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(Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects)

Central Intelligence Agency · 2005-07-12 · 312 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This CIA-released copy of Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 is dated 5 May 1955 and comes from the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. It is a statistical analysis of about 4,000 unidentified aerial object reports from 1947 through 1952, coded onto IBM punched cards with the help of a panel of scientists. The report concludes that such objects were highly unlikely to be technological developments beyond present-day scientific knowledge. It also found no valid evidence of physical matter.

  • p. 96 …approach the speed of a jet before it disappeared. No propulsion was apparent. Time of observation…

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## Approved For Release 2005/07/20 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100060001-5

## INDEX OF TABLES (Continued)

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| Table A233. Evaluation of Unit Sightings in the Strategic Areas of the South West Region | 251 |

| Table A234. Evaluation of Unit Sightings in the Strategic Areas of the South Farwest Region | 251 |

| Table A235. Evaluation of Object Sightings in the Strategic Areas of the Central East Region | 252 |

| Table A236. Evaluation of Object Sightings in the Strategic Areas of the Central Midwest Region | 252 |

| Table A237. Evaluation of Object Sightings in the Strategic Areas of the Central Farwest Region | 252 |

| Table A238. Evaluation of Object Sightings in the Strategic Areas of the South Midwest Region | 253 |

| Table A239. Evaluation of Object Sightings in the Strategic Areas of the South West Region | 253 |

| Table A240. Evaluation of Object Sightings in the Strategic Areas of the South Farwest Region | 253 |

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