UFO History

1951.1226 Battelle conference

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On 26 December 1951, Colonel S H Kirkland, of Colonel Dunn's staff, and Captain Edward Ruppelt left Dayton for a two-day conference to outline to Battelle Memorial Institute (referred to by Captain Ruppelt as “Project Bear”) the proposed project to (a) design a UFO reporting form and (b) perform a statistical study of all UFO reports.

 

 

 

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2005

Bennett, Colin in his “An American Demonology : Captain Edward J Ruppelt and the official UFO investigation of the United States Air Force” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 76-77 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Set of Correspondences”) of the Headpress softcover edition.

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1992

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 2 – Emergence of a Phenomenon” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 277 (in an entry entitled “Project Blue Book Special Report 14”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

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1956

Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 118-119 (in Chapter 9) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at pages 159-160 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 158-159 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 118-119 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at pages 85-86 of the reprinted Source Books softcover edition. The first of these editions (i.e. the original 17 chapter hardback edition) has the same page numbering as the version available free online at: http://www.nicap.org/rufo/contents2.htm

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