Simon and Schuster
ISBN 0-671-66260-0
QB54.B64

booknotes by Charles McGrew -- mcgrew@cs.rutgers.edu

Told in a semi-journalistic style, with a brisk narrative. Its a style used often in investigative contexts, and reads well. Much of it centers around the "UFO Working Group" within the DIA, headed by Col. Harold E. Phillips. What follows are some notes from the book -- there's more to the book, but here's what I wanted to hang onto.

1947
	July 2 Bill Brazel finds crashed-disk wreckage near Roswell
	July 4 Marcel sees wreckage
	July ? Air Force release of 'disk-found' message
	July ? Air Force contradictory release of 'balloon-found' message
	July 12	Letter from Ken Arnold to Wright Field commander;
		 official file begins.
	Oct 1  FBI Bulletin #59; all UFO information to USAF
	Dec 30 Project Sign begins

1948	       	OSS sets of committee to study UFO phenominon
	       	ATIC estimate saying UFO's are extraterrestrials
		burned by Gen. Vandenburg; AFIN 100-203-79 issued
		instead

1949	       	CIA's OSI memo shows concern over UFO's
	Feb    	Project Sign ends; Project Grudge begins

1952	March  	Project Grudge ends; Project Bluebook begins
	       	OSI's memo shows CIA's "disinterest" is a cover for
		actual interest.

1954	Aug 12 	AF200-2 (Twining) to withhold UFO info from public disclosure

1958	Jan    	Keyhoe's talk on CBS (audio portion) cut off air of a 
		discussion show.

1959	Dec 24 	USAF letter to base commanders - UFO's are AF (not
		public) business.

1961	       	CIA monograph "The investigation of UFO's"
	Nov    	Projects "Moon Dust" and "Blue Fly" created (but
		not used, at least officially.)  "Moon Dust" was
		to "locate, recover, and deliver descended
		foreign space vehicles"; "Blue Fly" to "facilitate
		to FTD (Foreign Technology Division, Wright-Patterson
		AFB) of Moon Dust or other items of great technical
		intelligence interest.".  The memo (by a Colonel Betz),
		goes on to note that "foreign" vehicles includes 
		"unidentified flying objects", and that the units
		should be able to go *anywhere*, recover or perform
		"field exploitation".  (Later - date unspecified,
		just "in the 1960's and 1970's - "Saint" - a UFO
		inspector, would be launched piggybacked on an
		Agena-B reconaissance satellite (used by the CIA)
		to view UFO's in space; and "Blue Gemini", a
		manned Gemini capsule which would attempt to
		actually capture "uncooperative" UFO's or satellites.
		Both these projects were - officially, at least - 
		never implimented.)

1962	Oct 29 	DoD asst. sec. Sylvester says UFO info can legally
		be withheld from public and even the Congress, by AF
		Reg. 11-7 that states that some information the
		AF holds may legally be withheld.

1968	       	NSA paper "UFO hypothesis and survival questions" 
		by Callimahos

1969	Dec 17 	Bluebook terminated.

1972           	NSA orders flash-reporting of UFO signals or foreign
		signals about UFO's to NSA headquarters
	Apr    	"Wow" signal seen by Ohio State's "Big Ear"

1975    Fall ->	Spring 1976 many UFO sightings at Northern US
		USAF  bases

1976	Apr    	CIA memo describing "monitoring the phenomenon"
	       	CIA memo (Dommestic Collection Division) getting 
		information from Science and Tech. sources

1980	Sep    	Bill Moore meets "Falcon"
               	Gov't agencies feed disinformation to Bennewitz to
		pull his Project Beta off track at Kirtland.

1981	       	Bill Moore meets Bennewitz
	       	Executive Order 12333 - CIA allowed (with servere
		restrictions) to operate in the USA

1983	       	Moore passes false "Aquarius Document" to Bennewitz.
	       	Gen. Pfaltz (USAF) of AFIN begins "record search"

1984	Dec 11 	MJ 12 film shows up at Shandera's door.  A roll of
	       	of 35mm film arrives, containing pictures of the 
	       	now-famous "Eisenhower briefing document"	

1985	Fall   	SRI "psychic viewers" demo [Project Aquarius]

1986	Dec    	USSSC spots UFO on radar
	       	DIA's Phillips uses Project Aquarius viewers to
		'observe' USSSC UFO's

1987	Feb    	DIA's UFOWG meets for first time
        Mar    	Gen. Pfaltz (ret) presentation of UFOWG
	May    	UFOWG (via NSA) infiltrates NASA's SETI project with
	       	a view to controlling release of information
	Jun    	Klass writes FBI about MJ-12 documents, stimulates
	       	FBI (and eventually UFOWG) interest
	Nov    	NSA report: "SETI: An Evaluation"; SETI folks said
	       	to be getting regular signals

1988	July   	UFOWG (via CIA) sends two DCD agents to Elmwood, Wis.
	Fall   	FBI queries DIA about MJ-12 docs

1989	Fall   	UFOWG still wondering about MJ-12 docs.

Not a bad read, though there isn't any "final summation", the book just sort of peters out at the end (except a kind of lame "if people believe, and are nice folks, then there's hope".)