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

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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.

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“Scientific American”5 pages

p. 5 …Fournet for discussion of my contention that saucers, if real, were American. I presented a four…
p. 23 …at last admitted that sightings of secret American aircraft and missiles have caused those persistent reports…
p. 28 …294 "And lastly, they said that the American public should be told every detail of every…
p. 29 …space, but as a scientific fact there has been no authenticated scientific evidence presented to or…
p. 33 …the sighting may be of a security, scientific, technical, or public interest value, the Project Blue…

# FLYING SAUCERS: An Analysis of the AIR FORCE PROJECT BLUE BOOK SPECIAL REPORT NO.14

By Dr. Leon Davidson Third Edition

consisting of

Part A: Early Air Force Press Releases

Part B: The CIA Panel Report of 1953

Part C: The Current (1966) Air Force Blue Book Release

Part D: Analysis of the Special Report No.14

with an appendix consisting of a photo-offset copy of the full text of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report no. 14, dated May 5, 1955 and some of the important tables and figures from that report

Library of Congress Catalog Card Numbers First Edition 57-2610

New Material in Third Edition written by Dr. Leon Davidson Copyright c) 1966 by Leon Davidson

Third Edition

66-8897

Analysis Section of First Edition Copyright 1956 by Leon Davidson

Publishing History

Original Air Force Issue (100 copies, restricted distribution) May 1955

First Edition published by Leon Davidson 1000 copies Dec. 1956

Second Edition published by Leon Davidson 1000 copies Oct. 1957

Third Edition published by Ramsey-Wallace Corp.

First Printing 2000 copies July 1966

Second Printing 2000 copies July 1967

Ramsey-Wallace Corp.

Ramsey, N.J.

Cited by

Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14: the Battelle statistical study, 1955 1955

Cases discussed

The Nicholas Roerich Expedition Sighting, Kukunor District, 1927 1927
probable cause of the Roerich sighting in the Gobi Desert in 1927
The Maury Island Incident 1947
RAND letter asking for access to Air Force files on the Maury Island incident
The Green Fireballs over New Mexico 1948
local epidemic of "green fireballs"; Hynek said they were probably connected with U.S. research
The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap 1952
Samford press conference July 29, 1952, at the height of the Washington "flap"; CAA radar study
The Tremonton UFO Film (The Newhouse Film) 1952
private showing of the "Tremonton films"
The Robertson Panel: The CIA's Secret UFO Review 1953
Part B: The CIA Panel Report of 1953

About this file

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