1967.1024 Flying Cross police chase

 

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Flying Cross police chase
On 24 October 1967, Police Constables PC Clifford Waycott and PC Roger Willey chase an alleged UFO (commonly referred to as the “flying cross” or “flying Thing”) for almost an hour in rural England.

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

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Book References

For discussion of the “Flying Cross” sightings see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1969

Chapman, Robert in his “UFO : Flying Saucers Over Britain?” (1969) (also published as “Unidentified Flying Objects”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13-23 (in Chapter 1 generally) of the Mayflower paperback edition.

11

2007

Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Flying Saucerers : A social history of UFOlogy” (2007) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 172-175 (in Chapter 10) of the Alternative Albion softcover edition.

4

2002

Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Out Of The Shadows” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 166-167, 169-173 (in Chapter 9) of the Piatkus hardback edition.

7

2009

Clarke, David in his “The UFO Files : The Inside Story of Real-Life Sightings” (2009) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 73-75 (in Chapter 3) of the National Archives softcover edition.

3

1975

Fairley, Peter in his “Is there Life in Outer Space?” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-117 (in Chapter 7) of the Look-In softcover edition.

2

1983

Garrett, Richard in his “Aliens From Outer Space” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 63-65 (in Chapter 5) of the Piccolo paperback edition.

3

1987

Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 64 (in Chapter 3) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition).

1

1996

Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 42 (in Chapter 3) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition).

1

1977

Macvey, John W in his “Interstellar Travel” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 254-256 (in Chapter 15) of the Avon paperback edition.

3

2001

Randles, Jenny in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 140 (in an entry entitled “British Government Interest in UFOs”) of the Robinson 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 69 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the Sterling softcover edition.

1

1990

Randles, Jenny in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 1 – UFOs in the 1980s” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 30 (in an entry entitled “British Ufology”) of the Apogee hardback edition.

1

1997

Redfern, Nicholas in his “A Covert Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 95-100 (in Chapter 8) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition.

6

1968

Shuttlewood, Arthur in his “Warnings from Flying Friends” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 93-94 (in Chapter 6) of the Portway Press hardback edition.

2

Other Material

Discussed in the House of Commons on 1967.1108. See Hansard, House of Commons Volume 753 oral answers column 1012-1014.