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Maj. Dewey Fournet

1952-02-01what this date marks is not recorded

Air Force officer who served as liaison between Project Blue Book and the Pentagon starting in 1952. In late 1952 he worked at Headquarters USAF in the Directorate of Intelligence (AFOIN-2A2), requesting case films from Blue Book, sending it material, and preparing replies to the public for General Samford's signature. Conducted a "motion study" of several hundred detailed sighting reports, narrowing them to roughly a dozen he considered inexplicable by any conventional object, and concluded their flight patterns showed intelligent control of extraterrestrial origin. Presented these findings to the CIA's Robertson Panel in January 1953, where the study was ultimately rejected. Later joined NICAP's founding Board of Governors.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "blue book". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

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  • → Edward Ruppelt
    No title recorded DOW-UAP-D102
    This map says
    served as his Pentagon liaison on Blue Book matters
    The document says
    TO AFOIN-2A2 Attn: Major Fournet. FROM ATIC. DATE 15 OCT 1952. Capt Ruppelt/jos. SUBJECT 35mm Film and Analysis. 1. As per your request inclosed herein for your inspection is the 35mm film from Tremonton, Utah, showing unidentified aerial objects.
    dow-uap-d102, 1952
    PDF p. 9  ·  VERIFIED - page rendered at 130-170 dpi and read visually, 2026-09-21. Not OCR.
    read as an image — the grade this project quotes from: the page was rendered and the picture read
    Caveat THE PAGE DOES NOT USE THE WORD "LIAISON". It shows Ruppelt's office at ATIC sending the Tremonton film, at Fournet's request, to Headquarters USAF, AFOIN-2A2, for Fournet's attention. That is the working relationship the connection describes, seen once, on one case. The title is not on the page.
  • → Robertson Panel not bound, on purpose
    presented his "motion study" concluding extraterrestrial origin, which the panel rejected
    tested against Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, Convened by Office of Scientific Intelligence, CIA, January 14-18, 1953 (the Durant Report)
    Why we refused it. NOT BOUND - PART I HAS NOW BEEN READ IN FULL AND FOURNET IS NOT IN IT. Printed pp.1-6 record the eight sessions one by one and name who presented what: Ruppelt, Hynek, Lt. R. S. Neasham and Mr. Harry Woo of the USN Photo Interpretation Laboratory, Capt. Harry B. Smith, Dr. Stephen Possony, Brig. Gen. William M. Garland and Dr. Chadwell. No Fournet, and no motion study. AN IMPORTANT LIMIT ON THAT: Part I redacts many individual names under 25X1A, so absence from the visible text is not absence from the room, and the Part II sections at printed pp.7-10, 12-18 and 20-22 have not been read closely. This document does not support the link; it does not disprove it either, and neither claim is made here.
  • → NICAP names a source we do not hold
    joined its founding Board of Governors
    NICAP.org (Fournet, board since 1957)
  • → Gen. John A. Samford nothing behind it
    his approved study was routed up the chain of command to Samford

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CORRECTED 2026-09-21 on the operator's ruling. The description said he served as liaison "reporting to Ruppelt". Three pages read as images show the reverse direction: an ATIC disposition form of 15 October 1952 sends the Tremonton film "As per your request" to AFOIN-2A2, "Attn: Major Fournet", from Capt Ruppelt's office (dow-uap-d102, PDF p. 9); Fournet's office at Headquarters USAF sends "Material for Project Blue Book" to ATIC (dow-uap-d105, PDF p. 43); and it drafts letters "in the first person from General Samford", coordinated up to Samford (dow-uap-d105, PDF p. 13). A major at headquarters in Samford's chain was not reporting to a captain at ATIC. "Reporting to Ruppelt" was removed; the liaison sentence was kept, since both ends of it are on these pages.