Official UFO Unexplained Report Percentages.

Relevant article by Alejandro Rojas:

The U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) official investigation into UFOs ended in 1969, and since then, the military has claimed they have no interest in the topic, nor do they investigate UFOs. However, through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), investigators have uncovered several documents that would indicate UFOs have been of interest, and that the most important files were most likely never made public.


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a reply to: karl 12

More on blatant manipulation of Bluebook statistics from Kev Randle:

...They said that 701 cases of the some 12,000 remained unidentified but the truth is that many of the cases are labeled, but not identified. These are labeled as “insufficient data for a scientific analysis.” In many of those cases all the information necessary for a complete investigation is included, but it is labeled that way. This was an attempt to reduce the number of unidentified cases by labeling them as something else and that is all that it was.

In addition to that, many cases that are labeled with a solution are clearly in error. For example, the Portage County UFO chase of 1966. (It was on April 17 and involved several police officers, deputy sheriffs and their supervisors and a stylized version was seen at the beginning of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. See also my posting here on May 20, 2014 for more information.). It has been explained as a combination of Venus and a satellite. The police officers saw the satellite in the west and as it passed over them, as they chased it across Ohio and into Pennsylvania; their attention was then drawn to Venus. The trouble here, as outlined in the Project Blue Book files is that there were no satellites visible in that part of the United States at that time of the morning. Letters and other documents in the Blue Book file prove this, yet the satellite portion of the solution is allowed to stand.

To make it worse, drawings made by the police officers show what was visible in the sky. Those drawings mark the position of the UFO, that of the moon, and that of Venus. Or, to put a point on it, the police officers did see Venus and identified it as such. But the label on the case, which is clearly in error, is allowed to stand and the case is shown to have a solution.

There are many such cases in the Blue Book files. Cases in which the solutions are simply not borne out of the documentation available. Yet we continue to hear about only 701 unidentified cases when the number is probably closer to 5000 when the solutions are examined carefully and those labeled as insufficient data are included. Insufficient data is not a solution, but is a label other than unidentified.

Project Blue Book Declassified - Really?

a reply to: karl 12

If one were to reverse engineer the 1966 Portage County chase they would probably find there were earlier Indiana sightings further west. Of course the CIA Kryptos puzzle has never been solved either although people claim clues keep popping up from unlikely sources as original Star Trek episodes like "the way to Eden".

a reply to: Cauliflower

Don't know about the Krypton puzzle Cauliflower but will certainly have a look into earlier Indiana reports from further West around April 17th, 1966.


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a reply to: karl 12

Star Trek hadn't been released in April (of that YR), but they had shot an episode called "The Cage" in 1965 featuring a Venus archetype.

Good presentation citing official stats from specific studies - also some background info on the highly questionable antics of Menzel and Klass.

a reply to: SheopleNation

just

You talk about religious people yet look what you think.

a reply to: karl 12

Sorry I know you put a lot of work into your threads but given the fact that ufo reports can have many reasons to be wrong including the most intriguing ones just looking at members on here with claims re objects at night regarding speed change of direction etc people can see what they want to see.

We have many members on here that have spent literly thousands of hours all over the world taking pictures of the night sky with good to pro equipment how many ufos zero, nada, zilch.

When you see descriptions on here by members claiming they are avid sky watchers yet have never seen Sirius before flashing colours or don't understand how a satellite looks moving across the sky say compared to the ISS or an aircraft or claiming there ufo on there mobile was not the Moon even when shown an identical picture from the same type of phone.

That can happen even with pilots etc and that doesn't even consider hoaxers and people just out to make money.

I mean look at so called experts that looked at Apollo landing pictures that hadn't a clue about very basic photography and claimed they were faked Bill Kaysing was an obvious idiot when it came to photography.

It's clear there is more chance a sceptic will identify a ufo than the ufo fans on here.

I am a sceptic there must be life out there but due to distances Mog from Zog does not day trip to Earth.