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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.
to 60 Total Less Unknown Per Cent 50 40 30 20 10 0 Sunlight on mirror or aluminum Sunlight on plaster, stone or soil Brighter than moon Like moon Duller than moon Not stated 10 20 Unknown Per Cent 30 40 50 60 I FIGURE 23 COMPARISON OF KNOWN AND UNKNOWN OBJECT SIGHTINGS BY LIGHT BRIGHTNESS, 1947-1952 A-75 01
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