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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.

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  • p. 283 …At sea f. Other . 26. Were you (Circle One) a. In the business section of a…
18,2 Move i n front ox something? (Circle Orie) Yes No Don't knot-?
IF you answered YES, then t e l l what i t moved in front of.
10.3 Blend with the background? (Circle One) Yes No Don't know
19. Which of the following objects i s about the same actual s i z e as the object
you saw? (Circle One):
a. Pea
b. Baseball
c• Basketball
d. Bicycle wheel
e. Office desk
f. Automobile
g. Small airplane
h. Large airplane
i. Dirigible
j. Other
Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are of your
answer to Question 19•
a. Certain
b. Fairly certain
c. Not very sure
d. Uncertain
20. Try to tell the following things about the object:
20.1 How high above the earth was it?
20.2 How far was it from you?
20.3 How fast was it going?
feet.
feet or miles.
miles per hour>
2O,ii Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are of your
answer to the above questions:
a. Certain
b. F a i r l y certain
21. How did the object disappear from view?
(Circle One): a,. Suddenly
b« Gradually
c. Mot very sure
d. Just a guess
c. Other
d. Don't remember
SECTION D
22. In the following sketch, imagine your eye at the point shovn. Place an "A"
on the curved l i n e t o show how high the object was above the horizon
(skyline) when you f i r s t saw i t . Place a "B" to show x-foere i t was when
you l a s t saw i t . _ , ,
Overhead
Horizon
You
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