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SAB Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book

1966-02-01 – 1966-03-01what this date marks is not recorded

USAF Scientific Advisory Board panel chaired by Brian O'Brien, convened in response to a September 1965 request to review Project Blue Book. Concluded the program could be improved via more thorough scientific investigation of unexplained sightings and recommended a specific method for doing so - the direct origin of the subsequent Condon Committee study at the University of Colorado.

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.

6 of 6 connections resolve to a document you can open.

1 note on how this record was made

Documents3 behind these connections

Documents behind these connections

Unidentified Flying Objects 1966-04-05
No title recorded DOW-UAP-D092 1966-04-19/1967-05-16
Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects 1968-07-29

6 connections

ColourScientistsGovernment

← Gerald Ford

pressed the Air Force on UFOs in March 1966, five months after the memorandum that requested this committee

Unidentified Flying Objects
printed p. 5994 · PDF p. 6 checked against the page
→ Brian O'Brien

chaired by

No title recorded DOW-UAP-D092
PDF p. 5 checked against the page
→ Edward Condon document, no page cited yet

its recommendation directly led to this study

Unidentified Flying Objects
← Hector Quintanilla Jr.

briefed it on Project Blue Book, 3 February 1966

same document as the row above
printed p. 5996 · PDF p. 8 checked against the page
← Carl Sagan

was a member of it

Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects
printed p. 85 · PDF p. 91 checked against the page
← John P. Spaulding

presented "the Air Force problem" to it, 3 February 1966

Unidentified Flying Objects
printed p. 5996 · PDF p. 8 checked against the page

Caveat THE AGENDA PRINTS A SURNAME, NOT A FULL NAME. Folio 5996 reads "Lieutenant Colonel Spaulding, SAFOI" and nothing more. That this is the John P. Spaulding who signed the letter at folio 6039 is the operator's ruling of 25 August 2026 - same rank, same office, nine days apart in one hearing record - and no page held here states it. Guardrail 7: a shared surname is not a shared identity.

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Generated from the record, not written by hand. Every change keeps what the map used to say, because a correction nobody can see is indistinguishable from never having been wrong.

SAB Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book → Carl Sagan

sat on the committee whose recommendation produced the Condon study

was a member of it

The biography on printed 85 proves the membership and says nothing about a recommendation, Condon or Colorado. The causal step was already on the map as link 1022 and already sourced, so the trim removes a duplicate assertion rather than a claim.

Notes on this record

The category

Recategorised 26 August 2026. A USAF Scientific Advisory Board panel convened in February 1966 to review Project Blue Book, chaired by Brian O'Brien, which sat twenty-eight days, reported, and disbanded. That is a convened proceeding, not an organization: it did not exist before the question was put to it and did not outlive its report.