The Report on Unidentified Flying ObjectsRuppelt, Edward J.
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The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
Ruppelt, Edward J.
Unidentified flying objects
I arrived in Lubbock about 5:00P.M. and contacted the intelligence
officer at Reese AFB. He knew that I was on my way and had already
set up a meeting with the four professors. Right after dinner we met
them.
If a group had been hand-picked to observe a UFO, we couldn't have
picked a more technically qualified group of people. They were:
Dr. W. I. Robinson, Professor of Geology.
Dr. A. G. Oberg, Professor of Chemical Engineering.
Professor W. L. Ducker, Head of the Petroleum Engineering Department.
Dr. George, Professor of Physics.
This is their story:
On the evening of August 25 the four men were sitting in Dr.
Robinson's back yard. They were discussing micrometeorites and
drinking tea. They jokingly stressed this point. At nine-twenty a
formation of lights streaked across the sky directly over their
heads. It all happened so fast that none of them had a chance to get
a good look. One of the men mentioned that he had always admonished
his students for not being more observant; now he was in that spot.
He and his colleagues realized they could remember only a few details
of what they had seen. The lights were a weird bluish-green color and
they were in a semicircular formation. They estimated that there were
from fifteen to thirty separate lights and that they were moving from
north to south. Their one wish at this time was that the lights would
reappear. They did; about an hour later the lights went over again.
This time the professors were a little better prepared. With the
initial shock worn off, they had time to get a better look. The
details they had remembered from the first flight checked. There was
one difference; in this flight the lights were not in any orderly
formation, they were just in a group.
The professors reasoned that if the UFO's appeared twice they might
come back. Come back they did. The next night and apparently many
times later, as the professors made twelve more observations during
the next few weeks. For these later sightings they added two more
people to their observing team.
Being methodical, as college professors are, they made every attempt
to get a good set of data. They measured the angle through which the
objects traveled and timed them. The several flights they checked
traveled through 90 degrees of sky in three seconds, or 30 degrees
per second. The lights usually suddenly appeared 45 degrees above the
northern horizon, and abruptly went out 45 degrees above the southern
horizon. They always traveled in this north-to-south direction.
Outside of the first flight, in which the objects were in a roughly
semicircular formation, in none of the rest of the flights did they
note any regular pattern. Two or three flights were often seen in one
night.
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