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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.

  • p. 1 …LEON DAVIDSON
  • p. 2 …July 4,1966 Leon Davidson
  • p. 3 …Leon Davidson Copyright c) 1966 by Leon Davidson Third Edition 66-8897 Analysis Section of First…
  • p. 4 …Leon Davidson begins on Page D4 Air Force Press Release dated October 25, 1955 D5 Suggestions…
  • p. 7 …Leon Davidson 2163 B 47th Street Los Alamos, New Mexico Dear Mr. Davidson: In reply to…
  • p. 8 …Leon Davidson 804 S. Irving Street Arlington 4, Virginia Your letter of April 3, 1952 to…
  • p. 10 …Leon Davidson 804 South Irving Street Arlington, Virginia Your letter of June 12 to the Secretary…
  • p. 12 …Leon Davidson 8-4 S. Irving St. Arlington 4. Virginia Dear Mr. Davidson: In reply to…
  • p. 23 …Leon Davidson GREEDLECTION TO PUBLICATION ON GROUPS OF MILITARY SECURITY 16 17 FEB 1955 OFFICE OF…
  • p. 24 …Leon Davidson 14 Soundview Avenue White Plains, New York PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE HEADQUARTERS AIR RESEARCH AND…
  • p. 25 …Leon Davidson 804 South Irving Street Arlington 4, Virginia In reply to your letter of April…
  • p. 26 …Leon Davidson 64 Prospect Street White Plains, New York (This report was first released by the…
  • p. 27 …Leon Davidson 64 Prospect Street White Plains, New York Dear Mr. Davidson, has forwarded your letter…
  • p. 29 …Leon Davidson 64 Prospect Street White Plains, N. Y. The following is the concluding page of…
  • p. 30 …Leon Davidson 64 Prospect Street White Plains, N.Y. Dear Mr. Davidson: I received one verbal…
  • p. 34 …Leon Davidson 64 Prospect St. White Plains, New York JOHN P. SPAULDING Lt Colonel, USAF Chief…
  • p. 39 …Leon Davidson 64 Prospect Street White Plains, New York
  • p. 41 …Leon Davidson 64 Prospect Street White Plains, New York Director of Information Services
  • p. 42 …Leon Davidson The Blue Book Report No. 14 is reproduced in the pages following this analysis…

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STATISTICS FOR 1965

	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	OCT	NOV	DEC	TOTAL
ASTRONOMICAL	10	8	11	4	2	10	27	82	30	27	22	12	245
AIRCRAFT	11	8	14	11	14	7	32	61	20	13	14	5	210
BALLOON	3	2	1	3	0	3	7	6	2	7	0	2	36
INSUFFICIENT DATA	5	4	2	4	4	2	16	24	15	5	3	1	85
OTHER	11	8	7	8	5	6	9	42	7	9	11	3	126
SATELLITE	4	5	5	5	15	5	42	41	24	3	0	3	152
UNIDENTIFIED	1	0	2	1	1	0	2	4	4	0	1	0	16
PENDING	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	6	4	2	17
TOTAL	45	35	43	36	41	33	135	262	104	70	55	28	887
ASTRONOMICAL CASES
	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	OCT	NOV	DEC	TOTAL
Meteors	6	6	8	2	2	4	14	26	13	6	9	5	101
Stars and Planets	3	1	3	2	0	5	10	55	16	20	13	7	135
Other	1a	1b	0	0	0	1c	3d	1e	1a	1f	0	0	9
TOTAL	10	8	11	4	2	10	27	82	30	27	22	12	245
(a) Solar Image (b) Moon (c) Sun (d) Reflected Moonlight, Parhelia, Moon (e) Reflected Moonlight (f) Comet Ikeya-Seki
OTHER CATEGORY
	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	OCT	NOV	DEC	TOTAL
Hoaxes, Hallucinations, Unreliable Reports and Psychological Causes	5	3	4	1	2	1	2	12	1	3	0	0	34
Missiles and Rockets 1 3	1	1	3	1	10
Reflections 1	1	2	1	1	1 7
Flares and Fireworks 1 1	1 1 4
Mirages and Inversions 2	3 5
Search and Ground Lights	2	1	0	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	0	9
Clouds and Contrails	1 1	1 3
Chaff 1	1
Birds	1	2 2 3	1	1	1 11
Physical Specimens 1c 1r	1w 3
Radar Analysis 1e 1g 3gmn 1m 6
Photo Analysis 2dl 1d	1j	2kj	5x	1j 12
Satellite Decay	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	8
Miscellaneous	2ab 2bf 1h 4sbbb 1h	3tuv 13
TOTAL	11	8	7	8	5	6	9	42	7	9	11	3	126

(a) Tracer Bullets (b) Misinterpretation of Conventional Objects (c) Metal Ball (d) Developer Smear (e) Anomalous Propagation (f) Kites (g) Electronic Counter Measures (h) Debris in Wind (j) No Image on Film (k) Poor Photo Process (l) Free Falling Object (m) False Targets (n) Weather Returns (p) Emulsion Flaws (r) Plastic Bags (s) Man on Ground (t) Lightning (u) Chemical Trails from Research Rocket (v) Missile Launch Activity (w) Gourd

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