UFO Briefing Training School

This document is a comprehensive briefing and regulatory guide regarding the United States Air Force's program for investigating Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). It outlines the history of the program, beginning with the Kenneth Arnold sighting in 1947, which led to the establishment of Project SIGN, later renamed Project GRUDGE, and eventually Project Blue Book. The document details the administrative procedures for reporting and investigating sightings, as mandated by Air Force Regulation (AFR) 200-2. It emphasizes that the primary objectives of the program are to determine if UFO phenomena pose a threat to national security, to identify any technological advances that could be channeled into research and development, and to explain the stimuli causing observers to report unidentified objects. The regulation provides specific instructions for personnel on how to screen reports, conduct interviews, and handle physical evidence, including photographs and radar data. It also addresses public relations, noting that the Office of Information is responsible for releasing information to the public, while maintaining that the Air Force must avoid revealing classified aspects of sightings. The document includes statistical charts from 1958, 1959, 1960, and 1961, which categorize sightings into various groups such as meteors, balloons, and astronomical phenomena. It concludes that the vast majority of sightings are conventional objects and that there is no evidence that UFOs are interplanetary or a threat to national security. The document also contains correspondence from 1962 and 1963 regarding the scheduling of Dr. J. Allen Hynek as a guest speaker for intelligence training courses, highlighting the ongoing scientific interest in the subject.