(Commonly referred to as “the Hynek poll of astronomers”)
Web Resources
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Book References
Text of report presented by Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 268-285 (in Chapter Eleven, entitled “Dr Hynek’s Conferences with Astronomers”) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.
For discussion of Hynek’s Special Report see the following:
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Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48-49 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Dimensions of a Phenomenon”) of the Publications International 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 page 66 (in Chapter 4) of the Alternative Albion 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 864-866 (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 pages 516-517 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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Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 72-73 (in Chapter 3) of the |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 281 (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 182 (in Chapter 4) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 114 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Greenfield, Irving A in his “The UFO Report” (1967) at page 51 (in Chapter 5) of the Lancer paperback edition. |
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Greenwell, J Richard in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 29 (in an entry entitled “astronomers and UFOs”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Hynek, J Allen in his “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13-14 (in Chapter 1) of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at pages 23-24 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere 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 pages 81-82 (in Chapter 3) of the |
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Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 215-217 (in Chapter 16) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at pages 282-283 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 283-284 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 215-217 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at pages 155-156 of the reprinted Source Books softcover edition. The first of these editions (i.e. the original 17 chapter hardback edition) has the same page numbering as the version available free online at: http://www.nicap.org/rufo/contents2.htm |
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Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 268-285 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition (“Chapter Eleven: Dr Hynek’s Conferences with Astronomers”). |
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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 page 26 (in Chapter 1) of the GHP revised softcover edition. |
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Westrum, Ronald M in “UFO Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist” (1979) (edited by Richard F Haines) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 103 (in Chapter 5) of the Scarebrow Press hardback edition. |
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Other Material
Summary of report included in Project Blue Book Status Report Number 8 (1952.1231) at pages 4-5 (in Section 2). Complete images of relevant report included on the redacted National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 85 (“Administrative Files: Box 1”), at the link below from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB85-672 (page 672 of 915) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB85-713 (page 713 of 915). Complete images of relevant report included on the unredacted Maxwell Air Force Base microfilm roll number 30,362, at the link below from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-647 (page 647 of 1537) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-686 (page 686 of 1537)). Images of complete text of relevant report available free online as a downloadable pdf file from the download section of the website at the link below.
http://www.bluebookarchive.org