1947.0708 Muroc Field sightings

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On 8 July 1947, there were a series of sightings at, and near, Muroc Field.

 This incident is Case 71 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 39 of the books covered by that article.

 

 

 

 

 

Sections below:

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://ufologie.net/htm/muroc.htm
http://www.nicap.org/murocdir.htm

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Book References

For discussion of the Muroc Field sightings see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1980

Berlitz, Charles and Moore, Bill in their “The Roswell Incident“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 129-130 (in Chapter 7) of the Granada hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Granada paperback edition).

2

1967

Bloecher, Ted in his “Report on the UFO Wave of 1947” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages I_13 (in Section I), III_4-III_5 (in Section III), Case 712 (in Section V) of the privately published paperbound edition.

4

1974

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 77-78 (in Chapter 7) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition).

2

1996

Blundell, Nigel in his “World’s Most Amazing UFO Visits” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-23 of the Select softcover edition.

2

1995

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 46 (in Chapter 3) 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”).

1

2003

Clark, Jerome in his “Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 111-113 (in Chapter 6) of the Citadel softcover edition.

3

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 167 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition in an entry entitled “Daylight Discs”.

1

1992

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 256-257 (in an entry entitled “Muroc Air Base Sightings”), 129 (in an entry entitled “Daylight Discs, 1947-1959”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

3

1998

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 320 (in an entry entitled “Daylight Discs”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

1

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Volume 2:L-Z at pages 660-661 (in an entry entitled “Muroc Air Base Sightings”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

1

1992

Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 52, 54 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Dimensions of a Phenomenon”) of the Publications International hardback edition.

2

2000

Dolan, Richard M in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 68 (in Chapter 2) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 31-32 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

1

1976

Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 210-212 (in Chapter 11) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

3

1967

Greenfield, Irving A in his “The UFO Report” (1967) at pages 115-116 (in Chapter 13) of the Lancer paperback edition.

2

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 58, 62, 90 (in Chapter 2) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

3

1995

Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at pages 69 (in Chapter 4), 86-87 (in Chapter 5), 117-118 (in Chapter 7), 223 (in Chapter 12) of the Box Tree hardback edition.

6

1950

Heard, Gerald in his “The Riddle of the Flying Saucers: Is Another World Watching” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 19 (in Chapter 2) of the Carroll & Nicholson hardback edition.

1

1977

Hynek, J Allen in his “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Chapter 5, at pages 86-88 of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at pages 95-97 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition).

3

1953

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers from Outer Space” (1953) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 41 (in Chapter 3) of the Henry Holt hardback edition, pages 46-47 of the Tandem paperback edition.

1

1960

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers: Top Secret” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 89 (in Chapter 6) of the G P Putnam hardback edition.

1

2000

Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 4 (in Chapter 1) of the Llewellyn softcover edition.

1

2001

Matthews, Tim in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 325-326 (in an entry entitled “Man-made UFOs”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 319 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

2

2001

Matthews, Tim in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 392 (in an entry entitled “Man-made UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

1

1999

Matthews, Tim in his “UFO Revelation” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44-45 (in Chapter 2) of the Blandford softcover edition.

2

1999

Matthews, Tim in his “UFO Revelation” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 43 (in Chapter 2), 44-45 (in Chapter 3) of the Blandford softcover edition.

3

1956

Michel, Aime in his “The Truth about Flying Saucers” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in Part 1, Chapter 1) of the Robert Hale hardback edition, pages 18-19 of the Pyramid paperback edition.

1

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-12 (Chapter 2, “The Age of Confusion Begins” – in a section entitled “The Army Air Force Becomes Involved”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 12-13 of the Berkley paperback edition.

2

1997

Redfern, Nicholas in his “A Covert Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 273-275 (in Chapter 19) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition.

3

1956

Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 21-22 (in Chapter 2) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at pages 37-38 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 32-33 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 21-22 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at pages 14-15 of the reprinted Source Books softcover edition. The first of these editions (i.e. the original 17 chapter hardback edition) has the same page numbering as the version available online at: http://www.nicap.org/rufo/contents2.htm

2

2003

Sparks, Brad in version 1.7 of his “Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project BLUE BOOK UFO Unknowns” (2003) as Case Numbers 29-31 on pages 9-10 of the PDF edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). Both editions are available online, respectively at the following links:

http://www.cufos.org/BB_Unknowns_1_7.pdf

http://www.nicap.org/bluebook/CufosBBUnknowns.doc

2

1991

Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 220-221 (in an entry entitled “Muroc Air Force Base (Edwards)”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 258 of the Headline paperback edition.

2

1966

Stanton, L Jerome in his “Flying Saucers : Hoax or Reality?” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 34 (in Chapter 2) of the Belmont paperback edition.

1

1978

Stemman, Roy in his “Mysteries of the Universe: Great Mysteries” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 122-123 (in Chapter 6) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

2

1991

Swords, Michael D in “The Roswell Report : A Historical Perspective” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (edited by Eberhart, George) at page 11 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The summer of 1947 : UFOs and the US government at the beginning”) of the CUFOS paperback edition.

11

1960

Tacker, Lawrence (Lieutenant Colonel) in his “Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 15 (in Chapter 2) of the D Van Nostrand hardback edition.

1

1965

Vallee, Jacques in his “Anatomy of a Phenomenon” (1965) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 51 (in Chapter 3) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition), page 56 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, page 91 of the 1966 revised and enlarged Ace Star paperback edition.

1

1954

Wilkins, Harold in his “Flying Saucers on the Moon” (1954) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 53 (in Chapter 4), 72 (in Chapter 5) of the Peter Owen hardback edition, at pages 50, 67 of the Ace paperback edition published under the title “Flying Saucers on the Attack”.

2

1970

Young, Mort in “Flying Saucers Have Arrived!” (1970) (edited by Jay David) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 205-206 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Investigators”) of the World hardback edition. The relevant chapter is reprinted from “UFO : Top Secret” by Mort Young.

2

1967

Young, Mort in his “UFO Top Secret” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18-19 (in Chapter 2) of the Essandess softcover edition.

2

 

Other Material

Official US documents about this incident can be found online. See the material on the ambitious “Project Blue Book Archive” website in relation to Project Blue Book Case Number 50 and also Project Blue Book Case Number 51, which commences at the links provided (and continues on the pages which follow them).

Listed as Project Sign Incident Number 1, Project Sign Incident Number 2 and Project Sign Incident Number 3 in the microfilm records of Project Sign. The relevant case file is included on Roll Number 1 of the Project Sign microfilm collection, at the link below from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of USAF-SIGN1-3 (page 3 of 716) to the page with the PID of USAF-SIGN1-31 (page 31 of 716).

Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 50 and Project Blue Book Case Number 51 on the redacted US National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book, released to the National Archives in 1975 – see National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 1. An image of the relevant index page has been given the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB1-13 (page 13 of 1014) at the link below. The relevant case file is included on National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 1 – at the link below from the page with the PID of NARA-PBB1-958 (page 958 of 1014) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB1-974 (page 974 of 1014).

Listed (without a Project Blue Book Case Number) on the unredacted Maxwell Air Force Base (“Maxwell”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book – see Maxwell microfilm roll number 30,363. An image of the relevant index page has been given the unique Page ID (“PID”) of MAXW-PBB2-244 (page 244 of 1352) at the link below. The relevant case file is included on Maxwell microfilm roll number 30,363 – at the link below from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB2-1095 (page 1095 of 1352) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB2-1105 (page 1105 of 1352) and from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB2-1111 (page 1111 of 1352) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB2-1116 (page 1116 of 1352).

http://www.bluebookarchive.org