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BOAC stratocruiser sighting
On 29 June 1954, the British Overseas Airways Corporation (“B.O.A.C.” or “BOAC”) stratocruiser “Centaurus” sighting occurred near Goose Bay, Labrador during a flight from New York’s Idlewild Airport to London, involving pilot Captain James Howard and co-pilot Lee Boyd. (Commonly referred to as “the BOAC stratocruiser sighting”.)

This incident is Case 46 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 55 of the books covered by that article.

This case featured in a list of 5 cases which APRO nominated as being the best in a survey in 1965 by Jacques Vallee.

 

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/boacdir.htm
http://www.ufocasebook.com/1954ufomothership.html

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 BOAC stratocruiser sighting see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1979

Ball, Brian in his “A Young Person’s Guide to UFOs” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-13 (in Chapter 1) of the Dragon paperback edition.

3

1956

Barker, Gray in his “They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 182-184 (in Chapter 12) of the University Books hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the 1996 I-Net softcover edition).

3

1982

Beaty, David in his “Strange Encounters : Mysteries of the Air” (1982) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 146-148 (in Chapter 10) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

3

1967

Binder, Otto in his “What we really know about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 92 (in Chapter 8) of the Fawcett paperback edition.

1

1974

Blum, Ralph and Blum, Judy in their “Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 163 (in Chapter 14) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition).

1

2001

Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in “The World’s Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 436 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Aerial Kind”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition.

1

1986

Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in their “The World’s Greatest UFO Mysteries” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 173 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Aerial Kind”) of the Octopus hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Hamlyn softcover edition).

1

1984

Bowen, Charles in “The Age of the UFO” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 179 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Strange Encounters of Many Kinds”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”, Volume 1, page 7.

1

1995

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 58 (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”).

1

2003

Clark, Jerome in his “Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 187-189 (in Chapter 8) of the Citadel softcover edition.

3

1992

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 80-81 (in an entry entitled “BOAC Sighting”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

2

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Volume 1:A-K at pages 158-159 (in an entry entitled “BOAC Sighting”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

2

2009

Clarke, David in his “The UFO Files : The Inside Story of Real-Life Sightings” (2009) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 127-128 (in Chapter 6) of the National Archives softcover edition.

2

1969

Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) as Condon Case 1-D at pages 207-210 (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 139-140 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

4

1956

Constance, Arthur in his “The Inexplicable Sky” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 228-229 (in Chapter 8) of the Werner Laurie hardback edition.

2

1992

Davenport, Marc in his “Visitors from Time” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 121 (in Chapter 9) of the 1994 revised Greenleaf softcover edition.

1

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 pages 231-232 (in Chapter 5) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 154 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

2

1968

Downing, Barry in “The Bible and Flying Saucers” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 129-131 (in Chapter 5) of the Sphere paperback edition.

3

1974

Dutta, Rex in his “Reality of Occult/Yoga/Meditation/Flying Saucers” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 104 (in Chapter 7) of the Pelham Books hardback edition.

1

1964

Edwards, Frank in his “Strange World” (1964) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 21 (in Chapter 3) of the Ace paperback edition.

1

1983

Evans, Hilary in his “The Evidence for UFOs” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 99-100 (in Chapter 5, Case 58) of the Aquarian softcover edition.

2

1976

Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 325-326 (in Chapter 16) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

2

1969

Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 34 (in the Introduction) of the Putnam hardback edition.

1

1956

Gibbons, Gavin in his “The Coming of the Space Ships” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 142-144 (in Chapter 13) and on the final photographic plate of the Neville Spearman hardback edition.

3

1987

Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 184-186 (in Chapter 8) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition).

3

1996

Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 190-192 (in Chapter 10) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition).

3

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 225-226 (in Chapter 5) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

2

1976

Holzer, Hans in his “The UFOnauts” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 285 (in Chapter 10) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition.

1

1971

Kettelkamp, Larry in his “Investigating UFOs” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 30 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Sightings and Cases”) of the Target softcover edition.

1

1973

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 230 (in Chapter 15) of the Signet paperback edition, pages 258 of the Panther paperback edition.

1

1960

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers: Top Secret” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 43 (in Chapter 3) of the G P Putnam hardback edition.

1

1955

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “The Flying Saucer Conspiracy” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 135-138, 140-141 (in Chapter 12) of the Hutchinson hardback edition.

6

1969

Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “UFOs: The Whole Story” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 56-57 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition.

2

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 6 at page 46 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

1

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 page 26 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 78 (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

1

1964

NICAP in NICAP’s “The UFO Evidence” (1964) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 5 (in Section 1), 126 (in Section 10) 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

http://www.nicap.org/ufoe/section_10.htm

2

1977

Ortzen, Len in his “Strange Stories of UFOs” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 17 (in Chapter 2), 149 (in Chapter 18) of the Coronet paperback edition.

2

1987

Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 46-47 (in Chapter 7) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition.

2

1998

Randles, Jenny in her “Something in the Air” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 78-85 (in Chapter 6), 183 (in Chapter 13) of the Hale hardback edition.

9

2000

Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 277-278 (in Part 3, “UFOs Worldwide”) of the Sterling softcover edition.

2

1989

Robins, Joyce in her “The World’s Greatest Mysteries” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 126 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Mysteries of the Universe”) of the Treasure Press hardback edition.

1

2003

Sparks, Brad in version 1.7 of his “Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project BLUE BOOK UFO Unknowns” (2003) as Case Number 850 on page 119 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

1997

Spencer, John and Anne Spencer in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23-24 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1947-1957”) of the Boxtree hardback edition.

2

1987

Spencer, John in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 329 (in Chapter 5.3, entitled “UFOs and the Public”) of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition.

1

1991

Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 150-151 (in an entry entitled “Howard, Captain James”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 172 of the Headline paperback edition.

2

1991

Spencer, John in his “UFOs: The Definitive Casebook” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 35 (in the unnumbered section entitled “North America”, in the chapter entitled “Database”) of the Hamlyn hardback edition.

1

1978

Stemman, Roy in his “Mysteries of the Universe: Great Mysteries” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 138-139 (in Chapter 6) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

2

1979

Trench, Brinsley Le Poer (i.e. Lord Clancarty) in The House of Lords UFO Debate (1979.0118) at columns 1248-1249 in Hansard, House of Lords Fifth Series, Volume 397, debate section. Complete text of debate presented in “UFOs in the House of Lords – 1979” (2000) (series editor Tim Coates) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 1-128 of the TSO Publishing paperback edition, with the relevant text appearing at pages 7-8. Complete text of debate, with notes, presented by Michell, John in his “House of Lords UFO Debate” (1979) at pages 11-115 of the Pentacle softcover edition, with the relevant text appearing at pages 14-15.

2

1969

Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “Operation Earth” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 31 (in Chapter 4) of the Tandem paperback edition.

1

1966

Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “The Flying Saucer Story” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 33-35 (in Chapter 4) of the revised Tandem paperback edition.

3

1980

Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 77-79 (in Chapter 7) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

3

1996

Watts, Alan in his “UFO Visitation” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14-15 (in Chapter 1) of the Blandford softcover edition.

2

1980

Welfare, Simon and Fairley, John in their “Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 253 (in Chapter 10) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

1

1955

Wilkins, Harold in his “Flying Saucers Uncensored” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 88 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Unseen Worlds Without End : The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life”) of Pyramid paperback edition.

1

1955

Wilkins, Harold in his “Flying Saucers Uncensored” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 88 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Unseen Worlds Without End : The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life”), 126-127 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Strange Stories of Colossal Space Ships”) of Pyramid paperback edition.

3

1996

Wilson, Colin in his “World Famous UFOs” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 61 (in Chapter 3) of the Parragon softcover edition.

1

 

Other Material

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