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

Text

A machine read this text from the scan. When the text and the image disagree, the image is right.

If the incidents were subject to close scientific scrutiny.

(Source: Dr. Porter)

Along with the scientific approach the Air Force should conduct some unannounced controlled experiments to check out the techniques. It would also be useful to correlate known natural phenomena that can be predicted, i.e., comets, balloons, SAC refueling, etc., to check out sighting psychology and investigative techniques. (Source: Dr. Sagan)

The Committee should recommend that statistical analyses be made on UFO data. (Sagan)

The Committee should also recommend that in the event our major recommendations are not bought by the Air Force, the present "Blue Book" investigations be more thorough. For example, the B-47 sighting in New Hampshire were assumed to be the source of the UFO. However, no attempt was made to correlate the time of sighting or place of sighting with the navigation logs of any of the B-47s that were supposed to be in the area. Such a loose approach seriously degrades the "Project Blue Book" efforts and leaves loop holes that critics of the Air Force handling of the UFO problem can use to cast doubt on the Air Force's credibility. (Sagan)

NW 90306
DocId:34714841 Page 38