The last publicly acknowledged USAF investigation into UFOs, which started in March 1952. Its aims were to find explanations for
UFO sightings, to assess whether they were a threat to national security, and to determine if the UFOs used advanced technology from which the US could learn. Reports were collected, analyzed and filed according to their results. No-one noticed anything was wrong with the project until one of the
people on the investigation team sent in his own sighting. It was filed, but when he wanted to refer back to his report, it had disappeared. He then alleged that any reports that were both unexplained and could cause public uproar were siphoned off out of Blue
Book to somewhere else higher up in authority, a claim that ufologists now
see as fact. Blue
Book was wound up in 1969 as a result of the Condon Report and one of its investigators, Dr J.
Allen Hynek, went on to form the first scientific based
UFO group, the Center for
UFO Studies, in 1973.
