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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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(see "Intelligence Collection Instructions" (ICI), June 1954). (2) Radar. Two copies of each print will be forwarded. Prints of radarscope photography will be titled in accordance with AFR 95-7 and forwarded in compliance with AFR 95-6. b. Materiel. Suspected or actual items of materiel which come into possession of any Air Force echelon will be safeguarded in such manner as to prevent any defacing or alteration which might reduce its value for intelligence examination and analysis. 9. Release of Facts. Headquarters USAF will release summaries of evaluated data which will inform the public on this subject. In response to local inquiries, it is permissible to inform news media representatives on UFOB's when the object is positively identified as a familiar object (see paragraph 2b), except that the following type of data warrants protection and should not be revealed: Names of principles, intercept and investigation procedures, and classified radar data. For those objects which are not explainable, only the fact that ATIC will analyze the data is worthly of release, due to the many unknowns involved. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE: OFFICIAL: K. E. THIEBAUD Colonel, USAF Air Adjutant General ## DISTRIBUTON: S; X: ONI, Department of the Navy 200 G-2, Department of the Army 10 N. F. TWINING Chief of Staff, United States Air Force This document (AFR 200-2) has been reproduced as a public service for distribution with the Third Edition of the book "FLYING SAUCERS: An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14". Single copies of this AFR 200-2 may be requested, free of charge, by writing to the publisher at the address shown on the back cover of the Third Edition of that book, enclosing a long self-addressed envelope bearing first-class postage. Give your ZIP-Code.
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.