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   Project Blue Book 2.0: A Permanent US Government Office of UAP   
   Investigations?   
      
   Micah Hanks   
   15 Sept 2021 13:38   
   The Intelligence Debrief   
      
      
   It was also learned in recent days that legislation contained within   
   the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act recommends the   
   establishment of a permanent govt office to address UAP on an   
   ongoing basis. If it comes to fruition, this will mark the first time   
   the United States has had such a dedicated effort to study UAP since   
   the closure of Project Blue Book, a long-running systematic study   
   carried out during the 1950s and 60s by the US Air Force.   
      
   "Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act,   
   the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Director of   
   National Intelligence, shall establish an office within the Office of   
   the Secretary of Defense to carry out, on a Dept-wide basis, the   
   mission currently performed by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task   
   Force as of the date of the enactment of this Act," a portion of the   
   proposed legislation reads.   
      
   As Tim McMillan recently reported about this new development, "the   
   Armed Services Committee's proposed legislation would replace the   
   current temporary Task Force with a permanent office solely dedicated   
   to performing DoD-wide investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena."   
      
   While the newly proposed govt office of UAP studies may   
   represent the most significant indication to date that the United   
   States is taking the issue seriously, success is not guaranteed by   
   govt involvement alone. In fact, a look to the past shows that   
   similar efforts decades ago resulted in few conclusions about the   
   nature of mysterious aerial phenomena. In light of this, is it   
   reasonable to expect that similar efforts in the years to come might   
   be any different?   
      
   Days of Future Past   
      
   If any future office is to produce meaningful results with its study   
   of UAP, understanding why past govt studies have failed to   
   resolve the issue is of key significance. One obvious reason for past   
   failures has to do with the complex nature of the phenomenon being   
   studied. Even after several decades, there is still far too little   
   data about UAP available to aid in making conclusions about what it   
   is, or what its origins are.   
      
   However, another reason has to do with the attitudes of scientists   
   who, at the time, had been tasked with assessing what data the   
   govt did manage to collect during the Project Blue Book   
   years. These scientists not only had a significant influence on Blue   
   Book's leadership at the time, but also produced conclusions that were   
   not only premature in their assessments about UAP but were also   
   riddled with biases.   
      
   "Careful consideration of the record as it is available to us leads us   
   to conclude that further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be   
   justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby,"   
   reads a portion from Section One of the report of the University of   
   Colorado UFO Project, a study sponsored by the US Air Force and led   
   by physicist Edward U. Condon. "It has been argued that this lack of   
   contribution to science is due to the fact that very little scientific   
   effort has been put on the subject," the report read.   
      
   "We do not agree," the report's authors stated.   
      
   "We feel that the reason that there has been very little scientific   
   study of the subject is that those scientists who are most directly   
   concerned, astronomers, atmospheric physicists, chemists, and   
   psychologists, having had ample opportunity to look into the matter,   
   have individually decided that UFO phenomena do not offer a fruitful   
   field in which to look for major scientific discoveries."   
      
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