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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length of time it was observed, and the Air Force comment on the sighting. Time/place of sighting: August 16, 1966, at about 10:45 p.m. CDT, of many parts of the north central United States, including North Dakota and Wisconsin. Duration: Undetermined, various. Number of observers: Numerous. Type of observers: Variety including airplane pilots. Number of objects: One. Observer reliability: Variable. Shape: Various from funnel to moon-shaped to oval to elongated V or boomerang shape. Dimensions: Varying in size from that of a full moon to that of a football field. Color: Blue, green and red, whirling and changing colors, turning to a definite blue-green as object came closer. Also as a hazy green, luminous, bright as the early morning sun and giving off so much light it blinded one observer's eyes. Sound: None Altitude: Appeared to rise up from behind woods, and to be a funnel extending down to the ground. Filmed over Salem, Mass. Air Station and released by U.S. Coast Guard, these strange objects were later said by Air Force to be "natural phenomena". Object was about 15,000 ft. high, moving in and out of frontal cloud, emitting emerald green trajectory. Had glowing diamond-shaped head. Taken near Amarillo, Texas, in August, 1956. Speed: To some observers object appeared to be coming toward earth at tremendous rate of speed. Pilot flying 190 miles an hour reported object keeping pace with him. Tactics: Witnesses reported variety of sightings. To some there was basically no movement as object slowly disappeared from view. In another instance the object dissolved into streaks of light before vanishing.
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.