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Captain Edward James Ruppelt



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Captain Edward James Ruppelt

Captain Edward James Ruppelt (1923-1960) was a United States Air Force officer and the head of Project Blue Book, a government study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs): 

  • Coined the term "unidentified flying object"
    Ruppelt replaced the terms "flying saucer" and "flying disk" with the term "unidentified flying object".
  • Led Project Blue Book
    Ruppelt was the director of Project Grudge from late 1951 until it became Project Blue Book in March 1952
  • Led Project Blue Book
    Ruppelt led Project Blue Book from 1952 to 1953, during the Korean War. He oversaw the project's most productive years, when investigations were conducted without judgment. 
  • Wrote The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
    Ruppelt's book is considered a key work in the history of UFO studies. It includes his personal investigations, findings, and assessments of some UFO cases. 
  • Inspiration for UFO research
    Ruppelt is considered a pioneer of UFO research and a hero in the fight to gain respectability for the field. 

Ruppelt was born in Grundy Center, Iowa on July 17, 1923 and died in Long Beach, California from a heart attack on September 15, 1960. 

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