"Impact" Rating = 12
"Credibility" Rating = 11
"Expert" Rating = 7
"Strangeness" Rating = 6
On 4 July 1947, the United Airlines Flight 105 sighting occurred involving Captain Emil J Smith, his co-pilot (Ralph Stevens) and a stewardess (Marty Morrow), near
Claims to fame
This incident is Case 67 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 43 of the books covered by that article.
Isaac Koi’s “ICES” Rating for this sighting = 5,544 (out of a potential score of 14*14*14*14 i.e. 38,416)
(1) “Impact” Rating of 12 (out of a potential score of 14), because it is Case 67 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article.
(2) “Credibility” Rating of 11 (out of a potential score of 14).
(2) “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 6 (out of a potential score of 14).
Sections below:
Web Resources
For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.nicap.org/470704edir.htm
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Captain Smith’s United Airlines report see the following:
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Arnold, Kenneth and Palmer, Ray in their “The Coming of the Saucers” (1952) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 15-19, 22 (in Chapter 1), 41 (in Chapter 2) of the Amherst softcover edition. |
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Arnold, Kenneth in Raymond A Palmer’s “The Real UFO Invasion” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74-75, 76-78 (in Chapter 5) of the Greenleaf paperback edition. |
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Bloecher, Ted in his “Report on the UFO Wave of 1947” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages I_8, I_9 (in Section I), III-10-III_11 (in Section III), Cases 285-286 (in Section V) of the privately published paperbound edition. |
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Blum, Ralph and Blum, Judy in their “Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 75 (in Chapter 7) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition). |
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Blundell, Nigel in his “World’s Most Amazing UFO Visits” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 22 of the Select softcover edition. |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 46 (in Chapter 3) 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”). |
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Clark, Jerome in his “Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 35-36, 37, 38 (in Chapter 2) of the Citadel softcover edition. |
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Collins, Jim in his “Unidentified Flying Objects” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-13 (in Chapter 2) of the Raintree hardback edition. |
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Dennett, Preston E in his “One in Forty : The UFO Epidemic” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 310 (in Chapter 42) of the KB hardback edition. |
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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. |
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Erskine, Allen Louis in his “Why Are They Watching Us?” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-81 (in Chapter 8) of the Tower paperback edition. |
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Fawcett, George and Greenwood, Barry in their “Clear Intent” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 151-154 (in Chapter 10) of the Spectrum softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Fireside softcover edition published under the title “The UFO Cover-Up”). |
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Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 167-169 (in Chapter 9) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 245-246 (in Chapter 11) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition). |
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Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 309, 311 (in Chapter 14) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition). |
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Greenfield, Irving A in his “The UFO Report” (1967) at pages 88-89 (in Chapter 10) of the Lancer paperback edition. |
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Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 47 (in Chapter 2) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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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 pages 158-159 (in Chapter 5) of the Xlibris softcover edition. |
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Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at page 86 (in Chapter 5) of the Box Tree hardback edition. |
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Heard, Gerald in his “The Riddle of the Flying Saucers: Is Another World Watching” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14-15 (in Chapter 1) of the Carroll & Nicholson hardback edition. |
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Hynek, J Allen in his “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 93-95 (in Chapter 5) of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at pages 102-104 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition). |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers: Top Secret” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 89 (in Chapter 6) of the G P Putnam hardback edition. |
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Lagrange, Pierre in “Phenomenon“ (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-37, 38 of the MacDonald hardback edition (Part |
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Leslie, Desmond in “Flying Saucers Have Landed” (1953) by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 15-16 (in Part 1, Chapter 1) of the Werner Laurie hardback edition, pages 15-16 of the 1970 revised Neville Spearman hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the revised Futura paperback edition). |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “UFOs: The Whole Story” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-31 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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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 1 at pages 41-42 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 |
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Michel, Aime in his “The Truth about Flying Saucers” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18-19 (in Part 1, Chapter 1) of the Robert Hale hardback edition, page 17 of the Pyramid paperback edition. |
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NICAP in its “The UFO Evidence” (1964) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 15 (in Section 2) and 38 (in Section 5, “Pilots & Aviation Experts”) of the privately published paperbound edition, with the same page numbering in the 1997 Barnes & Noble paperbound reprint. Available free on-line at: “ |
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Palmer, Raymond A in his “The Real UFO Invasion” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 67, 69 (in Chapter 5) of the Greenleaf paperback edition. |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 10 of the Smithsonian hardback edition, page 12 of the Berkley paperback edition (Chapter 2, “The Age of Confusion Begins” – in part of a section entitled “The 1947 Flap”). |
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Randle, Kevin D and Schmitt, Donald R in their “UFO Crash at Roswell“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 18 (in Part 1) of the Avon paperback edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Conspiracy of Silence” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 19 (in Chapter 1) of the |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Investigating the Truth Behind MIB” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 24, 26 (in Chapter 2) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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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 37 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at page 32 of the Ace paperback edition, at page 20 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at page 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: |
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Shawcross, Tim in his “The Roswell File” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 115, 120 (in Chapter 6) of the |
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Sparks, Brad in version 1.7 of his “Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 282 (in an entry entitled “Smith, Captain E J”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 332-333 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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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 |
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Strieber, Whitley in his “Majestic” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 42 (in Chapter 3) of the Futura paperback editions. |
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Sutherly, Curt in his “UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 19 (in Chapter 1) of the Llewellyn softcover edition. |
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Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “The Flying Saucer Story” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 3) of the revised Tandem paperback edition. |
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Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16-17 (in Chapter 1) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Other Material
Official US documents about this incident can be found online. See the material on the ambitious “Project Blue Book Archive” website in relation to Project Sign Incident Number 10 and also Project Blue Book Case Number 34, which commences at the links provided (and continues on the pages which follow them).
Listed as Project Sign Incident Number 10 in the microfilm records of Project Sign. The relevant case file is 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-SIGN1-81 (page 81 of 716) to the page with the PID of USAF-SIGN1-86 (page 86 of 716).
Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 34 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
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-PBB2-999 (page 999 of 1352) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB2-1009 (page 1009 of 1352).
http://www.bluebookarchive.org
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