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Reports affecting national security are "handled" irrespective of Project Blue Book. xr : a. . foal 1 1: ow . oo We don't know to what extent the low-ranking officers staffing Project Blue Book, or the more important Blue Book scientist Dr. J. Allen Hynek, knew that some UFO reports were filed and investigated elsewhere. Dr. Condon, in preparing for the release of his study from the University of Colorado, believed that he had access to a// UFO data in the government's files, and that nothing was kept from him. That appears to be a questionable assumption. Although some Blue Book chiefs had high clearance, it's possible that some national security cases never reached their desks. After Blue Book was closed, we know that the U.S. government continued to have some level of involvement in UFO investigations a 1 6 nm through a range of agencies. Despite government statements to the contrary, this fact has been revealed in official documents released later through the Freedom of Information Act. Two glaring examples involve the cases from Iran and Peru of attempts to shoot down UFOs, as recounted earlier by General Parviz Jafari and Comandante Oscar Santa Maria. U.S. aes er ae ee reports on them at the time—reports that show they took these cases seriously but wanted to keep that interest secret. At home around the same time, in 1975, American officials were still dealing with sensitive UFO activity near Air Force bases in the western United States. The U.S. Air Force scrambled military jets over Montana to chase multiple unknowns, as detailed in the official 24th NORAD (North American Air Defense Command) region senior director's log. The November 8,1975, log reports the arrival of two to seven UFOs—one "large red to orange to yellow object" with small lights on it and another with white and red lights. "Conversation about the UFOs; Advised to go ahead and scramble; but be sure and brief pilots, FAA," the document says. Two F-i6s attempted to approach, but as the fighter jets drew closer, the object's lights went out and came back on only when the fighters departed. Eventually, the object increased speed to a "high velocity," shot upward, "and now cannot tell the object from the stars," the NORAD log reports. [11] UFO appears to "react" to approaching Air Force jets. Here, according to NORAD, the [12] lights went off when the planes approached within close range, and then the pilots couldn't see the UFO. When they retreated, the lights reappeared. It seems, once again, that some kind of intelligence responded and devised a means of "escape." The American military reported all of this among themselves, but kept it away from the American people. And there was more. The next day the log records the sighting of an "orange white disc object," resulting in an order for a "mobile security government officials were interested in both cases and filed classified This report has interesting similarities to other cases in which the