Denver Airport -- Sources Bibliography and Further Reading

Denver Airport -- Sources, Bibliography, and Further Reading

Primary and Official Sources

DEN Construction Records and Official Documents:

• GAO Report AIMD-95-230: "Denver International Airport -- Information on Selected Financial Issues" (September 20, 1995). The definitive public accounting of DEN's financing, cost overruns, and bond structure. Available at govinfo.gov.
• City and County of Denver Airport System Annual Reports (1990-1995): Construction progress and financial reporting documents.
• Federal Aviation Administration grants documentation for DEN construction.

The Official Art Programme:

• Denver Arts and Venues documentation of the DEN public art programme; available through the City and County of Denver Arts and Venues department.
• Commission agreements and artist statements for Leo Tanguma (murals), Luis Jimenez (Blue Mustang), and Terry Allen (gargoyles and Colorado Panorama) through DEN's public art office.

Denver Public Library Resources:

• New World Airport Commission collection (WH858): 11 boxes of NWAC archival documents held by the Denver Public Library Western History and Genealogy department.
• Denver Public Library Special Collections blog: "A Local's Guide to DIA Conspiracy Theories" -- the most comprehensive, well-sourced debunking of DEN's specific conspiracy claims.

The ONR Information Model: See the official DEN website (flydenver.com) for the airport's own position on conspiracy theories.

Books and Articles: The Conspiracy Literature

• Icke, David. The Biggest Secret. Bridge of Love Publications, 1998. Icke's primary framework for reptilian elite control; references to DEN appear in the context of his broader American elite geography.

• Schneider, Philip. Various lecture transcripts and recordings. Available through UFO/conspiracy research archives. Primary source for the underground base claims; significant caution required regarding verifiability.

• Sitchin, Zecharia. The Twelfth Planet. Stein and Day, 1976. The foundational text of the Anunnaki-as-ancient-astronauts framework; not directly about DEN but provides the cosmological framework applied to DEN by subsequent theorists.

Books and Articles: Critical and Skeptical

• Dunning, Brian. "Denver Airport Conspiracies." Skeptoid Podcast, Episode 313. Available at skeptoid.com. A concise, well-researched skeptical treatment of DEN's primary conspiracy claims.

• Radford, Benjamin. Various Bad Science/Media Mythmakers articles addressing specific DEN claims. Available through CFI (Center for Inquiry) publications.

Academic and Journalistic Sources

• "The Denver Airport Baggage System Disaster" -- multiple project management case studies available through the Project Management Institute and in project management journals including:

 -- "Lessons Learned from the Denver International Airport Baggage System" by Richard de Neufville and Stefan Scholtes. Interfaces, Vol. 26, No. 3, 1996.
 -- "Denver International Airport Case Study" by Lisa A. Burke and Kyle P. Chen. Project Management Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4, 1995.

• Westword (Denver alternative weekly): Multiple investigative articles on DEN conspiracy theories, including the 2007 article explaining the "New World Airport Commission" name as a reference to Dvorak's symphony.

Websites

• flydenver.com -- DEN's official website; contains #DENfiles content and the airport's official engagement with its conspiracy mythology
• history.denverlibrary.org -- Denver Public Library Special Collections; the most authoritative local source for DEN historical documentation
• visitdenver.com -- Visit Denver's tourism guide, including "Myths and Legends Behind Denver International Airport"
• de173.com -- (Primary Philadelphia Experiment site; relevant for underground base cross-references in the conspiracy literature)

The Art That Is Not Conspiratorial

For visitors wishing to engage with DEN's legitimate art programme:

• Terry Allen's Colorado Panorama in the A-Train tunnel
• The Westin Hotel art programme (ongoing)
• The Anschutz Collection works throughout the concourses
• DEN's continuing public art programme continues to commission new works

Leo Tanguma's murals are expected to return to display approximately 2027 after the Great Hall renovation is complete.