On 20 October 1969, Brigadier General C H Bolender wrote a memo recommending termination of Project Blue Book. He stated that “reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security are made in accordance with JANAP 146 or Air Force Manual 55-11, and are not part of the Blue Book system”. Thus although “termination of Project Blue Book would leave no official federal office to receive reports of UFOs”, he commented that “reports of UFOs which could affect national security would continue to be handled through the standard Air Force procedures designed for this purpose”
Web Resources
Text of memo available online at:
http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/bolender2.htm
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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 Bolender memo see the following:
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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 1:A-K at page 559 (forming part of the entry entitled “Keyhoe, Donald Edward (1897-1988)”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 47 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “UFOs: The Official Story”) of the Publications International hardback edition. |
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Dolan, Richard in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 460 (in Chapter 8) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 362 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Fawcett, George and Greenwood, Barry in their “Clear Intent” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page xv (in the Preface) of the Spectrum softcover edition (at pages xvii in the Fireside softcover edition published under the title “The UFO Cover-Up”). |
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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 45-46 (in Chapter 1), 115 (in Chapter 4), 253 (in Chapter 10) of the New Page softcover edition. |
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Friedman, Stanton and Berliner, Don in their “Crash at Corona” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 35-36 (in Chapter 3) of the 1997 Marlowe Company softback edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 439 (in Chapter 17) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback 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 324-325 (in Chapter 10) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Korff, Kal K in his “The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don’t Want You to Know” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 209-218 (in Chapter 6) of the Dell paperback edition. |
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Randle, Kevin and Schmitt, Donald in their “The Truth About the UFO Crash At Roswell” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 96 (in Chapter 13) of the Evans hardback edition. |
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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 230-231 (in Chapter 18) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Something in the Air” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 59 (in Chapter 5) of the Hale 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 75-76 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the Sterling softcover edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 65 (in Chapter 2) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Stone, Clifford E in his “UFOs are Real“ (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 6 (in Chapter 1), 55, 56 (in the Appendix) of the SPI softcover edition. |
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Todd, Robert in his article “Bolender Memo Reality Check” at pages 1-2 of The Cowflop Quarterly, Issue Number 2 (1996.0901). A lengthy extract of the relevant article is presented by Korff, Kal K in his “The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don’t Want You to Know” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 210-218 (in Chapter 6) of the Dell paperback edition. |
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Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 55, 57 (in Chapter 3) of the St Martin’s Press softcover edition. |
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Other Material
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