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The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects

by Edward J. Ruppelt

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Fiction

"The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" by Edward J. Ruppelt is a book published in 1956. Written by the former director of the Air Force's Project Blue Book, it reveals the inside story of official UFO investigations from 1947 onwards. Ruppelt details mysterious sightings near atomic facilities, radar contacts, pilot encounters, and the controversial "Estimate of the Situation" report that concluded some UFOs were interplanetary craft—only to be officially rejected. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact.

  • Controlled discovery queries from libris, openlibrary, project-gutenberg, and wellcome matched “unidentified flying objects” and “Unidentified flying objects”. Retained metadata contains “Unidentified flying objects” in the title, “ufo” in the description, “Unidentified flying objects” in the description, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • unidentified flying objects· via Libris, National Library of Sweden
    • Unidentified flying objects· via Open Library
    • unidentified flying objects· via Project Gutenberg
    • unidentified flying objects· via Wellcome Collection
    • Unidentified flying objects· in title
    • ufo· in description

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Editions

Open Library reports 23 editions; 4 cataloged here.

Libris bibliographic record

1956EnglishCatalog record

Open Library record

1956DoubledayEnglishBorrowable

Project Gutenberg electronic edition

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2005-12-18Project GutenbergEnglishPublic domain (USA)

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  • Open Library reports 23 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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openlibrary-work:OL7507738W
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