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Document · Federal Bureau of InvestigationFBI file on Fred L. Crisman (Maury Island, 1947)In June 1947 a harbor patrolman said six doughnut-shaped craft dropped slag on his boat near Maury Island. The FBI kept a file on the man who backed the story, Fred Crisman. Read it here, as scanned pages.Public domain copyDocument · United States Air ForceProject Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (1955)In 1955 the Air Force had 3,201 sighting reports coded and run through statistics to answer one question: were the unknowns different from the knowns? This is the study, with its charts and working forms. Read what it found and what critics said it left out.Public domain copyDocument · Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force BaseProject Sign: Unidentified Aerial Objects, Technical Report F-TR-2274-IA (1949)The Air Force's first formal look at flying saucers, written in 1948 and released in February 1949. It says no definite evidence yet proves or disproves unknown aircraft. Read the report that started the official files.Public domain copyDocument · Headquarters United States Air ForceThe Roswell Report: Case Closed (1997)Two years later the Air Force took on the stories of alien bodies at Roswell. Its answer was crash-test dummies dropped from high-altitude balloons in the 1950s. Critics pointed out the dates do not match 1947. Read it and decide.Public domain copyDocument · Headquarters United States Air ForceThe Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (1995)In 1995 the Air Force answered a congressman's question about Roswell with this report. It says the 1947 debris came from Project Mogul, a secret balloon program. Read the evidence it cites and judge whether it settles the story.Public domain copyDocument · United States Air ForceUS Air Force Fact Sheet 95-03: UFOs and Project Blue Book (June 1995)The Air Force's own short answer to the question it kept being asked. It says Blue Book ran from 1947 to 1969 and what the service concluded when it stopped. One page, in the Air Force's own words.Public domain copy

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