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Ruppelt's revised UFO book adds chapters calling UFOs a 'Space Age Myth'

When: 1960
Sources: 1 public source

Edward Ruppelt, author of 'The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects' Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The second edition of former Blue Book chief Edward Ruppelt's The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects added three chapters reviewing later cases and ending with a far more skeptical view, closing on the phrase 'our Space Age Myth - the UFO'.

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FirsthandThe Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, chapters 18-20 (Edward J. Ruppelt, second edition) (opens in a new tab)Project Gutenberg / 1960

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