Saturday Evening Post runs Sidney Shalett's two-part saucer series

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The Saturday Evening Post published a two-part article by Sidney Shalett, written with Air Force cooperation, that mostly explained saucer reports away while conceding a few were unexplained. Ruppelt called it the first time the Air Force reported on UFOs officially.

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  1. FirsthandThe Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Edward J. Ruppelt, 1956; revised 1959) (opens in a new tab)Project Gutenberg / 1956

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