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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.
“UFO Files”10 pages
FLAP IN MICHIGAN continued While the controversy was at its peak in Michigan, this photo was released showing what was purported to be a UFO that flew over Hillsdale County in June of 1965. Dr. Hynek; asked at news conference to comment on photo of this "flying saucer," said it looked like a "chicken feeder." Photo was represented as UFO seen over California. the question and finally declined to answer whether the object might have been a "test vehicle." But he was sure neither Mannor nor any of the other witnesses had been taken in by Michigan University's big radio telescope in the area, an object with which all of them were too familiar to have mistaken for a flying saucer. He was sure there would be some natural explanation "for all of this," but as he proceeded to puzzle it out, there were others in the state who were not so certain. Frederick E. Davis of the State Police Commission opened an investigation and announced: "I used to discount these reports, too, but now I'm not so sure." And House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford said he would ask for a Congressional investigation. That such an investigation had not been conducted before was attributed to a reluctance on the part of Congress to go ahead for fear it might encourage the idea that sightings are something more than natural or man-made objects. On the other hand, to refuse is to fan the rather widely held belief that the government knows what the objects are, but is covering up. While controversy, skepticism and investigation still waged around Dexter, the skies were preparing another show, this time for 87 coeds in Hillsdale College, several miles to the south and west of Dexter. Here, on the night of March 22, the girls saw a glowing object fly past a dormitory window and hover over a swamp. The reaction of the original sighters brought other dormitory residents and the assistant dean of women, a calmly efficient executive with seven years experience as a news reporter. She not only joined the girls in their watch, but suggested they take notes, which they did over a four hour period of vigilance. The glowing, football shaped object was said to have wobbled, wavered and glowed and once it flew right at the window, then stopped suddenly. Several of the girls made sketches of what they were seeing and in addition to the four score coeds and their
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.