During Friend's tenure, ATIC contemplated passing oversight of Blue Book to another Air Force agency, but neither the Air Research and Development Center, nor the Office of Information for the Secretary of the Air Force was interested.
Počas Friendovej éry ATIC zvažoval prevzatie dohľadu nad Blue Book inou leteckou agentúrou, ale ani letecký výskum, ani informačná kancelária letectva nemala záujem.