1966.0809 Robert Low’s “trick" memo

 

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Robert Low’s “trick" memo

On 9 August 1966, University of Colorado Assistant Dean Robert Low wrote to E James Archer, dean of the graduate school and Thurston E Manning, vice president and dean of faculties, on the proposed UFO Study for the US Air Force.

 

 

 

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Web Resources

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Book References

Complete text of memo at pages 242-244 (in Appendix A) of Saunders, David R and Harkins, R Roger’ “UFOs? Yes!” (1968), and discussed at pages 129-130, 134 (in Chapter 12), 179-180 (in Chapter 18), 187 (in Chapter 19), 188-189, 190-191, 194, 195 (in Chapter 20), 201, 202 (in Chapter 21), of the Signet paperback edition.

Complete text presented by Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at pages 123-124 (in Appendix C) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition.

For discussion of Low’s “trick memo” see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1978

Barry, Bill in his “Ultimate Encounter” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 188 (in Chapter 15) of the Corgi paperback edition.

1

2004

Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 98-99 (in an entry entitled “Condon Report”), 192-193 (in an entry entitled “Low, Robert”) of the Pocket Books softcover edition.

4

1974

Blum, Ralph and Blum, Judy in their “Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 163-165 (in Chapter 14) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition).

3

2001

Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in “The World’s Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 428-429 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Aerial Kind”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition.

2

1986

Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in their “The World’s Greatest UFO Mysteries” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 168-169 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Aerial Kind”) of the Octopus hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Hamlyn softcover edition).

2

1995

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 (in Chapter 4) of the BCA hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Blitz hardback edition, and in the Barnes & Noble hardback edition published under the title “UFO: The Complete Sightings”).

1

1996

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 57-59, 60 (in Chapter 3) of the Parragon hardback edition.

4

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 2:L-Z at pages 595-596 (forming part of the entry entitled “McDonald, James Edward (1920-1971)”), 947-948, 952 (forming part of the entry entitled “University of Colorado UFO Project” at pages 946-959) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

5

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 594, 600-601 (in an entry entitled “University of Colorado UFO Project”) also briefly discussed at pages 367-368 (in an entry entitled “McDonald, James Edward (1920-1971)”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition.

5

1978

Cohen, Daniel in his “The World of UFOs” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 105-106 (in Chapter 13) of the Lippincott hardback edition.

2

1969

Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 915-916 (in Section 5, Chapter 2 “UFOs: 1947-1968”, by Edward U Condon) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at pages 549-550 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links:

http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.html

2

1995

Craig, Roy in his “UFOs – An Insider’s View” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 194-198 (in Chapter 11), 200-201 (in Chapter 12), 226-227 (in Chapter 13), 229 (in Chapter 14), 244, 246 (in Chapter 15) of the UNT softback edition.

12

1998

Dean, Jodi in her “Aliens in America” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 37-38 (in Chapter 1) of the Cornell University softcover edition.

2

2001

Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 15-16 (in Chapter 1) of the California hardback edition.

2

2000

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 page 402 (in Chapter 7) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 308-309 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

1

1974

Drake, W Raymond in his “Gods and Spacemen of the Ancient Past” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 3) of the Signet paperback edition.

1

2003

Druffel, Ann in her “Firestorm : Dr James E McDonald's Fight for UFO Science” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 262-265, 271-272, 273 (in Chapter 11), 344-345 (in Chapter 13), 394 (in Chapter 14) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition.

10

1978

Edelson, Edward in his “Who Goes There?” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 78 (in Chapter 7) of the NEL paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the NEL paperback edition combining this book and Chris Boyce’s “Extraterrestrial Encounter).

1

1981

Fowler, Raymond E in his “Casebook of a UFO Investigator” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 53-54 (in Chapter 5), 220-221 (in Chapter 18) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition.

4

1974

Fowler, Raymond E in his “UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 161-162 (in Chapter 10), 173-174 (in Chapter 11) of the Exposition Banner hardback edition, at pages 156-157, 168-169 of the Bantam paperback edition.

4

1968

Fuller, John G in his article "Flying Saucer Fiasco," Look, Vol. 32 (14 May 1968), 58-62 (see references in relation to the entry for 1967.0427). Article available online on various websites, including:

http://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/fiasco.html

http://www.etcontact.net/newsite/FullText.asp?id=308

5

1969

Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 8, 16 (in the Introduction) of the Putnam hardback edition.

2

1980

Greenwell, J Richard in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 78 (in an entry entitled “Colorado UFO Project, University of”) of the NEL hardback edition.

1

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 292-293 (in Chapter 7) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

2

2001

Hall, Richard in “The UFO Evidence: Volume 2 – A Thirty Year Report” (2001) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 8 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition.

1

2000

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 224 (in Chapter 6) of the Xlibris softcover edition.

1

1995

Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at page 238 (in Chapter 12) of the Box Tree hardback edition.

1

2000

Hoyt, Diana Palmer in her Masters thesis entitled “UFOcritique : UFOs, Social Intelligence, and the Condon Report” (2000.0420) in Chapter 2 at pages 33-35, 48-49. Complete text of the Masters thesis available online at:

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05082000-09580026/unrestricted/UFOCRITIQUE.pdf

5

1972

Hynek, J Allen in his “The UFO Experience” (1972) (Chapter 12) at pages 210-211 of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with same page numbering in the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition) at page 239 of the various Ballantine paperback editions, at pages 261-262 of the Corgi paperback edition.

2

1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 228-231 (in Chapter 9) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 203-205 of the Signet paperback edition.

4

1971

Kettelkamp, Larry in his “Investigating UFOs” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 17 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “UFO’s Under Study”) of the Target softcover edition.

1

1973

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 124-125 (in Chapter 8) of the Signet paperback edition, pages 145-146 of the Panther paperback edition.

2

1987

Kinder, Gary in his “Light Years” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 169 (in Chapter 8) of the Viking hardback edition.

1

1997

Klass, Philip J in “The UFO Invasion” (1997) (edited by Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr and Joe Nickell) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 34-37 of the Prometheus hardback edition (part of Chapter 2 at pages 29-43, “The Condon UFO Study”). The relevant chapter is a reprint of an article in the Skeptical Inquirer 10, number 4 (Summer 1986).

4

1969

Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “UFOs: The Whole Story” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 258-259 (in Chapter 12) of the Signet paperback edition.

2

1997

Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 152 (in Chapter 5) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

1

1977

Menzel, Donald and Taves, Ernest in their “The UFO Enigma“ (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 83-85 (in Chapter 7), 236-237 (in Chapter 17) of the Doubleday hardback edition.

 

1973

Norman, Eric (pseudonum of Warren Smith) in his “Gods and Devils from Outer Space” (1973) at pages 8-9 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Legends of The Sky People”) of the Lancer paperback edition.

2

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 174-176 (in Chapter 12, “The Condon Report”, section entitled “A Poor Choice of Words”), 182-183 (in Chapter 12, section entitled “The ‘Trick’ Memo”) and 190 (in Chapter 12, section entitled “The Condon Report and After”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 209-212, 219-221 and 229 of the Berkley paperback edition.

6

1977

Peters, Ted in his “UFOs-God's Chariots?: Flying Saucers in Politics, Science & Religion” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 75-76 (in Chapter 4) of the John Knox hardback edition.

2

1996

Pope, Nick in his “Open Skies, Closed Minds” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 169 (in Chapter 9) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition.

1

1974

Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at pages 79-80 of the manuscript, at pages 92-93 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

 

2

1994

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 226-227 (in Chapter 18) of the Piatkus softcover edition.

2

1985

Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51, 54 (in Chapter 4) of the Blackwell hardback edition.

2

2000

Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 65-66, 70 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”), 89 (in Part 3, “UFOs Worldwide”) of the Sterling softcover edition.

4

1998

Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Crash Landing? Friend or Foe?” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 149 (in Chapter 12) of the Blandford softcover edition.

1

1973

Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 84 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Challenge to Science”) of the Berkley paperback edition.

1

 

Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 64 (in Chapter 2) of the Frog softcover edition.

1

1968

Saunders, David R and Harkins, R Roger in their “UFOs? Yes!” (1968), and discussed at pages 129-130, 134 (in Chapter 12), 179-180 (in Chapter 18), 187 (in Chapter 19), 188-189, 190-191, 194, 195 (in Chapter 20), 201, 202 (in Chapter 21), text of memo at pages 242-244 (in Appendix A) of the Signet paperback edition.

17

1997

Shawcross, Tim in his “The Roswell File” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 219 (in Chapter 15) of the Bloomsbury softcover edition.

1

1976

Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at pages 65-66 (in Chapter 5), with complete text at pages 123-124 (in Appendix C) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition.

2

1997

Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 72, 73 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1967-1977”) of the Boxtree hardback edition.

2

1991

Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 192 (in an entry entitled “Low, Robert J”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 223 of the Headline paperback edition.

1

1976

Steiger, Brad (with an extract from the relevant memo) in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 331-332 (forming part of Chapter 13) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

2

1978

Stemman, Roy in his “Mysteries of the Universe: Great Mysteries” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-155 (in Chapter 7) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

3

1993

Stone, Reuben in his “UFO Investigation” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 71 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Ultimate Conspiracy”) of the Blitz Editions hardback edition.

1

1987

Strieber, Whitley in his “Communion“ (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 234 (in Chapter 6) of the Arrow paperback edition.

1

1969

Sullivan, Walter in the Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages x-xi (in the Introduction) of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition).

2

1991

Thompson, Keith in his “Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 85-86 (in Chapter 7) of the Fawcett softcover edition.

2

1987

Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 116 (in Chapter 4) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition.

1

1973

Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “The Eternal Subject” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18-19 (in Chapter 1) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition, at pages 16-17 of the Day Book paperback editon (published under the title “Mysterious Visitors: The UFO Story”).

2

1992

Vallee, Jacques in his “Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969.” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 347-348 (in Chapter 16, journal entry for 1968.0509) of the North Atlantic Books hardback edition, at pages 348-349 of the 1996 abridged Marlowe paperback edition.

2

1980

Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 169 (in Chapter 14) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

1

1998

Wilson, Colin in his “Alien Dawn” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 96-97 (in Chapter 3) of the Virgin softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Virgin paperback edition).

2

1996

Wilson, Colin in his “World Famous UFOs” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 76-77 (in Chapter 4) of the Parragon softcover edition.

2

1998

Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 52-53 (in Chapter 3) of the St Martin’s Press softcover edition.

2

 

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