Bolender Memo (1969)
Declassified Air Force memo recommending Project Blue Book's termination, on the grounds that it had not served a genuine intelligence function. Its most-cited line notes that reports of UFOs "which could affect national security" were handled through separate channels under JANAP 146 or Air Force Manual 55-11, and "are not part of the Blue Book system" - widely read since as an acknowledgment that a separate, non-public reporting channel existed all along.
In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "ufos", "blue book". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.
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authored the memoNICAP.org - Bolender Memo (1969)
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states national-security UFO reports are not part of the Blue Book systemUSAF Project Blue Book records; Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1956) | Bolender memo, 20 Oct 1969, para 4 (via NICAP transcription; the scan itself has not been read visually)
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routes national-security UFO reports through it (JANAP 146 or Air Force Manual 55-11)Bolender memo, 20 Oct 1969, para 4 (via NICAP transcription; the scan itself has not been read visually)
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← NICAPsurfaced and cited it as evidence of a hidden post-Blue Book reporting channelNICAP
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cited alongside other retired officials' claims about a broader UFO coverup
Notes on this record
Recategorised from "incident" to "gov" on 26 August 2026. It is a document, not an incident: cat "incident" had become the destination for anything with no affiliation, and 18 of the 29 nodes in it were documents, programmes, concepts or patterns whose own `form` field already said so. The destination is read from this node's own role text, which says "Declassified Air Force memo".