Department of the Air Force Committee to Review Project Bluebook, 1966-1967

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The Committee agreed that the present "Blue Book" program is all right as far as it goes but that it is not invertit- gative enough to satisfy the inquisitive scientific mind. The Air Force has been collecting UFO data for about 18 years but this data is no good for forming a scientific or technical background on UFO. It appears that this pro- gram, as presently constituted, could go on ad infinitum without making a substantial contribution on whether there are or are not UFOs. Therefore, if anything constructive is going to happen, the time has apparently come to change from an operational approach to a scientific type of approach.

During the 18 years that the Air Force has been collecting data on UFO sightings, members of Moon Watch Teams and other astronomers, who were pursuing rigorous notor- sighting programs, have continuously scanned large areas of the night sky to obtain scientific and technical information on natural phenomena. To the best of the Committee's knowledge none of these observers with a scientific and technical background have ever sighted a UFO. The obvious conclusion is that when the sky is observed by scientifically- trained or scientifically-oriented personnel, UFOs are not observed. Therefore it is highly unlikely (or put another way, there is a very low probability) that the UFOs that are sighted and unidentified would remain unidentified

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