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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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CODE 56 DISAPPEARANCE BEARING
X - Disappeared suddenly
Y
0 - N
1 - NE
2 - E
3 - SE
4 - S
5 - SW
6 - W
7 - NW
8
9
CODE 57-58 ELEVATION
WITH RESPECT TO GROUND, DEGREES
X
Y
0
I
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Initial
Variable
0-9
10-19
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-59
60-69
70-79
80-89
X
Y
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Final
Variable
0-9
10-19
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-59
60-69
70-79
80-89
CODE 61 OBJECT ORIENTATION
Apparent inclination of principal
axis of object from horizontal
X
Y
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
6
9
Variable
•90 to ^0
«.6O to 30
4.30 to 10
4-10 to 0
0
0 to -10
-10 to -30
-30 to -60
-60 to -90
CODE 65 SERVICE
X
Y
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Army
Navy
Marine
Air Force
Coast Guard
Merchant
Commercial Air
CAA
Gov't,
Other
. Contractor
CODE 62-63-64 CIVILIAN OCCUPATION
Dictionary of Occupational Titles,
Vol. II, 2nd Edition, pp. XIX-XXVI.
U.S* Department of Labor, Bureau of
Employment Security. U.S. Government
Printing Office, Washington, D. C , 1949.
See pp. XIX-XXVI.
CODE 66 DUTY
X
Y
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Pilot
Weather tech.
Radar tech.
Tover op.
Balloon obs.
Tech. spec.
Guards, lookouts
Ground or deck crews
Navig. or bombardier
Other
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