RELEASE 03 / CIA-UAP-019
CIA-UAP-019, Australian Dept of Defense Scientific and Intel Aspects of the UFO Problem
- File ID
- CIA-UAP-019
- Agency
- CIA
- Release
- Release 03, 12 Jun 2026
- Event date
- 1971 (read as 1971; precision: year)
- Location
- Australia
- Type
- Redactions
- None flagged
The official record
Official copy at war.gov
Official summary, as published
Dated to 1971, an Australian review of the USAF Project Blue Book. This document was released by the National Archives of Australia.
Named in this file
9 namesPeople, programs and institutions from The Legacy Program research board whose names appear in this file, found by exact spelling against a hand-checked list. A match says only that the file names them, not what part they play. People and programs lists every file that names each one. This file is a scan with no text layer, so only its title and official summary were searched.
- Tier A Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter person
Named in page 7.
First Director of Central Intelligence, May 1947 - October 1950; NICAP board member 1960
- Tier B J. Allen Hynek person
Named in page 12.
Astronomer; USAF scientific consultant 1948-1969
- Tier A Project Blue Book program
Named in the official summary and pages 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 16 and 2 more.
Public-facing USAF UFO program (1952-1969)
- Tier C Project GRUDGE program
Named in pages 5, 7, 16.
Successor to SIGN; explicitly dismissive posture (1949-1951)
- Tier B Project SIGN program
Named in page 15.
First official USAF UFO project (1948-1949)
- Tier A Project Stork (Project White Stork) program
Named in page 16.
US Air Force contract with Battelle Memorial Institute for analysis of Project Blue Book UFO data, 1952-1955
- Tier A Central Intelligence Agency institution
Named in the title and pages 5, 6, 7, 10, 17.
Independent civilian foreign intelligence service; convener of the Robertson Panel
- Tier A Air Technical Intelligence Center institution
Named in pages 5, 16, 17.
USAF technical intelligence centre, Wright-Patterson AFB
- Tier B National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) institution
Named in page 7.
Civilian UFO body incorporated in the District of Columbia, 1956; 1536 Connecticut Avenue NW
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