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Flying Saucers UFO Reports

Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-03-12 · 68 pages · text by GLM-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.

  • p. 6 …The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt, former head of Air Force Project…
  • p. 7 …Shortly before this brief landing, radar officers at Blaine Air Force Base had been tracking a…
  • p. 10 …test pilot at what is now Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. He…
  • p. 11 …Newport News, Va., another at Langley Air Force Base, another 60 miles southwest of Washington, all…
  • p. 25 …such a balloon from Clinton County Air Force Base on the day of Mantell's death…
  • p. 47 …passing interest by the Air Force was chronicled in Frank Edwards' Flying Saucers Serious Business (Lyle…
  • p. 65 …Project Blue Book headquarters at WrightPatterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. The number of reports has…

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## Who Are All These Others?

For more than 20 years a segment of thought on this planet has been given to the proposal that "We are not alone." There has been physical evidence in the shape of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) that there are extraterrestrial craft, controlled by intelligence, perhaps even manned by humanoids, reconnoitering our Earth, exploring our geological makeup, examining our military bases and probing our overall design, much as we have begun to probe the surface of the Moon. The early history of these sightings, dating back to Kenneth Arnold's 1947 experience that gave the UFOs their name, Flying Saucers, has been pock-marked with charges of "pure lunacy." This magazine is designed to acquaint you with those cases which, by virtue of the evidence,

the reliability of the sighters and the body of supporting scientific data, tend to establish that such aerial phenomena do exist and should be given serious attention and investigation as well as intelligent treatment by the press.

There is the other side of the coin, the apparent fantasies that have sprung from the exciting but emotionally disturbing prospect that we do, indeed, have "visitors"; the fiction writers who have selected these phenomena as a basis for imaginative accounts; the jokesters and publicity seekers who have perpetrated outright hoaxes. It is all here; the sense and nonsense, the speculation and the theories, compiled to prepare you in the event that today's UFOs will be tomorrow's next-door-neighbors.

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. 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. 68 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.