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Pulp Magazine Cover, 1948
· November 1948

This document is not a pulp magazine but rather a declassified U.S. Air Force memorandum from 1949 concerning unidentified flying objects. The material includes correspondence between Air Weather Service headquarters at Andrews Air Force Base and the Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, discussing incident reports numbered 175-233 involving unidentified aerial objects. The memo references routine weather-balloon ascents and proposes clarifications to investigation guidelines regarding direction of flight and object descriptions. Dr. Hynek's evaluations categorize incidents as astronomical (likely meteorological phenomena), non-astronomical but attributable to balloons or conventional aircraft, or unexplained cases lacking sufficient evidence for determination. The OCR quality significantly degrades legibility in portions of the document.
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