Center for UFO Studies

1Subject: Center for UFO Studies Mon Nov 16, 2015 4:18 am

"Editor's Note: Mark Rodeghier is director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies. This article is from The International UFO Reporter, Spring 1998, vol 23, number 1.

Goverment UFO Documents on the Internet

By Mark Rodeghier

In the middle to late 1970s, several individuals, mostly associated with the group Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS), used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to compel various U.S. government agencies to release their files on the UFO phenomenon. The FBI, the National Security Agency (NSA), and the CIA eventually complied with the law and released documents relating to UFOs, although the NSA did so only after a lawsuit was filed by CAUS. In addition, with the help of FOIA, the air force was forced to make available UFO documents which it had collected or produced after Project Blue Book closed in late 1969.

These documents do not contain a smoking gun to prove that the U.S. government has a secret UFO project. They did show that many agencies had an ongoing interest in the UFO phenomenon that was often independent of the air force’s UFO project, and that the interest continued after it ended........"
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