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The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects

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American Alchemy · 0:06:25

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American Alchemy · 0:06:25

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The memoir of the officer who ran Project Blue Book in 1951–53 and coined the term UFO. It describes the Estimate of the Situation, the 1952 wave and the Robertson Panel from inside. A 1960 edition added chapters dismissing the subject. Speakers quote the first edition.

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Issuing bodyEdward J. Ruppelt; Doubleday
Date
Kindbook
Statusexists as a document; retrieved and read
Wherehttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17346
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Passage

A few days after the DC-3 was buzzed, the people at ATIC decided that the time had arrived to make an Estimate of the Situation. The situation was the UFO's; the estimate was that they were interplanetary! It was a rather thick document with a black cover and it was printed on legal sized paper. Stamped across the front were the words TOP SECRET.

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Washington, D.C. flap (July 1952). Open the full map filtered to this record.

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
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Washington, D.C. flap (July 1952)
People
Edward Ruppelt

Sources on this record

  • 0:06:25 "100,000 UFOs Are Surrounding Earth!" ft. Top Astronomer Beatriz Villarroel ▶
    Edward J. Ruppelt, who was the head of Blue Book at the time. And it was you had this Washington invasion or DC flyover where there were saucers all over DC at the time. And it was specifically was July of 1952, but it was specifically two weekends. It was the 19th and 20th and it was the 26th and 27th. So, I find
  • 0:28:24 "100,000 UFOs Are Surrounding Earth!" ft. Top Astronomer Beatriz Villarroel ▶
    Project Sign analysis, and the CIA's analysis of the 1952 DC UFO flyover, along with Blue Book lead Captain Edward J. Ruppelt's
  • 0:06:25 “I Found 100,000 UFOs Above Earth!” -Top Astronomer Beatriz Villarroel | EARLY… ▶
    newspapers saying what, you know, saucers on the White House lawn. It prompted a call between Truman and Edward J. Ruppelt, who was the head of Blue Book at the time. And it was you had this Washington invasion or DC flyover where there were saucers all over DC at the time. And it was
  • The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects Edward J. Ruppelt; Doubleday · 1956

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