project blue book

Official Files on the Socorro UFO Landing, April 24, 1964

Background The Lonnie Zamora incident was an alleged UFO close encounter. It occurred on Friday, April 24, 1964, at about…

August 20, 2023

The Robertson Panel, The Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects Convened by the CIA

Background Background: In the early 1950s, a surge of UFO reports flooded into the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book,…

August 8, 2023

ATIC, The 1950s, and National Security Policy – by Bruce Ashcroft, NAIC Historian

On 21 May 1951, the United States Air Force established the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) as a field activity…

July 24, 2023

Project Blue Book: Artesia, New Mexico — 16 January 1952

On 16 January 1952, two members of a balloon project from General Mills Aeronautical Research Laboratory and four other civilians…

June 9, 2022

Project Blue Book: The Thomas Mantell Case — 7 January 1948

On January 7, 1948, 25-year-old Captain Thomas F. Mantell, a Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, died in the crash of…

February 1, 2022