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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.
“APRO Bulletin”8 pages
- p. 15 …man with no obvious psychological problems," (The APRO Bulletin, July-August 1966). The man was reluctant…
- p. 18 …A much more recent encounter with "humanoids" was reported in detail in The APRO Bulletin, March…
- p. 19 …Then we must search among ourselves." (The APRO Bulletin).
Hieroglyphics were deciphered in part by Army…
- p. 23 …report to APRO (later published in the January, March and May, 1960, APRO Bulletins, and incorporated…
- p. 24 …Photo (from APRO Bulletin) was shot when object was in slight motion, just before it accelerated…
- p. 28 …Business as usual." (ARPO Bulletin, May, 1964)
But business as usual was not to be the…
- p. 62 …Late that afternoon (from information released by The APRO Bulletin) Martins spotted what he thought to…
- p. 66 …Bulletin, sent regularly to its extensive membership, from APRO headquarters at 3910 East Kleindale Road, Tucson…
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These two photos were taken by an amateur photographer in Pennsylvania of flying saucer that reportedly flew over his farm near Kutztown in July, 1952. The one on the left was shot as the object headed directly for camerman; on the right, as it soared away. Photos, retouched, were taken with 35 mm camera.
Recorded by NICAP as among "clearest UFO photographs on record," this shows one of the two genuine shots achieved by Paul Trent of the unidentified aerial object that winged over his farm in McMinnville, Oregon in June, 1950. Photo shows superstructure on disc.
Original is color polaroid that clearly reveals reflection from pink-roofed tower, lower left. Photo was taken in April, 1966 in Melbourne, Australia and released to APRO.
Photo (r.) shot in 1956 by 15-year-old boy in California is considered "dubious" since object is not completely in frame of picture and may not be free flying. Youth explained he was practicing with new camera, saw object out of corner of eye.
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.