ufo, etc.

[Jonathan Lighter]

At the beginning of ch. 1, Ruppelt writes parenthetically,

"UFO is the official term that I created to replace the words 'flying saucers.'

JL

"Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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> Bill may have discovered the first use of "UFO" on paper.
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And it's entirely possible that there is an earlier one in the Blue Book
archive -- the search engine is _not_ user friendly, and when the
originals were microfilmed, they simply started photographing documents,
without much indexing or organizing.


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