1966.1007 Condon contract announced

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On 7 October 1966, the Condon committee contract was announced to press.

 

 

 

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1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

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Book References

Complete text of relevant Department of Defense press release (Numer 847-66) in “UFOs over the Americas” (1968) by Coral and Jim Lorenzen at pages 222-224 (in Appendix 3) of the Signet paperback edition.

Virtually complete text of relevant Department of Defense press release presented by Greenfield, Irving A in his “The UFO Report” (1967) at pages 136-139 (in Chapter 16) of the Lancer paperback edition.

For discussion of the Condon committee contract press announcement see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1996

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 56 (in Chapter 3) of the Parragon hardback edition.

1

1969

Chapman, Robert in his “UFO : Flying Saucers Over Britain?” (1969) (also published as “Unidentified Flying Objects”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 182-183 (in Chapter 14) of the Mayflower paperback edition.

2

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 365 (in an entry entitled “McDonald, James Edward (1920-1971)”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition.

1

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 page 917 (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 page 551 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

1

1967

Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Here and Now!” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 46 (in Chapter 3), 169-172 (in Chapter 9) of the Lyle Stuart hardback edition, at pages 23, 99-102 of the Bantam paperback edition.

5

1976

Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 411 (in Chapter 20) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

1

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 288-289 (in Chapter 7) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

2

2000

Hoyt, Diana Palmer in her Masters thesis entitled “UFOcritique : UFOs, Social Intelligence, and the Condon Report” (2000.0420) in Chapter 2 at page 36. Complete text of the Masters thesis available online at:

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

1

1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 209-211 (in Chapter 8) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 185-187 of the Signet paperback edition.

3

1973

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 106 (in Chapter 7), 107 (in Chapter 8) of the Signet paperback edition, pages 125 and 126 of the Panther paperback edition.

2

1986

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 page 31 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).

1

1974

Klass, Philip J in his “UFOs Explained” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 276 (in Chapter 25) of the Random House hardback edition / page 326-327 of Random House paperback edition.

1

1968

Lore, Gordon and Deneault, Harold in their “Mysteries of the Skies” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 189 (in the Epilogue) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition.

1

1968

Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, JimUFOs over the Americas” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 195-197 (in Chapter 10), 199 (in Chapter 11) of the Signet paperback edition.

4

1967

Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “Flying Saucer Occupants” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 157 (in Chapter 9) of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1969

Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “UFOs: The Whole Story” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 264-265 (in Chapter 12) of the Signet paperback edition.

2

1967

Palmer, Raymond A in his “The Real UFO Invasion” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 21 (in the Introduction) of the Greenleaf paperback edition.

1

1974

Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at pages 76-77 of the manuscript, at pages 89-90 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

1996

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “50 Years of UFO Encounters” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 51 (in unnumbered section entitled “1966: UFOs Under the Microscope”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition.

1

2000

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

1

1968

Saunders, David R and Harkins, R Roger in their “UFOs? Yes!” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 29-31 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition.

3

1966

Stanton, L Jerome in his “Flying Saucers : Hoax or Reality?” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 26-27 (in Chapter 1), 117-118 (in Chapter 7) of the Belmont paperback edition.

4

1994

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 321-322 (in Chapter 10) of the AUP softcover edition.

2

1971

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 321-322 (in Chapter 10) of the Zebra paperback edition.

2

1967

Young, Mort in his “UFO Top Secret” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 126 (in Chapter 9) of the Essandess softcover edition.

1

See also references provided in relation to the main entry for the Condon Report (9 January 1969).

 

Other Material

Department of Defense press release (Numer 847-66), “Air Force Selects University of Colorado to Investigate Unidetified Objects Reports”

Complete text of relevant press release presented by Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at pages 76-77 of the manuscript, at pages 89-90 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