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Air Defense Command's 4602nd AISS takes on UFO field investigations

Name: Air Defense Command's 4602nd AISS takes on UFO field investigations
Start: 1953
Location: Colorado Springs, CO

When: 1953
Where: Colorado Springs, CO
Sources: 1 public source

Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, home of Air Defense Command and its 4602nd AISS U.S. government (NORAD Office of History), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

With Project Blue Book short of staff, its chief Edward Ruppelt arranged for the Air Defense Command's 4602nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron, a unit with field teams across the U.S., to investigate UFO reports. Blue Book would then analyze cases the teams could not explain.

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FirsthandThe Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Edward J. Ruppelt, 1956) (opens in a new tab)Project Gutenberg / 1956

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