Edward James Ruppelt (July 17, 1923 – September 15, 1960) was a United States Air Force officer probably best known for his involvement in Project Blue...

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, was initially directed by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt and followed projects of a similar nature such as Project Sign established...

flap, they received over 717 new reports. Project Blue Book director Edward J. Ruppelt later recalled: "During a six-month period in 1952... 148 of the nation's...

Objects is a 1956 book by then-retired Air Force UFO investigator Edward J. Ruppelt, detailing his experience running Project Bluebook. The book was noted...

Force. According to Ruppelt, Officially all of the sightings, except the UFO that was picked up on radar, are unknowns. Edward J. Ruppelt wrote that the first...

plane crashed outside of Kelso, Washington. Project Blue Book chief Edward J. Ruppelt characterized the story as "the dirtiest hoax in the UFO history."...

sensation. Though such figures are always difficult to verify, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the first head of Project Blue Book, reported that "It is rumored...

North Dakota, United States. United States Air Force (USAF) Captain Edward J. Ruppelt wrote in his bestselling and influential The Report on Unidentified...

Project Grudge also received criticism from former intelligence officer Edward J. Ruppelt, who was "convinced of the alien nature of UFOs and how he has seen...

been in-use since 1947. The acronym, "UFO" was coined by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, for the USAF. He wrote, "Obviously the term 'flying saucer' is misleading...

Ufology is a neologism derived from UFO (a term apparently coined by Edward J. Ruppelt), and is derived from appending the acronym UFO with the suffix -logy...

1952, and Hynek remained as scientific consultant. Air Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, Blue Book's first director, held Hynek in high regard: "Dr. Hynek...

(1947–1949) also later studied Arnold's story. According to Major Edward J. Ruppelt, I found that there was a lot of speculation on this report [amongst...

States Air Force (USAF) officer and Project Blue Book supervisor Edward J. Ruppelt, the Chiles-Whitted sighting was one of three "classic" UFO incidents...

climbed to 15,000 feet. According to former U.S. Air Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, no one could recall Mantell's description of the object, but "saucer...

Lt. Col. N. R. Rosengarten asked Edward J. Ruppelt to take over as the new project's leader, partly because Ruppelt "had a reputation as a good organizer"...

Horten brothers were similar to some UFO reports. In 1959, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the first head of Project Blue Book (Project Sign's follow-up investigation)...

identifiable of an unusual nature". However, according to Air Force officer Edward J. Ruppelt, who would become the supervisor of the Air Force's Project Blue Book...

in 1955, where he gave a 35-minute lecture and was interviewed by Edward J. Ruppelt, once head of the Air Force Project Blue Book. It was apparently the...

including the later USAF Project Blue Book head Edward J. Ruppelt, and astronomer and USAF consultant J. Allen Hynek. West Germany, in conjunction with...

investigator of the Roswell incident in 1947.[verification needed] Edward J. Ruppelt (1923–1960), Air Force captain who supervised Project Blue Book, the...

widely-read magazine in the nation. In 1956, retired Project Bluebook chief Edward J. Ruppelt recalled that the incident "didn't start a rash of reports like the...

Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2013. Ruppelt, Edward J. (1956). Report on Unidentified Flying Objects. DoubleDay. Archived...

(1909–1967) Carlo Rubbia (born 1934) – fission-fragment rocket proposer Edward J. Ruppelt (1923–1960) – director of Project Blue Book Archibald Russell (1904–1995)...

sensation. Though such figures are always difficult to verify, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the first head of Project Blue Book, reported that "It is rumored...

secret military projects. List of UFO sightings UFO conspiracy theory Ruppelt, Edward J. (1956) "Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", DoubleDay Carpenter...

Unidentified Flying Objects (1956), US Air Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt described astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek's report on the death of pilot Thomas Mantell...

outside of Kelso, Washington. Writing in 1956, Air Force officer Edward J. Ruppelt would conclude "The whole Maury Island Mystery was a hoax. The first...

Captain Edward J. Ruppelt was the head of Project Blue Book, the Air Force group assigned to investigate UFO reports. In 1953 Captain Ruppelt decided...

ideas in ufology that are still widely believed today. According to Edward J. Ruppelt, the article was "one of the most widely read and widely discussed...