This incident involved pilot Lt. Felix Moncla Jr and radar observer Lt R R Wilson.
This incident is Case 54 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 52 of the books covered by that article.
This incident came seventh in a survey in 1965 by Jacques Vallee of the opinion of various UFO groups as to the most significant UFO sightings.
Web Resources
For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.nicap.org/kinrossdir.htm
http://cufon.org/kinross/Kinross_acc_rept.htm
Wikipedia article at : Kinross incident (November 1953)
This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 136651.Text, and limited images, of relevant USAF aircraft mishap report available online at: http://cufon.org/kinross/Kinross_acc_rept.htm
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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.
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For discussion of the Kinross incident see the following:
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Baker, Alan in his “Sci-Fi Channel: True Life Encounters: UFO Sightings” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 192 (in Chapter 7) of the Orion softcover edition. |
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Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in “The World’s Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 422-423 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Aerial Kind”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition. |
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Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in their “The World’s Greatest UFO Mysteries” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 161 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Aerial Kind”) of the Octopus hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Hamlyn softcover edition). |
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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 144-151 (in Chapter 7), 228-229 (in the Notes) of the Citadel softcover 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 329-331 (in an entry entitled “Kinross Case”) of the Visible Ink Press 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 222-224 (in an entry entitled “Kinross Case”) 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 561-562 (in an entry entitled “Kinross Case”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 35-36 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “UFOs: The Official Story”) of the Publications International hardback edition. |
2 |
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Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 56-57 (in Chapter 3) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
2 |
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Crockett, Art in “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (edited by Milt Machlin) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 157 (in Chapter 6) of the Dale paperback edition. |
1 |
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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 311 (in Chapter 42) of the KB hardback edition. |
1 |
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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 213-214 (in Chapter 5) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 138 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover 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 63-64 (in Chapter 5) 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 327-330 (in Chapter 16) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Fowler, Raymond E in his “UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 291-293 (in Chapter 15) of the Exposition Banner hardback edition, at pages 282-284 of the Bantam paperback edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 265-266 (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 “Alien Base” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 158 (in Chapter 8) of the Century hardback edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 339 (in Chapter 14) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition). |
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Green, Gabriel with Smith, Warren in their “Let’s face the facts about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 94-95 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Raiders from the Skies”) of the Popular Library paperback 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 230-231 (in the Conclusion) of the Rose Press softcover edition. |
2 |
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Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 212-213 (in Chapter 4) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
2 |
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Hall, Richard in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 299-300 (in an entry entitled “Kinross (Michigan) jet chase”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 293 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Hall, Richard in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 197-198 (in an entry entitled “Kinross (Michigan) jet chase”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
2 |
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Hall, Richard in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 359-360 (in an entry entitled “Kinross (Michigan) jet chase”) of the Robinson 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 212-213 (in Chapter 6) of the Xlibris softcover edition. |
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Harney, John in his article “Disappearing Planes”, Magonia ETH Bulletin Number 9. Available online at: http://www.magonia.demon.co.uk/arc/00/09.htm |
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Hervey, Michael in his “UFOs : The American Scene” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 51 (in Chapter 5) of the Hale hardback edition. |
1 |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 166-168 (in Chapter 11) of the Signet paperback edition, pages 191-192 of the Panther 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 pages 42 (in Chapter 3), 84 (in Chapter 6)of the G P Putnam hardback edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “The Flying Saucer Conspiracy” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-20 (in Chapter 1), 229, 230, 231 (in Chapter 19) of the |
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Maccabee, Bruce in Richard Haines’ “Melbourne Episode: Case Study of a Missing Pilot” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 1 (in the Foreword) of the LDA softcover edition. |
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Maney, Charles And Hall, Richard in their “Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects” (1961) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 13 (in Part 1, Chapter |
1 |
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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 154-155 (Chapter 8) of the Doubleday hardback 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 114-115 (in Section 9) 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_9.htm |
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Ortzen, Len in his “Strange Stories of UFOs” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 56-57 (in Chapter 7) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
2 |
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Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ in their “Spaceships of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 193-194 (in Part 4) of the Fireside softcover edition. |
2 |
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Randle, Kevin D in his “Project Moon Dust” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 164-169, 177-178 (in Chapter 9) of the |
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Randle, Kevin D in his “The UFO Casebook” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 77-81 (entry entitled “November 23, 1953: The Kinross Disappearance”) and at page 172 of the Warner Books paperback 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 23 (in the chapter entitled “1953”) of the Collins and Brown hardback edition. |
1 |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 46 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 119 (in an entry entitled “Kinross incident, |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 70 (in Chapter 3) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Sachs, Margaret and Jahn, Ernest in their “Celestial Passengers – UFOs & Space Travel” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 118-121 (in Chapter 17 generally) of the Penguin paperback edition. |
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Smith, Susy in her “Strangers from Space” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 144-145 (in Chapter 17) of the Manor paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 177 (in an entry entitled “Kinross Air Force Base”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 204-205 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Steiger, Brad in his “The UFO Abductors” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 26 (in Chapter 2) of the |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Anatomy of a Phenomenon” (1965) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 237 of the 1966 revised and enlarged Ace Star paperback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact“ (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 113 (in Chapter 9) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 77 (in Chapter 7) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Von Daniken, Erich in his “Chariots of the Gods?” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 156-157 (in Chapter 10) of the World Books hardback edition, at page 118 of the Bantam paperback editions. |
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Weldon, John and Levitt, Zola in their “Encounters With UFOs“ (1975) (formerly “UFOs, What on Earth is Happening?”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 159-160 (in Appendix 1) of the Harvest House paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Damon in his “Strange But True: Aliens” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 102 (in Chapter 6) of the Select softcover edition. |
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