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On 8 August 1958, an informal hearing on UFOs was held by the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Atmospheric Phenomena (a sub-committee of the House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration), chaired by Congressman John McCormack.

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

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 of the McCormack hearing see the following:

Year	Discussion by:	No. of Pages
1999	Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 257 (in Chapter 6) of the Galde Press softcover edition.	1
1975	Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 160-162 (in Chapter 7, “The Battle for Congressional Hearings”) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 142-143 of the Signet paperback edition.	3
1997	Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 134, 143 (in Chapter 5) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.	2
1980	Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 150 (in an entry entitled “House of Representatives Subcommittee on Atmospheric Phenomena”) of the Corgi softback edition.	1
1976	Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at page 60 (in Chapter 5) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition.	1
1991	Thompson, Keith in his “Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 55-56 (in Chapter 5) of the Fawcett softcover edition.	2

Other Material

Images of various documents relating to this informal hearing 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 87 (“Administrative Files: Box 4”). Images of the relevant pages are at the link below from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB87-340 (page 340 of 977) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB87-370 (page 370 of 977).

http://www.bluebookarchive.org

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