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From: Jerry Cohen <rjcohen@li.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 21:49:08 -0400
Fwd Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:18:49 -0500
Subject: Closing of Project Blue Book - NICAP


NICAP UFO Investigator / May 1970, p. 3


The Book is Closed
(but who will have the last word)

The Air Force has written the final chapter to its opus on the
unidentified. On December 17, 1969, Air Force Secretary Robert
C. Seamans, Jr. announced closure of Project Blue Book, the
Government's 21-year old investigation of UFOs. "Continuation of
the Project," said Seamans, "cannot be justified either on the
ground of national security or in the interest of science."

With the termination came recision of AF Regulation 80-17, which
provided for Blue Book's operation and related policies on
public information. The regulation was promulgated in September
of 1966 to facilitate Air Force support of the Colorado Project,
which began the following month. AFR 80-17 superseded AFR 200-2,
the old 1953 regulation for the UFO program.

Blue Book's door closed literally at 3:30 p.m. EST on January
30, 1970, the day the Project office at Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base in Ohio was officially manned for the last time. The
famous Blue Book files had already been packed in boxes and
started on their trip south to Air Force archives at Maxwell AFB
in Alabama. Lt.Col. Hector Quintanilla, chief Blue Book officer,
was slated for a transfer assignment at Wright-Patterson until
his retirement from the Air Force in April.

Demise of the Project proved no occasion for nostalgia. Having
long contended that UFOs evidenced no threat to national
defense, the Air Force had privately viewed its UFO assignment
as something of a monkey on the back. Predictably, there was
conjecture that the closure was just one more stratagem in a
cover-up of government attempts to probe the UFO mystery. But
Pentagon officials insisted the Air Force exit was just what it
seemed -- final.

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JC:   As a point of information, Major Keyhoe's retirement at
age 72, 13 years director of NICAP, was announced in the same
issue.


Respectfully submitted,
Jerry Cohen

 Author: Oberg/Cooper rebuttals
Website: http://www.li.net/~rjcohen/
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