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Flying Saucers UFO Reports
Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-03-12 · 68 pages · text by GLM-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.
“Edwards Air Force Base”7 pages
- p. 6 …The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt, former head of Air Force Project…
- p. 7 …Shortly before this brief landing, radar officers at Blaine Air Force Base had been tracking a…
- p. 10 …test pilot at what is now Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. He…
- p. 11 …Newport News, Va., another at Langley Air Force Base, another 60 miles southwest of Washington, all…
- p. 25 …such a balloon from Clinton County Air Force Base on the day of Mantell's death…
- p. 47 …passing interest by the Air
Force was chronicled in Frank Edwards' Flying Saucers Serious Business (Lyle…
- p. 65 …Project Blue Book headquarters at WrightPatterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio.
The number of reports has…
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The inverted V that came up so sharply on the exposed negatives shot by Carl Hart, Jr., revealed many puzzling features. Each circular shape was near a pinpoint source of light. The objects came out on film far brighter than the stars that studded the clear sky. Yet to the naked eye they had appeared to be soft in their glow.
# Worth 1,000 Words
A blow-up of the films that aroused nationwide interest after they were witnessed and photographed in the Lubbock, Texas area, indicated that the formation "shifted positions according to a definite pattern." There seemed good reason for UFO researchists and Air Force personnel to take great interest at the time, which was late August, 1951.
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 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.