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History of United States investigations into UFOs
Prehistory and updated
[edit]lights, airships, people Explanations included magical, religious, natural physical phenomenon, hoaxes, psychogenic. No major government investigations
Motion photography, air travel, radar, rocketry, atomic energy
Foo fighters investigation
[edit]Ghost Rockets investigation (46-47) US/UK/Greek
[edit]1947
[edit]- Arnold
- Roswell Press Release
- Keyhoe
Roswell (July 1947)
[edit]- Roswell
- Mac Brazil, rancher
- Sheriff Wilcox
- Wire operator
- Radio station
- RAAF
- Roswell Base Commander Colonel William H. Blanchard (succeeded Paul Tibbets))
- Maj. Jesse Marcel, intelligence officer, Roswell Army Air Field
- 1st Lt. Walter Haut, public information officer Roswell Army Air Field
- 8th Air Force
- Brigadier Gen. Roger M. Ramey ★ , 8th Air Force commander, headquartered at Fort Worth Army Air Base
- Brig. Gen Gen. Thomas DuBose ★, assistant to Ramey, hears from McMullen
- SAC
- Gen. George Kenney ★★★★, commander Strategic Air Command
- Major General Clements McMullen ★★, deputy chief of staff of the Strategic Air Command
- other
- Brigadier General George Schulgen of the Army Air Forces
- Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining ★★★, head of Air Materiel Command
- Later
- Hoyt Vandenberg, Deputy Commander in Chief of the Air Staff
Project Saucer
[edit]Sign (1948-)
[edit]LaPaz investigation
[edit]Project Twinkle (1948-51), USARM/USAF
[edit]"Green Fireballs"
Grudge (1949-1951)
[edit]The secret CIA Office of Scientific Investigation (OS/I) study (1952–53)??
[edit]Roberson Panel (1953)
[edit]Bluebook
[edit]The secret USAF Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 by the Battelle Memorial Institute (1951–1954)
[edit]Brookings report (1960)
[edit]Condon committee (66-68)
[edit]Rand (69), private
[edit]Sturrock (98)
[edit]Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (2007 to 2012)
[edit]- Trigger
- Head
- Termination
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force
[edit]Who's who
[edit]Witness and/or Whistleblowers
[edit]- Marcel
3rd party
[edit]- Keyhoe
- Hynek
- Vallee
Skeptics
[edit]- Klass
Table
[edit]| Name | Years | Auspices | First reported | Personnel | Inciting incident | Major Cases |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foo Fighters | Nov 1944 - | US Army Air Force | Example | Example | ||
| Ghost rockets | Feb 1946- | US Army, Sweden, Greece | Hoyt Vandenberg, allegedly Jimmy Doolittle and David Sarnoff | Example | Example | |
| Roswell | July 1947 | US Army Air Force | Roger M. Ramey | Example | Example | |
| Saucer | 1947?-1948 | Example | Example | Arnold sighting and 1947 wave? | Example | |
| Sign | 1948-49 | Air technical intelligence center, Wright Patterson, USAF | Example | Nathan Twining | Successor to Project Sign | Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter |
| Twinkle | 48-51 | U.S. Army/Air Force | Example | Example | Green fireballs at Los Alamos, Roswell[citation needed], Fort Hood[citation needed], Socorro [citation needed] | Example |
| Grudge | 49-51 | USAF | Example | Edward J. Ruppelt Gen Charles P. Cabell Gen. William Garland |
Successor to Project Sign | Example |
| Battelle | 51-54 | Battelle Memorial Institute via USAF | Example | Example | Example | Example |
| Bluebook | 52-70 | USAF | Example | Edward J. Ruppelt Lt.Gen. John A. Samford USAF |
Example | Example |
| OSI | 52-53 | CIA | Example | D.C. mass sighting | Example | |
| Robertson | Jan 53 | CIA | Example | Howard P. Robertson, Frederick C. Durant | Example | Example |
| Condon | 1966-68 | Univ of Colorado via USAF | Example | Richard Condon | Example | Example |
| RAND | 1968 | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example |
| Sturrock | 1998 | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example |
| AAWSAP | 2007-? | Bigelow Aerospace,DIA | Robert Bigelow | Example | Pentagon UFO videos???? | Example |
| AATIP | 2007-2012 | DIA | Example | Luis Elizondo | Example | Pentagon UFO videos |
| UAPTF | unknown | ONI | August 14, 2020 | Example | Example | Example |