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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. 24 …The three parts of this study (1) the sorting and tabulation program, (2) the advanced study…
  • p. 26 …No other interpretation of the tables or remaining charts was deemed necessary. ## Advanced Study of the…

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FIGURE 11 DISTRIBUTION OF OBJECT SIGHTINGS BY REPORTED COLORS OF OBJECT(S) WITH EVALUATION DISTRIBUTION FOR EACH COLOR GROUP

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