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Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14: Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects

United States Air Force, Air Technical Intelligence Center · 1955-05-05 · 309 pages · text from the file's own layer

Special Report No. 14 was issued by the U.S. Air Force's Air Technical Intelligence Center on 5 May 1955. It is a statistical study of about 4,000 reports of unidentified aerial objects from June 1947 to December 1952. The reports were reduced to IBM punched cards and analyzed with methods including chi square tests. The report concludes that the reports it examined are very unlikely to represent technology beyond present scientific knowledge, and it notes that no case produced valid physical evidence.

  • p. 94 …approach the speed of a jet before it disappeared. No propulsion was apparent. Time of observation…
INDEX OF TABLES
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Table A l 3 3 . Evaluation of Unit Sightings for All Years by Shape of Object, Elliptical 193
Table A134. Evaluation of Unit Sightings for All Years by Shape of Object, Rocket and Aircraft 193
Table A135. Evalua^on of Unit Sightings for All Years by Shape of Object, Meteor or Comet 194
Table A136. Evaluation of Unit Sightings for All Years by Shape of Object, Lenticular,
Conical, or Teardrop 194
Table A137. Evaluation of Unit Sightings for A l l Years by Shape of Object, Flame 195
Table A138. Evaluation of Unit Sightings for All Years by Shape of Object, Other Shapes 195
Table Al/39. ' Evaluation of Unit Sightings for All Years by Shape of Object, Shape Not Stated 196
Table A140. Evaluation of Object Sightings for All Years by Shape.of Object, Elliptical 197
Table A 1 4 1 . Evaluation of Object Sightings for All Years by Shape of Object, Rocket and Aircraft 197
Table A 1 4 2 . Evaluation of Object Sightings for All Years by Shape of Object, Meteor or Comet 198
Table A 1 4 3 . Evaluation of Object Sightings for All Years by Shape of Object, Lenticular,
Conical, or Teardrop ' 198
Table A144. Evaluation of Object Sightings for All Years by Shape of Object, Flame 199
Table A145. Evaluation of Object Sightings for All Years by Shape of Object, Other Shapes . 199
Table A146. Evaluation of Object Sightings for All Years by Shape of Object, Shape Not Stated . . . . . . . 200
Table A147. Evaluation of All Sightings for All Years by Reported Speeds of Objects, Stationary 201
Table A.148. Evaluation of All Sightings for All Years by Reported Speeds of Objects, L e s s
Than One Hundred Miles per Hour . . . . : . . . . 201
Table A149. Evaluation of All Sightings for All Years by Reported Speeds of Objects, One
Hundred to Four Hundred Miles per Hour 202
Table A150. Evaluation of All Sightings for All Years by Reported Speeds of Objects, Over
Four Hundred Miles per Hour 202
Table A 1 5 1 . Evaluation of All Sightings for All Years by Reported Speeds of Objects,
Meteor-Like Speeds 203
Table A 1 5 2 . Evaluation of All Sightings for All Years by Reported Speeds of Objects,
Speed Not Stated 203
Table A153. Evaluation of Unit Sightings for All Years by Reported Speeds of Objects, Stationary. . . . . . 204
Table A154. Evaluation of Unit Sightings for A l l Years by Reported Speeds of Objects, L e s s Than
One Hundred Miles per Hour 204
Table A155. Evaluation of Unit Sightings for All Years by Reported Speeds of Objects, One Hundred
to Four Hundred Miles per Hour 20 5
Table A156. Evaluation of Unit Sightings for A l l Years by Reported Speeds of Objects, Over
Four Hundred Miles per Hour 205
Table A157. Evaluation of Unit Sightings for A l l Years by Reported Speeds of Objects,
M e t e o r - L i k e Speeds . 206
Table A 1 5 8 . Evaluation of Unit Sightings for A l l Years by Reported Speeds of Objects,
Speed Not Stated . 206
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