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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.
“Socorro”6 pages
- p. 26 …Zamora, a stocky, bespectacled veteran on the Socorro, New Mexico police force; a man whose integrity…
- p. 27 …afternoon, was pursuing a speeding motorist along Socorro's South Park Street when he heard a…
- p. 28 …for Zamora or for the town of Socorro in the next several days. The account had…
- p. 29 …This was no reflection upon the patrolman, but any sighting with the characteristics mentioned at Socorro…
- p. 30 …markings: "The same as the one at Socorro," came the pilot's response.
The pilot landed…
- p. 31 …And perhaps one day there will be an answer to the Zamora sighting in Socorro which…
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 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.