On 24 January 1878, John Martin reports a dark “object” high up in the northern sky. The “object” was reported as being about “ the size of a large saucer” and “evidently at a great height”.
This incident is Case 58 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 49 of the books covered by that article.
Web Resources
This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 171388.
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Book References
For discussion of John Martin’s sighting see the following:
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Alnor, William M in his “UFO in the New Age” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 188 (in Chapter 11) of the Baker softcover edition. |
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Bartholomew, Robert E. and Radford, Benjamin in their “Hoaxes, Myths and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 177 (in Chapter 12) of the Prometheus softcover edition. |
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Beer, Lionel in “Phenomenon“ (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-21 of the MacDonald hardback edition (Part 1, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Coming of the Saucers”). |
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Binder, Otto in his “Flying Saucers Are Watching Us” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 57 (in Chapter 5) of the Belmont paperback edition. |
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Blum, Ralph and Blum, Judy in their “Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74-75 (in Chapter 7) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition). |
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Bourret, Jean-Claude in his “The Crack in the Universe” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 62 (in Part 1) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition. |
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Bourret, Jean-Claude in his “The Crack in the Universe” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 62 (in Part 1) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition. |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 19 (in Chapter 1) of the BCA hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Blitz hardback edition, and in the Barnes & Noble hardback edition published under the title “UFO: The Complete Sightings”). |
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Clark, Jerome in “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (edited by Milt Machlin) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (in Chapter 1) of the Dale paperback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 109-110 (in Chapter 6) of the Citadel softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 166 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition in an entry entitled “Daylight Discs”. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 2 – Emergence of a Phenomenon” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 127-128 of the Omnigraphics hardback edition in an entry entitled “Daylight Discs, 1947-1959”. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition : Volume 1:A-K” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 319 (in an entry entitled “Daylight Discs”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 7 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “In The Beginning”) of the Publications International hardback edition. |
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Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 24 (in Chapter 1) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Devereux, Paul and Brookesmith, Peter in their “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 21-22 (in Chapter 1) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Flammonde, Paris (with relatively lengthy extract of the Denison Daily News press report (1878.0125)) by in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 2) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Gibbons, Gavin in his “The Coming of the Space Ships” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 31 (in Chapter 4) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition. |
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Girvan, Waveney in his “Flying Saucers and Common Sense” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 8-9 (in Chapter 1), 45 (in Chapter 4) of the Frederick Muller hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Citadel hardback edition). |
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Gross, Loren in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 201 (in an entry entitled “ ‘flying saucer’ ”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 197 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Gross, Loren in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 131 (in an entry entitled “‘flying saucer’ ”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Gross, Loren in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 241 (in an entry entitled “ ‘flying saucer’ ”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Hansen, Terry in his “The Missing Times : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-Up : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover -Up” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 157 (in Chapter 5) of the Xlibris softcover edition. |
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Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at page 27 (in Chapter 2) of the Box Tree hardback edition. |
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Hynek, J Allen in his “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Chapter 1, at page 2 of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at page 12 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition). |
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Keel, John A in his “UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 33 (in Chapter 2) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Abacus softcover edition). |
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Larson, Bob in his “UFOs and the Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 37-38 (in Chapter 2) of the Nelson softcover edition. |
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Lore, Gordon and Deneault, Harold in their “Mysteries of the Skies” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 72-73 (in Chapter 5) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “UFOs: The Whole Story” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-11 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page xxi (in the Introduction) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Picknett, Lynn in her “The Mammoth Book of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 6 (in Chapter 1) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Conspiracy of Silence” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-11 (in Chapter 1) of the Avon paperback edition. |
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Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Challenge to Science”) of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Challenge to Science”) of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Schellhorn, G Cope in his “Extraterrestrials in Biblical Prophecy” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 355 (in Chapter 17) of the Horus softcover edition. |
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Schnabel, Jim in his “Dark White” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-12 (in Chapter 2) of the Hamish Hamilton softcover edition. |
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Shuttlewood, Arthur in his “The Warminster Mystery” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 42 (in Chapter 6) of the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Smith, Susy in her “Strangers from Space” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 19 (in Chapter 3) of the Manor paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “Gifts of the Gods?” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 15-16 (in Chapter 3) of the Virgin paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 206 (in an entry entitled “Martin, John”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 240 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Stemman, Roy in his “Mysteries of the Universe: Great Mysteries” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 122 (in Chapter 6) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Stemman, Roy in his “Mysteries of the Universe: Great Mysteries” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 122 (in Chapter 6) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Thomas, Paul in his “Flying Saucers Through The Ages” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 3) of the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Thomas, Paul in his “Flying Saucers Through The Ages” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 3) of the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Anatomy of a Phenomenon” (1965) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 1 (in Chapter 1) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition), page 1 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, pages 15-16 of the 1966 revised and enlarged Ace Star paperback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Passport to Magonia” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 4 (in Chapter 1) of the Regnery hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Watts, Alan in his “UFO Quest” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 5 (in the Introduction) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Watts, Alan in his “UFO Quest” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 5 (in the Introduction) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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