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TIMOTHY GOOD
NEED TO KNOW
UFOs, the Military and Intelligence
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First published 2006 by Sidgwick & Jackson
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Dedicated to
MAJOR L. GORDON COOPER
(19272004)
Contents
Acknowledgments
It would be impracticable to thank all those who have contributed directly or indirectly to the production of Need to Know, but I would like to record my thanks in particular to the following individuals and organizations:
Jan Aldrich; Johan Andersson; Don Berliner and Robert J. Durant; Larry Bryant; Rhiannon Burruss; John Callahan; Grant Cameron; Franklin Carter; the Center for UFO Studies and the International UFO Reporter; the Central Intelligence Agency; Bill Chalker; China Daily; the Chinese Air Force; Ronald C. Claridge DFC; David Clarke and Andy Roberts; the Defense Intelligence Agency; Copyprint Bromley, especially Joanne, Karly, Mike, Simon and Victoria; Philip Corso Jr; Glenn Dennis; Robert F. Dorr; Frederick C. Durant; Ethan Eisenberg; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Flight Data Center; Flying Saucer Review; Fortean Picture Library; Raymond E. Fowler; Ren Giraud; Jay Gourley; Jean Gabriel Gresl; Dr Richard Haines; Richard H. Hall; C. M. Hanna; Jan Harzan; David J. Hastings; Georgina Howell; Tim Iahn; the Indian Air Force; Japan Airlines; Philip Jarrett; Anthony L. Kimery; George Knapp; Andrzej Krzewski; the Los Angeles Times; the Ministry of Defence; Jean-Pierre Morin; the Mutual UFO Network and the MUFON UFO Journal; the National Archives, London, and the National Archives, Washington, DC; the National Security Agency; Newsweek; New York Times; Sid Padrick; Dr Hal Puthoff; Gian J. Quasar; Nick Redfern; Madeleine Rodeffer; the Royal Air Force; Bradford Runyon Jr; Mike Sacks; Robert Salas and James Klotz; John F. Schuessler; L. Schultz; Esen ekerkarar; Time; Tim Shawcross; Margaret Sheppard; Arthur Stansel; Carlton Stowers and the Dallas Observer; Clas Svahn; UFO Magazine; Rebecca Ullrich; the US Air Force; the US Army; the US Navy; Dorothee Walter; the Washington Post; Fred Whiting and the Fund for UFO Research; Steve Williams; John Timmerman; UFOBC Quarterly; UPI Newspictures; the US Information Service.
I am especially indebted to Rear Admiral Joe Barth, USN (retired), former Commanding Officer, USS Forrestal, for assistance in resolving my queries about aircraft carrier operations; Dermot Butler and Carl Nally for their first-class research into the disturbing Dublin/Irish Sea air incidents of 20045; Ingrid Connell and Georgina Difford, my editors at Sidgwick & Jackson, for their forbearance in the face of the many problems that beset us; Kate Eshelby, my publicist at Sidgwick & Jackson; Lucius Farish, for a great deal of help and encouragement, and for his UFO Newsclipping Service; Captain Robert Filler, USAF (retired), for his account of a UFO interception in California in 1961; Bill Gunston OBE, not only for his foreword, but for an enormous amount of help in checking my manuscript and the page proofs; Michael David Hall and Wendy Connors, for a lot of data from their monumental work, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers 1952; Terry Hansen, for the use of much material from his brilliant book, The Missing Times; Leslie Kean, for extracts from her article on the Kecksburg, Pennsylvania crash-retrieval case of 1965, as well as additional information; Jon Andy Kissner, to whom I am especially grateful for so generously providing me with a wealth of information from