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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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Observer's
Data
Sheet
Question
Punched
Card
Column Code Description
6.
7. a.
1 0 .
Ui*
U2*
U3*
Where observer was
Moving - Stopped
Hovr observed
12.
12a. liU*
12c. US*
12e, 1*6*
12g. hi*
12i. lUb. k&*
12b. 19 U9*
12b. 19 50*
12d. lite.20 51*
Sound
Color
Number
Light-color
Speed
Shape
a / b
Size
2U.
"6"2*
63
2U.
65*
66*
67*
Appearance
Description
h. 12h.
15.
1 3 . 1U.
17.
1 2 1 .
1 8 .
12f. 1
1U. 1 8 .
16
2 1 .
19.
Uf. 52*
53*
19 5<U*
55*
56*
57*
58*
59
60
61*
Light brightness
Angular velocity
Angular acceleration
Describe appearance
Describe disappearance
Initial elevation
Final elevation
Altitudej_1000 ft.
Object orientation
Motion
Elevation
Altitude
Civilian occupation Observer
Service occupation
68
69
70
71
72
73
7U
75
76*
77*
7a*
79*
80*
Observer
Report
Preliminary
Final
Evaluation
Identification
* Denotes separate code key i s needed.
300

Cases discussed

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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.