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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.
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C a s e IX ( S e r i a l 0066.00) A f a r m e r and his two s o n s , aged 8 and 10, w e r e at his fishing c a m p on August 13, 1947. At about 1300 h o u r s , he went to look for the boys, having sent t h e m to the r i v e r for s o m e tape f r o m his boat. He noticed an object s o m e 300 feet away, 75 feet above the ground. He saw it a g a i n s t the background of the canyon wall which was 400 feet high at this point. It was hedge hopping, following the contour of the ground, was sky blue, about 20 feet in d i a m e t e r and 10 feet thick, and had pods on the side from which flames w e r e shooting out. It m a d e a swishing sound. The o b s e r v e r stated that the t r e e s w e r e highly a g i t a t e d by the craft a s it p a s s e d o v e r . His two sons a l s o o b s e r v e d the object. No one saw the object for m o r e than a few s e c o n d s . Side view K # ; End view 85 if
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