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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.
“UFO Files”10 pages
- p. 4 # If Anyone Asks
Twenty years have passed since the first UFO sighting was reported in June…
- p. 7 …An UFO. To further substantiate the conviction of reputable astronomers that UFOs do exist, there is…
- p. 11 …The UFO hovered briefly over Lake Omni station, then with a great thrust of speed, moved…
- p. 24 …On file with Project Blue Book is the account of an early sighting fatality that has…
- p. 26 # "Maybe I've Seen The Devil"
- "Army Intelligence never pays any attention to reports of UFO…
- p. 33 …It was Betty who got in touch with Major Donald Keyhoe, seeking more information on UFOs…
- p. 39 …In the now bulging files of reports in Project Blue Book, where the Air Force keeps…
- p. 47 …NICAP drew attention to this unique feature of UFO reports in The UFO Evidence and cited…
- p. 59 …and photos of deliberate hoaxes glut the files of research organizations whose main concern with them…
- p. 65 # gainst UFOs
# Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9
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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
About this file
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.