During the night of 4th – 5th September 1964, Cisco Grove, California incident involving Donald Schrum (sometimes referred to as “Mr S.” or “Mr S_____”) and Vincent A ___________ . Schrum claimed to have climbed a tree to avoid a robot-like creature, which he shot an arrow at.
This incident is Case 80 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 35 of the books covered by that article.
This was Project Blue Book Case Number 9093.
Web Resources
For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.nicap.org/640904dir.htm
http://www.ufocasebook.com/ciscocounty1964.html
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Book References
For discussion of the Cisco Grove incident see the following:
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Discussion by:
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 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”). |
1 |
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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 1-5 (in Chapter 1 of the pro-UFO side of the book, i.e. the side which starts with the Chapter One entitled “Visitors at Cisco Grove”) of the Walker hardback edition. |
5 |
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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 64-68 (in an entry entitled “Cisco Grove CE3”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
5 |
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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) at pages 184-188 of Volume 1:A-K (in an entry entitled “Cisco Grove CE3”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
5 |
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Craig, Roy in his “UFOs – An Insider’s View” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 113-117 (in Chapter 8) of the UNT softback edition. |
5 |
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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 367 (in Chapter 7) of the Keyhole softcover edition, omitted from the revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
1 |
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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 95-96 (in Chapter 5) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
2 |
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Forstchen, William in “Making Contact” (1997) (edited by Bill Fawcett) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 217-220 (in Section 3) of the Morrow hardback edition. |
4 |
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Green, Gabriel with Smith, Warren in their “Let’s face the facts about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 95 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Raiders from the Skies”) of the Popular Library paperback edition. |
1 |
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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 362-365 (in Chapter 8) of the Sourcebooks softcover edition. |
4 |
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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”), 472 (in Section 12) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition. |
2 |
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Hall, Richard in his “Uninvited Guests” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 248-249 (in Appenix A) of the Aurora Press paperback edition. |
2 |
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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 182-183 (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. |
2 |
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Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at page 162 (in Chapter 9) of the Box Tree hardback edition. |
1 |
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Hendry, Allan in his “The UFO Handbook” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 135 (in Chapter 9) of the Sphere softback edition. |
1 |
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Holzer, Hans in his “The UFOnauts” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 53-54 (in Chapter 2) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition. |
2 |
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Hynek, J Allen in his “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 200-202 (in Chapter 9) of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at pages 210-212 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition). |
3 |
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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 217-219 (in Chapter 12) of the Berkley paperback edition. |
3 |
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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 137-141 (in Chapter 7) of the Signet paperback edition. |
5 |
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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 74-77 (in Chapter 6) of the Signet paperback edition. |
4 |
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Lorenzen, Coral in “The Humanoids” (1969) (edited by Charles Bowen) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 169-174 (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. |
6 |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Project Bluebook Exposed” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 120-126, 131-132 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “September 4, 1964”) of the Marlowe softcover edition. |
8 |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 45 (in an entry entitled “Cisco Grove, |
1 |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 159-160 (in Chapter 5) of the Frog softcover edition. |
2 |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Hollywood Vs. the Aliens” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 91 (in Chapter 1) of the Frog softcover edition. |
1 |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 62-63 (in an entry entitled “Cisco Grove, California”) and included in a list entitled “Chronological list of UFO sightings” at page viii of the Corgi softback edition. |
2 |
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Sparks, Brad in version 1.7 of his “Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project |
1 |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 74 (in an entry entitled “Cisco Grove, California”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 84, 85 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 page 47 (in the unnumbered section entitled “ |
1 |
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Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 73-74 (in an entry entitled “Cisco Grove (California) encounter”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Strickland, Joshua in his “Extra-terrestrials on Earth” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-22 (in Chapter 1) of the |
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Thompson, Richard in his “Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Pheonemena” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 93-94 (in Chapter 3) of the GHP revised softcover edition. |
2 |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Dimensions“ (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 105-106 (in Part 1, Chapter 3) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition. |
2 |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Passport to Magonia” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 82-83 (in Chapter 3) [and at page 303 (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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Wilson, Colin in his “Alien Dawn” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 88-89 (in Chapter 3) of the Virgin softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Virgin paperback edition). |
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Other Material
Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 9093 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-PBB1-321 (page 321 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-PBB2-540 (page 540 of 1352) at the link below.
http://www.bluebookarchive.org