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Hynek's poll of astronomers
On 6 August 1952, Dr J Allen Hynek wrote a “Special Report” on an informal survey of astronomers about UFOs during, and following, a American Astronomical Society meeting in Victoria, B.C. in June 1952.

(Commonly referred to as “the Hynek poll of astronomers”)

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

Text of report presented by Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 268-285 (in Chapter Eleven, entitled “Dr Hynek’s Conferences with Astronomers”) of the Ballantine Books paperback 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 Hynek’s Special Report see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1992

Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48-49 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Dimensions of a Phenomenon”) of the Publications International hardback edition.

2

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 66 (in Chapter 4) of the Alternative Albion softcover 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 864-866 (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 516-517 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

3

2001

Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 72-73 (in Chapter 3) of the California hardback edition.

2

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 281 (in Chapter 6) of the Cambridge 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 page 182 (in Chapter 4) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 114 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

1

1967

Greenfield, Irving A in his “The UFO Report” (1967) at page 51 (in Chapter 5) of the Lancer paperback edition.

1

1980

Greenwell, J Richard in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 29 (in an entry entitled “astronomers and UFOs”) of the NEL hardback edition.

1

1977

Hynek, J Allen in his “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13-14 (in Chapter 1) of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at pages 23-24 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition).

2

1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 81-82 (in Chapter 3) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 71-72 of the Signet paperback 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 215-217 (in Chapter 16) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at pages 282-283 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 283-284 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 215-217 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at pages 155-156 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

3

1976

Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 268-285 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition (“Chapter Eleven: Dr Hynek’s Conferences with Astronomers”).

18

1993

Thompson, Richard in his “Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Pheonemena” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 26 (in Chapter 1) of the GHP revised softcover edition.

1

1979

Westrum, Ronald M in “UFO Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist” (1979) (edited by Richard F Haines) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 103 (in Chapter 5) of the Scarebrow Press hardback edition.

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Other Material

Summary of report included in Project Blue Book Status Report Number 8 (1952.1231) at pages 4-5 (in Section 2). 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-PBB85-672 (page 672 of 915) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB85-713 (page 713 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-PBB1-647 (page 647 of 1537) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-686 (page 686 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

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