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Mark O’Connell’s The Close Encounters Manexamines the astronomer J. Allen Hynek’s scientific career and his parallel work in UFO research. O’Connell shows how Hynek, a skeptical advisor to the US Air Force’s UFO Projects SIGN, Grudge, and Blue Book, became an advocate for serious UFO studies and the founder the Center for UFO Studies. Project 1947 looks at the Hynek’s last contract with the USAF Project Blue Book UFO program. It wasn’t to be Hynek’s last USAF contract. After the Condon report, Hynek submitted a proposal to Col. George R.

By Jan Aldrich The UFO Chronicles 7-7-17

Weinbrenner, Commander of the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson AFB to do a special study of UFOs. Col. Weinbrenner had invited such a proposal, perhaps as a diplomatic sop to Hynek at the end of his last contract or perhaps as a completely serious offer. However, indications were that Weinbrenner was supposedly sympathetic to UFO research. What the result of the Hynek’s proposal was continues to be unknown, but he was contracted by the Air Force for some work for the next four years 1970-1974.
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"... there were a lot of good UFO reports coming in from Korea. Fighter pilots reported seeing silver-colored spheres or disks on several occasions, and radar tracked unidentified targets ..."

“In June 1952 the Air Force was taking the UFO problem seriously. One of the reasons was that there were a lot of good UFO reports coming in from Korea. Fighter pilots reported seeing silver-colored spheres or disks on several occasions, and radar in Japan, Okinawa, and in Korea had

By Jan L. Aldrich Project 1947 11-14-16

tracked unidentified targets." Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, head of the US Air Force Project Blue Book 1951-1953.

During his tour in the Far East, Mr. Wallace Bush, Electronics Engineer, Classified Reconnaissance Branch, Director of Intelligence, Headquarters, Far East Air Forces, had collected information on UFO radar incidents, re-interviewed witnesses, produced updated Air Intelligence Information Reports on some cases, kept records of meetings in which UFOs were discussed, and evaluated UFO radar reports. He turned the collected information over to Air Technical Intelligence Liaison Office, Far East Air Force.

Captain Charles Malven compiled the information into Intelligence Report 29-52 sent to both the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the Director of Intelligence, Headquarters, US Air Force. In this report Project 1947 discusses the activity of the Air Technical Intelligence Liaison Office and the 6004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron in UFO investigations during the Korean War.

The USS Philippine Sea in the western pacific - 1955

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Brigadier General William Garland in a 1952 Memorandum for Record (MFR) told a LIFE magazine researcher that the US Air Force had considered using a missile to shoot down a UFO.

By Jan L. Aldrich Project 1947 8-7-16

Robert Powell, Scientific Director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) found two MFR recording LIFE magazine researcher, Robert Ginna’s visit to the Pentagon in February 1952. Ginna met with a number of high ranking officers and intelligence officials gathering more research data for his article which was published in April. Among the general officers who helped him during his visit in addition to Brigadier General Garland were Brigadier Sory Smith, in charge of Public Information, and General Joseph F. Carroll, Deputy Inspector General and Director of Special Investigations. With their help, he was able to interview Lt. Col. Doyle Rees, for Commander of the 17th Air Force Office of Special Investigation, in New Mexico, and who had worked with Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, University of New Mexico expert on meteors. Both Dr. LaPaz and Lt. Col. Doyle Rees had investigated numerous UFO cases and green fire ball incidents in the southwest US. Also, involved in these meeting was Lt. Col. Dewitt Searles, public information UFO spokesman going back years, and a civilian Mrs. Helen Barber, managing editor of the classified internal publication, Air Intelligence Digest, who also figured in a number of Air Force Headquarters UFO investigations. General Garland arranged for a visit to the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) where Ginna could confer with Lieutenant Edward Ruppelt newly appointed chief of the USAF’s revitalized UFO investigative project which would shortly be renamed Project Blue Book. Read more at Project 1947….
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