1 - The Black Vault

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Background
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Fo'R.&~n
Project Bluebook
and
Project "Moondust
/\s n1orc and mon~~ Americans rept)i·ted l!i--0 sightin:::; i~-J the early 50s, the m1htary 1 s official dernai
of the phenom.::;non becarnc increasingly suspec1 Sucl1 catcgoric~tl denial quickly became as n1uch J
cause of speculation as tbe origin of the Uf'O:; ln 1952" lhe U. S Air Force gave in io lhe publi,·
pressure t0 i!do something'' ahout TTFOs and created Prnjec.r B! J JFBOOK., an official ":\.ir Force
invesllgatlon inLu such reports_ G1ven ils subjecL nuLLer, BLUEBOOK soon CUJT1C to be entirely,
althuugh :_~ccreily, controlled by ~>\egis. lL nas Aegis\ ln_tem:ion to use BLI~~BOOK as .1 smoke
screen for ,'\egls operations and a') a source- for public ddiuf0tn!at1vn.
To reduce the possibility of a link being discovered betv,;een Project GU.if'BOOK ami
BLUEBOOK ,laff contained no Aegis operatives. BLUEBOOK- W