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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. 54 …This cooperative program has resulted, since 1 January 1955, in reducing the insufficient information cases to…
  • p. 69 …All activities will cooperate with Air Defense Command representatives to insure the economical and prompt success…

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Figure 14 Distribution of Object Sightings by Months Among the Eight Duration Groups for All Years 30

Figure 15 Distribution of Object Sightings by Shape of Object(s) Reported With Evaluation Distribution for Each Shape Group 31

Figure 16 Distribution of Object Sightings by Reported Speed of Object(s) With Evaluation Distribution for Each Speed Group 32

Figure 17 Distribution of All Sightings by Observer Location for All Years and Each Year 33

Figure 18 Comparison of Known and Unknown Object Sightings by Color, 1947-1952 34

Figure 19 Comparison of Known and Unknown Object Sightings by Number of Objects per Sighting, 1947-1952 35

Figure 20 Comparison of Known and Unknown Object Sightings by Speed, 1947-1952 36

Figure 21 Comparison of Known and Unknown Object Sightings by Duration, 1947-1952 37

Figure 22 Comparison of Known and Unknown Object Sightings by Shape, 1947-1952 38

Figure 23 Comparison of Known and Unknown Object Sightings by Light Brightness, 1947-1952 39

Figure 24 Comparison of Monthly Distribution of Object Sightings Evaluated as Astronomical Versus Total Object Sightings Less Astronomical 40

Figure 25 Comparison of Monthly Distribution of Object Sightings Evaluated as Aircraft Versus Total Object Sightings Less Aircraft 41

Figure 26 Comparison of Monthly Distribution of Object Sightings Evaluated as Balloon Versus Total Object Sightings Less Balloon 42

Figure 27 Comparison of Monthly Distribution of Object Sightings Evaluated as Insufficient Information Versus Total Object Sightings Less Insufficient Information 43

Figure 28 Comparison of Monthly Distribution of Object Sightings Evaluated as Other Versus Total Object Sightings Less Other 44

Figure 29 Comparison of Monthly Distribution of Object Sightings Evaluated as Unknown Versus Total Object Sightings Less Unknown 45

Figure 30 Characteristics Profiles of Object Sightings by Total Sample, Known Evaluations, and Individual Known Evaluations, With Unknown Evaluations Superimposed 46

Figure 31 Frequency of Object, Unit, and All Sightings Within the U. S., 1947-1952, by Subdivisions of One Degree of Latitude and Longitude 47

Figure 32 Distribution of Object Sightings by Evaluation for the Twelve Regional Areas of the U. S., With the Strategic Areas Located 48

Figure 33 Comparison of Evaluation of Object Sightings in the Strategic Areas of the Central East Region 49

Figure 34 Comparison of Evaluation of Object Sightings in the Strategic Areas of the Central Midwest Region 50

Figure 35 Comparison of Evaluation of Object Sightings in the Strategic Areas of the Central Farwest Region 51

Figure 36 Comparison of Evaluation of Object Sightings in the Strategic Areas of the South Midwest Region 52

Figure 37 Comparison of Evaluation of Object Sightings in the Strategic Areas of the South West Region 53

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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.