The following is gleaned from the CIA’s How to Investigate a Flying Saucer which elucidates, “10 Tips When Investigating a Flying Saucer.”
For more, see my book Fifty Shades of Gray Aliens.
1. Establish a Group To Investigate and Evaluate Sightings
In 1948 AD, the CIA established Project SAUCER which became Project SIGN which became Project GRUDGE which became Project BLUE BOOK “Although the CIA was not directly affiliated with” this (final?) project, “on the premise that UFOs might be real (although not necessarily extraterrestrial) and of national security concern.”
2. Determine the Objectives of Your Investigation
Back in the 1950s AD “Most [CIA] officials did not believe the sightings were extraterrestrial in origin; they were instead concerned the UFOs might be new Soviet weapons.” Project BLUE BOOK “defined three main objectives for their investigations” such as whether the phenomena “present a threat to the security of the US…exhibit any technological advances which could be channeled into US research and development…explain or identify the stimuli which caused the observer to report a UFO.”
By knowing this last bit, they could know how to make people report UFOs.
3. Consult With Experts
Listed are some of the projects, panels, and groups I listed in CIA report on the CIAs role in the study of UFOs. Specified is that “Project BLUE BOOK’s findings in the mid-1960s” was “concluded that ‘no UFO case which represented technological or scientific advances outside of a terrestrial framework’ had been found, but the committee did recommend that UFOs be studied intensively to settle the issue once and for all.”
4. Create a Reporting System To Organize Incoming Cases
This was headed up by the US Air Force’s Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) which “developed questionnaires to be used when taking reports of possible UFO sightings.”
Moreover, “Project BLUE BOOK categorized sightings according to what the team suspected they were attributable to: Astronomical…Aircraft…Balloons; Satellites; Other…Insufficient Data; and finally, Unidentified.”
5. Eliminate False Positives
This pertains to “ruling out common explanations” so as to “Eliminate each of the known and probable causes of UFO sightings, leaving a small portion of ‘unexplained’ cases to focus on.”
It is noted that from the late 1950s and most of the 1960s “U-2, A-12, and SR-71 flights accounted for more than half of all UFO reports.”
Also, “Some common explanations for UFO sightings” are “misidentified aircrafts (the); celestial events; mass hysteria and hallucination; ‘war hysteria;’ ‘midsummer madness;’ hoaxes; publicity stunts; and the misinterpretation of known objects.” Noted is also the “balls of light” phenomena which are “believed to be electrostatic (similar to St. Elmo’s fire) or electromagnetic phenomena.”
6. Develop Methodology To Identify Common Aircraft and Other Aerial Phenomena Often Mistaken for UFOs
This simply pertains to having “developed a methodology to determine if the UFO sighting could likely be attributable to a known aircraft or aerial phenomenon.”
7. Examine Witness Documentation
“Any photographs, videos, or audio recordings can be immensely helpful in evaluating a reported UFO sighting.”
8. Conduct Controlled Experiments
…in order to “try and replicate the unknown phenomena” such as a case of employing “‘pillow balloons’ at different distances under similar weather conditions at the site” relating to claims of “self-luminous” objects.”
9. Gather and Test Physical and Forensic Evidence
This includes using Geiger counters, gathering soil samples, etc.
10. Discourage False Reporting
Referenced is “needing to separate the ‘signal from the noise.’”
It is noted, “The CIA in the early 1950s was concerned that because of the tense Cold War situation and increased Soviet capabilities, the Soviets could use UFO reports to ignite mass panic and hysteria. Even worse, the Soviets could use UFO sightings to overload the US air warning system so that it could not distinguish real targets from supposed UFOs.”
As for “objects or phenomena commonly mistaken for UFOs” they note “unusually illuminated objects (like balloons or aircraft reflections), as well as natural phenomena (such as meteors, fireballs, mirages, or noctilucent ‘night’ clouds).”
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