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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 Color: White light, like a star, turning red after about 10 seconds. Sound: None. Altitude: Unknown. Speed: Angular rate 2-4 degrees per second. Tactics: The observers were viewing the stars through a telescope when all of a sudden the object popped into view like a lightning bug. It turned or had a slight zig-zag motion and disappeared after 16:17 seconds. Comment: The case is carried as unidentified, the Air Force says, since it is not presently explainable in terms of a meteor or any other plausible explanation. Time/place of sighting: September 3, 1965 about 11 p.m. three miles south of Damon, Texas. Duration: Several minutes. Number of observers: Two. Type of observers: Deputy sheriffs. Number of objects: One. Observer reliability: Unknown, probably good. Shape: Triangular shaped object with a bright purple light on left end and smaller, less bright blue light on right end. Dimensions: About 200 feet wide and 40-50 feet thick in the middle, tapering off toward both ends. Color: Dark gray. Altitude: About 100 feet. Speed: Rapid. Sound: None. Tactics: Object was first spotted on the horizon as a bright purple light about five or six miles away. A blue light appeared out of the purple light. The observers tried to get closer to the lights, then slowed almost to a stop to make another observation through binoculars. The lights then started coming toward the witness at rapid speed. The object came up to a pasture next to the highway about 150 feet away. Bright light illuminated the ground, highway, and interior of the patrol car and one observer felt heat. As observers headed back toward Damon the object appeared to remain in the same position for about ten seconds then moved off in direction originally seen at high speed. Arriving at original position, it went straight up in the air and disappeared. It was spotted again later by same witnesses at the same place. They left the scene because they figured the object would start moving toward them again. Comment: The Air Force says at time of sighting Antares was setting and could have been continued on next page Interest in UFOs prompted several persons in Tallahassee, Fla., to phone the weather bureau when this mystery blotch appeared for two nights, in 1965. It hung over city for half-an-hour each time, then faded away.
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.