1953.1103 West Malling incident

 

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West Malling incident
On 3 November 1953, a UFO was reportedly seen by Flying Officer Terry Johnson and his navigator, Flying Officer Geoffrey Smythe, during a flight in a Vampire fighter from RAF West Malling.

(Commonly referred to as “the West Malling incident”).

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

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Book References

For discussion of the West Malling incident see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1969

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 53-54 (in Chapter 4) of the Mayflower paperback edition.

2

2002

Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Out Of The Shadows” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68 (in Chapter 4), 118-119 (in Chapter 6) of the Piatkus hardback edition.

3

2009

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 58, 62 (in Chapter 3) of the National Archives softcover edition.

2

1955

Girvan, Waveney in his “Flying Saucers and Common Sense” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 106-114 (in Chapter 9) of the Frederick Muller hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Citadel hardback edition).

9

1987

Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 33-34 (in Chapter 1) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition).

2

1996

Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 9-10 (in Chapter 1) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition).

2

1977

Macvey, John W in his “Interstellar Travel” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 248 (in Chapter 15) of the Avon paperback edition.

1

1997

Redfern, Nicholas in his “A Covert Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 38-39 (in Chapter 4) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition.

2

1991

Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 167 (in an entry entitled “Johnson, Flying Officer T S”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 192 of the Headline paperback edition.

1

1966

Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “The Flying Saucer Story” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 31-33 (in Chapter 4) of the revised Tandem paperback edition.

3

1994

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 256-257 (in Chapter 8) of the AUP softcover edition.

2

1971

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 256-257 (in Chapter 8) of the Zebra paperback edition.

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Other Material

Discussed in the House of Commons on 24 November 1953. See Hansard, House of Commons Vol 521, oral answers column 169-170.