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The Rapid City, South Dakota, radar-visual jet case incident occurred on 5-6 August 1953.

[Date to be checked - There has been some confusion over the date of this incident. Ruppelt states a date of 12 August 1953, which is repeated by several authors. Project Blue Book documents indicate the date was 5 August 1953].

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:

http://www.nicap.org/ellsworthdir.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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 the Rapid City incident see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1967

Binder, Otto in his “What we really know about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 35-36 (in Chapter 3), 91 (in Chapter 8), 115-116 (in Chapter 11) of the Fawcett paperback edition.

5

1969

Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) as radar incident 15-B at pages 196-203 (in Section 3, Chapter 5 “Optical and Radar Analyses of Field Cases”, by Gordon D Thayer) 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 132-136 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

8

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 209 (in Chapter 5) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 135-136 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 page 210 (in Chapter 4) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

1

1995

Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at page 95 (in Chapter 5) of the Box Tree hardback edition.

1

1973

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 41 (in Chapter 3) of the Signet paperback edition, page 55 of the Panther paperback edition.

1

1955

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “The Flying Saucer Conspiracy” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 92 (in Chapter 8) of the Hutchinson hardback edition.

1

1963

Menzel, Donald and Boyd, Lyle in their “The World of Flying Saucers” (1963) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 167-171 (in Chapter 8) of the Doubleday hardback edition.

5

1964

NICAP in its “The UFO Evidence” (1964) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 4 (in Section 1) of the privately published paperbound edition, with the same page numbering in the 1997 Barnes & Noble paperbound reprint. Available free online at:

http://www.nicap.org/ufoe/section_1.htm

1

1953

Project Blue Book Status Report Number 12 (1953.0930) at pages 20-23 (in Section 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-PBB85-882 (page 882 of 915) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB85-915 (page 915 of 915). Complete images of 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-PBB1-852 (page 852 of 1537) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-885 (page 885 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.

http://www.bluebookarchive.org

4

1967

Ruppelt, Edward J in “The Flying Saucer Reader” (1967) (edited by Jay David) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41-44 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Chase in Rapid City, South Dakota”) of the Signet paperback edition. The relevant chapter is reprinted from “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” by Edward J Ruppelt.

4

1956

Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 232-235 (in Chapter 17) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at pages 302-306 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 304-308 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 232-235 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at pages 167-169 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

4

2003

Sparks, Brad in version 1.7 of his “Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project BLUE BOOK UFO Unknowns” (2003) as Case Number 789 on page 110 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

1

1978

Stemman, Roy in his “Mysteries of the Universe: Great Mysteries” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 135-137 (in Chapter 6) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

3

 

Other Material

Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 2668 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-PBB1-102 (page 102 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-PBB2-335 (page 335 of 1352) at the link below.

http://www.bluebookarchive.org

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