Dolan Richard M. UFOs and the National Security State. Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973

Charlottesville, VA, USA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc, 2002. — 478 p. — ISBN: 9781571743176.A thorough historical analysis of the national security dimensions of the UFO phenomenon. Getting past the official pronouncements on the one side, and unprovable assertions on the other, this study gathers together the facts that are known, providing a concise yet comprehensive narrative. Among its contents:Nearly 300 documented military encounters with UFOs.
Activities of over 50 Air Force, Navy, and Army bases relating to UFOs.
Analyses of the Roswell controversy, the CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel, the Condon Committee Report, and more.
Description of the fight, and failure, to end government secrecy about UFOs.
Thoughts on what it all means.Based on research of hundreds of official and fully documented sources, Richard Dolan presents an astonishing level of detail, sophistication, and clarity to a topic all-too-frequently dismissed as an adjunct of pop culture.When this book first appeared in 2000, it helped to push forward a revolution in ufology, one which not only brought forth a greater level of historical research than previous studies had done, but which provided a deeper political analysis, one which unequivocally made a case for a cover-up of the UFO phenomenon by a national security apparatus. This was an apparatus for which cover-ups have been standard operating procedure for generations.Richard M. Dolan is a gifted historian whose study of U.S. Cold War strategy led him to the broader context of increased security measures and secrecy since World War II. One aspect of such government policies that has continued to hold the public's imagination for over half a century is the question of unidentified flying objects.UFOs and the National Security State is the first volume of a two-part detailed chronological narrative of the national security dimensions of the UFO phenomenon from 1941 to the present. Working from hundreds of declassified records and other primary and secondary sources, Dolan centers his investigation on the American military and intelligence communities, demonstrating that they take UFOs seriously indeed.Included in this volume are the activities of more than fifty military bases relating to UFOs, innumerable violations of sensitive airspace by unknown craft and analyses of the Roswell controversy, the CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel, and the Condon Committee Report. Dolan highlights the development of civilian anti-secrecy movements, which flourished in the 1950s and 1960s until the adoption of an official government policy and subsequent "closing of the door" during the Nixon administration.ForewordAcknowledgementsChapter 1 - Prologue: To 1947
UFOs before world war two
The national security connection
Foo fighters
Ghost rockets
Deutschland über allies
Coming to AmericaChapter 2 - Saucers in the Skies: 1947
Crescendo
The floodgates open
Making sense of it
Roswell, roswell!
Roswell: more witnesses
Roswell: the skeptics explain
Roswell: conclusions
Other sightings
Enter the fbi
Media clampdown
The maury island saga
National security reorganization
The Twining letter
MJ-12: yes or no?
Soviet or something else?
Establishing project signChapter 3 - Managing the Problem: 1948 to 1951
Project Sign begins work
The summer crisis of 1948
“The estimate of the situation”
Truman, Landry, and UFOs
Late 1948: key developments
The green fireballs
Top secret documents
1949: general developments
Diverging opinions
The Air Force debunks
The death of James Forrestal
Summer and fall 1949
“The flying saucers are real!”
UFO secrecy and publicity in early 1950
Spring 1950: an outbreak of UFOs
Keeping the lid down
The montana film
Scully, Sarbacher, Smith, and Keyhoe
Another crash?
1950 To 1951
The Lubbock lights
The real controllers?
Attempted intercepts and near missesChapter 4 - Crisis and Containment: 1952 and 1953
Overview of the year
Base sightings
Grudge becomes blue book
The merry month of may 1952
The pace quickens
The july crisis
The washington, D.C. sightings
The press conference
Sightings continue
The CIA acts
A NATO encounter
Chadwell and UFOs
The wave subsides—a bit
The Air Force gets ready
The CIA gets ready
The Robertson panel
Robertson panel: agenda
Robertson panel: conclusions
The Robertson panel: analysis
Robertson panel: aftermathChapter 5 - Shutting the Lid: 1953 to 1956
Below the surface
Who was investigating?
Keyhoe’s activities
Albert Bender and “the men in black”
Silencing the UFO
LSD, mind control, and the death of Frank Olsen
A brief outbreak of truth
UFO sightings of early 1954
Washington sightings, revisited
A ruckus at Wright-Pat
Summer 1954—once again, matters get out of control
AFT 200-2 declassified
The humanoid sightings
The “invasion” of France: October 1954
Global sightings
November and December 1954: world sightings continue
America debunks
Intelligence oversight? Nah
Blue Book cooks its books
Voices in the dark ages
1955 sightings: more humanoids
Military UFO encounters and the U-2
Senator Richard Russell sees a UFO
Government out of control
Silencing policies of 1956
UFOs during a period of silenceChapter 6 - The Fight to End Secrecy: 1956 to 1962
The birth of NICAP
Creating zombie rooms
Worldwide military aircraft encounters
NICAP and the u.s. Senate
Summer 1957: crashes, near collisions, opening fire, and silence
Sputnik and a bizarre global wave
November 1957: a rash of american sightings
The Air Force parries NICAP
Keyhoe censored on television
The Senate stops its investigation
Ruppelt is turned
1958: America becomes a UFO-free zone
The McCormack committee fiasco and aftermath
Fighting a losing battle
Some thoughts on J. Allen Hynek
1959 unfolds
The Killian case and other noteworthies
The strange case of Morris Jessup
The Reverend Gill sighting and activity in the ocean
Getting up-close and personal
Redmond, Oregon: six jets attempt an intercept
Ruppelt revises his book, then dies
1960: serious business
1960: monitoring the UFOs
Project Ozma gets a signal
The U-2 affair: a peek down the rabbit hole
Mid-1960: NICAP presses congress once again
The secret state in 1960 and 1961
UFOs in 1961
1961: another round with congress
The Hill abduction case
Moving to 1962
Hillenkoetter resigns from NICAPChapter 7 - Open Confrontation: 1962 to 1966
Overview
The Las Vegas UFO crash
UFOs in america: 1962
Who ran the CIA?
UFOs in the world: 1962
The UFO scene in 1963
Assassination and secret doings: 1963 and 1964
UFOs in 1964: the pace quickens
Close-up sighting in Socorro
Socorro aftermath: a year of UFOs
The dam breaks
The wave of 1965
The wave of 1965: july
The wave of 1965: august
The incident at exeter
Air Force crisis of credibility
Blackout season
The Kecksburg crash
1966: a year of escalations
Michigan swamp gas
The portage county sightings
James McDonald, an outstanding nuisance
An autumn barrage
Slouching towards ColoradoChapter 8 - Winners and Losers: 1966 to 1969
Colorado to the rescue
Visits to boulder
The project begins
Condon losing allies
Secrecy in 1967
UFOs in early 1967
Falcon lake
McDonald rips Blue Book and Menzel
The Colorado project in mid-1967
APRO summer cases
Problems in Colorado
An animal mutilation
Shag harbor
Cloak and dagger
Leaks from boulder
The Schirmer abduction case
The crisis
Airing the dirty laundry
The symposium
UFO hypothesis and survival questions
“The RAND document”
UFOs in 1968
The Condon report
Review and release of the report
From Johnson to Nixon
The end of project Blue Book
The end of NICAP
The end of UFOs
The final gaspChapter 9 - The Problem Renewed: 1970 to 1973
National Security State triumphant
Things fall apart
UFOs in the early 1970s
An underwater thesis
The death of james mcdonald
The return of UFOsAppendix - TABLE OF MILITARY UFO ENCOUNTERS
Endnotes