Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1136 05 1136-05-p130

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a _oanenenconcmniiiaie geographic one degree squares and found that the largest number of reports came from the area around White Sands, New Mexico. Actually, as early as January 1953, Ruppelt was aware that UFO reports were concentrated around certain “critical areas" of the United States (Ruppelt, Air Defense Command Briefing, 24 January 1953; Project Blue Book microfilm record). SR 14 refers to twelve "strategic areas" that were picked “on the basis of concentration of object sightings."...