50 Years Ago: Government Stops Investigating UFOs — A National Archives Museum Exhibition Tracing the UFO Inquiry and Project Blue Book

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A new National Archives Museum exhibit explains how a 1947 flying saucer report launched public UFO interest and the decades-long Project Blue Book investigation, whose conclusions were reached fifty years ago, and shows that fascination with unidentified flying objects still endures.

50 Years Ago: Government Stops Investigating UFOs
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50 Years Ago: Government Stops Investigating UFOs

Report of a “flying saucer” over U.S. airspace in 1947 caused a wave of “UFO hysteria” and sparked Federal investigation of unidentified flying objects. For more than 20 years, the U.S. Air Force analyzed UFO sightings and any security threat they posed; most notably through Project Blue Book, which launched in 1952.