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This declassified transcript, released by the Office of the Under Secretary of War, records a March 1952 presentation by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt on the U.S. Air Force's reorganized UFO investigation. Ruppelt says that of about 800 cases reviewed, roughly 20 percent were good reports from reliable observers that stayed unexplained. He notes clusters of reports near Los Alamos, Albuquerque and Oak Ridge and describes the Lubbock lights and their photographs in detail. He also covers reporting directives, classification and the upcoming Life magazine article.
“Cooper”3 pages
19 newspapers surpass the Air Force in their intelligence channels. They're good. I mean, there's just no getting around it." (Inaudible talk about Mr. Davis and the President) • "Well, I actually, it goes a little further than that. I mean, it's a wonderful ally. I think the project has varied in its handling a lot just through a difference of opinion or, you know, changes in opinion. There's been great interest in it and then it would fall away, not too much interest, and then great interest. And that's officially too, as well as the public. We feel that by going right down the line and taking every case we get and trying to get additional facts and encouraging anybody and everybody to give us information, there are a lot of groups that are interested in this. There's a, I don't know whether any of you read the Time article a few weeks ago on the saucers. Well, there's a group out on the West Coast that's in their spare time trying to get all of these cases they can to work on. We feel that that group, if we're quite frank with them, would be very cooperative and help us. I mean, we're not trying to hide anything, we're trying to get help. You do have a problem and how far you go publicly, but I think possibly this Life type article will help if they, if they publish what we expect." End of recording; nothing follows.
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