1966.0325 “Swamp Gas Theory”

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On 24 January 1966.0325, the infamous “Swamp Gas Theory” was offered by Dr J Allen Hynek at a press conference.

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

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:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1967

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.

2

1974

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).

2

1995

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”).

1

1996

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.

3

1995

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.

2

1990

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.

1

1979

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.

1

1998

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 “University of Colorado UFO Project”.

1

1996

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.

2

1978

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.

3

1969

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

4

1995

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.

2

1998

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 Cornell University softcover edition.

2

2001

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 California hardback edition.

2

1998

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 Cambridge hardback edition.

1

1996

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 Cambridge hardback edition.

2

2000

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.

2

1968

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.

3

2003

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.

8

1967

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.

11

1974

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.

17

1997

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.

3

1976

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.

2

1981

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.

2

1969

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.

1

1980

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.

4

1970

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.

5

1999

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.

2

2000

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.

1

1995

Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at page 236 (in Chapter 12) of the Box Tree hardback edition.

1

1975

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.

4

1972

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.

2

1992

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”).

2

1975

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 Indiana hardback edition, page 178-179 of the Signet paperback edition.

2

1990

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.

2

1988

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.

1

1973

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.

3

1987

Kinder, Gary in his “Light Years” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 164-165 (in Chapter 8) of the Viking hardback edition.

2

1974

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.

1

1979

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.

3

1968

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.

1

1968

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.

2

1997

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.

2

1968

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:

http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/contents.html

http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/contents.html

1

1968

Mead, William in “Flying Saucers : Twenty-One Years of UFOs” (1968), published by the editors of Cowles and UPI, at pages 74-80.

7

1967

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.

2

2002

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.

2

1977

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.

3

1994

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 Berkley paperback edition.

2

1997

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.

2

1974

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

 

3

1997

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 Avon paperback edition.

2

1997

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.

2

1996

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.

1

1994

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.

1

2000

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 Sterling softcover edition.

1

1981

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.

2

1994

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.

2

1996

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.

1

1974

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.

1

1968

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.

2

1999

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 “Michigan”) of the Hyperion softcover edition.

4

1997

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.

2

1991

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.

2

1991

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 “North America”, in the chapter entitled “Database”) of the Hamlyn hardback edition.

1

1997

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”).

1

1976

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.

1

1976

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.

1

1966

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.

6

1981

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).

1

1999

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.

1

2001

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.

2

1991

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.

4

1993

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.

1

1987

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.

4

1980

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.

4

1988

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.

2

1992

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.

4

1975

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”).

4

1994

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.

1

1971

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.

2

1988

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.

1

1974

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.

1

1998

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).

3

1967

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 NARA-PBB1-363 (page 363 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-PBB2-572 (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).