Case file · Declassified record
The Bolender memo
An Air Force memo of 20 October 1969, released under FOIA, noting that UFO reports affecting national security weren't part of the Blue Book system.
1969 CE · 38.87, -77.06 · status: official
The account
Brig. Gen. Carroll Bolender wrote, as Blue Book was being closed, that such reports would continue to be handled under existing regulations for reporting threats. Researchers see it as proof that Blue Book wasn't the whole story.
The sceptical view
The memo describes ordinary air-defence reporting channels for possible threats. It doesn't describe a secret UFO programme.
Connections in the atlas
- Project Blue Book records at the National Archives
- ▶ The government UFO files
- Condon Report
- Project Blue Book closes