Record 007 · 20 October 1969
Bolender memo
U.S. Air Force · United States
Ledger illustration of the record — not a scan of the original paper. — Night Ledger illustration of the file
As the Air Force prepared to shut Project Blue Book, Brigadier General Carroll H. Bolender wrote that reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security were made through other channels, and were not part of the Blue Book system. Blue Book, in that reading, was a public-facing file, not the whole military intake.
The memo is short. It has been used to argue that the interesting cases never sat in the civilian catalogue. It does not describe those other channels. It does say they existed. The paper is declassified and widely reproduced.
Public file: U.S. Air Force / Blue Book closeout record
