Case file · Government program
Blue Book Special Report No. 14
A statistical study of about 3,200 Air Force UFO reports, carried out by the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio.
1955 CE · 39.99, -83.02 · status: official
The account
Battelle sorted cases by quality and checked whether the 'unknowns' differed from identified cases. The Air Force press release stressed that no evidence of advanced craft was found. Later readers pointed out that the share of unknowns was higher among the best-documented reports, not lower.
The sceptical view
Battelle itself concluded that the unknowns were most likely unexplained ordinary objects, and that better data would have reduced them.
Connections in the atlas
- Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14
- Project Blue Book begins
- Project Blue Book closes