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On 29 July 1968, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics holds a “Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects”, chaired by Congressman J Edward Roush. Oral evidence was heard from six speakers: Dr J Allen Hynek, Dr Carl Sagan, Dr Robert L Hall, Dr James E McDonald, Dr James A Harder and Dr Robert M L Baker. Statements were submitted by Dr Donald Menzel, Dr Leo Sprinkle, Dr Garry Henderson, Stanton T Friedman, Dr Roger N Shephard and Dr Frank B Salisbury. (Commonly referred to as “the Roush Hearing”).

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Transcripts available online on various websites, including the following

http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/contents.html

http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/contents.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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

Edited and annotated transcript presented by Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 40-217 of the Putnam hardback 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 Roush Hearings see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1999

Achenbach, Joel in his “Captured by Aliens” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 56-57 (in Chapter 5), 377 (in the Notes) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition.

3

1978

Barry, Bill in his “Ultimate Encounter” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 183-187 (in Chapter 15) of the Corgi paperback edition.

5

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 220-222 (in the Appendices, section entitled “Congressional Hearings on UFOs”) of the Dell paperback edition.

3

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 pages 168-169 (in Chapter 15) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition).

2

1996

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 59-60 (in Chapter 3) of the Parragon hardback edition.

2

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 368 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition in an entry entitled “McDonald, James Edward (1920-1971)”.

1

1978

Cohen, Daniel in his “The World of UFOs” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 108-109 (in Chapter 13) 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 68-69 (in Section 2 “Summary of the Study”, by Edward U Condon), 967 (in Section 6, Chapter 2 “Process of Perception, Conception, and Reporting”, by William K Hartmann) 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 49-50, 584-585 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

3

1995

Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 83-84 (in Chapter 3) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

2

1995

Craig, Roy in his “UFOs – An Insider’s View” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 242-244 (in Chapter 15) of the UNT softback edition.

3

1999

Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 228-229 (in Chapter 8) of the Wiley softcover edition.

2

1997

Dennett, Preston E in his “One in Forty : The UFO Epidemic” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 291-293 (in Chapter 40) of the KB hardback edition.

3

1998

Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 155-156 (in Chapter 5) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

2

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 298-299 (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 443-444 (in Chapter 8) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 346-348 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 78-79 (in Chapter 4), 224-247 (in Chapter 9), 252 (in Chapter 10), 327 (in Chapter 13) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition.

28

1998

Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 126-128 (in Section 2) with a one sentence summary at page 371 (in the Guide To Books) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition.

3

1976

Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 412 (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 107-109 (in Chapter 8) of the Exposition Banner hardback edition, at pages 104-106 of the Bantam paperback edition.

3

2008

Friedman, Stanton in his “Flying Saucers and Science : A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 50-52 (in Chapter 1) of the New Page softcover edition.

3

1997

Friedman, Stanton T in his “Top Secret – MAJIC” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 27 (in Chapter 2), 142 (in Chapter 7) of the Michael O’ Mara hardback edition.

2

1968

Fuller, John G in Saunders, David R and Harkins, R Roger’ “UFOs? Yes!” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13-16 (in the Introduction) of the Signet paperback edition.

4

1969

Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 7, 8-11, 18, 38 (in the Introduction), 40, 60-63 (in Chapter 1), 112-114 (in Chapter 3), 186-189 (in Chapter 8) of the Putnam hardback edition. Edited and annotated transcript of the Roush hearings presented at pages 40-217.

19

1980

Greenwell, J Richard in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 85 (in an entry entitled “Congressional Interest in UFOs”) of the NEL hardback edition.

1

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 297 (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 12 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition.

1

1972

Hartmann, William K in “UFO's: A Scientific Debate” (1972) (edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 15 (in Chapter 2) of the Barnes and Noble hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Norton paperback edition.

1

1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 233-238 (in Chapter 9) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 207-211 of the Signet paperback edition.

6

1971

Kettelkamp, Larry in his “Investigating UFOs” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “UFO’s Under Study”) of the Target softcover edition.

1

1973

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 148-154 (in Chapter 10) of the Signet paperback edition, pages 170-177 of the Panther paperback edition.

7

1987

Kinder, Gary in his “Light Years” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 170-171 (in Chapter 8) of the Viking hardback edition.

2

1997

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 39-40 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).

2

1989

Klass, Philip J in his “UFO Abductions: A Dangerous Game” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 15 (in Chapter 1) of the updated Prometheus softback edition.

1

1974

Klass, Philip J in his “UFOs Explained” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 274-275 (in Chapter 25), 347-349 (in Chapter 30, “Congress, UFOs and N-Rays”) of the Random House hardback edition, at pages 325-326, 412-414 of Random House paperback edition.

5

1972

Menzel, Donald H in “UFO's: A Scientific Debate” (1972) (edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 129 (in Chapter 6) of the Barnes and Noble hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Norton paperback edition.

1

1968

Menzel, Donald in a written statement to the Roush Hearing (the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics "Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects" on 1968.0729) at page 205 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Complete transcript available free online at the following links:

http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/contents.html

http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/contents.html

1

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 183-185 (in Chapter 12, entitled “The Condon Report” – in a section entitled “The Roush Hearings”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, at pages 221-223 of the Berkley paperback edition.

3

1974

Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at pages 63-64, 80 of the manuscript, at pages 76-77, 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

 

3

2000

Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 73 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the Sterling softcover edition.

1

1968

Roush, J Edward (Congressman) in the Roush Hearing (the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics "Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects" on 1968.0729) at pages 1-2 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Edited and annotated transcript presented by Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969), with the relevant extract appearing at pages 40-42 (in Chapter 1) of the Putnam hardback edition. Complete transcript available free online at the following links:

http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/contents.html

http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/contents.html

2

1977

Sachs, Margaret and Jahn, Ernest in their “Celestial Passengers – UFOs & Space Travel” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 168-173 (in Chapter 29) of the Penguin paperback edition.

6

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 150-152 (in an entry entitled “House Science and Astronautics Committee Hearings”) of the Corgi softback edition.

3

1974

Salisbury, Frank in his “The Utah UFO Display: A Biologist’s Report” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 236 (in the Appendix entitled “Annotated Bibliography”) of the Devin Adair hardback edition.

1

1968

Saunders, David R and Harkins, R Roger in their “UFOs? Yes!” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 233-234 (in Chapter 24) of the Signet paperback edition.

2

1976

Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at pages 72-80 (in Chapter 5) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition.

9

1991

Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 260 (in an entry entitled “Roush, Representative J Edward”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 305 of the Headline paperback edition.

1

2001

Strieber, Whitley in “Dark Object” (by Don Ledger and Chris Styles) (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page xvi (in the Introduction) of the Dell paperback edition.

1

1987

Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-118 (in Chapter 4) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition.

3

 

Other Material

U.S. House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, July 29, 1968, No. 7. Washington: U.S.Government Printing Office

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