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Keeping up with new discoveries in Dreamland is best done through sites on the World Wide Web. The following are the most useful, and all contain links to other sites of interest:
Glenn Campbell’s exhaustive and indispensable Area 51 and UFO site: http://www.ufomind.com/area51/
Steve Douglass’s Project Black site on black aircraft, plus the Intercepts newsletter: http://www.perseids.com/projectblack/
The Federation of American Scientists: http://www.fas.org/
Dan Zinngrabe’s site with extensive histories of Aurora, the TR3A, and Tier III: http://www.macconnect.com/~quellish
Andreas Gehrs-Pahl’s extensive aviation site: http://www.umcc.umich.edu/~schnars/aero.htm
Paul McGinnis (“Trader”) and the Freedom Ridge Oversight Counciclass="underline" http://www.frogi.org/
UFO Folklore: http://www.qtm.net/~geibdan/framemst.html
Parascope: http://www.parascope.com/
Tom Mahood’s Blue Fire page: http://www.serve.com/mahood/bluefire.htm/
About the Author
Phil Patton is the author of Made in USA: The Secret Histories of the Things That Made America, selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club; Open Road, named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Voyager (with Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan); and other books.
He writes the “Public Eye” column for The New York Times and is a contributing editor of Esquire, Wired, and ID magazines.
Mr. Patton has taught at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and participated in a number of public television series. He grew up in North Carolina and was educated at Harvard and Columbia. He has also developed World Wide Web pages for Esquire, the New York Web, and Hearst New Media.
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