author
Edward J. Ruppelt
1922–1960
Best known as the Air Force officer who led early investigations into UFO reports, he brought a more careful, neutral tone to a subject usually treated as sensation. His firsthand account of those years helped shape how generations of readers understood Project Blue Book.
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The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
by Edward J. Ruppelt
About the author
Edward J. Ruppelt was an American Air Force officer and writer remembered mainly for his role in the U.S. military's early UFO investigations. Reliable biographical sources identify him as Edward James Ruppelt, born in Iowa in 1923 and deceased in 1960; although your prompt lists 1922, the sources I found consistently give July 17, 1923.
He is most closely associated with Project Blue Book, the Air Force program that examined reports of unidentified flying objects in the early 1950s. He is also widely credited with helping popularize the more neutral term "unidentified flying object", moving away from the more sensational language of "flying saucers."
Ruppelt later wrote The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, a book valued by many readers because it comes from someone who worked inside the investigation itself. Even decades later, his name remains central to the history of UFO research because he combined military experience, curiosity, and a surprisingly measured voice on a topic that often invited exaggeration.