On 10 September 1951, there was an incident involving a student radar operator at the Fort Monmouth, New Jersey radar center, with further radar and visual sighting reports in the area later the same day and on the following day.
Web Resources
For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.nicap.org/monmouthdir.htmThere 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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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.
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Bennett, Colin in his “An American Demonology : Captain Edward J Ruppelt and the official UFO investigation of the United States Air Force” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 49-58 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Chain of Being”), 112 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Set of Correspondences”) of the Headpress softcover 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 pages 92-93 (in Chapter 8) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition). |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 34-35 (in Chapter 2) of the Parragon hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 238-241 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition in an entry entitled “Fort Monmouth Radar/Visual Case”. |
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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 161-163 of the Omnigraphics hardback edition in an entry entitled “Fort Monmouth Radar/Visual Case”. Also mentioned at page 131 of the Omnigraphics hardback edition in an entry entitled “Daylight Discs, 1947-1959”. |
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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 pages 430-432 (in an entry entitled “Fort Monmouth Radar/Visual Case”), 322 (in an entry entitled “Daylight Discs”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 857-859 (in Section 5, Chapter 2 “UFOs: 1947-1968”, by Edward U Condon) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at pages 511-512 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links: http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.html |
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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 pages 153-154 (in Chapter 3) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 91-92 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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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 pages 40-46, 47-53 (in Chapter 2) of the Rose Press softcover 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 150 (in Chapter 4) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at pages 100-102 (in Chapter 6), 226 (in Chapter 12) of the Box Tree hardback edition. |
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Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 64-65 and 86 of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 55-56 and 75-76 of the Signet paperback edition (in Chapter 3). |
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Kinder, |
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Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 200-201 (in Chapter 18) of the Llewellyn softcover 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 31 at page 66 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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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 54-55 (Chapter 5, “The 1952 Flap” – in part of a section entitled “The Fort Monmouth Sightings”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 64-66 of the |
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Project Grudge Special Report Number 1 (1951.1228) generally, particularly at pages 1-7. Complete images of relevant report included on the redacted National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 85 (“Administrative Files: Box 1”), at the link below from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB85-540 (page 540 of 915) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB85-548 (page 548 of 915). Complete images of the Project Grudge Status Report Number 1 included on the unredacted Maxwell Air Force Base microfilm roll number 30,362, at the link below from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-520 (page 520 of 1537) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-528 (page 528 of 1537)). Images of complete text of relevant report available free online as a downloadable pdf file from the download section of the website at the link below: |
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Project Grudge Status Report Number 1 (1951.1130) at page 1 of Appendix 6. Complete images of Project Grudge Status Report Number 1 (1951.1130) included on the redacted National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 85 (“Administrative Files: Box 1”), at the link below from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB85-518 (page 518 of 915) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB85-539 (page 539 of 915). Complete images of the relevant report included on the unredacted Maxwell Air Force Base microfilm roll number 30,362, at the link below from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-498 (page 498 of 1537) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-519 (page 519 of 1537)). Images of complete text of relevant report available free online as a downloadable pdf file from the download section of the website at the link below: |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Scientific Ufology” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 34-36 (in Chapter 3) of the |
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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 pages 91-93 (in Chapter 7), 111 (in Chapter 9) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at pages 127-129, 151 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 124-126, 149 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 91-93, 111 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at pages 66-67, 81 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 |
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Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at page 103 (in Appendix A) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 119 (in an entry entitled “Fort Monmouth, New Jersey”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 135 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 56 (in Chapter 3) of the |
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Stemman, |
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Sturrock, Peter in his “The UFO Enigma“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 13 (in Chapter 2) of the Warner Aspect hardback edition. |
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Thompson, Richard in his “Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Pheonemena” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 82 (in Chapter 3) of the GHP revised softcover edition. |
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Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 49 (in Chapter 2) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition. |
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Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 69-70 (in Chapter 7) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Other Material
Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 977 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-PBB1-42 (page 42 of 1014) at the link below.
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-PBB2-273 (page 273 of 1352) at the link below. The relevant case file is included on Maxwell microfilm roll number 30,370 – at the link below from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB9-136 (page 136 of 1452) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB9-223 (page 223 of 1452).
http://www.bluebookarchive.orgPlease use the comments section below to share references to any particularly interesting relevant articles.