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Flying Saucers UFO Reports

Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-03-12 · 68 pages · text by OCR

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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p. 15 …Anyone familiar with the report and with the published experiences of Barney and Betty Hill, of…
p. 32 …White Mountains (greyed on map), Barney and Betty Hill underwent an experience of such chilling dimension…
p. 33 …The incident is the highly personal experience of Barney and Betty Hill that had its inception…
p. 34 …Betty Hill's recollections were similar but more detailed and graphic than her husband's when…

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COMMONLY REPORTED UFO TYPES

These basic shapes, generalized from hundreds of UFO reports, represent with reasonable accuracy virtually all UFOs that have been reliably described in detail. Extraneous details (portholes, projections, body lights, etc.) have been eliminated. Examples of each type appear in left-hand column.

This information and the chart reprinted from The UFO Evidence, with permission of NICAP

UFO SHAPE BOTTOM VIEW BOTTOM ANGLE SIDE VIEW
1. FLAT DISC
A.10-54 Cox
7-2-52 Newhouse
B.7-9-47 Johnson
7-14-52 Nash A
oval B A
lens-shaped
coin-like
2. DOMED DISC
A.9-21-58 Fitzgerald
4-24-62 Gasslein
B.5-11-50 Trent
8-7-52 Jansen A
hat-shaped B A
World War I helmet
3. SATURN DISC(Double dome)
A.10-4-54 Salandin
1-16-58 Trindade
10-2-61 Harris
B.8-20-56 Moore A
elliptical or winged oval “diamond-shaped” Saturn-shaped
4. HEMISPHERICAL DISC
9-24-59 Redmond
1-21-61 Pulliam
2-7-61 Walley “parachute” “mushroom”
half moon
5. FLATTENED SPHERE
10-1-48 Gorman
4-27-50 Adickes
10-9-51 C.A.A. sometimes with peak
6. SPHERICAL(Circular from all angles)
3-45 Delarof
1-20-52 Baller
10-12-61 Edwards A
metallic-appearing ball ball of glowing light
7. ELLIPTICAL
12-20-58 Arboreen
11-2-57 Levelland
8-13-60 Carson *football*
*egg-shaped*
8. TRIANGULAR
5-7-56 G.O.C.
5-22-60 Majorca tear-drop
9. CYLINDRICAL(Rocket-like)
8-1-46 Puckett
7-23-48 Chiles “cigar-shaped” 10. LIGHT SOURCE ONLY
*star-like* or *planet-like*

Cases discussed

Mystery Airship Wave of 1896 and 1897 1896
1896 when a cigar-shaped object... witnessed by hundreds of people on the West Coast
The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
June 24, 1947 in the vicinity of Mt. Ranier, Wash... nine disc shaped objects
The Mantell UFO Incident 1948
What was Captain Mantell pursuing when his plane disintegrated in mid-air?
Clyde Tombaugh sighting, Las Cruces 1949
Dr. Tombaugh... at his Las Cruces, New Mexico, home when he saw a cigar-shaped object
The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap 1952
Jet crewman sent up over Capital in 1952 to scout UFOs seen twice over Washington
Northeast Blackout UFO Sightings, Clay Substation and Syracuse (1965) 1965
blackout along the Eastern Seaboard in November, 1965
Tinker AFB and Wichita Radar Sightings, 1965 1965
Wichita, Kans., August 1, 1965... Tinker Air Force Base tracked four on its radar
The Condon Report and the NAS Review, 1966 to 1969 1966
research center at the University of Colorado... under Dr. Edward U. Condon

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 68 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.