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

Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.

The letter on page D-3 from Gen. Kinney indicates that the U.S.Air Force has not distributed the full 316-page Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 because the cost would have been prohibitive. A letter from A.F.Secretary Donald A. Quarles, dated July 5, 1956, states: "It has been estimated that the cost of printing enough copies for distribution to the public through such outlets as libraries and academic institutions would be between $10 and $15 per copy."

This privately financed edition of the Blue Book report is being issued as a public service. Through the careful elimination of the bulk of the tables in the original report, the size has been reduced to about 80 pages, without loss of a single word of the main text. The full Tables of Contents of the original report have been retained, so that the reader may know exactly what has been omitted. The only purpose in the omissions has been to bring the cost down to a reasonable level, so that widespread distribution could be established.

It is guaranteed that there has been no change, alteration, or editing of the material on any page of the Report No. 14 which is reproduced herein. Each page has been reproduced photographically exactly as it is in the original Air Force edition. Every single page of the main text has been reproduced. No part of the text has been omitted.

No author's name appeared on the original edition, and the title page was exactly as shown on page 1 below. Any errors or faults of logic, etc., in the main body of the Report No. 14 are those of the original Air Force author or authors.

The only ways in which the page arrangement of this copy differs from the original Air Force edition are as follows:

[1] The Chi Square tables on pages 62-67 and 70-75 of the original report were arranged one table per page. For economy, these have been placed two per page in this edition.

[2] Page 76 of the original edition has been reproduced in two parts, as pages 43 and 50 (upper page numbers) of this edition, to emphasize the division between sections and avoid split-up of the text by the Chi Square tables.

[3] The case numbers have been written in on the sketches of the twelve "good UNKNOWN SIGHTINGS" (pages 52 to 64 of this edition). The original edition did not put such numbers on the sketches.

[4] The heading at the top of page 69 (this edition) originally accounted for two pages of the report, and was incorporated at the top of page 69 for economy.

Please note: The original report assigned double page numbers to some pages, as is usual Government practise when a blank page follows a printed page. This is the case on page 82 of this edition, which was labeled pages "295 and 296" in the original edition.