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(Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects)

Central Intelligence Agency · 2005-07-12 · 312 pages · text by 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. 272 …At sea c. Outdoors f. Other ___ 3.1 Were you: (Circle One): a. In the business…
  • p. 285 …At sea b. In the residential section of a city? ## 26. Were you (Circle One) a…
## Approved For Release 2005/07/20 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100060001-5

CODE 47 GROUP CLASSIFICATION

(Derived from the angle of elevation)

X

Y

0

1 -79.99° to +79.99°

2 +80.00° to +89.99°

3 +90.00° to +100.00°

4 +100.01° to 130.00°

5 +130.01° to +180.00 and -180.00° to -100.01°

6 -100.00° to -90.01°

7 -90.00° to -80.00°

8

9

CODE 52 DURATION TIME UNITS

X

Y

0 Days

1 Hours

2 Minutes

3 Seconds

4

5

6

7

8

9

CODE 55 DURATION GROUP CLASSIFICATION

X

Y

0 5 second and less

1 6 - 10 seconds

2 11 - 30 seconds

3 31 - 60 seconds

4 61 seconds - 5 minutes

5 6 - 30 minutes

6 Over 30 minutes

7

8

9

CODE 56 OBSERVATION METHOD

X Variable

Y

0 Naked eye

1 Eye glasses

2 Window

3 Windshield

4 Binocular

5 Telescope

6 Theodolite

7 Radar

8 Photographic

9 Other

CODE 57 SOUND

X Variable

Y

0 Motors

1 Jets or rockets

2 Explosion

3 Unlike aircraft

4 Hiss, swishing, whining

5 Rumbling

6 Humming or buzzing

7 None

8

9 Other

CODE 58 OBJECT COLOR

X Variable

Y

0 Metallic

1 Light, glow, luminous

2 Red

3 Orange

4 Yellow

5 Green

6 Blue

7 Violet

8 Black

9 White

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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. 312 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.