On 9 August 1966, University of Colorado Assistant Dean Robert Low wrote to E James Archer, dean of the graduate school and Thurston E Manning, vice president and dean of faculties, on the proposed UFO Study for the US Air Force.
Web Resources
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Book References
Complete text of memo at pages 242-244 (in Appendix A) of Saunders, David R and Harkins, R Roger’ “UFOs? Yes!” (1968), and discussed at pages 129-130, 134 (in Chapter 12), 179-180 (in Chapter 18), 187 (in Chapter 19), 188-189, 190-191, 194, 195 (in Chapter 20), 201, 202 (in Chapter 21), of the Signet paperback edition.
Complete text presented by Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at pages 123-124 (in Appendix C) of the Congressional Research Service stapled 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 Low’s “trick memo” see the following:
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Barry, Bill in his “Ultimate Encounter” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 188 (in Chapter 15) of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 98-99 (in an entry entitled “Condon Report”), 192-193 (in an entry entitled “Low, Robert”) of the Pocket Books softcover edition. |
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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 163-165 (in Chapter 14) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition). |
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Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in “The World’s Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 428-429 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Aerial Kind”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition. |
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Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in their “The World’s Greatest UFO Mysteries” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 168-169 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Aerial Kind”) of the Octopus hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Hamlyn softcover edition). |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 (in Chapter 4) of the BCA hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Blitz hardback edition, and in the Barnes & Noble hardback edition published under the title “UFO: The Complete Sightings”). |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 57-59, 60 (in Chapter 3) of the Parragon hardback edition. |
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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 595-596 (forming part of the entry entitled “McDonald, James Edward (1920-1971)”), 947-948, 952 (forming part of the entry entitled “University of Colorado UFO Project” at pages 946-959) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 594, 600-601 (in an entry entitled “University of Colorado UFO Project”) also briefly discussed at pages 367-368 (in an entry entitled “McDonald, James Edward (1920-1971)”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition. |
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Cohen, Daniel in his “The World of UFOs” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 105-106 (in Chapter 13) of the Lippincott hardback edition. |
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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 915-916 (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 549-550 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 |
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Craig, Roy in his “UFOs – An Insider’s View” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 194-198 (in Chapter 11), 200-201 (in Chapter 12), 226-227 (in Chapter 13), 229 (in Chapter 14), 244, 246 (in Chapter 15) of the UNT softback edition. |
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Dean, Jodi in her “Aliens in America” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 37-38 (in Chapter 1) of the Cornell University softcover edition. |
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Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 15-16 (in Chapter 1) of the California hardback edition. |
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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 402 (in Chapter 7) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 308-309 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Drake, W Raymond in his “Gods and Spacemen of the Ancient Past” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 3) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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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 262-265, 271-272, 273 (in Chapter 11), 344-345 (in Chapter 13), 394 (in Chapter 14) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
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Edelson, Edward in his “Who Goes There?” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 78 (in Chapter 7) of the NEL paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the NEL paperback edition combining this book and Chris Boyce’s “Extraterrestrial Encounter). |
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Fowler, Raymond E in his “Casebook of a UFO Investigator” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 53-54 (in Chapter 5), 220-221 (in Chapter 18) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition. |
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Fowler, Raymond E in his “UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 161-162 (in Chapter 10), 173-174 (in Chapter 11) of the Exposition Banner hardback edition, at pages 156-157, 168-169 of the Bantam paperback edition. |
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Fuller, John G in his article "Flying Saucer Fiasco," Look, Vol. 32 (14 May 1968), 58-62 (see references in relation to the entry for 1967.0427). Article available online on various websites, including: |
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Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 8, 16 (in the Introduction) of the Putnam hardback edition. |
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Greenwell, J Richard in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 78 (in an entry entitled “Colorado UFO Project, University of”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 292-293 (in Chapter 7) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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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 8 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition. |
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Hansen, Terry in his “The Missing Times : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-Up : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover -Up” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 224 (in Chapter 6) of the Xlibris softcover edition. |
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Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at page 238 (in Chapter 12) of the Box Tree hardback edition. |
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Hoyt, Diana Palmer in her Masters thesis entitled “UFOcritique : UFOs, Social Intelligence, and the Condon Report” (2000.0420) in Chapter 2 at pages 33-35, 48-49. Complete text of the Masters thesis available online at: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05082000-09580026/unrestricted/UFOCRITIQUE.pdf |
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Hynek, J Allen in his “The UFO Experience” (1972) (Chapter 12) at pages 210-211 of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with same page numbering in the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition) at page 239 of the various Ballantine paperback editions, at pages 261-262 of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 228-231 (in Chapter 9) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 203-205 of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Kettelkamp, Larry in his “Investigating UFOs” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 17 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “UFO’s Under Study”) of the Target softcover edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 124-125 (in Chapter 8) of the Signet paperback edition, pages 145-146 of the Panther paperback edition. |
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Kinder, Gary in his “Light Years” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 169 (in Chapter 8) of the Viking hardback edition. |
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Klass, Philip J in “The UFO Invasion” (1997) (edited by Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr and Joe Nickell) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 34-37 of the Prometheus hardback edition (part of Chapter 2 at pages 29-43, “The Condon UFO Study”). The relevant chapter is a reprint of an article in the Skeptical Inquirer 10, number 4 (Summer 1986). |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “UFOs: The Whole Story” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 258-259 (in Chapter 12) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 152 (in Chapter 5) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Menzel, Donald and Taves, Ernest in their “The UFO Enigma“ (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 83-85 (in Chapter 7), 236-237 (in Chapter 17) of the Doubleday hardback edition. |
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Norman, Eric (pseudonum of Warren Smith) in his “Gods and Devils from Outer Space” (1973) at pages 8-9 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Legends of The Sky People”) of the Lancer paperback edition. |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 174-176 (in Chapter 12, “The Condon Report”, section entitled “A Poor Choice of Words”), 182-183 (in Chapter 12, section entitled “The ‘Trick’ Memo”) and 190 (in Chapter 12, section entitled “The Condon Report and After”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 209-212, 219-221 and 229 of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Peters, Ted in his “UFOs-God's Chariots?: Flying Saucers in Politics, Science & Religion” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 75-76 (in Chapter 4) of the John Knox hardback edition. |
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Pope, Nick in his “Open Skies, Closed Minds” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 169 (in Chapter 9) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
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Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at pages 79-80 of the manuscript, at pages 92-93 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
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 226-227 (in Chapter 18) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51, 54 (in Chapter 4) of the Blackwell hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 65-66, 70 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”), 89 (in Part 3, “UFOs Worldwide”) of the Sterling softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Crash Landing? Friend or Foe?” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 149 (in Chapter 12) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 84 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Challenge to Science”) of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 64 (in Chapter 2) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Saunders, David R and Harkins, R Roger in their “UFOs? Yes!” (1968), and discussed at pages 129-130, 134 (in Chapter 12), 179-180 (in Chapter 18), 187 (in Chapter 19), 188-189, 190-191, 194, 195 (in Chapter 20), 201, 202 (in Chapter 21), text of memo at pages 242-244 (in Appendix A) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Shawcross, Tim in his “The Roswell File” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 219 (in Chapter 15) of the Bloomsbury softcover edition. |
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Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at pages 65-66 (in Chapter 5), with complete text at pages 123-124 (in Appendix C) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition. |
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Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 72, 73 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1967-1977”) of the Boxtree hardback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 192 (in an entry entitled “Low, Robert J”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 223 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Steiger, Brad (with an extract from the relevant memo) in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 331-332 (forming part of Chapter 13) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Stemman, Roy in his “Mysteries of the Universe: Great Mysteries” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-155 (in Chapter 7) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Stone, Reuben in his “UFO Investigation” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 71 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Ultimate Conspiracy”) of the Blitz Editions hardback edition. |
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Strieber, Whitley in his “Communion“ (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 234 (in Chapter 6) of the Arrow paperback edition. |
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Sullivan, Walter 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 x-xi (in the Introduction) of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). |
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Thompson, Keith in his “Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 85-86 (in Chapter 7) of the Fawcett softcover edition. |
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Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 116 (in Chapter 4) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition. |
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Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “The Eternal Subject” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18-19 (in Chapter 1) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition, at pages 16-17 of the Day Book paperback editon (published under the title “Mysterious Visitors: The UFO Story”). |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969.” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 347-348 (in Chapter 16, journal entry for 1968.0509) of the North Atlantic Books hardback edition, at pages 348-349 of the 1996 abridged Marlowe paperback edition. |
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Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 169 (in Chapter 14) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Wilson, Colin in his “Alien Dawn” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 96-97 (in Chapter 3) of the Virgin softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Virgin paperback edition). |
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Wilson, Colin in his “World Famous UFOs” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 76-77 (in Chapter 4) of the Parragon softcover edition. |
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Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 52-53 (in Chapter 3) of the St Martin’s Press softcover edition. |
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