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Flight 19 incident

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On 5 December 1945, the Flight 19 incident (involving 5 Avenger torpedo bombers) occurred.

Related by some authors to UFOs and/or the Bermuda Triangle.

 

 

Claims to fame

This incident is Case 48 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 54 of the books covered by that article.

 

Isaac Koi’s “ICES” Rating for this sighting = 5,460 (out of a potential score of 14*14*14*14 i.e. 38,416)

(1) “Impact” Rating of 13 (out of a potential score of 14), because it is Case 95 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article.

(2) “Credibility” Rating of 12 (out of a potential score of 14) because the relevant planes did not return. The debate has centered on what happened to the planes rather than the credibility of the basic story. However, some of the details appear to have been embellished in several accounts.

(3) “Expert” Rating of 7 (out of a potential score of 14). It is given this neutral 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), but also is not commonly given by UFO researchers as an example of an incident that can be explained by hoax, misperception or other mundane cause.

(4)“Strangeness” Rating of 5 (out of a potential score of 14). The sighting has a relatively low strangeness rating since there is reasonably compelling evidence (presented by, particularly, Lawrence David Kusche) that the planes may simply have encountered stormy weather.

 

 

Sections below:

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

 

 

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Web Resources

Wikipedia article at : Flight 19 incident (1945)

This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 160570.

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Flight 19 see the following:

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1962

Bender, Albert K in his “Flying Saucers and the Three Men” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 13 (in Chapter 1) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition, at page 8 of the Paperback Library paperback edition.

1

1974

Berlitz, Charles in his “The Bermuda Triangle” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 2 (in Chapter 1), 12-21 (in Chapter 2) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

11

1977

Berlitz, Charles in his “Without a Trace” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 2, 9 (in Chapter 1), 19-20 (in Chapter 2), 70-71 (in Chapter 4), 136-137 (in Chapter 8) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition, at page 12, 21, 32-33, 89-91, 169-171 of the Granada paperback edition.

8

1968

Binder, Otto in his “Flying Saucers Are Watching Us” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44-45 (in Chapter 3) of the Belmont paperback edition.

2

1967

Binder, Otto in his “What we really know about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 142-143 (in Chapter 13) of the Fawcett paperback edition.

2

2004

Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 37-38 (in an entry entitled “Bermuda Triangle”) of the Pocket Books softcover edition.

2

1978

Briazack, Norman and Mennick, Simon in their “The UFO Guidebook” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 7 (in the Introduction) of the Citadel softcover 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 41-42 (in an entry entitled “Bermuda Triangle”) of the ABC-Clio hardback edition.

2

2003

Clark, Jerome in his “Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 152-154 (in Chapter 7) of the Citadel softcover edition.

3

1978

Cohen, Daniel in his “The World of UFOs” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 127-128 (in Chapter 16) of the Lippincott hardback edition.

2

1969

Dione, R L in “God Drives a Flying Saucer” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 128 (in Chapter 10) of the Corgi paperback edition.

1

1976

Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 137-138 (in Chapter 7) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

2

1983

Garrett, Richard in his “Aliens From Outer Space” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 111-112 (in Chapter 8) of the Piccolo paperback edition.

2

1988

Goldberg, Bruce in his “Time Travelers from our Future: An explanation of alien abduction” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 125-126 (in Chapter 7) of the Llewellyn softcover edition.

2

1992

Gordon, Stuart in his “The Paranormal - An Illustrated Encyclopedia” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74-75 (in the entry entitled “Bermuda Triangle”) of the Headline softcover edition.

2

1995

Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at pages 203-204 (in Chapter 11) of the Box Tree hardback edition.

2

1995

Hoggart, Simon & Hutchinson, Mike in their “Bizarre Beliefs” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 45, 48-49 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Bermuda Triangle”) of the Richard Cohen Books softcover edition.

3

1976

Holzer, Hans in his “The UFOnauts” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 283 (in Chapter 10) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition.

1

1973

Jeffrey, Adi-Kent Thomas in his “The Bermuda Triangle” (1973) at pages 131-141 (in Chapter 7) of the Warner paperback edition.

11

1955

Jessup, Morris K in his “The Case for the UFO” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 163-164 (in Part 3, unnumbered chapter entitled “Disappearing Planes”) of the Arco hardback edition, at pages 116-117 of the pdf document containing the transcription by the “The Quantum Future Group” of the Gray Barker reproduction of the annotated Varo Edition available online at: www.cassiopaea.org/cass/Varo-Jessup.PdF

2

1959

Jung, Carl in his “Flying Saucers” (1959) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 6 (in Chapter 1) of the RKP softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the ARK softcover edition).

1

1989

Keel, John A in “The Fringes of Reason” (1989) (edited by Ted Schultz) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 164 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Great Phonograph in the Sky”) of the Harmony Books softcover edition.

1

1971

Keel, John A in his “Our Haunted Planet” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 208-209 (in Chapter 15) of the Fawcett paperback edition.

2

1955

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “The Flying Saucer Conspiracy” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 232-235 of the Hutchinson hardback edition (in Chapter 19).

4

1980

Kole, Andre and Janssen, Al in their “From Illusion to Reality: A World Famous Illusionist Examines the Paranormal” (1980) at pages 77-78, 81 (in Chapter 7) of the Here’s Life Publishers softcover edition.

3

1975

Kusche, Lawrence David in his “The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18-20 (in Chapter 1), 98-119 (Chapter 22 generally) of the NEL paperback edition.

25

1974

Landsburg, Alan and Landsburg, Sally in their “In Search of Ancient Mysteries” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 78-83 (in Chapter 8) of the Corgi paperback edition.

6

1994

Little, Gregory in his “Grand Illusions” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 8 (in Chapter 1) of the White Buffalo softcover edition.

1

1977

Macvey, John W in his “Interstellar Travel” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 260-261 (in Chapter 15) of the Avon paperback edition.

2

1977

Magor, John in his “Our UFO Visitors” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 240 (in Chapter 12) of the Hancock House hardback edition.

1

1967

Michell, John in his “The Flying Saucer Vision” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 114-115 (in Chapter 6) of the Ace paperback edition.

2

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 112 of the Smithsonian hardback edition, at page 135 of the Berkley paperback edition (Chapter 8, “The Rise of NICAP”).

1

1974

Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at page 113 of the manuscript, at page 128 of the NIDS pdf version available free on-line on various websites, including at the following link: http://www.nidsci.org/pdf/quintanilla.pdf

1

1995

Randi, James in his “An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 25 (in the entry entitled “Bermuda Triangle”) of the St Martin’s Press hardback edition.

1

1994

Randles, Jenny in her “The Unexplained: Great Mysteries of the 20th Century” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-62 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1940-1949”) of the Index hardback edition.

3

1989

Robins, Joyce in her “The World’s Greatest Mysteries” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 54 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Human Mysteries”) of the Treasure Press hardback edition.

1

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 107-108 of the Corgi softback edition in an entry entitled “Flight 19”

2

1974

Salisbury, Frank in his “The Utah UFO Display: A Biologist’s Report” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 273 (in Appendix E) of the Devin Adair hardback edition.

1

1970

Sanderson, Ivan T in his “Invisible Residents” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 122, 127-129 (in Chapter 8) of the Tandem paperback edition.

4

1976

Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at pages 117-122 (in Appendix B) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition.

6

1991

Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 42 (in an entry entitled “Bermuda Triangle and UFOs”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 49-50 of the Headline paperback edition.

1

1969

Spencer, John Wallace in his “Limbo of the Lost” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 9, 10 (in Chapter 2) of the 1973 revised Bantam paperback edition.

2

1970

Steiger, Brad and Whritenour, Joan in “Flying Saucers Have Arrived!” (1970) (edited by Jay David) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 173-174 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Bizarre Mystery of M K Jessup and the Allende Letters”) of the World hardback edition. The relevant chapter is reprinted from “New UFO Breakthrough” by Brad Steiger and Joan Whritenour.

2

1976

Stoneley, Jack and A T Lawton in their “CETI: Communication with Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 215-216 (in Chapter 27) of the Star Books paperback edition.

2

2001

Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 107 (in an entry entitled “Bermuda Triangle-UFO link”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 105-106 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

1

2001

Story, Ronald in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 121, 122 (in an entry entitled “Bermuda Triangle-UFO link”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

2

1987

Time-Life (Editors of) in “Mystic places: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) at pages 42-43 (in Chapter 1) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition.

2

1969

Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “Operation Earth” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68-70 (in Chapter 11) of the Tandem paperback edition.

3

1974

Umland, Eric and Umland, Craig in their “Mysteries of the Ancients” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 62-63 (in Chapter 5) of the Panther paperback edition.

2

1992

Watson, Nigel and Slade, Darren in their “Supernatural Spielberg” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 24-25, 31-32 (in Chapter 3) of the Valis softcover edition.

4

1954

Wilkins, Harold in his “Flying Saucers on the Moon” (1954) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 250 (in Chapter 11) of the Peter Owen hardback edition, at page 243 of the Ace paperback edition published under the title “Flying Saucers on the Attack”.

1

1988

Wilson, Clifford in his “The Alien Agenda” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 58-59 (in Chapter 6) of the Signet paperback edition.

2

1974

Wilson, Clifford in his “UFOs and Their Mission Impossible” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 58-59 (in Chapter 6) of the Signet paperback edition.

2

1998

Wilson, Colin in his “Alien Dawn” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 168 (in Chapter 5) of the Virgin softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Virgin paperback edition).

1

1974

Winer, Richard in his “The Devil’s Triangle” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 1-24 (in Chapter 1 generally) of the Bantam paperback edition.

24

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