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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Two cavorting objects over Taormina, Sicily in 1954 were said by some to be weather apparatus, by others: UFOs. binoculars, the bright shiney object became two objects, the latter of which was copper or red tinged in color. Shortly thereafter, the bright shiney object gave off three other shiney but smaller objects. A fourth shiney object was observed further out into space and above the rest. All six started fading very gradually but the large shiney object and the red tinged object stayed in proximity to each other while the other four strung out and gradually faded. The red tinged object looked like it was tumbling. Comments: The observer thought it must be a Sputnik type vehicle since it looked to be quite high and no noise could be heard. He thought he had seen multiple spring-released satellites. The Air Force says from the available data a definite explanation is not possible. The case is carried as unidentified. continued on next page Two Maryland schoolgirls illustrated blue-white saucer shape they saw in 1957 for Dep. Defense Sec., Donald Quarles. These unexplained disc shapes turned up on negative an industrial photographer took of Ohio steel plant in 1957. Early flying saucers?
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.