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Department of War PURSUE File

CIA-UAP-015, Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects)

Declassified

Editorial summary

This is the US Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, an analysis of reports of unidentified aerial objects, carried under Project No. 10073 and dated May 5, 1955, issued by the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The file bears a CIA cover sheet marking it an official record copy. The report tabulates and statistically analyzes sighting data by characteristics such as color, shape, speed, duration, and reliability, comparing known and unknown evaluations across the years 1947 to 1952.

Editorial summary written by govweird from the declassified document text. The official government description follows below.

Government description

This is the USAF Project Blue Book with a CIA cover sheet stating the document is "Official Record Copy." With the exception of the handwritten note on the first page, the content of this document has been available on CIA's public website.

Caption issued by the U.S. Department of War on war.gov/ufo. Verbatim, unedited.

Originating agency

Central Intelligence Agency

Record type

PDF

Incident date

Unspecified

Incident location

Unspecified

Release tranche

Release 03 (May 8, 2026)

Distribution

Cleared for public release

Original document

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Source: war.gov/ufo · PURSUE Release 03

PURSUE = Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. Records released by the U.S. Department of War on May 8, 2026 are unresolved cases for which the government cannot make a definitive determination, and the Department has invited private-sector analysis.