, where the results of a query you control are not returned in the application's responses. so UNION type attacks wont work

since direct results are not possible, there are other techniques that can be deployed to see if its vulnerable or not. hence blind sql injection

Types of Blind SQLi that can be tested:

Exploiting blind SQL injection by triggering conditional responses

Error-based SQL injection

Blind SQLi by Time Delays

Blind SQLi by OAST