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Secret Air Force files on UFOs no longer secret

As fans of the old TV show "X Files" know, "the Truth is out there."

The question is, can the truth be found in the now declassified documents collected by the US Air Force under the aegis of "Project Blue Book."

For believers and skeptics alike, there is much fodder to bolster their positions as The Black Vault website has now made some 130,000 documents from Project Blue Book available online.

The Air Force began what was its third and by far most lengthy investigation into unidentified flying objects in 1951, according to most sources, and closed the investigation down in 1968.

Its official conclusion was that there was no hard evidence of alien lifeforms or technology, and no risk to national security from the UFO phenomenon.

Still, conspiracy theorists are quick to note that Project Blue Book makes no mention of what UFO enthusiasts call the most infamous incident of all: The reported crash of an alien craft near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.

Believers hold that the military not only found the crash site, but that objects of alien manufacture and even remains of actual aliens were recovered.

Some accounts have it that one or more of the aliens survived the crash, at least for a while.

In any case, the debate will continue, and now people have a lot of source material on which to base their arguments.

CLICK HERE for the Black Vault Project Blue Book site.

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