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The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects

Edward J. Ruppelt · author

Captain Edward J. Ruppelt's landmark 1956 insider account as Chief of Project Blue Book (1951-1953), detailing official U.S. Air Force investigations, radar-visual cases, the 1952 Washington D.C. wave, and Project Sign/Grudge history.

DOCUMENTED EDITIONS
1
PUBLISHED CLAIMS
146
ARCHIVE TARGETS
35
PRIMARY CLAIM LINKS
146
INGESTION BATCHES
0
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// EDITIONS & BIBLIOGRAPHY
SRC-002031Tier 3

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Doubleday & Company Edition)

Publication: 1956-01-01
Language: en
Edition verification: corroborated
// CLAIM PROVENANCE
146 CITATION LINK(S)
CLAIM-620004 · Reported Encounter Observation
At about nineteen Eva recalled waking to whispering, being unable to move or call out, sensing three beings and feeling fingers probing inside her vagina.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 2: Project Blue Book and the UFO StoryCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620006 · Reported Encounter Observation
Eva’s April 14 and May 6, 1992 journal entries describe a violet doorway-like rectangle, figures at the bed, dizziness, loss-of-gravity sensations and blue-white light.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 2: Project Blue Book and the UFO StoryCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620008 · Reported Encounter Observation
Dave recalled a short walk near his uncle’s cabin followed by a memory gap; relatives were reportedly worried and had searched for him, with roughly forty-five minutes unaccounted for.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 2: Project Blue Book and the UFO StoryCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620009 · Reported Encounter Observation
Dave, Ralph and Jerry reportedly watched a silent low object approach, stop, pivot, display intense blue-white underside lights and depart rapidly.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 2: Project Blue Book and the UFO StoryCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620010 · Mack Evidence Caveat
Jerry later acknowledged the UFO encounter, while Dave’s impression that he saw a face/occupant in the craft was personal and not independently corroborated.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 2: Project Blue Book and the UFO StoryCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620011 · Reported Craft Appearance
The source emphasizes abrupt changes of motion, silence, close approach and blue-white underside lights, but does not provide a sufficiently stable hull geometry for a canonical shape assignment.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 2: Project Blue Book and the UFO StoryCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620012 · Reported Encounter Observation
Before formal hypnosis Dave reported a female-seeming familiar being staring through the window, compelling eyes, anal-procedure sensations and finding himself curled beside his wife afterward.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 2: Project Blue Book and the UFO StoryCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620019 · Reported Encounter Observation
On April 15, 1990 Carlos reported photographing a pink-peach shaft of light extending from cloud toward water on Iona, then being enveloped in light and blacking out until after dark.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 4: The Era of Confusion BeginsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620020 · Mack Evidence Caveat
Mack says two physics colleagues considered a solar-pillar explanation and rejected it based on geometry and optical appearance, but their analysis is not reproduced as an independent report in this edition.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 4: The Era of Confusion BeginsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620022 · Mack Evidence Caveat
Carlos’s photograph is a real source artifact discussed by Mack, but the book does not establish a chain of custody or a definitive physical explanation for the light.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 4: The Era of Confusion BeginsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620026 · Mack Evidence Caveat
The balcony-craft exterior was not independently witnessed in the source and emerged in regression.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 4: The Era of Confusion BeginsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620027 · Mack Evidence Caveat
Dave reported the core window encounter before hypnosis, but later morphology and procedure details were expanded in regression.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 4: The Era of Confusion BeginsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620028 · Mack Evidence Caveat
The reported three-witness structure strengthens the sighting relative to most Mack case material, but no radar record, photograph, or contemporaneous written statements are reproduced.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 5: The ClassicsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620031 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The UFO was described as being low on the southwestern horizon and disappearing after about twenty minutes.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 5: The ClassicsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620032 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The Air Force's official report on the incident was a 'masterpiece in the art of 'weasel wording.' It said that the UFO might have been Venus or it could have been a balloon. Maybe two balloons. It probably was Venus except that this is doubtful because Venus was too dim to be seen in the afternoon.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 5: The ClassicsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620037 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The people in the tower estimated the UFO to be southwest of Godman and at an elevation of about 45 degrees.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 6: The Mantell IncidentCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620046 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
It looked something like a huge meteor except that it was a bright green color and it didn't arch downward, as meteors usually do.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 7: Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620047 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The green-colored ball of fire had started low, from near the eastern slopes of the Sandia Mountains, arched upward a little, then seemed to level out.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 7: Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620048 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The green ball of fire got dimmer and dimmer until it disappeared.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 7: Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620049 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Greenish colored meteors, although not common, had been observed on many occasions.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 8: Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620050 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The flat trajectory, which seemed to be so important in proving that the green fireballs were extraterrestrial, was also nothing new.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 8: Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620051 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The reason that so many had been seen during December of 1948 and January of 1949 was that the weather had been unusually clear all over the Southwest during this period.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 8: Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620052 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The trajectory was too flat, the color was too green, and he couldn't locate any fragments even though he had found the spots where they should have hit the earth if they were meteorites.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 8: Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620053 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
No ---Dr. La Paz didn't think that they were meteors.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 8: Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620054 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
No ---Dr. La Paz didn't think that they were meteorites either.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 8: Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620055 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
No particles of a green fireball had ever been found.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 8: Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620056 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The green fireballs, they theorized, could be some type of unmanned test vehicle that was being projected into our atmosphere from a 'spaceship' hovering several hundred miles above the earth.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 8: Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620057 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Maybe the green fireballs are test vehicles-somebody else's. The regular UFO reports might be explained by the fact that the manned vehicles were venturing down to within 100,000 or 200,000 feet of the earth, or to the altitude at which atmosphere re-entry begins to get critical.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 8: Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620058 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Witnesses reported seeing formations of small lights flying through the night sky.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 8: Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620059 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The lights changed in color from a bluish white to orange and back to bluish white.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 8: Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620060 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The lights usually traveled from west to east and made no sound.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 8: Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620062 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The order of February 11, 1949, that changed the name of Project Sign to Project Grudge had not directed any change in the operating policy of the project.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 9: The Dark AgesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620063 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The Air Force didn't O.K. the plan. I don't know where the plan was killed, or who killed it, but it was killed.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 9: The Dark AgesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620065 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
True magazine 'scooped' the world with their story that UFO's were from outer space.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 9: The Dark AgesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620066 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
True magazine 'scooped' the world with their story that UFO's were from outer space.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 9: The Dark AgesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620070 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Project Twinkle would prove it.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 9: The Dark AgesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620072 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Orson Welles presented a famous UFO broadcast in 1938.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 9: The Dark AgesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620073 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The Air Force had a plan to counter the Keyhoe article, or any other story that might appear. The plan originated at ATIC. It called for a general officer to hold a short press conference, flash his stars, and speak the magic words 'hoaxes, hallucinations, and the misidentification of known objects.'
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 10: The Presses Roll -The Air Force ShrugsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620074 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
McLaughlin and crew found out that the UFO had been traveling 4 degrees per second.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 10: The Presses Roll -The Air Force ShrugsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620076 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The Navy had no comment to make about the sightings, but they did comment on McLaughlin.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 10: The Presses Roll -The Air Force ShrugsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620079 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
A bright light hovering off to the southeast.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 11: The Report on Unidentified Flying ObjectsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620080 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
A disk-shaped UFO buzzed a high flying B-36.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 11: The Report on Unidentified Flying ObjectsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620081 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
A mass UFO sighting reported by most of the town's 3,600 citizens.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 11: The Report on Unidentified Flying ObjectsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620082 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
A white light off to his left.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 11: The Report on Unidentified Flying ObjectsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620083 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
A huge orange red UFO was nothing more than the light from the many northern Indiana blast furnaces reflecting a haze layer.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 11: The Report on Unidentified Flying ObjectsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620084 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
A UFO sighting reported by pilots.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 11: The Report on Unidentified Flying ObjectsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620085 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The night before a Mid Continent Airlines DC-3 was taxiing out to take off from the airport at Sioux City, Iowa, when the airport control tower operators noticed a bright bluish white light in the west.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 12: The Pentagon RumblesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620086 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
On the night of May 29, 1950, the crew of an American Airlines DC-6 had just taken off from Washington National Airport, and they were about seven miles west of Mount Vernon when the copilot suddenly looked out and yelled, 'Watch it - watch it.'
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 12: The Pentagon RumblesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620087 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
A student operator was giving a demonstration to a group of visiting brass at the radar school when he spotted an object about 12,000 yards southeast of the station, flying low toward the north.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 13: The Pentagon RumblesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620088 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The pilot of a T-33 jet trainer, carrying an Air Force major as passenger and flying 20,000 feet over Point Pleasant, New Jersey, spotted a dull silver, disk-like object far below him.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 13: The Pentagon RumblesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620089 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Radar operators at Fort Monmouth picked up a target that couldn't be tracked automatically.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 13: The Pentagon RumblesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620090 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
A teletype machine at Wright-Patterson AFB began to chatter out a message.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 13: The Pentagon RumblesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620091 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
It was in a gradual turn to its left, and it wasn't another airplane.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 14: The Lubbock Lights, UnabridgedCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620092 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The lights were a weird bluish green color and they were in a semicircular formation.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 14: The Lubbock Lights, UnabridgedCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620093 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The formation was different, however. The lights Hart saw were always flying in a perfect V.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 14: The Lubbock Lights, UnabridgedCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620094 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
They suddenly noticed 'a pear shaped' object about 150 yards ahead of them. It was just off the side of the road, about 120 feet in the air. It was drifting slowly to the east, 'less than the speed required to take off in a Cub airplane.'
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 15: The Lubbock LightsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620095 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
She said it looked like 'an airplane without a body.' On the back edge of the wing were pairs of glowing bluish lights.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 15: The Lubbock LightsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620096 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The oily white breast of a plover could easily reflect light, but plovers usually didn't travel in more than pairs, or three at the most.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 15: The Lubbock LightsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620097 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The targets were caused by weather, although it was a borderline case.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 15: The Lubbock LightsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620098 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The UFO that the student radar operator had assumed to be traveling at a terrific speed because he couldn't lock on to it turned out to be a 400-mile-an-hour conventional airplane.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 16: The New Project GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620099 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The UFO could have been a balloon, so I sent a wire to the Air Force weather detachment at the Long Beach Municipal Airport.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 16: The New Project GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620100 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The second radar sighting of the series also turned out to be a balloon.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 16: The New Project GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620101 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The second day's radar sightings were caused by another balloon and weather - both enhanced by the firm conviction that there were some mighty queer goings on over Jersey.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 16: The New Project GrudgeCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620102 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
There was no positive proof that any craft foreign to our knowledge existed.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 17: Project Grudge and UFO ReportsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620103 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The pilot was positive that he had followed directly behind the UFO for over a minute and all the time it was pulling away from him.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 17: Project Grudge and UFO ReportsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620104 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The unidentified target slowed down, stopped, and reversed its course, heading directly toward the radar station.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 17: Project Grudge and UFO ReportsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620105 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
I don't know what it was, but I've never seen anything like it before or since - maybe it was a spaceship.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 17: Project Grudge and UFO ReportsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620106 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The F-94 radar operator reported a weak target off to the right at 28,000 feet.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 18: Project Blue Book and the Big Build-UpCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620107 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Radar engineers detected unidentified targets while testing radars.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 18: Project Blue Book and the Big Build-UpCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620108 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
A huge ball of fire paced two B-29's.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 18: Project Blue Book and the Big Build-UpCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620116 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
A slow moving, high-altitude target that climbed and dove at unusual speeds.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 20: The Big FlapCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620117 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Multiple reports of a shiny, round object moving from north to south.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 20: The Big FlapCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620118 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Radar picked up odd targets that enlarged and then became smaller, with one report suggesting a disk-shaped object.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 20: The Big FlapCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620119 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The fireball could have been two meteors: one that buzzed the C-54 and another that streaked across the airfield at Goose AFB.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 21: The Big FlapCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620120 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The UFO could have been an intelligently controlled craft that had streaked northeast across the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Quebec Province at 2,400 miles an hour.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 21: The Big FlapCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620121 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The UFO could have been a meteor.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 21: The Big FlapCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620122 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The UFO could have been a skyhook balloon.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 21: The Big FlapCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620123 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
A 'large red light with small white lights on the side' was reported as it came in from the west north west, made a 180 degree turn directly over their heads, and disappeared over the horizon.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 21: The Big FlapCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620124 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
A teardrop shaped object hovered over Dayton for several minutes about midnight.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 21: The Big FlapCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620125 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Both officers had heard flying saucer stories, and both thought the light was a balloon.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 22: The Washington Merry-Go-RoundCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620126 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The targets loafed along at 100 to 130 miles an hour; then in an apparent sudden burst of speed two of them streaked out of radar range.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 22: The Washington Merry-Go-RoundCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620127 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
One target was clocked at 7,000 miles an hour.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 22: The Washington Merry-Go-RoundCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620128 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The targets passed close to commercial airliners in the area and on two occasions the pilots of the airliners saw lights that they couldn't identify.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 22: The Washington Merry-Go-RoundCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620129 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
I first heard about the sighting about ten o'clock in the evening when I received a telephone call from Bob Ginna, Life magazine's UFO expert.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 23: The Washington Merry-Go-RoundCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620130 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
About 10:30 P.M. on July 26 the same radar operators who had seen the UFO's the week before picked up several of the same slow moving targets.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 23: The Washington Merry-Go-RoundCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620131 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
A few minutes after the F-94 over Newport News had the last lock-on broken, the targets came back on the scopes at Washington National.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 23: The Washington Merry-Go-RoundCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620132 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The controllers vectored the jets toward group after group of targets, but each time, before the jets could get close enough to see anything more than just a light, the targets had sped away.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 23: The Washington Merry-Go-RoundCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620133 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The tower operators at Andrews AFB saw a 'large fiery-orange-colored sphere' when the radar operators at National Airport told them they had a target over the Andrews Radio range station.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 24: Hoax or Horror?CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620134 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The tower operators later changed their story and said that what they saw was merely a star.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 24: Hoax or Horror?CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620135 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The F-94C pilot changed his mind even after he'd given the press and later told me his story about vainly trying to intercept unidentified lights.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 24: Hoax or Horror?CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620136 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The pilot of the F-94C says that all he saw was a ground light reflecting off a layer of haze.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 24: Hoax or Horror?CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620137 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The most outstanding incident happened just after a take-off one night from Washington National.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 24: Hoax or Horror?CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620138 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The only object we could see where the radar had a target turned out to be the Wilson Lines moonlight steamboat trip to Mount Vernon.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 24: Hoax or Horror?CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620139 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
A scoutmaster and three boy scouts saw a UFO, with the scoutmaster being burned.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 24: Hoax or Horror?CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620151 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The light was circular in shape and had a constant brilliance. It appeared to be the upper portion of a large, round, dark shape which was about four times the diameter of the light itself.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 26: Digesting the DataCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620152 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The UFO moved in closer, or at least it appeared to be getting closer because it became more distinct.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 26: Digesting the DataCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620153 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The UFO moved off to the east, getting dimmer and dimmer as it disappeared.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 26: Digesting the DataCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620154 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The UFO was highly directional, like a spotlight.
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SRC-002031 · Chapter 26: Digesting the DataCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-620155 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The UFO could not be identified as something we knew about. It could have been an interplanetary spaceship.
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To quote from a section entitled 'Induction Heating' from an electrical engineering textbook: A rod of solid metal or any electrical conductor, when subjected to an alternating magnetic field, has electromotive forces set up in it. These electromotive forces cause what are known as 'eddy currents.' A rise in temperature results from 'eddy currents.' Induction heating is a common method of melting metals in a foundry.
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Ozone is prepared by passing air between two plates which are charged at a high electrical potential.
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A sudden increase of radiation was indicated. The radiation remained high for a few seconds, then dropped back to normal.
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Three silvery objects moving in a V formation were seen high in the cloudless blue.
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CLAIM-620168 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
A lone dark object was seen streaking across the sky.
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CLAIM-620169 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
A silvery, circular shaped object near the instrument shack.
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CLAIM-620170 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Several of the Geiger tubes had been triggered at 10:17 A.M.
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CLAIM-620176 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Radar had picked up an unidentified target near the spot where the scientists in the car had seen the UFO, and it had been traveling north.
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CLAIM-620177 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
The highest speeds reported for our combination radar visual sightings were 700 to 800 miles an hour.
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They watched it for a while, took a few notes, then drove back to the lab.
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Both of the observers had seen several of the green fireballs and said that this object was similar in all respects except that the color was a brilliant blue white.
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The Radiation Story
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The Tremonton Movie
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The Montana Movie
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CLAIM-620187 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Hundreds of people going home from work saw a large, dark, 'cigar shaped object with stubby wings' traveling northwest across Oakland.
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CLAIM-620188 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Reports continued to come in to the newspapers until about April 20.
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CLAIM-620189 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Two large bright lights flying across the blue sky in an echelon formation.
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CLAIM-620190 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Two large bright lights flying across the blue sky in an echelon formation.
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CLAIM-620191 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
He thought this was why it was so noticeable among the stars.
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CLAIM-620192 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
It had too much of a definitely circular shape.
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CLAIM-620193 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
It changed color in about a two second cycle.
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CLAIM-620194 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
It went through this cycle two or three times.
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CLAIM-620195 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Then it changed in shape to a perfect triangle.
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CLAIM-620196 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Then it split into two triangles, one above the other.
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He had been flying F-51's in Korea and had recently started to check out in the jets. He took off, cleared the traffic pattern, and started climbing toward Blythe Radio, about 130 miles west of Luke.
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A lady spotter at Black Hawk, about 10 miles west of Ellsworth, had reported an extremely bright light low on the horizon, off to the northeast.
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CLAIM-620199 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Had they had any reports of unidentified lights?
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A fast moving, bright bluish white light
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CLAIM-620201 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
A strange cigar shaped object hang over the city for forty minutes
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An extremely bright circular shaped object under and a little behind the airplane
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CLAIM-620203 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
When a ground radar picks up a UFO target and a ground observer sees a light where the radar target is located, then a jet interceptor is scrambled to intercept the UFO and the pilot also sees the light and gets a radar lock on only to have the UFO almost impudently outdistance him, there is no simple answer.
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I wouldn't want to hazard a guess as to what the final outcome of the UFO investigation will be, but I am sure that within a few years there will be a proven answer.
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CLAIM-620205 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Maybe the final proven answer will be that all of the UFO's that have been reported are merely misidentified known objects.
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CLAIM-620206 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Maybe the many pilots, radar specialists, generals, industrialists, scientists, and the man on the street who have told me, 'I wouldn't have believed it either if I hadn't seen it myself,' knew what they were talking about.
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CLAIM-620207 · the report on unidentified flying objects edward j Observation
Maybe the earth is being visited by interplanetary spaceships.
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