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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One of several shots of object 30 ft. in diameter, 8 ft. thick, taken by highway investigator in California who is no believer in flying saucers, swears to its authenticity. Time/place of sighting: July 6, 1965, 9:30 p.m., Kiel, Wis. Duration: Less than a minute. Number of observers: One. Type of observer: Woman. Number of objects: One. Observer reliability: Unknown. Shape: Object like a shooting star. Dimensions: Undetermined, comparable to a star. Color: Flashing light, about one per second. Altitude: Unknown, but high. Sound: None. Speed: Traversed entire sky from west to quite low in the east in less than a minute. Tactics: Echo I was visible in the sky at this time and the object moved in orbit across the sky, passing Echo as it crossed the zenith. Its size was comparable with a star and it was pulsating as though somebody was turning a flashlight on and off. Sky was very clear. Comments: Due to reported data a meteor and balloon is completely ruled out. The observer was positive there was no moon, but at 9:30 p.m. the moon, being at first quarter, should have been in the southwest. The observer was positive that the object was not an aircraft because she can definitely identify such. Due to the available information, the case is carried as unidentified by the Air Force. A satellite is a logical explanation; however, the available data does not warrant such an explanation, the Air Force said. Time/place of sighting: August 4, 1965 shortly after midnight, Tinley Park, Ill. Duration: 16-17 seconds. Number of observers: Two. Type of observers: Students, 14. Number of objects: One. Observer reliability: Good for one, an amateur astronomer; other unknown. Shape: Unknown. Dimensions: Unknown.
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.