1954.0702 Walesville Incident

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On 2 July 1954, a USAF F94 Starfire Jet crashed into the village of Walesville, New York, near Griffiss, killing several civilians. (Commonly referred to as “the Walesville Incident”). This crash is sometimes alleged to have occurred during the pursuit of a UFO.

This incident is Case 92 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 30 of the books covered by that article.

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.www.nicap.org/walesville-incident.htm

This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 59687.

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Book References

For discussion of the Walesville incident see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1997

Baker, Alan in his “Sci-Fi Channel: True Life Encounters: UFO Sightings” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 193 (in Chapter 7) of the Orion softcover edition.

1

1967

Binder, Otto in his “What we really know about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 82-83 (in Chapter 7), 140 (in Chapter 13) of the Fawcett paperback edition.

3

2001

Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in “The World’s Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 423 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Aerial Kind”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition.

1

1986

Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in their “The World’s Greatest UFO Mysteries” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 161, 164 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Aerial Kind”) of the Octopus hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Hamlyn softcover edition).

2

1996

Blundell, Nigel in his “World’s Most Amazing UFO Visits” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 29 of the Select softcover edition.

1

1978

Briazack, Norman and Mennick, Simon in their “The UFO Guidebook” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 236 (in the entry entitled “Walesville”) of the Citadel softcover edition.

1

2003

Clark, Jerome in his “Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 138-141 (in Chapter 7) of the Citadel softcover edition.

4

1969

Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) as incident 19-B at pages 240-241 (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 page 161 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

2

1992

Davenport, Marc in his “Visitors from Time” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 67-68 (in Chapter 5), 109 (in Chapter 8) of the 1994 revised Greenleaf softcover edition.

3

1966

Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Serious Business” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 29-30 (in Chapter 2) of the Bantam paperback edition, at pages 36-37 of the Mayflower-Dell paperback edition.

2

1994

Fawcett, George and Greenwood, Barry in their “Clear Intent” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 61-62 (in Chapter 5) of the Spectrum softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Fireside softcover edition published under the title “The UFO Cover-Up”).

2

1974

Fowler, Raymond E in his “UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 293-294 (in Chapter 15) of the Exposition Banner hardback edition, at pages 284-285 of the Bantam paperback edition.

2

1955

Girvan, Waveney, with quotes from the Daily Mail English newspaper (1954.0703 edition) in his “Flying Saucers and Common Sense” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 114-116 (in Chapter 9) of the Frederick Muller hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Citadel hardback edition).

3

2006

Good, Timothy in his “Need To Know : UFOs, the Military and Intelligence” (2006) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 193-194 (in Chapter 13) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition.

2

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 220 (in Chapter 4) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

1

1975

Hynek, J Allen and Vallee, Jacques in their “The Edge of Reality” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 163-164 (in Chapter 5) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition.

2

1975

Keel, John A in his “The Cosmic Question” (1975) (formerly “The Eighth Tower”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 44 (in Chapter 5) of the Panther paperback edition.

1

1973

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-23 (in Chapter 2), 221 (in Chapter 14) of the Signet paperback edition, pages 35-36, 249-250 of the Panther paperback edition.

3

1960

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers: Top Secret” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 146 (in Chapter 10) of the G P Putnam hardback edition.

1

1955

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “The Flying Saucer Conspiracy” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 138-140 (in Chapter 12), 143-144 (in Chapter 13) of the Hutchinson hardback edition.

5

1961

Maney, Charles And Hall, Richard in their “Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects” (1961) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 113 (in Part 3, Chapter 1, by Richard Hall) of the privately published hardback edition.

1

1973

McCampbell, James M in his “Ufology” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 60 (in Chapter 6) of the Jaymac-Hollman softcover edition, at page 68 of the 1976 Celestial Arts softcover edition. The latter edition has the same page numbering at the version available free online at the following link: http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/ufology.htm

1

1977

Ortzen, Len in his “Strange Stories of UFOs” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 58 (in Chapter 7) of the Coronet paperback edition.

1

1980

Randle, Kevin D in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 384 (in an entry entitled “Walesville (New York) Incident”) of the NEL hardback edition.

1

1989

Randle, Kevin D in his “The UFO Casebook” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 81-85 (entry entitled “July 2, 1954: The Walesville, New York Disaster”) of the Warner Books paperback edition.

5

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 359-360 (in an entry entitled “Walesville, New York”) of the Corgi softback edition.

 

1976

Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at pages 30-31 (in Chapter 3) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition.

2

1965

Vallee, Jacques in his “Anatomy of a Phenomenon” (1965) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 237-238 of the 1966 revised and enlarged Ace Star paperback edition.

2

1980

Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 79 (in Chapter 7) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

1

1994

Watts, Alan in his “UFO Quest” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-117 (in Chapter 11) of the Blandford softcover edition.

2

1996

Watts, Alan in his “UFO Visitation” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 43 (in Chapter 4) of the Blandford softcover edition.

1

 

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