USAF record 595507 (1952)

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• Page 1 CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED SECURITY INFORMATION STATUS REPORT PROJECT BLUE BOOK - REPORT NO. 8 FORMERLY PROJECT GRUDGE PROJECT NO. 10073 31 DECEMBER 1952 [STAMP:] [HW: NARA Date: 1/6/6] AIR TECHNICAL…
• Page 2 1. Information conflicting with or pertinently affecting that contained in this publication should be forwarded by the recipient directly to: Commanding General Air Technical Intelligence Center…
• Page 3 UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL This report is the eighth of a series of Status Reports of Project Blue Book. Normally each report is written on or near the last of each month and includes all project…
• Page 4 UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL STATUS OF PROJECT BLUE BOOK I. OVERALL STATUS The period since the last status report of this project was published (Project Blue Book Status Report #7, 31 May 1952) has…
• Page 5 UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL part of the reporting agency. All cases where there is only a single observer, unless his or her reliability is unquestionable, are put in this category. C. Aircraft This…
• Page 6 UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL Metors are identified mainly by the observer's description as to size, shape, and maneuvers. In some cases, exceptionally large metors or fireballs are plotted by…
• Page 7 DECLASSIFIED [STAMP: UNCLASSIFIED] CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED Category No. Reports % Total D. September Unknown 22 27.35 Insufficient Data 20 25.32 Aircraft 7 8.86 Balloons 12 15.43 Astronomical 12…
• Page 8 UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL "Over 40 astronomers were interviewed, of which five had made sightings of one sort or another. This is a higher percentage than among the populace at large. Perhaps this is…
• Page 9 UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL V. STATUS OF STATISTICAL ANALYSIS In the spring of 1952 the Air Technical Intelligence Center established a project with a civilian contractor to make a statistical analysis…
• Page 10 CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED A secondary duty of the Ground Observer Corps is the reporting of unidentified aerial phenomena or objects. This duty was established by ADC Regulation 55-31. VIII. NAVY…