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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. 78 …Apparently these are harder to identify. ## (3) Shape In this case, there is a higher percentage…

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TABLE II CHI SQUARE TEST OF KNOWNS VERSUS UNKNOWNS ON THE BASIS OF COLOR

Color	Number of KNOWNS	Adjusted Number of KNOWNS(K)	Number of UNKNOWNS(n)	X2(K-n)2/K
White	405	100	112	1.44
Metallic	313	77	76	0.01
Not stated	209	51	62	2.37
Orange	172	42	49	1.17
Red	146	36	33	0.25
Yellow	128	31	31	0
Green	130	32	14	10.13
Blue	67	17	26	4.76
Other	195	48	31	6.02
Total	1765	434	434	26.15
Degrees of freedom	8
5% 15.5
1% 20.1

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 312 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.