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On 5 November 1957, Reinhold Schmidt, a grain buyer, claims to have spoken, in “high German”, to the crew of a UFO that had allegedly landed to make repairs near Kearney, Nebraska.

This incident is Case 76 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 38 of the books covered by that article. 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Wikipedia article at : Reinhold Schmidt encounter (1957)

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Reinhold Schmidt’s alleged encounter see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1992

Alnor, William M in his “UFO in the New Age” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 178 (in Chapter 10) of the Baker softcover edition.

1

1998

Bartholomew, Robert E and Howard, George S in their “UFOs and Alien Contact” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 307 (in Appendix A, entitled “The UFO Contact Catalogue”) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

1

1996

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.

1

1998

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.

1

1967

Chambers, Howard in his “UFOs for the millions” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 139-141 (in Chapter 11) of the Bell hardcover edition.

3

1998

Christopher, Paul in his “Alien Intervention: The Spiritual Mission of UFOs” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 81 (in Chapter 5) of the Huntington House softcover edition.

1

2000

Clark, Jerome in his “Extraordinary Encounters : An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 184 (in an entry entitled “Mr X”) of the ABC-Clio hardback edition.

1

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 297 (forming part of an entry entitled “Hoaxes”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition.

1

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 287-289 (in an entry entitled “Reinhold Schmidt Contact Claim”), 196 (in an entry entitled “Hoaxes Through 1959”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

4

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 2:L-Z at pages 822-823 (in an entry entitled “Schmidt Contact Claims”) 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 page 507 (forming part of an entry entitled “Hoaxes” at pages 504-519) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

1

1992

Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 90 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Into the Wild Blue”) of the Publications International hardback edition.

1

1992

Davenport, Marc in his “Visitors from Time” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 182 (in Chapter 13) of the 1994 revised Greenleaf softcover edition.

1

1999

Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 132-135 (in Chapter 5), 455 (in the Notes) of the Wiley softcover edition.

5

1974

Drake, W Raymond in his “Gods and Spacemen of the Ancient West” (1974) at page 24 (in Chapter 1) of the Sphere paperback edition.

1

1998

Evans, Hilary in his “From Other Worlds” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 123, 126 (in Chapter 5) of the Carlton hardback edition.

2

1998

Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 221-222 (in Section 3) with a one sentence summary at page 374 (in the Guide To Books) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition.

2

1981

Fowler, Raymond E in his “Casebook of a UFO Investigator” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12-14 (in Chapter 2) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition.

3

1976

Holzer, Hans in his “The UFOnauts” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 139-140 (in Chapter 6) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition.

2

1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 110 (in Chapter 5) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 125 of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1970

Keel, John A in his “UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 208-210 (in Chapter 11) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Abacus softcover edition).

3

1971

Keel, John A in his “Our Haunted Planet” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 34-35 (in Chapter 3), 129 (in Chapter 10) of the Fawcett paperback edition.

3

1975

Keel, John A in his “The Cosmic Question” (1975) (formerly “The Eighth Tower”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 118 (in Chapter 14) 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 pages 123-124 of the G P Putnam hardback edition (in Chapter 8).

2

1976

Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in “Encounters with UFO Occupants” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 175-176 (in Chapter 10) of the Berkley paperback edition.

2

1967

Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “Flying Saucer Occupants” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 123-124 (in Chapter 7) of the Signet paperback edition.

2

1969

Lorenzen, Coral in “The Humanoids” (1969) (edited by Charles Bowen) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-154 (in the 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.

2

1958

Mehane, Alexander in Aime Michel’s “Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery” (1958) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 270-271 (in the Appendix entitled “Saucer Wave in the United States”, section entitled “November 5: The German-Speaking Saucer Pilots of Kearney”) of the Criterion hardback edition.

2

1963

Menzel, Donald and Boyd, Lyle in their “The World of Flying Saucers” (1963) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 183-184 of the Doubleday hardback edition (in Chapter IX).

2

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 123-125 (in Chapter 9, in a section entitled “Reinhold O Schmidt”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 148-150 of the Berkley paperback edition.

3

1999

Poundstone, William in his “Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 94-95 (in the chapter entitled “Cambridge 1963-1968”) of the Owl Books softcover edition.

2

1998

Randle, Kevin D in his “Project Moon Dust” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 144-145 (in Chapter 7) of the Avon softcover edition.

2

1988

Randle, Kevin D in his “The October Scenario” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 169 (in Part 4, unnumbered section entitled “The October Scenario Revisited”) of the Berkley paperback edition.

1

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 283 (in an entry entitled “Schmidt, Reinhold O”) of the Corgi softback edition.

1

1966

Shklovskii, Iosef Shmuelovich and Sagan, Carl in their “Intelligent Life in the Universe” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13-19 (in Chapter 2) (referring to Schmidt using the pseudonym “Helmut Winckler”) of the Picador softcover edition.

7

1969

Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “Operation Earth” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 81-82 (in Chapter 12) of the Tandem paperback edition.

2

1973

Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “The Eternal Subject” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 67 (in Chapter 10) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition, at page 69 of the Day Book paperback editon (published under the title “Mysterious Visitors: The UFO Story”).

1

1988

Wilson, Clifford in his “The Alien Agenda” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 130 (in Chapter 10) of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1974

Wilson, Clifford in his “UFOs and Their Mission Impossible” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 130 (in Chapter 10) of the Signet paperback edition.

1

 

Other Material

Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 5122 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-PBB1-177 (page 177 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-PBB2-412 (page 412 of 1352) at the link below.

http://www.bluebookarchive.org

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