Documents / FOIA release
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.
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# If Anyone Asks Twenty years have passed since the first UFO sighting was reported in June 1947 by Kenneth Arnold who, in his description of what he saw, was to give the objects the name by which they have become popularly known, Flying Saucers. During that twenty years hundreds of other sightings have been reported in this country and abroad, by sober minded persons of excellent reputation and often professional training who were willing to risk ridicule to bring attention to a phenomenon they knew deserved skilled and authorized investigation. There also have been numerous other reports from persons with over-stimulated imaginations and by irresponsible jokesters perpetrating outright hoaxes. Unfortunately the latter took precedence and the general public, heedless of those sources which could not be challenged and of the impressive body of carefully researched material that was growing, sneered at the possibility that interplanetary craft could and probably does exist. It is only within recent years that the subject has been treated with an element of dignity and that serious consideration is being given to UFOs by one-time skeptics who came to laugh and stayed to cheer. Many persons, new to the proposal that interplanetary crafts may not only exist but be in successful exploratory operation are beset by questions that were answered long ago for the veteran UFOlogist. It is to these new comers that the following material is provided in answer to their questions. ## IS THERE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF UFO LANDINGS? Cherry Creek, N.Y., August 19, 1965: A well documented report, given attention by local news media, on file with Project Blue Book, NICAP, APRO, and mentioned in Incident at Exeter, by John G. Fuller, tells of the experience of a 16-year-old farm boy whose attention was drawn from his farm chores by the noises made by a tethered bull "like I never heard come from an animal before." Looking out in the direction of the disturbed animal, the youth saw a silvery, football-shaped object, "like two plates, lip to lip," about 50 feet long and 20 feet thick, giving off a red vapor and a buzzing sound. The object disappeared briefly behind a tree and the boy ran toward it. He had not gone far when the object shot up into the clouds, turning them green from its reflected light and
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.