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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.

CODE 59	LIGHT COLOR	CODE 60 COLOR GROUP CLASSIFICATION	CODE 61 NUMBER
	X Variable	X Light glow	X
	Y	Y	Y
0	White	0 White	01
1	Black	1 Metallic	12
2	Grey	2 Red	23
3	Red	3 Orange	34
4	Orange	4 Yellow	45
5	Yellow	5 Green	56
6	Green	6 Blue	67-10
7	Blue	7 Violet	711-20
8	Violet	8 Black	821-30
9	Other	9 Other	931 or more

CODE 62 SPEED	CODE 63 SHAPE	CODE 64 DOBTENED VISUAL ANGLE(Referred to sun diameter)
Variable	X	Variable	X	Decreased in size
Y Y
Hovering, stationary	0	Ellipse	0	0.1
Less than 100 mph	1	Rocket	1	0.2
100-400 mph	2	Conventional aircraft	2	0.5
More than 400 mph	3	Unconventional aircraft	3	0.75
Meteor-like	4	Meteor, comet	4	1.0
Not stated	5	Lenticular	5	1.5
6	Conical	6	2.0
7	Teardrop	7	4.0
8	Flame,tails,fire	8	4.0 to 10.0
9	Fire	9	Other

## CODE 64 SUBTENDED VISUAL ANGLE (Referred to sun diameter)

## CODE 65 LIGHT BRIGHTNESS (Intensity)

X	Decreased	X	Variable
Y Y
0	Sunlight on mirror	0	Zero
1	Sunlight on aluminum	1	Very slow,1° per second
2	Sunlight on plaster	2	Slow,3° per second
3	Sunlight on stone	3	Moderate,6° per second
4	Sunlight on soil	4	Rapid,12° per second
5	Brighter than moon	5	Very fast,30° second
6	Like moon	6	Extremely fast,90° per second
7	Duller than moon	7	More than 90° per second
8	Barely visible	8
9	Other	9	Other

## CODE 66 ANGULAR VELOCITY

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