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Carroll H. "Rip" Bolender

1969-10-20what this date marks is not recorded

Air Force Brigadier General, Deputy Director of Development and Acquisitions, who signed the October 1969 memo recommending Project Blue Book's closure. The memo also stated that UFO reports genuinely relevant to national security were never handled through Blue Book at all, but through separate standard Air Force channels - a detail later cited as evidence that Blue Book's public closure didn't end serious U.S. investigation of the phenomenon.

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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NICAP.org - Bolender Memo (1969)