This incident is Case 93 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 30 of the books covered by that article.
This was Project Blue Book Case Number 6909.
This incident featured in the results of a survey in 1965 by Jacques Vallee of the opinion of various UFO groups as to the most significant UFO sightings. As part of the same survey, NICAP included this case in a list of 5 cases which it nominated as being the best.
Web Resources
For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.nicap.org/600813dir.htm
http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case107.htm
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Book References
For discussion of the Red Bluff incident see the following:
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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 pages 508-513 (in an entry entitled “Red Bluff Sightings”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 3 – High Strangeness” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 418-424 (in an entry entitled “Red Bluff Sightings”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition : Volume 2:L-Z” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 790-795 (in an entry entitled “Red Bluff Sightings”) 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 pages 54, 56 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Dimensions of a Phenomenon”) 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 87 (in Chapter 7) of the 1994 revised Greenleaf softcover edition. |
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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 60-61 (in Chapter 3) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
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Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 347-350 (in Chapter 17) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Hall, Richard in “The UFO Evidence: Volume 2 – A Thirty Year Report” (2001) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 1 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”), 169-170 (in Section 5) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition. |
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Hall, Richard in his “Uninvited Guests” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 247 (in Appenix A) of the Aurora Press paperback edition. |
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Hall, Robert 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) at pages 109-110 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Complete transcript available free online at the following links: http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/contents.html http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/contents.html |
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Hall, Robert in the Roush Hearing (the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics "Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects" on 1968.0729) at pages 101-102 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 pages 118-119 (in Chapter 4) of the Putnam hardback edition. Complete transcript available free online at the following links: http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/contents.html http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/contents.html |
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Harder, James 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) at pages 114-115, 122-123 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Complete transcript available free online at the following links: http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/contents.html http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/contents.html |
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Harder, James in the Roush Hearing (the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics "Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects" on 1968.0729) at pages 113-116 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 pages 132-135 (in Chapter 5) of the Putnam hardback edition. Complete transcript available free online at the following links: http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/contents.html http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/contents.html |
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Hynek, J Allen in his “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 83-84 (in Chapter 4) of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at page 92-94 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition). |
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Kettelkamp, Larry in his “Investigating UFOs” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 78-80 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Breaking the Space Barrier”) of the Target softcover edition. |
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Lore, Gordon and Deneault, Harold in their “Mysteries of the Skies” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 162-163 (in Chapter 10) of the Prentice-Hall hardback 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 153-157 (in Chapter 7) and 225 (in Chapter 11) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral E in her “The Great Flying Saucer Hoax” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 243-244 (in the Epilogue) of the APRO hardback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral in “Flying Saucers : the Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space” (1966) (an enlarged version of her “The Great Flying Saucer Hoax” (1962)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 180-182 (in Chapter 12) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Maney, Charles And Hall, Richard in their “Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects” (1961) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 3-5 (in Part 1, Chapter 1 – by Richard Hall), 179-180 (Appendix, image of report in Corning Daily Observer 1960.0815) of the privately published hardback edition. |
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McDonald, James E in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 298-299 (in an entry entitled “Red Bluff (California) sighting”) of the NEL 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 253-254 (in Chapter 12) of the Doubleday hardback edition. |
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NICAP in its “The UFO Evidence” (1964) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 61 (in Section 7, “Officials & Citizens”), 112 (in Section 9) 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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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 “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 57 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the |
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Sachs, Margaret and Jahn, Ernest in their “Celestial Passengers – UFOs & Space Travel” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 132-135 (Chapter 22 generally) of the Penguin paperback edition. |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 267 of the Corgi softback edition (in an entry entitled “Red Bluff, Christine”) and included in a list entitled “Chronological list of UFO sightings” at page viii. |
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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 1225 on page 157 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 in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 272 (in an entry entitled “Scott, State Highway Patrolman Stanley”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 320-321 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Story, Ronald in his “Guardians of the Universe?” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 143 (in Chapter 14) of the New English Library paperback edition. |
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Other Material
Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 6909 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-PBB1-232 (page 232 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-PBB2-471 (page 471 of 1352) at the link below.
http://www.bluebookarchive.org