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

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officer (Project Officer, BLUEBOOK for 15 months) could not be
slighted. However, the Panel could ~ot accept any of the cases
cited by hi:m because they wore raw, unevaluated reports.
Terrestrial oxplnnations of the sicht:'i.ngs wore suceestod in some
cases· and il) others the t:i.me of si.ghtine was so short as to cause
suspicion of visual impressions. It was noted by Dr. Goudsmit and
others that extraterrestrial artifacts, if they did exist, are no
cause for alarm; rather, they are in the realm of natural phenomena
subject to scientific study, just as cosmic rays were at the time
of their discovery 20 to JO years ago. This was an attitude in
which Dr~ Robertson did not concur, as he felt that such artifacts
would bo of immediate and grea.t concern not only to the U.S. but
to all cotmt:r.ies.
(N.othine like a coITlDlon threat to unite peoples l)
Dr. Page noted that present astronomical 'knowledge of the solar
system Il1'.).kes the existence of inteliigent beings (as we know the
term) elsewhere than ~n the earth extremely unl..~kely, and the
concentration of their attention by any controllable means conf~~-~
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This case was cons~dered sigpificant because of the excellent
documentary evidence in the form of Kodachrome motion picture films
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(about 1600 frames). The Panel studied these films, the case history,
ATIC's interpretation, and received a briefing by representatives of
the USN Pho+.o Interpretation Laboratory on their analysis of the
fi1m. This ·tca1r: had expended (at Air For~e request) approximate1y
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