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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.
“The Unexplained Files”1 page
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# Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9 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*
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.