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On 24 January 1878, John Martin reports a dark “object” high up in the northern sky. The “object” was reported as being about “ the size of a large saucer” and “evidently at a great height”.

 This incident is Case 58 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 49 of the books covered by that article.

 

 

 

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 171388.

There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead included below a search box which can be used to search various leading UFO websites at the same time. You can then click on tabs at the top of the search results to list only results from forums, only results from websites I have labelled as "skeptical" etc. I have included tabs for a couple of specific websites that I find particularly useful, including the valuable archives of the UFO UpDates email discussion List. The relevant websites are all listed in the discussion of the "UFO Searchillion" search engine in Section 2.4 of the "Free UFO Researcher Starter Pack" and continues to evolve...

 

The relevant search box is one of the two main tools on this website which are intended to help reduce the amount of reinvention of the wheel within UFOlogy. The other main tool is the collection of tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.

 

 

 

Book References

The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.

Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. Together with the "UFO Searchillion" search box, I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.

For discussion of John Martin’s sighting see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1992

Alnor, William M in his “UFO in the New Age” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 188 (in Chapter 11) of the Baker softcover edition.

1

2003

Bartholomew, Robert E. and Radford, Benjamin in their “Hoaxes, Myths and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 177 (in Chapter 12) of the Prometheus softcover edition.

1

1988

Beer, Lionel in “Phenomenon“ (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-21 of the MacDonald hardback edition (Part 1, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Coming of the Saucers”).

2

1968

Binder, Otto in his “Flying Saucers Are Watching Us” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 57 (in Chapter 5) of the Belmont paperback edition.

1

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 74-75 (in Chapter 7) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition).

2

1977

Bourret, Jean-Claude in his “The Crack in the Universe” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 62 (in Part 1) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition.

1

1977

Bourret, Jean-Claude in his “The Crack in the Universe” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 62 (in Part 1) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition.

1

1995

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 19 (in Chapter 1) 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

1979

Clark, Jerome in “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (edited by Milt Machlin) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (in Chapter 1) of the Dale paperback edition.

1

2003

Clark, Jerome in his “Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 109-110 (in Chapter 6) of the Citadel softcover edition.

2

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 166 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition in an entry entitled “Daylight Discs”.

1

1992

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 2 – Emergence of a Phenomenon” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 127-128 of the Omnigraphics hardback edition in an entry entitled “Daylight Discs, 1947-1959”.

2

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition : Volume 1:A-K” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 319 (in an entry entitled “Daylight Discs”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

1

1992

Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 7 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “In The Beginning”) of the Publications International hardback edition.

1

1995

Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 24 (in Chapter 1) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

1

1997

Devereux, Paul and Brookesmith, Peter in their “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 21-22 (in Chapter 1) of the Blandford softcover edition.

2

1976

Flammonde, Paris (with relatively lengthy extract of the Denison Daily News press report (1878.0125)) by in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 2) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

1

1956

Gibbons, Gavin in his “The Coming of the Space Ships” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 31 (in Chapter 4) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition.

1

1955

Girvan, Waveney in his “Flying Saucers and Common Sense” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 8-9 (in Chapter 1), 45 (in Chapter 4) of the Frederick Muller hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Citadel hardback edition).

2

2001

Gross, Loren in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 201 (in an entry entitled “ ‘flying saucer’ ”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 197 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

1

1980

Gross, Loren in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 131 (in an entry entitled “‘flying saucer’ ”) of the NEL hardback edition.

1

2001

Gross, Loren in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 241 (in an entry entitled “ ‘flying saucer’ ”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

1

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 157 (in Chapter 5) of the Xlibris softcover edition.

1

1995

Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at page 27 (in Chapter 2) of the Box Tree hardback edition.

1

1977

Hynek, J Allen in his “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Chapter 1, at page 2 of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at page 12 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition).

1

1970

Keel, John A in his “UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 33 (in Chapter 2) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Abacus softcover edition).

1

1997

Larson, Bob in his “UFOs and the Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 37-38 (in Chapter 2) of the Nelson softcover edition.

2

1968

Lore, Gordon and Deneault, Harold in their “Mysteries of the Skies” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 72-73 (in Chapter 5) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition.

2

1969

Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “UFOs: The Whole Story” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-11 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition.

2

1997

Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page xxi (in the Introduction) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

1

2001

Picknett, Lynn in her “The Mammoth Book of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 6 (in Chapter 1) of the Robinson softcover edition.

1

1997

Randle, Kevin in his “Conspiracy of Silence” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-11 (in Chapter 1) of the Avon paperback edition.

2

1973

Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Challenge to Science”) of the Berkley paperback edition.

1

1973

Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Challenge to Science”) of the Berkley paperback edition.

1

1989

Schellhorn, G Cope in his “Extraterrestrials in Biblical Prophecy” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 355 (in Chapter 17) of the Horus softcover edition.

1

1994

Schnabel, Jim in his “Dark White” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-12 (in Chapter 2) of the Hamish Hamilton softcover edition.

2

1967

Shuttlewood, Arthur in his “The Warminster Mystery” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 42 (in Chapter 6) of the Tandem paperback edition.

1

1977

Smith, Susy in her “Strangers from Space” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 19 (in Chapter 3) of the Manor paperback edition.

1

1994

Spencer, John in his “Gifts of the Gods?” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 15-16 (in Chapter 3) of the Virgin paperback edition.

2

1991

Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 206 (in an entry entitled “Martin, John”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 240 of the Headline paperback edition.

1

1978

Stemman, Roy in his “Mysteries of the Universe: Great Mysteries” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 122 (in Chapter 6) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

1

1978

Stemman, Roy in his “Mysteries of the Universe: Great Mysteries” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 122 (in Chapter 6) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

1

1973

Thomas, Paul in his “Flying Saucers Through The Ages” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 3) of the Tandem paperback edition.

1

1973

Thomas, Paul in his “Flying Saucers Through The Ages” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 3) of the Tandem paperback edition.

1

1965

Vallee, Jacques in his “Anatomy of a Phenomenon” (1965) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 1 (in Chapter 1) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition), page 1 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, pages 15-16 of the 1966 revised and enlarged Ace Star paperback edition.

1

1970

Vallee, Jacques in his “Passport to Magonia” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 4 (in Chapter 1) of the Regnery hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition.

1

1994

Watts, Alan in his “UFO Quest” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 5 (in the Introduction) of the Blandford softcover edition.

1

1994

Watts, Alan in his “UFO Quest” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 5 (in the Introduction) of the Blandford softcover edition.

1

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