Track	Chapter	Duration
01	00 - Forward	5:14
02	01 - Project Blue Book and the UFO Story	49
03	02 - The Era of Confusion Begins	50:50
04	03 - The Classics	1:03
05	04 - Green Fireballs Project Twinkle Little Lights and Grudge	43:06
06	05 - The Dark Ages	34:56
07	06 - The Presses Roll--The Air Force Shrugs	49:22
08	07 - The Pentagon Rumbles	43:46
09	08 - The Lubbock Lights Unabridged	51:10
10	09 - The New Project Grudge	41:25
11	10 - Project Blue Book and the Big Build-Up	53:41
12	11 - The Big Flap	57:54
13	12 - The Washington Merry-Go-Round	57:06
14	13 - Hoax or Horror?	46:15
15	14 - Digesting the Data	45:30
16	15 - The Radiation Story	33:39
17	16 - The Hierarchy Ponders	56:21
18	17 - What Are UFO's?	1:03:08
19	18 - And They're Still Flying	1:07:44
20	19 - Off They Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder	24:57
21	20 - Do They or Don't They?	21:38

Notes
Running Time: 16 hours 1 minute
Read by: Roger Melin
Book Coordinator: Roger Melin
Meta Coordinators: BarryEads
Proof Listener: Betty M.

Artwork
Cover: Spaceship Earth, 2014, photo by Christopher Michel
Inset: Cover of the original edition of The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
Insert background: Grainy B&W image of supposed UFO, Passaic, New Jersey, by George Stock, July 30, 1952

Recordings
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Read U.S. Finds No Evidence of Alien Technology in Flying Objects, but Can’t Rule It Out, Either in the New York Times, June 3, 2021.
Read Why Are We All Talking About U.F.O.s Right Now? in the New York Time, June 3, 2021.
Read about the Pentagon history of dealing with UFOs in the New Yorker "How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously" by Gideon Lewis-Kraus, April 30, 2021.
Read "Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program" by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie Kean, December 17, 2017.
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The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is a memoir written by former United States Air Force officer Edward Ruppelt about his involvement with the governmental investigation of unidentified flying objects in the early 1950’s. Ruppelt served as director of Project Grudge, then Project Blue Book, from 1951 to 1953. Ruppelt felt that the Air Force handling of the UFO question was “organized confusion”, so, realizing that he was probably the best qualified person to set the record straight, he wrote the book to lay out the facts that were “obscured by secrecy and confusion, a situation that has led to wild speculation on one end of the scale and an almost dangerously blase attitude on the other.” Ruppelt lays out the difficulty of writing about something “that doesn’t officially exist” and of dealing with the ambiguity of evidence and the problem of proof, ultimately letting the reader decide whether UFOs exist or note. The book has been described as “required reading for anyone seriously interested in the history of this subject".

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Item Info
EAN - DVD case	0684758936639
EAN - CD jacket	0682550991757
Media	MP3 CD
Package	DVD box
Author	Edward J. Ruppelt (1923-1960)
Recording
Read by	Roger Melin
Length	16 hours 1 minute
Type of Reading	Solo