The March 1950 edition of True magazine contains the article entitled “How Scientists Tracked Flying Saucers” by Commander R B McLaughlin.
Web Resources
Text of the relevant article appears online on various websites including at the following links:
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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.
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For discussion of McLaughlin’s True article see the following:
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Briazack, Norman and Mennick, Simon in their “The UFO Guidebook” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 133 (in the entry entitled “McLaughlin, Commander R B”) of the Citadel softcover 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 page 856 (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 page 510 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: |
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Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 55 (in Chapter 3) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Curran, Douglas in his “In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Deus Ex Machina”) of the updated 2001 Abbeville Press 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 pages 133-134 (in Chapter 3) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 81 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Erskine, Allen Louis in his “Why Are They Watching Us?” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 75-76 (in Chapter 7) of the Tower paperback edition. |
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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 5-6 (in Chapter 1) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition. |
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Gardner, Martin in his “Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science” (1957) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 62-63 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Greenfield, Irving A in his “The UFO Report” (1967) at pages 81-83 (in Chapter 9) of the Lancer paperback edition. |
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Hall, Michael David and Connors, Wendy Ann in their “Captain Edward J Ruppelt : Summer of the Saucers - 1952” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 19, 20 (in Chapter 1) of the Rose Press softcover 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 page 123 (in Chapter 3) of the Galde Press softcover 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 185 (in Chapter 5) of the Xlibris softcover edition. |
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Heard, Gerald in his “The Riddle of the Flying Saucers: Is Another World Watching” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 53 (in Chapter 7) of the Carroll & Nicholson hardback 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 57-58 (in Chapter 2) of the |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers: Top Secret” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 40 of the G P Putnam hardback edition (in Chapter 3). |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “The Flying Saucers are Real” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145-146 (in Chapter 16) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition, which has the same page numbering as the version available online at: |
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Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 139 (in Chapter 14) of the Llewellyn softcover edition. |
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Missler, Chuck and Eastman, Mark in their “Alien Encounters: The Secret behind the UFO Phenomenon” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 62 (in Chapter 3) of the Koinonia House softcover edition. |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 43-44 (Chapter 4, “The Myth Defined” – in part of a section entitled “The Questions Grow”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, page 51 of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 70-72 (in Chapter 6) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at pages 100-103 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 97-100 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 70-72 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at pages 51-53 of the reprinted Source Books softcover edition. The first of these editions (i.e. the original 17 chapter hardback edition) has the same page numbering as the version available free online at: http://www.nicap.org/rufo/contents2.htm |
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Scully, Frank in his “Behind the Flying Saucers” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 97-98 (in Chapter 9) of the Henry Holt hardback edition. |
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Stanton, L Jerome in his “Flying Saucers : Hoax or Reality?” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 95 (in Chapter 6) of the |
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Stemman, |
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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 pages 46-47 (in Chapter 2) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition. |
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