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MAXW-PBB1-1058
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NARA-Maxwell
Page 1058 of 1537
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Maxwell Blue Book 1
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MAXW-PBB1-1056
MAXW-PBB1-1057
MAXW-PBB1-1058
MAXW-PBB1-1059
MAXW-PBB1-1060
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THIS PAGE !1S UNCL/SS1FU.P study whic!'': resulted in The sp&c^KL nTOentlfied Aerial. Objects, '' \ H ^ 1 ''''i S '' ''i p , ''A 11 J I . | ..s .. ,f U N G L A S S I F I E. P I ''.''I i v- i". ^ ^is report (Analysis of Reports of UnTOentlfied Aerial. Objects, ^lay 1955) started in 1953. To provide the study group with ^ complete set of files, the infor- mation cut-off date was established as of the end of 1952. It will accordingly be noted that the statistics contained in all charts'' and tables in this report are terminated with the year 1952. In these * charts, 3201 cases have been used. , , As the study progressed,, a constant program was maintained f)or the purpose of making comparisons between the current cases received after 1 January 1953, and those being used for the report.; This was done in order that any chaive or significant trend which might arise from current developments''6ould be incorporated in the summary of this report. The 1953j and 1954 cases show a general and expected trend of increasing percentages In the finally Identified categories. They also show decreasing percentages in categories where there was in- sufficient information and those where the phenomena could not be explained. This trend had been anticipated in tne light of Improvec reporting and investigating procedures. I _ * Official reports on hand at the end of 1954 totaled 4834. or these, 425 were produced In 195_ and 429 in 1954. These 1953 and ,"195^ individual reports (a total of, 854), were evaluated on the" same basis as were those received before the end of 1952. The re- sults are as follows: I i i Balloons......................lo per cent ; Aircraft.................... ...20 per, cent Astronomical..................25 per cent / : Other.........................13 per cent ''Iniiuffielent Information......17 per cent" , '' Unknown....................... 9 per cent As the stijidy of the current cases progressed, it became in- . ,/cr''feasingly obvious that if reporting and investigating procedures could be further Improved, the percentages of those c^ses which contained insufficient information rnd those remaining unexplained would be greatly reduced. The ''cey to a higher percentage,of solu- '' tions appeared to be In rapid "on the spot1 Investigations by trained personnel. On the Dasis of t^.is, a revised program was established by Air'' Force Regulation 200-2, Subject: Unidentified Flying Objects Reposing11 (Short Title: UFOB), dated 12 August This new program^ whitjfh had begun to show .marked results be- fore January 1955? provided primarily that the 46O2d Air Intelli- gence Service Squadron (Air Defense Command) would carry out all field investigations, Thls_ squadron has sufficient units and is so deployed as to be able to arrive "on the spot11 within a very short, time after a report is received. After treatment by the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron, all information Is supplied to the Air Technical Intelligence Center for final evaluation, phis coop- erative program has resulted, since 1 January 1955, in reducing the> Insufficient information cajses to seven percent and the unknown cases to tnrge perce/nt of tine tocalsT ; - ? - '' MORE 1 ''i ^
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