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Carter Administration UFO records
The Carter administration (1977–1981) produced a distinct tranche of US-Government UFO material. Carter himself filed a sighting report in 1969 and his administration's official correspondence with NASA Administrator Robert Frosch in 1977 explored whether NASA should take a research role on the topic. DoJ counsel Philip Heymann's instruction to the FBI in 1979 initiated the Animal Mutilation investigation. Robert Todd's parallel FOIA campaign in 1978–1979 produced the Bolender memo's first public release.
Read these together: Carter–Frosch frames the political-science angle; Animal Mutilation is the operational investigation it indirectly enabled; the Bolender memo is the institutional UFO-handling memo released through Todd's pressure. The Carter-era terminus is the post-Blue-Book period in PURSUE Section 10 of FBI HQ 62-HQ-83894.
Records
- Carter Administration — NASA UFO Correspondence (Press–Frosch, 1977)
- FBI — Animal Mutilation Investigation, Part 1
- FBI — Animal Mutilation Investigation, Part 2
- FBI — Animal Mutilation Investigation, Part 3
- FBI — Animal Mutilation Investigation, Part 4
- FBI — Animal Mutilation Investigation, Part 5 (Final)
- Bolender Memo — Post-Blue Book UFO Handling
- Robert Todd — FBI Field-Office FOIA Campaign (1978–1979)
- Kirtland AFB — Edwards/Doty AFOSI Complaint Form
- FBI HQ 62-HQ-83894 — Section 10: post-Blue-Book to Carter-era terminus (Sep 1966 – Jul 1977)
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