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Link http://www.chez.com/lesovnis/htm/bluebooku47.htm is broken.

This article seems to have some POV sections, e.g. "As might be expected, Grudge concluded that all UFOs were natural phenomena or other misinterpretations..." QuinnHK 06:25, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

I hate to say it, but that may just be the way things like this stay. The number of UFO fans and die hard conspiracy buffs who take the time to edit wikipedia articles like this outnumber the more logical encyclopedic style authors. It's just that way with any of the paranormal stuff, I rarely even bother anymore trying. I once had to edit the curse of the Hope diamond here because someone had posted open endedly that it 'was rumored to be unable to be photographed cleary'. This was approximatly 3 inches below a picture of it, which was quite clear. No matter how hard you clean this page up, give it 3 months, and someone will have come in and PoV'd SOMETHING.

[edit] Question of Catagory

Why does this have a categorization of a CIA Operation? There does not seem to be anything in the article that supports this classification. If nothing can be added that supports this, it should be removed. 17:20, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

2nd that, if not done so already. If it has to be linked, do it to the USAF, not the CIA.

[edit] Interviewing people involved with Project Blue Book

I know from personal experience that there is much more to the Project Blue Book story than is in this article, it would probably be interesting to interview people associated with it. My Mother (deceased) was a secretary for Project Bluebook in the mid to late 60's. She had worked in the secretarial pool at the White House at the end of WWII so it was fairly easy for her to get the Top Secret clearance she needed for the Job. Now think about it, if it was as benign as they say it was, why the neccesity for the clearance? I also know for a fact, from personal observation when I went to work with my Mother (I was quite young so it is doubtful they were concerned with me) that they had some things that looked very much like UFO's to a kid who grew up on comic books and scifi. All of my Brothers (I have 3) have similar recollections and two of my brothers are respectively 4 and 6 years older than I, so while I admittedly was too young to be a reliable witness, they weren't. So much time has passed since then, I bet other family members of staff or the staff themselves might be willing to discuss what they saw.

The one I vividly remember was a seamless silver elliptical saucer shape that kind of looked like liquid metal was there. I remember my Mom saying that they were unable to put so much as a scratch on it but were able to scan it in someway. The scans showed objects in a void inside that were in different positions when different scans were taken according to my Mom, she was fascinated with her work there. But again< I was young at the time she worked there, and 18 when she died, she talked about her time there up until her death, more than she even talked about her time at the Whitehouse, and that was where she met my Dad.

SEllisM 18:10, 15 November 2007 (UTC)