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Maj. Dewey Fournet

1952-02-01what this date marks is not recorded

Air Force officer who served as liaison between Project Blue Book and the Pentagon starting in 1952, reporting to Ruppelt. Conducted a "motion study" of several hundred detailed sighting reports, narrowing them to roughly a dozen he considered inexplicable by any conventional object, and concluded their flight patterns showed intelligent control of extraterrestrial origin. Presented these findings to the CIA's Robertson Panel in January 1953, where the study was ultimately rejected. Later joined NICAP's founding Board of Governors.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "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.

None of this entity's 4 connections has a source you can open. 1 carries no citation at all. 1 was tested against a document we hold and deliberately not bound.

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→ Robertson Panel not bound, on purpose

presented his "motion study" concluding extraterrestrial origin, which the panel rejected

tested against Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, Convened by Office of Scientific Intelligence, CIA, January 14-18, 1953 (the Durant Report)

Why we refused it. NOT BOUND - PART I HAS NOW BEEN READ IN FULL AND FOURNET IS NOT IN IT. Printed pp.1-6 record the eight sessions one by one and name who presented what: Ruppelt, Hynek, Lt. R. S. Neasham and Mr. Harry Woo of the USN Photo Interpretation Laboratory, Capt. Harry B. Smith, Dr. Stephen Possony, Brig. Gen. William M. Garland and Dr. Chadwell. No Fournet, and no motion study. AN IMPORTANT LIMIT ON THAT: Part I redacts many individual names under 25X1A, so absence from the visible text is not absence from the room, and the Part II sections at printed pp.7-10, 12-18 and 20-22 have not been read closely. This document does not support the link; it does not disprove it either, and neither claim is made here.
→ Edward Ruppelt names a source we do not hold

served as his Pentagon liaison on Blue Book matters

USAF Project Blue Book records; Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1956)
→ NICAP names a source we do not hold

joined its founding Board of Governors

NICAP.org (Fournet, board since 1957)
→ Gen. John A. Samford nothing behind it

his approved study was routed up the chain of command to Samford