Letter to All Flying Saucer Researchers

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List of Chapters just necessarily in the order of publication)

History is What You Make Of It

Part I

Chapter

1 Psychological Warfare: Who does what, and with which, and to whom?

2 Setting the Stage (1946-1949): Zimmerman's "Flying Platform" and "Flying Flapjack"; Interservice rivalry; Project GRUDGE.

3 The Turning Point (1950): Allen Dulles' new job; Saucer books start to appear.

4 Buildup Behind the Scenes (1951): Planning "Blue Book"; indoctrinating Ruppelt.

5 The Year of the Big Flap (1952): The CIA plays its aces; good sightings galore; Tremonton films created; Gen. Samford and Dr. Menzel give rebuttals(?); public accepts reality of "saucers".

6 The "Rover Boys" and the Secret Panel (1953): Behind the Washington scenes.

7 Little Men, What Now? (1954--): Overseas flaps; Era of the "midgets"; the traveling circus and its trail of sightings.

Part II

Strictly Personal

8 Getting Involved: Geiger Counters at Los Alamos; Green lights in the sky; Studying the secret GRUDGE report; Visit to Wright Field.

9 Living in Washington: Invited to the Pentagon; Major Fournet's report; Inside the briefing room; "Saucers will land in 1952".

10 The White Pleins Filter Center: How they handled saucer reports; alone at night.

11 Visited by Three Men: (Only one dressed in black; really Navy blue.): What is K9-XL-APPLE, and how can such an object fly?

12 The Long Grind: Research via U.S. Mail; prying loose the Blue Book report; Extracts from interesting correspondence.

Part III

The Grand Era of Saucer Research

13 The Spread of Interest: Growth of Clubs, Newsletters, Saucer Magazines; Project A; Hush-ups; Consordance of the chronologies of Ruppelt, Keyhoe, and Adamski.

14 Publishers in Saucerland: The flood of books; articles in slick magazines.

15 Contactees and Cults: Schism in saucer research; growth of study groups; Long John; occult, mystic, and spiritual facets.

16 Science and Technology: Real "flying saucers"; methods of inducing "sightings"; Space and satellites; Lippisch, von Glahn, Coanda; The "German scientists" bit (and did we bite!); NACA.

17 Saucer Magazines: Foreign and domestic, now and then, sane and otherwise.

18 Physical Evidence: Pure tin and pure malarkey; Otto-Maier "code"; Radar.

Part IV The C.I.A. Angle

19 Big Dollars and Little Cents: Who gave the cash to Carr, Brown, and Green; The channels of publicity; Financial side of research(in the red!).

20 The International Network: Universal message of "saucer people"; interest in mailing lists; Anti-Atombomben-Aktion; Socio-politics.

21 Naming the Agents: John Smith, Walter W., Miss M., Lt.Col W., Col. A.; those friends of van Tassel; What's at Warrenton?

22 Setting up Contacts: Taking Fry for a ride; How Adamski was enmeshed; Creating the Flat Woods "monster"; Navigating by OmniRange.

23 The Soutnik Flap: Launching the Schmidt story; controlling publicity on good sightings; Reviving the Hasselbech case; Killian.

24 Surveillance From the Sky: Pre-satellite techniques; the military secret; State Department; Those "moving stars"; invisible saucers; the current secret military investigation.

25 Review and Forecast: Reactions of the C.I.A.; What Presidents have said; History of Air Force press releases; What makes a half-truth a lie?; Was Barnum right?; Whose saucers are now really here?