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Flying Saucer Working Party
During June 1951, the British Ministry of Defence’s “Working Party on Flying Saucers” produces its final report.

The cover sheet for the report read as follows: “Ministry of Defence : Directorate of Scientific Intelligence and Joint Technical Intelligence Committee : UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS : DSI/JTIC Report No. 7”.

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Final report available on Nick Pope’s website:

http://www.nickpope.net/Selected_Documents.htm

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

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 Working Party on Flying Saucers see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

 

Bruni, Georgina and Pope, Nick in an online article, on Nick Pope’s website: http://www.nickpope.net/official_history.htm

1

 

Clark, David and Roberts, Andy in an article entitled “Britain’s Secret ‘X-Files’ Revealed”, available online on their website at: http://www.flyingsaucery.com/mod/comment.htm

1

2007

Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Flying Saucerers : A social history of UFOlogy” (2007) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 54 (in Chapter 4) of the Alternative Albion softcover edition.

1

2002

Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Out Of The Shadows” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 77-96 (in Chapter 6) of the Piatkus hardback edition.

20

2009

Clarke, David in his “The UFO Files : The Inside Story of Real-Life Sightings” (2009) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 40-46 (in Chapter 2) of the National Archives softcover edition.

7

2006

Good, Timothy in his “Need To Know : UFOs, the Military and Intelligence” (2006) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 148-152 (in Chapter 10) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition.

5

2001

Pope, Nick in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 241-243 (in an entry entitled “Flying Saucer Working Party”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

3

2001

Randles, Jenny in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 137 (in an entry entitled “British Government Interest in UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

1

1987

Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 189-190 (in Chapter 31) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition.

2

 

Other Material

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