1952.1211 CAA press release

 

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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

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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 3rd Edition.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at pages 108-109 of the manuscript, at pages 123-124 of the NIDS pdf version available free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

 

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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).