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The Lonnie Zamora incident was an alleged UFO sighting that occurred on April 24, 1964 near Socorro, New Mexico when Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora claimed he saw two people beside a shiny object that later rose into the air accompanied by a roaring blue and orange flame.
When Project Grudge was ordered dissolved, Project Blue Book was developed to replace it, and Lt. Col. N. R. Rosengarten asked Edward J. Ruppelt to take over as the new project's leader, partly because Ruppelt "had a reputation as a good organizer". [4] 1985 UFO Fact Sheet (page 1 of 3) from the U.S. Air Force
Ruppelt was the director of Project Grudge in 1949 and then Project Blue Book in March 1952; he remained with Blue Book until late 1953. UFO researcher Jerome Clark writes, "Most observers of Blue Book agree that the Ruppelt years comprised the project's golden age, when investigations were most capably directed and conducted. Ruppelt was open ...
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is a 1956 book by then-retired Air Force UFO investigator Edward J. Ruppelt, detailing his experience running Project Bluebook. [1] The book was noted for its suggestion that a few UFO sightings might be linked to spikes of atomic radiation. [2] Contemporary media summarized four topics discussed in the ...
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Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (referred to further below as BBSR) was a massive statistical study the Battelle Memorial Institute did for the USAF of 3,200 UFO cases between 1952 and 1954. Of these, 22% were classified as unidentified ("true UFOs").
U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Hector Quintanilla who became chief Of the UFO Project Blue Book in August 1963. Hector Quintanilla Jr. (May 7, 1923 – May 18, 1998) was a United States Air Force (USAF) Lieutenant Colonel, best known as the last chief officer of Project Blue Book, the USAF's official unidentified flying object investigative arm.
[2] [3] The book was a huge success and popularized many ideas in ufology that are still widely believed today. According to Edward J. Ruppelt, the article was "one of the most widely read and widely discussed magazine articles in history". [4] The Flying Saucers Are Real is short — only 175 pages. Keyhoe contended that the Air Force was ...