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Chadwell recommends NSC attention
On 24 September 1952, a memo from H Marshal Chadwell (CIA Assistant Director for Scientifc Intelligence) to CIA Director Walter Smith discusses CIA research and national security implications of “the problem of ‘unidentified flying objects’, i.e. flying saucers”. Chadwell stated that he considered “this problem to be of such importance that it should be brought to the attention of the National Security Council in order that a community-wide coordinated effort towards its solution may be initiated”.

 

Sections below

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

Complete text of memo presented by Fawcett, George and Greenwood, Barry in their “Clear Intent” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 123-126 (in Chapter 8) of the Spectrum softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Fireside softcover edition published under the title “The UFO Cover-Up”).

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 Chadwell memo dated 1952.0924 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 38-39 (in Chapter 2) of the Parragon hardback edition.

2

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 661 (in an entry entitled “Washington National Radar/Visual Sightings”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover 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 402 (forming part of an entry entitled “Washington National Radar/Visual Sightings”) 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 1003 (forming part of the entry entitled “Washington National Radar/Visual Case” at pages 998-1004) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

1

2000

Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 373 (in the entry entitled “Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentied Flying Objects”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition.

1

2003

Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Twinkle, Project”. The relevant entry is available online at:

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/SciAdPanel.html

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 186 (in Chapter 4) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 116-117 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

1

1994

Fawcett, George and Greenwood, Barry (with complete text) in their “Clear Intent” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 123-126 (in Chapter 8) of the Spectrum softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Fireside softcover edition published under the title “The UFO Cover-Up”).

4

1987

Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 323-325 (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).

3

1996

Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 389-390, 395 (in Chapter 16) with images of complete memo at pages 391-394 (in Chapter 16) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback 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 page 177 (in Chapter 12) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition.

1

1983

Klass, Philip (with lengthy extract) in “UFOs – The Public Deceived” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23-25 (in Chapter 3) 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 53-54 (in Chapter 6) of the Prometheus Books hardback edition.

2

1998

Mannion, Michael in his “Project Mindshift” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 226-227 (in Chapter 8) of the Evans hardback edition.

2

1994

Peebles, Curtis (with full text of memo) in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 77-80 (Chapter 6, “The Robertson Panel” – in part of the section entitled “CIA Involvement”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 93-97 of the Berkley paperback edition.

4

1997

Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ in their “Spaceships of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 76 (in Part 3) of the Fireside softcover edition.

1

1997

Randle, Kevin D in his “Conspiracy of Silence” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 120-121 (in Chapter 6) of the Avon paperback edition.

2

1998

Randle, Kevin D in his “Project Moon Dust” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 67-69 (in Chapter 3) of the Avon softcover edition.

3

1994

Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 40-41 (in an entry entitled “Chadwell memorandum”) of the MJF hardback edition.

2

1993

Thompson, Richard in his “Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Pheonemena” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 82-83 (in Chapter 3) of the GHP revised softcover edition.

2

 

Other Material

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