1950.0529 Captain Sperry sighting

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On 29 May 1950, Captain Willis Sperry reports a sighting on a flight from Washington DC to Tulsa, Oklahoma..

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

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Book References

For discussion of Sperry’s sighting see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1952

Arnold, Kenneth and Palmer, Ray in their “The Coming of the Saucers” (1952) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 151 (in Chapter 11) of the Amherst softcover edition.

1

2003

Clark, Jerome in his “Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 83-84 (in Chapter 4), 226 (in the Notes) of the Citadel softcover edition.

3

2000

Hall, Michael David and Connors, Wendy Ann in their “Captain Edward J Ruppelt : Summer of the Saucers - 1952” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-23 (in Chapter 1) of the Rose Press softcover edition.

2

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 134 (in Chapter 3) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

1

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 74 (in Chapter 9) of the Carroll & Nicholson hardback edition.

1

1960

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers: Top Secret” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 86 (in Chapter 6) of the G P Putnam hardback edition.

1

1968

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.

1

1956

Michel, Aime in his “The Truth about Flying Saucers” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 61 (in Part 1, Chapter 2) of the Robert Hale hardback edition, page 64 of the Pyramid paperback edition.

1

2002

Moseley, James and Pflock, Karl in their “Shockingly Close to the Truth!” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 76 (in Chapter 3) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

1

1956

Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 85-86 (in Chapter 7) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at page 120 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 116-117 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 85-86 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at pages 62-63 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 free 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 Number 240 on page 43 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

1

1966

Stanton, L Jerome in his “Flying Saucers : Hoax or Reality?” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 47-48 (in Chapter 3) of the Belmont paperback edition.

2

1954

Wilkins, Harold in his “Flying Saucers on the Moon” (1954) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 130 (in Chapter 7) of the Peter Owen hardback edition, at pages 122-123 of the Ace paperback edition published under the title “Flying Saucers on the Attack”.

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Other Material

Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 729a 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-PBB1-36 (page 36 of 1014) at the link below.

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 30,362. An image of the relevant index page has been given the unique Page ID (“PID”) of MAXW-PBB2-267 (page 267 of 1352) at the link below. The relevant case file is included on Maxwell microfilm roll number 30,368 – at the link below from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB7-1660 (page 1660 of 1713) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB7-1661 (page 1661 of 1713).

http://www.bluebookarchive.org