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Project Blue Book Collection now Available Online

posted by martyb on Friday January 23 2015, @11:47AM   
from the autographed-by-ET dept.

AnonTechie writes:

This may be of interest to some readers of SN:

For decades, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) kept a record of all of its investigations into extraterrestrial activity in one extensive report called Project Blue Book ( http://www.archives.gov/foia/ufos.html ). Up until last week Project Blue Book's massive catalog of over 10,000 UFO and extraterrestrial reports from the 1940s to the 1970s had only been accessible by visiting the National Archives in Washington. Now the archives are available online. ( http://projectbluebook.theblackvault.com )

• Re:I believe in UFOs! (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday January 23 2015, @04:26PM

  by Thexalon (636) on Friday January 23 2015, @04:26PM (#137294)

  Aliens in the conventional sense are less likely to exist than the Loch Ness Monster. The Loch Ness Monster and Sasquatch are equally more likely to exist.

  Explain your logic here.

  Lots of people have explored Loch Ness looking for Nessie. They've used all sorts of interesting ways to try and find him - underwater cameras, sonar, and so forth. There have been similar efforts for lake monsters in other places, all of which have turned up empty.

  By contrast, nobody has had the ability to explore most of what's in space. The nice folks at SETI are continuing to look, but they've explored only a tiny fraction of the information that's coming our way. If, as seems perfectly reasonable to guess right now, interstellar travel is incredibly difficult and risky, and interstellar communication takes a really really long time, then it's there's no real surprise that we haven't found aliens or they haven't stopped by to say hello.

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