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"Serious Business" memo
On 24 December 1959, the “UFOs – Serious Business” memo sent out by the US Air Force Inspector General.

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Text available online at:

http://www.cufon.org/cufon/tig_brief1.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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

Image of relevant document presented by Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers: Top Secret” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at the unnumbered final page of the G P Putnam hardback edition.

Image of memo presented by Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Serious Business” (1966) as Plate 1 of the Bantam paperback edition, and the Mayflower-Dell paperback edition.

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 “UFOs – serious business” memo see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

2001

Bennett, Colin in his “Looking for Orthon” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 164 (in Chapter 14) of the Paraview softcover 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 page 321 (in Chapter 6) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 237 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

1

1967

Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Here and Now!” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 96 (in Chapter 5) of the Lyle Stuart hardback edition, at page 57 of the Bantam paperback edition.

1

1964

Edwards, Frank in his “Strange World” (1964) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 3) of the Ace paperback edition.

1

1976

Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 406 (in Chapter 20) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

1

1966

Fuller, John G in his “Incident at Exeter” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 166-167 (in Chapter 11) of the Berkley paperback editions.

2

1987

Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 281-282 (in Chapter 12) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition).

2

1996

Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 360-361 (in Chapter 15) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition).

2

2006

Good, Timothy in his “Need To Know : UFOs, the Military and Intelligence” (2006) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 226, 229 (in Chapter 15) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition.

2

1960

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers: Top Secret” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 10 of the G P Putnam hardback edition (in the Foreword) with image of relevant document at the unnumbered final page.

1

1968

Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, JimUFOs over the Americas” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 186 (in Chapter 10) and (with relatively lengthy extract) at pages 218-219 (Appendix 1 generally) of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1976

Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in “Encounters with UFO Occupants” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 247 (in Chapter 14) and (with relatively lengthy extract) at pages 403-404 (Appendix B generally) of the Berkley paperback edition.

2

1961

Maney, Charles And Hall, Richard in their “Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects” (1961) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 100-101, 105 (in Part 2, Chapter 10, by Charles Maney) of the privately published hardback edition.

3

2006

Redfern, Nicholas in his “On the Trail of the Saucer Spies : UFOs and Government Surveillance” (2006) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 85-87 (in Chapter 5) of the Anomalist Books softcover edition.

3

1997

Stone, Clifford E in his “UFOs are Real“ (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 6 (in Chapter 1) of the SPI softcover edition.

1

1967

Young, Mort in his “UFO Top Secret” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 28 (in Chapter 2) of the Essandess softcover edition.

1

 

Other Material

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