1949.0427 Project Saucer press release

 

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Project Saucer press release
On 27 April 1949, the US Air Force released a “Memorandum for the Press” entitled “Project Saucer”.

Memorandum for the Press NO. M 26 – 49, entitled “Project Saucer”, Project Blue Book files.

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Available online at:

http://www.project1947.com/fig/projsauc.htm

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Book References

For discussion of the Memorandum for the Press see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1952

Arnold, Kenneth and Palmer, Ray in their “The Coming of the Saucers” (1952), with extensive digest of the Memorandum, at pages 85-102 (Chapter 6 generally), 103-112 (Chapter 7 generally) of the Amherst softcover edition.

27

1996

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 29 (in Chapter 1) of the Parragon hardback edition.

1

1997

Clark, Jerome in “UFO: 1947-1997” (1997) (edited by Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 73 (in the section entitled “The 1950s”, unnumbered chapter entitled “Meeting the Extraterrestrials: How the ETH was Invented”) of the John Brown hardback edition.

1

2000

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 118 (in Chapter 3) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 69 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

1

1956

Guieu, Jimmy in his “Flying Saucers Come From Another World” (1956) (edited by Ronald Story) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 182 (in Chapter 8) of the Hutchinson hardback edition.

1

2000

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 14-15 (in Chapter 1) of the Rose Press softcover edition.

2

1988

Hall, Richard in his “Uninvited Guests” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 172 (in Chapter 11) of the Aurora Press paperback edition.

1

1973

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 136-137 (in Chapter 9) of the Signet paperback edition, at pages 158-159 of the Panther paperback edition.

2

1960

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers: Top Secret” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 152-153 of the G P Putnam hardback edition (in Chapter 10).

2

1950

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “The Flying Saucers are Real” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 5 (in the Author’s Note), 38 (in Chapter 5), 71 (in Chapter 8), 116-118 (in Chapter 13) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition, which has the same page numbering as the version available on-line at

http://www.nicap.org/fsar/fsar-chapters.htm

6

2000

Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 97, 98-100, 102, 103-104 (in Chapter 9) of the Llewellyn softcover edition.

7

1953

Menzel, Donald in his “Flying Saucers“ (1953) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 47-48 (in Chapter 4) of the Putnam hardback edition.

2

1956

Michel, Aime in his “The Truth about Flying Saucers” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 72-76 (in Part 1, Chapter 3) of the Robert Hale hardback edition, at pages 77-82 of the Pyramid paperback edition.

5

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 34 (Chapter 3, “The Classics” – in part of a section entitled “Suspicions”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, page 40 of the Berkley paperback edition.

1

1950

Scully, Frank in his “Behind the Flying Saucers” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page xiv (in the Preface), 74, 75-83 (in Chapter 7) of the Henry Holt hardback edition.

11

1966

Stanton, L Jerome in his “Flying Saucers : Hoax or Reality?” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 42 (in Chapter 2) of the Belmont paperback edition.

1

1999

Sturrock, Peter in his “The UFO Enigma“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 8-10 (in Chapter 2) of the Warner Aspect hardback edition.

3

1997

Swords, Michael D in “UFO: 1947-1997” (1997) (edited by Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 87 of the John Brown hardback edition (Section entitled “The 1950s”, unnumbered chapter entitled “Donald E. Keyhoe and the Pentagon”).

1

1966

Vallee, Jacques and Vallee, Janine in their “Challenge to Science – The UFO Enigma” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 105 (in Chapter 5) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, at page 90 of the Tandem paperback edition.

1

1971

Vesco, Renato in his “Intercept Ufo” (Formerly published as “Intercept - But Don't Shoot”) (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 63, 73 (in Chapter 3) of the Zebra paperback edition.

2

 

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