1948.1103 Origins "not discernible"

 

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Origins "not discernible"
On 3 November 1948, Major General C P Cabell, USAF HQ wrote to the Commanding General, AMC at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base stating that the origin of UFOs was “not discernible”.

 

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

Images of memo presented by Pflock, Karl T in his “Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages at page 315 (in Appendix I) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

Complete text presented by Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 339-340 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Recent Revelations”) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

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 Cabell’s memo 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 pages 339-340 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Recent Revelations”) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

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1999

Matthews, Tim in his “UFO Revelation” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51-52 (in Chapter 4) of the Blandford softcover edition.

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2001

Pflock, Karl T in his “Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 188, 191 (in Chapter 15) with image of memo at page 315 (in Appendix I) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

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Other Material