by Dan Wright
23. Ibid., p. 62.
24. Ibid., p. 103.
25. Fawcett and Greenwood, Clear Intent, pp. 156–59.
26. Clark, The UFO Book, “Mantell Incident,” pp. 351–353.
27. Ibid.
28. Good, Need to Know.
29. Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia (New York: Perigee Books/G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1980).
30. Don Berliner, Fund for UFO Research, The Blue Book Unknowns (1995), available at www.nicap.org.
31. Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia.
32. Ronald D. Story, The Encyclopedia of UFOs (Garden City, NY: Dolphin Books/Doubleday & Co., 1980).
Chapter 2 1949: Curiouser and Curiouser
1. Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia.
2. Don Berliner, Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document (The UFO Research Coalition, 1995), www.openminds.tv.
3. Berliner, The Blue Book Unknowns.
4. Fawcett and Greenwood, Clear Intent, pp. 151–61.
5. Story, The Encyclopedia of UFOs.
6. Bob Gribble, “Looking Back,” MUFON UFO Journal, September 1989.
7. Wikipedia, “Green Fireballs,” last edited November 30, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_fireballs.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, (1992), The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954–1974, www.gwu.edu.
11. Thorne and Patterson, “Foreign Relations of the United States, 1945–1950.”
12. “History of the CIA,” www.cia.gov.
13. Doc # 0000015337, “Flying Saucers,” internal OSI memo from Dr. Stone to Dr. Machle, March 15, 1949.
14. Berliner, The Blue Book Unknowns.
Chapter 3 1950: Escalation
1. Berliner, Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document.
2. Berliner, The Blue Book Unknowns.
3. Wikipedia, “Gordon Cooper,” updated December 13, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper.
4. Fawcett and Greenwood, Clear Intent, page 69.
5. Bob Gribble, “Looking Back,” MUFON UFO Journal, May 1990.
6. Doc # 0000015283, Information Report (heavily redacted), “German Scientist's Article on ‘Flying Discs’,” July 31, 1950.
7. Doc # 0005516578, Information Report from (redacted), “Unidentified Airborne Object,” August 18, 1950.
8. Doc # CIA-RDP80R01731R003500010009-8, Office Memorandum from Assistant Director, OCD(?), to (various), “Unconventional Aircraft,” September 26, 1950.
9. Central Intelligence Agency, “Taking Stock: 15 DCI's First 100 Days,” www.cia.gov.
10. Good, Need to Know.
11. Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia.
12. Bob Gribble, “Looking Back,” MUFON UFO Journal, April 1990.
13. Ronald D. Story, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters (New York: New American Library, 2001), pp. 644-645. See also Wikipedia, “McMinnville UFO Photographs,” last updated December 6, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org.
14. Bob Gribble, “Looking Back,” MUFON UFO Journal, August, 1990.
15. Good, Need to Know.
16. Berliner, The Blue Book Unknowns.
17. Berliner, Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document.
Chapter 4 1951: Calm Before . . .
1. Good, Need to Know.
2. Berliner, The Blue Book Unknowns.
3. Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia.
4. Good, Need to Know, pp. 162–163.
Chapter 5 1952: A Genuine Wave
1. Doc # 0000015282, Information Report, “Light Phenomena East of Tashkent” (Uzbekistan), February 11, 1952.
2. Doc # 0000015467, IFDRB, “‘Saucers’ Sighted Over Spain and French Africa,” April–August 1952,” distributed September 27, 1952.
3. Doc # 0000015464, IFDRB, “‘Flying Saucers’ in East Germany,” July 9, 1952.
4. Doc # 0000015467, IFDRB, “‘Saucers’ Sighted Over Spain and French Africa,” April–August 1952,” distributed September 27 1952.
5. Doc # 0005515704, Information Report, “Flying Saucers,” heavily redacted, September 2, 1952.
6. Doc # 0000015276, Information Report, heavily redacted, “Flying Saucers,” undated, distributed September 2, 1952.
7. Berliner, The Blue Book Unknowns.
8. J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report (New York: Dell Publishing, 1977).
9. Berliner, The Blue Book Unknowns.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia; Story, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters.
13. Story, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters.
14. Doc # 0005515934, memorandum for Deputy Director, Intelligence, “Recent Sightings of Unexplained Objects,” July 29, 1952.
15. Doc # 0000015341, memorandum for Deputy Assistant Director/SI from Acting Chief, Weapons & Equipment Division, “Flying Saucers,” August 1, 1952.
16. Ibid.
17. Doc # 0000015443, untitled note regarding phone call from the FBI, August 8, 1952.
18. Doc # 0000015441, draft “Minutes of Branch Chief's Meeting of 11 August 1952.”
19. Doc # 0000015340, interagency transmittal, “Recent Sightings of Unexplained Objects,” 20 August 1952.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Doc # 0000015342, memorandum from the Assistant Director of Operations to the Deputy Director (Intelligence), “USSR and Satellite Mention of Flying Saucers,” August 22, 1952.
23. Doc # 0005516118, non-sourced, “The Air Force Stand on Flying Saucers—As Stated by CIA, in a Briefing on 22 August 1952.”
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid., emphasis added.
29. Ibid.
30. Doc # 0000015465, Information from Foreign Documents or Radio Broadcasts, “Flying Saucers in Spain and North Africa,” May–June 1952, distributed August 27, 1952.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Doc # 0000015276, Information Report, “Flying Saucers,” undated, distributed September 2, 1952.
34. Doc # 0000015466, IFDRB, “Unidentified Flying Objects over Morocco and French West Africa,” July 1952, distributed September 2, 1952.
35. Doc # 0000015467, IFDRB, “‘Saucers’ Sighted Over Spain and French Africa,” April–August 1952,” distributed September 27, 1952.
36. Doc # CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020011-8, draft memorandum from James Q. Reber, Assistant Director, Intelligence Coordination, for the DD/I, “Flying Saucers,” October 13, 1952.
37. Ibid.
38. Doc # 0005515935, memorandum from H. Marshall Chadwell, OSI Director, to Director of Intelligence, “Unidentified Flying Objects,” December 2, 1952.
39. Doc # 0000015345, memorandum for Record, by P. G. Strong, OSI Acting Deputy Assistant Director, December 3, 1952.
40. Doc # 0005516074, Intelligence Advisory Committee Minutes of Meeting Held in Director's Conference Room, Administration Building, Central Intelligence Agency, on 4 December 1952.
41. Doc # 0005516214, memorandum from V. P. Keay to A. H. Belmont (titles not shown), December 5, 1952.
42. Doc # 0000015346, Office Memorandum from H. U. Graham to OSI Deputy Assistant Director, “FCC Monitoring and Flying Saucers,” December 9, 1952.
43. Doc # 0000015347, memorandum from H. Marshall Chadwell, OSI Director, for the Director of Central Intelligence, “Unidentified Flying Objects,” December 10, 1952.
44. Doc # 0005515943, memorandum from H. Marshall Chadwell, OSI Director—signed by H. L. Clark—to Director of Central Intelligence, “Unidentified Flying Objects,” with enclosures, December 13, 1952.
45. Doc # 0005515711, letter from H. Marshall Chadwell, OSI Director, to J. Allen Hynek, Ohio State University, December 29, 1952.
46. Doc # 0000015470, IFDRB, July–November 1952, distributed February 9, 1953, “Reports of Unconventional Aircraft in Frenc
h Africa, Corsica, and Western Europe.”
47. J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report.
48. Good, Need to Know.
49. Ibid.
50. Ibid.
51. Berliner, The Blue Book Unknowns.
52. Story, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters.
53. Good, Need to Know; Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia.
54. Good, Need to Know, p. 152.
55. Story, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, p. 397.
56. Ibid.
57. Ibid.
58. Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia. See also Doc # 0000015470.
59. Good, Need to Know.
Chapter 6 1953: Cold Water from Robertson and Others
1. Doc # 0000015351, memorandum from H. Marshall Chadwell, OSI Director, to the Director of Central Intelligence, “Consultants for Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects,” January 9, 1953.
2. Wikipedia, “Robertson Panel,” last edited December 16, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Doc # 0000015458, non-sourced, “Comments and Suggestions of UFO Panel” (Robertson Report), January 21, 1953.
7. Ibid.
8. The Computer UFO Network, “Seven Status Reports for Project STORK” (n.d.), www.cufon.org.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. The Computer UFO Network, “Seven Status Reports for Project STORK”; see also Above Top Secret, “The 1952 Tremonton, Utah UFO Fleet,” 2017, www.abovetopsecret.com.
13. Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Doc # 0005515715, letter from H. Marshall Chadwell to Dr. H. P. Robertson, California Institute of Technology, January 28, 1953.
17. Doc # 0005515715, letter from H. P. “Bob” Robertson, California Institute of Technology, to H. Marshall “Chad” Chadwell, January 20, 1953.
18. Doc # 0000015470, IFDRB, July–November 1952, distributed February 9, 1953, “Reports of Unconventional Aircraft in French Africa, Corsica, and Western Europe.”
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Doc # 0000015287, letter from H. Marshall Chadwell, OSI Director, to Julius Stratton, Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 27, 1953.
22. Doc # RDP79B00752A000300100010-4, “Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects Convened by the Office of Scientific Intelligence, CIA,” February 16, 1953.
23. Ibid.
24. Doc # RDP79B00752A000300100010-4, “Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects Convened by the Office of Scientific Intelligence, CIA,” February 16, 1953. Note: This file is also shown as Doc # 0005516128 and 0000015459, both largely illegible.
25. Ibid.
26. Doc # 0000015353, Memorandum for Record, by Philip G. Strong, OSI Acting Deputy Assistant Director, “Briefing of ONE Board on Unidentified Flying Objects,” January 30, 1953.
27. Doc # 0000015355, Office Memorandum from (redacted) to the OSI assistant for operations, Contact Division, “California Committee for Saucer Investigation,” February 9, 1953.
28. Doc # 0000015455, non-sourced report, “National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena,” January 4, 1953.
29. Ibid.
30. Doc # 0000015354, memorandum from Alan M. Warfield, Chief, FEIS (?) to bureau chiefs, “Unidentified Flying Objects,” February 6, 1953; see also Doc # 0000015352.
31. Doc # 0005516124, letter from (redacted), Secretary, Intelligence Advisory Committee (IAC), to (redacted), March 12, 1953.
32. Doc # 0005517565, letter from Richard Drain, IAC Secretary, to the Secretary of Defense, March 13, 1953.
33. Doc # 0000015357, Office Memorandum from F. C. Durant to P. G. Strong, “Unidentified Flying Objects,” March 31, 1953.
34. Doc # 0005515716, untitled letter from OSI Director H. Marshall Chadwell to Samuel A. Goudsmit, Brookhaven National Laboratory, April 7, 1953.
35. Doc # 0000015358, draft by Richard D. Drain, IAC Secretary, “Item for Director's Log,” April 21, 1953.
36. Doc # 0000015359, Memorandum for Record, by Philip G. Strong, OSI Acting Deputy Assistant Director, “FCDA Meeting,” April 23, 1953.
37. Doc # 0000015360, Memorandum for Record, by Philip G. Strong, “Further to FCDA Meeting,” April 24, 1953.
38. Doc # 0000015361, Office Memorandum from H. Marshall Chadwell, OSI Assistant Director, to the chief of the Physics and Electronics (P&E) Division, “Unidentified Flying Objects,” May 27, 1953.
39. Doc # 0000015362, Office Memorandum, from Todos M. Odarenko, Chief, OSI Physics and Electronics Division, to the OSI Assistant Director, “Unidentified Flying Objects,” July 3, 1953.
40. Doc # 0005516159, IFDRB, Morgon Tidningen, “Danish Defense Leaders Take Serious View of Flying Saucers,” July 13, 1953.
41. Wikipedia, “Air Base Karup,” updated October 13, 2016, https://en.wikipedia.org.
42. Doc # 0000015472, IFDRB, October 1952–July 1953; distributed July 13, 1953.
43. Doc # 0000015471, IFDRB, March–May 1953, “Engineer Claims Saucer Plans Are in Soviet Hands; Sightings in Africa, Iran, Syria,” distributed August 18, 1953.
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid.
46. Doc # 0000015290, letter from John S. Warner, Legislative Counsel, to Congressman Gordon H. Scherer, undated.
47. Doc # 0005515713, undated (post-8/24/53) letter from Philip G. Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, to Thornton Page, Johns Hopkins University.
48. Wikipedia, “Donald Keyhoe,” updated September 12, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org.
49. Ibid.
50. Ibid.
51. Ibid.
52. Doc # 0000015363, Office Memorandum from P. G. Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, to the OSI Assistant Director, “Report on Book Entitled ‘Flying Saucers from Outer Space’,” December 8, 1953.
53. Doc # 0000015364, memorandum from the Chief, OSI Operations Staff, to staff, “Flying Saucers,” December 16, 1953.
54. Doc # 0000015365, memorandum from Chief of OSI's P&E Division to the OSI Assistant Director, “Current Status of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOB) Project,” December 17, 1953.
55. Ibid.
56. Ibid.
57. Ibid.
58. Ibid.
59. Ibid.
60. Doc # 0000015473, IFDRB, “Unidentified Aircraft Reported over Spain, Greece, North Africa,” July–November 1953, distributed January 11, 1954.
61. Doc # 0000015475, IFDRB, “Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects,” May 1953–January 1954, distributed April 20, 1954.
62. Clark, The UFO Book.
63. Wikipedia, “Douglas C-47 Skytrain,” updated November 8, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org.
64. Doc # 0000015476, IFDRB, “Non-orbit Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, December 1953–March 1954,” distributed May 26, 1954.
65. Ibid.
66. Ibid.
67. Doc # 0005516171 (identical to Doc # 0000015476), distributed May 26, 1954.
68. Doc # 0000015474, IFDRB, December 1953, “Veteran Swedish Airmen Observe, Describe Disk-Shaped Aircraft Over Skanne,” distributed April 1, 1954.
69. Ibid.
70. Berliner, The Blue Book Unknowns.
71. Ibid.
72. Good, Need to Know, pp. 183–184.
73. Berliner, The Blue Book Unknowns.
74. Good, Need to Know, p. 199.
75. Ibid.
76. Ibid.
77. Wikipedia, “List of reported UFO sightings,” updated December 11, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org.
Chapter 7 1954: Through a Long Winter's Night
1. Doc # 0000015475, IFDRB, “Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects,” May 1953–January 1954, distributed April 20, 1954.
2. Doc # 0005516171, IFDRB, December 10, 1953–March 2, 1954, “Non-Orbit Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects,�
� distributed May 26, 1954.
3. Doc # 0005515720, untitled letter from H. Marshall Chadwell, OSI Director, to Walter Pforzheimer, OSI Assistant Director and General Counsel, May 4, 1954.
4. Doc # 0000015477, IFDRB, “‘Flying Saucer’ Theories and Experiments,” December 1953–January 1954, distributed May 27, 1954; also shown as Doc # 0005516188.
5. Doc # 0000015477; see also Doc # 0000015471.
6. Ibid.
7. Doc # 0000015367, Memorandum for the Record, by Sidney H. Graybeal, T. M. Nordbeck and T. M. Odarenko, “Intelligence Responsibilities for Non-Conventional Types of Air Vehicles,” June 14, 1954.
8. Doc # 0000015366, Memorandum for the Record, by Herbert Scoville Jr., AD/SI, “Office Responsibilities for Non-Conventional Types of Air Vehicles,” June 14, 1954.
9. Doc # 0000015478, IFDRB, “Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, 19 January–15 May, 1954,” distributed July 30, 1954.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Doc # 0005516189, IFDRB, “Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, 19 January–15 May, 1954,” distributed July 30, 1954.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Doc # 0005516190, IFDRB, “Military—Unidentified flying objects,” May–June 1954, distributed August 25, 1954.
17. Doc # 0000015481, IFDRB, “Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects,” distributed October 25, 1954.
18. Doc # 0000015478, IFDRB, “Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, 19 January-15 May, 1954,” distributed July 30, 1954.
19. Doc # 0000015479, IFDRB, “Military—Unidentified Flying Objects,” May 7–June 20, 1954, distributed August 25, 1954.
20. Ibid.
21. Doc # 0000015479. See also Doc # 0005516190 above.
22. Wikipedia, “Solar eclipse of June 30, 1954,” updated September 23, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org.
23. Doc # 0000015480, IFDRB, “Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects,” June–July 1954, distributed September 22, 1954.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Doc # 0000015481, IFDRB, “Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects,” distributed October 25, 1954.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Doc # 0000015482, IFDRB, “Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects,” July–September 1954, distributed October 29, 1954.
