The new history channel tv show project blue book is based on the true story of j. Fifty years ago, the government shut down its infamous study into ufosand people are still talking about it. As it will tell you itself at the top of every episode, historys new. Project blue book unidentified flying objects national. It relates to the usaf investigations of ufos from 1947 to 1969. He was familiar with project blue book and related. If the truth is out there, the history channel is going to spend more time looking for it. When ufos buzzed the white house and the air force blamed. General information reference report relating to project blue book u. The most surprising thing about project blue book is that it took so long to become a tv show in the first place. The initial investigation resulted in the formation of project blue book in 1952. Not only is there a new history channel series about the program, this year also. Project blue book articles, videos, photos and more.
Project blue book ufo investigations ufo sightings. Public interest in ufos persists 50 years after project. Project blue book was one of a series of systematic studies of unidentified flying objects conducted by the united states air force. Project blue book unidentified flying objects national archives.
An insider speaks brigadier general stephen lovekin, esq. Project blue book was the code name for an air force program set up in 1952, after numerous u. Theyve renewed their project blue book tv show for a second season of 10 episodes. Air force fact sheet on ufos and project blue book reference. The history channels project blue book features mysterious ufo encounters that are based on government files documenting decades of sightings. Dont miss any of entertainment tonight s project blue book coverage. The cias declassified ufo files are now available online. In project blue book, history channels hit formula mixes fact and fiction the new series draws on the air forces ufo investigations and adds some creative license. By 1952, the ufoinvestigation unit was called project blue book, led by captain edward ruppelt at the wrightpatterson air force base in dayton, ohio.
Reference report relating to majestic 12 mj12 information of the roswell incident general information. Topsecret ufo program revealed in tvs project blue book. It started in 1952, the third study of its kind, following projects sign and grudge. Air force fact sheet on ufos and project blue book. Today, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the end of project blue book, the national archives is displaying a selection of records from the program in the east rotunda gallery of the national archives museum in washington, dc. The records, on display through january 16, 2020, are a sample from the thousands of pages of textual records, still pictures, motion pictures, and sound. Since the end of project blue book in december 1969, our interest in. Project blue book originally project blue book was the air force name for a project that investigated ufo reports between 1947 and 1969. Here are the actual events behind historys popular new series on the air forces program to investigate and debunk u.
How project blue book could revive the history channels. To determine if ufos were a threat to national security, and to scientifically analyze uforelated data. Public interest in ufos persists 50 years after project blue book. Air force conducted a series of studies on ufo sightings called project blue book. The project blue book archive is a new website which will provide free online access to the national archives blue book microfilm collection, and has so far posted about 10% of the blue book microfilm. An official investigation by the cia into the existence of ufos, aliens and all the other eerie stuff. Headquartered at wrightpatterson air force base in ohio, project blue book would become the longest running of the u. Still, in the lubbock lights, project blue book hits upon one of the key insights contained in ruppelts phrase, space age myth, which is.
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