{"id":91062,"date":"2019-05-21T11:03:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T18:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/project-blue-book-is-based-on-a-true-u-f-o-story-here-it-is"},"modified":"2019-05-21T11:03:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T18:03:04","slug":"project-blue-book-is-based-on-a-true-u-f-o-story-here-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/project-blue-book-is-based-on-a-true-u-f-o-story-here-it-is","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Project Blue Book\u2019 Is Based on a True U.F.O. Story. Here It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/project-blue-book-is-based-on-a-true-u-f-o-story-here-it-is2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Featuring a Russian spy murder, a self-immolation, gun-toting government thugs and other fanciful plot devices, \u201cProject Blue Book,\u201d History\u2019s <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/01\/project-blue-book-premiere-draws-3-5m-total-viewers-for-history-in-live3-1202535171\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">popular new series<\/a> on the Air Force\u2019s program to investigate and debunk U.F.O.s, is not your historian\u2019s Project Blue Book.<\/p>\n<p>We viewed the first six episodes from the standpoint of writers who have long worked on the serious side of U.F.O.s. We broke the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/16\/us\/politics\/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html?module=inline\" title=\"\">December 2017 New York Times exclusive<\/a> on a secret Pentagon program investigating the phenomenon, with our colleague Helene Cooper. <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/john-podesta-pulling-back_b_6717872.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Leslie Kean<\/a> wrote the Times 2010 best-seller <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/cdn.survivingdeathkean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Book-Reviews-3-pages-Leslie.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cU.F.O.s: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record.\u201d<\/a> Ralph Blumenthal has written about U.F.O.s for <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2013\/05\/americans-alien-abduction-science\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Vanity Fair<\/a> as well as <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/24\/science\/ufo-sightings-book.html?module=inline\" title=\"\">The Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, despite the embellishments, we were interested to discover parallels between the TV version and the historical and current reality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/15\/arts\/television\/project-blue-book-history-true-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring a Russian spy murder, a self-immolation, gun-toting government thugs and other fanciful plot devices, \u201cProject Blue Book,\u201d History\u2019s popular new series on the Air Force\u2019s program to investigate and debunk U.F.O.s, is not your historian\u2019s Project Blue Book. We viewed the first six episodes from the standpoint of writers who have long worked on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}