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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.
# Approved For Release 2005/07/20 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100060001-5 8. IF you saw the object at NIGHT, TWILIGHT, or DAWN, what did you notice concerning the STARS and MOON? 8.1 STARS (Circle One): 8.2 MOON (Circle One): a. None a. Bright moonlight b. A few b. Dull moonlight c. Many c. No moonlight — pitch dark d. Don't remember d. Don't remember 9. Was the object brighter than the background of the sky? (Circle One): a. Yes b. No c. Don't remember 10. IF it was BRIGHTER THAN the sky background, was the brightness like that of an automobile headlight?: (Circle One): a. A mile or more away (a distant car)?b. Several blocks awayc. A block awayd. Several yards awaye. Other 11. Did the object: a. Appear to stand still at any time? Yes No Don't Know b. Suddenly speed up and rush away at any time? Yes No Don't Know c. Break up into parts or explode? Yes No Don't Know d. Give off smoke? Yes No Don't Know e. Change brightness? Yes No Don't Know f. Change shape? Yes No Don't Know g. Flicker, throb, or pulsate? Yes No Don't Know 12. Did the object move behind something at anytime, particularly a cloud? (Circle One): Yes No Don't Know. IF you answered YES, then tell what it moved behind: 13. Did the object move in front of something at anytime, particularly a cloud? (Circle One): Yes No Don't Know. IF you answered YES, than tell what it moved in front of: 14. Did the object appear: (Circle One): a. Solid? b. Transparent? c. Don't Know. 15. Did you observe the object through any of the following? a. Eyeglasses Yes No e. Binoculars Yes No b. Sun glasses Yes No f. Telescope Yes No c. Windshield Yes No g. Theodolite Yes No d. Window glass Yes No h. Other
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. 312 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.