UFO History

On 23 August 1953, an object was filmed emerging from a cloud over Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (then an Australian territory) by Thomas C Drury, Deputy Director of the Department of Civil Aviation (commonly referred to as “the Drury movie film”).

 

 

 

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

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Book References

For discussion of the Drury movie film see the following:

 

Year	Discussion by:	No. of Pages
1998	Chalker, Bill in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 340-342 (in an entry entitled “Drury Film”) of Volume 1:A-K of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.	3
2003	Druffel, Ann in her “Firestorm : Dr James E McDonald's Fight for UFO Science” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 174-178 (in Chapter 8) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition.	5
2000	Hansen, Terry in his “The Missing Times : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-Up : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover -Up” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 184 (in Chapter 5) of the Xlibris softcover edition.	1
1997	Randles, Jenny in her “Investigating the Truth Behind MIB” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51-55 (in Chapter 4) of the Piatkus softcover edition.	5

 

Other Material

Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 2689 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-PBB1-102 (page 102 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 30,363. An image of the relevant index page has been given the unique Page ID (“PID”) of MAXW-PBB2-335 (page 335 of 1352) at the link below.

http://www.bluebookarchive.org