Chapter Three. The Classics : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], CHAPTER THREE The Classics 1948 was only one hour and twenty-five minutes old when a gentleman from Abilene, Texas, made the first UFO report of the year. What he saw, "a fan-shaped glow" in the sky, was insignificant...
Chapter Eight. The Lubbock Lights, Unabridged : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], p. 96 CHAPTER EIGHT The Lubbock Lights, Unabridged When four college professors, a geologist, a chemist, a physicist, and a petroleum engineer, report seeing the same UFO's on fourteen different occasions, the event c...
Chapter Eleven. The Big Flap : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], CHAPTER ELEVEN The Big Flap In early June 1952, Project Blue Book was operating according to the operational plan that had been set up in January 1952. It had taken six months to put the plan into effect, and to a pers...
Chapter Seventeen. What Are Ufo's : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], p. 226 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN What Are UFO's? While the scientists were in Washington, D.C., pondering over the UFO, the UFO's weren't just sitting idly by waiting to find out what they were--they were out doing a little...
Chapter Seven. The Pentagon Rumbles : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], CHAPTER SEVEN The Pentagon Rumbles On June 25, 1950, the North Korean armies swept down across the 38th parallel and the Korean War was on--the UFO was no longer a news item. But the lady, or gentleman, who first said...
Title Page And Front Matter : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], THE REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS BY EDWARD J. RUPPELT, Former Head Of The United States Air Force Project Blue Book DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY Garden City, New York [1956] Scanned, proofed and formatted , May 2008. This...
Chapter Fifteen. The Radiation Story : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Radiation Story The idea for gathering together a group of scientists, to whom we referred as our "panel of experts," had been conceived early in 1952--as soon as serious talk about the possibility...
Chapter Twelve. The Washington Merry Go Round : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], CHAPTER TWELVE The Washington Merry-Go-Round No flying saucer report in the history of the UFO ever won more world acclaim than the Washington National Sightings. When radars at the Washington National Airport...
Chapter Two. The Era Of Confusion Begins : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], CHAPTER TWO The Era Of Confusion Begins On September 23, 1947, the chief of the Air Technical Intelligence Center, one of the Air Force's most highly specialized intelligence units, sent a letter to the Commanding General...
Chapter Six. The Presses Rollthe Air Force Shrugs : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], CHAPTER SIX The Presses Roll--The Air Force Shrugs The Grudge Report was supposedly not for general distribution. A few copies were sent to the Air Force Press Desk in the Pentagon and reporters and writers could come...
Chapter Five. The Dark Ages : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], CHAPTER FIVE The Dark Ages 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. It had, in fact, pointed out th...
Chapter Fourteen. Digesting The Data : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], CHAPTER FOURTEEN Digesting The Data It was soon after we had written a finis to the Case of the Scoutmaster that I went into Washington to give another briefing on the latest UFO developments. Several reports had come...
Chapter One. Project Blue Book And The Ufo Story : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], p. vii THE REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS p. 1 CHAPTER ONE Project Blue Book And The UFO Story In the summer of 1952 a United States Air Force F-86 jet interceptor shot at a flying saucer. This fact, like so many...
Chapter Thirteen. Hoax Or Horror : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], p. 173 CHAPTER THIRTEEN Hoax Or Horror? To the military and the public who weren't intimately associated with the higher levels of Air Force Intelligence during the summer of 1952--and few were--General Samford's press...
Chapter Four. Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], p. 47 CHAPTER FOUR Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, And Grudge At exactly midnight on September 18, 1954, my telephone rang. It was Jim Phalen, a friend of mine from the "Long Beach Press-Telegram", and he...
Foreword : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], p. iii 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...
Chapter Sixteen. The Hierarchy Ponders : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Hierarchy Ponders By early January 1953 the scientists who were to be members of our panel of experts had been contacted and had agreed to sit in judgment of the UFO. In turn, we agreed to give them...
Chapter Nine. The New Project Grudge : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], p. 111 CHAPTER NINE The New Project Grudge While I was in Lubbock, Lieutenant Henry Metscher, who was helping me on Project Grudge, had been sorting out the many bits and pieces of information that Lieutenant Jerry...
Chapter Ten. Project Blue Book And The Big : * "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", by Edward J. Ruppelt, [1956], CHAPTER TEN Project Blue Book And The Big Build-Up Just twenty minutes after midnight on January 22, 1952, nineteen and a half hours after the Navy lieutenant commander had chased the UFO near Mitchel AFB, another...