On 24 April 1964, there was a report of a landed UFO with nearby crew by Deputy Lonnie Zamora sighting near
This incident is Case 5 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 180 of the books covered by that article.
This incident came first in 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.
J Allen Hynek has said this incident was “one of the soundest, best substantiated reports as far as it goes”.
This incident featured in a document (“the Rockefeller Briefing Document”) endorsed by Dr Mark Rodeghier (President of CUFOS), Richard Hall (Chairman of FUFOR) and Walter Andrus (President of MUFON) as containing “the best available evidence for the existence of UFOs”.
This incident has also featured in lists by various UFO researchers of the top UFO cases, including the following:
- a list of twenty UFO cases produced by Bruce Maccabee in 1999 in response to a challenge to produce “the best evidence for an extraterrestrial origin for the UFO phenomenon”.
- a list by Don Berliner of “the top 10 cases of World Ufology” in an interview made available on the UFO UpDates discussion List on 14 January 2007.
Web Resources
For links to various relevant documents and articles online see: http://www.nicap.org/zamoradir.htm
Wikipedia article at: Socorro sighting by Lonnie Zamora (April 1964)
This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 231524.{text}
Book References
For discussion of the Socorro incident see the following:
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Anderson, Jack in Kevin Randle’s “Conspiracy of Silence” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page xii (in the Foreword) of the |
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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 76-80 (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 227-228 (in an entry entitled “Socorro, New |
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Berliner, Don with Galbraith, Marie and Huneeus, Antonio in their “UFO Briefing Document : The Best Available Evidence“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 78-80 (Part 2: Case Histories, section entitled “1964: Landing at Socorro, New Mexico”) and also mentioned at page 21 of the Dell 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 49-51 of the Wynwood 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 59 (in Chapter 5) of the Fawcett paperback edition. |
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Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 293 (in an entry entitled “Socorro, New Mexico”), 341-343 (in an entry entitled “Zamora, Lonnie”) of the Pocket Books softcover 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 367-369 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Arresting 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 118-119 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Arresting Kind”) of the Octopus hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Hamlyn softcover edition). |
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Blundell, Nigel in his “World’s Most Amazing UFO Visits” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 137-138 of the Select softcover edition. |
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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 180-181 (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, pages 8-9. |
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Boyce, Chris in his Extraterrestrial Encounter (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-119 of the 1980 revised NEL paperback edition. |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “Alien Abductions” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 (in the Introduction) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition. |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 79-81 (in Chapter 4) 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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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48-49, 51 (in Chapter 2), 53 (in Chapter 3) of the Parragon hardback edition. |
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Brunstein, Karl in his “Beyond the Four Dimensions” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 94-95 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Bryan, C D B in his “Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at MIT” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 113-114 (in Chapter 4) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Knopf hardback edition and the Penguin Arkana softcover edition) at pages 150-152 of the Orion paperback edition. |
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Campagna, Palmiro in his “The UFO Files: The Canadian Connection Exposed” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 168-169 (in the Postscript) of the Stoddart softcover edition. |
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Campbell, Steuart in his “The UFO Mystery Solved” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 118-131 (Chapter 7 generally) of the Explicit Books softcover edition. |
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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 55-58 (in Chapter 5 of the anti-UFO side of the book, i.e. the side which starts with the Chapter 1 entitled “Some Important Questions About Visitors From ‘Planet Z’”) of the Walker hardback edition. |
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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 29-31 (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 47-48 (in Chapter 5) of the Breese Books softcover edition. |
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Chalker, Bill in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 184 (in Chapter 3.4.1, entitled “Physical Traces”) of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition. |
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Chambers, Howard in his “UFOs for the millions” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30 (in Chapter 3), 72-73 (in Chapter 6) of the |
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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 65 (in an entry entitled “Close encounters of the third kind”) of the ABC-Clio hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in “Making Contact” (1997) (edited by Bill Fawcett) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 31-32 (in Section 1) of the Morrow hardback 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 “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (edited by Milt Machlin) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16, 17 (in Chapter 1) of the Dale paperback 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 pages 545-558 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition in an entry entitled “Socorro CE2/CE3”. Also briefly discussed at pages 96- |
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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 452-465 (forming part of an entry entitled “Socorro CE2/CE3”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. Also briefly discussed at pages 373- |
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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 249 (in an entry entitled “Contactees”) 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 856-867 (in an entry entitled “Socorro CE2/CE3”) 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 30-31 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “UFOs: The Official Story”) of the Publications International hardback edition. |
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Cohen, Daniel in his “The World of UFOs” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68-71 (in Chapter 9) of the Lippincott hardback edition. |
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Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 92-93 (in Chapter 4) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Crockett, Art in “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (edited by Milt Machlin) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 155-156 (in Chapter 6) of the Dale paperback edition. |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 394 (in the entry entitled “Socorro Incident”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition. |
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Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Socorro Landing”. The relevant entry is available online at: “http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/Socorro.html |
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Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 38-39 (in Chapter 2), 192, 193 (in the Notes) of the |
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Devereux, Paul and Brookesmith, Peter in their “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 50 (in Chapter 4) of the Blandford 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 362-365 (in Chapter 7) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 273-275 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road 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 105 (in Chapter 5), 211-219 (in Chapter 9) 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 105-108 (in Chapter 7), 136-137 (in Chapter 10) of the Bantam paperback edition, at pages 112-116, 142-143 of the Mayflower-Dell paperback edition. |
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Emenegger, Robert in his “UFOs Past, Present and Future” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 62-73 (in Chapter 11 generally) of the silver covered Ballantine paperback edition first printing, at pages 71-81 of the blue covered Ballantine paperback edition eighth printing. |
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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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Fawcett, George and Greenwood, Barry in their “Clear Intent” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 139-141 (in Chapter 9) of the Spectrum softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Fireside softcover edition published under the title “The UFO Cover-Up”). |
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Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 298, 308 (in Section 4) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition. |
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Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 353-356 (in Chapter 18) of the Ballantine Books paperback 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 203-204 (in Section 3) of the Morrow hardback edition. |
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Fowler, Raymond E. in his “UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 174-177 (in Chapter 11), 269-270 (in Chapter 14) of the Exposition Banner hardback edition, at pages 169-172, 261-262 of the Bantam paperback 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 31-32 (in Chapter 3) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition. |
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Friedman, Stanton and Berliner, Don in their “Crash at Corona” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 33-34 (in Chapter 3) of the 1997 Marlowe Company softback edition. |
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Fuller, John G in his “Incident at Exeter” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-31 (in Chapter 4), 161 (in Chapter 11) of the |
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Gaddis, Vincent H in “Flying Saucers Have Arrived!” (1970) (edited by Jay David) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 32-33 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Flying Saucer Mystery”) of the World hardback edition. The relevant chapter is reprinted from “Mysterious Fires and Lights” by Vincent H Gaddis. |
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Gaddis, Vincent in his “Mysterious Fire And Lights” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 8-9 (in Chapter 1) of the Dell hardback edition. |
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Garrett, Richard in his “Aliens From Outer Space” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 77-83 (in Chapter 6), 130, 131 (in Chapter 10) of the Piccolo paperback 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 49-50 (in Chapter 10) of the Scholastic softcover edition. |
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Glenday, Craig in his “The UFO Investigator’s Handbook” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 39 (in Chapter 1) of the Running Press softcover edition. |
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Goldsmith, Donald and Owen, Tobias in their “The Search for Life in the Universe” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 415-416 (in Chapter 21) of the Benjamin Cummings softcover edition, at page 492 (in Chapter 20) of the 1992 Addison Wesley softcover revised second edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 339-341 (in Chapter 14), 367-370 (in Chapter 15) 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 409-411 (in Chapter 16) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition). |
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Graeme, Jack in “Flying Saucers : Twenty-One Years of UFOs” (1968), published by the editors of Cowles and UPI, at pages 58-61. |
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Graeme, Jack in “Flying Saucers: A Look Special” (1967) published by the editors of United Press International and Cowles Communications Inc, at page 16. |
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Greenfield, Irving A in his “The UFO Report” (1967) at pages 22-23 (in Chapter 2), 27-28 (in Chapter 3), 98 (in Chapter 11) of the Lancer paperback edition. |
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Greer, Steven in his “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 125-126 (in Chapter 17) of the Crossing Point softcover edition. |
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Gurney, Gene (USAF Lt Col) and Clare Gurney in their “Unidentified Flying Objects” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 47-52 (in Chapter 4) of the Abelard-Schuman 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 page 45 (in Chapter 3) 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 268-269 (in Chapter 6), 275, 278 (in Chapter 7) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Hall, Richard in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 341-344 (in an entry entitled “Socorro (New Mexico) landing”) of the NEL hardback 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 2 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”), 177-182 (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 pages 147 (in Chapter 9), 214 (in Chapter 14) of the Aurora Press 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 62-66 (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 143-152 (in Chapter 8) of the Box Tree hardback edition. |
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Hesemann, Michael in his “The Cosmic Connection” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 116 (in Chapter 11) of the Gateway Books softcover edition. |
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Hill, Paul R in his “Unconventional Flying Objects : A Scientific Analysis” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 33-34 (in Chapter 1) of the Hampton Roads softcover edition. |
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Holroyd, Stuart in his “Alien Intelligence” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 180, 197 (in Chapter 7) of the David & Charles hardback edition. |
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Holzer, Hans in his “The UFOnauts” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 105-106 (in Chapter 4), 153 (in Chapter 6) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition. |
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Hopkins, Budd in his “Missing Time“ (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 2-4, 5 (in the Introduction) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Howe, Linda Moulton in her “An Alien Harvest” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 146 (in Chapter 7) of the Linda Moulton Howe Productions softcover edition. |
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Huyghe, Patrick in his “The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 4 (in the Introduction) of the |
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Hynek, J Allen in his “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 213-219 (in Chapter 9) of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at pages 223-229 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) at pages 142, 144-145 (in Chapter 10) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with same page numbering in the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition) at pages 162 and 165-167 of the various Ballantine paperback editions, at pages 181 and 184-186 of the Corgi paperback edition. Included in a table indicating an assessment of Strangeness Rating/Probability Rating of 5/6 as |
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Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 189-191 (in Chapter 7, “The Battle for Congressional Hearings”) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 167-169 of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Kanon, Gregory M in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 70 (in Chapter 5) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Keel, John A in his “Disneyland of the Gods” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 26, 28-29 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Short History of Boobery”) of the I-Net softcover edition. |
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Keel, John A in his “UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 175 (in Chapter 9) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Abacus softcover edition). |
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Keyhoe, Donald E. in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 47-48 (in Chapter 3), 196-197 (in Chapter 13), of the Signet paperback edition, page 62-63 and 223-224 of the Panther paperback edition. |
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Klass, Philip J in his “UFOs – Identified” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 194-225 (Chapter 18 generally, “Socorro Part I: Fact and Fantasy” and Chapter 19 generally “Socorro Part II : ‘A classic case’”) of the Random House hardback edition. |
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Klass, Philip J in his “UFOs – The Public Deceived” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 267 (in Chapter 28) of the Prometheus softback edition. |
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Klass, Philip J. in his “UFOs Explained” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 105-114 (Chapter 12 generally, “The ‘Landing’ at Socorro”) of the Random House hardback edition / pages 124-134 of Random House 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 pages 99, 114-117 (in Part 4) of the McGraw Hill hardback edition. |
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Lore, Gordon and Harold Deneault in their “Mysteries of the Skies” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 170 (in the Epilogue) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “Encounters with UFO Occupants” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 8-11 (in Chapter 2), 199 (in Chapter 10), 244-245 (in Chapter 14), 332-333 (in Chapter 16) 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 26-28 (in Chapter 1), 132-133 (in Chapter 7), 149-150 (in Chapter 9) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “UFOs over the Americas” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 104 (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 182 (in Chapter 8), 241 (in Chapter 11) of the Signet paperback 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 218-222 (in Chapter 14) and mentioned at pages 85 and 86 (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 page 164 (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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Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 1-2 (in Chapter 1), 267-275 (in Chapter 23) of the Llewellyn softcover edition. |
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Machlin, Milt in his “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 29-34 (in Chapter 1), 99-101 (in Chapter 5, entitled “The Complete Directory of UFOs : An illustrated history of unexplained sightings from ‘Project Blue Book’ ”) of the Dale paperback edition. |
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Mallan, Lloyd in “The Official Guide to UFOs” (1968) (edited by the editors of Science & Mechanics) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 25-29 (in unnumbered chapter entitled “The Mysterious 12”) of the Ace paperback edition. |
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Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 144-146 (in Chapter 5), 201 (in Chapter 7) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Morris, Peter J in his “Aliens Amongst Us: A Beginner’s Guide” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13-14 (in Chapter 1) of the Hodder & Stoughton softcover edition. |
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Moseley, James and Pflock, Karl in their “Shockingly Close to the Truth!” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 187-188, 189 (in Chapter 8) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Olsen, Thomas M in his “The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 3_92 - 3_96, 3_97 (in Chapter 3) of the UFOIRC spiral-bound edition. |
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Ortzen, Len in his “Strange Stories of UFOs” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-84 (in Chapter 11) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
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Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 218 (in Chapter 13) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 148-153 (in Chapter |
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Phillips, Ted in his “Physical Traces associated with UFO Sightings” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages ix, x (in Part B), 30 (in Part C) of the CUFOS paperbound edition. |
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Picknett, Lynn in her “The Mammoth Book of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 78-82 (in Chapter 2) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Powers, W T in “The Humanoids” (1969) (edited by Charles Bowen) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 130-142 (unnumbered chapter entitled “The Landing at Socorro”) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Futura paperback edition. |
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Quintanilla, Colonel Hector J (retired) in “UFO: 1947-1997” (1997) (edited by Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 111-116 (Section entitled “The 1960s”, unnumbered chapter entitled “Project Blue Book’s Last Years”) of the John Brown hardback edition. |
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Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at pages 29-33, 67 of the manuscript, at pages 42-46, 80 of the NIDS pdf version available free on-line on various websites, including at the following link: http://www.projectbluebook.us/UFOs%20An%20Air%20Force%20Dilemma%20By%20Quintanilla.pdf http://www.nidsci.org/pdf/quintanilla.pdf
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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 7-8 (in Part 1) of the Fireside softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ in their “Spaceships of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 82 (in Part 3) of the Fireside softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Conspiracy of Silence” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 158-162 (in Chapter 8) of the |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Project Bluebook Exposed” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 21-22 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “In the Beginning…”), of the Marlowe softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Scientific Ufology” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 133-145, 156-157 (in Chapter 5), 204 (in Chapter 7), 214, 216 (in Chapter 8) of the |
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Randle, Kevin in his “The UFO Casebook” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 113-118 (entry entitled “April 24, 1964: |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “50 Years of UFO Encounters” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 42 (in unnumbered section entitled “1964: Alien Contact”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 134-135 (in Chapter 10) of the Blackwell hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Alien Contact – The First Fifty Years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 50-51 (in the chapter entitled “1964”) 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 pages 34-36 (in Part 1) of the Hale hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the |
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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 59, 61 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Reality” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 143 (in Chapter 10) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Study” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 37-38, 39 (in Chapter 2) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFOs and How to See Them” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 25 (in Chapter 1) of the Brockhampton Press hardback edition. |
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Redfern, Nicholas in his “A Covert Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 277-279 (in Chapter 19) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition. |
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Redfern, Nicholas in his “The FBI Files” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 123-128 (in Chapter 6) of the Simon & Schuster softcover edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Messages from the Stars” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 208-209 (in Chapter 13) of the |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 191-192 (in an entry entitled “Socorro, |
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Rogo, D Scott in “UFO Abductions“ (1980) (edited by D. Scott Rogo) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 2 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Introduction”) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 48 (in Chapter 2) 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 page 359 (in Chapter 7) 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 pages 298-299 (in an entry entitled “Socorro, New Mexico”) 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 B in “The Official Guide to UFOs” (1968) (edited by the editors of Science & Mechanics) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 61-62 (in unnumbered chapter entitled “The Scientist and the UFO”) of the Ace paperback edition. |
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Salisbury, Frank in “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (edited by Milt Machlin) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 79-80 (in Chapter 4) of the Dale paperback 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 pages xviii-xix (in the Preface) of the Devin Adair hardback edition. |
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Salisbury, Frank in his written 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 page 243 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Complete transcript available free online at the following links: |
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Schnabel, Jim in his “Dark White” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 96 (in Chapter 6) of the Hamish Hamilton softcover edition. |
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Science & Mechanics (the editors of ) in “The Official Guide to UFOs” (1968) (edited by the editors of Science & Mechanics) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 150-151 (in unnumbered chapter entitled “Complete Directory of UFOs”) of the Ace paperback edition. |
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Shuttlewood, Arthur in his “The Flying Saucerers” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 34 (in Chapter 3) of the Sphere paperback edition. |
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Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at page 108 (in Appendix A) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition. |
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Smith, Susy in her “Strangers from Space” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 72-73 (in Chapter 9) of the Manor paperback edition. |
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Spaceage in its “UFO USA - A Traveler's Guide” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 123-124 (in the chapter entitled “ |
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Sparks, Brad in version 1.7 of his “Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project |
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Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 49-54 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1957-1967”) 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 200, 201-202 (in Chapter 12) 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 page 333 (in an entry entitled “Zamora, Patrolman Sergeant Lonnie”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 393-394 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 46-47 (in the unnumbered section entitled “ |
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Stanford, Ray in his “Socorro Saucer” (1976) generally, particularly at pages 13-183 of the 1978 Fonatana revised paperback edition. |
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Stanton, L Jerome in his “Flying Saucers : Hoax or Reality?” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 131 (in Chapter 8) of the |
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Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 106-137 (forming the major part of Chapter Five) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Stone, Reuben in his “UFO Investigation” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 32-34, 37 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Encounters with the Unknown”) of the Blitz Editions hardback edition. |
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Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 555-557 (in an entry entitled “Socorro (New Mexico) Landing”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 543-546 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 555-557 (in an entry entitled “Socorro (New Mexico) Landing”) of the New American Library softcover edition. |
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Story, Ronald in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 664-668 (in an entry entitled “Socorro (New Mexico) Landing”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Story, Ronald in his “UFOs and the Limits of Science” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 72-77 (Chapter 3) of the NEL Hardback edition. |
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Sutherly, Curt in his “UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-24 (in Chapter 2) of the Llewellyn softcover edition. |
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Tansley, David in his “Omens of Awareness” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 267 (in Chapter 14) of the Abacus paperback edition. |
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Thomas, David in his article “A Different Angle on the Socorro UFO of 1964” in the Skeptical Inquirer, Volume 25, Issue 4 (July 2001), pages 5-6. Version of article available online at: http://www.nmsr.org/socorro.htm |
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Thompson, Keith in his “Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 73-77 (in Chapter 7) of the Fawcett softcover 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 page 73 (in Chapter 3) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition. |
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Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “The Eternal Subject” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 121-122 (in Chapter 21) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition, at pages 122-123 of the Day Book paperback editon (published under the title “Mysterious Visitors: The UFO Story”). |
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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 49-50 (in Chapter 5) of the revised Tandem paperback edition. |
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US Air Force in its fact sheet on this incident, entitled “Unidentified Flying Object Report, Socorro, New Mexico, 24 April 1964” quoted in its entirety by Stanford, Ray in his “Socorro Saucer” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 95-97 (in Chapter 5), 179 (in Chapter 11) of the 1978 Fonatana revised paperback 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 43-45 (in Chapter 2) 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 page 138 (in Chapter 6) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition), page 150 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, pages 193-194 of the 1966 revised and enlarged Ace Star paperback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Dimensions“ (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Part 1, Chapter 1) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969.” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 102, 103, 111 (in Chapter 8, journal entries for 1964.0428, 1964.0430, 1964.0508, 1964.0510, 1964.0929), 286-287 (in Chapter 15, journal entry for 1967.0630) of the North Atlantic Books hardback edition, at page 109, 110-111, 118-119, 290-291 of the 1996 abridged Marlowe paperback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Forbidden Science : Volume 2 (Journals 1970-1979)” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 of the Documatica Research hardback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Passport to Magonia” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in Chapter 1) [and at page 297 (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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Vallee, Jacques in his “The Invisible College” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 105 (in Chapter 4) of the Dutton hardback edition, at pages 111-112 of the Panther paperback edition (published under the title “UFOs : The Psychic Solution”). |
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Van Dyk, Gregory in his “The Alien Files” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 55-57 (in Chapter 3) of the Element 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 158-161 (in Chapter 14) 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 21-22 (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 93-95 (in Chapter 8) of the Scholastic Book Services paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Clifford in his “The Alien Agenda” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-11 (in Chapter 2) 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 pages 10-11 (in Chapter 2) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Colin in his “Alien Dawn” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 102, 103, 114 (in Chapter 4) 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 42, 44 (in Chapter 2) of the Parragon softcover edition. |
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Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 53 (in Chapter 3) of the |
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Other Material
Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 8766 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-PBB1-304 (page 304 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-PBB2-531 (page 531 of 1352) at the link below.
http://www.bluebookarchive.org