In Kelly-Hopkinsville,
This incident is Case 14 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 92 of the books covered by that article.
This incident has featured in a list of cases produced by Greg Bishop as part of a survey by the Fortean Times in 2007 of various researchers of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most.
Web Resources
For links to various relevant documents and articles online see: http://www.nicap.org/kelly-hendrydir.htm
Wikipedia article at : Kelly-Hopkinsville incident (1955)
This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 130672.{text}
Book References
Complete text of various relevant Project Blue Book documents presented by Davis, Isabel in “Close Encounter at Kelly and others of 1955” (1978) (by Bloecher, Ted and Davis, Isabel) at pages 97, 100, 102-103, 107-108, 112, 115, 117, 119 (in Chapter 5) of the CUFOS paperbound edition
For discussion of the Kelly/Hopkinsville encounter see the following:
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Baker, Alan in his “Sci-Fi Channel: True Life Encounters: UFO Sightings” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 88-91 (in Chapter 3) of the Orion softcover edition. |
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Baker, Alan in his “The Encyclopaedia of Alien Encounters” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 133-134 (in an entry entitled “ |
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Beckley, Timothy Green in “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (edited by Milt Machlin) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 232, 233, 235 (in Chapter 12, entitled “What Do The Aliens Look Like?”) of the Dale paperback edition. |
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Berlitz, Charles in his “World of Strange Phenomena” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-37 of the Wynwood hardback edition. |
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Bloecher, Ted in “Close Encounter at Kelly and others of 1955” (1978) (by Bloecher, Ted and Davis, Isabel) at pages x (in the Introduction), 123 (in the introduction to Part 2), 149 (in Chapter 8), 190 (in Chapter 11), 195 (in a preliminary printout from the Humanoid Catalog) of the CUFOS paperbound 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 pages 356-358 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Grisly Kind”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition. |
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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 pages 108-109 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Grisly Kind”) of the Octopus hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Hamlyn softcover edition). |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 60 (in Chapter), 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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Canadeo, Anne in her “UFO’s: The Fact or Fiction File” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 32-36 (in Chapter 3 of the pro-UFO side of the book, i.e. the side which starts with the Chapter 1 entitled “Visitors at Cisco Grove”) of the Walker hardback edition. |
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Cassirer, Manfred in his “Dimensions of Enchantment” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48-49 (in Chapter 5) of the Breese Books softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in “The Fringes of Reason” (1989) (edited by Ted Schultz) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 156 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Humanoids”) of the Harmony Books 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 214-216 (in an entry entitled “Kelly-Hopkinsville Case CE3”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition : Volume 1:A-K” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 552-554 (in an entry entitled “Kelly-Hopkinsville CE3”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Phantoms of the Sky: UFOs – A Modern Myth?” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 160 (in Chapter 8) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Cohen, Daniel in his “The Encyclopedia of Monsters” (1982) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 200-203 (in Chapter 7) of the Guild Publishing hardback edition. |
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Constance, Arthur in his “The Inexplicable Sky” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 250 (in Chapter 8) of the Werner Laurie hardback edition. |
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Craft, Michael in his “Alien Impact” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 123-124 (in Chapter 7) of the |
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Dash, Mike in his “Borderlands” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 152 (in Chapter 4) of the Arrow paperback edition. |
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Davis, Isabel in “Close Encounter at Kelly and others of 1955” (1978) (by Bloecher, Ted and Davis, Isabel) at pages 1-120 (in Part 1 generally) of the CUFOS paperbound edition. |
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Discussed (with text of UP wire service story) by Jessup, Morris K in his “The Expanding Case for the UFO” (1957) at page 235 (in Part 5, unnumbered chapter entitled “The Voice of the Observer”) of the Arco hardback 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 page 259 (in Chapter 5) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 179 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Druffel, Ann in “The Tujunga Canyon Contacts” (1980) (by D. Scott Rogo and Ann Druffel) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 219 (in Part |
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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 58-59, 64 (in Chapter 3), 93-94, 103 (in Chapter 5) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
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Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Serious Business” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 94-97 (in Chapter 7) of the Bantam paperback edition, at pages 101-104 of the Mayflower-Dell paperback edition. |
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Evans, Hilary in his “From Other Worlds” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 101 (in Chapter 4) of the |
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Evans, Hilary in his “Gods, Spirits, Cosmic Guardians” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 227 (in Chapter 6.3) of the Aquarian softcover edition. |
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Forstchen, William in “Making Contact” (1997) (edited by Bill Fawcett) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 324-326 (in Section 4) of the Morrow hardback edition. |
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Gansberg, Alan and Gansberg, Judith in their “Direct Encounters: The Personal Histories of UFO Abductees” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 46-47 (in Chapter 2) of the Walker & Co hardback edition. |
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Gelman, Rita and Seligson, Marcia in their “UFO Encounters” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 73-77 (in Chapter 11) of the Scholastic softcover edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Alien Base” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 174 (in Chapter 8) of the Century hardback edition. |
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Haines, Richard in his “CE-5 : Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 356-358 (in Chapter 8) of the Sourcebooks softcover 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 238-240 (in Chapter 6) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Hall, Richard in his “Uninvited Guests” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 65-66 (in Chapter 3) of the Aurora Press paperback edition. |
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Hanlon, Donald B in “The Humanoids” (1969) (edited by Charles Bowen) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 179, 180-182 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Questions on the Occupants”) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Futura paperback edition. |
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Hansen, Kim in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 53-56 (in Chapter 2.3.2, entitled “UFO Casebook”) of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition. |
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Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at pages 161-162 (in Chapter 9) of the Box Tree hardback edition. |
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Hendry, Allan in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 190-192 (in an entry entitled “Kelly/Hopkinsville (Kentucky) encounter”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Hendry, Allan in his “The UFO Handbook” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12 (in Chapter 1), 134 (in Chapter 9) of the Sphere softback edition. |
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Holzer, Hans in his “The UFOnauts” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 107-108 (in Chapter 5) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition. |
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Hough, Peter in “Phenomenon“ (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 111-112 (in Part |
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Huyghe, Patrick in his “The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 84-85 (in the unnumbered section entitled “Animalian”) of the Avon softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the NEL softcover edition). |
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Hynek, J Allen in his “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Chapter 9, at pages 202-206 of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at pages 212-216 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition). |
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Hynek, J Allen in his “The UFO Experience” (1972) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (in Chapter 10) at pages 150-155 of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with same page numbering in the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition) at pages 172-178 of the various Ballantine paperback editions, at pages 191-197 of the Corgi paperback edition. Included in a table indicating an assessment of Strangeness Rating/Probability Rating of 5/4 as |
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Jackson, Robert in his “UFOs” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 54-56 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Seized by Flying Saucers?”) of the Smithmark hardback edition. |
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Jessup, Morris K in his “The UFO Annual” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 269-270 (in Part entitled “July-August”, unnumbered section entitled “Weird Story of ‘Green Monsters’ : Kentucky Family Flees ‘Spacemen’ ”) of the Citadel hardback edition. |
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Keel, John A in his “The Cosmic Question” (1975) (formerly “The Eighth Tower”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 124 (in Chapter 14) of the Panther paperback edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers from Outer Space” (1953) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-120 (in Chapter 7) of the Henry Holt hardback edition, pages 118-122 of the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Knight, David C in his “UFOs: A pictorial history from antiquity to the present” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 (in Part 3) of the McGraw Hill hardback edition. |
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Little, Gregory in his “Grand Illusions” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 56 (in Chapter 3) of the White Buffalo softcover edition. |
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Little, Gregory in his “People of the Web” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 63-66 (in Chapter 5) of the White Buffalo softcover edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in “Encounters with UFO Occupants” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 174-175 (in Chapter 10) of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 293-294 (in an entry entitled “Kelly-Hopkinsville (Kentucky) goblins”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 287-288 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 352-353 (in an entry entitled “Kelly-Hopkinsville (Kentucky) goblins”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “Flying Saucer Occupants” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 122-123 (in Chapter 7) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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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 66-68 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral in “The Humanoids” (1969) (edited by Charles Bowen) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 152-153 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “UFO Occupants in United States Reports”) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Futura paperback edition. |
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O’Connor, Charlotte A in “UFOs: The Final Answer?” (1993) (edited by David Barclay and Therese Marie Barclay) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 166-167 (in Chapter 8) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Ortzen, Len in his “Strange Stories of UFOs” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 113-118 (in Chapter 14 generally) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
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Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ and Cone, William in their “The Abduction Enigma” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 113 (in Chapter 6) of the Forge hardback edition. |
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Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ in their “Faces of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-36 (in Part 1) of the Fireside softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin D in his “Project Bluebook Exposed” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 126-131 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “September 4, 1964”) of the Marlowe softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin D in his “Project Moon Dust” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 117-134 (in Chapter 6 generally) of the |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Alien Contact – The First Fifty Years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 40 (in the chapter entitled “1960”) of the Collins and Brown hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Aliens” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 21 (in Part 1) of the Hale hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Complete Book of Aliens and Abductions” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) a pages 110, 111 (in Part 3) of the Piatkus hardback edition. |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 118-119 (in an entry entitled “Kelly-Hopkinsville incident, |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 141, 150-152, 176 (in Chapter 5) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Hollywood Vs. the Aliens” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 86-87 (in Chapter 1) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 170 (in an entry entitled “Kelly-Hopkinsville, Kentucky”) and included in a list entitled “Chronological list of UFO sightings” at page viii of the Corgi softback edition. |
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Salisbury, Frank in his “The Utah UFO Display: A Biologist’s Report” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 201 (in Chapter 8) of the Devin Adair hardback edition. |
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Schwarz, Berthold E in Gregory Little’s “People of the Web” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 5 (in the Introduction) of the White Buffalo softcover edition. |
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Smith, Susy in her “Strangers from Space” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 110-112 (in Chapter 13) of the Manor paperback 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 936 on pages 128-129 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 page 9 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Introduction”) of the Boxtree hardback edition. |
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Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “True Life Encounters – Alien Contact” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 104-107 (in Chapter 8) of the Millenium paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 171-173 (in an entry entitled “Kelly-Hopkinsville Close Encounter”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition), at pages 197-199 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 pages 36-39 (in the unnumbered section entitled “ |
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Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 102-104 (in Chapter 5) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Steiger, Brad in his “Strangers from the Skies” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14-16 (in Chapter 2) of the Award Books paperback edition. |
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Stemman, |
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Strickland, Joshua in his “Extra-terrestrials on Earth” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 27 (in Chapter 1) of the |
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Stringfield, Leonard H in his “Situation Red: The UFO Siege” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 109-110 (in Chapter 5) of the Fawcett paperback edition. |
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Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 64-65 (in Chapter 3) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques and Janine Vallee in their “Challenge to Science – The UFO Enigma” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 143-144 (in Chapter 7) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Anatomy of a Phenomenon” (1965) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 173-176 (in Chapter 7) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition), pages 187-191 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Dimensions“ (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23-24 (in Part 1, Chapter 1) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Passport to Magonia” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16-17 (in Chapter 1) [and at page 251 (in the Appendix entitled “A Century of UFO Landings (1868-1968)”)] of the Regnery hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Watson, Nigel and Slade, Darren in their “Supernatural Spielberg” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 59 (in Chapter 6) of the Valis softcover edition. |
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Watts, Alan in his “UFO Visitation” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-24 (in Chapter 2) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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White, Dale in his “Is Something Up There?” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 82-85 (in Chapter 7) of the Scholastic Book Services paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Colin in his “Alien Dawn” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 89-90 (in Chapter 3), 101 (in Chapter 3) of the Virgin softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Virgin paperback edition). |
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Wilson, Colin in his “World Famous UFOs” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 33-34 (in Chapter 2) of the Parragon softcover edition. |
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