790 deserving to a child, and so they're talked down to. 169 00:11:24,390 --> 00:11:27,590 Our own government talks to us like we're children, and we can 170 00:11:27,590 --> 00:11:31,550 see this happening with this whole blue book thing that goes 171 00:11:31,550 --> 00:11:33,070 on. It says #8. 172 00:11:33,910 --> 00:11:38,910 The project's desire to dismiss unidentified phenomena bothered 173 00:11:38,910 --> 00:11:42,030 its soul scientist. Wow. 174 00:11:42,870 --> 00:11:44,870 Let's just stop by thinking about that for one second. 175 00:11:44,870 --> 00:11:47,390 It's soul scientist. It's only scientist. 176 00:11:47,750 --> 00:11:50,710 So you're doing a scientific investigation of the UFO 177 00:11:50,710 --> 00:11:56,590 phenomena, but you only employ one scientist when you want to 178 00:11:56,590 --> 00:12:01,910 have more than one scientist on staff on the 17 year project. 179 00:12:02,550 --> 00:12:06,790 If you're doing it in scientific investigation, Seems like it. 180 00:12:07,590 --> 00:12:10,710 Project Blue Book had one consistent scientific 181 00:12:10,710 --> 00:12:16,310 consultant, astronomer Doctor Jay Allen Heinek, in 1986. 182 00:12:16,310 --> 00:12:18,870 Heineke wrote the staff of Blue Book. 183 00:12:19,470 --> 00:12:23,090 Both, excuse me, 1968, Heineke wrote. 184 00:12:23,450 --> 00:12:26,970 The staff of Blue Book, both in numbers and in scientific 185 00:12:26,970 --> 00:12:33,050 training, is grossly inadequate. There is virtually no scientific 186 00:12:33,050 --> 00:12:36,970 dialogue between Blue Book and the outside scientific world. 187 00:12:37,970 --> 00:12:42,330 The statistical methods employed by Blue Book are nothing less 188 00:12:42,490 --> 00:12:47,050 than a travesty. Heineke held Quintanilla in 189 00:12:47,050 --> 00:12:52,390 particularly low regard, saying Quintanilla's method was simple 190 00:12:52,950 --> 00:12:57,670 disregard any evidence that was counter to his hypothesis. 191 00:12:58,470 --> 00:13:01,230 Well, there you go. Sounds like he was the king of 192 00:13:01,230 --> 00:13:04,030 debunkers, the original debunker. 193 00:13:04,590 --> 00:13:07,230 No matter what somebody tells you, just deny it. 194 00:13:08,630 --> 00:13:12,470 Point #9. In 2007, a new government 195 00:13:12,510 --> 00:13:14,830 inquiry into UF O's was launched. 196 00:13:16,230 --> 00:13:21,710 Between 2007 and 2012, the US government spent $22 million on 197 00:13:21,710 --> 00:13:25,710 a new UFO study called the Advanced Aviation Threat 198 00:13:25,710 --> 00:13:29,390 Identification Program. Nowadays, UFO's are called 199 00:13:29,390 --> 00:13:31,790 UAP's, or unidentified aerial phenomena. 200 00:13:32,230 --> 00:13:33,830 Well, they're called that by some people. 201 00:13:34,350 --> 00:13:36,870 You can watch one here and it has a link. 202 00:13:37,350 --> 00:13:41,110 This January, more than three dozen of the program studies 203 00:13:41,110 --> 00:13:44,360 became publicly available, revealing the government's 204 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:48,160 interest and everything from warp drives to invisibility 205 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:59,930 cloaks. And then below that there's 206 00:13:59,930 --> 00:14:04,170 another article, a couple more, a couple more here on this site, 207 00:14:04,170 --> 00:14:07,610 mentalfloss.com. They kind of just end abruptly 208 00:14:07,610 --> 00:14:10,530 there with the whole point of a tip. 209 00:14:11,050 --> 00:14:15,690 Now, if you've been listening to the program, you can. 210 00:14:16,170 --> 00:14:24,700 You can go ahead and and and find out some more stuff about 211 00:14:24,700 --> 00:14:27,740 what ATIP was about. You can. 212 00:14:27,780 --> 00:14:32,140 You can. We all know how Atip's former 213 00:14:32,140 --> 00:14:34,500 head now works for Tom Delong. And then the government comes 214 00:14:34,500 --> 00:14:36,300 out and says, no, we don't know this guy. 215 00:14:36,820 --> 00:14:40,860 So we get right back into the same sketchy routine that we 216 00:14:40,860 --> 00:14:43,300 have with Blue Book. The government claims to be 217 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:47,900 trying to solve the mystery surrounding the whole thing 218 00:14:47,900 --> 00:14:51,660 about UFO's, but what we see over and over again is that 219 00:14:51,820 --> 00:14:56,780 there's little no transparency, there's little to no disclosure. 220 00:14:57,260 --> 00:15:01,020 And even when these projects like Blue Book or A Tip do find 221 00:15:01,020 --> 00:15:04,980 out something significant, they want to dribble it out through 222 00:15:04,980 --> 00:15:07,940 their chosen sources. Just like we saw with a Tic Tac 223 00:15:07,940 --> 00:15:10,780 UFO. It wasn't posted on a government 224 00:15:10,780 --> 00:15:13,420 website somewhere for everybody to use the C or whatever. 225 00:15:13,740 --> 00:15:18,940 It was given to a former A TIP employee who then sticks the 226 00:15:18,940 --> 00:15:22,020 watercolor mark of his company on it, TSTSSA. 227 00:15:22,980 --> 00:15:26,620 And it's disseminated to the public through a private 228 00:15:26,620 --> 00:15:30,980 company. That's what we see happening 229 00:15:30,980 --> 00:15:33,900 over and over again with government research, Whether 230 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:38,220 it's blue book, a tip, whatever. When we do come up with usable 231 00:15:38,660 --> 00:15:41,500 UFO data, it's not released to the public. 232 00:15:41,940 --> 00:15:47,820 Instead, it's given to private corporations, which can monetize 233 00:15:47,820 --> 00:15:51,980 that data and control the narrative any way they see fit. 234 00:15:53,460 --> 00:15:56,220 But the important part about this article is it shows that 235 00:15:56,220 --> 00:15:59,260 this has been going on for a long, long time, at least since 236 00:15:59,260 --> 00:16:04,500 1952 and even before 1952. This is a pattern that we see 237 00:16:04,860 --> 00:16:08,900 with government and UFO investigations over and over and 238 00:16:08,900 --> 00:16:11,500 over again. Personally, I think it's because 239 00:16:11,500 --> 00:16:15,900 the UFO data from these investigations is so valuable 240 00:16:17,260 --> 00:16:20,260 that the people doing the investigating, they recognize 241 00:16:20,260 --> 00:16:22,780 that and they want to keep it for themselves. 242 00:16:23,100 --> 00:16:26,740 Another aspect could be that they see the reality of this 243 00:16:26,740 --> 00:16:29,700 thing and they're afraid. They're afraid of what it could 244 00:16:29,700 --> 00:16:33,820 do as far as the power structure on this planet is concerned, and 245 00:16:33,820 --> 00:16:37,540 it, in effect, displacing them as the decision makers. 246 00:16:38,380 --> 00:16:42,460 And they're afraid of what would happen if the rest of society 247 00:16:42,700 --> 00:16:47,550 knew what they already know. The fact is, if we're going to 248 00:16:47,550 --> 00:16:50,030 have any kind of real UFO investigation, it's going to 249 00:16:50,030 --> 00:16:53,630 have to come on an individual grassroots label level. 250 00:16:54,030 --> 00:16:58,990 And with the Internet here, now anybody is able to do their own 251 00:16:59,070 --> 00:17:01,870 UFO research and post those results online. 252 00:17:01,870 --> 00:17:04,150 Just like I'm posting this podcast right now. 253 00:17:04,510 --> 00:17:09,109 Sharing that information, sharing different strategies and 254 00:17:09,109 --> 00:17:14,270 sharing our own analysis of the UFO phenomenon. 255 00:17:14,270 --> 00:17:16,869 Not having to depend upon an authority figure to tell us what 256 00:17:16,869 --> 00:17:20,310 to believe. But but but creating our own 257 00:17:20,310 --> 00:17:21,910 beliefs. That's the important thing and 258 00:17:21,910 --> 00:17:23,589 that's what the Internet offers us. 259 00:17:24,349 --> 00:17:28,310 Now once again, that article was on mentalfloss.com and it was 260 00:17:28,310 --> 00:17:30,510 back at 2018. You check it out. 261 00:17:32,710 --> 00:17:34,470 Hope everybody had a Merry Christmas. 262 00:17:34,990 --> 00:17:38,990 And until next time, this is UFO warning saying over and out.