AQUARIUS A Top Secret project that was started in 1953 and was set up to
accumulate as much data as possible about alien life forms and to
distribute the collected information to the relevant projects. Its
existence was revealed by WILLIAM MOORE when he released three pages of a
"Project Aquarius Executive Briefing Document" to the public.
Unfortunately for Moore, this document is now thought to be a fake due to
its sloppy presentation (there was a logo on the cover which looked like
it had been drawn on with a felt-tip pen) as well as missing background
detail. Moore was asked to release more proof that Project Aquarius
existed, but he refused, saying that the burden of proof is on those
saying that the document is a hoax. 

     BLUE BOOK The last publicly acknowledged USAF investigation into
UFOs, and something of a controversial one, which started in March 1952.
Its aims were to find explanations for UFO sightings, to assess whether
they were a threat to national security, and to determine if the UFOs used
advanced technology from which the US could learn. Reports were collected,
analyzed and filed according to their results. No-one noticed anything was
wrong with the project until one of the people on the investigation team
sent in his own sighting. It was filed, but when he wanted to refer back
to his report, it had disappeared.  He then alleged that any reports that
were both unexplained and could cause public uproar were siphoned off out
of Blue Book to somewhere else higher up in authority, a claim that
ufologists now see as fact. Blue Book was wound up in 1969 as a result of
the CONDON REPORT and one of its investigators, Dr J. Allen Hynek, went on
to form the first scientific based UFO group, the Center for UFO Studies,
in 1973. 

     GALILEO An S-4 project dealing with flying recovered discs. 

     GRUDGE The successor to PROJECT SIGN which was launched to
effectively denounce the UFO problem.  Journalists were encouraged to
write articles saying that UFOs didn't exist. The final report said that,
despite getting 23% more reports than Project Sign did, all sightings
could be dismissed on psychological ground and that any further
investigation should be downgraded greatly, which it was. Project Grudge
was shut down in 1950. 

     POUNCE A Top Secret project in 1953 that evaluated all UFOs in order
to gain more space technology knowledge. 

     SIGMA An ongoing 1954 Top Secret project that looked into how to
communicate with aliens. That projects existence was revealed in the
PROJECT AQUARIUS Briefing Document and is said to have succeeded in 1964
when a USAF intelligence officer met two other aliens at a prearranged
location in a desert in New Mexico. However, there is a "Project Sigma"
listed in the 1986 Defence Marketing Services Code Name Directory as a
"Top Secret Air Force program involving Rockwell International" and has
been officially identified as a laser weapons project. 

     SIGN The first official USAF UFO investigation which started in
January 1948. Its brief was to determine what UFOs were. It lasted until
February 1949, its final report saying that 20% of the cases were
unexplainable. 

     SNOWBIRD An ongoing 1972 Top Secret project that researched,
developed and implemented alien spacecraft technology and test flown
recovered UFOs. It is possible that the UFO involved in the CASH/LANDRUM
CASE was built by the Americans as part of this project, however another
"Project Snowbird" has been found described as a "Joint Army/Air Force
peacetime military exercise in the sub-arctic region in 1955" in the 1963
Gale Research's Code Names Dictionary. Project Snowbird is another project
that was only revealed in the PROJECT AQUARIUS Briefing Document. 

     TWINKLE A highly secret study into green fireballs seen in New
Mexico. By the time an investigator arrived at a scene where fireballs had
been observed, they would have disappeared so they couldn't be
investigated properly, and Project Twinkle was shut down. It was thought
that since the fireballs moved to another location before investigators
came onto the scene, the fireballs were controlled by some intelligence.