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Bluebook Special Report 14
Project Blue Book Special Report Number 14 (dated 5 May 1955) was entitled “Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects”. It was based on studies by the Battelle Memorial Institute.

 

 

 

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1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Images of complete text of Project Blue Book Special Report Number 14 available free online as a downloadable pdf file from the download section of the website at the link below:

http://www.bluebookarchive.org

There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead included below a search box which can be used to search various leading UFO websites at the same time. You can then click on tabs at the top of the search results to list only results from forums, only results from websites I have labelled as "skeptical" etc. I have included tabs for a couple of specific websites that I find particularly useful, including the valuable archives of the UFO UpDates email discussion List. The relevant websites are all listed in the discussion of the "UFO Searchillion" search engine in Section 2.4 of the "Free UFO Researcher Starter Pack" and continues to evolve...

 

The relevant search box is one of the two main tools on this website which are intended to help reduce the amount of reinvention of the wheel within UFOlogy. The other main tool is the collection of tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.

 

 

 

Book References

Images of the full text of Special Report Number 14 and some of the important tables and figures from that report in the final section of Leon Davidson’s “Flying Saucers : An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14” (1966.0700) at pages numbered 1-84 (handwritten in the top outer corner) of the Ramsey-Wallace paperbound 3rd Edition. Table of contents at pages 2-4 (pages iii-v in the original report), “Summary” at pages 5-7 (pages vii-ix in the original report), “Advanced Study of the Data : Statistical Chi Square test” at pages 40-49 (pages 60-75 in the original report), “Advanced Study of the Data :The ‘Flying Saucer’ Model” at pages 50–67 (pages 76-93 in the original report), Conclusions at page 68 (page 94 in the original report). Discussed in Leon Davidson’s “Flying Saucers : An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14” (1966.0700) at pages D4 and D7-D10 of the Ramsey-Wallace paperbound 3rd Edition.

Extracts from Project Blue Book Special Report #14 appear by Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-170 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition (Chapter Seven: “Deriving a Model UFO from Twelve Top Cases of ‘Unknowns’”) and Special Report #14 is discussed by Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition (Introduction).

The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.

Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. Together with the "UFO Searchillion" search box, I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.

For discussion of Project Blue Book Special Report Number 14 see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1997

Baker, Alan in his “Sci-Fi Channel: True Life Encounters: UFO Sightings” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 155-158 (in Chapter 5) of the Orion softcover edition.

4

1995

Berliner, Don with Galbraith, Marie and Huneeus, Antonio in their “UFO Briefing Document : The Best Available Evidence“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 214 (Appendices, section entitled “US Government UFO Projects and Studies”) of the Dell paperback edition.

1

1995

Berliner, Don with Galbraith, Marie and Huneeus, Antonio in their “UFO Briefing Document : The Best Available Evidence“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (Part 1:Overview, section entitled “The Case for UFO Reality”, sub-section entitled “Government Statements”) of the Dell paperback edition.

1

2004

Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 265 (in an entry entitled “Report Number 14”) of the Pocket Books softcover edition.

1

1996

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44 (in Chapter 2), 53, 62 (in Chapter 3) of the Parragon hardback edition.

3

1998

Campagna, Palmiro in his “The UFO Files: The Canadian Connection Exposed” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 54 (in Chapter 4), 154 (in Chapter 11) of the Stoddart softcover edition.

2

1998

Campagna, Palmiro in his “The UFO Files: The Canadian Connection Exposed” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 66 (in Chapter 5) of the Stoddart softcover edition.

1

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 482-486 (in an entry entitled “Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14”), 468 (forming part of an entry entitled “Project Blue Book”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition.

6

1990

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 1 – UFOs in the 1980s” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages xii-xiii (in an entry entitled “The UFO Phenomenenon before 1980”) of the Apogee hardback edition.

2

1992

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 2 – Emergence of a Phenomenon” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 276-280 (in an entry entitled “Project Blue Book Special Report 14”), 274 (forming part of an entry entitled “Project Blue Book, 1952-1959”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

6

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition : Volume 2:L-Z” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 742-745 (in an entry entitled “Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14”), 731 (forming part of an entry entitled “Project Blue Book” at pages 730-742) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

5

1992

Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 105 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Ultimate Secret”) of the Publications International hardback edition.

1

2001

Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 13 (in Chapter 1) of the California hardback edition.

1

2000

Dolan, Richard M in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 200 (in Chapter 4), 253-254 (in Chapter 5) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 122, 128, 178 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

3

2003

Druffel, Ann in her “Firestorm : Dr James E McDonald's Fight for UFO Science” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 60 (in Chapter 3) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition.

1

1983

Evans, Hilary in his “The Evidence for UFOs” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 of the Aquarian softcover edition (in Chapter 1).

1

1976

Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 405 (in Chapter 20) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

1

1978

Friedman, Stanton T in “Worlds Beyond” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (edited by Larry Geis and Fabrice Florin) at pages 205-206 (in Sequence 21 entitled “Flying Saucers Are Real”) of the And/Or softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Perennial Library paperback edition published under the title “Moving Into Space: The Myths and Realities of Extraterrestrial Life”).

2

2008

Friedman, Stanton in his “Flying Saucers and Science : A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-49 (in Chapter 1), 114 (in Chapter 4), 154 (in Chapter 6), 252 (in Chapter 10) of the New Page softcover edition.

17

2007

Friedman, Stanton and Marden, Kathleen in their “Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience” (2007) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 248-249 of the New Page Books softcover edition.

2

1992

Friedman, Stanton and Berliner, Don in their “Crash at Corona” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 31-32 (in Chapter 3) of the 1997 Marlowe Company softback edition.

2

1991

Friedman, Stanton in an interview in “UFOs And The Alien Presence: Six Viewpoints” (1991) (Edited by Michael Lindemann) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14, 18-19, 41-42 (in Chapter 1) of the 2002 Group softcover edition.

5

1968

Friedman, Stanton in his written statements to the Roush Hearing (the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics "Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects" on 1968.0729) at pages 196-197, 209-211 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Complete transcript available free online at the following links:

http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/contents.html http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/contents.html

5

1975

Friedman, Stanton T in “Thesis Antithesis” (1975) (edited by A D Emerson) at pages 32-33 (in Part 1, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Scientific Approach to Flying Saucer Behaviour”) of the AIAA paperbound edition.

2

1997

Friedman, Stanton T in his “Top Secret – MAJIC” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 5-6, 9-10, 11 (in the Introduction), 28 (in Chapter 2), 119, 126, 140 (in Chapter 7), 210-211 (in Chapter 12) of the Michael O’ Mara hardback edition.

 

1987

Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 419-421 (in Chapter 17) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition).

3

1996

Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 538 (in Chapter 20) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition).

1

2000

Hall, Michael David and Connors, Wendy Ann in their “Captain Edward J Ruppelt : Summer of the Saucers - 1952” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 67-68, 75 (in Chapter 2), 122 (in Chapter 4), 210, 220 (in the Conclusion), 250, 258 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Final Word - The Forgotten Correspondence of Edward Ruppelt”) of the Rose Press softcover edition.

8

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153 (in Chapter 4), 223-224 (in Chapter 5), 241 (in Chapter 6) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

4

1996

Hamilton, William F in his “Alien Magic: UFO Crashes, Abductions, Underground Bases” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 51 (in Chapter 5) of the Global Communications softcover edition.

1

2000

Hansen, Terry in his “The Missing Times : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-Up : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover -Up” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 222 (in Chapter 6) of the Xlibris softcover edition.

1

1979

Hendry, Allan in his “The UFO Handbook” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 263-267, 268 (in Chapter 20) of the Sphere softback edition.

6

1975

Hynek, J Allen and Vallee, Jacques in their “The Edge of Reality” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 190 (in Chapter 7) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition.

1

1977

Hynek, J Allen in his “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 243, 262-269 (in Chapter 11, “The Air Force Numbers Game”) of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at pages 253 and 272-278 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition).

9

1972

Hynek, J Allen in his “The UFO Experience” (1972) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 169 (in Chapter 11) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with same page numbering in the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition) at page 191 of the various Ballantine paperback editions, at page 211 of the Corgi paperback edition.

1

1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 138-142 (in Chapter 6) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 123-126 of the Signet paperback edition.

5

1970

Keel, John A in his “UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 40 (in Chapter 2), 142 (in Chapter 7), 293 (in Chapter 15) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Abacus softcover edition).

3

1973

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 24 (in Chapter 2) of the Signet paperback edition, page 37 of the Panther paperback edition.

1

1960

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers: Top Secret” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 43 (in Chapter 3), 91 (in Chapter 6), 113 (in Chapter 8), 157 (in Chapter 11) of the G P Putnam hardback edition.

4

1997

Klass, Philip J in his “The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at 210-211 (in Chapter 26) of the Prometheus Books hardback edition.

2

1969

Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “UFOs: The Whole Story” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 267-269 (in Chapter 12) of the Signet paperback edition.

3

1980

Maccabee, Bruce and Smith, Marcia S. in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 45-50 (in an entry entitled “Battelle Memorial Institute study”) of the NEL hardback edition.

6

1980

Maccabee, Bruce and Smith, Marcia S. in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 45-50 (in an entry entitled “Battelle Memorial Institute study”) of the NEL hardback edition.

6

2000

Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41 (in Chapter 5), 107 (in Chapter 9) of the Llewellyn softcover edition.

2

1962

Manas, John H in his “Flying Saucers and Space Men” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 25, 27-28 (in Chapter 1) of the Zavallis softcover edition.

3

1961

Maney, Charles And Hall, Richard in their “Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects” (1961) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 45-46 (in Part 2, Chapter 2, by Charles Maney), 86-88 (in Part 2, Chapter 8, by Charles Maney), 120-121 (in Part 3, Chapter 2, by Richard Hall) of the privately published hardback edition.

7

1961

Maney, Charles And Hall, Richard in their “Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects” (1961) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 114-115 (in Part 3, Chapter 2, by Richard Hall) of the privately published hardback edition.

2

1998

Mannion, Michael in his “Project Mindshift” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 117 (in Chapter 5) of the Evans hardback edition.

1

2002

Moseley, James and Pflock, Karl in their “Shockingly Close to the Truth!” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-117 (in Chapter 5) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

2

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 88 (Chapter 6, “The Robertson Panel” – in part of the section entitled “Aftermath”), 109-110 (Chapter 8) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 107-108, 132-133 of the Berkley paperback edition.

3

2001

Pflock, Karl T in his “Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 190 (in Chapter 15) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

1

1972

Price-Williams, Douglas R in “UFO's: A Scientific Debate” (1972) (edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 230 (in Chapter 10) of the Barnes and Noble hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Norton paperback edition.

1

1974

Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at pages 14-15 of the manuscript, at pages 27-28 of the NIDS pdf version available free on-line on various websites, including at the following link:

http://www.projectbluebook.us/UFOs%20An%20Air%20Force%20Dilemma%20By%20Quintanilla.pdf

http://www.nidsci.org/pdf/quintanilla.pdf

 

2

1997

Randle, Kevin D in his “Project Bluebook Exposed” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 76-88 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “May 5, 1955: Project Blue Book Special Report #14” generally) of the Marlowe softcover edition.

13

1999

Randle, Kevin D in his “Scientific Ufology” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 218-219 (in Chapter 8) of the Avon softcover edition.

2

1996

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “50 Years of UFO Encounters” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 26-27 (in unnumbered section entitled “1955: Ruppelt’s Revenge”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition.

2

1994

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 135-138 (in Chapter 10) of the Piatkus softcover edition.

4

1985

Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44-47 (in Chapter 3) of the Blackwell hardback edition.

4

2000

Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48-49 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the Sterling softcover edition.

2

1981

Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Study” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48-49 (in Chapter 3) of the Hale hardback edition.

2

1992

Randles, Jenny in her “UFOs and How to See Them” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 1) of the Brockhampton Press hardback edition.

1

1987

Ron Westrum in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 325 of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition (in Chapter 5.2, entitled “UFOs and Scientists”).

1

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 305-306 (in an entry entitled “Special Report No. 14”) of the Corgi softback edition.

2

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 31 (in an entry entitled “Battelle Memorial Institute”), 305-306 (in an entry entitled “Special Report No. 14”) of the Corgi softback edition.

3

1976

Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at pages 57-59 (in Chapter 5) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition.

3

1987

Smith, Willy in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 372 of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition (in Chapter 6.2).

1

1997

Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 28 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1947-1957”) of the Boxtree hardback edition.

1

1991

Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 36 (in an entry entitled “Battelle Institute Study”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 42-43 of the Headline paperback edition.

1

1977

Strickland, Joshua in his “Extra-terrestrials on Earth” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 41 (in Chapter 3) of the Granada softcover edition.

1

1999

Sturrock, Peter in his “The UFO Enigma“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 15 (in Chapter 2) of the Warner Aspect hardback edition.

1

1991

Thompson, Keith in his “Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 55 (in Chapter 5) of the Fawcett softcover edition.

1

1965

Vallee, Jacques in his “Anatomy of a Phenomenon” (1965) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 98 (in Chapter 4) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition), page 106 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, page 139 of the 1966 revised and enlarged Ace Star paperback edition.

1

1994

Vesco, Renato and Childress, David Hatcher in their “Man Made UFOs 1944-1994 – 50 Years of Suppression” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 259-260 (in Chapter 8), 314 (in Chapter 10) of the AUP softcover edition.

3

1971

Vesco, Renato in his “Intercept Ufo” (Formerly published as “Intercept - But Don't Shoot”) (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 314 (in Chapter 10) of the Zebra paperback edition.

1

1980

Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 70-71 (in Chapter 7) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

2

1970

Young, Mort in “Flying Saucers Have Arrived!” (1970) (edited by Jay David) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 213 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Investigators”) of the World hardback edition. The relevant chapter is reprinted from “UFO : Top Secret” by Mort Young.

1

1967

Young, Mort in his “UFO Top Secret” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 27 (in Chapter 2) of the Essandess softcover edition.

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Other Material

Complete images of Project Blue Book Special Report Number 14 included on the redacted US National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book, released to the National Archives in 1975 – see National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 86 (“Administrative Files: Box 2”). Images of the relevant pages are at the link below from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB86-538 (page 538 of 1249) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB86-847 (page 847 of 1249).

Complete images of the Project Blue Book Special Report Number 14 included on the unredacted Maxwell Air Force Base (“Maxwell”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book – see Maxwell microfilm roll number 30,362. Images of the document are at the link below from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-1229 (page 1229 of 1537) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-1535 (page 1535 of 1537).

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