Talk:Project Blue Book

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Needs serious work with citations and such.

1. "Though many accepted Blue Book's final conclusions that there was nothing extraordinary about UFOs,"

'Many' is a weasel word, and there are no citations as to the number. Was it the majority? A minority? How many?

2. "critics — then and now — have charged that Blue Book, especially in its later years, was engaging in dubious research, or even perpetuating a cover up of UFO evidence."

No critics are cited.

3. "Some evidence suggests that not only did some UFO reports bypass Blue Book entirely, but that the U.S. Air Force continued collecting and studying UFO reports after Blue Book had been discontinued, despite official claims to the contrary."

The 'some evidence' mentioned is a book called "The Complete Book of UFOs: An Investigation into Alien Contact and Encounters". I actually happen to own this book, and it's nothing more than a surface-scratching, totally credulous book that latches onto *all* UFO encounters as evidence of alien activity. It is not "evidence" in any sense of the word.

There's a LOT of similar work to be done throughout the article - this is just from the introduction!

CIA information on project blue book

re: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/0000190094 Recently declassified CIA document on the history of over head reconnaissance.

The relevant info is on page 72, and I quote:

Not only did the airline pilots report their sightings to air-traffic controllers, but they and ground-based observers also wrote letters to the Air Force unit at Wright Air Development Command in Dayton. charged with investigating such phenomena. This, in turn let to the Air Forces Operation BLUE BOOK. Based at Wright-Patterson, the operation collected all reports of UFO sightings. Air Force investigators then attempted to explain such sightings by linking them to natural phenomena. BLUE BOOK investigators regularly called on the Agencies Project staff in Washington to check reported UFO sightings against U2 flight logs. This enabled investigators to eliminate the majority of UFO reports, although they could not reveal to the letter writes the true cause of the UFO sightings. U-2 and later OXCART flights accounted for more than on half of all UFO reports during the late 1950's and 1960's.

This is a bit of a bombshell and needs to be reflected in the article. Link updated April_20_2023 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.226.26.94 (talk • contribs) 12:05, November 17, 2017 (UTC)

Project UFO references

To whoever tagged every paragraph of my addition of Project UFO as "citation needed", the link to the full Wiki page on the series is up front in the first paragraph. 149.137.180.44 (talk) 18:07, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

That's not how Wikipedia works. All citations of information must be included within each article. And I am not a "whoever" as I actually bother to sign in and interact with other editors (for close to 20 years now). Get the citations in place and stop being a lazy editor who creates work for others. Jjhake (talk) 09:49, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

Potential Factual Error

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I have noticed this article makes the slight yet persistent factual error that is common to many of those interested in this subject, which is that, contrary to popular belief, aliens have never visited Earth and definitely not in spaceships that look like pie plates that only appear to overstressed pilots, paparazzi, and moonshine-drunk hicks. Also if they even exist at all they will never contact any sapient being currently alive and your narcissistic anthropocentric viewpoint is only serving to divert resources from genuinely useful projects or to cover up military research which will kill thousands. Why don't you put down the "blue book" and pick up the little red book like an adult Heart Shaped L0x (talk) 09:28, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

By Little Red Book you mean the book Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (1964)? Dimadick (talk) 12:03, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

no i obviously mean 13 Reasons Why with a resleeved cover Heart Shaped L0x (talk) 12:35, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Although I'll probably regret this, I'll bite: How exactly does a story about an abused teen who kills themself relate to the subject of this article? JoJo Anthrax (talk) 13:48, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

I don't remember Mao writing about that at all Heart Shaped L0x (talk) 15:35, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.