The Report on UFO [Audiobook part 1] by Edward J. Ruppelt
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Published 2017-07-03
'Straight from the horse's mouth', as they say. Edward Ruppelt was the first head of the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book, the official project initiated to investigate UFO reports beginning in 1952. This report from 1956 takes us inside these initial investigations, separates fact from fiction, and gives insight into who, when, where, and how sightings were reported and researched in open-minded fashion (for which Ruppelt was renowned), rather than in the typical hushed and secretive (and censored) manner most often associated with government and military reports which are released to the public.
Dozens of specific sightings are recounted, although hundreds more had come pouring into the agency during the period covered (and hundreds, if not thousands more that were never officially reported). Here we go inside the workings of Project Blue Book, which had evolved from 2 earlier Air Force projects, and we are witness to interviews, press conferences, Pentagon briefings, and many reports from civilian and military pilots, Air Traffic Controllers, office workers, farmers, and the man on the street who reported their accounts with UFOs. And not all sightings that were reported were restricted to the U.S.
Although Project Blue Book would continue until 1969, here we witness an in-depth account from it's inception and it's earliest stages, the political obstacles, the houndings from the press, the overall confusion encountered during and following many of the sightings, and the near hysteria caused during the heyday of UFO sightings, and all from the man who headed up the project in it's earliest years. The second edition of Ruppelt's work was supplemented with 3 additional chapters which were added in 1960, and we are fortunate that they are included here.
00:00:00 Forward
00:05:21 Project Blue Book and the UFO Story
00:55:18 The Era of Confusion Begins
01:46:22 The Classics
02:49:53 Green Fireballs, Project Twinkle, Little Lights, and Grudge
03:33:11 The Dark Ages
04:08:17 The Presses Roll--The Air Force Shrugs
04:57:53 The Pentagon Rumbles
05:41:51 The Lubbock Lights, Unabridged
06:33:15 The New Project Grudge
07:14:52 Project Blue Book and the Big Build-Up
All Comments (21)
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When I was 13, growing up in Eastern Washington, my younger brother and I were playing outside in a big field near our house. Through that field ran a dirt road which went to another big grazing area a mile or so upcountry. It was just after dark when we decided to walk to the upper field, for what reason I’ve totally forgotten, maybe just to hunt beer bottles along the road which we could sell back to the local store. Yeah, kids did that in the early 60’s, lol. The evening was really bright.....big new moon was out and it was facing our direction, entire landscape and sky very well lit. Bob, the dog and a neighbor kid caught up with us. I’d noticed some cottonball type clouds pretty high directly over us, but not as high as the mountain which bordered one side of that little valley. One little “cloud” was much lower, it was in fact, only about, maybe 200 feet above us.......hey, I was a kid, what kid pays any attention to heights of normal things floating by. So, anyway, that little cloud was floating down towards us, and when it got directly over us, and this I DID notice because that little cloud looked so out of place right there, alone, kind of swirling around, but it stopped, then I stopped the other boys and we all, except Bob of course, stared up, commenting about what a weird cloud, what might of made it stop, maybe mountain winds were veering, the neighbor kid thought. So, after a minute or so, we went back to walking up there, not spooked or anything at all. After maybe like 10 minutes, I happened to look back,......then up.......and then I did get scared, we all did, except Bob of course, and even he was staying close. That cloud was behind us and now it was down to maybe 50 feet high and only 30 or 40 feet behind. As I remember, the little cloud was now very silvery and, though still swirling about, stopped when we stopped, then began to float back down the valley away from us, although it didn’t,t climb. We went on to the upper meadows, not mentioning that little cloud again until a few weeks later I remembered the incident and told Mom about it. She shrugged it off as just a spooked kid, but I never really was spooked that night.........just mostly baffled. And........neither my brother Jody nor I ever forgot that or seen anything like it again. When many years later after I became interested in UFO’s, I did a lot of hard remembering about it.
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This, the Keyhoe, and the Arnold audio books are my favorite lullabies.
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This is the best read audiobook I have ever listened to. .. I hate those ones where they add music and sound effects.
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😄 The font on this made me read the author's first name as Coward. I was like, "What the hell kind of parent names their kid Coward?!?"
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MORE UFO AUDIOBOOKS! 👍 Awesome upload friend, thanks!!! 😁 -Rick in Indianapolis
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I’m a sceptic but my mother, who was very intelligent and worked in aviation, swore black and blue that she saw a huge craft in the night sky over south east Melbourne back in the mid 80’s. Until the day she passed away she said it was not man made.
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I saw a green fire ball. Late one evening while driving through a southern Ca. desert. I was headed south, the fireball west to east. Directly above me to my right it started breaking through. By the time it was above it was as big as the moon. As it passed me it started returning into space. Leaving behind a chem-trail vapor of sorts that fell toward me. Mid 1990s.
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Fascinating. Thanks for your hard work and for sharing.
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I'm under the impression that they are residing under the oceans. That makes more sense to me than that they are extraterrestrial. There have been reports of strange lights under the ocean since before Columbus.
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I like this. We watched the Project Bluebook show. It was very good.
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Back in 1948 my playmates and I, on a bright Summer day, in a cloudless sky saw what we first took to be an airplane....It appeared to us as the airplanes which we saw from time to time as it seemed to be make of unpainted aluminum.....We could not determine the exact shape due to the bright sun making the object look like a very bright light by reflection......It was soundless and we took it to be an airplane at very high altitude....After we watched it move in a straight line for several minutes something happened that made us drop the airplane idea...... It abruptly made a 90 degree turn to it's left and shot across the sky and was completely gone in a split second..... When it made the left turn we were able to continue watching it for a moment as it traversed quite a section of sky, and then it was completely gone.......
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Beautiful and so old school .. Thank you.
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He’s got a good reading voice too.
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nice ty
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This is the truth I was kidnapped once and I could not move I tried to move and scream and could not do either. They walked right through the wall and put a small metal in my neck and then they left left through the same glass window.
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Keneth Arnold had another sighting of approximately 25 unidentified objects, i read somewhere. He was an experienced pilot, and and intelligent man. He knew what he saw, and no doubt had many hours to decide if he should make it public. He would have got his calculations right.
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Yeah I saw a green fire ball over hurlbert field in 2010 it was so low! When I told family members, everyone thought I was crazy. Any who, it was heading south in to the Gulf of Mexico. It was extremely bright and flying very low.
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Chapter 1 i cant stop thinking the pilot fired his guns. Were did the bulllets come down, was he flying rural or near towns i just keep wondering. Gotta stop.
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How about the ufo trace landing cases. Ted Phillips. Footprints too.
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Its actually pronounced roo-pelt
