What are the components of a Project Blue Book UFO Report?
The reports vary considerably in size and scope. They contain, variously: signed witness statements, interviews, investigations and background checks, photographs (often poorly rendered on microfilm), correspondence, technical assessments, and newspaper clippings. The 1947–early 1949 reports usually contain case summaries from Project Sign, and reproduce the pages from the “Grudge Report” (reproduced in full on Roll 85) which justify the suggested solution for the case. Some of the early reports contain little more than the Project Sign summaries and the evaluation from the Grudge Report. There is no standard set of documents that constitute a UFO report, nor is there a standard order for the pages of a report. Some reports have a mix of original and later documents, and longer reports may require careful study to straighten out their timelines. A few of the documents were submitted by outside researchers or collected for information only, and consist of newspaper reports or summary de
