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1952.0815 CIA paper on IFOs

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CIA paper on IFOs
On 15 August 1952, a CIA briefing paper gives details of “the official explanations of the great majority of sightings of unidentified flying objects” and mentions “possible phenomena which may account for some of the open cases”.

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Text of relevant document included in CUFON CIA ufo-related document sampler in Part 1 (of 2 Parts). Available online at: http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm

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Book References

Lengthy extract of text presented by Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 76-77 (in Chapter 6, “The Robertson Panel” – in part of the section entitled “CIA Involvement”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 91-92 of the Berkley paperback edition.

For discussion of this CIA briefing paper see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1996

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 38 (in Chapter 2) of the Parragon hardback edition.

1

1986

Klass, Philip J in “The UFO Invasion” (1997) (edited by Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr and Joe Nickell) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 70 (in Chapter 6) of the Prometheus hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of an article in the Skeptical Inquirer 10 (Spring 1986).

1

1983

Klass, Philip J in “UFOs – The Public Deceived” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 18-20 (in Chapter 2) of the Prometheus softback edition.

3

1997

Klass, Philip J in his “The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 52-53 (in Chapter 6), 205 (in Chapter 26) of the Prometheus Books hardback edition.

3

1994

Peebles, Curtis (with lengthy extract) in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 76-77 of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 91-92 of the Berkley paperback edition (Chapter 6, “The Robertson Panel” – in part of the section entitled “CIA Involvement”).

2

2001

Pflock, Karl T in his “Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 190 (in Chapter 15) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

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Other Material