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Project Blue Book Administrative Files: 595507

Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. Air Materiel Command. Intelligence Department. Technical Intelligence Division. · 1947 · 17 pages · text by OCR

Project Blue Book Status Report No. 8, issued by the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and dated 31 December 1952, covers June through October 1952, when 886 reports were received, more than in the previous five years combined. It breaks down evaluations by category, summarizes a consultant astronomer's interviews with 44 astronomers, and notes General Samford's 29 July press conference. It also describes the statistical analysis, the new observer questionnaire, Videon diffraction cameras and weather balloon tracking.

  • p. 4 …The categories used in the evaluation of reports are as follows: ## A. Unknown These are reports…
  • p. 6 …Other This category contains reports that have been proven to be known objects or phenomena, or…
  • p. 7 …The feelings of the 44 astronomers toward the investigation of unidentified flying objects were as follows…
  • p. 10 …BALLOON AND WEATHER DATA In order to achieve more positive identification of unidentified flying objects, the…
  • p. 15 …saw the object.Hours Minutes Seconds 5.1 Circle one of the following to indicate how…
  • p. 16 …Did you observe the object through any of the following: a. EyeglassesYesNoe. BinocularsYesNo b. Sun glassesYesNof…
  • p. 17 …Tell in a few words the following things about the object. a. Sound ___ b. Color ___ 17…
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SECURITY INFORMATION

## STATUS REPORT

# PROJECT BLUE BOOK - REPORT NO. 8

FORMERLY PROJECT GRUDGE

PROJECT NO. 10073

31 DECEMBER 1952

DECLASSIFIED

Authority NND 923007

By 37/04/20 NARA Date5/04/20

AIR TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE

OHIO

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UNCLASSIFIED

Cases discussed

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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 17 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.