Project Blue Book was the US Air Force’s official UFO investigation programme, running from 1952 to 1969. Its complete photographic record — every photograph taken in association with Blue Book investigations — is held in Record Group 341 at the National Archives. The bulk download totals 36.48GB. Three photographs from the archive are reproduced here, downloaded directly from the NARA S3 bucket and hosted permanently by UAP Oracle.
Accessing the Full Archive
The complete Project Blue Book photographic archive is available as a single bulk download from NARA’s S3 infrastructure: 542184.zip (36.48 GB). JSON metadata for each photograph is available separately at catalog-export-542184.json. Individual photographs can be browsed through the National Archives Catalog at catalog.archives.gov/id/542184.
What Blue Book’s Photography Programme Documented
Blue Book’s photography collection includes: photographs submitted by civilian witnesses, photographs taken by Air Force investigators at sighting locations, photographs of physical evidence and trace cases, scientific analysis photographs of alleged UAP images, and what RG 342 describes as “physically fabricated UFO photos” and “optically fabricated UFO photos” — photographs specifically created during scientific studies to test and calibrate image analysis methodology. The fabricated photographs are part of the scientific methodology record, not evidence of hoaxing the entire Blue Book record.
Sources: archives.gov/research/topics/uaps/photographs. National Archives Catalog RG 341, RG 342. NARA bulk download S3. All photographs: Public domain — US Government works.