1957.0000 Straith letter hoax

 

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Straith letter hoax
During 1957, George Adamski receives a letter purporting to be signed by “R E Straith” of the US Department of State.

 

 

 

 

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1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Image of the “Straith letter” available online at:

http://www.csicop.org/si/2002-05/barker.html

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Book References

For discussion of the Straith letter see the following:

 

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1997

Clark, Jerome in “Making Contact” (1997) (edited by Bill Fawcett) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 29-30 (in Section 1) of the Morrow hardback edition.

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1998

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 1:A-K at pages 33-34 (in an entry entitled “Adamski, George”), 507 (forming part of an entry entitled “Hoaxes” at pages 504-519) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

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1992

Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 86-87 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Into the Wild Blue”) of the Publications International hardback edition.

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1961

Honey, Carol A in George Adamski’s “Flying Saucers Farewell” (1961) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-12 (in the Introduction) of the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition, at page 11 of the Paperback Library edition (published under the title “Behind the Flying Saucer Mystery”).

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1997

Keith, Jim in his “Casebook on the Men in Black” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 170 (in Chapter ) of the I-Net softcover edition.

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1997

Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 193 (in Chapter 7) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

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2002

Moseley, James and Pflock, Karl in their “Shockingly Close to the Truth!” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 124-127 (in Chapter 5), 331 (in the Appendix) of the Prometheus hardback edition, with an image of the “Straith letter” at page 332.

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2002

Sherwood, John C in his article “Gray Barker's Book of Bunk: Mothman, Saucers and MIB” (2002), Skeptical Inquirer, Volume 26, Number 3, May/June 2002, at pages 39-44. Article available online at: http://www.csicop.org/si/2002-05/barker.html

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