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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
San Diego Air and Space Museum Library and Archives
Title: The Curtis Peebles Personal Papers
Identifier/Call Number: SDASM.SC.10114
Physical Description:
3 Cubic Feet
This is a seven box collection, each box with measurements 16 ½” x 13” x 10”. The collection contains NASA reports/publications,
magazine articles, newsletters, and other secondary materials, along with Peebles research notes and sources for his publications.
Over 2,000 books have been removed from this collection to be processed and added into the Museum’s library collection. An
original list of books is included in this collection.
Date (bulk): bulk
Abstract: Curtis Peebles was an aerospace historian for the Smithsonian Institute and is known as the nation’s leading researcher and
skeptic on UFO sightings. In addition to his UFO research, he has written numerous books and magazine articles dealing with
declassified (formerly secret) Air Force secret weapons projects.
Physical Description: This is a seven box collection, each box with measurements 16 ½” x 13” x 10”. The collection contains NASA reports/publications,
magazine articles, newsletters, and other secondary materials, along with Peebles research notes and sources for his publications.
Over 2,000 books have been removed from this collection to be processed and added into the Museum’s library collection. An
original list of books is included in this collection.
Curtis Peebles was an aerospace historian for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. and joined the NASA Dryden Flight
Research Center history office in 2000. Peebles is known as the nation’s leading researcher and skeptic on UFO sightings.
In addition to his UFO research, he has written numerous books and magazine articles dealing with declassified (formerly secret)
Air Force secret weapons projects.
Peebles has written over forty articles for NASA and other national magazines about the subject and interviewed on several
documentaries, such as “Where are all the UFOs?” shown on A&E Network in 1997 and Discovery Channel’s “Unsolved History: Area
51” in 2005. A writer since 1977, Peebles has authored over eleven books: Battle for Space and, Guardians: Strategic Reconnaissance
Satellites (1987), Watch the Skies! (1995), High Frontier: The U.S. Air Force and the Military Space Program and, The Corona
Project: America’s First Spy Satellites (1997), Asteroids: A History (2000), Shadow Flights: America’s Secret Airwar Against
the Soviet Union (2001), Dark Eagles: A History of the Top Secret U.S. Aircraft (2003), Twilight Warriors: Covert Air Operations
Against the USSR (2005) and Road to March 10: Lessons Learned from the X-43a Flight Research Program (2008).
The collection is open to research by appointment.
Restrictions: Some restrictions might apply. Will need to be evaluated for International Traffic and Arms Regulations based
on researchers request and review.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was donated to SDASM.
UFO Subject Files.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
UFOs
Peebles, Curtis