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Gerald Haines on “CIA's role”
During 1997, “Studies in Intelligence” contains a study by Gerald K Haines (National Reconnaissance Office historian) entitled “A Die-Hard Issue : CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90”.

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

The text of the study is available online on various websites, including the CIA’s website: http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/97unclass/ufo.html

In relation to footnote 44 of Gerald Haines’ article (“44. See Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974 (Washington, DC: CIA History Staff, 1992), pp. 72-73” also referred to in footnote 45 of the article by Gerald Haines), the relevant book is available online at:

http://www.odci.gov/csi/books/U2/u2.pdf

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 this study by Gerald Haines 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 page 385 (in the Notes) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition.

1

1999

Baker, Alan in his “The Encyclopaedia of Alien Encounters” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 45 (in an entry entitled “Central Intelligence Agency”) of the Virgin hardback edition.

1

2004

Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 64-68 (in an entry entitled “Central Intelligence Agency, History of UFOs”) of the Pocket Books softcover edition.

5

1998

Campagna, Palmiro in his “The UFO Files: The Canadian Connection Exposed” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 162 (in the Postscript) of the Stoddart softcover edition.

1

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 page 740 (forming part of the entry entitled “Project Blue Book” at pages 730-742) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

1

2002

Clark, Mark in “Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men” (2002) (edited by Ross, Hugh and Samples, Kenneth and Clark, Mark) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 79-80 (in Chapter 7) of the Navpress softcover edition.

2

2002

Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Out Of The Shadows” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 244 (in Chapter 13) of the Piatkus hardback edition, and mentioned on various other pages.

1

2001

Cook, Nick in his “The Hunt for Zero Point” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 149-150 (in Chapter 14) of the Century hardback edition.

2

1998

Dean, Jodi in her “Aliens in America” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 190-191 (in the Postscript) of the Cornell University softcover edition.

2

1998

Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 70-71 (in Section 2) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition.

2

1998

Good, Timothy in his “Alien Base” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 5 (in the Introduction) of the Century hardback edition.

1

2001

Hansen, George P in his “The Trickster and the Paranormal” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 222-223 of the Xlibris softcover edition.

1

2000

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 pages 240-242 (in Chapter 6) of the Xlibris softcover edition.

3

 

Maccabee, Bruce in an article entitled “CIA's UFO Explanation Is Preposterous”, which focuses on the material at footnotes 44 and 45 of Gerald Haines’ article. Article by Bruce Maccabee available online on his website at: http://brumac.8k.com/cia_explaination.html

1

2000

Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 257-258 (in Chapter 21) of the Llewellyn softcover edition.

2

1999

Matthews, Tim in his “UFO Revelation” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 52 (in Chapter 4) , 71-73 (in Chapter 6) of the Blandford softcover edition.

4

2000

Park, Robert in his “Voodoo Science” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 179-180 (in Chapter 9) of the Oxford University Press hardcover edition.

2

1998

Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Crash Landing? Friend or Foe?” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 146 (in Chapter 12) of the Blandford softcover edition.

1

1998

Rhodes, Ron in his “Alien Obsession: What Lies Behind Abductions, Sightings and the Attraction to the Paranormal” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 69-70 (in Chapter 4) of the Harvest House softcover edition.

2

1998

Sheaffer, Robert in his “UFO Sightings: The Evidence” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 270-271 (in Chapter 19) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

2

1998

Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 93 (in Chapter 5) of the St Martin’s Press softcover edition.

1

Other Material

Haines, Gerald K “A Die-Hard Issue : CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90”, "Studies in Intelligence", Issue 1997 Vol. 1, No. 1

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