(Commonly referred to as “the Flatwoods Incident” or “the Flatwoods Monster”).
This incident is Case 38 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 61 of the books covered by that article.
This was Project Blue Book Case Number 2078.
This incident featured in a list of cases produced by Greg Bishop for the Fortean Times in 2007 as part of a survey of various researchers of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most.
Web Resources
Wikipedia article at : Flatwoods incident (September 1952)
This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 129138.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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Flatwoods Monster see the following:
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Baker, Alan in his “The Encyclopaedia of Alien Encounters” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-81 (in an entry entitled “Flatwoods, West Virginia”) of the Virgin hardback edition. |
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Barker, Gray in “Flying Saucers Have Arrived!” (1970) (edited by Jay David) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 122-124 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Hilltop, West Virginia”) of the World hardback edition. The relevant chapter is reprinted from “They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers” by Gray Barker. |
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Barker, Gray in his “They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 15-22 (in Chapter 1), 23-35 (in Chapter 2) of the University Books hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the 1996 I-Net softcover edition). |
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Bender, Albert K in his “Flying Saucers and the Three Men” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 56 (in Chapter 5), 61 (in Chapter 6), 99 (in Chapter 11), 140-141 (in Chapter 16) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition, at pages 45-46, 50, 81, 116 of the Paperback Library paperback edition. |
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Bergier, Jacques in his “Extraterrestrial Visitations From Prehistoric Times to the Present” (1970) at pages 149-150 (in Chapter 9) of the Signet paperback edition, at pages 168-169 of the Futura paperback edition (published under the title “Mysteries of the Earth”). |
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Brennan, Herbie in his “The Aliens Handbook” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 26 (in Chapter 4) of the Faber and Faber 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 54 (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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Bullard, Thomas E in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 3 – High Strangeness” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 583 (forming part of an entry entitled “Waves”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Bullard, Thomas E in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Volume 2:L-Z at page 1019 (forming part of an entry entitled “Waves” at pages 1004-1023) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Chalker, Bill in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 183 (in Chapter 3.4.1, entitled “Physical Traces”) of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition. |
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Christopher, Paul in his “Alien Intervention: The Spiritual Mission of UFOs” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 32, 34-35, 36 (in Chapter 2), 141 (in Chapter 8) of the Huntington House softcover edition. |
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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 144-146 (in an entry entitled “Flatwoods Monster”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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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 409-412 (in an entry entitled “Flatwoods Monster”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Cohen, Daniel in his “A Modern Look at Monsters” (1970) at pages 223-228, 233-234 (in Chapter 8) of the Tower paperback edition. |
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Cohen, Daniel in his “The Encyclopedia of Monsters” (1982) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 198-200 (in Chapter 7) of the Guild Publishing hardback edition. |
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Cohen, Daniel in his “The World of UFOs” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 87-88 and 91 (in Chapter 11) of the Lippincott 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 pages 183-184 (in Chapter 4) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 115 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Serious Business” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 90 (in Chapter 7) of the Bantam paperback edition, at page 97 of the Mayflower-Dell paperback edition. |
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Friedman, Stanton in his “Flying Saucers and Science : A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 227 (in Chapter 9) of the New Page softcover edition. |
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Gansberg, Alan and Gansberg, Judith in their “Direct Encounters: The Personal Histories of UFO Abductees” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 43-44 (in Chapter 2) of the Walker & Co hardback edition. |
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Guieu, Jimmy in his “Flying Saucers Come From Another World” (1956) (edited by Ronald Story) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 241-243 (in Chapter 11) of the Hutchinson hardback 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 192-193 (in Chapter 7) of the Rose Press softcover edition. |
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Holzer, Hans in his “The UFOnauts” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 30 (in Chapter 2) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition. |
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Huyghe, Patrick in his “The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 56-57 (in the unnumbered section entitled “Humanoid”) of the Avon softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the NEL softcover edition). |
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Keel, John A in Gray Barker’s “They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 5 (in the Introduction) of the 1996 I-Net softcover edition. |
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Keel, John A in his “Disneyland of the Gods” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 143 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Other Realities”) of the I-Net softcover edition. |
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Keel, John A in his “The Cosmic Question” (1975) (formerly “The Eighth Tower”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 119-122 (in Chapter 14) of the Panther paperback edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers from Outer Space” (1953) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-120 (in Chapter 7) of the Henry Holt hardback edition, page 118-119, 120-122 of the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in “Encounters with UFO Occupants” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 169-170 (in Chapter 10) of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “Flying Saucer Occupants” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-117 (in Chapter 7) of the Signet 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 47-48 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral E in her “The Great Flying Saucer Hoax” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 200 (in Chapter 13) of the APRO hardback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral in “Flying Saucers : the Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space” (1966) (an enlarged version of her “The Great Flying Saucer Hoax” (1962)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 77-78 (in Chapter 6) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral in “The Humanoids” (1969) (edited by Charles Bowen) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 144-145 (unnumbered chapter entitled “UFO Occupants in United States Reports”) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Futura paperback edition. |
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Menzel, Donald and Boyd, Lyle in their “The World of Flying Saucers” (1963) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 137-138 (in Chapter 7) of the Doubleday hardback edition. |
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Moseley, James and Pflock, Karl in their “Shockingly Close to the Truth!” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 119 (in Chapter 5) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Nesheim, Eric and Nesheim, Leif in their “Saucer Attack! : Pop Culture in the Golden Age of Flying Saucers” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 58 of the General Publishing softcover edition. |
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Nickell, Joe in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 194-200 (in the entry entitled “Flatwoods (West Virginia) Monster”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 191-197 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Nickell, Joe in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 194-200 (in an entry entitled “Flatwoods (West Virginia) Monster”) of the New American Library softcover edition. |
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Nickell, Joe in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 234-240 (in the entry entitled “Flatwoods (West Virginia) Monster”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Nickell, Joe in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 234-240 (in an entry entitled “Flatwoods (West Virginia) Monster”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Nickell, Joe in his “Investigating the Paranormal” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 301-311 (in Chapter 46 generally) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition. |
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Nickell, Joe in his article “Investigative Files: The Flatwoods UFO Monster” (2000), Skeptical Inquirer, Volume 24, Number 6, November/December 2000, at pages 15-19. Article available online at: http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-11/i-files.html |
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Norman, Eric (pseudonum of Warren Smith) in his “Gods, Demons and Space Chariots” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 7 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Angels, Spacemen and UFO’s”) of the Lancer paperback edition. |
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Olsen, Thomas M in his “The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 3_18 (in Chapter 3) of the UFOIRC spiral-bound edition. |
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Phillips, Ted in his “Physical Traces associated with UFO Sightings” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 9 (in Part C) of the CUFOS paperbound edition. |
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Randle, Kevin D and Estes, Russ in their “Faces of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 24-26 (in Part 1) of the Fireside softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin D in his “Project Moon Dust” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-61 (in Chapter 2) of the Avon softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Alien Contact – The First Fifty Years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in the chapter entitled “1952”) of the Collins and Brown hardback edition. |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 83 (in an entry entitled “Flatwoods, West Virginia, incident, United States”) of the MJF hardback edition. |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 106-107 (in an entry entitled “Flatwoods, West Virginia”) and included in a list entitled “Chronological list of UFO sightings” at page viii of the Corgi softback edition. |
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Sanderson, Ivan T in his “Uninvited Visitors” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 40-55 (in Chapter 3), 80 (in Chapter 5), 150 (in Chapter 8) of the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Smith, Susy in her “Strangers from Space” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 126 (in Chapter 15) of the Manor paperback edition. |
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Smith, Warren in his “UFO Trek” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 65 (in Chapter 4) of the Sphere paperback edition. |
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Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 101-102 (in Chapter Five) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Steiger, Brad in his “Strangers from the Skies” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13-14 (in Chapter 2) of the Award Books paperback edition. |
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Stemman, Roy in his “Mysteries of the Universe: Great Mysteries” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 205 (in Chapter 10) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Story, Ronald in his “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 127-128 (in an entry entitled “Flatwoods (West Virginia) monster”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Passport to Magonia” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 200 (in the Appendix entitled “A Century of UFO Landings (1868-1968)”) of the Regnery hardback edition, with the relevant Appendix omitted from the Tandem paperback edition. |
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White, Dale in his “Is Something Up There?” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-82 (in Chapter 7) of the Scholastic Book Services paperback edition. |
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Wilkins, Harold in his “Flying Saucers Uncensored” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 79 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Messages From Outer Space?”) of Pyramid paperback edition. |
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Wilkins, Harold T in “Flying Saucers Have Arrived!” (1970) (edited by Jay David) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 120 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Messages From Outer Space?”) of the World hardback edition. The relevant chapter is reprinted from “Flying Saucers Uncensored” by Harold T Wilkins. |
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Wood, Ryan in his “MAJIC Eyes Only” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 107-109 of the Wood Enterprises hardback edition. |
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Other Material
Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 2078 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-PBB1-82 (page 82 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-PBB2-315 (page 315 of 1352) at the link below.
http://www.bluebookarchive.org
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