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===UFO studies / sightings===
[[Project Sign]] ([[Project Grudge]] in 1949, [[Project Blue Book]] in March 1952) was WPAFB's T-2 Intelligence investigations of [[unidentified flying objects]] (UFO) reports that began in July 1947.{{Citation needed|date=September 2013}}<!--—some people believe{{Who|reason=What is the earliest source? (there has to be an earlier source than the 2007 "witness", right?)|date=September 2013}} that WPAFB Hangar 18 has contained wreckage of a crashed UFO.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20071026/news_lz1mc26ufo.html | title=Witness to Roswell flying saucer incident tells his story | date=26 October 2007 | access-date=15 March 2008}}{{Verify source|date=September 2013}}</ref--> In 1951, the [[Air Technical Intelligence Center]] (ATIC) began analysis of crashed Soviet aircraft from the Korean war.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ascho.wpafb.af.mil/korea/contents.HTM |title=On The Front Line Of R&D Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the Korean War, 1950–1953 |publisher=ASC History Office |access-date=4 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213145443/http://www.ascho.wpafb.af.mil/korea/contents.htm |archive-date=13 December 2007  }}{{Verify source|date=September 2013}}</ref> In March 1952, ATIC established an Aerial Phenomena Group to study reported UFO sightings, including those in Washington, DC, in 1952. By 1969, the [[Foreign Technology Division]] (FTD) and its predecessor organizations had studied 12,618 reported sightings: 701 remained unexplained when the Air Force closed its UFO investigations, and a 1968 report concluded that "there seems to be no reason to attribute [the unexplained sightings] to an extraterrestrial source without much more convincing evidence."<ref name="Bernstein 43">{{Cite journal |last=Bernstein |first=Burton |date=25 April 1988 |title=AuH2O |journal=The New Yorker ("Profiles" Section) |page=43}}{{Verify source|date=September 2013}}</ref>

The FTD sent all of its case files to the [[Maxwell Air Force Base|USAF Historical Research Center]], which transferred them in 1976 to the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives and Records Service]] in Washington, DC, which became the permanent repository of the Project Sign/Grudge/Blue Book records. In a 1988 interview, Senator [[Barry Goldwater]] claimed he had asked Gen. [[Curtis LeMay]] for access to a secret UFO room at WPAFB and an angry LeMay said, "Not only can't you get into it but don't you ever mention it to me again."<ref name="Bernstein 43"/>