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From the source: Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: 1971, Australia. Dated to 1971, an Australian review of the USAF Project Blue Book. This document was released by the National Archives of Australia.
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4 its existe-nce. Public disl.rihut.ion vaa !ll~de, ho,.-ev{lr, of a so
ee.lled 11 summa.ry" 1-hich in fa.ct did not Sul"lmariso, nor scarcely
&lludo to the 19·17-52 dc.ta 1 but conccntra.tcd or. 1953-55 rcportin.;
which vas cle~rly designed to reduce the residual unknowns to nn
insi{:nificant number, no matter how senseless tho identification
became.
10. Vi t.hin U1u body of the dif fi cul t.-to-oh ta.in .re po'r l thei-e
il!I an intores~ing diagram. The product of the estimated obr.erv"r
relia.bil i ty and t.be rel)ort reliability be,ame the sighting
relinllility. Tht! ,percenlng!! of reporls that had to be register"'J
a.s t•unkno1.1n 11 (i.e. incapsble of being .,ye,. approximately identif i ,.-d
aa a. known object) increased as the sighting reliability impi.·o·:ed.
Conver5eJy, the percentage listed as "insufficient info~naLion"
d"creased with improving reliability.
~ighting No. of Uoknovn Insufficie111,
Relia.bili ty Reports (%) Informs.ti en
(,t;)
Poor 435 16.6 21.4
Doubtful 794 13.0 14.0
Good 757 24.8 J.6
Excellent 213 33.3 '1.2
11. Throughout the years of the UFO phc,nomenon, there has been
e. persistent for:n of official pronouncements ',/hich state thut th-,
percentage of unknnwn5 would bA redu~ed if more data were c~ailnble.
The tshove table contradicts that statement. Reports of excellent
reliability g1merally s tom from a.strono:nerE:, pilots, scientists,
surveyorn 1 mctcorolo;:ists, radar operators etc, complete with
instrumented valueR and Rccund,ely cllit.fdlt~d uc:counts. The
introduction o~ good raliablo reporting pr•vnnts the roady prosaic
int.eq>ri~tation, In all probability the overall average percentr.g!J
of llnkno..,ns ( 19. T~) would h :~.ve be ,m subs len I, ia l ly increased if thE.'
dita hnd been more reliablo.
12, Project BLUE BOOK ccmsul tants sta.ti s t:i cal ly tos ted the
unknovn object popula~ion to determine the likelihood tbat it wn3
similar to the popult\tion of identified objects and found tha.t the
probability was less than one in 1028 (i,e. using the American
~ational Archives of Australia NAA A13693, 3092/2/000 Not linked to a story yet.
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