DOW-UAP-D096, Correspondence Relating to Project Blue Book, 1955

DOW-UAP-D096 is a collection of administrative letters and memoranda from 1955 relating to the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book. The file was declassified and released to the public as part of PURSUE Release 04 on July 10, 2026. ¹²³

  Provenance and Context

Project Blue Book was the public-facing Air Force program tasked with investigating UFO reports from 1952 to 1969. Managing inquiries from the public, lawmakers, and other government agencies formed a substantial part of the project's administrative workload. This file offers a cross-section of the routine external and internal communications handled by the program during a period of high public interest.³

  Detailed Content

The correspondence includes letters exchanged between various U.S. Government departments, members of the Legislative Branch, and private citizens. The topics range from inquiries about specific UFO sightings to requests for information regarding the research and overall findings of Project Blue Book. The documents illustrate the Air Force's efforts to manage public relations, respond to congressional interest, and coordinate intelligence reporting protocols concerning unidentified aerial phenomena.³

  What The Record Supports

This file documents how Project Blue Book handled routine inquiries from citizens, lawmakers, and other departments in 1955. It contains no analysis of specific sightings and no findings on the origin of UFOs, only the correspondence generated by managing public and congressional interest in the program.³

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  References

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