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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. 59 …photos of UFO sightings. And in the interest of those devoted to intelligent research, a pox…

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Photo taken by professional draftsman, Helio Aguilar, on way to HQ of Sixth Military Region in area called Piatan. He took four photos of strange object performing looping maneuvers over ocean. Three show disc shape, blurred surface. Fourth shows only cupola. Photo, taken April 24, 1959 from Flying Saucers (Signet).

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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.