"Project Bluebook" was an operation of the US Air Force in the 1950s and 60s charged with investigating all reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the United States.

Though the research has been public for several decades, the entire catalog of documents is now on the Internet and is completely searchable for anyone looking for answers.

As the New York Daily News reports, the truth is out there, and you can browse through it yourself at TheBlackVault.com:

After years of being stuck on microfilm at the National Archives, UFO enthusiast John Greenewald has made available more than 130,000 pages of the U.S. government’s “Project Blue Book.”

The archive of 12,600 reports have been declassified for several years, but until now, there’s been no easy way to read about Cocoa, Fla., cops seeing strange lights in the sky or the time a Shreveport, La., jokester played a flying saucer prank on a colleague.

“Proved to be practical joke perpetrated by one (redacted) ... apparatus consisting of eighteen inch aluminum disk,” a July 7, 1947, report states. “Electrical condensers and wire was made in machine shop ... and tossed from bldg (sic) into street as joke on (redacted).”

Though most of the reports perused by the Daily News meander toward the mundane — sightings of meteors blazing across the sky and weather balloons bobbing beyond the horizon — there are some gems.

According to the Air Force, Blue Book investigated 12,618 sightings of strange phenomena. Of those cases, 701 remain "unidentified.

But don't start getting all "Fox Mulder" on us. The Air Force maintains that "no UFO reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security (and) there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as 'unidentified' are extraterrestrial vehicles."

Yeah, sure.