Project Blue Book Special Report Number 14 (dated 5 May 1955) was entitled “Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects”. It was based on studies by the Battelle Memorial Institute.
Web Resources
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Book References
Images of the full text of Special Report Number 14 and some of the important tables and figures from that report in the final section of Leon Davidson’s “Flying Saucers : An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14” (1966.0700) at pages numbered 1-84 (handwritten in the top outer corner) of the Ramsey-Wallace paperbound 3rd Edition. Table of contents at pages 2-4 (pages iii-v in the original report), “Summary” at pages 5-7 (pages vii-ix in the original report), “Advanced Study of the Data : Statistical Chi Square test” at pages 40-49 (pages 60-
Extracts from Project Blue Book Special Report #14 appear by Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-170 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition (Chapter Seven: “Deriving a Model UFO from Twelve Top Cases of ‘Unknowns’”) and Special Report #14 is discussed by Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition (Introduction).
For discussion of Project Blue Book Special Report Number 14 see the following:
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Baker, Alan in his “Sci-Fi Channel: True Life Encounters: UFO Sightings” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 155-158 (in Chapter 5) of the Orion softcover edition. |
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Berliner, Don with Galbraith, Marie and Huneeus, Antonio in their “UFO Briefing Document : The Best Available Evidence“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 214 (Appendices, section entitled “US Government UFO Projects and Studies”) of the Dell paperback edition. |
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Berliner, Don with Galbraith, Marie and Huneeus, Antonio in their “UFO Briefing Document : The Best Available Evidence“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (Part 1:Overview, section entitled “The Case for UFO Reality”, sub-section entitled “Government Statements”) of the Dell paperback edition. |
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Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 265 (in an entry entitled “Report Number |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44 (in Chapter 2), 53, 62 (in Chapter 3) of the Parragon hardback edition. |
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Campagna, Palmiro in his “The UFO Files: The Canadian Connection Exposed” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 54 (in Chapter 4), 154 (in Chapter 11) of the Stoddart softcover edition. |
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Campagna, Palmiro in his “The UFO Files: The Canadian Connection Exposed” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 66 (in Chapter 5) of the Stoddart softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 482-486 (in an entry entitled “Project Blue Book Special Report No. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 1 – UFOs in the 1980s” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages xii-xiii (in an entry entitled “The UFO Phenomenenon before 1980”) of the Apogee hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 2 – Emergence of a Phenomenon” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 276-280 (in an entry entitled “Project Blue Book Special Report |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition : Volume 2:L-Z” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 742-745 (in an entry entitled “Project Blue Book Special Report No. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 105 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Ultimate Secret”) of the Publications International hardback edition. |
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Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 13 (in Chapter 1) 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 pages 200 (in Chapter 4), 253-254 (in Chapter 5) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 122, 128, 178 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 60 (in Chapter 3) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
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Evans, Hilary in his “The Evidence for UFOs” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 of the Aquarian softcover edition (in Chapter 1). |
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Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 405 (in Chapter 20) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Friedman, Stanton T in “Worlds Beyond” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (edited by Larry Geis and Fabrice Florin) at pages 205-206 (in Sequence 21 entitled “Flying Saucers Are Real”) of the And/Or softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Perennial Library paperback edition published under the title “Moving Into Space: The Myths and Realities of Extraterrestrial Life”). |
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Friedman, Stanton in his “Flying Saucers and Science : A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-49 (in Chapter 1), 114 (in Chapter 4), 154 (in Chapter 6), 252 (in Chapter 10) of the New Page softcover edition. |
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Friedman, Stanton and Marden, Kathleen in their “Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience” (2007) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 248-249 of the New Page Books softcover edition. |
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Friedman, Stanton and Berliner, Don in their “Crash at Corona” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 31-32 (in Chapter 3) of the 1997 Marlowe Company softback edition. |
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Friedman, Stanton in an interview in “UFOs And The Alien Presence: Six Viewpoints” (1991) (Edited by Michael Lindemann) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14, 18-19, 41-42 (in Chapter 1) of the 2002 Group softcover edition. |
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Friedman, Stanton in his written statements to the Roush Hearing (the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics "Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects" on 1968.0729) at pages 196-197, 209-211 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Complete transcript available free online at the following links: http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/contents.html http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/contents.html |
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Friedman, Stanton T in “Thesis Antithesis” (1975) (edited by A D Emerson) at pages 32-33 (in Part |
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Friedman, Stanton T in his “Top Secret – MAJIC” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 5-6, 9-10, 11 (in the Introduction), 28 (in Chapter 2), 119, 126, 140 (in Chapter 7), 210-211 (in Chapter 12) of the Michael O’ Mara hardback edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 419-421 (in Chapter 17) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition). |
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Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 538 (in Chapter 20) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition). |
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Hall, Michael David and Connors, Wendy Ann in their “Captain Edward J Ruppelt : Summer of the Saucers - 1952” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 67-68, 75 (in Chapter 2), 122 (in Chapter 4), 210, 220 (in the Conclusion), 250, 258 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Final Word - The Forgotten Correspondence of Edward Ruppelt”) of the Rose Press softcover edition. |
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Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153 (in Chapter 4), 223-224 (in Chapter 5), 241 (in Chapter 6) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Hamilton, William F in his “Alien Magic: UFO Crashes, Abductions, Underground Bases” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 51 (in Chapter 5) of the Global Communications softcover edition. |
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Hansen, Terry in his “The Missing Times : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-Up : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover -Up” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 222 (in Chapter 6) of the Xlibris softcover edition. |
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Hendry, Allan in his “The UFO Handbook” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 263-267, 268 (in Chapter 20) of the Sphere softback edition. |
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Hynek, J Allen and Vallee, Jacques in their “The Edge of Reality” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 190 (in Chapter 7) of the Henry Regnery 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 243, 262-269 (in Chapter 11, “The Air Force Numbers Game”) of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at pages 253 and 272-278 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition). |
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Hynek, J Allen in his “The UFO Experience” (1972) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 169 (in Chapter 11) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with same page numbering in the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition) at page 191 of the various Ballantine paperback editions, at page 211 of the Corgi 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 138-142 (in Chapter 6) of the |
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Keel, John A in his “UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 40 (in Chapter 2), 142 (in Chapter 7), 293 (in Chapter 15) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Abacus softcover edition). |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 24 (in Chapter 2) of the Signet paperback edition, page 37 of the Panther paperback edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers: Top Secret” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 43 (in Chapter 3), 91 (in Chapter 6), 113 (in Chapter 8), 157 (in Chapter 11) of the G P Putnam hardback edition. |
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Klass, Philip J in his “The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at 210-211 (in Chapter 26) of the Prometheus Books hardback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “UFOs: The Whole Story” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 267-269 (in Chapter 12) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Maccabee, Bruce and Smith, Marcia S. in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 45-50 (in an entry entitled “Battelle Memorial Institute study”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Maccabee, Bruce and Smith, Marcia S. in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 45-50 (in an entry entitled “Battelle Memorial Institute study”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41 (in Chapter 5), 107 (in Chapter 9) of the Llewellyn softcover edition. |
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Manas, John H in his “Flying Saucers and Space Men” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 25, 27-28 (in Chapter 1) of the Zavallis softcover edition. |
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Maney, Charles And Hall, Richard in their “Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects” (1961) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 45-46 (in Part 2, Chapter 2, by Charles Maney), 86-88 (in Part 2, Chapter 8, by Charles Maney), 120-121 (in Part 3, Chapter 2, by Richard Hall) of the privately published hardback edition. |
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Maney, Charles And Hall, Richard in their “Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects” (1961) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 114-115 (in Part 3, Chapter 2, by Richard Hall) of the privately published hardback edition. |
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Mannion, Michael in his “Project Mindshift” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 117 (in Chapter 5) of the Evans hardback edition. |
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Moseley, James and Pflock, Karl in their “Shockingly Close to the Truth!” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-117 (in Chapter 5) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 88 (Chapter 6, “The Robertson Panel” – in part of the section entitled “Aftermath”), 109-110 (Chapter 8) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 107-108, 132-133 of the |
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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 page 190 (in Chapter 15) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Price-Williams, Douglas R in “UFO's: A Scientific Debate” (1972) (edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 230 (in Chapter 10) of the Barnes and Noble hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Norton paperback edition. |
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Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at pages 14-15 of the manuscript, at pages 27-28 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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Randle, Kevin D in his “Project Bluebook Exposed” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 76-88 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “May 5, 1955: Project Blue Book Special Report #14” generally) of the Marlowe softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin D in his “Scientific Ufology” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 218-219 (in Chapter 8) of the |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “50 Years of UFO Encounters” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 26-27 (in unnumbered section entitled “1955: Ruppelt’s Revenge”) of the Encounters Magazine 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 135-138 (in Chapter 10) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44-47 (in Chapter 3) of the Blackwell hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48-49 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Study” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48-49 (in Chapter 3) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFOs and How to See Them” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 1) of the Brockhampton Press hardback edition. |
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Ron Westrum in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 325 of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition (in Chapter 5.2, entitled “UFOs and Scientists”). |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 305-306 (in an entry entitled “Special Report No. |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 31 (in an entry entitled “Battelle Memorial Institute”), 305-306 (in an entry entitled “Special Report No. |
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Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at pages 57-59 (in Chapter 5) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition. |
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Smith, Willy in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 372 of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition (in Chapter 6.2). |
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Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 28 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1947-1957”) of the Boxtree hardback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 36 (in an entry entitled “Battelle Institute Study”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 42-43 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Strickland, Joshua in his “Extra-terrestrials on Earth” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 41 (in Chapter 3) of the |
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Sturrock, Peter in his “The UFO Enigma“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 15 (in Chapter 2) of the Warner Aspect hardback edition. |
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Thompson, Keith in his “Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 55 (in Chapter 5) of the Fawcett softcover edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Anatomy of a Phenomenon” (1965) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 98 (in Chapter 4) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition), page 106 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, page 139 of the 1966 revised and enlarged Ace Star paperback edition. |
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Vesco, Renato and Childress, David Hatcher in their “Man Made UFOs 1944-1994 – 50 Years of Suppression” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 259-260 (in Chapter 8), 314 (in Chapter 10) of the AUP softcover edition. |
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Vesco, Renato in his “Intercept Ufo” (Formerly published as “Intercept - But Don't Shoot”) (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 314 (in Chapter 10) of the Zebra paperback edition. |
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Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 70-71 (in Chapter 7) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Young, Mort in “Flying Saucers Have Arrived!” (1970) (edited by Jay David) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 213 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Investigators”) of the World hardback edition. The relevant chapter is reprinted from “UFO : Top Secret” by Mort Young. |
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Young, Mort in his “UFO Top Secret” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 27 (in Chapter 2) of the Essandess softcover edition. |
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Other Material
Complete images of Project Blue Book Special Report Number 14 included on the redacted US National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book, released to the National Archives in 1975 – see National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 86 (“Administrative Files: Box 2”). Images of the relevant pages are at the link below from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB86-538 (page 538 of 1249) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB86-847 (page 847 of 1249).
Complete images of the Project Blue Book Special Report Number 14 included on the unredacted Maxwell Air Force Base (“Maxwell”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book – see Maxwell microfilm roll number 30,362. Images of the document are at the link below from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-1229 (page 1229 of 1537) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-1535 (page 1535 of 1537).