On 14 August 1952, a CIA briefing paper entitled “Flying Saucers” details background of both Air Force and CIA investigations and considers major theories.

 

 

 

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Text of relevant document included in CUFON CIA ufo-related document sampler in Part 1 (of 2 Parts). Available online at: http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 this CIA memo 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 page 38 (in Chapter 2) of the Parragon 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 pages 181-182 (in Chapter 4) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 113 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.	2
1987	Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 326-329 (in Chapter 14) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition).	4
1996	Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 396-399 (in Chapter 16) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition).	4
1997	Haines, Gerald K (National Reconnaissance Office historian) at footnote 20 in his study entitled “A Die-Hard Issue : CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90” in “Studies in Intelligence”, Issue 1997 Vol. 1, No. 1 (the text of the study is available online on various websites, including the CIA’s: http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/97unclass/ufo.html#ft20 )	1
1986	Klass, Philip J in “The UFO Invasion” (1997) (edited by Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr and Joe Nickell) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 70 (in Chapter 6) of the Prometheus hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of an article in the Skeptical Inquirer 10 (Spring 1986).	1
1983	Klass, Philip J in “UFOs – The Public Deceived” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16-18 (in Chapter 2) of the Prometheus softback edition.	3
1997	Klass, Philip J in his “The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51-52 (in Chapter 6), 205 (in Chapter 26) of the Prometheus Books hardback edition.	3
2000	Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 246 (in Chapter 21) of the Llewellyn softcover edition.	1
1999	Matthews, Tim in his “UFO Revelation” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 59-60 (in Chapter 4) of the Blandford softcover edition.	2
1994	Peebles, Curtis (with lengthy extract) in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74-76 (Chapter 6, “The Robertson Panel” – in part of the section entitled “CIA Involvement”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 89-91 of the Berkley paperback edition.	3
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 190 (in Chapter 15) of the Prometheus hardback edition.	1

 

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