On 29 June 1954, the British Overseas Airways Corporation (“B.O.A.C.” or “
This incident is Case 46 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 55 of the books covered by that article.
This case featured in a list of 5 cases which APRO nominated as being the best in a survey in 1965 by Jacques Vallee.
Web Resources
For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.nicap.org/boacdir.htm
http://www.ufocasebook.com/1954ufomothership.html
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Book References
For discussion of the BOAC stratocruiser sighting see the following:
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Ball, Brian in his “A Young Person’s Guide to UFOs” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-13 (in Chapter 1) of the Dragon paperback edition. |
3 |
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Barker, Gray in his “They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 182-184 (in Chapter 12) of the University Books hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the 1996 I-Net softcover edition). |
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Beaty, David in his “Strange Encounters : Mysteries of the Air” (1982) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 146-148 (in Chapter 10) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Binder, Otto in his “What we really know about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 92 (in Chapter 8) of the Fawcett paperback edition. |
1 |
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Blum, Ralph and Blum, Judy in their “Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 163 (in Chapter 14) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition). |
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Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in “The World’s Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 436 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Aerial Kind”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition. |
1 |
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Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in their “The World’s Greatest UFO Mysteries” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 173 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Aerial Kind”) of the Octopus hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Hamlyn softcover edition). |
1 |
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Bowen, Charles in “The Age of the UFO” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 179 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Strange Encounters of Many Kinds”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”, Volume 1, page 7. |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 58 (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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Clark, Jerome in his “Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 187-189 (in Chapter 8) of the Citadel softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 2 – Emergence of a Phenomenon” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-81 (in an entry entitled “ |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Volume 1:A-K at pages 158-159 (in an entry entitled “ |
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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 127-128 (in Chapter 6) of the National Archives softcover edition. |
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Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) as Condon Case 1-D at pages 207-210 (in Section 3, Chapter 5 “Optical and Radar Analyses of Field Cases”, by Gordon D Thayer) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at pages 139-140 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links: http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.html |
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Constance, Arthur in his “The Inexplicable Sky” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 228-229 (in Chapter 8) of the Werner Laurie hardback edition. |
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Davenport, Marc in his “Visitors from Time” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 121 (in Chapter 9) of the 1994 revised Greenleaf softcover 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 pages 231-232 (in Chapter 5) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 154 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Downing, Barry in “The Bible and Flying Saucers” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 129-131 (in Chapter 5) of the Sphere paperback edition. |
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Dutta, Rex in his “Reality of Occult/Yoga/Meditation/Flying Saucers” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 104 (in Chapter 7) of the Pelham Books hardback edition. |
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Edwards, Frank in his “Strange World” (1964) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 21 (in Chapter 3) of the Ace paperback edition. |
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Evans, Hilary in his “The Evidence for UFOs” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 99-100 (in Chapter 5, Case 58) of the Aquarian softcover edition. |
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Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 325-326 (in Chapter 16) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 34 (in the Introduction) of the Putnam hardback edition. |
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Gibbons, Gavin in his “The Coming of the Space Ships” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 142-144 (in Chapter 13) and on the final photographic plate of the Neville Spearman hardback edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 184-186 (in Chapter 8) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition). |
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Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 190-192 (in Chapter 10) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback 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 225-226 (in Chapter 5) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Holzer, Hans in his “The UFOnauts” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 285 (in Chapter 10) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition. |
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Kettelkamp, Larry in his “Investigating UFOs” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 30 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Sightings and Cases”) of the Target softcover edition. |
1 |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 230 (in Chapter 15) of the Signet paperback edition, pages 258 of the Panther paperback edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers: Top Secret” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 43 (in Chapter 3) of the G P Putnam hardback edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “The Flying Saucer Conspiracy” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 135-138, 140-141 (in Chapter 12) of the |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “UFOs: The Whole Story” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 56-57 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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McDonald, James E in his prepared statement to the Roush Hearing (the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics "Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects" on 1968.0729) as Case 6 at page 46 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Complete transcript available free online at the following links: |
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McDonald, James E in the Roush Hearing (the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics "Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects" on 1968.0729) at page 26 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Edited and annotated transcript presented by Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969), with the relevant extract appearing at page 78 (in Chapter 2) of the Putnam hardback edition. Complete transcript available free online at the following links: |
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NICAP in NICAP’s “The UFO Evidence” (1964) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 5 (in Section 1), 126 (in Section 10) of the privately published paperbound edition, with the same page numbering in the 1997 Barnes & Noble paperbound reprint. Available free online at: |
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Ortzen, Len in his “Strange Stories of UFOs” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 17 (in Chapter 2), 149 (in Chapter 18) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
2 |
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Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 46-47 (in Chapter 7) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition. |
2 |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Something in the Air” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 78-85 (in Chapter 6), 183 (in Chapter 13) 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 pages 277-278 (in Part 3, “UFOs Worldwide”) of the |
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Robins, Joyce in her “The World’s Greatest Mysteries” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 126 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Mysteries of the Universe”) of the Treasure Press hardback edition. |
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Sparks, Brad in version 1.7 of his “Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project BLUE BOOK UFO Unknowns” (2003) as Case Number 850 on page 119 of the PDF edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). Both editions are available online, respectively at the following links: |
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Spencer, John and Anne Spencer in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23-24 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1947-1957”) of the Boxtree hardback edition. |
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Spencer, John in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 329 (in Chapter 5.3, entitled “UFOs and the Public”) of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 150-151 (in an entry entitled “Howard, Captain James”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 172 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “UFOs: The Definitive Casebook” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 35 (in the unnumbered section entitled “ |
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Stemman, |
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Trench, Brinsley Le Poer (i.e. Lord Clancarty) in The House of Lords UFO Debate (1979.0118) at columns 1248- |
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Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “Operation Earth” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 31 (in Chapter 4) of the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “The Flying Saucer Story” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 33-35 (in Chapter 4) of the revised Tandem paperback edition. |
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Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 77-79 (in Chapter 7) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Watts, Alan in his “UFO Visitation” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14-15 (in Chapter 1) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Welfare, Simon and Fairley, John in their “Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 253 (in Chapter 10) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Wilkins, Harold in his “Flying Saucers Uncensored” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 88 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Unseen Worlds Without End : The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life”) of Pyramid paperback edition. |
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Wilkins, Harold in his “Flying Saucers Uncensored” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 88 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Unseen Worlds Without End : The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life”), 126-127 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Strange Stories of Colossal Space Ships”) of Pyramid paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Colin in his “World Famous UFOs” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 61 (in Chapter 3) of the Parragon softcover edition. |
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