Project Blue Book
Nation Involved: United States of America
Time Period: March 1942 to December 1969
Project Blue Book is now a pretty popular government project that was kept under wraps for several years. The goal of this project was to study unidentified flying objects or UFOs. Conducted mostly by scientists and pilots for the U.S. Air Force, the main thing they wanted to know was if UFOs were a national security threat. They also wanted to analyze any UFO data that could be collected. Several thousand UFO reports were collected for over 20 years. Supported by the National Academy of Sciences, it was concluded that UFOs were not a security threat nor offered potential scientific advancements.
Thus, the Air Force shut down Project Blue Book. The Air Force studied 12,610 total UFO reports or sightings and found no evidence of a national security threat. They also found that no UFO reported or sighted had any major technological advancements beyond modern scientific understanding. NONE of the UFOs were extraterrestrial in nature. However, since shutting this project down, many sightings have been reported with some tech beyond our current knowledge. The U.S. and other nations also now have a UFO program, with the U.S. finally being very transparent about theirs.