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Project Sign established
On 30 December 1947, a letter from Major General L C Craigie (Chief of Staff) to the Commanding General of the Air Materiel Command directed the setting up a project to collect, collate, evaluate and distribute information concerning UFOs. The letter gave this project the code name, Project Sign, and assigned a priority 2-A.

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

Complete text presented in the 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 1382-1383 (in Appendix S) 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 896-897 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

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 directive see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1997

Baker, Alan in his “Sci-Fi Channel: True Life Encounters: UFO Sightings” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 144 (in Chapter 5) of the Orion softcover edition.

1

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 pages 82-83 (in Chapter 7) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition).

2

1996

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 24 (in Chapter 1) of the Parragon hardback edition.

1

1974

Brummett, William E (Major, USAF) and Zuick, Ernest R (Captain) on pages 8-9 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 489-490 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition in an entry entitled “Project Sign”.

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 282 (in an entry entitled “Project Sign”) 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 pages 747-749 (in an entry entitled “Marshall County CE2”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

3

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 89-90 (in Chapter 2) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 53-54 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

2

1974

Emenegger, Robert in his “UFOs Past, Present and Future” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 29 (in Chapter 4) of the silver covered Ballantine paperback edition first printing, at page 30 of the blue covered Ballantine paperback edition eighth printing.

1

1976

Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 240 (in Chapter 12), 387 (in Chapter 20) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

2

1981

Fowler, Raymond E in his “Casebook of a UFO Investigator” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 4 (in Chapter 1) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition.

1

1956

Guieu, Jimmy in his “Flying Saucers Come From Another World” (1956) (edited by Ronald Story) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 15 (in Chapter 1) of the Hutchinson hardback edition.

1

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 75 (in Chapter 2) 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 page 44 (in Chapter 2) of the Indiana hardback edition, page 38 of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1997

Kanon, Gregory M in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-23 (in Chapter 3) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

2

2000

Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 27-28 (in Chapter 3) of the Llewellyn softcover edition.

2

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 of the Smithsonian hardback edition, page 19 (Chapter 2, “The Age of Confusion Begins” – in part of a section entitled “Project Sign”) of the Berkley paperback edition.

1

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 186 (in Chapter 15) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

1

1974

Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at page 6 of the manuscript, at page 19 of the NIDS pdf version available free on-line on various websites, including at the following link: http://www.nidsci.org/pdf/quintanilla.pdf

1

1997

Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ in their “Spaceships of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 55 (in Part 3) of the Fireside softcover edition.

1

2002

Randle, Kevin in his “Case MJ-12” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 99 (in Chapter 5) of the Harper Torch paperback edition.

1

1997

Randle, Kevin in his “Conspiracy of Silence” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 77-78 (in Chapter 3) of the Avon paperback edition.

2

1997

Randle, Kevin in his “Project Bluebook Exposed” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 5-6 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “In the Beginning…”) of the Marlowe softcover edition.

2

1994

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 103 (in Chapter 7) of the Piatkus softcover edition.

1

1987

Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 3) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition.

1

1960

Tacker, Lawrence (Lieutenant Colonel) in his “Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13-14 (in Chapter 2) of the D Van Nostrand hardback edition.

2

1971

Vesco, Renato in his “Intercept Ufo” (Formerly published as “Intercept - But Don't Shoot”) (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 17 (in Chapter 1) of the Zebra paperback edition.

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