Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1136 05 1136-05-p126

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7 i : investigating procedures had decreased the percentages of un- knowns during the following years: Unknowns (i.e., reports of phenomena that could not be identified despite sufficient information to allow identification) for 1953 and 1954 combined were 9%, and for the first part of 1955 were only 3% of the UFO reports received. (The summary, which was echoed in the press release of October 25, 1955, did not mention that during 1952, the first year of “better reporting and investigating,"...