Project Sign

Now remember, they took the, uh, the Project Blue Book.

They had Project Sign.

Uh, Project Sign was, was set up about 1947 after the Ken Arnold sighting and the crash at Roswell.

Um, their report came out, and it was submitted to Hoyt Vandenberg, who was then chief of staff, that UFOs represent alien spacecraft visiting the planet Earth.

Hoyt Vandenberg says, "Poppycock," and had all the reports destroyed.

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And he closed down Project Sign and set up Project Grudge.

So in Gru- Project Grudge, which the name may imply, was set up to explain away all UFO sighting reports.

Now, if this is an area you're curious about, I want you to drop more theories in the comments because I want to learn more about this as well.

So the first official government-funded study of UFOs was called the USAF Project Sign in 1947 to 1948.

It was initially coded as Project Saucer.

The Air Force reorganized this project in late 1948 and named it Project Grudge in 1949 and transformed it later into Project Blue Book in 1952, which ran until 1969.

Project Blue Book was essentially utilized to create a methodical approach to the over 12,000 sightings and categorize them as identified or unidentified.

in essence, and everyone associated with it, including its first director, said that it was little more than a public relations exercise aimed at dismissing or explaining away UFO sightings.

Projects, which preceded Blue Book, Project Sign and Project Grudge, were a little bit different.

Project Sign was conducted in total secrecy.

It concluded that UFOs were real and probably extraterrestrial.

That recommendation was rejected by the head of the Air Force.

He was a highly respected astronomer and a university professor.

The US Air Force hired him to serve as their primary scientific advisor for Project Sign, Project Grudge, and finally, Project Blue Book.

The Holy Trinity of UFO projects.

Right.

And then the next day it was like, no, no, no, it was a weather balloon, which that really is when what we would call the relative cover-up began.

You have Project Sign, you have Project Blue Book, other... investigative reports it's interesting to me that it's like i liken it to there was an incident at the hen house where some potential chickens got taken but we hired the fox to investigate Good luck with that, right? I'm sure we'll get a truthful report on how that happened.

I do recommend, if you want to get into some of the disclosure, the runs, L.A. Marzulli wrote a book recently, which is actually pretty good, where he systematically goes through all the different developments over the past few years, primarily beginning in 2017, which we'll see.

You'll see these competing movements that are happening in this world.

Now, there were different military projects, U.S. Air Force projects.

like from 1948 to 1969, U.S. Air Force projects like Project Sign, Project Grudge in 1949, and Blue Book, 1952.

I remember Operation Blue Book, 1952 to 1969, when I was a kid.

I don't know how old I was when somehow I got a hold of it and read it, but Operation Blue Book went back a long time.

Uh, his opinion becomes important.

After they had written Project Sign, it was Project Sign which is the pre-runner, uh, forerunner to Project Blue Book.

Um, uh, they had produced that estimate of the situation and after it made it all- uh, way up the chain of command and was batted back down as, as Ruppelt put it, almost everybody in the office involved in it was fired.

They were moved on to other jobs.

It was a, a, a real bloodbath and then they were b- appointing officers to take charge of Project Blue Book who were rabidly anti-saucer, anti-UFO.

Ruppelt, when he took over, it was Project Grudge at the time, uh, the, the, the sightings.

Project Sign was the original.

Uh, publicly it was called Project Saucer.

1947, the 1947 Roswell incident, which I think almost everybody, even if you can't place it historically, you know it's somewhere in the 40s or 50s, right? The Roswell thing.

The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO sightings, Project Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book.

Cold War concerns over Soviet technology, what they might have had, which we've talked about not relating to aliens, but what they had was drastically oversold at home here.

The 2004 USS Nimitz tic-tac incident.

So let's talk about some other things.

So release four also contained DOWUAPD097, which is the project sign progress report from 1948.

So this is their first progress report dated April 23rd, 1948.

So this is just three months after Thomas Mantel's death.

And this is one of the documents I've looked at before, but they do this thing.

And I mean, this is on page 16, so I can come back to it.

But if you go back through this document at the beginning, this project signed document, You can see kind of how they lay it out, right? So up here in the beginning of it, they have the dates.

And this, you guys are recognizing this from the Roswell episode, all the Muroc airfield from July 8th, 1947.

The first is the 1952 tape, and it exists in public today because one congressman refused to let it disappear.

It records Air Force Captain Edward Ruppelt, the officer who ran Project Grudge, Project Sign, and assisted Project Blue Book.

Back in May, Congressman Eric Burleson sent a formal letter to MIT Lincoln Labs, a federally funded research center, naming a specific reel-to-reel recording cataloged as AF-A1.

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