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Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report 14 (Hynek's annotated copy)

Center for UFO Studies · 139 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This is the July 1966 third edition of Dr. Leon Davidson's "Flying Saucers: An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14", published by Ramsey-Wallace Corp. It reproduces early Air Force press releases, the 1953 CIA panel report, the 1966 Blue Book release and the full text of the May 1955 Special Report No. 14 with its tables and codes. Davidson also gives his view that the CIA was responsible for much saucer publicity.

  • p. 93 …Apparently these are harder to identify. ## (3) Shape In this case, there is a higher percentage…

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TABLE VIII CHI SQUARE TEST OF REVISED KNOWNS VERSUS UNKNOWNS ON THE BASIS OF COLOR

Color	Number of KNOWNS	Adjusted Number of KNOWNS(K)	Number of UNKNOWNS(n)	X2,(K-n)2/K
White	281	95	112	3.04
Metallic	298	101	76	6.19
Not stated	189	64	62	0.06
Orange	117	39	49	2.56
Red	92	31	33	0.13
Yellow	90	30	31	0.03
Green	32	11	14	0.82
Blue	29	10	26	0.57
Other	158	53	31
Total	1286	434	434	13.40
Degrees of freedom	7
5% 14.1
1% 18.5

TABLE IX CHI SQUARE TEST OF REVISED KNOWNS VERSUS UNKNOWNS ON THE BASIS OF NUMBER

Number of Objects Per Sighting	Number of KNOWNS	Adjusted Number of KNOWNS(K)	Number of UNKNOWNS(n)	X2(K-n)2/K
1	913	308	297	0.39
2	142	48	37	2.52
3-10	168	57	70	2.96
11 or more	34	11	25	15.36
Not stated	29	10	5	2.50
Total	1286	434	434	23.73
Degrees of freedom	4
5% 9.5
1% 13.3

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