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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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# "Maybe I've Seen The Devil"

- "Army Intelligence never pays any attention to reports of UFO landings."

"Is that so? What about the Zamora case?"

"Army Intelligence refuses to speculate on the possibility of unidentified "man controlled" craft."

"Is that so? What about the Zamora case?

"Army Intelligence questions the reliability of persons who report actual encounters."

"Is that so? What about the Zamora case?"

Who is this Zamora whose experience in 1964 excited comment throughout the world and whose report stands uncontested on Project Blue Book records today as one of the most extensively investigated, thoroughly analyzed cases in those files . . . but still labeled, "unsolved mystery."

The man, himself, is Lonnie Zamora, a stocky, bespectacled veteran on the Socorro, New Mexico police force; a man whose integrity is unchallenged and whom his su-

Blue flash attracted Patrolman Lonnie Zamora to small mesa outside Socorro, N.M. What he first thought might have been a dynamite explosion developed into the strangest experience of his life.

Illustrations on this and following pages by Norman Duke for APRO.

Cases discussed

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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.