“Best UFO Cases” by Isaac Koi

PART 14: Top 10 cases within various categories

In PART 13: The Top 100 UFO cases, I presented a “Top 100” list of UFO cases based on the frequency of discussion within a sample of 963 UFO and SETI books.

The list of the Top 100 UFO cases in PART 13: The Top 100 UFO cases can be used to derive lists of the top cases within various categories, e.g. a list of the “Top 10” British cases or the “Top 10” photographic cases.

I have therefore prepared the following lists:

1. Top 10 UFO cases (overall winners)
2. Top 10 Abduction cases
3. Top 10 Photographic UFO cases
4. Top 10 British UFO cases
5. Top 10 Continental European UFO cases
6. Top 25 Non-USA cases

These lists should be read in conjunction with PART 13: The Top 100 UFO cases, since the explanation and various caveats given in relation to the “Top 100” list apply equally to the following lists.

TOP 10 UFO CASES (overall winners)

1. Kenneth Arnold’s first sighting (1947) 359 references
2. Betty and Barney Hill abduction (1961) 292 references
3. George Adamski encounters (1953) 231 references
4. Roswell (1947) 228 references
5. Socorro sighting by Lonnie Zamora (1964) 180 references
6. Thomas F Mantell incident (1948) 179 references
7. Antonio Villas-Boas abduction (1957) 174 references
8. Washington National sightings (1952) 171 references
9. Pascagoula abduction (1973) 142 references
10. Chiles and Whitted sighting (1948) 115 references

TOP 10 ABDUCTION CASES

1. Betty and Barney Hill abduction (1961) 292 references
2. Antonio Villas-Boas abduction (1957) 174 references
3. Pascagoula abduction (1973) 142 references
4. Travis Walton abduction (1975) 114 references
5. Andreasson abduction (1967) 87 references
6. Herbert Schirmer abduction (1967) 87 references
7. Day family abduction (1974) 58 references
8. “Linda Cortile” abduction (1989) 53 references
9. Stanford, Kentucky abduction (1976) 43 references
10. Charles L Moody abduction (1975) 30 references

TOP 10 PHOTOGRAPHIC UFO CASES (see Footnote 14.02):

1. McMinnville photographs (1950) 90 references
2. Gulf Breeze encounter (1987) 76 references
3. Trindade Island photographs (1958) 72 references
4. Tremonton, Utah film (1952) 64 references
5. Great Falls, Montana film (1950) 58 references
6. Rex Heflin photographs (1965) 46 references
7. Salem, Massachusetts photograph (1952) 38 references
8. Jose A y Bonilla photograph (1883) 32 references
9. Ummo photographs (1967) 32 references
10. Stephen Darbishire photograph (1954) 31 references

TOP 10 BRITISH UFO CASES

1. Rendlesham Forest incident (1980) 89 references
2. Lakenheath episode (1956) 83 references
3. Day family abduction (1974) 58 references

4. BOAC stratocruiser sighting (1954) 55 references

5. Alan Godfrey encounter (1980) 51 references
6. Cedric Allingham encounter (1954) 39 references
7. Topcliffe incident (1952) 34 references
8. Cynthia Appleton encounter (1957) 33 references
9. Livingston incident (1979) 33 references
10. Stephen Darbishire photograph (1954) 31 references

TOP 10 CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN UFO CASES

1. Tunguska event (1908) 95 references
2. Valensole incident (1965) 76 references
3. Fatima apparition (1917) 61 references
4. Belgium radar/visual sightings (1989) 59 references
5. Trans-en-Provence encounter (1981) 45 references
6. “Doctor X” UFO encounter (1968) 38 references
7. Voronezh, Russia landing (1989) 34 references
8. Claude Vorilhon contact (1973) 33 references

9. Ummo photographs (1967) 32 references

10. Oloron “Angel Hair” incident (1952) 28 references

In relation to the list above of the “Top 10” continental european cases based on frequency of discussion, I note that one researcher from continental europe (Luis Gonzalez) has commented that it “almost looks like a ‘worst cases’ list … [with] clearly a slant towards North European cases” (see Footnote 14.03).

TOP 25 NON-USA CASES (see Footnote 14.04):

1. Antonio Villas-Boas abduction (1957) 174 references
2. Tunguska event (1908) 95 references
3. Reverend W B Gill sightings (1959) 92 references
4. Rendlesham Forest incident (1980) 89 references
5. Lakenheath episode (1956) 83 references
6. Valensole incident (1965) 76 references
7. Trindade Island photographs (1958) 72 references
8. Ubatuba incident (1957) 69 references
9. Valentich disappearance (1978) 62 references
10. Fatima apparition (1917) 61 references
11. Belgium radar/visual sightings (1989) 59 references

12. Day family abduction (1974) 58 references

13. BOAC stratocruiser sighting (1954) 55 references
14. Jet chase near Tehran, Iran (1976) 55 references
15. Steven Michalak encounter (1967) 54 references
16. Apollo 11 sightings (1969) 52 references
17. Alan Godfrey encounter (1980) 51 references
18. Wellington/Kaikoura incident (1978) 50 references
19. Trans-en-Provence encounter (1981) 45 references
20. Fort Itaipu, Brazil sighting (1957) 40 references
21. Cedric Allingham encounter (1954) 39 references
22. Maureen Puddy encounter (1973) 38 references
23. “Doctor X” UFO encounter (1968) 38 references
24. Topcliffe incident (1952) 34 references
25. Voronezh, Russia landing (1989) 34 references

REFERENCES

[Footnote 14.01] “KCC” stands for “Koi Chrono Core”, a 1,800 page draft chronology of UFO and SETI events by Isaac Koi which can be downloaded from the Internet free of charge: as a 1.6 Mb zipped file: http://tinyurl.com/re7ae as a 9.1 Mb unzipped file: http://tinyurl.com/oahe7 Also, a PDF version is available at the end of the page below: http://www.ufoinfo.com/news/ufochronology.shtml

[Footnote 14.02] This list excludes cases in which photographs are occasionally mentioned, but those photographs are largely incidental to most discussions of the relevant incidents e.g. Adamski, Washington National sightings, Lubbock lights.

[Footnote 14.03] Email from Luis Gonzalez to Isaac Koi dated 12 March 2007.

[Footnote 14.04]As noted in Part 13, the sample of UFO/SETI books reviewed to compile the “Top 100” list was limited to books in English, and thus there was a strong bias in favour of books by authors from the USA and the United Kingdom (who, in turn, appear to have a strong bias in favour of writing about cases from the USA and the United Kingdom).