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by Edward Ruppelt

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Title: The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects

Author: Edward Ruppelt

Release Date: December 18, 2005 [EBook #17346]

Language: English

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Produced by The Blue Book Archive

THE REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

BY EDWARD J. RUPPELT
Former Head of the Air Force Project Blue Book

Published by
DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC.
Garden City, New York

Note: This work was originally Copyright ? 1956 by Edward J. Ruppelt.
This book is now in the public domain because it was not renewed in a
timely fashion at the US Copyright Office, as required by law at the
time.

Contents

Foreword
1 Project Blue Book and the UFO Story
2 The Era of Confusion Begins
3 The Classics
4 Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and Grudge
5 The Dark Ages
6 The Presses Roll--The Air Force Shrugs
7 The Pentagon Rumbles
8 The Lubbock Lights, Unabridged
9 The New Project Grudge
10 Project Blue Book and the Big Build-Up
11 The Big Flap
12 The Washington Merry-Go-Round
13 Hoax or Horror?
14 Digesting the Data
15 The Radiation Story
16 The Hierarchy Ponders
17 What Are UFO's?
18 And They're Still Flying
19 Off They Go into the Wild Blue Yonder
20 Do They or Don't They?

to ELIZABETH and KRIS

Foreword

This is a book about unidentified flying objects--UFO's--"flying
saucers." It is actually more than a book; it is a report because it
is the first time that anyone, either military or civilian, has
brought together in one document all the facts about this fascinating
subject. With the exception of the style, this report is written
exactly the way I would have written it had I been officially asked
to do so while I was chief of the Air Force's project for
investigating UFO reports--Project Blue Book.

In many instances I have left out the names of the people who
reported seeing UFO's, or the names of certain people who were
associated with the project, just as I would have done in an off