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Brian O'Brien

1966-04-19what this date marks is not recorded

Physicist; chaired the USAF Scientific Advisory Board's Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book (1966), formed at Gen. LeBailly's request to determine whether the Air Force's UFO investigation program could be improved. The committee's recommendation for more rigorous scientific investigation directly led to the Condon Committee study.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "ufo", "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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No title recorded DOW-UAP-D092already cited above
The release calls it “DAF Committee to Review Project Bluebook, 1966-1967”. Release filename only, and it describes the file inexactly: the file holds records of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board ad hoc committee (1966) AND of the University of Colorado (Condon) study (1967). No single title page covers it. It is not adopted as a title here.
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…1400, 19 April 1966. Those Present and Purpose Thereof: Dr. Brian O'Brien — Chairman — Consultant; Dr. Jesse Orlansky — Member — IDA;…
Unidentified Flying Objects
named on a page we have read · p. 5996
Committee members (1 each): Dr. Brian O'Brien (chairman), Dr. Launor F. Carter, Mr. Jesse Orlansky, Dr. R…

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