On 14 August 1947, results of first Gallup Poll including questions on UFOs are released, indicating that 9 out of 10 Americans had heard of the phenomenon. One question was “What do you think these saucers are?”. The responses noted in the results did not include a category relating to spaceships. 9% of respondents selected “Other explanations” than those offered.
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Complete text of the relevant Gallup release presented by Durant, Robert in “UFO: 1947-1997” (1997) (edited by Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 230-231 (in the section entitled “Aspects”, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Public Opinion Polls and UFOs”) of the John Brown hardback edition.
For discussion of the first Gallup Poll see the following:
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Alnor, William M in his “UFO in the New Age” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 73 (in Chapter 4) of the Baker softcover edition. |
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Barkun, Michael in his “A Culture of Conspiracy : Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80, 81 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Bartholomew, Robert E and Howard, George S in their “UFOs and Alien Contact” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 191 (in Chapter 9) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Bartholomew, Robert E. and Radford, Benjamin in their “Hoaxes, Myths and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 166 (in Chapter 12) of the Prometheus softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in “UFO: 1947-1997” (1997) (edited by Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 of the John Brown hardback edition (Section entitled “The 1950s”, unnumbered chapter entitled “Meeting the Extraterrestrials: How the |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 203 (in an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial Hypothesis and Ufology”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition : Volume 1:A-K” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 377 (in an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial Hypothesis and Ufology” at pages 374-393) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Flying Saucerers : A social history of UFOlogy” (2007) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 5-6, 9 (in Chapter 1) of the Alternative Albion softcover edition. |
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Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Out Of The Shadows” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 48 (in Chapter 3) of the Piatkus hardback edition. |
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Clarke, David in his “The UFO Files : The Inside Story of Real-Life Sightings” (2009) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 36 (in Chapter 2) of the National Archives 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 pages 60 (in Section 2 “Summary of the Study”, by Edward U Condon), 316 (in Section 3, Chapter 7 “Public Attitudes toward UFO Phenomena”, by Aldora Lee) 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 43, 210 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 pages 20, 21 (in Chapter 1) 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 14 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Deus Ex Machina”) of the updated 2001 Abbeville Press hardback edition. |
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Devereux, Paul and Brookesmith, Peter in their “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 24 (in Chapter 1) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 140-141 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 271-272 (in Chapter 6) of the |
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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 page 79 (in Chapter 2) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 34 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Durant, Robert in “UFO: 1947-1997” (1997) (edited by Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 230-231 of the John Brown hardback edition (section entitled “Aspects”, unnumbered chapter entitled “Public Opinion Polls and UFOs”). |
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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 215-216 (in Chapter 8) of the New Page 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 73 (in Chapter 2) of the Galde Press softcover 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 page 41 of the |
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Jacobs, David Michael in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 147 (in an entry entitled “Gallup Polls on UFOs”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Kanon, Gregory M in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 102-104 (in Chapter 5) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 461 (in an entry entitled “Reconnaissance Theory of UFOs”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 451 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pagess 554-555 (in an entry entitled “Reconnaissance Theory of UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Lagrange, Pierre in “Phenomenon“ (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 35 of the MacDonald hardback edition (Part |
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Moffitt, John in his “Picturing Extraterrestrials : Alien Images in Modern Mass Culture” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 252 of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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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 page 17 (in Chapter 1) of the Harvest House softcover edition. |
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Roleff, Tamara in “Alien Abductions - Fact or Fiction?” (2003) (edited by Tamara Roleff) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 7 (in the Introduction) of the Greenhaven Press softcover edition. |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 254 (in an entry entitled “Polls”) of the Corgi softback edition. |
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Steiger, Brad and Whritenour, Joan in their “Flying Saucers are Hostile” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 46 (in Chapter 3) of the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Thompson, Keith in his “Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 4 (in Chapter 1) of the Fawcett softcover edition. |
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