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On 17 March 1947, the US Navy contract for development of a plane with a flat circular body is terminated.

The plane had the military designation XF-5U-1 and was based on the lighter Chance Vought V-173 prototype (also known as the Zimmerman “Flying Pancake”, the “Flying Pancake” and the “Navy Flounder”) which had been flown for the first time on 1942.1123.

 

Sections below:

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Flying Flapjack and/or Flying Pancake see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1998

Baker, Alan in his “Destination Earth” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 164 (in Chapter 8) of the Blandford softcover edition.

1

1979

Ball, Brian in his “A Young Person’s Guide to UFOs” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 74 (in Chapter 8) of the Dragon paperback edition.

1

2001

Berliner, Don in “The UFO Evidence: Volume 2 – A Thirty Year Report” (2001) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 622 (in Section 15) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition.

1

1980

Berlitz, Charles and Moore, Bill in their “The Roswell Incident“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 136 (in Chapter 8) of the Granada hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Granada paperback edition).

1

2007

Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Flying Saucerers : A social history of UFOlogy” (2007) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 8 (in Chapter 1) of the Alternative Albion softcover edition.

1

1978

Cohen, Daniel in his “The World of UFOs” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 30 (in Chapter 4) of the Lippincott hardback edition.

1

1969

Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 846, 856 (in Section 5, Chapter 2 “UFOs: 1947-1968”, by Edward U Condon) 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 503, 510 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://ncas.sawco.com/condon/text/contents.htm

http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.html

2

1995

Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 73 (in Chapter 3) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

1

1968

Cowles and UPI (the editors of ) in “Flying Saucers : Twenty-One Years of UFOs” (1968) at page 131.

1

1976

Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 213 (in Chapter 11) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

1

1983

Garrett, Richard in his “Aliens From Outer Space” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 14 (in Chapter 1) of the Piccolo paperback edition.

1

1956

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 page 164 (in Chapter 7) of the Hutchinson hardback edition.

1

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 33 (in Chapter 2) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

1

1984

Harbinson, W A in “The Age of the UFO” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 112-113 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The UFO goes to war”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”, Volume 3, pages 748-749.

2

1984

Harbinson, W A in “UFOs: Where Do They Come From?” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16-17 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The UFO goes to war”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained” , Volume 3, pages 748-749.

2

1995

Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at pages 116-118, 124 (in Chapter 7) of the Box Tree hardback edition.

4

1991

Harbinson, W A in his “Inception : Projekt Saucer Book 1” (1991) at page x (in the Author’s Note) of the Dell paperback edition.

1

1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 43, 60 (in Chapter 2) of the Indiana hardback edition, at pages 37, 53 of the Signet paperback edition.

2

1997

Kanon, Gregory M in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22, 24 (in Chapter 3) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

2

1953

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers from Outer Space” (1953) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 43 of the Henry Holt hardback edition, pages 48 of the Tandem paperback edition (in Chapter 3).

1

1997

Marvels and Mysteries (Editors Of) in “Marvels and Mysteries: UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68-69 of the Parrallel softcover edition.

2

2001

Matthews, Tim in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 325-326 (in an entry entitled “Man-made UFOs”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 319 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

2

2001

Matthews, Tim in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 392 (in an entry entitled “Man-made UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

1

1999

Matthews, Tim in his “UFO Revelation” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 35-36 (in Chapter 1), 41 (in Chapter 2), 60 (in Chapter 4), 70-71 (in Chapter 6) of the Blandford softcover edition.

6

1997

Michaels, Susan in her “Sightings: UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 33 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Flying Saucers are Real”) of the Fireside softcover edition.

1

1956

Michel, Aime in his “The Truth about Flying Saucers” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 19 (in Part 1, Chapter 1) of the Robert Hale hardback edition, page 17 of the Pyramid paperback edition.

1

1997

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 pages 18, 52-53, 111 of the General Publishing softcover edition.

4

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (Chapter 2, “The Age of Confusion Begins” – in a section entitled “The Army Air Force Becomes Involved”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, page 14 of the Berkley paperback edition.

1

1997

Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ in their “Spaceships of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 99 (in Part 3) of the Fireside softcover edition.

1

1991

Randle, Kevin D and Schmitt, Donald R in their “UFO Crash at Roswell“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 17 (in Part 1) of the Avon paperback edition.

1

1997

Randle, Kevin in his “Conspiracy of Silence” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in Chapter 1) of the Avon paperback edition.

1

1998

Randle, Kevin in his “Project Moon Dust” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 18 (in Chapter 1) of the Avon softcover edition.

1

2000

Randle, Kevin in his “The Roswell Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 121 (in an entry entitled “Flying Flapjack”) of the Quill softcover edition.

1

1956

Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22 (in Chapter 2), 77 (in Chapter 6) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at pages 39, 108 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 35, 105 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 22, 77 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at pages 15, 56 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 online at: http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/Rufo.htm

2

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 109 (in an entry entitled “Flying Pancake”), 186 (in an entry entitled “Man-Made Flying Saucers”) of the Corgi softback edition.

2

1950

Scully, Frank in his “Behind the Flying Saucers” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68-70 (in Chapter 6), 98-99 (in Chapter 9) of the Henry Holt hardback edition.

5

1978

Stemman, Roy in his “Mysteries of the Universe: Great Mysteries” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 144 (in Chapter 7) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

1

2001

Sutherly, Curt in his “UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 4 (in Chapter 1) of the Llewellyn softcover edition.

1

1999

Swartz, Tim in his “Evil Agenda of the Secret Government: Exposing Project Paper Clip and the Underground UFO Bases of Hitler’s Elite Scientific Corps” (1999) at page 75 (in Chapter 5) of the Global Communications softcover edition.

1

1967

United Press International and Cowles Communications Inc (the editors of ) in “Flying Saucers: A Look Special” (1967) at page 52.

1

1966

Vallee, Jacques and Vallee, Janine in their “Challenge to Science – The UFO Enigma” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 217 (in Chapter 10) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, at page 188 of the Tandem paperback edition.

1

1994

Vesco, Renato and Childress, David Hatcher in their “Man Made UFOs 1944-1994 – 50 Years of Suppression” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39-40, 41-42 (in Chapter 2) of the AUP softcover edition.

4

1971

Vesco, Renato in his “Intercept Ufo” (Formerly published as “Intercept - But Don't Shoot”) (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39-42, 51 (in Chapter 2) of the Zebra paperback edition.

5

1988

Wilson, Clifford in his “The Alien Agenda” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 33 (in Chapter 4) 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 33 (in Chapter 4) of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1998

Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 132 (in Chapter 7) of the St Martin’s Press softcover edition.

1

 

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