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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# Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9 thought the objects were going to crash into the hills but they went over instead and disappeared over the horizon. Comments: The Air Force says outstanding factors in this sighting are very slow speed, the floating sensation, and the extreme closeness, yet lack of sound was reported. A portion of the available data is characteristic of a balloon with scientific payload or some type of large glider. Attempts were made to put either of the two in the area but to no avail. The wind was out of the northwest which also conflicts with an evaluation of a balloon. With the existing data the case is listed as unidentified by the Air Force. Time/place of sighting: May 7, 1965, about 7:30 or 7:40 p.m., Oxford, Mich. Duration: One minute. Number of observers: Three. Blow-up of one panel of strip taken in 1952 by Ralph Mayher then a marine stationed in Miami, later newsreel photographer for Ohio TV station. Type of observers: Farmer, son, 12; daughter, 9. Number of objects: Six. Observer reliability: Unknown. Shape: Undetermined. Dimensions: Undetermined. Color: Five bright and shiney objects; one copper or red tinged. Sound: None. Altitude: Quite high. Speed: Unknown. Appeared stationary or virtually so. Tactics: Three observers noticed a shiney object directly overhead. While one looked at it through Original film strip (held by Air Force officials) showed small white objects. This was described as 50 ft. long and "ugly reddish orange," by viewers.
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.