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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. 138 …Director of Operations, USAF Colonel Donald L. Bower, Technical Analysis Division, Air Technical Intelligence Center Captain…

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CODE 67 ANGULAR ACCELERATION (Change in angular velocity)

CODE 68 APPEARANCE BEARING

X	Variable	X
Y Y
0	Zero,V=constant	0 N
1	Increasing slowly	1 NE
2	Decreasing slowly	2 E
3	Increasing fast	3 SE
4	Decreasing fast	4 S
5	Increasing very fast	5 SW
6	Decreasing very fast	6 W
7 7 NW
8 8
9 9

CODE 69 DISAPPEARANCE BEARING

CODE 70-71 ELEVATION

CODE 69 DISAPPEARANCE BEARING	WITH RESPECT TO GROUND, DEGREES
 Initial	Final
X Disappeared suddenly
Y New York Office of Information Services
1	Public Information Division	X Variable	X Variable
2	Office, Secretary of the Air Force	Y	Y
3	Room 24, E. 110 E. 45th Street	0 0-9	0 0-9
4	New York, New York	1 10-19	1 10-19
5	S	2 20-29	2 20-29
6	SW	3 30-39	3 30-39
7	W	4 40-49	4 40-49
8	NW	5 50-59	5 50-59
9 6 60-69	6 60-69
 7 70-79	7 70-79
 8 80-89	8 80-89
 9	9

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Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 139 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.