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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.

  • p. 59 …photos of UFO sightings. And in the interest of those devoted to intelligent research, a pox…

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# Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9

Brilliant cigar-shaped object was sighted and photographed by a government nurse in mid-October, 1957 near White Sands Proving Grounds, N.M. APRO's photo analyst was struck by intensity of light given off by object as opposed to clouds.

A California photographer and two friends claim they spotted this flying saucer on a mountain road near Riverside in 1951. Object was traveling at tremendous speed, but they suspected it would reappear and readied the camera. They reportedly snapped photo (below) shown with enlargement (right) on its return trip.

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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.