"Impact" Rating = 14
"Credibility" Rating = 14
"Expert" Rating = 7
"Strangeness" Rating = 6
On 24 July 1948, Eastern Airlines DC-3 pilot Captain Clarence S Chiles and co-pilot John B Whitted, on trip from
This incident is Case 10 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 115 of the books covered by that article.
Isaac Koi’s “ICES” Rating for this sighting = 8,190 (out of a potential score of 14*14*14*14 i.e. 38,416)
(1) “Impact” Rating of 14 (out of a potential score of 14), because it is Case 10 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article.
(2) “Credibility” Rating of 13 (out of a potential score of 14) because shooting clearly did take place on the relevant night. The debate has centered on what (if anything at all) was actually there to be shot at.
(2) “Expert” Rating of 9 (out of a potential score of 14). It is given this slightly above neutral rating because (at the time of writing) it has been included in a small number of the short lists of the best cases produced by various UFO researchers that have been compiled by Isaac Koi (see the “Best UFO Cases" article at PART 3: Existing lists by various individuals).
(4)“Strangeness” Rating of 5 (out of a potential score of 14). The sighting has a relatively low strangeness rating since several authors (particularly Philip Klass) have plausibly suggested that the object seen was a meteor.
Sections below:
Web Resources
For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.nicap.org/480724adir.htm
Wikipedia article at : Chiles and Whitted sighting (1948)
This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 316163.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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Chiles/Whitted 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 pages 15-17 (in Chapter 1) 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 435-436 (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 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). |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 26-27 (in Chapter 1) of the Parragon hardback edition. |
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Bryan, C D B in his “Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at MIT” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 111 (in Chapter 4) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Knopf hardback edition and the Penguin Arkana softcover edition) at page 148 of the Orion paperback edition. |
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Campbell, Steuart in his “The UFO Mystery Solved” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 88-89 (in Chapter 4) of the Explicit Books softcover edition. |
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Chambers, Howard in his “UFOs for the millions” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16-17, 19 (in Chapter 2) of the |
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Clark, Jerome in “UFO: 1947-1997” (1997) (edited by Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 73 (in the section entitled “The 1950s”, unnumbered chapter entitled “Meeting the Extraterrestrials: How the |
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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 73, 75-78, 80-81 (in Chapter 4) 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 77-79 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition in an entry entitled “Chiles-Whitted Sighting”. |
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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 82-84 (in an entry entitled “Chiles-Whitted Sighting”) 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 182-184 (in an entry entitled “Chiles-Whitted Sighting”) 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 26, 28-29 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “UFOs: The Official Story”) of the Publications International hardback edition. |
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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 12 (in Chapter 1) of the Alternative Albion softcover edition. |
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Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Out Of The Shadows” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 51 (in Chapter 3) of the Piatkus hardback edition. |
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Cohen, Daniel in his “The World of UFOs” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 25-26 (in Chapter 3) of the Lippincott hardback edition. |
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Collins, Jim in his “Unidentified Flying Objects” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 28, 30-33 (in Chapter 5) of the Raintree hardback edition. |
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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 848 (in Section 5, Chapter 2 “UFOs: 1947-1968”, by Edward U Condon), 962-963 (in Section 6, Chapter 2 “Process of Perception, Conception, and Reporting”, by William K Hartmann) 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 505, 581-582 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: |
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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 28-29 (in Chapter 1) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Cramp, Leonard G in his “Piece for a Jig-Saw” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 316 (in Chapter 19) of the Somerton hardback edition. |
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Cramp, Leonard G in his “Space, Gravity and the Flying Saucer” (1954) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 28-29 (in Chapter 1) of the Werner Laurie hardback edition. |
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di Fate, Vincent in his “The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 99-100 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Shadows on the Sky - The Early Flying Saucer Era”) of the Paper Tiger hardback edition. |
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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 100-101 (in Chapter 3) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 59-60 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Serious Business” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 52 (in Chapter 5) of the Bantam paperback edition, at page 58 of the Mayflower-Dell paperback edition. |
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Emenegger, Robert in his “UFOs Past, Present and Future” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 25 (in Chapter 3), 36-41 (in Chapter 5 generally) of the silver covered Ballantine paperback edition first printing, at pages 39-45 of the blue covered Ballantine paperback edition eighth printing. |
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Erskine, Allen Louis in his “Why Are They Watching Us?” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 24 (in Chapter 2) of the Tower paperback 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 159-160 (in Chapter 10) 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 249-258 (in Chapter 13) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Gibbons, Gavin in his “The Coming of the Space Ships” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 7-8 (in Chapter 1), 33 (in Chapter 4) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition. |
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Girvan, Waveney in his “Flying Saucers and Common Sense” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 66-67 (in Chapter 5) of the Frederick Muller hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Citadel hardback edition). |
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Goldsmith, Donald and Owen, Tobias in their “The Search for Life in the Universe” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 410-414 (in Chapter 21) of the Benjamin Cummings softcover edition, at pages 485-488 (in Chapter 20) of the 1992 Addison Wesley softcover revised second edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 256 (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 “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 319 (in Chapter 14) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition). |
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Good, Timothy in his “Need To Know : UFOs, the Military and Intelligence” (2006) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 45, 52 (in Chapter 3) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition. |
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Greenfield, Irving A in his “The UFO Report” (1967) at pages 12-13 (in Chapter 1), 48 (in Chapter 5) of the Lancer paperback edition. |
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Gross, Loren E in his “The Mystery of the Ghost Rockets” (1974) at page 39 of the privately printed paperback edition. |
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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 pages 23-25 (in Chapter 1), 175 (in Chapter 8) of the Hutchinson hardback edition. |
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Gurney, Gene (USAF Lt Col) and Clare Gurney in their “Unidentified Flying Objects” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23-25 (in Chapter 2) of the Abelard-Schuman hardback 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 122 (in Chapter 4), 249-250 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Final Word - The Forgotten Correspondence of Edward Ruppelt”) of the Rose Press softcover edition. |
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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 105-106 (in Chapter 3) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at pages 91-92 (in Chapter 5) of the Box Tree hardback edition. |
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Hartmann, William K in “UFO's: A Scientific Debate” (1972) (edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (in Chapter 2) of the Barnes and Noble hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Norton paperback edition. |
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Heard, Gerald in his “The Riddle of the Flying Saucers: Is Another World Watching” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-24 (in Chapter 3) of the Carroll & Nicholson hardback edition. |
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Hill, Paul R in his “Unconventional Flying Objects : A Scientific Analysis” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 177 (in Chapter 12) of the Hampton Roads softcover edition. |
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Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 46-47 (in Chapter 2) of the |
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Kanon, Gregory M in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 3) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers from Outer Space” (1953) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13, 14, 33, 38, 39-40 of the Henry Holt hardback edition, pages 20-21, 38-39, 43, 45 of the Tandem paperback edition (in Chapters 1 and 3). |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers: Top Secret” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 244 (in Chapter 18) and mentioned at page 40 (in Chapter 3) of the G P Putnam hardback edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “The Flying Saucers are Real” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 67-71, (in Chapter 8), 149 (Chapter 17), 160-161 (Chapter 18) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition, which has the same page numbering as the version available on-line at http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/fsar-chVIII.htm |
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Klass, Philip J in his “UFOs Explained” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 6-14 (Chapter 1, “Craft with Illuminated Windows”) of the Random House hardback edition, at pages 7-17 of Random House paperback edition. |
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Knight, David C in his “UFOs: A pictorial history from antiquity to the present” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 32, 38-39 (in Part 3) of the McGraw Hill hardback edition. |
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Leslie, Desmond in “Flying Saucers Have Landed” (1953) by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14-15 (in Part 1, Chapter 1) of the Werner Laurie hardback edition, pages 14-15 of the 1970 revised Neville Spearman hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the revised Futura paperback edition). |
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Lore, Gordon and Deneault, Harold in their “Mysteries of the Skies” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 164 (in Chapter 10), 169 (in the Epilogue) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “UFOs: The Whole Story” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 34-36 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral E in her “The Great Flying Saucer Hoax” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (in Chapter 1) of the APRO hardback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral in “Flying Saucers : the Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space” (1966) (an enlarged version of her “The Great Flying Saucer Hoax” (1962)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 24-25 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Lorenzen, L J and Lorenzen, Coral in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 71-72 (in an entry entitled “Chiles-Whitted sighting”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 41-42 (in Chapter 5) of the Llewellyn softcover edition. |
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Machlin, Milt in his “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 113 (in Chapter 5, entitled “The Complete Directory of UFOs : An illustrated history of unexplained sightings from ‘Project Blue Book’ ”) of the Dale paperback edition. |
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Mannion, Michael in his “Project Mindshift” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 61-62 (in Chapter 3) of the Evans hardback edition. |
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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 2 at pages 42-43 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 |
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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 108-114 (in Chapter V) of the Doubleday hardback edition. |
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Menzel, Donald and Taves, Ernest in their “The UFO Enigma“ (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145 (in Chapter 11), 170-171 (in Chapter 12) of the Doubleday hardback edition. |
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Menzel, Donald H in “UFO's: A Scientific Debate” (1972) (edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 135 (in Chapter 6) of the Barnes and Noble hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Norton paperback edition. |
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Menzel, Donald in his “Flying Saucers“ (1953) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14-15 (in Chapter 2) of the Putnam hardback edition. |
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Michel, Aime in his “The Truth about Flying Saucers” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 49-54 and 56-57 (in Part 1, Chapter 2) of the Robert Hale hardback edition, pages 51-56 and 59-60 of the Pyramid paperback edition. |
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Moseley, and Pflock, Karl in their “Shockingly Close to the Truth!” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 53 (in Chapter 2) of the Prometheus 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 page 44 (in Section 5, “Pilots & Aviation Experts”) 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_5.htm |
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Ortzen, Len in his “Strange Stories of UFOs” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16-17 (in Chapter 2) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
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Page, Thornton in “UFO's: A Scientific Debate” (1972) (edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages xxviii-xxix (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Selected UFO Cases”) of the Barnes and Noble hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Norton paperback edition. |
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Palmer, Raymond A in his “The Real UFO Invasion” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-13 (in the Introduction) of the Greenleaf paperback edition. |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-23 (Chapter 3, “The Classics” – in a section entitled “The Chiles-Whitted Sighting”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 25-27 of the |
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Picknett, Lynn in her “The Mammoth Book of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 55-56 (in Chapter 2) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Project Blue Book Special Report #14 (as Project Blue Book Special Report #14 Case Number 5 (Serial 0565.00 to 0565.03) at pages 81 and 92 (1955). Image of relevant pages appear in Leon Davidson’s “Flying Saucers : An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14” (1966.0700) at pages numbered 55 and 66 (handwritten in the top outer corner) of the Ramsey-Wallace paperbound 3rd Edition. Relevant extract of Special Report #14 appears by Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 156 and [insert check Steiger] of the Ballantine Books paperback edition (forming part of Chapter Seven: Deriving a Model UFO from Twelve Top Cases of “Unknowns”). Complete images of Project Blue Book Special Report Number 14 included on the redacted National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 86 (“Administrative Files: Box |
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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 56-57, 105-110 (in Part 3) of the Fireside softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Project Bluebook Exposed” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 6-7 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “In the Beginning…”), 56-64 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “July 24, 1948”), 181 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “So, What Do We Make of All This?”), 209 (in Appendix B) of the Marlowe softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Scientific Ufology” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 158-166, 181-198 (in Chapter 6), 207 (in Chapter 7) of the |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “50 Years of UFO Encounters” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 15 (in unnumbered section entitled “1948: Project Saucer”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 106-107 (in Chapter 7) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Peter Warrington in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 29 (in Chapter 3) of the Blackwell hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 424 (in an entry entitled “Mid-Air Encounters with UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 28 of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition (in Chapter 3). |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Something in the Air” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10 (in the Introduction), 35-38 (in Chapter 3) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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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 35 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the |
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Rehn, K Gosta in his “UFOs Here and Now” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 61-62 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Fresh Contributions from Scientists”) of the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition. |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 42-43 (in an entry entitled “Chiles-Whitted incident, |
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Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 74 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Challenge to Science”) of the |
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Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 40-41 (in Chapter 3) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at pages 61-62 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 57-60 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 40-41 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at pages 27-28 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: |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 203- |
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Saunders, David R and Harkins, R Roger in their “UFOs? Yes!” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 56, 57 (in Chapter 5) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Scully, Frank in his “Behind the Flying Saucers” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 79-80 (in Chapter 7) of the Henry Holt hardback edition. |
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Sellier, Charles E and Meier, Joe in their “UFO” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30, 31 (in Chapter 2) of the Contemporary Books hardback edition. |
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Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at pages 102-103 (in Appendix A) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition. |
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Sparks, Brad in version 1.7 of his “Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project |
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Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 25-26 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1947-1957”) of the Boxtree hardback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 71 (in an entry entitled “Chiles, Captain C S”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 81 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “UFOs: The Definitive Casebook” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-23 (in the unnumbered section entitled “ |
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Stanton, L Jerome in his “Flying Saucers : Hoax or Reality?” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 38 (in Chapter 2) of the |
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Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 8 (in the Introduction) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Steiger, Brad in his “Strangers from the Skies” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 150 (in Chapter 30) of the Award Books paperback edition. |
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Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 71-72 (in an entry entitled “Chiles-Whitted sighting”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Story, Ronald in his “UFOs and the Limits of Science” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 53-54 (Chapter 2) of the NEL Hardback edition. |
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Tacker, Lawrence (Lieutenant Colonel) in his “Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-21 (in Chapter 3) of the D Van Nostrand hardback edition. |
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Thompson, Keith in his “Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 7 (in Chapter 1) of the Fawcett softcover edition. |
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Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 42 (in Chapter 2) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition. |
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Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “The Flying Saucer Story” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 24-25 (in Chapter 3) of the revised Tandem paperback edition. |
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US Air Force in its “Memorandum for the Press NO. M 26 – 49” entitled “Project Saucer” (1949.0427) at pages 7-8. Available free online at: http://www.project1947.com/fig/projsauc.htm |
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Vallee, Jacques and Vallee, Janine in their “Challenge to Science – The UFO Enigma” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 137-138 (in Chapter 7) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, at pages 117-118 of the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Anatomy of a Phenomenon” (1965) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 53-54 (in Chapter 3) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition), pages 58-59 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, pages 93-94 of the 1966 revised and enlarged Ace Star paperback edition. |
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Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 25-26 (in Chapter 2) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Watts, Alan in his “UFO Quest” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 24 (in Chapter 2), 83 (in Chapter 8) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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White, Dale in his “Is Something Up There?” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 97-99 (in Chapter 9) of the Scholastic Book Services paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Clifford in his “The Alien Agenda” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 103 (in Chapter 9) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Clifford in his “UFOs and Their Mission Impossible” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 103 (in Chapter 9) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Young, Mort in his “UFO Top Secret” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 88-89 (in Chapter 6) of the Essandess softcover edition. |
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Other Material
Official US documents about this incident can be found online. See the material on the ambitious “Project Blue Book Archive” website in relation to Project Sign Incident Number 144 and also Project Blue Book Case Number 179, which commences at the links provided (and continues on the pages which follow them).
Listed as Project Sign Incident Number 144 in the microfilm records of Project Sign. The relevant case file is included on Roll Number 2 of the Project Sign microfilm collection, at the link below from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of USAF-SIGN2-531 (page 531 of 807) to the page with the PID of USAF-SIGN2-574 (page 574 of 807).
Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 179 on the redacted US National Archives and Records Administration (“
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-PBB2-248 (page 248 of 1352) at the link below. The relevant case file is included on Maxwell microfilm roll number 30,365 – at the link below from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB4-4 (page 4 of 1466) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB4-4 (page 175 of 1466).
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