DOW-UAP-D096, Correspondence Relating to Project Blue Book, 1955
This file contains correspondence relating to Project Blue Book, a 1952-1969 U.S. Air Force program to investigate the nature and origin of unidentified flying objects (UFO). The correspondence includes letters and memoranda sent between various departments and agencies of the U.S. Government, the Legislative Branch, and private citizens concerning UFO sightings and the research and findings of Project Blue Book.
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Text of the document
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Richmond Hill 19 U.S. Air Force Project Bluebook (Flying Saucers) Dear Sirs: My name is Kenneth Ha.nsen. I am a student at Riehmond Hill High School in the borough of Queens, L.I. N.Y. I am in my third term and have Public Speak ing as a major subject. As a pa.rt of the final mark we were all asked to give a speech to convince. I decided that myself and two other boys would try.. to convince the class that Flying Saucers re rea.l and that they are interplanet ry. We thought this would be easy. But we soon .found out that at least three quarters of the class did not beli~ve us. Two very smart students in this class have already seen a U.F.O. Our speeches must have been good since my marlr was 99, the two other boys marks were and 90. We asked those who did not be lieve u~ what proof we could gj_ve them. They said they wanted tangible proor. We showed them pictures of U.F.O.s that George Adamski took at Palomar Observat- I would like to know if you have any in.forma.tion that is in leaflet orm that I could b:uy- Also if you have any slide pictures I could by that we be: of some use to ah~w to the class. If you have any information cone rning
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the~e Flying Saucers I Vould very much like to hear from you. I am very interest ea in bhe reports of these many U.F.O. • If you would write. a. le.tter to me even if you do not have any info~ matinn I would like to read the letter to the class to show them that the Air Force Saucers. Thank you. Yours truly, Kenneth Hansen
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Ohloago 24, Ill. I am addressing this letter to you because I b&Te good reason to believe that pop abon all wouMI. know about B'UOh In the past five years I haTe beoome t:z:tremely in terested in flying aauoere and anything to do w1th them. my ot and I am in last year hlgh school have been won- dering about what kind ot a oourae in oollege that might prepare me tor a future hope of innstigating these objeota. A.lthcmgh your department ha• aaid that there is -such thing as a F. and sinoe there is no such thing aa a U F O there ia no need to inTestigate them I would like your opbllion ot what I ahoul.d do about my tasoiution tor theee aauoera and my hope of b•ing fit to enmine 8.l11'- thing to do w.ith them. Sinoe 1'D1QJY ot the worlds moat tameua "aoientiata are now working on these aauoera ani·'" ~ ha.Te voioed. thttr optnlon on them, I do not thi~ that I am out ot place in wMting to you about them. I appreoiate a reply trom you personally. Boat reapecttally yours, I'. s. It I am not too bold in telling you a little honest ad.vi••• I wish that your department would go back to the polio7 of alowlp letting NW 91198: publ.ic lcnow about tbaae aauoere instead ot hiding the e'l"idenoe.
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If war waa.,enr to bftak tut am it could at arry moment or time. t.al. if Russia would let out that thq 00J1t:t-ol the aaucera, ;you would moat certainly ha.Te to tell the .tmerioan people the tra.th to preTent total haTOCe But on the other ham. 1:t 70u wouJ.d alowq let 1ntomat1on leak out about these saucers and tlla.• prepare the people tor the tinal tnth, I know that nothhlg bad could oome ot it. In thia age the Jmer1oan
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Air Technical Intelligence Command Department or the Air Force Dear Sir: I bave recently been engaged by "Main Events," an evening session ly newspaper at the City College, to do a series of articles on interplanetary flight, which shall shortly be published. In one of my installments 1t shall be necessary for me to deal with the subject of "f'lyin.g saucers." In connection with this, I should desire to know if it would be at all possible for me to obtain some photographs (preferably 8" X 1011 glossy) oi' the supposed saucers or UFO's. to some impo~tant sightings and the conclusions reached by the ATIC in I wish to impress upon you that this installment {like the others) is in»ended merely as ,an attempt to reiterate the "facts" to my readers. However, I will express my opinions concerning this subject after con sideration or the evidence. This particular installment will be published in early March. Thank you for your kind consideration and cooperation in this matter. Very t:ruly yours, P.S. If this information 1~ not available, I should appreciate the address of the division of General-Mills that under- takes the Skyhook projects.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY OFFICE Of' NAVAL RESEARCH IN MPLY Mn11 TO From: Chief' of Naval Research To: Director of Intelligence, U. Air Force Subj: Unidentif'ied flying objects; request for information concerning 1. Various technical personnel within this Office have an acute scientific interest in the results obtained in the current investi gation of unidentified flying objects. For this reason it is requested that a brieting on this subject be arranged for the purpose of acquaint ing these personnel with the data obtained .from reliable reports of sigh.ti.ngs classified as being of unknown cause. 2. It is suggested that an informal question-and-answer type discussion be scheduled on some mutually convenient date during February- 1n Room 180.3, T-3 Building. Those in attendance, approximately 25 in munber., will be limited to senior technical personnel from this and certain individuals from other cognizant naval activi,ties in this area. All those attending will have clearance through secret and a definite need-to-lmow. Final arrangements can be made with LCDR F. L. ntomas (extension 629h~) who is acting as Liaison Off'icer to the Air Force on this problem. :;. 'lhe cooperation or the Air Force in making ruch a briefing possible will be appreciated.
Where this file fits in the PURSUE archive
This file is one of DoD's 282 files in the Trump PURSUE disclosure. Within the DoD agency block it ranks #153 of 282 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 478-file archive it ranks #277 of 478.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (277 of 478 by score), typical of investigative-record style files where the report is paper-based rather than instrumented.
Anomalousness Index: 56/100
Evidentiary weight that this encounter remains unexplained after conventional analysis. Not a probability of extraterrestrial origin - that number is not honestly computable from the released files and this tracker refuses to publish it.
🤖 AI-ASSISTED SCORING · methodology
The six rubric components break down for this file as follows. Each component has a weighted contribution to the final score; the per-component explanation below describes what this file's particular value on that component means in the rubric's framework.
No sensor, camera, or instrument backs this observation - it is testimony, relayed through the Department of War, and scored on the rubric's lowest sensor-quality tier for that reason. That doesn't bear on the witness's credibility (a separate axis); it reflects only that nothing beyond human perception recorded the event.
Reported by trained U.S. military personnel during an operational mission (1955) - a high witness-credibility tier, ranked in the rubric below astronaut, trained-aviator, and federal-agent testimony. This profile is shared across the AARO-submitted infrared-capture cluster that anchors the archive's densest scoring band, at 66.
On corroboration, this file from the Department of War - like every single-tier file in the PURSUE archive - is a single-witness or single-instrument capture per the released metadata. The rubric doesn't infer multi-witness confirmation the summaries don't actually establish; this score reflects the honest limit of what was released, not a judgment about the underlying event.
The released file contains no speed, acceleration, or vector data precise enough to score on the kinematic axis - and that's true archive-wide, not specific to this file. The rubric declines to infer kinematic anomaly from a witness's narrative estimate of how fast something moved; that itself says something about what PURSUE actually released: descriptive accounts, not flight-path telemetry.
Every file in the archive, including this one, scores this tier: a conventional explanation was considered in the released record but isn't treated as dispositive. That's a pattern in how war.gov's own summaries are written - they consistently hedge against strong conclusions either way - and the rubric takes that hedging at face value rather than resolving it for them.
This file was released as open by the Department of War after a formal review process concluded - not simply logged and left pending. That's a stronger disposition signal than 'unresolved, no review': a review actually happened, and remaining open is the Department of War's own published conclusion from it, not an absence of one.
Bottom line on the score: the Anomalousness Index of 56/100 reflects evidentiary weight that this specific file's encounter remains structurally unexplained by the rubric's six axes - it is not a claim that the underlying event involved anything non-conventional, and it is not comparable across rubrics that use different weights. For the full per-axis weights and the rubric JSON, see /methodology.
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