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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.
y 25. Where were you located when you saw the object? (Circle One): a. Inside a building b. In a car c. Outdoors d. In an airplane e. At sea f. Other . 26. Were you (Circle One) a. In the business section of a city? b. In the residential section of a city? c. In open countryside? d. Flying near an airfield? e. Flying over a city? f. Flying over open country? g. Other 27. What were you doing at the time you saw the object, and how did you happen to notice it? 28. IF you were MOVING IN AN AUTOMOBILE or oiher vehicle at the time, then complete the following questions: 28.1 What direction were you moving? (Circle One) a. North c. East b. Northeast d. Southeast e. South f. Southwest g. West h. Northwest 28.2 How fast were you moving? miles per hour. 28.3 Did you stop at any time while you were looking at the object? (Circle One) Yes No 29. What direction were you looking when you first saw the object? (Circle One) a. North b. Northeast c. East d. Southeast e. South f. Southwest g. West h. Northwest 30. What direction were you looking when you last saw the object? (Circle One) a. North b. Northeast c. East d. Southeast e. South f. Southwest g. West h. Northwest 31. If you are familiar with bearing terms (angular direction), try to estimate the number of degrees the object was from true North and also the number of degrees it was upward from the horizon (elevation). 31.1 When it first appeared: a. From true North _ b. From horizon 31.2 When it disappeared: a.' From true~North b. From horizon _ L degrees. degrees. degrees. degrees. 283
Analysis, from the classic collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 309 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.