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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.

  • p. 6 …Chop, civilian expert on UFOs, formerly acting press chief working with Project Intelligence officers at Wright…
  • p. 16 …Lorenzen and me during one of his trips to the United States, I asked him point…
  • p. 40 United Press International Inc. All Rights Reserved. # Hello, Out There! JOSEPH F. GOODAVAGE As you read…
  • p. 47 …It may have been this attitude that prompted the national press to steer away from coverage…
# 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 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.