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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9 Anatomy Of A What’zit = Unidentified aerial objects can come in many forms, a variety of colors and can maneuver in myriad ways as has been attested to by those who have witnessed the phenom- ena. A frequently used description is “football-shaped,” but this has strong contenders in “two saucers, lip to lip,” and “mushroom-shaped.” Some are cigar-shaped. Many ob- servers have been impressed by the soundlessness of the craft while others have mentioned buzzirig or beeping noises. There has been testimony to windowed craft and to many without apparent openings. The wide diversity in description has prompted some skeptics to dismiss the lot as figments of the imagination. It has prompted others to point out that not all interplane- tary craft need be controlled by the same intelligence, or released on the same mission. And serious students of UFOs acknowledge that many sightings can indeed be weather balloons, satellites, reflections, constellations and /or commercial or private aircraft. In the interests of establishing the many shapes, colors and behaviour patterns in which the UFOs may show them- selves this magazine has enlisted the services of its Day- ton, Ohio, correspondent. He visited the offices of Project Blue Book at Wright-Patterson Air-Force Base in Dayton, Air Force headquarters for reports on thousands of UFO sightings, under the direction of physicist Major Hector Quintanilla. Here, given access to the nearly 11,000 reports he made a selection of some of the more current sightings that point up the numerous ways in which a UFO may manifest itself. He has included the time and place of the sightings, the type and number of persons who made it, continued on next page Over munitions plant in Rio de Janeiro. Motionless in windy sky, reflecting lights from plant. Took off at high speed. Dec. 9 1954. Two unidentified flying objects (disc shape) in unretouched photo, exposure one minute, over Buenos Aires, July 16, 1965. UPI photo. Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9 a ya