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Bolender Memo — Air Force Discontinuance of UFO Reporting

Source label

U.S. Air Force

Catalog date

1969-10-20

Record type

pdf

Record summary

Brig. Gen. C.H. Bolender's October 1969 memo on terminating Project Blue Book. Notes that 'reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security … are not part of the Blue Book system' — a sentence widely cited as evidence of a continuing classified UFO channel.

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