During February 1949, the final report of Project Sign (“The Findings of Project Sign”) was completed.
Officially cited as Technical Report-TR-2274-IA of the Technical Intelligence Division, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB,
(Commonly referred to as “the Project Sign Report”).
Web Resources
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Book References
Relatively lengthy extracts of the text from the Project Sign final report are presented by Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 170-214 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition (Chapter Eight: The Findings of Project Sign).
Complete text of Appendix C of the Project Sign Report (i.e. Valley’s report) presented in the 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 1384-1391 (in Appendix T) 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 898-904 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition).
Complete text of Appendix D to the Project Sign Report (i.e. Lipp’s letter) presented in the 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 1316-1325 (in Appendix D) 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 844-852 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:
http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.htmlFor discussion of the Project Sign final report see the following:
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 28-29 (in Chapter 1) of the Parragon hardback edition. |
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Canadeo, Anne in her “UFO’s: The Fact or Fiction File” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (in Chapter 2 of the pro-UFO side of the book, i.e. the side which starts with the Chapter 1 entitled “Visitors at Cisco Grove”) of the Walker hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 2 – Emergence of a Phenomenon” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 283 (in an entry entitled “Project Sign”) of the Omnigraphics hardback 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 850-851 (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 506-607 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: http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.html |
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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 page 143 (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 274-275 (in Chapter 6) of the |
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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 114 (in Chapter 3) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 67 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Fowler, Raymond in his “UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-31 (in Chapter 3) of the Exposition Banner hardback edition, at pages 31-32 of the Bantam 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 116-117 (in Chapter 3) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Hall, Richard in his “Uninvited Guests” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 157-158 (in Chapter 10) of the Aurora Press paperback edition. |
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Hynek, J Allen in his “The UFO Experience” (1972) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (in Chapter 11) at page 176-177 of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with same page numbering in the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition) at pages 200-201 of the various Ballantine paperback editions, at page 221 of the Corgi paperback 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 47-49 (in Chapter 2) of the |
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Kanon, Gregory in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 3) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Lamb, David in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : A Philosophical Inquiry” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 145 (in Chapter 5) of the Routledge softcover edition. |
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Mannion, Michael in his “Project Mindshift” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 62-63 (in Chapter 3) of the Evans hardback edition. |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-33 (in Chapter 3, “The Classics” – in part of a section entitled “Project Grudge”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 35-39 of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Pflock, Karl T in his “Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 189 (in Chapter 15) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at pages 6-7 of the manuscript, at pages 19-20 of the NIDS pdf version available free on-line on various websites, including at the following link: http://www.projectbluebook.us/UFOs%20An%20Air%20Force%20Dilemma%20By%20Quintanilla.pdf http://www.nidsci.org/pdf/quintanilla.pdf
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Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ in their “Spaceships of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 61-64 (in Part 3) of the Fireside softcover 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 94 (in Chapter 13) of the Evans hardback edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Case MJ-12” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 95-99 (in Chapter 5) of the Harper Torch paperback edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Conspiracy of Silence” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 67-73, 76-77 (in Chapter 3) of the |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Project Bluebook Exposed” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-13 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “In the Beginning…”) of the Marlowe softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Project Moon Dust” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-24, 26-28 (in Chapter 1) of the |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “50 Years of UFO Encounters” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in unnumbered section entitled “1949: Grudge Match”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 30 (in Chapter 3) of the Blackwell hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Study” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 46 (in Chapter 3) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 258-259 of the Corgi softback edition in an entry entitled “Project Sign”. |
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Sellier, Charles E and Meier, Joe in their “UFO” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 31 (in Chapter 2) of the Contemporary Books hardback edition. |
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Shawcross, Tim in his “The Roswell File” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 152-153 (in Chapter 9) of the |
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Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-11 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition (Introduction). |
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Sturrock, Peter in his “The UFO Enigma“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-12 (in Chapter 2) of the Warner Aspect hardback 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 8 (in Chapter 1) of the Fawcett softcover edition. |
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Thompson, Richard in his “Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Pheonemena” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-81 (in Chapter 3) of the GHP revised softcover edition. |
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Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 29-31 (in Chapter 2), 32-33 (in Chapter 3) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Other Material
Complete images of the Project Sign Report included on the redacted US National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book, released to the National Archives in 1975 – see National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 85 (“Administrative Files: Box 1”). Images of the relevant pages are at the link below from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB85-3 (page 3 of 915) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB85-47 (page 47 of 1014).
Complete images of the Project Sign Report included on the unredacted Maxwell Air Force Base (“Maxwell”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book – see Maxwell microfilm roll number 30,362. Images of the document are at the link below from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-4 (page 4 of 1537) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-49 (page 49 of 1537).
http://www.bluebookarchive.org