1952.0815 CIA paper on IFOs

 

On 15 August 1952, a CIA briefing paper gives details of “the official explanations of the great majority of sightings of unidentified flying objects” and mentions “possible phenomena which may account for some of the open cases”.

 

 

 

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Text of relevant document included in CUFON CIA ufo-related document sampler in Part 1 (of 2 Parts). Available online at: http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

Lengthy extract of text presented by Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 76-77 (in Chapter 6, “The Robertson Panel” – in part of the section entitled “CIA Involvement”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 91-92 of the Berkley paperback 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 this CIA briefing paper 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 38 (in Chapter 2) of the Parragon hardback edition.	1
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 70 (in Chapter 6) of the Prometheus hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of an article in the Skeptical Inquirer 10 (Spring 1986).	1
1983	Klass, Philip J in “UFOs – The Public Deceived” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 18-20 (in Chapter 2) of the Prometheus softback edition.	3
1997	Klass, Philip J in his “The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 52-53 (in Chapter 6), 205 (in Chapter 26) of the Prometheus Books hardback edition.	3
1994	Peebles, Curtis (with lengthy extract) in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 76-77 of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 91-92 of the Berkley paperback edition (Chapter 6, “The Robertson Panel” – in part of the section entitled “CIA Involvement”).	2
2001	Pflock, Karl T in his “Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 190 (in Chapter 15) of the Prometheus hardback edition.	1

 

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