A memo (commonly referred to as “the Pentacle Memo”) by Howard C Cross of the Battelle Memorial Institute dated 9 January 1953 noted that at a meeting on 12 December 1952 “our representatives strongly recommended that [the proposed Robertson Panel] not be set up until the results of our analysis of the sighting-reports collected by ATIC were available”.
Web Resources
Text of the Pentacle Memo, and discussion thereof by Dale Goudie and Jacques Vallee, available online at:
http://www.cufon.org/cufon/pentacle.htm
http://www.cufon.org/cufon/pentacle.zip{text}
Book References
For discussion of the Pentacle memo see the following:
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Volume 2:L-Z at pages 970-971 (forming part of an article entitled “Vallee, Jacques Francis (1939- )”). |
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Dolan, Richard in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 191 (in Chapter 4) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 121-122 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Druffel, Ann in her “Firestorm : Dr James E McDonald's Fight for UFO Science” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 343 (in Chapter 13) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
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Hynek, J Allen in “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-13 (in Chapter 1) of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997), at pages 20-23 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition). |
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Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 157-159 (in Chapter 6) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Pflock, Karl T in his “Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 189-190 (in Chapter 15) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Picknett, Lynn in her “The Mammoth Book of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 436 (in Chapter 7) of the Robinson 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 131 (in Chapter 10), 254 (in Chapter 21) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 157 (in an entry entitled “Pentacle”) of the MJF hardback edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 62-63 (in Chapter 2) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969.” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 280-282 (in Chapter 15, journal entry for 1967.0618), 290-291 (in Chapter 15, journal entry for 1967.0710), 294-295 (in Chapter 15, journal entry for 1967.0712), 203-204 (in Chapter 15, journal entry for 1967.0802), 312 (in Chapter 15, journal entry for 1967.0908), 321 (in Chapter 16, journal entry for 1967.1027), 338 (in Chapter 16, journal entry for 1968.0318), 427-430 (in the Epilogue) of the North Atlantic Books hardback edition, at pages 284-286, 293-294, 298-299, 306-307, 314, 322-323, 340, 425-427 of the 1996 abridged Marlowe paperback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Forbidden Science : Volume 2 (Journals 1970-1979)” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 9, 492 of the Documatica Research hardback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in Richard M. Dolan’s “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages x-xi (in the Foreword) of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Wilson, Colin in his “Alien Dawn” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 121-122 (in Chapter 4) of the Virgin softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Virgin paperback edition). |
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