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On 8 August 1958, an informal hearing on UFOs was held by the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Atmospheric Phenomena (a sub-committee of the House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration), chaired by Congressman John McCormack.

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

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 McCormack hearing see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 257 (in Chapter 6) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

1

1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 160-162 (in Chapter 7, “The Battle for Congressional Hearings”) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 142-143 of the Signet paperback edition.

3

1997

Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 134, 143 (in Chapter 5) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

2

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 150 (in an entry entitled “House of Representatives Subcommittee on Atmospheric Phenomena”) of the Corgi softback edition.

1

1976

Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at page 60 (in Chapter 5) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition.

1

1991

Thompson, Keith in his “Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 55-56 (in Chapter 5) of the Fawcett softcover edition.

2

 

Other Material

Images of various documents relating to this informal hearing included on the redacted US National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book, released to the National Archives in 1975 – see National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 87 (“Administrative Files: Box 4”). Images of the relevant pages are at the link below from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB87-340 (page 340 of 977) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB87-370 (page 370 of 977).

http://www.bluebookarchive.org

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