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Gerald Ford letter
On 28 March 1966, Congressman Gerald Fordwrote to the Armed Services committee criticising the Air Force investigations and proposing that a Congressional committee schedule hearings on the subject of UFOs.

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

Complete text of letter presented by Emenegger, Robert in his “UFOs Past, Present and Future” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 73-76 (in Chapter 12) of the silver covered Ballantine paperback edition first printing, at pages 83-86 of the blue covered Ballantine paperback edition eighth printing.

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 Gerald Ford’s letter see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1995

Berliner, Don and Galbraith, Marie and Huneeus, Antonio, with partial quotation, in their “UFO Briefing Document : The Best Available Evidence“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 160-161 (in Part 3 : Quotations, section entitled “Governments”) of the Dell paperback edition.

2

1996

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 3 – High Strangeness” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 413 (in an entry entitled “Project Blue Book, 1960-1969”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

1

1998

Dean, Jodi in her “Aliens in America” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 41 (in Chapter 1) of the Cornell University softcover edition.

1

2000

Dolan, Richard M (with partial quotation) in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 393 (in Chapter 7) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 300 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road 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 204 (in Chapter 7) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 180-181 of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1976

Paris Flammonde, with relatively lengthy extract, in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 359-361 (in Chapter 18) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

3

1974

Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at page 52 of the manuscript, at pages 65 of the NIDS pdf version available free on-line on various websites, including at the following link:

http://www.projectbluebook.us/UFOs%20An%20Air%20Force%20Dilemma%20By%20Quintanilla.pdf

http://www.nidsci.org/pdf/quintanilla.pdf

 

1

1987

Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 63-64 (in Chapter 9) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition.

2

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 111-112 (in an entry entitled “Ford, Gerald R”) of the Corgi softback edition.

2

1968

Saunders, David R and Harkins, R Roger in their “UFOs? Yes!” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 24 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1997

Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1967-1977”) of the Boxtree hardback edition.

1

1975

Weldon, John and Levitt, Zola in their “Encounters With UFOs“ (1975) (formerly “UFOs, What on Earth is Happening?”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 42 (in Chapter 2) of the Harvest House paperback edition.

1

1967

Young, Mort in his “UFO Top Secret” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 65-68 (in Chapter 5) of the Essandess softcover edition.

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Other Material

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