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On 4 July 1947, there was a series of sightings in Portland, Oregon involving various police officers and civilians.

 

 

 

 

 

Sections below:

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Portland, Oregon sightings see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

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 163 (in Chapter 12) of the Prometheus softcover edition.

1

1967

Bloecher, Ted in his “Report on the UFO Wave of 1947” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages I_8 (in Section I), III_15-III_16 (in Section III), IV_1 (in Section IV), Cases 227-231, 233-235, 239, 244, 248 (in Section V) of the privately published paperbound edition.

15

 

1996

Blundell, Nigel in his “World’s Most Amazing UFO Visits” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 21-22 of the Select softcover edition.

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

2000

Dolan, Richard M in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 48 (in Chapter 2) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 19 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

1

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 45-46 (in Chapter 2) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

2

1997

Hesemann, Michael and Mantle, Philip in their “Beyond Roswell” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 4 (in Chapter 1) of the Michael O’Mara hardback edition.

1

1998

Mannion, Michael in his “Project Mindshift” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 48 (in Chapter 2) of the Evans hardback edition.

1

1968

McDonald, James E in his prepared statement to the Roush Hearing (the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics “Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects” on 1968.0729) as Case 19 at page 58 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Complete transcript available free online at the following links:

http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/contents.html http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/contents.html

1

1967

McDonald, James E in Ted Bloecher’s “Report on the UFO Wave of 1947” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages viii-ix (in the Introduction) of the privately published paperbound edition.

2

1966

Olsen, Thomas M in his “The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 3_2 (in Chapter 3) of the UFOIRC spiral-bound edition.

1

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 10 (in Chapter 2, “The 1947 Flap”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, at page 11of the Berkley paperback edition.

1

1999

Randle, Kevin in his “Scientific Ufology” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14-17, 30-31 (in Chapter 2) of the Avon softcover edition.

6

1956

Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in Chapter 2) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at page 36 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 31-32 of the Ace paperback edition, at page 20 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at page 13-14 of the reprinted Source Books softcover edition. The first of these editions (i.e. the original 17 chapter hardback edition) has the same page numbering as the version available online at:

http://www.nicap.org/rufo/contents2.htm

1

2003

Sparks, Brad in version 1.7 of his “Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project BLUE BOOK UFO Unknowns” (2003) as Case Numbers 16-20 on pages 7-8 of the PDF edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). Both editions are available online, respectively at the following links:

http://www.cufos.org/BB_Unknowns_1_7.pdf

http://www.nicap.org/bluebook/CufosBBUnknowns.doc

2

1966

Stanton, L Jerome in his “Flying Saucers : Hoax or Reality?” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 33 (in Chapter 2) of the Belmont paperback edition.

1

 

Other Material

Listed as Project Sign Incident Number 5, Project Sign Incident Number 7, Project Sign Incident Number 8, Project Sign Incident Number 9, Project Sign Incident Number 13, Project Sign Incident Number 14 and Project Sign Incident Number 15 in the microfilm records of Project Sign. The relevant case files are included on Roll Number 1 of the Project Sign microfilm collection, at the link below from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of USAF-SIGN1-39 (page 39 of 716) to the page with the PID of USAF-SIGN1-48 (page 48 of 716) and from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of USAF-SIGN1-59 (page 59 of 716) to the page with the PID of USAF-SIGN1-81 (page 81 of 716) and from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of USAF-SIGN1-101 (page 101 of 716) to the page with the PID of USAF-SIGN1-110 (page 110 of 716).

Listed as Project Blue Book Case Numbers 29, 30, 31, 32 on the redacted US National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book, released to the National Archives in 1975 – see National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 1. An image of the relevant index page has been given the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB1-13 (page 13 of 1014) at the link below. The relevant case file is included on National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 1 – at the link below from the page with the PID of NARA-PBB1-753 (page 753 of 1014) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB1-794 (page 794 of 1014).

Listed (without a Project Blue Book Case Number) on the unredacted Maxwell Air Force Base (“Maxwell”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book – see Maxwell microfilm roll number 30,363. An image of the relevant index page has been given the unique Page ID (“PID”) of MAXW-PBB2-244 (page 244 of 1352) at the link below. The relevant case file is included on Maxwell microfilm roll number 30,363 – at the link below from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB2-937 (page 937 of 1352) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB2-989 (page 989 of 1352).

http://www.bluebookarchive.org

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