Felix de Weldon and the Air Force’s Plan to Sculpt a Legacy
The U-2's secrets and Project Blue Book's oddities were shifted into a general history folder, burying operational grit under a layer of curated memory.
By Marcus Boone ·
Project Blue Book
Air Force Intelligence Kept 1954-1956 UFO Files Redacted
Blacked-out lines and omitted pages still mask what the 4602D Air Intelligence Service Squadron saw in the skies between 1954 and 1956.
By June Hargrove ·
Air Force spent 17 years filing UFOs with pipelines in Canadian records
UFO sightings remained embedded in routine diplomatic records for decades, treated by the military as mundane logistics alongside Canadian pipelines and defense policy.
By June Hargrove ·
Air Force Scrubbed Medical and Financial Data in 22-Year UFO Probe
Witnesses to unidentified flying objects had their medical and financial histories gathered by the Air Force during a 22-year investigation that scrubbed such private data from public files.
By June Hargrove ·
Air Force tracked UFO witnesses for 22 years with individual identification numbers
Witnesses to unidentified aerial phenomena were indexed by number and subjected to counterintelligence and behavioral research during the Cold War.
By June Hargrove ·
State Department Assigned Personnel to 1945 Argentine Blue Book
Personnel names and the nature of materials procured remain unseen, leaving the purpose of the State Department's 1945 Argentine project an open question.
By June Hargrove ·
US Air Force cataloged UFO artifacts for 22 years
For over two decades, members of the public submitted artifacts to the Air Force for analysis under a system of specimen numbers that link physical matter to paper trails.
By June Hargrove ·
Air Force controlled UFO narratives for 22 years
Citizens were managed through scripted briefings and press releases as the Air Force calibrated the official narrative on unidentified flying objects from 1947 to 1969.
By June Hargrove ·
Air Force sanitized UFO sightings for 22 years
Observers gave their names and addresses for a 22-year Air Force study, yet the reasons for withdrawn photographs and sanitized case files remain unexplained.
By June Hargrove ·
Air Force hunted national security threats across nine timed radar film rolls
Witness names remained secret while the Air Force tracked radar responses from Macao to Bermuda to determine if unidentified flying objects threatened national security.
By June Hargrove ·