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CIA-UAP-015, Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects)

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This CIA archives copy, released in 2026, holds Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects). The Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base issued it on 5 May 1955. The study reduced about 4,000 sighting reports from 1947 to 1952 to IBM punched cards, with 3,201 cases charted, and applied chi square tests to compare known and unknown sightings. It concludes that it is highly improbable the reports represent technological developments beyond present-day scientific knowledge.

From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 This is the USAF Project Blue Book with a CIA cover sheet stating the document is "Official Record Copy." With the exception of the handwritten note on the first page, the content of this document has been available on CIA's public website.

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Describe what you saw as criefly as possible in the following spaces:
a. Sound b. Shape
c. Color de Size
e. Number f. Light brightness
g. LiGht color h. Motion
i. Speed j. Other-------------How did object disappear from view: Suddenly or Gradually
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At any time did the object:
a. Change direction. b. Change speed. c. Hove behind something; Cloud,
House, Tree, d. Blond with backgrou..'1d. e. Decrease
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in size. f. Decrease in brightnes.:o. g. Move in front of something.
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When you first looked at the object, uhat direction were you facing? ----
L'hen you last saw the object, ,·Jhat direction were you facing?
In the follouing Sketch A, draw lines
from the observer's eye to the circular
arc to show tha apparent elevation of the Directly
object in the sky. Overhead
A. When first seen, label a.
B. When last seen, label b.
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