1952.0921 North Sea sighting

 

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North Sea sighting
On 21 September 1952, six RAF pilots over the North Sea report seeing a shiny, spherical object coming from the direction of NATO’s Operation Mainbrace fleet.

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

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Book References

For discussion of the relevant RAF sighting see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

2001

Hall, Richard in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 397 (in an entry entitled “Operation Mainbrace sightings”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 388 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

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1980

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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2001

Hall, Richard in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 481 (in an entry entitled “Operation Mainbrace sightings”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

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1994

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 156 (in Chapter 12) of the Piatkus softcover edition.

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1998

Randles, Jenny in her “Something in the Air” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 49 (in Chapter 4) of the Hale hardback edition.

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1991

Redfern, Nicholas in “The UFO Report 1992” (1991) (edited by Timothy Good) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 42 (in Chapter 3) of the Sidgwick & Jackson softcover edition.

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1956

Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 196 (in Chapter 14) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at page 258 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at page 257 of the Ace paperback edition, at page 196 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at page 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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2003

Sparks, Brad in version 1.7 of his “Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project BLUE BOOK UFO Unknowns” (2003) as Case Number 651 on pages 95-96 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

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1966

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 Belmont paperback edition.

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