On 28 July 1952, Prime Minister Winston Churchill wrote a memo to Secretary of State for Air, Lord Cherwell, asking what the truth was about “all this stuff about flying saucers”
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Image of memo presented by Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Out Of The Shadows” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 103 (in Chapter 6) of the Piatkus hardback edition.
For discussion of Winston Churchill’s memo see the following:
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Bennett, Colin in his “Looking for Orthon” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 161 (in Chapter 14) of the Paraview softcover edition. |
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Berliner, Don with Galbraith, and a a Antonio Hunees in their “UFO Briefing Document : The Best Available Evidence“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 171 of the Dell paperback edition (Part 3:Quotations, section entitled “Governments”). |
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Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 93-94 (in an entry entitled “Churchill, Sir Winston”) of the Pocket Books softcover edition. |
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Campbell, Steuart in his “The UFO Mystery Solved” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 14 (in Chapter 1) of the Explicit Books softcover 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 page 26 (in Chapter 2) 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 pages 102-106 (in Chapter 6) with an image of the memo at page 103 of the Piatkus hardback edition. |
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Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Phantoms of the Sky: UFOs – A Modern Myth?” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 115 (in Chapter 6) of the Hale 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 pages 46-47 (in Chapter 2) of the National Archives softcover edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 28-29 (in Chapter 1), with images of relevant memos at pages 444-445 (in the Appendix) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition). |
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Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 3-4 (in Chapter 1) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition). |
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Good, Timothy in his “Need To Know : UFOs, the Military and Intelligence” (2006) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 173 (in Chapter 12) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition. |
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Pope, Nick in his “Open Skies, Closed Minds” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 155 (in Chapter 9) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition. Image of memo at Appendix 7. |
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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 19 (in unnumbered section entitled “1951: Calm Before the Storm”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 154-155 (in Chapter 12) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 138 (in an entry entitled “British Government Interest in UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 188 (in Chapter 31) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Alien Contact – The First Fifty Years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 21 (in the chapter entitled “1952”) of the Collins and Brown hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Something in the Air” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 47 (in Chapter 4) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 42 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”), 355-356 (in Part 3, “UFOs Worldwide”) of the |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Crash Landing? Friend or Foe?” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 153 (in Chapter 13) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Redfern, Nicholas in his “A Covert Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 21 (in Chapter 2) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 71-72 (in an entry entitled “Churchill, Sir Winston”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 81-82 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Other Material
Memo held at the National Archive (formerly the Public Record Office),