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This new and enlarged edition of the Blue Book Special Report No. 14 is being issued because of the demand which has steadily continued since this was first published in 1956, and which is now increasing because of recent sightings. The upsurge of national magazine and television publicity and trade books, in the first half of 1966, is reminiscent of the similar period in 1952, which preceded the great 1952 "flap". The author states here his belief that the C.I.A. was and is responsible for much of this; the reader may make his or her own evaluation. Many early press releases and other rare documents have been included in this edition, which even the Air Force itself claims to have copies of no longer. (See p. C5.) The Table of Contents (p. ii) shows where these may be found. Comments by the author appear on the first page of each of the four Parts into which this edition is divided. The author's files contain many more documents which might be of interest to serious students of the subject, but which had to be omitted from this book because of the pressure of space. These include the full 39-page transcript of the famous press conference of Maj. Gen. John A. Samford at the Pentagon on July 29, 1952, at the height of the Washington "flap", in which he unhesitatingly denied that the U.S. had any secret devices which had no mass and unlimited power! (See inside back cover for reproduction of first page of transcript.) Another item in the files is Air Force Regulation 200-2, which the Air Force no longer issues to the public. (See p. C5.) The author also has his unclassified notes on the contents of the 1949 Project GRUDGE Report (See p. Al) including complete lists of the cases studied in that report, correlations of the sightings, remarks on each case, the official case numbers and locations, etc. Another item is the four-page list of questions presented to Major Fournet at the Pentagon on Nov. 5, 1952 (See pp. Al,A2) together with his startling answers. Other available material includes copies of articles written by the author on "The CIA and the Saucers", an "Analysis of a Pre-1947 Sighting" (discussing the probable cause of the Roerich sighting in the Gobi Desert in 1927), results of detective work establishing the origin of a small radioactive disk reported by N.I.C.A.P., discussions of the Tremonton films, articles on Adamski, electronic countermeasures, an "Open Letter to Saucer Researchers" (See p. Bl), and studies of the source of the recording of code messages received by radio by acquaintances of John Otto in Chicago in 1957, etc. Files of correspondence with military and civilian agencies, Congress, etc., are also available. Please write to the publisher of this Third Edition, at the address shown on the back outside cover of this book, if interested in obtaining copies of any of this specific material. Costs will depend on the volume of requests, method of reproduction, etc. Please indicate whether you might be interested in purchasing a "Source Book on Saucers", containing a large amount of this material. July 4,1966 Leon Davidson
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