The panel arose from a recommendation to the Intelligence Advisory Committee in December 1952 from a Central Intelligence Agency review of the US Air Force investigation into unidentified flying objects, Project Blue Book.
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And it was kind of in some ways the constitution for Blue Book. Like it became the mandate for them to, you know, swamp gas and the lights and whatever, you know, easy ways to rationalize, explain a way, you know, what was actually going on.
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And then you have the Air Force and Blue Book and it's just this kind of fake sham, you know, understaffed job.
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So I remember a Jacques talking about a document that he accidentally found in the files of Dr. Jalen Hainek, who was a scientific advisor to Project Blue Book.
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In my association with Project Blue Book, I know very well that it was not a scientific project.
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That basically talked about this, a program that paralleled Project Blue Book, but it was way underground, way more funding, way better scientists, all these things.
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The document revealed an ultra secret, highly funded scientific investigation, working parallel to Blue Book, unknown to all, but a select few.
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But basically the implication was there was a very well funded panel of eminent scientists that were involved and that Project Blue Book was just a dog and pony show.
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Yeah, I remember that part of that movie and then I interviewed Jacques and I think I had forgotten that there was a deeper program than Blue Book.
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And he was telling Heineck, look, you got to look into these cases that are classified in project blue book files as psychological because those are reports of witnesses claiming to see beans connected to the craft.
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