The Descriptive Finding Guide for the Curtis Peebles Personal Papers SDASM.SC.10114
Alan Renga
San Diego Air and Space Museum Library and Archives
5/6/2016
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
Series I: Documents
Box 1 of 16
Physical Description: Folder 1- Have Drill Have Ferry 1 of 4
Folder 2- Have Drill Have Ferry 2 of 4
Folder 3- Have Drill Have Ferry 3 of 4
Folder 4- Have Drill Have Ferry 4 of 4
Folder 5- NASA Review on Display Locations
Folder 6- If the Sun Dies
Folder 7- Space X 1 of 2
Folder 8- Space X 2 of 2
Folder 9- Interstellar Beacons 1of 3
Folder 10- Interstellar Beacons 2 of 3
Folder 11- Interstellar Beacons 3 of 3
Folder 12- Near Earth Object Survey- NASA
Folder 13- Space Guard Survey
Folder 14- Trojan Asteroid
Folder 15- UK Space Agency Strategy
Folder 16- Target NEO
Folder 17- Space Shuttle Information
Folder 18- Asteroid Threats
Folder 19- Space Shuttle News Reference 1 of 2
Folder 20- Space Shuttle News Reference 2 of 2
Folder 21- PACE Support
Box 2 of 16
Physical Description: Folder 22- CIA 1 of 2
Folder 23- CIA 2 of 2
Folder 24- National Space Transportation
Folder 25- American Aerospace
Folder 26- Rockets
Folder 27- National Advisory Committee 1 of 3
Folder 28- National Advisory Committee 2 of 3
Folder 29 National Advisory Committee 3 of 3
Folder 30- Nuclear Standoff – Korea
Folder 31- Gambit/ Hexagon Salitate
Folder 32- Beacon Hill 1 of 3
Folder 33- Beacon Hill 2 of 3
Folder 34- Beacon Hill 3 of 3
Folder 35- Hexagon Theory 1 of 3
Folder 36- Hexagon Theory 2 of 3
Folder 37- Hexagon Theory 3 of 3
Folder 38- GAO-NASA
Folder 39- NASA Space Station
Folder 40- Quill, Radar in Orbit 1 of 2
Folder 41- Quill, Radar in Orbit 2 of 2
Folder 42- Gambit
Folder 43- Analysis of Gambit Project
Folder 44- Gambit Hexagon
Folder 45- Gambit Corona Reports 1 of 2
Folder 46- Gambit Reports 2 of 2
Folder 47- Corona AP Doc
Folder 48- Ferret Launches
Folder 49- Comsut Report
Folder 50- Army Space Report
Folder 51- Military Space
Folder 52- Fireball Reports
Folder 53- Progress Report
Folder 54- NRO
Folder 55- Military Action 1 of 3 1949
Folder 56- Military Action 2 of 3 1949
Folder 57- Military Action 3 of 3 1949
Box 5 of 16
Physical Description: Folder 69- Doughnut Aircraft 1 of 4
Folder 70- Doughnut Aircraft 2 of 4
Folder 71- Doughnut Aircraft 3 of 4
Folder 72- Doughnut Aircraft 4 of 4
Folder 73- Space Shuttle Transportation System 1 of 4
Folder 74- Space Shuttle Transportation System 2 of 4
Folder 75- Space Shuttle Transportation System 3 of 4
Folder 76- Space Shuttle Transportation System 4 of 4
Folder 77- Aircraft M-21 Pilot Instructions
Folder 78- Soviet Rejection of the Marshall Plan 1947
Folder 79- March Crisis 1948
Folder 80- Israeli Intelligence Week 3
Folder 81- The Glomar Story
Folder 82- Dryden Public Affairs Unscheduled Landing
Folder 83- Hyper Sonic Power Projection
Folder 84- X-43A Ship A Sec. 2
Folder 85- X-43A Ship 3, Launch Flight Sec. 2
Folder 86- M2-3 Flight Review Pg. 104-164
Folder 87- M2-F3 Flight Review Pg.71-115
Folder 88- M2-3 Flight Review Pg. 1-70
Folder 89- History of Start Program Pg. 200-End
Folder 90- History of Stat Program Pg. 100-200
Folder 91- History of Start Program Pg. 1-100
Folder 92- Evaluation Report of North American Aviation Proposal
Folder 93- Investigation of Landing Accident M2-F2 Vehicle
Folder 94- International Space Station Management
Folder 95- Project Have a Doughnut 1 of 5
Folder 96- Project Have a Doughnut 2 of 5
Folder 97- Project Have a Doughnut 3 of 5
Folder 98- Project Have a Doughnut 4 of 5
Folder 99- Project Have a Doughnut 5 of 5
Folder 100- Radar Cross Sec. 1 of 6
Folder 101- Radar Cross Sec. 2 of 6
Folder 102- Radar Cross Sec. 3 of 6
Folder 103- Radar Cross Sec. 4 of 6
Folder 104- Radar Cross Sec. 5 of 6
Folder 105- Radar Cross Sec. 6 of 6
Series II: Certificates
Box 6 of 16
Folder 1 – Certificates
Series III: Miscellaneous
Box 6 of 7
Folder 2 – NASA Paraphernalia
Physical Description: 1. Wings to Come – NASA’s High-Speed Research Program booklet. 2. International Space Station 2008 Calendar. 3. Picture of
the Crew of Expedition 29 with an autograph. There is a signature that might be Mike Fossum’s, but it cannot be confirmed.
It is only probable. 4. NASA certificate to Dryden Shuttle Communications and Outreach Team, August 2, 2012.
Folder 10 – Miscellaneous
Physical Description: This folder contains an assortment of documents including a personal story about a meteor crater, information about Ray Scalise
and Jim Eastham (for Poster of the Lockheed F-12A First Flight 40th Anniversary), a message from the Phoenix explorer, a 2005
calendar with a blackbird picture, and a blank Russian form.
Series IV: Photographs and Slides
Box 6 of 16
Folder 12 – National Reconnaissance Office Photographs & Negatives
Series V: Publications
Box 7 of 16
Physical Description:
NASA
1. Flight Testing the Prototype Crew Return Vehicle.
2. Deep Space Chronicle – A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes, 1958-2000.
3. Chronology of Space Shuttle Flights, 1981-2000.
4. America’s Spaceport.
5. Lunar Return Reentry Thermal Analysis of a Generic Crew Exploration Vehicle Wall Structures, October, 2007.
6. The International Cometary Explorer (ICE) Wallsheet Teacher’s Guide.
7. The Apollo Spacecraft – A Chronology, Volume I.
8. The Apollo Spacecraft – A Chronology, Volume II.
9. The Apollo Spacecraft – A Chronology, Volume III.
10. The Apollo Spacecraft – A Chronology, Volume IV.
11. The Apollo Spacecraft – A Chronology, Volume V.
12. Flight Operations Plan Mission G-1, Marc 21, 1969.
Cold War & Military History
1. Communication Satellite Legislation – Hearings before the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences United States Senate,
Eighty-Seventh Congress, Second Session on S. 2650 and S. 2814, February 27 – March 7, 1962.
2. Soviet Space Programs 1971-76 – Staff Report for the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences United States Senate,
Volume I, August 30, 1976.
3. Soviet Space Programs 1971-76 – Staff Report for the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences United States Senate,
Volume II, August 30, 1976.
4. NRO History – Early Cold War Strategic Reconnaissance.
5. NRO History – Missile Defense Alarm: The Genesis of Space-Based Infrared Early Warning, July, 1988.
6. NRO History – A history of the Military Polar Orbiting Meteorological Satellite Program, September, 2001.
7. War Machine, an ORBIS Publication – Wings or Rockets: the strategic choice.
8. Early Cold War Overflights – Symposium Proceedings, Volume I: Memoirs.
9. Early Cold War Overflights – Symposium Proceedings, Volume II: Appendixes.
Military Applications
1. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program.
2. Space Based Infrared System – SBIRS.
3. DSP Story 1968 to IOC – Making it Work, 3 June 1999.
4. Defense Support Program (DSP) – A Pictorial Chronology 1970-1998.
5. Program 437: The Air Force’s First Antisatellite System, by Dr. Wayne R. Austerman – Air Force Space Command Office of
History, April, 1991.
Journals
1. Space Science Board – Sounding Rockets – Their Role in Space Research, Committee on Rocket Research, 1969.
2. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS) – Cold War Military Space History: Programmes (Part II), November,
1997.
3. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS) – Cold War Military Space History: (Part 3), August, 1998.
4. VELA-A Space System Success Story, John R. London III, 42nd Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, October
5-11, 1991.
Other
1. CAST – Recoverable Satellite Microgravity Test Platform, Chinese Academy of Space Technology
2. The 14 April 1956 Overflight of Noril’sk, U.S.S.R, by Cargill Hall.
3. From Sand to Moondust – A Narrative of Cape Canaveral, then and now.
4. European Space Agency – Classification of Geosynchronous Objects, ISSUE 12, February, 2010.
Box 8 of 16 Series VI Research Material
Physical Description: Note: Photographs within the research material has been digitized.
Folder 1 -- Moby Dick
Folder 2 --Moby Dick - James A. Winker
Folder 3 --Moby Dick - Vincent Lally
Folder 4 -- Moby Dick - Robert L. Burch
Folder 5 -- Moby Dick - Jim Taylor
Folder 6 -- Moby Dick - R. E. Koch
Folder 7 -- Moby Dick - Svein Tonning
Folder 8 -- Moby Dick - Paul M. Lovrencic
Folder 9 -- Moby Dick Adds
Folder 10 -- Aliens Among Us #1
Folder 11 -- Aliens Among Us #2
Folder 12 -- The Real Aliens #1
Folder 13 -- The Real Aliens #2
Folder 14 -- The Real Aliens #5
Folder 15 -- Conspiracy #1
Folder 16 -- Conspiracy 2004 #2
Folder 17 -- Conspiracy #3, 2005
Folder 18 -- Conspiracy #4 - 2005 #2
Folder 19 -- Conspiracy 2006
Folder 20 -- Conspiracy 2007 #1
Folder 21 -- Conspiracy 2007 #2
Folder 22 -- McD X-15 Cases
Folder 23 -- X-15 Sighting
Folder 24 -- X-15 Sighting Documents
Folder 25 -- X-15 Documents
Folder 26 -- X-15 Sighting (Hold)
Box 9 Series VI: Research Material (continued)
Physical Description: Folder 1 -- Paul M. Lovrencic, July 1987 (legal sized folder) 1. Photos - photocopies and some original prints. 2. Correspondence
from Lovrencic and others. Folder 2 -- Corona Recoveries (legal sized folder) Folder 3 -- Incident Reports (legal sized
folder) Folder 4 -- "The Classics" (legal sized folder) 1. Project Blue Book Cases. Folder 5 -- AVROCAR #1 (legal sized folder)
Folder 6 -- AVROCAR #2 Folder 7 -- Roswell Incident Folder 8 -- Roswell Incident Folio 1. Roswell Incident Folio, #4514,
Fair Witness Project, 173 pgs. Folder 9 -- Roswell 2004 Folder 10 -- Roswell and Balloons Folder 11 – YF-110B and Roswell
Folder 12 -- Roswell 50th #1 Folder 13 – Roswell 50th #2 Folder 14 – Face on Mars #1 Folder 15 – Face on Mars #2 Folder 16
– Face on Mars #3 Folder 17 – Face on Mars #4 Folder 18 -- Face on Mars #5 - 2004 Folder 19 -- Face on Mars - 2006 Folder
20 -- Flying Without Feathers #1 Folder 21 -- Flying Without Feathers #2
Box 10 Series VI: Research Material (continued)
Physical Description: Folder 1 -- Harold Mitchell Folder 2 -- Jack R. Wilson Folder 3 -- Peter Hunter Folder 4 -- Richard Hallion Mail Folder 5
-- James W. Moseley Folder 6 -- Raymond Palmer Folder 7 -- Stanton T. Friedman, SIOP Folder 8 -- Thierry Fabrice File Folder
9 -- George Adamsky Folder 10 -- Peter Brookesmith Folder 11 – Pierre Lagrange E-Mail Folder 12 – Richard Boylan Folder 13
-- Mark Pilkington Folder 14 -- Chris Gibson Folder 15 -- Joel Carpenter E-Mail 1997 - Folder 16 -- Joel Carpenter E-mails
- 1998 Folder 17 -- Joel Carpenter E-Mails 1995-1996 Folder 18 -- Red Eagles Vietnam #1 Folder 19 -- Red Eagles - Vietnam
#2 Folder 20 -- Red Eagles, 1970s - 1980 #1 Folder 21 -- Red Eagles - 1970s - 1980s #2 Folder 22 -- Red Eagle: A MiG of One's
Own Folder 23 -- Red Eagles - Conclusions Folder 24 – Majestic 12 #1 Folder 25 – Majestic 12 #2 Folder 26 -- MiGs - Cold War
in the Air Folder 27 -- MiG ATIC Folder 28 -- MiG-15 #2 Folder 29 – Aurora Texas Crash Folder 30 -- New Aurora Stuff Folder
31 -- Twilight Warriors #1 1. Working Copy - Introduction, pgs B-3 to B-9, C-1 to C-31. 2. Twilight Warriors, Curtis Peebles,
Introduction. 3. Events Leading to Paresev, pgs D-1 to D-19. 4. A Plea to George Mueller, pgs G-1 to G-7. 5. M2-F2 Vehicle
Checkout, pgs H-1 to H-39. 6. M2-F1 Evolution, pgs E-1 to E-26, F-1 to F-2. 7. Elimination of Landing Engines Mothership -
ALT-B-52 & 990 Shuttle Approaches. Folder 32 -- Twilight Warriors #2 1. Twilight Warriors Style Sheet (2 copies). 2. Twilight
Warriors MS. Folder 33 -- Twilight Warriors #3 1. Twilight Warriors MS Sections B-3 to I-5
Box 11 Series VI: Research Material (continued)
Physical Description: Folder 1 – Cosmic Debris #1 (Roswell) Folder 2 – Cosmic Debris #2 (Roswell) Folder 3 – Cosmic Debris Pre-1947 Folder 4 – Cosmic
Debris 1950s Folder 5 – Cosmic Debris 1970s Folder 6 – Cosmic Debris (Kburg) Folder 7 – Cosmic Debris – Scully Crash Folder
8 -- Salla Papers #1 Folder 9 -- Salla Papers #2 Folder 10 -- Salla Papers #3 Folder 11 -- Agent Balloons Folder 12 -- Civil
War Ballooning Folder 13 -- UFOs and Reconnaissance Balloons Folder 14 -- Mars E-Mail Folder 15 -- Mars - 1947 Folder 16 –
Moon and Mars Meteors Folder 17 – Mars Mission #1 Folder 18 – Mars Mission #2 Folder 19 -- Oral History - Col. Stacy D. Naftel
Folder 20 -- Historical Papers #1 Folder 21 -- Historical Papers #2 Folder 22 -- Historical Essays #1 Folder 23 -- Historical
Essays #2 Folder 24 -- Historical Essays #3 Folder 25 -- Area 51 History
Box 12 Series VI: Research Material (continued)
Physical Description: Folder 1 -- UFO E-Mail - Eric Taber Folder 2 -- UFO History 1940s Folder 3 -- UFO History Pre-1947 Folder 4 – UFO History
1950s #1 Folder 5 -- UFO History 1950s #2 Folder 6 -- UFO History 1950s #3 Folder 7 -- UFO History 1960s Folder 8 – UFO History
1980s - 1990s #1 Folder 9 – UFO History 1980s – 1990s #2 Folder 10 -- UFO Historical Revue Folder 11 – UFO Updates #1 Folder
12 – SETI – UFO Updates Folder 13 -- UFOs and the Air Force Folder 14 -- UFOs and Political Theories Folder 15 -- UFO Attacks
on Aircraft Folder 16 – Young UFO Reports Folder 17 – RAND UFO Study Folder 18 -- V-2 and UFOs Folder 19 -- UFO Films Folder
20 -- Space UFOs Folder 21 – Merlin and UFOs Folder 22 – UFO Sightings Folder 23 – FUGO / UFO Folder 24 -- UFOs and Polar
Orbiters Folder 25 -- Skeptics' UFO Newsletters, Dec 1989 - July 1993 Folder 26 -- Skeptics' UFO Newsletters, Sept 1993 -
Nov 1997 Folder 27 -- Skeptics' UFO Newsletters, Jan 1998 - Summer 2003
Box 13 Series VI: Research Material (continued)
Physical Description: Folder 1 -- The UFO Investigator 1957 - 1959 Folder 2 -- The UFO Investigator 1960 - 1965 Folder 3 -- The UFO Investigator
1966 - 1968 Folder 4 -- Cook Crash Folder 5 -- Playboy Abduction Folder 6 -- Magonia Magazine Folder 7 -- Thunderball B-17
Folder 8 -- Ike and the Aliens Folder 9 -- Book Letters 2007 Folder 10 -- CNN 1. Investigation into the CNN-Time nerve gas
blunder. Folder 11 -- Fan Mail Folder 12 -- Air Force Operations Association Folder 13 -- ROCAF, RB-57 Overflighting Folder
14 -- Query #2, November 24, 1995 Folder 15 -- Apollo 20 Folder 16 -- Agents - Cold War in the Air Folder 17 -- The End of
the World #1 Folder 18 -- 9-11 Theories Folder 19 -- Balloon Photos Folder 20 -- CIA, Mi-8 Folder 21 -- Yak-23 Docs Folder
22 -- Socorro Landing Folder 23 -- SC-47 Folder 24 -- Agent Drops Folder 25 -- Tourist Spy Folder 26 -- New Age & Paranoia
#1 Folder 27 -- New Age & Paranoia #2 Folder 28 -- New Age & Paranoia #3 Folder 29 -- Thompson Book Folder 30 -- Project Tattletale
Folder 31 -- Corona Printouts
Box 14 Series VI: Research Material (continued)
Physical Description: Folder 1 -- Korean War Folder 2 -- DSP Folder 3 -- Naval Institute Press - The Corona Project Folder 4 -- Reconnaissance
Satellite Book Folder 5 – U.S. Navy Elint (Electronic Intelligence) Folder 6 -- RB-47 Folder 7 -- ZEL (Zero Length Launcher)
Folder 8 -- Sea Shore Folder 9 -- Naval Institute Press - 2004 Folder 10 -- Cold War Era Folder 11 -- Photos Folder 12 --
Photos - GRAB - 1998 Folder 13 -- Credible Sport Folder 14 -- KH-11 Folder 15 -- 125 Crash - article Folder 16 -- Nuclear
Detection Folder 17 -- Item 51 Folder 18 -- Hale Bopp Folder 19 -- Carp Papers Folder 20 -- Mule Letters Folder 21 -- RB-45
(RAF) Folder 22 -- Agents - Post 1953 Folder 23 -- Studies in Intelligence #1 Folder 24 -- U-2 Letters #1 Folder 25 -- U-2
Letters #2 Folder 26 -- Vietnam #1 Folder 27 -- Vietnam #2 and Conclusions Folder 28 -- Shadow Flights - Photos Folder 29
-- Shadow Flights - Adds Folder 30 -- Soviet Docs #1 Folder 31 -- Operations Coordinating Board (Sputnik) Folder 32 -- Stratolab
Interviews (Sputnik) Folder 33 -- Studies in Intel (Agents) Folder 34 -- Early Overflights Folder 35 -- Corona (Hines) Folder
36 - MOL Interview Folder 37 -- Aeronautical Espionage 1. Mutterperl, Multhopp and the MiG-15: A Case Study in Aeronautical
Espionage(?), Joel Carpenter, 1997. Folder 38 -- Special Missions (Radio)
Box 15 Series VI: Research Material (continued)
Physical Description: Folder 1 -- U.S. Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory Program, January 1967. Folder 2 -- Edwards Test Museum Folder 3 -- Dyna-Soar
- Mode of Flight Folder 4 -- Blue Fly Folder 5 -- Smithsonian Institution Press Folder 6 -- X-38 File Folder 7 -- BIS (British
Interplanetary Society) 1983 - Folder 8 -- Nut File Folder 9 -- Flying Triangles Folder 10 -- MIB (Men in Black) Folder 11
-- Watch the Skies 2010 Folder 12 -- Study Folder 13 -- Mogul Folder 14 -- S.F. Folder 15 -- 1954 French Flap Folder 16 --
Psychological Aspects Folder 17 -- Excuses Folder 18 – From Outer Space Folder 19 – Enemies List Folder 20 – Target List Folder
21 – Bully File Folder 22 – Crash Retrievals Folder 23 – Phoenix Lights Folder 24 – Heer’s Nut File Folder 25 – Black Airplanes
2004 Folder 26 – Crop Circles Folder 27 – Mantell Incident Folder 28 – War of the Worlds
Box 16 Series VI: Research Material (continued)
Physical Description: Folder 1 – Invasion of Washington DC Folder 2 – Canceled Projects Folder 3 – Anomalies Folder 4—Early Abductions Folder 5
– Contacties 1980s Folder 6 – Midland Michigan Crash Folder 7 – GAO2 Folder 8 – Dead Cows Folder 9 -- Itemized Research from
3-ring binder #1 1. The Flying Saucers Are Real. 2. March 1950 True Article. 3. Exopolitics. 4. False Flag, 9-11. 5. Sovereignty
and the UFO. Folder 10 -- Itemized Research from 3-ring binder #2 1. Films and TV UFOs. 2. Academia & UFOs. 3. David M. Jacobs.
4. Adamski Timeline. 5. UFOs at Edwards AFB. Folder 11 -- Itemized Research from 3-ring Binder #3 1. Stan Friedman. 2. UFOs
and the Air Force. 3. CIA Article on UFOs. 4. Space Review. 5. Disclosure Petition. Folder 12 -- Itemized Research from 3-ring
Binder #4 1. MUFON/BBC Psyops. 2. Mogul Article. 3. Wilber Smith. 4. Flying Saucer Study. 5. Carpenter Docs. 6. Moby Dick.
7. Air Intelligence Report #100-203-79. 8. Conspiracy Theories. 9. UFO Hunters. 10. UFOlogy's End. 11. National Geographic/UFOs.
12. Gallop Poll, August 1947. 13. Sighting of Flying Saucer by Certain Lockheed Aircraft Corporation Personnel, January 20,
1954. Folder 13 -- Itemized Research Documents #1 1. Advanced Vehicles Research Section Weekly Activity Report, 1969-1973.
2. Flight Planning for the M2-F2/HL Flight Test Program, Study Plan, January 17, 1966. 3. HL-10 Historical Review, Rainey
& Ladson, July 1969. 4. Flight Planning and Conduct of the M2-F2 Glide Flight Program, FTC-TR-67-13. 5. 7 pages of charts.
6. FRC Lifting Body Program Progress Report, July 7-8, 1970. Folder 14 -- Itemized Research Documents #2 1. Peter Jennings
Defrauding: Inside the ABC News UFO Documentary Hoax, Dr. Steven M. Greer, March, 2005. 2. Defectors Describe Executions,
Torture in NKorea, Hyung-Jin Kim, San Diego Union- Tribune, October 28, 2008. 3. The CIA's Role in Study of UFOs, 1947-1990,
Gerald Haines. 4. The Forgotten Flap, 1964, Rick Hilberg. 5. Extraordinary Happenings, 1965 Revisited, Rick Hilberg. 6. A
Gray Barker Reader, Rick Hilberg, May 2003. 7. A UFOlogical Snapshot, 1980-1981, Rick Hilberg 8. Portion of report on UFO
sightings, 69 pgs. Folder 15 -- Itemized Research Documents #3 1. A Decade of Flying Saucers, 1950-1960, Rick Hilberg. 2. Rick
Hilberg's UFO Nation, 2002. 3. The Last Great Flap, 1973-1974, Rick Hilberg, 2001. 4. A Gray Barker Reader II, Rick Hilberg,
2003. 5. Data sheets on UFO sightings, 74 loose pages. Folder 16 -- Itemized Research Documents #4 1. Society of Experimental
Test Pilots - Preliminary Results of the Lifting Body Flight Program, September 1963. 2. Shuttle Subscale Program, December
1971. 3. Feasibility Study - Minimum Manned Lifting Body Entry Vehicle, Final Briefing, January 12, 1960. 4. Test Plan
- Feasibility Study of Unpowered Lifting Body Landings at Night. 5. Charts on Landing Approaches. 6. Issue - Piloted vs. Unpiloted.
7. NASA memo, F-104 Flat Spin and Deep Stall Problem, December 28, 1971. 8. Advanced Vehicle Research Section, Bi-Weekly Activity
Report, 14-27 February 1969. 9. NASA Facts, Testing the First Supersonic Aircraft, 1991. Folder 17 -- Itemized Research
Documents #5 1. Flight Simulation of night landings of Lifting Entry Vehicles, Thompson & Dana, AIAA, 25-27 March 1968.
2. The End of Air America, pp. 284-289. 3. Lifting Bodies: Coming in on a Vanishing Wing, Northrop Technical Digest, 1967.
4. Milton Thompson MS, 1996. 5. Handwritten MS, Shuttle. 6. Miscellaneous loose papers. Folder 18 -- Itemized Research Documents
#6 1. Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity, 40 pgs. 2. A Physicist Experiments
with Cultural Studies, 5 pgs, April 14, 2011. 3. Postmodernism Disrobed, Richard Dawkins, 1998, 5 pgs. 4. Materialist Analysis
of Theoretical Astrophysics. 5. Denying the Apollo Moon Landings: Conspiracy and Questioning in Modern American History,
Roger D. Launius, 2010. Folder 19 -- Itemized Research Documents #7 1. Incidents Associated with the Loss, Damage or Forced
Landings of American Aircraft Over the Territory of the Former USSR. 2. Moby Dick - Adds Folder 20 -- Itemized Research
Documents #8 1. Miscellaneous Space and Research Vehicles: Description and Performance Records, Thiokol, 1990. 2. Atlas Flights.
Folder 21 -- Itemized Research Documents #9 1. Strategic Reconnaissance in the Cold War, R. Cargill Hall, Prolog, Qtrly of
the National Archives and Records Administration, Summer 1996. 2. Dragon Lady, Pilots' Listing. 3. Dragon Lady Anniversary.
4. Organizing for the Use of Space: Historical Perspective on a Persistent Issue, Roger D. Launius, AAS. 5. Post-War Strategic
Reconnaissance and the Genesis of Project Corona, R. Cargill Hall, August 14, 1996. 6. Bill Moore and the Roswell Incident:
The True Believers Deceived, March 7, 1997. 7. Those Daring Young Men and their Ultra-High-Flying Machines, Welzenbach
& Galyean. 8. Observation Balloons and Reconnaissance Satellites, Donald E. Welzenbach. Folder 22 -- Itemized Research
Documents #10 1. Statement by Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, June 10, 1969. 2. USAF Releases re: Manned Orbital
Lab.
Series VI: Oversized Material
Physical Description: Oversized Materials
1. Cartoon Dogfight titled “Dinner at Six,” by Hank Caruso, 1983.
2. Certificate awarded to Curtis Peebles by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, signed April 27, 2006.
3. Poster of Blackbird aircraft’s first flights, signed by Jim Eastham (YF-12A pilot), Bill Park (M-21/D-21 pilot), Robert
Gilliland (SR-71A pilot), and Harold Brown (Secretary of the Air Force, 1965).
4. Poster of the Lockheed F-12A First Flight 40th Anniversary, signed by Dan Mallick, Ray Young, Fitz Fulton, Ray Scalise
(Fire Control Officer for the YF-12A), and Jim Eastham (pilot of the YF-12A).
5. Certificate acknowledging Curtis Peebles as part of the British Interplanetary Society, January 1, 1986.
6. Poster of Blackbird aircraft’s first flights, signed by Jim Eastham, Louis Schalk, and Robert Gilliland, August 7, 1993.
7. Poster of a CGI dogfight - an F-4J on the tail of a Mig 17.