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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.

  • p. 15 …man with no obvious psychological problems," (The APRO Bulletin, July-August 1966). The man was reluctant…
  • p. 18 …A much more recent encounter with "humanoids" was reported in detail in The APRO Bulletin, March…
  • p. 19 …Then we must search among ourselves." (The APRO Bulletin). Hieroglyphics were deciphered in part by Army…
  • p. 23 …report to APRO (later published in the January, March and May, 1960, APRO Bulletins, and incorporated…
  • p. 24 …Photo (from APRO Bulletin) was shot when object was in slight motion, just before it accelerated…
  • p. 28 …Business as usual." (ARPO Bulletin, May, 1964) But business as usual was not to be the…
  • p. 62 …Late that afternoon (from information released by The APRO Bulletin) Martins spotted what he thought to…
  • p. 66 …Bulletin, sent regularly to its extensive membership, from APRO headquarters at 3910 East Kleindale Road, Tucson…
# Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9

Unexpectedly eerie image, not unlike fuzzy airplane figure, resulted when IFO (garbage lid) took flip in mid-air, came in bottoms up for what the saucer-makers consider a Succes fou.

One that never came back (R), Bloop over Biscayne Bay. And one that took honors as "most likely to succeed" (below) as it soars over palm trees in authentic fashion.

Would you believe...A Martian staring through porthole of his craft?

Cases discussed

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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.