A SURVEY OF PRESS COVERAGE OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS, 1947— 1966.

Free download-Saucerian Publisher was founded with the mission of promoting original sources in ufology. Our goal is to help readers, educators, and researchers by bringing back original publications that are difficult to find at reasonable prices or at no cost while preserving the legacy of universal knowledge. Norman Brennan, a UFOlogist, used these reference to create a group of bibliographical volumes on UFO books and pamphlets. --͟This dissertation in journalism and public affairs, in part supported by the UFO Project at Boulder, Colo., was one effort to analyze press coverage of UFO reports. Research for the dissertation had begun, however, before the Boulder Project was organized in October 1966. There had seemed to be at least three reasons to undertake a study of press coverage of UFOs: -1. One purpose of any scientific study is to generate information. The press-UFO field lacked any organized or trustworthy body of literature. In fact, it seemed that the absence of such material posed problems for newsmen trying to cover UFO reports. --2. There was widespread public interest in UFOs. In the spring of 1966, a national Gallup Poll indicated that 5 million Americans claimed to have seen flying saucers. Further, 96 per cent of those polled had heard or read something about UFOs, one of the highest awareness scores in the history of the Gallup Poll. --3. There had been considerable criticism of news coverage of UFOs, both from those who blamed the press for creating the UFO phenomenon and from those who said the press had been negligent in its coverage. For example, Dr. Philip Morrison, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said of the UFO phenomenon: It is a social phenomenon of journalism find television. If you look in the newspapers and journals of a hundred or a hundred and twenty years ago, you’ll see the same thing. . .they're much more frequent now. . . 3 ---Given these criticisms and the need for information about press coverage of UFOs, it was decided that this dissertation would have two purposes. One was to collect a unified body of data— qualitative and quantitative— to help the reader understand the UFO phenomenon and press coverage of UFOs; the second was to analyze critically UFO news coverage to determine what role(s) the press had played in the UFO phenomenon and what judgments could be made about the nature of press performance. Please, copy and paste the link for our books: https://saucerianbooks.blogspot.