When Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is in your back yard, you grow up hearing about the little green men stored in freezers and their saucer-shaped ships. It is a fact that whatever the government retrieved at Roswell ended up at Wright-Patterson, Ohio where Project Blue Book was headquartered between March 1952 and December 1969.
Project Blue Book was the code name for the U.S. Air Force’s investigation of Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) phenomena. It was initially directed by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt and followed similar projects established by the Air Force — Project Sign in 1947, and Project Grudge in 1948.
The results of these investigatory programs were, predictably, lackluster. Or, at least, the publicly available information pointed to mundane explanations of fantastical eye witness accounts. Officially, no physical evidence of any determinative value was ever submitted or collected by Project Blue Book. So, after the collection of over twelve thousand UFO reports, the books were closed by the official Air Force.
But, in the public’s consciousness, those books were never closed.
The investigative training and experience I gained from twenty years as an FBI Special Agent have only deepened my interest in UFO theories, testimony, and evidence (direct or circumstantial). And, I have resolved any personal theological questions concerning extraterrestrial life.
Recently, the UFO acronym has fallen out of favor — an attempt to create distance from the stigmas associated with “flying saucers.” Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP) is now in vogue.
Hellbound and Down 