The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
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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 together in one document all the facts about this fascinating subject.’ (Excerpt from Foreward)… More >>
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
The modern UFO phenomenon started in the U.S. in the summer of 1947, when a prosperous businessman and private pilot named Kenneth Arnold saw nine strange ‘disk-shaped “craft flying over Mt. Rainier in Washington state. His story made headlines across the nation, and “UFO Era was born. Over the next five years (1947-1952) many of the most famous UFO sightings in American history took place, and the U.S. Air Force became concerned enough to launch a top-secret investigation of observations. Originally called “Project Sign” concluded in 1948 that UFOs were interplanetary spaceship from an advanced alien civilization. The Pentagon has rejected this analysis, fired most of the staff, and is now called “Project Sign” as “Project Grudge” , with the new mission is to uncover all UFO reports. But in the early fifties the wave of UFO reports reached an all time high (it has never been as great since), and even some high-ranking officers in the Pentagon were convinced that something strange were in U.S. airspace. So they re-organized “Project Grudge” to “Project Blue Book”, and appointed a young but talented USAF Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, to monitor the new, enhanced the UFO investigation. Ruppelt President From 1951-1953 a kind of “golden age” of UFO reports. Under his leadership, Project Blue Book objectively and thoroughly investigated each UFO report has been received. Ruppelt was naturally skeptical of UFOs, but he does not dismiss the subject as “nonsense”, and he insisted that his staff would take the phenomenon seriously and be open to new ideas as they investigate UFO cases. As a result he was not afraid to label a case as “unresolved” or “inexplicable” when he or his staff could not find a “normal” , rational explanation for an observation. Ruppelt succeeded in investigating some of the most famous UFO case in history, including the “Lubbock Lights” in Texas, which was seen by science professors at Texas Tech University, which was photographed by a Texas Tech student. He examined also two famous UFO “movies” was filmed in Utah and Montana on the old home-movie cameras. The Montana movie was filmed in 1950 by the Head of the Great Falls minor-league baseball team, and it showed two bright objects moving quickly across the sky above the local baseball stadium. The Utah film was shot in 1952 near the Great Salt Lake by a professional photographer Navy. The movie shows the bright objects 12-15 (bearing a remarkable similarity to the Montana movie) that fly in formation in the clear blue sky . The U.S. Navy analyzed both movies and Ruppelt writes, they felt that both films showed “genuine” UFOs – no birds, no planes, or any other “normal” phenomenon. Ruppelt also looked at the big “Invasion of Washington” in July 1952 when the UFO was seen over the capital and were detected by radar at two airports in Washington. (The “Invasion of Washington” came on the front page headlines across the country, and even President Truman called Ruppelt personally and wanted to know what happened ). Ruppelt left the Air Force in 1953, and 1956 – much to the displeasure of the Air Force, which had forced the Project Blue Book to get back to reveal all UFO sightings – he wrote “The report on unidentified flying objects”. This book is still regarded as the ” classic account of UFO sightings in the late forties and early fifties, and it also provides a wealth of information about how the U.S. government and the military saw the UFO “problem” in those years. Ruppelt is a good writer, and the book is well written and the filled with many interesting stories and anecdotes from pilots, scientists, military officers and others who spoke with Ruppelt on UFOs. Ruppelt himself was an “open skeptics” and he does not provide explanations for what UFOs may be – he describes simply their studies on the subject and his experience as Project Blue Book tutors. This book is an absolute “must” for any UFO buff or someone who is interested in the early history of UFO sightings in America. Highly recommended!
Rating: 5 / 5
Anyone with an interest for the subject of UFOs *** *** MUST read this book. This reprint edition preserves the original page numbers from the second edition to the original work can be mentioned. The second edition includes three additional chapters of material so if you decide to buy a used book so you can find a second edition copy. Unfortunately, second edition copies hard to come by, making this second edition reprints the more valuable a resource. Another nice aspect of this reprint edition is that the text is crisp and bright white paper is making it very easy to read.
Rating: 5 / 5
Originally published more than 40 years ago this was the first UFO book I ever read, and maybe that is still my favorite. The late Edward Ruppelt was for many years head of Project Blue Book, the Air Force’s official working group for the investigation of UFO reports. In this capacity Ruppelt inaugurated the inner workings of the Air Force and the reality of official public statements. Perhaps the disappointment of some, gives Ruppelt no revelations of government coverups and amazing secrets. Rather, he shows an Air Force, whose approach to UFOs was often one of ridicule and annoyance.
Ruppelt himself than of official suspicion, and steering a middle way between skepticism and credulity as he describes the classic UFO sightings and UFO flaps of the 1950s, including the Lubbock Lights, the Mantell incident, Washington, DC tab, and many others. One has the impression that Ruppelt is a conservative believes in the phenomenon, if not an enthusiast or an apostle.
1950s was a time when UFOs were still primarily light in the sky, not carry the insectoid kidnappers or intergalactic geneticist. But despite the lack of up-close-and-personal horrors of modern UFO reports Ruppelt accounts will occasionally send a chill up your spine. I attribute this to the book’s excellent writing, which accurately captures the mood and sentiments of the 1950s.
And, finally, that’s what “The report on unidentified objects” is: a historical drama, a wonderful journey back to innocence and freshness of the 1950s, when silver discs flashed across the sky and inspired fear, awe, and wonder in a public wake up to reality in the atomic age.
Rating: 5 / 5
Edward J. Ruppelt, no run of the mill UFO writers. Ruppelt was the first “boss” of the USAF Project Blue Book. When you leave this service and the service, he wrote this book to tell the world what he really thought, and the USAF and how they are managed, the UFO phenomenon. Ruppelt is the person who coined the term “Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) to filter out the negative and pejorative connotations that were associated with the term” flying saucer. “This is a serious look at the UFO issue at the beginning of a man at the center of UFO investigations by the U.S. military. I’m really surprised that I am the first to write a review for this important and historic book.
Rating: 5 / 5
Rating: A
While the UFO phenomenon has died down in recent years, after all the publicity that The X-Files and shows of the kind generated in the forward-thinking, analytical scientist in us all, books of this kind is now a bit easier to come by. This book is probably one of the best reads in my little collection of UFO books and metaphysics, and takes a very good and not overly skeptical view of the whole UFO craze that began sweeping not only the U.S. but around the world in the late 1940s and early 50s. Aims to be more of a round up of the data collected, it is as we travel deeper into the book, however, that we begin to discover that as the years went by on Project Blue Book, prepared They new technologies to help prove whether These Flying Saucers were real or not. The only down side to the whole book in my opinion is the authors’ opinions and perceptions about whether he believes UFO’s exist, as presented in the last two pages of this otherwise phenomenal book. Honestly, said its almost like any other final chapter, which Ruppelt has such an open mind throughout the project, but after the project pretty much down from his body that he takes a stance about-face on the issue, as some may wonder where either on his way to either confuse the leaders, or make them think for themselves about the possibilities of what can actually be absent. By presenting us with any useful information they could possibly fit into this small but concise book, we have taken to all parts of the world, but most of the entire U.S., as the government seems to be trying to find the needle in the haystack awnser for only what the hell is causing all these bizarre events in our shunned. Although the book is very old and modern UFO books can be better (I’m not sure most of the UFO books I have are very old) I have no book of CME has explained the circumstances for what they are and let the reader decipher for himself on his viewpoint on the matter afterwards. An excellent read, which really expands your mind to look at all the opportunities out there.
Rating: 5 / 5