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Top 25 Search Phrases

This collection reports the most frequent phrases used to search for documents on this site during the previous month, along with the number of times that search phrase was entered. It does not reflect phrases entered into third-party search engines used to find this site, but rather reflects phrases entered into the search mechanisms on this site. We will try to update this page as necessary somewhere between the 1st and the 15th of the following month.

September 2011:
1. USSR olympic games: 6,243
2. UFO 2,111
3. national: 1.904
4. italy 1949: 1,850
5. ufo crash: 1,768
6. Bulgarian: 1,755
7. el: 1,719
8. PINOCHET: 1,650
9. watergate: 1,649
10. Monarch: 1,6395
11. Drug: 1,472
12. cuba: 1,459
13. sakharov: 1,449
14. report presented tothe subcommittee: 1,347
15. ussr: 1,338
16. vietnam: 1,334
17. chile: 1,254
18. Apollo 11: 1,191
19. north: 1,158
20. area: 1,105
21. flying saucers: 1,073
22. psychological operations: 1,061
23. Dubcek: 1,023
24. mind: 1,008
25. National Intelligence Daily: 994

October 2011:
1. USSR olympic games: 2,408
2. sakharov: 1,1010
3. cuba: 976
4. Bulgarian: 929
5. UFO: 792
6. vietnam: 692
7. italy 1949: 691
8. ufo crash: 691
9. Drug: 689
10. area: 684
11. chile: 672
12. national: 645
13. ufo: 643
14. Apollo 11: 630
15. watergate: 613
16. flying saucers: 593
17. report presented to the subcommittee: 578
18. psychological operations: 539
19. PINOCHET: 537
20. el: 526
21. Monarch: 494
22. kuwait: 485
23. yugoslavia: 480
24. north: 475
25. mccain: 465

November 2011:
1. USSR olympic games: 10,841
2. el: 5,378
3. national: 4,694
4. UFO: 4,629
5. watergate: 4,544
6. Bulgarian: 4,380
7. ufo crash: 4,273
8. Monarch: 4,106
9. italy 1949: 3,971
10. sakharov: 3,922
11. ussr: 3,803
12. area: 3,569
13. PINOCHET: 3,428
14. vietnam: 3,317
15. Drug: 3,183
16. cuba: 3,032
17. Apollo 11: 2,985
18. north: 2,904
19. report presented to the subcommittee: 2,878
20. assassination: 2,793
21. chile: 2,705
22. guatemala: 2,419
23. guyana: 2,396
24. psychological operations: 2,380
25. Dubcek: 2,348