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On 5 April 1966, there was a one day House Armed Services Committee hearing on Unidentified Flying Objects, chaired by H Mendel Rivers. Witnesses at the hearing were Harold Brown (Secretary of the Air Force), Major Hector Quintanilla Jr (Chief of Project Blue Book) and Dr J Allen Hynek.

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 House Armed Services Committee hearing see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1995

Berliner, Don with Galbraith, Marie and Huneeus, Antonio in their “UFO Briefing Document : The Best Available Evidence“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 219-220 (Appendices, section entitled “Congressional Hearings on UFOs”) of the Dell paperback edition.

2

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 page 158 (in Chapter 14) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition).

1

1996

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 56 (in Chapter 3) of the Parragon hardback edition.

1

1990

Canadeo, Anne in her “UFO’s: The Fact or Fiction File” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in Chapter 2 of the pro-UFO side of the book, i.e. the side which starts with the Chapter 1 entitled “Visitors at Cisco Grove”) of the Walker hardback edition.

1

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 476-477 (forming part of an entry entitled “Project Blue Book”) also briefly discussed at page 593 (forming part of an entry entitled “University of Colorado UFO Project”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition.

3

1996

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 3 – High Strangeness” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 413-414 (in an entry entitled “Project Blue Book, 1960-1969”) also briefly discussed at page 518 (forming part of an entry entitled “University of Colorado UFO Project”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

3

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 738 (forming part of the entry entitled “Project Blue Book” at pages 730-742), 947 (forming part of the entry entitled “University of Colorado UFO Project” at pages 946-959) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

2

1978

Cohen, Daniel in his “The World of UFOs” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 101-102 (in Chapter 12) of the Lippincott hardback edition.

2

1969

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 909-913 (in Section 5, Chapter 2 “UFOs: 1947-1968”, by Edward U Condon) 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 544-547 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

5

1995

Craig, Roy in his “UFOs – An Insider’s View” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page xvii (in the Preface) of the UNT softback edition.

1

1998

Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 152 (in Chapter 5) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

1

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 291-292 (in Chapter 6) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

2

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 393-394 (in Chapter 7) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 300-301 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

2

2003

Druffel, Ann in her “Firestorm : Dr James E McDonald's Fight for UFO Science” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 50 (in Chapter 3), 220-223 (in Chapter 9) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition.

5

1967

Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Here and Now!” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 38-44 (in Chapter 3), 167-169 (in Chapter 9) of the Lyle Stuart hardback edition, at pages 17-23, 97-99 of the Bantam paperback edition.

10

1974

Emenegger, Robert in his “UFOs Past, Present and Future” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 76 (in Chapter 12) of the silver covered Ballantine paperback edition first printing, at page 86 of the blue covered Ballantine paperback edition eighth printing.

1

1997

Emmons, Charles F in his “At The Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in Chapter 2) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition.

1

1976

Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 410 (in Chapter 20) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

1

1974

Fowler, Raymond E in his “UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages xvi (in the Introduction), 85-86, 90-91 (in Chapter 7) of the Exposition Banner hardback edition, at pages xv-xvi, 81-83, 87 of the Bantam paperback edition.

5

1997

Haines, Gerald K (National Reconnaissance Office historian) at footnote 71 in his study entitled “A Die-Hard Issue : CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90” in “Studies in Intelligence”, Issue 1997 Vol. 1, No. 1 (the text of the study is available online on various websites, including the CIA’s:

http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/97unclass/ufo.html#ft71 )

1

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 284 (in Chapter 7) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

1

2001

Hall, Richard in “The UFO Evidence: Volume 2 – A Thirty Year Report” (2001) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 7 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition.

1

1995

Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at page 236 (in Chapter 12) of the Box Tree hardback edition.

1

2000

Hoyt, Diana Palmer in her Masters thesis entitled “UFOcritique : UFOs, Social Intelligence, and the Condon Report” (2000.0420) in Chapter 2 at page 32. Complete text of the Masters thesis available online at:

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05082000-09580026/unrestricted/UFOCRITIQUE.pdf

1

1977

Hynek, J Allen in his “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 134 (in Chapter 6) of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at pages 143-144 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition).

1

1972

Hynek, J Allen in his “The UFO Experience” (1972) (Chapter 12) at pages 196-197 of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with same page numbering in the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition) at pages 222-223 of the various Ballantine paperback editions, at pages 244-245 of the Corgi paperback edition.

2

1972

Hynek, J Allen in his “The UFO Experience” (1972) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (in Chapter 7) at pages 70, 84 of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with same page numbering in the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition) at pages 80 and 97 of the various Ballantine paperback editions, at pages 96, 113 of the Corgi paperback edition.

2

1992

Jacobs, David Michael in his “Secret Life” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 37 (in Chapter 2) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Fourth Estate hardback edition and in the Virgin paperback edition published under the title “Alien Encounters”).

1

1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 204-206 (in Chapter 8) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 181-183 of the Signet paperback edition.

3

1973

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 99-100 of the Signet paperback edition, pages 118-119 of the Panther paperback edition (in Chapter 7).

2

1987

Kinder, Gary in his “Light Years” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 165-166 (in Chapter 8) of the Viking hardback edition.

2

1979

Knight, David C in his “UFOs: A pictorial history from antiquity to the present” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 135 (in Part 4) of the McGraw Hill hardback edition.

1

1968

Lore, Gordon and Deneault, Harold in their “Mysteries of the Skies” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 179-181 (in the Epilogue) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition.

3

1997

Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 150 (in Chapter 5) 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 195-196 (in Chapter 9) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

2

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 171-172 (in Chapter 12)of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 206-207 of the Berkley paperback edition.

2

1974

Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at pages 53-56 of the manuscript, at pages 66-69 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

 

4

1994

Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14-15 (in an entry entitled “Armed Services Hearing”) of the MJF hardback edition.

2

1977

Sachs, Margaret and Jahn, Ernest in their “Celestial Passengers – UFOs & Space Travel” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 168 (in Chapter 29) of the Penguin paperback edition.

1

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 148-149 (in an entry entitled “House Armed Services Committee Hearings”) 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

1976

Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at pages 69-71 (in Chapter 5) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition.

3

1991

Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 55 (in an entry entitled “Brown, Dr Harold, Secretary of the Air Force”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 64 of the Headline paperback edition.

1

1976

Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 17 (in the Introduction) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

1

1966

Steiger, Brad in his “Strangers from the Skies” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 157-158 (in Chapter 30) of the Award Books paperback edition.

2

1981

Story, Ronald in his “UFOs and the Limits of Science” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 62 of the NEL Hardback edition (Chapter 2).

1

1999

Sturrock, Peter in his “The UFO Enigma“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16-17 (in Chapter 2) of the Warner Aspect hardback edition.

2

1991

Thompson, Keith in his “Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 83 (in Chapter 7) of the Fawcett softcover edition.

1

1993

Thompson, Richard in his “Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Pheonemena” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 92-93 (in Chapter 3) of the GHP revised softcover edition.

2

1987

Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 109-111 (in Chapter 4) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition.

3

1966

Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “The Flying Saucer Story” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 162 (in Chapter 21) of the revised Tandem paperback edition.

1

1966

Vallee, Jacques and Vallee, Janine in their “Challenge to Science – The UFO Enigma” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 111-112 (in Chapter 5) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, at page 95 of the Tandem paperback edition.

2

1992

Vallee, Jacques in his “Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969.” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 176-178 (in Chapter 11, journal entries for 1966.0402, 1966.0407) of the North Atlantic Books hardback edition, at pages 182-184 of the 1996 abridged Marlowe paperback edition.

3

1967

Young, Mort in his “UFO Top Secret” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 69-70, 72-76 (in Chapter 5) of the Essandess softcover edition.

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Other Material

House Armed Services Committee, 89th Congress, 2nd Session, 5th April 1966. Transcript printed on pages 5991- 6075 of the “Hearings by Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, Second Session.”

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