Various sightings occurred during Operation Mainbrace, mainly between 19th and 21st September
These incidents comprise Case 90 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since they were referred to in 31 of the books covered by that article.
These incidents also featured in a list of cases produced jointly by British ufologists Dave Clarke and Andy Roberts for the Fortean Times in 2007 as part of a survey of various researchers of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most.
Web Resources
For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.nicap.org/mainbrace.htm
http://www.ufocasebook.com/operationmainbrace1952.html
This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 266723.
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Book References
For discussion of the Operation Mainbrace sightings generally see the following:
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Bennett, Colin in his “An American Demonology : Captain Edward J Ruppelt and the official UFO investigation of the United States Air Force” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 83 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Set of Correspondences”) of the Headpress 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 page 27 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 pages 54-55 (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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Christopher, Paul in his “Alien Intervention: The Spiritual Mission of UFOs” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 34 (in Chapter 2) of the Huntington House softcover 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 26-27 (in Chapter 2) 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 pages 106-109, 113 (in Chapter 6) of the Piatkus 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 185 (in Chapter 4) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 115-116 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover 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 152-156 (in Chapter 10) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback 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 78-79 (in Chapter 3) of the Hutchinson hardback edition. |
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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 193-195 (in Chapter 7) of the Rose Press softcover 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 201-202 (in Chapter 4) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Hall, Richard in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 396-397 (in an entry entitled “Operation Mainbrace sightings”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 387-388 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Hall, Richard in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 255 (in an entry entitled “Operation Mainbrace sightings”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Hall, Richard in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 480-481 (in an entry entitled “Operation Mainbrace sightings”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Hall, Richard in his “Uninvited Guests” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 200 (in Chapter 13) of the Aurora Press paperback edition. |
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Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at pages 108-109 (in Chapter 6), 234 (in Chapter 12) of the Box Tree hardback edition. |
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Matthews, Tim in his “UFO Revelation” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 69 (in Chapter 5) 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 pages 121-128 (in Part 2, Chapter 3) of the Robert Hale hardback edition, at pages 136-144 of the Pyramid paperback edition. |
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Michel, Aime in Jean-Claude Bourret’s “The Crack in the Universe” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 244 (in Part 4) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition. |
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NICAP in its “The UFO Evidence” (1964) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 162-163 (in Section 12) of the privately published paperbound edition, with the same page numbering in the 1997 Barnes & Noble paperbound reprint. Available free online at: “http://www.nicap.org/ufoe/section_12.htm |
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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 21-22 (in unnumbered section entitled “1952: The Invasion”) 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 155-156 (in Chapter 12) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 138 (in an entry entitled “British Government Interest in UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39-40 (in Chapter 5), 43-44 (in Chapter 6) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Something in the Air” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 47-49 (in Chapter 4) 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 356 (in Part 3, “UFOs Worldwide”) of the |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Crash Landing? Friend or Foe?” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-154 (in Chapter 13) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Redfern, Nicholas in “The UFO Report 1992” (1991) (edited by Timothy Good) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 40-43, 46-48 (in Chapter 3) of the Sidgwick & Jackson softcover edition. |
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Redfern, Nicholas in his “A Covert Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 27-34 (Chapter 3 generally) 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 195-197 (in Chapter 14) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at pages 257-259 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 256-258 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 195-197 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at pages 138-139 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 |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 232 of the Corgi softback edition in an entry entitled “Operation Mainbrace”. |
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Shuttlewood, Arthur in his “UFO Magic in Motion” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 151-152 (in Chapter 7) of the Sphere 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 75 (in Chapter 4) of the |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Anatomy of a Phenomenon” (1965) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-62 (in Chapter 3) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition), pages 66-67 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, pages 101-102 of the 1966 revised and enlarged Ace Star paperback edition. |
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