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Air Force Letter 200-5
On 29 April 1952, the US Air Force Air Force Letter 200-5 (“AFL 200-5”) entitled “Unidentified Flying Objects Reporting” set forth UFO reporting procedures within the US Air Force, giving Project Blue Book authority to contact any Air Force unit in the USA without going through usual channels.

AFL 200-5 was later modified by the release of AFR 200-2 (26th August 1953).

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Text of letter available online at:

http://www.cufon.org/cufon/AFL200-5.htm

http://www.nicap.org/afl2005.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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

Image of AFL 200-5 presented by by 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 265-266 (in Appendix 2) of the Rose Press softcover edition.

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 Air Force Letter 200-5 see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1974

Blum, Ralph and Blum, Judy in their “Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 171 (in Chapter 15) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition).

1

1974

Brummett, William E (Major, USAF) and Zuick, Ernest R (Captain) on pages 10-11 of a research paper entitled “Should The Air Force Reopen Project Blue Book?” submitted to the Air and Staff College of the Air (Force) University on 17th May 1974. Available online at http://www.cufon.org/cufon/afrstdy1.htm

2

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 466, 470 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition forming part of an entry entitled “Project Blue Book”.

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 page 272 (forming part of an entry entitled “Project Blue Book, 1952-1959”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

1

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Volume 2:L-Z at page 730 (forming part of an entry entitled “Project Blue Book” at pages 730-742) 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 860, 884 (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 pages 513, 529 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

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 page 163 (in Chapter 4) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 98 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

1

1976

Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 393 (in Chapter 20) of the Ballantine Books 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 89-90, 91, 93-94 (in Chapter 3), with image of document presented at 265-266 (in Appendix 2) of the Rose Press softcover edition.

5

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 161-162 (in Chapter 4) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

2

1995

Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at page 232 (in Chapter 12) of the Box Tree hardback edition.

1

1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68-69 (in Chapter 3), 104 (in Chapter 4) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 60, 92 of the Signet paperback edition.

3

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 58 (Chapter 5, “The 1952 Flap” – in part of a section entitled “Prelude to the Great Flap”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, page 68 of the Berkley paperback edition.

1

1955

Project Blue Book Special Report Number 14 (1955.0505) at page 4. Image of relevant page appears in Leon Davidson’s “Flying Saucers : An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14” (1966.0700) at page numbered 12 (handwritten in the top outer corner) of the Ramsey-Wallace paperbound 3rd Edition. Complete images of Project Blue Book Special Report Number 14 included on the redacted National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 86 (“Administrative Files: Box 2”), 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 microfilm roll number 30,362, 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)). 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

1

1952

Project Blue Book Status Report Number 7 (1952.0531) at pages 1-2 (in Section 1.E). Complete images of relevant report included on the redacted National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 85 (“Administrative Files: Box 1”), at the link below from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB85-646 (page 646 of 915) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB85-671 (page 671 of 915). Complete images of relevant report included on the unredacted Maxwell Air Force Base microfilm roll number 30,362, at the link below from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-621 (page 621 of 1537) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-646 (page 646 of 1537)). Images of complete text of relevant report available free online as a downloadable pdf file from the download section of the website at the link below.

http://www.bluebookarchive.org

2

1998

Randle, Kevin in his “Project Moon Dust” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 35-36 (in Chapter 2) of the Avon softcover edition.

2

1956

Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 132-133 (in Chapter 10) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at page 178 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 176-177 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 132-133 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at pages 94-95 of the reprinted Source Books softcover edition. The first of these editions (i.e. the original 17 chapter hardback edition) has the same page numbering as the version available free online at: http://www.nicap.org/rufo/contents2.htm

2

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 7 of the Corgi softback edition in an entry entitled “Air Force Regulation (AFR) 200-5”

1

1980

Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 (in Chapter 7) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

1

1970

Young, Mort in “Flying Saucers Have Arrived!” (1970) (edited by Jay David) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 210 (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 23 (in Chapter 2) of the Essandess softcover edition.

1

 

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