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This is Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, "Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects," Project No. 10073, dated 5 May 1955. The study reduced about 4,000 sighting reports received by the U.S. Air Force between June 1947 and December 1952 to IBM punched cards and analyzed them statistically, including chi square tests comparing knowns with unknowns. It concludes that the reports very probably do not represent technological developments beyond present scientific knowledge, and it notes that no case produced physical evidence.
CODE 67 ANGULAR ACCELERATION (Change in angular velocity) CODE 68 APPEARANCE BEARING X Variable Y 0 Zero, V = constant 1 Increasing slowly 2 Decreasing slowly 3 Increasing fast h Decreasing fast 5 Increasing very fast 6 Decreasing very fast 7 8 9 X Y 0 1 2 3 h 5 6 7 8 9 i N NE E SE S sw w NW CODE 69 DISAPPEARANCE BEARING CODE 70-71 ELEVATION WITH RESPECT TO GROUND, DEGREES X Disappeared suddenly Y ON 1 Ne 2 E 3 Se US 5 SW 6 W 7 NW 8 9 X Y 0 1 2 3 h 5 6 7 8 9 Initial Variable - 0-9 10-19 20-29 30-39 U0-U9 50-59 60-69 70-79 80-89 X Y 0 1 2 3 U 5 6 7 8 9 Final Variable 0-9 10-19 20-29 30-39 U0-U9 50-59 60-69 70-79 80-89 CODE 72 OBJECT ORIENTATION Apparent inclination of principal axis of object from horizontal CODE 73 MANEUVERS X Variable Y 0 +90° to 60° 1 +60° to 30° 2 +30° to 10° 3 +10° to 0° h 0° 5 0° to -10° 6 -10° to -30° 7 -30° to -60° 8 -60° to -90° 9 X Y 0 1 2 3 U 5 6 7 8 9 CODE 7U OBSERVER OCCUPATION Y Civilian, occupation not stated 0 Army, military 1 Navy, military 2 Marine, military 3 Air force, military h Coast guard, military 5 Merchant marine, military 6 Commercial air, civilian 7 CAA, civilian 8 Government contractor, civilian 9 Civilian, other I 307
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