Editing Project Blue Book (section)

===Post-Blue Book U.S.A.F. UFO activities===
An Air Force memorandum (released via the [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act]]) dated October 20, 1969, and signed by [[Brigadier General (United States)|Brigadier General]] Carroll H. "Rip" Bolender (the Deputy Director of Development and Acquisitions under the Air Force's Deputy Chief of Staff, Research and Development) states that even after Blue Book was dissolved, that "reports of UFOs" would still "continue to be handled through the standard Air Force procedure designed for this purpose." Furthermore, wrote Bolender, "Reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security ... are not part of the Blue Book system."<ref name=Randles179>[[Jenny Randles]] and Peter Houghe; ''The Complete Book of UFOs: An Investigation into Alien Contact and Encounters''; Sterling Publishing Co, Inc, 1994; {{ISBN|0806981326}}, p. 179</ref> To date, these other investigation channels, agencies or groups (and Bolender's involvement therein) are unknown. Upon drafting the memo, Bolender, who assumed his generalship in 1965, had recently completed a detached tour as Program Manager for [[Lunar Excursion Module]] Operations in the [[Apollo program]], likely reporting to fellow detached Air Force officer [[Samuel C. Phillips]]. He would continue to serve in this position and rank until he retired from the Air Force in 1972.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-19950807-1995-08-07-9508070124-story.html|title = Daily Press: Hampton Roads News, Virginia News & Videos| date=August 7, 1995 }}</ref>

Additionally, author Howard Blum reports<ref name=Blum /> that [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act]] requests show that the U.S. Air Force has continued to catalog and track UFO sightings, particularly a series of dozens of UFO encounters from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s that occurred at U.S. military facilities with [[nuclear weapons]]. Blum writes that some of these official documents depart drastically from the normally dry and bureaucratic wording of government paperwork, making obvious the sense of "terror" that these UFO incidents inspired in many U.S.A.F. personnel.