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Hamilton calf napping

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alleged airship encounter on 19 April 1897 involving attempted calf-napping on the ranch of Alexander Hamilton atLe Roy,Kansas (sometimes referred to asLeRoy,Kansas).

 

 

Claims to fame

This incident is Case 24 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 74 of the books covered by that article.

 

Isaac Koi’s “ICES” Rating for this sighting = 3,360 (out of a potential score of 14*14*14*14 i.e. 38,416)

(1) “Impact” Rating of 14 (out of a potential score of 14), because it is Case 24 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article.

(2) “Credibility” Rating of 4 (out of a potential score of 14) because several researchers have identified convincing evidence this sighting was a hoax.

(2) “Expert” Rating of 5 (out of a potential score of 14). It is given this relatively low rating because (at the time of writing) it has not been included in any of the short lists of the best cases produced by various UFO researchers that have been compiled by Isaac Koi (see the “Best UFO Cases" article at PART 3: Existing lists by various individuals), and is it is mentioned relatively often as an example of a hoax.

(4)“Strangeness” Rating of 12 (out of a potential score of 14). The sighting has a relatively high strangeness rating since it would be very difficult to explain this sighting as a misperception or misidentification..

 

 

Sections below:

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

 

 

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Web Resources

This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 326826.

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 the Le Roy, Kansas encounter see the following:

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1979

Ball, Brian in his “A Young Person’s Guide to UFOs” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 (in Chapter 8) of the Dragon paperback edition.

1

1998

Bartholomew, Robert E and Howard, George S in their “UFOs and Alien Contact” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 60 (in Chapter 1, entitled “Wishing Thinking: The Great American Airship Mania of 1896-97”) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

1

1968

Binder, Otto in his “Flying Saucers Are Watching Us” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51-52 (in Chapter 4) of the Belmont paperback edition.

2

2004

Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 152 (in an entry entitled “Hamilton, Alexander”) of the Pocket Books softcover 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 50-51 (in Chapter 5) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition).

2

1996

Blundell, Nigel in his “World’s Most Amazing UFO Visits” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 91-92 of the Select softcover edition.

2

1995

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 162 (in Appendix 6) 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

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 427-428 (in Chapter 20) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Knopf hardback edition and the Penguin Arkana softcover edition) at pages 576-578 of the Orion paperback edition.

2

1967

Chambers, Howard in his “UFOs for the millions” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 3) of the Bell hardcover edition.

1

1975

Clark, Jerome and Loren Coleman in their “The Unidentified” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 157 (in the unnumbered section entitled “The Airships: The Technological Impulse”, part 7) of the Warner paperback edition.

1

2000

Clark, Jerome in his “Extraordinary Encounters : An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 55-56 (in an entry entitled “Calf-rustling aliens”) of the ABC-Clio hardback edition.

2

1980

Clark, Jerome in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 206-208 of the NEL hardback edition in an entry entitled “Leroy (Kansas) airship hoax”.

3

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 34-35 (in an entry entitled “Airship Sightings in the Nineteenth Century”), 192-193 (in an entry entitled “Hoaxes Through 1959”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

4

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 17 of the Omnigraphics hardback edition in an entry entitled “Animal Mutilations and UFOs”.

1

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Volume 1:A-K at pages 101-102 (forming part of the entry entitled “Animal Mutilations an UFOs” at pages 102-120), 504-505 (forming part of an entry entitled “Hoaxes” at pages 504-519) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

4

1992

Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 19 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “In The Beginning”) of the Publications International hardback edition.

1

2000

Clarke, David in “The UFOs that never were” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) by Jenny Randles, Andy Roberts and David Clarke at pages 21-24 (in Chapter 1, “Once Upon a Time in the West” by David Clarke) of the London House hardback edition.

4

1981

Cohen, Daniel in “The Great Airship Mystery” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 92-102 of the Dodd Mead hardback edition (in Chapter 7 generally, “The Great Kansas Cownapping”).

11

1978

Cohen, Daniel in his “The World of UFOs” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 15-18 (in Chapter 2) of the Lippincott hardback edition.

4

1995

Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44-45 (in Chapter 2) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

2

1996

Craft, Michael in his “Alien Impact” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 78 (in Chapter 5) of the St Martin’s Paperbacks paperback edition.

1

1985

Curran, Douglas in his “In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Deus Ex Machina”) of the updated 2001 Abbeville Press hardback edition.

1

1997

Dash, Mike in his “Borderlands” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 297-298 (in Chapter 8) of the Arrow paperback edition.

2

1969

Dione, R L in “God Drives a Flying Saucer” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 3-5 (in Chapter 1) of the Corgi paperback edition.

3

1966

Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Serious Business” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 6-8 (in Chapter 1) of the Bantam paperback edition, at pages 12-14 of the Mayflower-Dell paperback edition.

3

1967

Erskine, Allen Louis in his “Why Are They Watching Us?” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-24 (in Chapter 2) of the Tower paperback edition.

3

1998

Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 280 (in Section 4) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition.

1

1976

Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 113-114 (in Chapter 6) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

2

1975

Gaulding, Lyle in “Extraterrestrial Intervention: The Evidence” (1975) (edited by Bergier, Jacques and the Editors of INFO) at page 41 (in Part 2, unnumbered chapter entitled “Mysteries of the Airship Age”) of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1967

Greenfield, Irving A in his “The UFO Report” (1967) at pages 43-44 (in Chapter 5), 97 (in Chapter 11) of the Lancer paperback edition.

3

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 5 (in Chapter 1) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

1

1976

Hervey, Michael in his “UFOs : The American Scene” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 37-38 (in Chapter 4) of the Hale hardback edition.

2

1979

Holroyd, Stuart in his “Alien Intelligence” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 180 (in Chapter 7) of the David & Charles hardback edition.

1

1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 15 (in Chapter 1) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 12 of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1970

Keel, John A in his “UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 85-86 (in Chapter 5) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Abacus softcover edition).

2

1974

Klass, Philip J in his “UFOs Explained” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 256-257 (in Chapter 24, “Mysterious Airships of the 1890s”) of the Random House hardback edition, at pages 303-304 of Random House paperback edition.

2

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 page 27 (in Part 2) of the McGraw Hill hardback edition.

1

1999

Kurland, Michael in his “The Complete Idiot's Guide to Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 78-80 (in Chapter 8) of the Alpha Books softcover edition.

3

1976

Landsburg, Alan in his “In Search of Extraterrestrials” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 55-56 (in Chapter 5) of the Corgi paperback edition.

2

1968

Lore, Gordon and Harold Deneault in their “Mysteries of the Skies” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12-14 (in Chapter 1) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition.

3

1997

Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 260-261 (in Chapter 9) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

2

2003

Moffitt, John in his “Picturing Extraterrestrials : Alien Images in Modern Mass Culture” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 254-255 of the Prometheus hardback edition.

2

2002

Nixon, Neil in his “Pocket Essentials : UFOs” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 18 (in Chapter 1) of the Pocket Essentials softcover edition.

1

1982

Oberg, James in his “UFOs and Outer Space Mysteries” (1982) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 112 (in Chapter 5) of the Donning paperback edition.

1

1999

Randle, Kevin and Russ Estes and William Cone in their “The Abduction Enigma” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-118 (in Chapter 7) of the Forge hardback edition.

3

1997

Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ in their “Spaceships of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 31-33 (in Part 2) of the Fireside softcover edition.

3

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

1999

Randle, Kevin in his “Scientific Ufology” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 200-201 (in Chapter 7) of the Avon softcover edition.

2

1988

Randle, Kevin in his “The October Scenario” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 108, 110 (in Part 3, unnumbered section entitled “From Ancient Astronauts To The Great Airships”) of the Berkley paperback edition.

2

1994

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-23 (in Chapter 1) of the Piatkus softcover edition.

2

2000

Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 24 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the Sterling softcover edition.

1

1992

Randles, Jenny in her “UFOs and How to See Them” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 10 (in Chapter 1) of the Brockhampton Press hardback edition.

1

1994

Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 97 (in an entry entitled “Hamilton incident, Kansas, United States”) of the MJF hardback edition.

1

1996

Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 79-80 (in Chapter 3) of the Frog softcover edition.

2

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 177 of the Corgi softback edition in an entry entitled “Le Roy, Kansas” and included in a list entitled “Chronological list of UFO sightings” at page vii.

1

1989

Schellhorn, G Cope in his “Extraterrestrials in Biblical Prophecy” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 354 (in Chapter 17) of the Horus softcover edition.

1

1978

Seargent, D A J in his “UFOs: A Scientific Enigma” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 21 (in Chapter 1), 59 (in Chapter 2) of the Sphere paperback edition.

2

1976

Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at page 43 (in Chapter 4) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition.

1

1991

Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 137 (in an entry entitled “Hamilton, Alexander”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 156-157 of the Headline paperback edition.

1

1991

Spencer, John in his “UFOs: The Definitive Casebook” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 14 (in the unnumbered section entitled “North America”, in the chapter entitled “Database”) of the Hamlyn hardback edition.

1

1966

Stanton, L Jerome in his “Flying Saucers : Hoax or Reality?” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 81 (in Chapter 4) of the Belmont paperback edition.

1

1966

Steiger, Brad in his “Strangers from the Skies” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 35-36 (in Chapter 6) of the Award Books paperback edition.

2

1978

Stemman, Roy in his “Mysteries of the Universe: Great Mysteries” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 180-181 (in Chapter 9) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

2

1981

Story, Ronald in his “UFOs and the Limits of Science” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 33-37 (Chapter 1) of the NEL Hardback edition.

5

1977

Strickland, Joshua in his “Extra-terrestrials on Earth” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 70-71 (in Chapter 5) of the Granada softcover edition.

2

1987

Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 1) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition.

1

1965

Vallee, Jacques in his “Anatomy of a Phenomenon” (1965) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16-17 (in Chapter 1) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition), pages 17-20 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, pages 33-35 of the 1966 revised and enlarged Ace Star paperback edition.

2

1970

Vallee, Jacques in his “Passport to Magonia” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 45-46 (in Chapter 2) of the Regnery hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition.

2

1987

Watson, Nigel in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 27 of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition (Chapter 2.1.3, entitled “Before the Flying Saucers Came”).

1

1996

Watts, Alan in his “UFO Visitation” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 183-184 (in Chapter 18) of the Blandford softcover edition.

2

1975

Weldon, John and Levitt, Zola in their “Encounters With UFOs“ (1975) (formerly “UFOs, What on Earth is Happening?”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 34 (in Chapter 2) of the Harvest House paperback edition.

1

1979

Westrum, Ronald M in “UFO Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist” (1979) (edited by Richard F Haines) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 154 (in Chapter 8) of the Scarebrow Press hardback edition.

1

1988

Wilson, Clifford in his “The Alien Agenda” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 48 (in Chapter 5) 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 48 (in Chapter 5) of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1998

Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 31 (in Chapter 2) of the St Martin’s Press softcover edition.

1

1970

Young, Mort in “Flying Saucers Have Arrived!” (1970) (edited by Jay David) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 203 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Investigators”) of the World hardback edition. The relevant chapter is reprinted from “UFO : Top Secret” by Mort Young.

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