On 5 November 1957, Reinhold Schmidt, a grain buyer, claims to have spoken, in “high German”, to the crew of a UFO that had allegedly landed to make repairs near
This incident is Case 76 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 38 of the books covered by that article.
Web Resources
Wikipedia article at : Reinhold Schmidt encounter (1957)
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Book References
For discussion of Reinhold Schmidt’s alleged encounter see the following:
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Alnor, William M in his “UFO in the New Age” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 178 (in Chapter 10) of the Baker softcover edition. |
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Bartholomew, Robert E and Howard, George S in their “UFOs and Alien Contact” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 307 (in Appendix A, entitled “The UFO Contact Catalogue”) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Bullard, Thomas E in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 3 – High Strangeness” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 583 (forming part of an entry entitled “Waves”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Bullard, Thomas E in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Volume 2:L-Z at page 1019 (forming part of an entry entitled “Waves” at pages 1004-1023) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Chambers, Howard in his “UFOs for the millions” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 139-141 (in Chapter 11) of the |
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Christopher, Paul in his “Alien Intervention: The Spiritual Mission of UFOs” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 81 (in Chapter 5) of the Huntington House softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “Extraordinary Encounters : An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 184 (in an entry entitled “Mr X”) of the ABC-Clio hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 297 (forming part of an entry entitled “Hoaxes”) of the Visible Ink Press 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 287-289 (in an entry entitled “Reinhold Schmidt Contact Claim”), 196 (in an entry entitled “Hoaxes Through 1959”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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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 2:L-Z at pages 822-823 (in an entry entitled “Schmidt Contact Claims”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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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 page 507 (forming part of an entry entitled “Hoaxes” at pages 504-519) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 90 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Into the Wild Blue”) of the Publications International hardback edition. |
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Davenport, Marc in his “Visitors from Time” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 182 (in Chapter 13) of the 1994 revised Greenleaf softcover edition. |
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Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 132-135 (in Chapter 5), 455 (in the Notes) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Drake, W Raymond in his “Gods and Spacemen of the Ancient West” (1974) at page 24 (in Chapter 1) of the Sphere paperback edition. |
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Evans, Hilary in his “From Other Worlds” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 123, 126 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 221-222 (in Section 3) with a one sentence summary at page 374 (in the Guide To Books) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition. |
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Fowler, Raymond E in his “Casebook of a UFO Investigator” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12-14 (in Chapter 2) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition. |
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Holzer, Hans in his “The UFOnauts” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 139-140 (in Chapter 6) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition. |
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Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 110 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Keel, John A in his “UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 208-210 (in Chapter 11) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Abacus softcover edition). |
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Keel, John A in his “Our Haunted Planet” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 34-35 (in Chapter 3), 129 (in Chapter 10) of the Fawcett paperback 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 118 (in Chapter 14) 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 pages 123-124 of the G P Putnam hardback edition (in Chapter 8). |
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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 175-176 (in Chapter 10) of the Berkley paperback 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 123-124 (in Chapter 7) 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 153-154 (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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Mehane, Alexander in Aime Michel’s “Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery” (1958) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 270-271 (in the Appendix entitled “Saucer Wave in the United States”, section entitled “November 5: The German-Speaking Saucer Pilots of Kearney”) of the Criterion hardback edition. |
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Menzel, Donald and Boyd, Lyle in their “The World of Flying Saucers” (1963) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 183-184 of the Doubleday hardback edition (in Chapter IX). |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 123-125 (in Chapter |
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Poundstone, William in his “Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 94-95 (in the chapter entitled “Cambridge 1963-1968”) of the Owl Books 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 144-145 (in Chapter 7) of the |
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Randle, Kevin D in his “The October Scenario” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 169 (in Part 4, unnumbered section entitled “The October Scenario Revisited”) of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 283 (in an entry entitled “Schmidt, Reinhold O”) of the Corgi softback edition. |
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Shklovskii, Iosef Shmuelovich and Sagan, Carl in their “Intelligent Life in the Universe” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13-19 (in Chapter 2) (referring to Schmidt using the pseudonym “Helmut Winckler”) of the Picador softcover edition. |
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Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “Operation Earth” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 81-82 (in Chapter 12) of the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “The Eternal Subject” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 67 (in Chapter 10) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition, at page 69 of the Day Book paperback editon (published under the title “Mysterious Visitors: The UFO Story”). |
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Wilson, Clifford in his “The Alien Agenda” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 130 (in Chapter 10) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Clifford in his “UFOs and Their Mission Impossible” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 130 (in Chapter 10) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Other Material
Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 5122 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-PBB1-177 (page 177 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-PBB2-412 (page 412 of 1352) at the link below.
http://www.bluebookarchive.org