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This gripping read is based on an original book by .Edward J. Ruppelt who was the head of the United States Air Force UFO research - Project Blue Book - from 1951 until 1953. He of course had a unique insight into what went on within that project at that time. He died at the age of just 37 in 1960. Newly edited, and with some new illustrations added, this is a must have book for the person interested in Unidentified Flying Objects.

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Publié par	Andrews UK
Date de parution	19 juillet 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781849895699
Langue	English

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Paul Andrews Presents –
THE UFO REPORT

Original report written by Edward J. Ruppelt
Edited and extra content added to this book in 2011 by Paul Andrews

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This electronic version is published in 2011 by Andrews UK Limited.

www.andrewsuk.com

This edited version, including layout, typography, additions to text, cover artwork, and other unique factors is copyright Andrews UK Limited 2011. No part of this digital publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without written permission of the copyright owner.

Foreword By Paul Andrews

I grew up in the era of when space travel started to happen, I also grew up in the era of television and films which made the concept of life on other planets seem so real, and that it was perfectly possible and feasible that alien visitors from other planets could and in fact were already coming to earth.
As as boy I remember well buying whilst on a summer holiday, a paperback book called “The Hynck Report” a book I still own today. This book was a mine of information and theory’s for a young boy.
As I grew up many people I have met and also relatives, all of which I trust have recalled to me sighting of strange craft and lights in the sky. These are people I trust with my life, so how can I doubt what they have seen, even though we cannot define easily what they have seen.
A few years ago I also witnessed lights in the sky over Bedfordshire, in the United Kingdom. I cannot confirm what the lights were but as an engineer by original trade, I know what it was not, even if I cannot identify what it was.
I will be exploring all things UFO in a series of books, both personal experiences and also third hand reports such as this book. I have edited and added to this book, and also added some relevant illustrations into the book. I hope you find it as interesting as I have.
The original author was Edward J.Ruppet, the former head of the USA Air Force Project Blue Book which was the special section set up to investigate the increasing reports of unidentified flying objects seen in the skies over the USA. He relates his time in this division, and presents to you the facts. It is then up to you to make your own mind up on the UFP phenomenon!!

THE REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
BY EDWA RD J. RUPPELT

Former Head of the Air Force Project Blue Book

Foreword

This is a book about unidentified fly ing 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 peo ple 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 official report. For the same reason I have changed the locale in which some of the UFO sightings occurred. This is especially true in chapter fifteen, the story of how some of our atomic scientists detected radiation whenever UFO’s were reported near their “UFO-detection stations.” This policy of not identifying the “source,” to borrow a term from military intelligence, is insisted on by the Air Force so that the people who have co-operated with them will not get any unwanted publicity. Names are considered to be “classified information.”
But the greatest care has been taken to make sure that the omission of names and changes in locale has in no way altered the basic facts because this report is based on the facts—all of the facts—nothing of significance has been left out.
It was only after considerable deliberation that I put this report together, because it had to be told accurately, with no holds barred. I finally decided to do it for two reasons. First, there is world- wide interest in flying saucers; people want to know the facts. But more often than not these facts have been obscured by secrecy and confusion, a situation that has led to wild speculation on one end of the scale and an almost dangerously blasé attitude on the other. It is only when all of the facts are laid out that a correct evaluation can be made.
Second, after spending two years investigating and analy sing UFO reports, after talking to the people who have seen UFO’s— industrialists, pilots, engineers, generals, and just the plain man- on-the-street, and after discussing the subject with many very capable scientists, I felt that I was in a position to be able to put together the complete account of the Air Force’s struggle with the flying saucer.
The report has been difficult to write because it involv es something that doesn’t officially exist. It is well known that ever since the first flying saucer was reported in June 1947 the Air Force has officially said that there is no proof that such a thing as an interplanetary spaceship exists. But what is not well known is that this conclusion is far from being unanimous among the military and their scientific advisers because of the one word, proof ; so the UFO investigations continue.
The hassle over the word “proof” boils down to one quest ion: What constitutes proof? Does a UFO have to land at the River Entrance to the Pentagon, near the Joint Chiefs of Staff offices? Or is it proof when a ground radar station detects a UFO, sends a jet to intercept it, the jet pilot sees it, and locks on with his radar, only to have the UFO streak away at a phenomenal speed? Is it proof when a jet pilot fires at a UFO and sticks to his story even under the threat of court-martial? Does this constitute proof?
The at times hotly debated answer to this question may b e the answer to the question, “Do the UFO’s really exist?”
I’ll give you the facts—all of the facts—you decide.

Jul y 1955 , E. J. RUPPELT

Chapter One

Pr oject 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.
Th is fact, like so many others that make up the full flying saucer story, has never before been told.
I know the full story about flying saucers and I know that it has never before been told because I organized and was chief of the Air Force’s Project Blue Book, the special project set up to investigate and analyse unidentified flying object, or UFO, reports. (UFO is the official term that I created to replace the words “flying saucers.”)
Th ere is a fighter base in the United States which I used to visit frequently because, during 1951, 1952, and 1953, it got more than its share of good UFO reports.
Th e commanding officer of the fighter group, a full colonel and command pilot, believed that UFO’s were real. The colonel believed in UFO’s because he had a lot of faith in his pilots—and they had chased UFO’s in their F-86’s. He had seen UFO’s on the scopes of his radar sets, and he knew radar.
Th e colonel’s intelligence officer, a captain, didn’t exactly believe that UFO’s were real, but he did think that they warranted careful investigation. The logic the intelligence officer used in investigating UFO reports—and in getting answers to many of them— made me wish many times that he worked for me on Project Blue Book.
On e day the intelligence officer called me at my base in Dayton, Ohio. He wanted to know if I was planning to make a trip his way soon. When I told him I expected to be in his area in about a week, he asked me to be sure to look him up. There was no special hurry, he added, but he had something very interesting to show me.
Wh en we got wind of a good story, Project Blue Book liked to start working on it at once, so I asked the intelligence officer to tell me what he had. But nothing doing. He didn’t want to discuss it over the phone. He even vetoed the idea of putting it into a secret wire. Such extreme caution really stopped me, because anything can be coded and put in a wire.
Wh en I left Dayton about a week later I decided to go straight to the fighter base, planning to arrive there in mid-morning. But while I was changing airlines my reservations got fouled up, and I was faced with waiting until evening to get to the base. I called the intelligence officer and told him about the mix-up. He told me to hang on right there and he would fly over and pick me up in a T-33 jet.
As soon as we were in the air, on the return trip, I called the intelligence officer on the interphone and asked him what was going on. What did he have? Why all the mystery? He tried to tell me, but the interphone wasn’t working too well and I couldn’t understand what he was saying. Finally he told me to wait until we returned to his office and I could read the report myself.
Re port! If he had a UFO report why hadn’t he sent it in to Project Blue Book as he usually did?
We landed at the fighter base, checked in our parachutes, Mae Wests, and helmets, and drove over to his office. There were several other people in the office, and they greeted me with the usual question, “What’s new on the flying saucer front?” I talked with them for a while, but was getting impatient to find out what was on the intelligence officer’s mind. I was just about to ask him about the mysterious report when he took me to one side and quietly asked me not to mention it