CAA press release

On 11 December

1952

, the US Civil Aeronautics Administration (“CAA”) issues a press release relating to its report on the radar detection of unidentified targets during the summer of

1952

.

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

Web Resources

There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead focused on providing tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables of references to discussion in books can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.

Book References

Image of press release in Leon Davidson’s “Flying Saucers: An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14” (1966.0700) at page A7 of the Ramsey-Wallace paperbound 3^rd Edition.

The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.

Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.

For discussion see the following:

Year	Discussion by:	No. of Pages
1967	Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Here and Now!” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 90-91 (in Chapter 8) of the Bantam paperback edition.	2
1964	Edwards, Frank in his “Strange World” (1964) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-23 (in Chapter 3), 129 (in Chapter 58) of the Ace paperback edition.	3
1962	Edwards, Frank in his “Strangest of All” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 170-171 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Authorities Who Believe in Flying Saucers”) of the Ace paperback edition.	2
1964	NICAP in its “The UFO Evidence” (1964) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 82 (in Section 8) of the privately published paperbound edition, with the same page numbering in the 1997 Barnes & Noble paperbound reprint. Available free online at: “ http://www.nicap.org/ufoe/section_8.htm	1
1994	Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 66-67 (Chapter 5, “The 1952 Flap” – in a section entitled “Investigation”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 78-80 of the Berkley paperback edition.	2
1974	Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at pages 108-109 of the manuscript, at pages 123-124 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	2

Other Material

CAA Technical Development Report Number 180-CAB, “A Preliminary Study of Unidentified Targets Observed On Air Traffic Control Radars” by Borden, R C and Vickers, T K. (Civil Aeronautics Administration Technical Development and Evaluation Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, September 1952).

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