#Alien news conference series

Ford Presidential Library and Museum possesses a document relating to UFOs composed by Ford when he was House Minority Leader and Congressman from Michigan. Hector Quintanilla, Jr., discussing Project Blue Book and the identification of UFOs. Another video issued by the Department of Defense highlights USAF Lt. Samford's Statement on 'Flying Saucers' from the Pentagon, Washington, DC, on July 31, 1952, in which the military leader discusses the Armyâ€™s investigation of flying disks.

The National Archives also has audiovisual records pertaining to UFOs such as the video of Maj. The records were discovered as part of the Alaskan digitization project, according to Marie Brindo-Vas, a metadata technician at the National Archives in Seattle, Washington. Records in this collection also include notes from interviews with the three crew members who spotted the UFO and are available in the online catalog. National Archives records include simulated radar imagery and an article that appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine on May 24, 1987, about the incident.

#Alien news conference series

The National Archives online catalog includes a series of records from the Federal Aviation Administration that document the sighting of a UFO by the crew of Japan Airlines Flight 1628 while in Alaskan air space.

Researchers can look through the entire series in person or read the Project 1794 Final Development Summary Report of 1956 online. The drawingâ€”Rhodes said in the JNational Archives Pieces of History blog post, Flying Saucers, Popular Mechanics, and the National Archivesâ€”caught his attention because of its striking resemblance to the flying saucers in popular science fiction films made during that era. Just a few years ago as archives technician Michael Rhodes was processing hundreds of boxes of Air Force records, he came across a drawing in the corner of a test flight report document that caught his eye. Over the years, as records have been processed and cataloged at the National Archives, other documents have come to light. (Record Group 255, Reference Memorandums - 1940-1956, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.) Hartman, Western Coordinator, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Office of the Coordinator of Research, on to Northrop Aircraft, Inc. Often there were allegations of coverup of deliberately hiding or destroying the documents.â€Ī declassified memorandum discusses UFOs and covers the visit of Edwin P. â€œMany felt that the records were too benign and that the Government â€˜hidingâ€™ the real stuff. 'Sometimes the same person would write multiple times hoping for a different answer,â€ Peuser continued. Richard Peuser, chief of textual reference operations at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland, said the agency has seen a steady amount of interest in files dealing with UFOs, responding to â€œa few hundred or so requestsâ€ over the years. Government documents relating to the UFO phenomenon. There is even a Project Blue Book webpage so researchers can access online more than 50,000 official U.S. Motion picture film, sound recordings, and some still pictures are maintained by the Motion Picture & Sound & Video Branch and the Still Picture Branch. These records are available for examination in the National Archives Microfilm Reading Room at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. In a July 15, 2017, National Archives The Text Message blog post, â€œSee Something, Say Somethingâ€: UFO Reporting Requirements, Office of Military Government for Bavaria, Germany, May 1948 archivists Greg Bradsher and Sylvia Naylor share a brief history of Project Blue Book, the projectâ€™s alternative names over the course of its existence, and some information on the infamous Roswell, New Mexico, UFO incident.Īll of Project Blue Book documentation is available on 94 rolls of microfilm (T1206) with the case files and the administrative records. The subject of UFOs has long fascinated National Archives staff members as well.