The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects: Chapter 8

CHAPTER 8, 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 can be classified as, at least, unusual. Add the facts that hundreds of other people saw these UFO’s and that they were photographed, and the story gets even better. Add a few more facts – that these UFO’s were picked up on radar and that a few people got a close look at one of them, and the story begins to convince even the most ardent skeptics. This was the situation the day the reports of the Lubbock Lights arrived at ATIC. Actually the Lubbock Lights, as Project Blue Book calls them, involved […] Read More

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects: Chapter 1

This is the entire text of the book “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” by Edward J. Ruppelt, former head of the United States Air Force Project Blue Book. CONTENTS: CHAPTER ONE Project Blue Book and the UFO Story, 1 (This page) CHAPTER TWO The Era of Confusion Begins, 15 CHAPTER THREE The Classics, 29 CHAPTER FOUR Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and Grudge, 47 CHAPTER FIVE The Dark Ages, 59 CHAPTER SIX The Presses Roll-The Air Force Shrugs, 69 CHAPTER SEVEN The Pentagon Rumbles, 82 CHAPTER EIGHT The Lubbock Lights, Unabridged, 96 CHAPTER NINE The New Project Grudge, 111 CHAPTER TEN Project Blue Book and the Big Build-Up, 123 CHAPTER ELEVEN The Big Flap, 139 CHAPTER TWELVE The Washington Merry-Go-Round, 156 CHAPTER […] Read More