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Straith letter hoax
During 1957, George Adamski receives a letter purporting to be signed by “R E Straith” of the US Department of State.

 

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Image of the “Straith letter” available online at:

http://www.csicop.org/si/2002-05/barker.html

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Straith letter see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1997

Clark, Jerome in “Making Contact” (1997) (edited by Bill Fawcett) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 29-30 (in Section 1) of the Morrow hardback edition.

2

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 1:A-K at pages 33-34 (in an entry entitled “Adamski, George”), 507 (forming part of an entry entitled “Hoaxes” at pages 504-519) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

3

1992

Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 86-87 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Into the Wild Blue”) of the Publications International hardback edition.

2

1961

Honey, Carol A in George Adamski’s “Flying Saucers Farewell” (1961) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-12 (in the Introduction) of the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition, at page 11 of the Paperback Library edition (published under the title “Behind the Flying Saucer Mystery”).

2

1997

Keith, Jim in his “Casebook on the Men in Black” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 170 (in Chapter ) of the I-Net softcover edition.

1

1997

Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 193 (in Chapter 7) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

1

2002

Moseley, James and Pflock, Karl in their “Shockingly Close to the Truth!” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 124-127 (in Chapter 5), 331 (in the Appendix) of the Prometheus hardback edition, with an image of the “Straith letter” at page 332.

5

2002

Sherwood, John C in his article “Gray Barker's Book of Bunk: Mothman, Saucers and MIB” (2002), Skeptical Inquirer, Volume 26, Number 3, May/June 2002, at pages 39-44. Article available online at: http://www.csicop.org/si/2002-05/barker.html

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Other Material

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