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.
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:
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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). |
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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. |
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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 77-78 (in Chapter 7) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition). |
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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. |
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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”). |
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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 111-113 (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 167 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 256-257 (in an entry entitled “Muroc Air Base Sightings”), 129 (in an entry entitled “Daylight Discs, 1947-1959”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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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 320 (in an entry entitled “Daylight Discs”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Greenfield, Irving A in his “The UFO Report” (1967) at pages 115-116 (in Chapter 13) of the Lancer paperback edition. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Sparks, Brad in version 1.7 of his “Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project |
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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. |
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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 |
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Stemman, |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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”. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Other Material
Official
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
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