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Project Sign report
During February 1949, the final report of Project Sign (“The Findings of Project Sign”) was completed.

 

Officially cited as Technical Report-TR-2274-IA of the Technical Intelligence Division, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.

(Commonly referred to as “the Project Sign Report”).

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

Relatively lengthy extracts of the text from the Project Sign final report are presented by Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 170-214 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition (Chapter Eight: The Findings of Project Sign).

Complete text of Appendix C of the Project Sign Report (i.e. Valley’s report) presented in the Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 1384-1391 (in Appendix T) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at pages 898-904 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition).

Complete text of Appendix D to the Project Sign Report (i.e. Lipp’s letter) presented in the Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 1316-1325 (in Appendix D) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at pages 844-852 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links:

http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.html

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 the Project Sign final report see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1996

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 28-29 (in Chapter 1) of the Parragon hardback edition.

2

1990

Canadeo, Anne in her “UFO’s: The Fact or Fiction File” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (in Chapter 2 of the pro-UFO side of the book, i.e. the side which starts with the Chapter 1 entitled “Visitors at Cisco Grove”) of the Walker hardback edition.

1

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 page 283 (in an entry entitled “Project Sign”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

1

1969

Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 850-851 (in Section 5, Chapter 2 “UFOs: 1947-1968”, by Edward U Condon) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at page 506-607 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links:

http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.html

2

1997

Devereux, Paul and Brookesmith, Peter in their “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 24 (in Chapter 1) of the Blandford softcover edition.

1

1998

Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 143 (in Chapter 5) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

1

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 274-275 (in Chapter 6) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

2

2000

Dolan, Richard in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 114 (in Chapter 3) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 67 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

1

1974

Fowler, Raymond in his “UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-31 (in Chapter 3) of the Exposition Banner hardback edition, at pages 31-32 of the Bantam paperback edition.

2

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-117 (in Chapter 3) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

2

1988

Hall, Richard in his “Uninvited Guests” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 157-158 (in Chapter 10) of the Aurora Press paperback edition.

2

1972

Hynek, J Allen in his “The UFO Experience” (1972) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (in Chapter 11) at page 176-177 of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with same page numbering in the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition) at pages 200-201 of the various Ballantine paperback editions, at page 221 of the Corgi paperback edition.

2

1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 47-49 (in Chapter 2) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 41-43 of the Signet paperback edition.

3

1997

Kanon, Gregory in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 3) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

1

2001

Lamb, David in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : A Philosophical Inquiry” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 145 (in Chapter 5) of the Routledge softcover edition.

1

1998

Mannion, Michael in his “Project Mindshift” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 62-63 (in Chapter 3) of the Evans hardback edition.

2

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-33 (in Chapter 3, “The Classics” – in part of a section entitled “Project Grudge”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 35-39 of the Berkley paperback edition.

4

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 189 (in Chapter 15) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

1

1974

Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at pages 6-7 of the manuscript, at pages 19-20 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 and Estes, Russ in their “Spaceships of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 61-64 (in Part 3) of the Fireside softcover edition.

4

1994

Randle, Kevin and Schmitt, Donald in their “The Truth About the UFO Crash At Roswell” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 94 (in Chapter 13) of the Evans hardback edition.

1

2002

Randle, Kevin in his “Case MJ-12” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 95-99 (in Chapter 5) of the Harper Torch paperback edition.

5

1997

Randle, Kevin in his “Conspiracy of Silence” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 67-73, 76-77 (in Chapter 3) of the Avon paperback edition.

9

1997

Randle, Kevin in his “Project Bluebook Exposed” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-13 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “In the Beginning…”) of the Marlowe softcover edition.

4

1998

Randle, Kevin in his “Project Moon Dust” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-24, 26-28 (in Chapter 1) of the Avon softcover edition.

8

1996

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “50 Years of UFO Encounters” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in unnumbered section entitled “1949: Grudge Match”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition.

1

1985

Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 30 (in Chapter 3) of the Blackwell hardback edition.

1

1981

Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Study” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 46 (in Chapter 3) of the Hale hardback edition.

1

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 258-259 of the Corgi softback edition in an entry entitled “Project Sign”.

2

1997

Sellier, Charles E and Meier, Joe in their “UFO” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 31 (in Chapter 2) of the Contemporary Books hardback edition.

1

1997

Shawcross, Tim in his “The Roswell File” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 152-153 (in Chapter 9) of the Bloomsbury softcover edition.

2

1976

Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-11 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition (Introduction).

2

1999

Sturrock, Peter in his “The UFO Enigma“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-12 (in Chapter 2) of the Warner Aspect hardback edition.

2

1991

Thompson, Keith in his “Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 8 (in Chapter 1) of the Fawcett softcover edition.

1

1993

Thompson, Richard in his “Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Pheonemena” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-81 (in Chapter 3) of the GHP revised softcover edition.

2

1980

Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 29-31 (in Chapter 2), 32-33 (in Chapter 3) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

5

 

Other Material

Complete images of the Project Sign Report 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 85 (“Administrative Files: Box 1”). Images of the relevant pages are at the link below from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB85-3 (page 3 of 915) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB85-47 (page 47 of 1014).

Complete images of the Project Sign Report 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-PBB1-4 (page 4 of 1537) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-49 (page 49 of 1537).

http://www.bluebookarchive.org

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