The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects

Edward J. Ruppelt

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is a memoir written by former United States Air Force officer Edward Ruppelt about his involvement with the governmental investigation of unidentified flying objects in the early 1950’s. Ruppelt served as director of Project Grudge, then Project Blue Book, from 1951 to 1953. Ruppelt felt that the Air Force handling of the UFO question was “organized confusion”, so, realizing that he was probably the best qualified person to set the record straight, he wrote the book to lay out the facts that were “obscured by secrecy and confusion, a situation that has led to wild speculation on one end of the scale and an almost dangerously blase attitude on the other.” Ruppelt lays out the difficulty of writing about something “that doesn’t officially exist” and of dealing with the ambiguity of evidence and the problem of proof, ultimately letting the reader decide whether UFOs exist or note. The book has been described as “required reading for anyone seriously interested in the history of this subject".

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Product Details

Read by: Roger Melin
Length: 16 hours 1 minute
Type: Solo reading
Media: MP3 CD
Package: DVD box
Item No.: DB-1109
EAN: 0684758936639
List Price: $11.99

Credits

Production

Book Coordinator: Roger Melin
Meta Coordinators: BarryEads
Proof Listener: Betty M.

Artwork
Cover: Spaceship Earth, 2014, photo by Christopher Michel
Inset: Cover of the original edition of The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
Insert background: Grainy B&W image of supposed UFO, Passaic, New Jersey, by George Stock, July 30, 1952

The Recordings

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Table of Contents

Track Chapter Duration
01 00 - Forward 5:14
02 01 - Project Blue Book and the UFO Story 49
03 02 - The Era of Confusion Begins 50:50
04 03 - The Classics 1:03
05 04 - Green Fireballs Project Twinkle Little Lights and Grudge 43:06
06 05 - The Dark Ages 34:56
07 06 - The Presses Roll--The Air Force Shrugs 49:22
08 07 - The Pentagon Rumbles 43:46
09 08 - The Lubbock Lights Unabridged 51:10
10 09 - The New Project Grudge 41:25
11 10 - Project Blue Book and the Big Build-Up 53:41
12 11 - The Big Flap 57:54
13 12 - The Washington Merry-Go-Round 57:06
14 13 - Hoax or Horror? 46:15
15 14 - Digesting the Data 45:30
16 15 - The Radiation Story 33:39
17 16 - The Hierarchy Ponders 56:21
18 17 - What Are UFO's? 1:03:08
19 18 - And They're Still Flying 1:07:44
20 19 - Off They Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder 24:57
21 20 - Do They or Don't They? 21:38

 

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