On 7 January 1948, Captain Thomas F Mantell Jr (Air National Guard F-51 Mustang fighter pilot) dies during attempted intercept near Godman Air Force Base (near Fort Knox), Kentucky.
Claims to fame
This incident is Case 6 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 179 of the books covered by that article.
Isaac Koi’s “ICES” Rating for this sighting = 5,824 (out of a potential score of 14*14*14*14 i.e. 38,416)
(1) “Impact” Rating of 14 (out of a potential score of 14), because it is Case 6 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article.
(2) “Credibility” Rating of 13 (out of a potential score of 14) because an object was reported by several people and Mantell died while attempting to chase it. The debate has centered on what he was actually attempting to chase.
(2) “Expert” Rating of 8 (out of a potential score of 14). It is given this slightly above neutral rating because while (at the time of writing) it has not been included in any of the short lists of the best cases produced by various UFO researchers that have been compiled by Isaac Koi (see the “Best UFO Cases" article at PART 3: Existing lists by various individuals) this incident did come fifth in a survey in 1965 by Jacques Vallee of the opinion of various UFO groups as to the most significant UFO sightings..
(4)“Strangeness” Rating of 4 (out of a potential score of 14). The sighting has a relatively low strangeness rating since there is relatively limited evidence to be explained as to the nature of the object in the sky. That evidence is largely consistent with a large balloon.
Sections below:
Web Resources
For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.nicap.org/mantelldir.htm
A detailed paper by Kevin Randle discussing this sighting available online at: http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/ufoupdates/listers/mantell.html
Wikipedia article at: Thomas F Mantell attempted intercept (January 1948)
This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 325088.{text}
Book References
For discussion of the Mantell incident see the following:
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Adamski, George in his “Inside the Flying Saucers” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (Originally entitled “Inside the Space Ships”) (1955) at pages 131-132 (in Chapter 11) of the Paperback Library paperback edition. |
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Alnor, William M in his “UFO in the New Age” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74-75 (in Chapter 4) of the Baker softcover edition. |
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Baker, Alan in his “Sci-Fi Channel: True Life Encounters: UFO Sightings” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 45-48 (in Chapter 2) of the Orion softcover edition. |
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Barker, Gray in his “They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (in Chapter 1) of the University Books hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the 1996 I-Net softcover edition). |
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Bender, Albert K in his “Flying Saucers and the Three Men” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 69, 70-71, 75 (in Chapter 7) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition, at pages 57-59, 62 of the Paperback Library paperback edition. |
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Berlitz, Charles in his “The Bermuda Triangle” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 113 (in Chapter 6) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Berlitz, Charles in his “Without a Trace” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 66-67 (in Chapter 4) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition, at pages 85-86 of the |
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Berlitz, Charles in his “World of Strange Phenomena” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 278-279 of the Wynwood hardback edition. |
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Binder, Otto in his “What we really know about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 141-142 (in Chapter 13) of the Fawcett paperback edition. |
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Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 144 (in an entry entitled “Godman Air Force Base, Kentucky”), 201-202 (in an entry entitled “Mantell, Thomas F”) of the Pocket Books softcover 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 page 83 (in Chapter 7) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition). |
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Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in “The World’s Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 421 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Aerial Kind”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition. |
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Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in their “The World’s Greatest UFO Mysteries” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 160 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Aerial Kind”) of the Octopus hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Hamlyn softcover 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 26-27, 28, 38 of the Select softcover edition. |
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Briazack, Norman and Mennick, Simon in their “The UFO Guidebook” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 129-130 (in the entry entitled “Mantell Incident”) of the Citadel 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 pages 42, 50-51 (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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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 24-26 (in Chapter 1) of the Parragon hardback edition. |
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Bryan, C D B in his “Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at MIT” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 107 (in Chapter 4) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Knopf hardback edition and the Penguin Arkana softcover edition) at pages 142-143 of the Orion paperback edition. |
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Buckle, Eileen and Oliver, Norman in “The Scoriton Mystery: Did Adamski return?” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 21-27 (Chapter 2 generally, “Death in the Air”), 64 and 65-66 (in Chapter 5), 107-116 (in Chapter 9), 117 and 122-126 (in Chapter 10), 183-189 (in Chapter 17) of the Spearman hardback edition. |
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Campbell, Steuart in his “The UFO Mystery Solved” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74-75 (in Chapter 4) of the Explicit Books softcover edition. |
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Canadeo, Anne in her “UFO’s: The Fact or Fiction File” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-11 (in Chapter 2 of the pro-UFO side of the book, i.e. the side which starts with the Chapter 1 entitled “Visitors at Cisco Grove”) of the Walker hardback edition. |
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Canadeo, Anne in her “UFO’s: The Fact or Fiction File” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 15-17 (in Chapter 2 of the anti-UFO side of the book, i.e. the side which starts with the Chapter 1 entitled “Some Important Questions About Visitors From ‘Planet Z’”) of the Walker hardback edition. |
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Chambers, Howard in his “UFOs for the millions” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13-16, 19 (in Chapter 2), 81-82 (in Chapter 7) of the |
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Chapman, Robert in his “UFO : Flying Saucers Over Britain?” (1969) (also published as “Unidentified Flying Objects”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 49-50 (in Chapter 4) of the Mayflower 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 56-66 (in Chapter 3) 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 pages 351-356 (in an entry entitled “Mantell Incident”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition. |
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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 240-244 (in an entry entitled “Mantell Incident”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. Relevant article available online at: http://www.nicap.org/mantell2.htm |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 3 – High Strangeness” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 433 (forming part of an entry entitled “Scoriton Hoax”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition : Volume 2:L-Z” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 603-607 (in an entry entitled “Mantell Incident”), 825-826 (forming part of an entry entitled “Scorition Hoax” at pages 823-828) 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 34-35 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “UFOs: The Official Story”) of the Publications International hardback edition. |
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Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Flying Saucerers : A social history of UFOlogy” (2007) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-12 (in Chapter 1) of the Alternative Albion softcover edition. |
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Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Out Of The Shadows” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 51 (in Chapter 3) of the Piatkus hardback edition. |
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Clarke, David in “The UFOs that never were” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) by Jenny Randles, Andy Roberts and David Clarke at page 43 (in Chapter 2, by David Clarke) of the London House hardback edition. |
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Clarke, David in his “The UFO Files : The Inside Story of Real-Life Sightings” (2009) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39-40 (in Chapter 2) of the National Archives softcover edition. |
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Cohen, Daniel in his “The World of UFOs” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-24 (in Chapter 3) of the Lippincott hardback edition. |
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Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 847-848 (in Section 5, Chapter 2 “UFOs: 1947-1968”, by Edward U Condon) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at pages 504-505 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links: http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.html |
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Constance, Arthur in his “The Inexplicable Sky” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 218-219 (in Chapter 8) of the Werner Laurie 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 pages 29-30 (in Chapter 1), 75 (in Chapter 3) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Craft, Michael in his “Alien Impact” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 50 (in Chapter 3) of the |
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Cramp, Leonard G in his “Piece for a Jig-Saw” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 316-317 (in Chapter 19) of the Somerton hardback edition. |
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Cramp, Leonard G in his “Space, Gravity and the Flying Saucer” (1954) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 92-94 (in Chapter 9) of the Werner Laurie hardback edition. |
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Curran, Douglas in his “In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 14 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Deus Ex Machina”) of the updated 2001 Abbeville Press hardback edition. |
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Danelek, J Allan in his “UFOs : The Great Debate” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 71-72 of the Llewellyn softcover edition. |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 251-252 (in the entry entitled “Mantell, Thomas F”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition. |
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Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Mantell, Captain Thomas Francis Jr. (1922-1948)”. The relevant entry is available online at: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/M/Mantell.html |
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Dash, Mike in his “Borderlands” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 136 (in Chapter 4) of the Arrow paperback edition. |
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Dennett, Preston E in his “One in Forty : The UFO Epidemic” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 310 (in Chapter 42) of the KB hardback edition. |
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Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in Chapter 1) of the |
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di Fate, Vincent in his “The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 97-99 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Shadows on the Sky - The Early Flying Saucer Era”) of the Paper Tiger hardback edition. |
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Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 141 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 272, 274 (in Chapter 6) of the |
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Dodd, Tony in his “Alien Investigator” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 218-233 (in Chapter 8) of the Headline paperback 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 pages 93-94 (in Chapter 3) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 56-57 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Drake, W Raymond in his “Gods and Spacemen of the Ancient Past” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in Chapter 2) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Serious Business” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 28 (in Chapter 2), 51 (in Chapter 5) of the Bantam paperback edition, at pages 35, 58 of the Mayflower-Dell paperback edition. |
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Edwards, Frank in his “Strangest of All” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 171 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Authorities Who Believe in Flying Saucers”) of the Ace paperback edition. |
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Emenegger, Robert in his “UFOs Past, Present and Future” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 24-25 (in Chapter 3), 28-36 (in Chapter 4 generally) of the silver covered Ballantine paperback edition first printing, at pages 25, 29-37 of the blue covered Ballantine paperback edition eighth printing. |
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Erskine, Allen Louis in his “Why Are They Watching Us?” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 65-68 (in Chapter 4), 71-73 (in Chapter 6) of the Tower paperback edition. |
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Feola, Eloise in “Flying Saucers : Twenty-One Years of UFOs” (1968), published by the editors of Cowles and UPI, at pages 39-45. |
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Feola, Eloise in “Flying Saucers: A Look Special” (1967) published by the editors of United Press International and Cowles Communications Inc, at pages 8-9. |
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Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 102 (in Section 2), 227 (in Section 3), 294 (in Section 4) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition. |
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Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 217-225 (in Chapter 11), 227-248 (in Chapter 12) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Friedman, Stanton and Berliner, Don in their “Crash at Corona” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 26 (in Chapter 3) of the 1997 Marlowe Company softback edition. |
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Gardner, Martin in his “Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science” (1957) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 57, 58 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Garrett, Richard in his “Aliens From Outer Space” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16-21 (in Chapter 1) of the Piccolo 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 pages 4-6, 7 (in Chapter 1), 21 (in Chapter 2), 33 (in Chapter 4) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition. |
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Glenday, Craig in his “The UFO Investigator’s Handbook” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 28 (in Chapter 1) of the Running Press softcover edition. |
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Goldsmith, Donald and Tobias Owen in their “The Search for Life in the Universe” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 485 (in Chapter 20) of the 1992 Addison Wesley softcover revised second edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 255 (in Chapter 11) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition). |
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Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 318 (in Chapter 14) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition). |
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Good, Timothy in his “Need To Know : UFOs, the Military and Intelligence” (2006) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 104-105 (in Chapter 6) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition. |
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Gordon, Stuart in his “The Paranormal - An Illustrated Encyclopedia” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 673-674 (in the entry entitled “UFOs”) of the Headline softcover edition. |
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Greenfield, Irving A in his “The UFO Report” (1967) at pages 66-69, 71-74 (in Chapter 7) of the Lancer paperback edition. |
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Guieu, Jimmy in his “Flying Saucers Come From Another World” (1956) (edited by Ronald Story) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 19-23 (in Chapter 1), 176 (in Chapter 8), 241 (in Chapter 11) of the Hutchinson hardback edition. |
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Gurney, Gene (USAF Lt Col) and Clare Gurney in their “Unidentified Flying Objects” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 19-23 (in Chapter 2) of the Abelard-Schuman hardback 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 97-100 (in Chapter 3) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Hamilton, William F in his “Alien Magic: UFO Crashes, Abductions, Underground Bases” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 41 (in Chapter 4) of the Global Communications softcover edition. |
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Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at pages 88-91 (in Chapter 5) of the Box Tree hardback edition. |
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Hartmann, William K in “UFO's: A Scientific Debate” (1972) (edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (in Chapter 2) of the Barnes and Noble hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Norton paperback 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 pages 27-30 (in Chapter 4), 34-36 (in Chapter 5), 91-92 (in Chapter 10) of the Carroll & Nicholson hardback edition. |
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Hervey, Michael in his “UFOs : The American Scene” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 42 (in Chapter 5) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Holzer, Hans in his “The UFOnauts” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 25 (in Chapter 1) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition. |
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Hyland, Gary in his “Blue Fires: The Lost Secrets of Nazi Technology” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 178-179 (in Chapter 8) of the Headline hardback edition. |
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Jackson, Robert in his “UFOs” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16-19 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Shot Down By UFOs?”) of the Smithmark hardback edition. |
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Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44-45 (in Chapter 2) of the |
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Kanon, Gregory M in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 18 (in Chapter 2) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Kettelkamp, Larry in his “Investigating UFOs” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 29 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Sightings and Cases”) of the Target softcover edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 13 (in Chapter 1)of the Signet paperback edition, page 26 of the Panther 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 pages 13, 14, 31-32, 37-39 of the Henry Holt hardback edition, pages 20, 21, 37-38, 43-45 of the Tandem paperback edition (in Chapters 1 and 3). |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers: Top Secret” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 158 (in Chapter 11), and mentioned at pages 40 (Chapter 3) and 84 (in Chapter 6) of the G P Putnam hardback edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “The Flying Saucers are Real” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 7-8 (in Chapter 1 ), 15-17, 20-21 (in Chapter 2), 31 (in Chapter 4), 37-48 (Chapter 5 generally), 113-114 (in Chapter 12 ), 147-148 (in Chapter 16 ), 149 (in Chapter 17), 155-157 (in Chapter 18 ) f the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition, which has the same page numbering as the version available on-line at: |
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King, Jon in his “Cosmic Top Secret” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 27-29 (in the chapter entitled “Document |
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Klass, Philip J in his “UFOs Explained” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-39 (Chapter 4) of the Random House Hardback edition, at pages 42-46 of Random House paperback edition. |
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Knight, David C in his “UFOs: A pictorial history from antiquity to the present” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 31, 35-36 (in Part 3) of the McGraw Hill hardback edition. |
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Koerner, David & LeVay, Simon in their “Here Be Dragons” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 188 (in Chapter 8) of the |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 582 (in an entry entitled “threat, UFO-ET”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 570 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 697-698 (in an entry entitled “threat, UFO-ET”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Leslie, Desmond in “Flying Saucers Have Landed” (1953) by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16-17 (in Part 1, Chapter 1) of the Werner Laurie hardback edition, pages 16-17 of the 1970 revised Neville Spearman hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the revised Futura paperback 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 page 169 (in the Epilogue) 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 31-34 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral E in her “The Great Flying Saucer Hoax” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-12 (in Chapter 1) of the APRO hardback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral in “Flying Saucers : the Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space” (1966) (an enlarged version of her “The Great Flying Saucer Hoax” (1962)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-24 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Lyne, William P in his “Space Aliens from the Pentagon” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 77-78 (in Chapter 2) of the Creatopia Productions softcover edition. |
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Macvey, John W in his “Interstellar Travel” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 246-248 (in Chapter 15) of the |
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Mannion, Michael in his “Project Mindshift” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-61 (in Chapter 3) of the Evans hardback edition. |
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Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 102-105 (in Chapter 4), 356 (in Chapter 12) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Marvels and Mysteries (Editors Of) in “Marvels and Mysteries: UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 19 of the Parrallel softcover edition. |
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Menzel, Donald and Lyle Boyd in their “The World of Flying Saucers” (1963) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 33-39 (in Chapter III), 247 (in Chapter XII) of the Doubleday hardback edition. |
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Menzel, Donald in his “Flying Saucers“ (1953) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 19-22 (in Chapter 2), 198 (in Chapter 15, “Ice crystals in the sky”) of the Putnam hardback edition. |
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Michel, Aime in his “The Truth about Flying Saucers” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-47 (in Part 1, Chapter 1) of the Robert Hale hardback edition, pages 38-51 (in Part 1, Chapter 2) of the Pyramid paperback edition. |
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Moseley, James and Pflock, Karl in their “Shockingly Close to the Truth!” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13 (in the James Moseley’s Prologue), 27 (in Chapter 1) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Project Moon Dust” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 164, 177 (in Chapter 9) of the |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “50 Years of UFO Encounters” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14-15 (in unnumbered section entitled “1948: Project Saucer”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 103-105 (in Chapter 7) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Peter Warrington in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 28-29 (in Chapter 3) of the Blackwell hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The Age of the UFO” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 56-57 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “ ‘UFOs are bunk’ ”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The Age of the UFO” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A bird, a plane – or a UFO?”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained” , Volume 1, page 130. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23-28 of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition (in Chapter 3). |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Something in the Air” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 24-31 (in Chapter 2 generally) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 34 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Pennine UFO Mystery" (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 24-25 (in Chapter 1) of the |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Study” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 33-34, 35 (in Chapter 2) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Messages from the Stars” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 205-206 (in Chapter 13) of the |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 4 (in an entry entitled “aircraft, UFOs and”), 23 (in an entry entitled “balloons”), 55 (in an entry entitled “deaths”), 129-130 (in an entry entitled “Mantell incident, United States”) of the MJF hardback 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 74 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Challenge to Science”) of the |
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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 31-39 (in Chapter 3) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at pages 51-60 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 46-56 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 31-39 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at pages 22-27 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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Rutkowski, Chris in “Making Contact” (1997) (edited by Bill Fawcett) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 98-99 (in Section 2) of the Morrow hardback edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in Chapter 1) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 125-126 of the Corgi softback edition in an entry entitled “Godman Air Force Base, Kentucky” and included in a list entitled “Chronological list of UFO sightings” at page vii. |
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Salisbury, Frank in his “The Utah UFO Display: A Biologist’s Report” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 124 (in Chapter 3) of the Devin Adair hardback edition. |
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Saunders, David R and Harkins, R Roger in their “UFOs? Yes!” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 64-65 (in Chapter 5) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Scully, Frank in his “Behind the Flying Saucers” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 27-29 (in Chapter 2), 78 (in Chapter 7), 166 (in Chapter 15) of the Henry Holt hardback edition. |
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Sladek, John in his “The New Apocrypha” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 32-33 (in Chapter 2) of the Panther paperback edition. |
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Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at page 102 (in Appendix A) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition. |
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Spaceage in its “UFO USA - A Traveler's Guide” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 76-78 (in the chapter entitled “ |
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Spencer, John and Anne Spencer in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10, 12, 13 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1947-1957”) of the Boxtree hardback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 201-202 (in an entry entitled “Mantell, Captain Thomas F, Jr”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 234-235 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “UFOs: The Definitive Casebook” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-21 (in the unnumbered section entitled “ |
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Stanton, L Jerome in his “Flying Saucers : Hoax or Reality?” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 35-36 (in Chapter 2), 110-111 (in Chapter 7) of the |
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Story, Ronald in his “UFOs and the Limits of Science” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51-53 (Chapter 2) of the NEL Hardback edition. |
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Stringfield, Leonard H in his “Situation Red: The UFO Siege” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 165 (in Chapter 8) of the Fawcett paperback edition. |
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Swords, Michael D in “UFO: 1947-1997” (1997) (edited by Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 86-87 of the John Brown hardback edition (Section entitled “The 1950s”, unnumbered chapter entitled “Donald E. Keyhoe and the Pentagon”). |
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Thompson, Keith in his “Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 6-7 (in Chapter 1) of the Fawcett softcover edition. |
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Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 41 (in Chapter 2) of the Time-Life Book 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 52 (in Chapter 3) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition), page 57 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, page 92 and page 237 (in Chapter 7) of the 1966 revised and enlarged Ace Star paperback edition. |
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Vesco, Renato and Childress, David Hatcher in their “Man Made UFOs 1944-1994 – 50 Years of Suppression” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18-19 (in Chapter 1) of the AUP softcover edition. |
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Vesco, Renato in his “Intercept Ufo” (Formerly published as “Intercept - But Don't Shoot”) (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18-19 (in Chapter 1), 43 (in Chapter 2) of the Zebra paperback edition. |
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Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 21-24 (in Chapter 2) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Watkins, Leslie in his “Alternative 3“(1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 6 (in Section 1) of the Warner Books softcover edition. |
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Watts, Alan in his “UFO Quest” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 125-126 (in Chapter 12) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Weldon, John and Levitt, Zola in their “Encounters With UFOs“ (1975) (formerly “UFOs, What on Earth is Happening?”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 37 (in Chapter 2) of the Harvest House paperback edition. |
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White, Dale in his “Is Something Up There?” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51-57 (in Chapter 5) of the Scholastic Book Services 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 89-94 (in Chapter 6) of the Peter Owen hardback edition, at pages 83-88 of the Ace paperback edition published under the title “Flying Saucers on the Attack”. |
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Wilkins, Harold in his “Flying Saucers Uncensored” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 82 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Unseen Worlds Without End : The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life”), 118-119 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Strange Stories of Colossal Space Ships”) of Pyramid paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Clifford in his “The Alien Agenda” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 103 (in Chapter 9) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Clifford in his “UFOs and Their Mission Impossible” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 103 (in Chapter 9) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Colin in his “World Famous UFOs” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11, 14-15 (in Chapter 1) of the Parragon softcover edition. |
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Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145-146 (in Chapter 8) of the |
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Young, Mort in his “UFO Top Secret” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 85-88 (in Chapter 6) of the Essandess softcover edition. |
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Zarkon in his “The Zarkon Principle” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44-45 (in Chapter 7) of the Everest paperback edition. |
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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 Sign Incident Number 30 Project Sign Incident Number 32, Project Sign Incident Number 33, Project Sign Incident Number 48 and also Project Blue Book Case Number 136, which commences at the links provided (and continues on the pages which follow them).
Listed as Project Sign Incident Number 30, Project Sign Incident Number 32, Project Sign Incident Number 33 and Project Sign Incident Number 48 in the microfilm records of Project Sign. The relevant case files are 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-SIGN1-244 (page 244 of 716) to the page with the PID of USAF-SIGN1-266 (page 266 of 716) and from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of USAF-SIGN1-273 (page 273 of 716) to the page with the PID of USAF-SIGN1-385 (page 385 of 716) and from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of USAF-SIGN1-512 (page 512 of 716) to the page with the PID of USAF-SIGN1-535 (page 535 of 716).
Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 136 on the redacted US National Archives and Records Administration (“
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-PBB2-246 (page 246 of 1352) at the link below. The relevant case file is included on Maxwell microfilm roll number 30,364 – at the link below from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB3-657 (page 657 of 1352) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB3-802 (page 802 of 1352).