UFO USAF

AIR FORCE Adler, B., comp. Letters to the Air Force on UFO's. New York, Dell Pub, Co. , 1967. 157 p. Binder, Otto 0, Exposed: why the Air Force sits on UFOs. Bluebook, v. 106, Dec, 1967: 16-19, 74-76, 78-79, Speculation on reason that USAF cloes not declare that UFOs are rflal: "the USAF cannot admit that they are unable to protect America from UFO surveillance or they would be 'out of business' in short order for having failed in their main mis.don." Booth, Leon. Flying saucers. Ordnance, v. 51, July-Aug. 1966: 30-31, USAF role in investigating UFO sighting reports is discussed. 40 Bryant, Larry w. The UFO cover-up at Langley Air Force Base. Flying saucers, June 1968: 11-14. Author gives details of UFO sighting at Langley Air Force Base on Jan. 28, 1965, by responsible witnesses and of Air Force failure to investigate the incident and subsequent misrepresentation of the facts. Cahn, J.P. Flying saucers and the mysterious little men. True, v. ~2, Sept. 1952: 17-19, 102-ll2. Report of investigation into allegations in Frank Scully'& book, Behind the Flying Saucers {New York, Henry Holt, 1950), that a crashed flying saucer and corpses of its three-foot-tall crew had been taken into custody by the u. S. Air Force. Claims prove untrue and the book a hoax. Chartrand, Robert L. and William F. Brown. Facts about unidentified flying objects. Washington, D. C., Library of Congress, Legislative Reference Service, 1966. 29 p. Includes the following: description of various types of UFOs; trends in UFO activity; historical sightings of aerial phenomena; identification of flying objects (versus UFOs); U.S. Government monitoring of UFO activity; special studies of UFOs; svecial briefings on UFO activity; public reaction to UFOs; Air Force Regulation 200-2. Cohen, Daniel. UFOs--what a new investigation may reveal. Science digest, v. 60, Dec, 1966: 54-56, 58, 60-63. Reviews USAF's Project Blue Book investigation of UFO reports and summarizes aims of independent 15-month study by University of Colorado. Current comment: What goes on up there? America, v. 87, Aug, 23, 1952: 489. Article states reported USAF position on flying saucers: they are not spacecraft from distant planets; they are not secret enemy weapons. Davidson, Leon. Flying saucers: an analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14. [3rd ed., rev. and enl.] Ramsey, N. J,, RamseyWallace Corp., 1966. 84 p. Author states that throughout its investigation of UFO phenomena, USAF has withheld information, photographs, and other evidence it has amassed. He suggests that full text of Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (analysis of reports of unidentified aerial objects}--an offset copy dated May 5, 1955 is in the appendix--prol.Jably was not made readily available to the public because in 20% to 30% of cases in main study, oriGin of objects sighted was declared unknown. He also points out that the report did not discuss whether or not there was evidence to prove or disprove that UFOs might be extraterrestrial objects or devices. First and second editions published by author (White Plains, 1956, 1957). 41 Edwards, Frank. Frank Edwards' report: some answers to the saucers. Fate, v. 11, July 1958: 45-51. Author outiines several possible reasons that the Air Force has remained silent on the question of the reality of UFO activity. He postulates that there is official recognition of the phenomenon although such recogniticn is denied publicly. Greenfield, Irving A. Why at'e they watching us? by Allen L. Erskine fpseud} New York, Tower Publications, 1967. 124 p. Concise review of the UFO "classics," with emphasis on the Air Force "conspiracy" and the extraterrestrial theses. Hall, Richard. Is there a veil of secr~cy around the flying saucers? Flying ::;aucers from other worlds, June 1957: 51-56, Author postulates t!tat although individuals continue to sight UFOs, the press remains silent and the Air Force tries to convince the public it is all imagination. Keyhoe, Donald F. Flying saucers: menace or myth? Argosy, v. 350, June 1960: 17, 80-83. Author states that for 13 years, USAF has maintained officially that reports of UFOs are the result of delusions and hoaxes, with no solid basis wha: :- ever. He purports to expose this coverup policy by making public official USAF documents, including Regulation 200-2 and a directive referring to UFOs as "serious business." Lee, Ben S. AF vs. saucers. Aviation week, v. 56, June 23, 1952: 16. Article reports that under USAF Air Techtdcal Intelligence Command direction, physicist at the Univ. of California is developing and testing special photographic equipment that may enable sciPntists to determine the composition of light phenomena, including "flying saucers." Maney, Charles A. Why the Air Force cannot investigate UFOs. Flying saucer review, v. 9, July-Aug. 1963: 29, 33. Author suggests that USAF resists publicizing evidence of real navigating space travel by intelligences from outer space in deference to the p.rotection of capital investment: if the U.S. government were unhampered in its study and investigation of the scientific means by which space travel is accomplished, those means could in time be determined; the resultant scientific breakthrough might upset orthodox conceptions and result in financial disaster for certain vested interests. 42 ----- Why the Air Force can't inves~te UFOs. Fate, v. 16, May 1963: 26-28. Author postulates that there is sufficient proof to establish the actuality of real, navigating space travel by intelligence from outer space. Miller, Max B. Report on the UFO. Fate, v. 2, Dec. 1956: 31-34. Review of Edward J. Ruppelt's book about the U.S. Air Force's UFO investigations, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (New York, Doubleday, 1956). Ogles, George W. What does the Air Force really know about flying saucers? Washington, D. C., The Airman, 1967. 8 p. Survey of the UFO controversy and statement of the Air Force position: the Air Force has never denied the possibility of life on other planets; what it does say is that no evidence has been received nor discovered which proves the existence and intraspace mobility of extraterrestrial life. Some widely publicized "sightings" are also discussed. {Reprinted from The Airman v. 11, July 1967, p. 4-9; Aug. 1967, p. 26-31.) Prytz, John. The Air Force opinion on UFOs. Flying saucers, Oct. 1966: 26-27. Author states that although officially USAF disclaims the reality of flying saucers, a high percentage of USAF personnel believe in the seriousness of the phenomenon. Quintanilla, Hector. Unidentified flying objects. Dayton, Ohio, The Author, [196- ] 37 p. Summary of UfiAF investigation of the UFO phenomenon. Ruppelt, Edward J. Inside story of the saucers. Science digest, v. 39, Apr. 1956: 35-41. Condensed from a chapter of the book, The Report on Unident1fied Flying Objects, published in New York by Doubleday, 1956. Author describes his activities as head of USAF's Project Blue Book, 1951-1953. He states that while balloons, airplanes, stars, and many other common objects have been reported as UFOs, there are hundreds of other UFO reports which '~arry the verdict, "Conclusion Unknown. " -----The report on unidentified flying objects. Garden City, New York, 1956. 315 p. Author, a former chief of USAF's Project Blue Book, writes a factual account of Air Force investigation of UFO sighting reports and discusses all aspects of the UFO controversy. Published also in inperback edition by Ace Books (G537), New York. 43 ----- Report on unidentified fiying objects. ft'ate, v. 10, Apr. 1957: 27--13. An Air Force F-86 jet pilot, paced by a fiying saucer d•'l"l.ng summer 1952, opened fire on it. Account exceriterce Base, 1949, 35 p. (Its Technical Report No. F-TR-2274-IA} Descriptive and analytical study of 243 domestic and 30 foreign reported UFO sightings between 1947 and 1948. Individual cases are described in brief form as an appendix. Methods and reasoning applied in evaluating data are presented. Project Sign was initiated by the Technical Intelligence Division, Air Materiel Command, on January 22, 1948. ----- Unidentified flying objects; Project Grudge. Dayton, Ohio, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 1949, 366 p. (Its Technical Report No. 102-AC 49/15100) 45 Report discus.ies in full the history of Project Grudge, the problems encountereci, aart the .Pl'ocedures follow~ in the investigation and evaluation of reports of unidentified flying objects through January 1949. u. s. Air Force. Air Technical Intt:lll!ience Center. Special !'eport no. 14. (Atl2'lysis of reportS 01 unW·critifl aerial objects.) Dayton, Ohio, Wrj~htPatter.son Air Force Base1 1955. 308 p. Project no. 10073. Results of 1953 study of UFOs uy committee chaired by H. P. RobertEon, theoretical physicist at California. Institute of Technology. Examination of distributions of important character~&tfo& of sightings and study of sightings evaluated as "unknown" led to conclusion that a combination of f2.ctors, principally the reported maneuvers of the objects and the unavailability of supplemental data such as aircraft flight plans or balloon-launching records, resulted in failure to identify as "knowns" most of the reports of objects classified as "unknowns. " ~1. S. Air Force. Scientific Advisory Board. Ad Hoc (0' Brien) Committee to review Project Blue Book. Special report. Washington, D. C. , 1966. 10 p. In order that the present USAF UFO investigatilln program be strengthened to provide opportunity for scientific investigation of selected sightings in greater de}th and detail than had been possib1.e to date, it was recomm~ded that: (A) contracts be negotiated with a few selected universities to provide scientific teams to invest..igate pi•omptly and in d~pth certain selected UFO sightings; (B) at each AFSC base, ::in officer skilled in investigation should be designated to work with the corresponding university team for that geographical sect:ion; (C) one unlve1'sity or one noi:-for"profit organization should be selected to coordinate the work of the teams mentioned under (A) above, and also to make certain of cfose communication and coordination with Project Blue Book. U.S. Congress. House. Commi;±ee on Armed Services. Unidentified flying objects. waslifiigiOn, U:-S.GoVt Print. Off., 1966. 84 p. (89th Cong., 2d sess. House. Report D'J. 55) Information concerning U. s. Ail' Force activities in the area of reported unidentified flying objects. Webster, Robert N., and John C. Ross. Air Force report on UFOs. Fate, v. 12, Feb. 1959: 54-66. Critique of USAF's Special Report No. 14, originally issued on May 5, 1955, summarizing its investigations of unidentified fiy!ng obje~ts through July 31, 1958. What the Air Force believes about flying saucers. Fate, v. 2, Nov. 1949: 69-83. Digest of official report of studies made by Project Saucer of the Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Incidents involving Kenneth Arnold (June 24, 1947), Capt. Thomas F. Mantell (Jan. 7, 1948), Eastern Air Lines pilots Cai;:t. C. s. Chiles and John B. Whitted(July 194l1), and North Dakota National Guard Lt. George F. Gorman (Oct. 1, 1948) ar~ discussed.