On 24 January 1966.0325, the infamous “Swamp Gas Theory” was offered by Dr J Allen Hynek at a press conference.
Web Resources
For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.nicap.org/660314dir.htm
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Book References
For discussion of the offering of the “swamp gas” theory see the following:
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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 pages 99-100 (in Chapter 9) of the Fawcett paperback edition. |
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Blum, Ralph and Blum, Judy in their “Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 156-157 (in Chapter 14) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback 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 86 (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 54-56 (in Chapter 3) of the Parragon hardback edition. |
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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 114-115 (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 152-153 of the Orion paperback 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 page 33 (in Chapter 3 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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Clark, Jerome in “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (edited by Milt Machlin) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 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 page 476 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition forming part of an entry entitled “Project Blue Book”. Also briefly discussed at page 593 forming part of an entry entitled “ |
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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 page 413 (in an entry entitled “Project Blue Book, 1960-1969”) also briefly discussed at page 518 (forming part of an entry entitled “University of Colorado UFO Project”) of the Omnigraphics 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 96-98 (in Chapter 12) of the Lippincott hardback edition. |
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Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 899-902 (in Section 5, Chapter 2 “UFOs: 1947-1968”, by Edward U Condon) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at pages 539-541 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links: http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.html |
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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 91-92 (in Chapter 4) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Dean, Jodi in her “Aliens in America” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-37 (in Chapter 1) of the |
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Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-12 (in Chapter 1) of the |
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Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 152 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 290-291 (in Chapter 6) of the |
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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 392-393 (in Chapter 7) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 299-300 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Downing, Barry in “The Bible and Flying Saucers” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48-50 (in Chapter 2) of the Sphere paperback 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 66-67, 70-71 (in Chapter 4), 99 (in Chapter 5), 149 (in Chapter 7), 222-223 (in Chapter 9) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
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Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Here and Now!” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 27-30 (in Chapter 2), 33, 35-38 (in Chapter 3), 175-176 (in Chapter 9) of the Lyle Stuart hardback edition, at pages 11-14, 15-17, 102-105 of the Bantam 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 76-92 (in Chapter 12) of the silver covered Ballantine paperback edition first printing, at pages 86-103 of the blue covered Ballantine paperback edition eighth printing. |
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Emmons, Charles F in his “At The Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16 (in Chapter 2), 87, 93 (in Chapter 5) 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 358-359 (in Chapter 18) of the Ballantine Books 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 44-45 (in Chapter 5) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition. |
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Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in the Introduction) of the Putnam 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 104-105, 113, 114 (in Chapter 6) of the Walker & Co hardback edition. |
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Gurney, Gene (USAF Lt Col) and Gurney, Clare in their “Unidentified Flying Objects” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 92-96 (in Chapter 7) of the Abelard-Schuman hardback 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 282-283 (in Chapter 7) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Hansen, Terry in his “The Missing Times : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-Up : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover -Up” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 212 (in Chapter 6) of the Xlibris softcover edition. |
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Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at page 236 (in Chapter 12) of the Box Tree hardback edition. |
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Hynek, J Allen and Vallee, Jacques in their “The Edge of Reality” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 199-202 (in Chapter 7) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition. |
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Hynek, J Allen in his “The UFO Experience” (1972) (Chapter 12) at pages 195-196 of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with same page numbering in the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition) at pages 243-244 of the various Ballantine paperback editions, at page 239 of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Jacobs, David Michael in his “Secret Life” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-37 (in Chapter 2) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Fourth Estate hardback edition and in the Virgin paperback edition published under the title “Alien Encounters”). |
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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 201-202 (in Chapter 8) of the |
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Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 1 – UFOs in the 1980s” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 137-138 (in an entry entitled “Hynek, Josef Allen (1910-1986)”) of the Apogee hardback edition. |
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Keel, John A in his “Disneyland of the Gods” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 27 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Short History of Boobery”) of the I-Net 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 96-98 (in Chapter 7) of the Signet paperback edition, page 115-117 of the Panther paperback edition. |
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Kinder, |
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Klass, Philip J in his “UFOs Explained” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 274 (Chapter 25) of the Random House hardback edition, at page 325 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 132-134 (in Part 4) of the McGraw Hill hardback edition. |
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Lloyd Mallan in “The Official Guide to UFOs” (1968) (edited by the editors of Science & Mechanics) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 19 (in unnumbered chapter entitled “Ther Mysterious 12”) of the Ace paperback 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 177-178 (in the Epilogue) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition. |
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Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 149-150 (in Chapter 5) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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McDonald, James E 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 page 33 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Complete transcript available free online at the following links: |
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Mead, William in “Flying Saucers : Twenty-One Years of UFOs” (1968), published by the editors of Cowles and UPI, at pages 74-80. |
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Mead, William in “Flying Saucers: A Look Special” (1967) published by the editors of United Press International and Cowles Communications Inc, at pages 22-23. |
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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 192-193 (in Chapter 8) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Ortzen, Len in his “Strange Stories of UFOs” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-38 (in Chapter 4) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 170-171 (in Chapter 12) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 204-206 of the |
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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 117-118 (in the 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 50-52 of the manuscript, at pages 63-65 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 in his “Conspiracy of Silence” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 164-165 (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 22 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “In the Beginning…”), 147 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “April 17, 1966”) of the Marlowe softcover edition. |
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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 49 (in unnumbered section entitled “1966: UFOs Under the Microscope”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 224 (in Chapter 18) of the Piatkus softcover 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 64 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Study” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 38, 40 (in Chapter 2) of the Hale 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 197-198 (in an entry entitled “swamp gas incident”) of the MJF hardback edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 52 (in Chapter 2) of the Frog softcover 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 xix (in the Preface) of the Devin Adair hardback edition. |
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Saunders, David R and Harkins, R Roger in their “UFOs? Yes!” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23-24 (in Chapter 1), 61 (in Chapter 5) of the Signet 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 91-94 (in the chapter entitled “ |
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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 70, 72 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1967-1977”) of the Boxtree hardback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 289-290 (in an entry entitled “Swamp Gas Debacle”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 340-341 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 51 (in the unnumbered section entitled “ |
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Stacy, Dennis in “UFO: 1947-1997” (1997) (edited by Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 of the John Brown hardback edition (Section entitled “Introduction”, in an unnumbered chapter entitled “Eight Days that Shaped Ufology”). |
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Stanford, Ray in his “Socorro Saucer” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 69 (in Chapter 5) of the 1978 Fonatana revised paperback edition. |
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Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 5 (in the Introduction) 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 138-143 (in Chapter 29) of the Award Books paperback 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 page 62 of the NEL Hardback edition (Chapter 2). |
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Sturrock, Peter in his “The UFO Enigma“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in Chapter 2) of the Warner Aspect 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 37, 54 (in Chapter 3) of the Llewellyn softcover edition. |
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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 81-84 (in Chapter 7) of the Fawcett softcover edition. |
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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 page 92 (in Chapter 3) of the GHP revised 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 pages 106-109 (in Chapter 4) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition. |
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Utke, Allen R in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 354-357 (in an entry entitled “Swamp gas episode”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Dimensions“ (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 228-229 (in Part 3, Chapter 8) 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 173-176 (in Chapter 11, journal entries for 1966.0323, 1966.0326, 1966.0327) of the North Atlantic Books hardback edition, at pages 179-182 of the 1996 abridged Marlowe paperback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “The Invisible College” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 42-45 (in Chapter 2) of the Dutton hardback edition, at pages 51-53 of the Panther paperback edition (published under the title “UFOs : The Psychic Solution”). |
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Vesco, Renato and Childress, David Hatcher in their “Man Made UFOs 1944-1994 – 50 Years of Suppression” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 319 (in Chapter 10) of the AUP softcover edition. |
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Vesco, Renato in his “Intercept Ufo” (Formerly published as “Intercept - But Don't Shoot”) (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 318-319 (in Chapter 10) of the Zebra paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Clifford in his “The Alien Agenda” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 99 (in Chapter 9) 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 99 (in Chapter 9) 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, 115-116 (in Chapter 4) of the Virgin softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Virgin paperback edition). |
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Young, Mort in his “UFO Top Secret” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41-62 (in Chapter 4), 76 (in Chapter 5), 147-148 (in Appendix 2) of the Essandess softcover edition. |
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Other Material
Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 10264 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
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-PBB2-572 (page 572 of 1352) at the link below.
See also the entries for the Dexter sighting (Koi Chrono Core 20 March 1966) and the Hillsdale sighting (21 March 1966).