Newspaper Microfilm Archive Sources:
The following is a partial list of books, newspapers, magazines, and archives surveyed in compiling this Website. Only those with the most relevant material are listed.
Reproduced articles and photos on this website derived from this source material can be found at:
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Albuquerque Journal
Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
Atlanta Journal
Baton Rouge State Times and Sunday Advocate
Boston Herald
Charleston News and Courier
Chicago Daily News
Chicago Sun
Dallas Morning News
Denver Post
Detroit Free-Press
Houston Post
Miami Herald
Milwaukee Journal
Newark News
Newark Star-Ledger
New York Daily Worker
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman
Philadelphia Inquirer
Salt Lake Deseret News
San Antonio Express
Tulsa (OK) Daily World
Tuscon Daily Citizen
Washington (DC) Daily News
Washington (DC) Star
Washington (DC) Times-Herald
Wisconson State Journal (Madison)
Arizona
Arizona State University, Tempe
Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
Phoenix Gazette
Arizona State Historical Library, Phoenix
Arizona Daily Star (Tuscon)
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff)
Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
Nogales Daily Herald
Phoenix Gazette
Prescott Evening Courier
Tucson Daily Citizen
Yuma Daily Sun
University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff)
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson)
Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
Gallup (N.M.) Independent
Mohave Museum of History and Art, Kingman, Arizona
Mohave County Miner (Kingman)
California
Bakersfield/Kern County PublicLibrary
Bakersfield Press
Edwards AFB Desert Wings
Inyo County Register (Bishop)
Mojave Desert News
Mojave Record
Shafter Press (Did carry local flying saucer sighting from June 21)
Tehachapi News
California State Historical Library, Sacramento
Bakersfield Californian
Contra Costa Gazette (Martinez, CA)
Hanford (CA) Morning Journal
Humboldt Standard (Eureka, CA)
Imperial Valley News (El Centro, CA)
Los Angeles Examiner
Los Angeles Herald-Express
Marysville-Yuba City (CA) Appeal-Democrat
Riverside Daily Press
Sacramento Union
Salinas Californian
Santa Ana Register
San Bernardino Daily Sun
Santa Barbara News Press
Santa Cruz Sentinel-News
San Diego Union
San Jose Mercury-Herald
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
Vallejo (CA) News Chronicle
University of California Berkeley Library
Alameda (CA) Times-Star
Alturas Plain-Dealer & Modoc County Times
Atlanta Constitution
Bakersfield Californian
Berkeley Daily Gazette
Bridgeport (CA) Chronicle-Union
Brawley (CA) News
Chico (CA) Enterprise-Record
Colusa (CA) Sun-Herald
Crescent City (CA) Del Norte Triplicate
Chicago Tribune
Christian Science Monitor
Dinuba (CA) Sentinel
Downieville (CA) Mountain Messenger
Eureka (CA) Humboldt Times
Fresno Bee
Grass Valley-Nevada City (CA) Union
Hanford (CA) Morning Journal
Hayward (CA) Daily Review
Hollister (CA) Daily Free-Lance
Inyo County Register (Bishop, CA)
Inyo Independent
Lakeport (CA) Lake County News
LIFE Magazine
Los Angeles Times
Marysville-Yuba City (CA) Appeal-Democrat
Madra, India, The Hindu
New York Times
Oakland Tribune
Palo Alto Times
Placerville (CA) Mountain-Democrat
Portland Oregonian
Red Bluff (CA) Daily News
Redding (CA) Record-Searchlight & Courier Free Press
Sacramento Bee
Redding Record-Searchlight & Courier Free Press
San Andreas Calaveras Prospect
San Diego Union
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco News
San Jose Mercury News
San Mateo (CA) Times
Science News Letter
Scientific American Magazine
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Shafter (CA) Press
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Stockton Record
Susanville (CA) Lassen Advocate (biweekly)
Terra Bella News
TIME Magazine
Washington Post
Weekly Trinity Journal (Weaverville, CA)
Willows (CA) Daily Journal & Glenn Transcript
University of California at Davis Library
New York Herald-Tribune
Saturday Evening Post
University of California San Diego Library
San Diego Union
Misc.
Barstow Public Library, Barstow Printer-Review
Bishop Public Library, Inyo County Register
Needles Public Library, Needles Star
Palmdale Public Library, Antelope Valley Press (Palmdale/Lancaster)
San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco Examiner morgue files
Victorville Sun, Victorville, California
Victorville Public Library, Victorville Victor Press
Idaho
Boise Public Library
Boise Evening Statesman
Boise Evening Statesman
Idaho Daily (and Sunday) Statesman (Boise)
Idaho Evening Statesman (Boise)
Kentucky
Murray State College, Murray
Memphis Tennessean
University of Kentucky, Lexington
Bowling Green (KY) Park City Daily News
Cincinnati Enquirer
Kansas City (MO) Star
Lexington Herald
Lexington Leader
Louisville Courier-Journal
Louisville Times
Missouri
Missouri Historical Society Library, Columbia
Butler (MO) Weekly Times and Bates County Record
Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian
Charleston (MO) Enterprise-Courier
Clinton (MO) Henry County Democrat
Columbia Daily Tribune
Columbia Missourian
Jefferson City (MO) Daily Capital News
Jefferson City Sunday News and Tribune
Joplin (MO) Globe
Sedalia (MO) Capital
Sedalia Democrat
Sikeston (MO) Daily Standard
Springfield (MO) Daily News
Springfield Leader-Press
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
St. Louis Star-Times
Warrensburg (MO) Star-Journal
University of Missouri Library, Columbia
Baltimore Evening Sun
Chicago Sun
Des Moines Register
Des Moines Tribune
Detroit News
Kansas City (MO) Star
Louisville Courier-Journal
Minneapolis (MN) Morning Tribune
Washington (DC) Evening Star
University of Missouri, St. Louis
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Nevada
Nevada State Library, Carson City
Austin Reese River Reveille
Battle Mountain Scout
Boulder City News
Caliente Herald
Carson City Chronicle
Elko Independent
Ely Record
Ely Times
Fallon Standard
Gardnerville Record-Courier
Goldfield News
Goldfield News & Beatty Bulletin
Hawthorne Mineral County Independent
Las Vegas Free Press (became LV Morning Sun July 1, 1950)
Pioche Record
Sparks Tribune
Tonopah Times-Bonanza
Virginia City News
Virginia City Territorial-Enterprise
Wells Progress
University of Nevada Las Vegas Library
Battle Mountain (NV) Scout
Boulder City (NV) News
Caliente (NV) Herald
Carson City Nevada Appeal
Elko (NV) Daily Free Press
Ely (NV) Record
Eureka Sentinel
Humboldt Star (Winnemucca, NV)
Fallon (NV) Standard
Fallon Eagle
Hawthorne Mineral County Independent
Henderson Home News
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Las Vegas Sun
Nevada State Journal (Reno)
Reno Evening Gazette
Santa Fe New Mexican
Tonopah (NV) Times-Bonanza and Goldfield News
Winnemucca Humboldt Star
Wells Progress
University of Nevada Reno Library
Elko Daily Free Press
Elko Independent
Ely Daily Times
Ely Record
Goldfield News and Beatty Bulletin
Gardenville (NV) Record-Courier
Henderson (NV) Home News
Inyo Register (CA)
Lovelock Review-Miner
Las Vegas Valley Times
Pioche (NV) Record
Sparks (NV) Tribune
Tahoe Daily Tribune
Tonopah Times-Bonanza and Goldfield News
Wells (NV) Progress
Yerington Mason Valley News
New Jersey
New Jersey State Archives, Trenton
Hoboken Jersey Observer
Moorestown (N.J.) News-Chronicle
Passaic (N.J.) Sunday Eagle
Summitt (N.J.) Herald
New Jersey State Library, Trenton
Newark Star-Ledger
Trenton Evening Times
Princeton Public Library
Princeton Herald
Princeton Record
Rutgers University Library, New Brunswick
Asbury Park (N.J.) Evening News and Sunday Press
Bergen Evening Record (Hackensack, N.J.)
Brooklyn (N.Y.) Eagle
Elizabeth (N.J.) Daily Journal
Long Branch/Red Bank (N.J.) Daily Record
Newark Evening News
Newark Star-Ledger
New Brunswick Daily Home News and Sunday Times
Paterson (N.J.) Morning Call
New Mexico
New Mexico State Library and Archives, Santa Fe
Alamogordo News
Las Vegas (N.M.) Daily Optic
New Mexico Magazine
New Mexico Press (Clovis)
Raton Daily Range
Roswell Daily Record
The Daily Current-Argus (Carlsbad)
University of New Mexico Zimmerman Library, Albuquerque
Alamogordo News
Albuquerque Journal
Albuquerque Tribune
Gallup (N.M.) Independent
Hobbs (N.M.) Daily News-Sun
Las Cruces Citizen
Las Cruces Sun-News
Lincoln County News and Carrizozo Outlook (Carrizozo, N.M.)
New Mexico Magazine
Portales (N.M.) Daily News
Roswell Daily Record
Roswell Morning Dispatch
Santa Rosa (N.M.) News
Silver City (N.M.) Daily Press
Tucumcari Daily News
Los Alamos Public Library
Los Alamos News, Los Alamos Herald
San Juan College, Farmington
Farmington Daily News
Socorro Public Library
Socorro Chieftain
Ohio
Ohio State Historical Society, Columbus
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Columbus Citizen
Columbus Dispatch
University of Dayton, Dayton
Dayton Daily News
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City
Lawton Constitution
Lawton Morning Press
Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman
Tulsa Tribune
University of Central Oklahoma, Lawton
Manchester (England) Guardian
Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman
Tulsa Daily World
Rhode Island
Providence Public Library
Providence Evening Bulletin
Providence Journal
Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence
Pawtucket (R.I.) Times
Texas
Rice University Library, Houston
Atlanta Constitution
Houston Chronicle
Texas Historical Archives Library, Austin
Amarillo News-Globe
San Angelo Standard Times
University of North Texas Library, Denton
Dallas Daily Times-Herald
Denton Record-Chronicle
University of Texas at Arlington Library
Houston Post
Dallas Morning News
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (early morning edition)
University of Texas at Austin, Center For American History
Amarillo Daily News
Austin American
Austin Daily Texan
Houston Post
San Antonio Express
University of Texas at El Paso Library
El Paso Herald-Post
El Paso Times
Austin Public Library
Austin American
Austin Statesman
Fort Worth Public Library
Fort Worth Press
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, early morning and evening editions
Witchita Falls Public Library
Witchita Falls Daily Times
Witchita Falls Record-News
Utah
Cedar City Public Library
Iron County Record (Cedar City)
Southern Utah University Library (Cedar City)
Salt Lake Deseret News (Daily)
St. George Washington County News
Washington
University of Washington Seattle Library
Anchorage (AK) Daily Times
Bremerton (WA) Salute (Puget Sound Naval Shipyard)
Longview (WA) Daily News
New York Herald-Tribune
New York PM
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle Star
Seattle Times
Tacoma News-Tribune
Yakima (WA) Daily Republic
Misc.
Bar Harbor (Maine) Public Library
Bar Harbor Times
Chicago Public Libary
Chicago's American
Chicago Herald-American
Chicago Daily News
Chicago Sun
Chicago Daily Times
New York Herald Tribune, Paris
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh Penn.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Harvard University Widener Library, Cambridge, Mass.
Birmingham (AL) Age-Herald
Boston Daily Globe
Charlotte (N.C.) Observer
Denver Post
Detroit News
Louisville Courier-Journal
Milwaukee Journal
Minneapolis Tribune
National Library of Canada, Toronto
Belleville (Ont.) Intelligencer
Halifax Chronicle-Herald
Kingston (Ont.) Whig-Standard
La Presse, Montreal
London (Ont.) Evening Free Press
Montreal Gazette
Ottowa Citzen
Toronto Globe and Mail
Windsor (Ont.) Star
Winnepeg Free Press
New Haven (Conn.) Public Library
New Haven Evening Register
North Dakota State Historical Library, Bismarck
Bismarck Tribune
Fargo (N.D.) Forum
Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald
Minot (N.D.) Daily News
Oregon Historical Society, Portland
Eugene Register-Guard
Pendleton East Oregonian
Portland Oregon Journal
Sault St. Marie Public Library, Canada
Sault Star
Toronto Globe and Mail
University of Arkansas Library, Fayettesville
Arkansas Democrat (Little Rock)
Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock)
Malvern (Ark.) Daily Record
Tulsa (OK) Daily World
University of Hawaii Library, Honolulu
Bankok Post
Honolulu Advertiser
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Manila Times
University of Indiana Library, Bloomington
Evansville (IN) Courier
Indianapolis News
Indianapolis Star
University of Iowa Library, Iowa City
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Des Moines Register
University of Nebraska Library, Lincoln
Lincoln Evening Journal
North-China Daily News (Shanghai)
Omaha Morning World-Herald
University of Wyoming Library, Laramie
Casper (WY) Tribune-Herald
Laramie Republican-Boomerang
Rocky Mountain News (Denver)
Wyoming Eagle (Cheyanne)
Wyoming State Tribune (Cheyanne)
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo Gazette
White Plains N.Y. Public Library
White Plains Reporter-Dispatch
The British Library Newspaper Library, London, England
London Daily Herald
London Daily Mail
London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post
London Sunday Dispatch
Misc. References
Data on National Radiosonde Weather Stations: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Web Site (link now defunct)
1948 Atlanta Journal article on Chiles-Whitted UFO sighting with the USAF debunking it as a radar target can be downloaded from the FBI's Freedom of Information UFO files, Part 06. This requires a PDF file reader such as Adobe Acrobat. The article is on pages 17 & 18 of the file.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photos in Gen. Ramey's office and of radar target demonstration, courtesy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photograph Collection, Special Collections Division, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
Fort Worth Star-Telegram articles, including July 7 edition depicting Circleville radar target on front page, courtesy of Mr. J. Bond Johnson, the 1947 Star-Telegram photographer who took six of seven known photos in Gen. Ramey's office on July 8.
San Antonio Light frontpage of July 7 showing Circleville radar target orginally from San Antonio Express-News website, link now defunct.
Other1947 newspaper photos and stories provided courtesy of Jan Aldrich, head of Project 1947. Project 1947 is attempting to do a comprehensive national survey of UFO stories from the nation's newspapers in 1947 and other years as well. Aldrich, with experience in the Army weather service, has also pointed out that radar targets were widely used by artillery units in addition to the weather services.
Misc. book references:
1. 1995 USAF The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert, Headquarters USAF, U.S. Government Printing Office, ISBN 0-16-048023-X. (Now online)
Brief Review: Includes interviews with Mogul balloon personnel such as Charles Moore and Col. Albert Trakowski suggesting counterintelligence being behind Alamogordo launch, supposedly as cover for Project Mogul. The Report also has a cropped copy of the July 10, 1947 Alamogordo News article of the staged weather balloon/radar reflector launch of the previous day. Overall very shallow, incomplete, and biased, "researched" and written not by impartial historians but by propagandist Air Force counterintelligence officers trying to diffuse a Congressional General Accounting Office investigation.into Roswell. Newsweek Magazine called their early release of a report synopsis at a press conference prior to the completion of the GAO's investigation a "preemptive strike." Notably excluded from the Report was testimony of two Air Force generals, Brig. Generals Arthur Exon and Thomas Dubose, Dubose saying that it wasn't a balloon and there had been a cover-up, and Exon saying it was indeed the crash of a spacecraft.
2. UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth, Benson Saler, Charles Ziegler, and Charles B. Moore, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997, ISBN 1-56098-751-0
Brief Review: Moore, one of the original engineers on the New Mexico Mogul Project, has some interesting historical material on the radar targets, including their use at White Sands and Wilmington, Ohio, but the rest of this book (including portions by Moore) is generic debunking. Moore shows some of his bias in charting a hypothetical trajectory of his little lost Mogul balloon, utilizing only those assumptions which will make it crash exactly where he wants it to crash. Recent analysis has also shown Moore used seriously flawed math in his "calculation." Moore's model turns out to be a flagrant hoax! However, Moore uses a lot of numbers, tables, and graphs, giving it the false sense of being a scientific treatment of the problem. It's not. Unfortunately, this blatantly forced balloon trajectory is often cited as strong evidence by uncritical skeptics that this Mogul balloon must account for the Roswell events. (e.g., see Skeptical Inquirer article)
3. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, Cpt. Edward J. Ruppelt, 1956, Doubleday & Company, Inc. (now online)
Brief Review: One of the true classic books on the UFO phenomenon. Ruppelt was the first director of the USAF's Project Blue Book, the official public USAF investigation of UFOs started in 1952. In fact, Ruppelt was the man who coined the term UFO to describe a diverse phenomenon in preference to the more generic term of flying saucers. Ruppelt provided an important insider's viewpoint of what official thinking really was as opposed to the public proclamations and debunking. He also alluded a number of times to highly secretive parallel UFO investigations out of the public eye by people and agencies he refused to identify. Ruppelt's anecdote about Admiral Gallery suggesting his White Sands missile chief had been drinking after he wrote his pro-UFO magazine article is in Chapter 6. Ruppelt also wrote about several major New Mexico UFO sightings by the same balloon people affiliated with Project Mogul. (See new section on Project Mogul UFO sightings) Ruppelt stated that they practically tossed him out when he suggested that maybe they had been seeing their own balloons (Chapter 9). In Chapter 4, Ruppelt covered the New Mexico green fireballs that started in late 1948. This included the opinions of Los Alamos scientists, who had been witnesses, that they were probes coming from orbiting spacecraft.
