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

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SAFOI wants some pr igious scientific group to look at
the UFO problem i.n de th and come up with a position that will
help get the Air Force off the hook.
SAFOI expects to gain
a report that will permit them to stand before the most
re own critics and say that the AF position on UFOs is sound
or action is being taken to make it sound.
6.
The questions that SAFOI wants answered are typically as
follows:
a.
Is Project Blue Book adequate?
b.
Is there or is there not scientific evidence that
UFOs exist?
c.
What can be done to make the Air Force position
credible?
7.
SAFOI claims, and rightly so, that they cannot get to
the heart of the public relations problem until they get some
scientific evidence upon which to base their opinion.
For this
reason they are very emphatic that they do not want a "for
motherhood and against sin" type of connnittee report.
AB far
as SAFOI is concerned the problem is critical.
8.
As evidenced by the Fuller article in the Saturday Review
(which is a prestigious news media that is read by highly
influential people both in and out of government), the level
of criticism of the Air Force is getting on a higher and higher
plane. The recent Wall Street Journal article is another ex­
ample of Air Force criticism appearing in a high-class news
media.
SAFOI clearly defined the criticality of the problem
when they concluded by saying that none of the current Air
Force problems, such as sonic boom, supersonic transport, and
integration, etc., have created the poor public image for the
Air Force that the UFO problem does.
HAROLD A. STEINER, Major, USAF
Assistant Secretary
USAF Scientific Advisory Board
3 Atch
1.
UFO Report
2.
FTD Form 164
3.
Sat Review Article
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