Roster / The early years

Edward Ruppelt

Air Force officer, first head of Project Blue Book · 1923 to 1960

Led the Air Force's UFO project in the early 1950s and coined "UFO."

Ruppelt ran Project Grudge and then Project Blue Book from 1951 to 1953 and is credited with coining "unidentified flying object." His 1956 book The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is a plain account of those years.

Sources

National Archives: Project Blue Book records

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