Australian Dept of Defense Scientific and Intel Aspects of the UFO Problem

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f Dr J. All(m Hyrwk, staying at about this level until it was closed
dovn in December 1969.
During Lhis t.inw BLUE BOO){ served mo.inly
as e. moo.ns of supplying unclo.ss ified su111maries of UFO identifice:Li<mB
to the public, a.nd did not form a vitn1 link in collection or
Berious analysis.
7.
Control of public awareness of the UFO situati.:in vas
tightened by the issuing of JAKAP 146 in 1953 which prohibited
service personnel from di.,cussing UFO's by threatening defaulLerc;
with up to 10 years gaol and up to a $10,000 fine.
When service
personnel resigned or re tired, howe..-er,
1 t wa.s po:iisible to reTeal
US.AF attitude~ o- opinions even if 11.ctual jR.ta was still rec1 t.dc Le(1 ,
Ia. this way many Intelligence .Dffi::crs associ-o.tcd·-_wi th the UFO problem,
including Major D. Fournet who was BI.CF. BOOK Project Officer at the
Pentagon until l~te 1952, Captatn E. Ruppolt who headed Project
GRUDGE and Prt,ject BLUE .BOOK until September 1')53 and Admiral
Hillenkoetter who directed CIA from it, inception until October 1950,
on retiring froffi tho services, all publicly s~ated that the U.S.
Gover:iment knc., UF0 1 s were extra-torrestial but vu.s ..,.ithholding
this fact fro!D the public.
8.
When the National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenom~na
(NICAP} was fornllHi in 1955 to counter the publicly suppre3sed USAF
invostigation of UFO's, the firet Cha.irman was Admiral D.S. Fahrney
who h~d directed the Navy's guided missile programme from its
inception.
Apft,rt, from Admiral Hillenl~oettt>r, Major Keyboe and
Major Fo11rne-t, other Directors have incluilod Rear Admi!"al H.B. Kno1,les,
General A. Wedemeyer and t:ol J,J. Brye.a (who was
.:i. special assistant
to the Ser.retl'l.ry of the Air Foree).
To reduce the effect of these
&nd similar defections from o!ficia.l policy after rd,irernP.ni., the
revised JANAP 146E, passed in 1960, made it an offence under the
Eepionage Act if data on UFO's were revealed,
9.
The change in style of USAF reporting before and after the
Robertson penel meeting is clearly indicated in the Project BLUE BOOK
Special Report No. 14,
The body of the rl'port. prep<'-rell hetve.en
March 11)52 and early l95J, i:dthough bicsod in favour of a natural
expll:.na-Licn for UE'O' s, ne"",:irl.'rui l ciss shm,ed mathematically that the
evidence favoured an explanation that was scientifically unknown,
This sect.ion of the 116 page report was not released to the public
other then aa
~ copy to ho consulted, assuming the readnr kn~w uf
National Archives of Australia
NAA: A:1 3693, 3092/2/000