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On 17 March 1950, the Farmington, New Mexico incident involved reports of an “armada” of flying saucers.

This incident is Case 97 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 28 of the books covered by that article.

 

Isaac Koi’s “ICES” Rating for this sighting = 5,390 (out of a potential score of 14*14*14*14 i.e. 38,416)

(1) “Impact” Rating of 11 (out of a potential score of 14), because it is Case 97 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article.

(2) “Credibility” Rating of 14 (out of a potential score of 14) because something clearly was seen by multiple witnesses. The debate regarding this incident has centered on what (if any) mundane explanation is available for these sightings.

(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 5 (out of a potential score of 14). The sighting has a relatively low strangeness rating since several researchers have put forward plausible mundane explanations for the sightings.

 

 

Sections below:

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

  

 

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Web Resources

For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case880.htm

This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 33879.

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1978

Barry, Bill in his “Ultimate Encounter” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 178 (in Chapter 14) of the Corgi paperback edition.

1

1968

Cathie, Bruce in his “Harmonic 33” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 59-60 (in Chapter 7) of the revised Sphere paperback edition.

2

1967

Chambers, Howard in his “UFOs for the millions” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 27 (in Chapter 3) of the Bell hardcover edition.

1

1972

Dutta, Rex in his “Flying Saucer Message” (1972) at page 110 (in The Appendix) of the Pelham Books hardback edition.

1

1957

Gardner, Martin in his “Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science” (1957) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 58-59 (in Chapter 5) of the Dover softcover edition.

2

2000

Hall, Michael David and Connors, Wendy Ann in their “Captain Edward J Ruppelt : Summer of the Saucers - 1952” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in Chapter 1) of the Rose Press softcover edition.

1

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 130 (in Chapter 3) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

1

1972

Hartmann, William K in “UFO's: A Scientific Debate” (1972) (edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 13 (in Chapter 2) of the Barnes and Noble hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Norton paperback edition.

1

1950

Heard, Gerald in his “The Riddle of the Flying Saucers: Is Another World Watching” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 55 (in Chapter 7) of the Carroll & Nicholson 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 9 at pages 47-48 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

2

1968

McDonald, James E in the Roush Hearing (the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics "Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects" on 1968.0729) at pages 24-25 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Edited and annotated transcript presented by Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969), with the relevant extract appearing at page 75 (in Chapter 2) of the Putnam hardback edition. Complete transcript available free online at the following links:

http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/contents.html

http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/contents.html

2

1963

Menzel, Donald and Lyle Boyd in their “The World of Flying Saucers” (1963) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48-49 (in Chapter III) of the Doubleday hardback edition.

2

2002

Moseley, James and Pflock, Karl in their “Shockingly Close to the Truth!” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 87-90 (in Chapter 4) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

4

1980

Paget, Peter in his “UFO-UK” (1980) at page 124 (in Chapter 9) of the New English Library paperback edition.

1

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 44 (in (Chapter 4, “The Myth Defined” – in part of a section entitled “The Questions Grow”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 51-52 of the Berkley paperback edition.

1

1974

Rehn, K Gosta in his “UFOs Here and Now” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 63 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Fresh Contributions from Scientists”) of the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition.

1

1987

Ross, Daniel in his “UFOs and the Complete Evidence from Space: The Truth About Venus, Mars and the Moon” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 50-51 (in Chapter 3) of the Pintado softcover edition.

2

1956

Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 75-76 (in Chapter 6) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at pages 106-107 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 103-104 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 75-76 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at page 55 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 free online at: http://www.nicap.org/rufo/contents2.htm

2

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 101 (in an entry entitled “Farmington, New Mexico”) of the Corgi softback edition.

1

1950

Scully, Frank in his “Behind the Flying Saucers” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16-19 (in Chapter 1) of the Henry Holt hardback edition.

4

1966

Stanton, L Jerome in his “Flying Saucers : Hoax or Reality?” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 46-47 (in Chapter 3) of the Belmont paperback edition.

2

1986

Stevens, Wendelle and Roberts, August in their “UFO Photographs: Around The World: Vol. 1” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 227-228 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Appendix 1 : Catalogue of UFO Photographic Reports”) of the UFO Photo Archives hardback edition.

2

1966

Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “The Flying Saucer Story” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 26-27 (in Chapter 3) of the revised Tandem paperback edition.

2

1965

Vallee, Jacques in his “Anatomy of a Phenomenon” (1965) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 57 (in Chapter 3) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition), page 62 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, page 97 of the 1966 revised and enlarged Ace Star paperback edition.

1

1994

Vesco, Renato and Childress, David Hatcher in their “Man Made UFOs 1944-1994 – 50 Years of Suppression” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 38 (in Chapter 2) of the AUP softcover edition.

1

1971

Vesco, Renato in his “Intercept Ufo” (Formerly published as “Intercept - But Don't Shoot”) (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 38 (in Chapter 2) of the Zebra paperback edition.

1

1980

Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 55 (in Chapter 4) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

1

1954

Wilkins, Harold in his “Flying Saucers on the Moon” (1954) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 128 (in Chapter 7) of the Peter Owen hardback edition, at page 120 of the Ace paperback edition published under the title “Flying Saucers on the Attack”.

1

Other Material

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