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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. 7 …the yellow glow that undulated over the hills at the south end of Silver Lake in…
  • p. 15 …Anyone familiar with the report and with the published experiences of Barney and Betty Hill, of…
  • p. 17 …They were investigating a glowing object that appeared to have landed on a hill behind their…
  • p. 27 …He headed out toward the flash which took him to a small rocky hill over which…
  • p. 32 …Mountains (greyed on map), Barney and Betty Hill underwent an experience of such chilling dimension that…
  • p. 33 …Can't somebody come and tell me this is not here? But it is." Barney Hill…
  • p. 34 …They took Hill from the car, half carrying, half dragging him up a ramp to what…
  • p. 51 …the northeast.in a straight line toward hills two miles away. Observers continued on next page
  • p. 52 …CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9 thought the objects were going to crash into the hills but they went…
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APRO: The oldest civilian UFO study group in the world, APRO, was set up in 1952 under the directorship of L. J. Lorenzen and his wife, Coral, dedicated to the premise that aerial phenomena "whether it consists of physical fact or rumor, is important enough to warrant an objective investigation."

This fine research organization has had the courage to investigate and to report objectively on several sightings that dealt with the possibility of UFO occupants in the belief that no facet of this vast and still largely unexplored area, extraterrestrial life, should be dismissed without in-depth research.

Since that date, the Lorenzens have devoted their energies to such serious and factual reporting of UFO sightings as to attract the attention, support and volunteer services of prominent scientists, researchists, photographers, astronomers and engineers from all over the world. APRO numbers among its representatives Dr. Olavo T. Fontes M.D. (Brazil); Dr. Rene Hardy, electronics expert and physicist (France); Peter Norris, LLD (Australia); Jun' Ichi Takanashi (Japan); K. Gosta Rehn, journalist and Fordham University law graduate (Sweden); Horatio Gonzales Ganteaume, translator and linguist (Venezuela).

APRO concentrates on investigating and analyzing reports of aerial phenomena and its representatives have provided such welldocumented accounts of major incidents that no serious annotator of UFO sightings could function without access to the APRO material.

The official publication of the non-profit organization, the A.P.R.O. Bulletin, sent regularly to its extensive membership, from APRO headquarters at 3910 East Kleindale Road, Tucson, Ariz., is edited by Coral Lorenzen, ex-reporter and free lance writer, who is an acknowledged authority on aerial phenomena and who has incorporated some of the most valuable information and interesting theories in her book Flying Saucers (Signet).

APRO has endorsed without reservation the recently announced research group to be established at the University of Colorado and has volunteered its catalogue of reports covering 15 years of serious study, documentation and investigation to the new study group . . . a gesture Dr. Condon will undoubtedly welcome in view of the esteem in which this privately run organization is held.

NEWARK, Nov. 14 (UPI) Unidentified flying objects were reported in four separate sections of northern New Jersey yesterday. The objects were described as triangular in shape and changing colors from red to white to green. Joseph Liantino of

Many UFO sightings were reported again Wednesday evening in the wake of the reported landing Sunday night at the Presque Isle State Park. Last night's sightings placed the objects and lights moving in a northeasterly direction over the Peninsula.

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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.