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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. 93 …Apparently these are harder to identify. ## (3) Shape In this case, there is a higher percentage…

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TABLE II CHI SQUARE TEST OF KNOWNS VERSUS UNKNOWNS ON THE BASIS OF COLOR

Color	Number of KNOWNS	Adjusted Number of KNOWNS(K)	Number of UNKNOWNS(n)	X2(K-n)2/K
White	405	100	112	1.44
Metallic	313	77	76	0.01
Not stated	209	51	62	2.37
Orange	172	42	49	1.17
Red	146	36	33	0.25
Yellow	128	31	31	0
Green	130	32	14	10.13
Blue	67	17	26	4.76
Other	195	48	31	6.02
Total	1765	434	434	26.15
Degrees of freedom	8
5%	15.5
1%	20.1

TABLE III CHI SQUARE TEST OF KNOWNS VERSUS UNKNOWNS ON THE BASIS OF NUMBER

Number of Objects Per Sighting	Number of KNOWNS	Adjusted Number of KNOWNS(K)	Number of UNKNOWNS(n)	X2(K-n)2K
1	1339	329	297	3.11
2	159	39	37	0.10
3-10	185	46	70	12.52
11 or more	41	10	25	22.50
Not stated	41	10	5	2.50
Total	1765	434	434	40.73
Degrees of freedom	4
5% 9.5
1% 13.3

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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.