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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.
“weather balloon”4 pages
CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED 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 CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED
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.