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Flying Saucers UFO Reports
Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-03-12 · 68 pages · text by OCR
This CIA release, approved in 2001, contains Flying Saucers UFO Reports No. 1, a magazine that Dell Publishing issued in 1967. It argues that UFOs deserve serious study. It gathers reported landings, radar trackings, sightings by astronomers and pilots, and cases involving creatures, drawing on Ruppelt, Keyhoe, Fuller, NICAP and APRO. It also describes Project Blue Book, NICAP, APRO and the new University of Colorado study under Dr. Edward Condon.
“United Press”4 pages
- p. 6 …Chop, civilian expert on UFOs, formerly acting press chief working with Project Intelligence officers at Wright…
- p. 16 …Lorenzen and me during one of his trips to the United States, I asked him point…
- p. 40 United Press International Inc. All Rights Reserved.
# Hello, Out There!
JOSEPH F. GOODAVAGE
As you read…
- p. 47 …It may have been this attitude that prompted the national press to steer away from coverage…
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Cases discussed
- Mystery Airship Wave of 1896 and 1897 1896
1896 when a cigar-shaped object... witnessed by hundreds of people on the West Coast - The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
June 24, 1947 in the vicinity of Mt. Ranier, Wash... nine disc shaped objects - The Mantell UFO Incident 1948
What was Captain Mantell pursuing when his plane disintegrated in mid-air? - Clyde Tombaugh sighting, Las Cruces 1949
Dr. Tombaugh... at his Las Cruces, New Mexico, home when he saw a cigar-shaped object - The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap 1952
Jet crewman sent up over Capital in 1952 to scout UFOs seen twice over Washington - Northeast Blackout UFO Sightings, Clay Substation and Syracuse (1965) 1965
blackout along the Eastern Seaboard in November, 1965 - Tinker AFB and Wichita Radar Sightings, 1965 1965
Wichita, Kans., August 1, 1965... Tinker Air Force Base tracked four on its radar - The Condon Report and the NAS Review, 1966 to 1969 1966
research center at the University of Colorado... under Dr. Edward U. Condon
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 68 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.