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

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.:twarcno.:;s of security mco.suros near such locations.
On the other
hand, there had beon no s:i..ghtines in the vicinity of sensitive
related AE establishments while there worn occasionally multiple
casas of unoxplainod siehtincs j,n non-stx·atocio nreas.
Furthormoro,
thore appcurod to be no logical relationship to population centers.
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'I'he Panel could find no ready explanation for these clusters. It
was noted, howevor, that. if terrestrial artifacts were to be obsorved
it wou1d bo 1ikoly that they would be seen first near foreign areas
rather than central U.S.
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INSTRU:MF:NTATION TO OBTAIN DATA
The Panel was of the opinion that the present ATIC program to
place 100 inexpensive 35 mm. stereo cameras in the hands of various
airport control tower operators would probably produce little valu­
able data related to U.F'.0.'s. However, it was recognized that
such action wou.ld tend to allay public concern in the subject until
an educational program had taken effect. It was believed tha:t pro­
·curement. of these cameras was partly the result of public pressure
in July 1952. With the poor results of the year-long Project
TWINICT.,E program of 24-hours instrumentation watch (two frames of
film showing nothing distinguishable), a widespread program·of sky­
watch,ing would not be expected to yield much direct data of value.
There was considerable discussion of a possible "sky patrol" _by
amateur astronomers ~-· ::::::.:~ and by wide-ang~e cameras (Page).
Dr,.. Page
and Dr. Robertson pointed out that at prnsent a considerable fraction
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