UFO FRAGMENT AT WRIGHT-PATTERSON PROJECT BLUE BOOK

Interview with former project Blue Book employee relative and actual UFO artifacts collected by Air Force. Artifacts are at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) in Dayton Ohio. WPAFB was the official government agency that investigated UFO reports and collected artifacts. It is a highly secured area with specialists in many fields. The video shows artifacts collected over the years associated with UFO reports. The Roswell debris was taken to WPAFB. Project Blue Book was the official agency in charge of UFO investigations.

Because Mr. Pete Hartinger, the director of the Roundtown, Ohio, UFO group, had mentioned that one of the UFOs in the WPAFB display is carried as still unidentified a trip was made to inspect this display. While there, a woman asked what was thought of Roswell. She then said that one of her parents had worked for Project Blue Book She said the parent thought some of the cases investigated by Project Blue Book were of real UFOs and others were not. Her parent had thought that Roswell really did happen, based on the conversations her parent had had while working for Project Blue Book. We asked why the material was still sensitive and she replied that the parent isn't permitted to talk about it.

This report is interesting because Project Blue Book staff and government officials have always formally claimed that all Project Blue Book work was unclassified. However, Dr. Hynek and others have also maintained that the best sightings went elsewhere than to Project Blue Book. In addition, it would be expected that some material would be classified, regardless of whether UFOs actually exist. This is because some materials and collection methods would be classified for other reasons. For example, if a photo of a UFO (or an IFO) were on a classified satellite photograph, it would be classified because the method of data collecting would be classified. The government denials of security classification on Project Blue Book materials do not ring true. Neither does their denial of interest in objects invading the US air space.

However, despite official denials, portions of Project Blue Book and similar information from that time have not been released to the public. In 1997, the Department of the Air Force Air Intelligence Agency released under the Freedom of Information Act 910 pages of materials from Project Grudge, the predecessor of Project Blue Book. It had just now been declassified.

Len Stringfield (Situation Red) reported on government lying: "I visited the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) at Wright-Patterson Field, August 13, 1957, hoping to get data on certain UFO cases in their files from Captain George Gregory of Project Blue Book ." As Mr. Stringfield waited, two large, intimidating Air Force officers came in and sat, "eyeball-to-eyeball" to him. He said he went directly to the point and asked questions about such subjects as Air Force secrecy. The officers told him that there was nothing to hide, "We're not hiding a thing." So he asked if he could see the military reports. "We can't show these." Later Stringfield wrote to the office requesting that they state that they do not muzzle pilots in writing. Their reply was, "Mr. Whedon believes that you may refer to his statement that the Air Force regulation which alone governs the actions of Air Force personnel with respect to UFOs clearly does not muzzle pilots." (Excerpted from longer tape, with parts deleted to hide identity of interviewee.)