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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.
“Nevers”12 pages
- p. 4 …made by a tethered bull "like I never heard come from an animal before."
Looking out…
- p. 8 …long years of sky watching he had never seen the equal of this remarkable craft."
Greenville…
- p. 9 …said of the atomic bomb: "It will never go off, and I speak as an expert…
- p. 23 …The instruments were never found; never seen coming down. Then from Coral Lorenzen's account; based…
- p. 25 …It is believed that Captain Mantell never regained consciousness. This is borne out by the fact…
- p. 26 # "Maybe I've Seen The Devil"
- "Army Intelligence never pays any attention to reports of UFO…
- p. 31 …round bright spot, but the film has never been released. (The UFO Evidence, NICAP.) There were…
- p. 33 …in the back of a closet and never wore it again. She also discovered several shiny…
- p. 42 …speed back to us, therefore we will never see their light. It naturally follows that galaxies…
- p. 43 …So far, he has never explained or understood how it was possible for his microscopic antediluvian…
- p. 45 …One that never came back (R), Bloop over Biscayne Bay. And one that took honors as…
- p. 59 …to the press was "The photos were never proved to be a hoax, but neither were…
Keffel was moving at high speed, too. All five of these photos were shot within 60 frantic seconds. This, the third, shows much more clearly defined bottom of disc as it moved in on deep tilt toward the two men on the ground.
The fourth shot caught the disc at its nearest observation point when it tilted topside toward Keffel, enabling him to get clear shot of top with clearly visible "cupola." Then, at what was estimated to be 1200 feet away and a height of 1800 feet, it accelerated rapidly and disappeared.
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.