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Operation Mainbrace sightings

Various sightings occurred during Operation Mainbrace, mainly between 19th and 21st September

These incidents comprise Case 90 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since they were referred to in 31 of the books covered by that article.

These incidents also featured in a list of cases produced jointly by British ufologists Dave Clarke and Andy Roberts for the Fortean Times in 2007 as part of a survey of various researchers of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most.

 

 

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/mainbrace.htm

http://www.ufocasebook.com/operationmainbrace1952.html

This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 266723.

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Operation Mainbrace sightings generally see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

2005

Bennett, Colin in his “An American Demonology : Captain Edward J Ruppelt and the official UFO investigation of the United States Air Force” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 83 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Set of Correspondences”) of the Headpress softcover edition.

1

1996

Blundell, Nigel in his “World’s Most Amazing UFO Visits” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 27 of the Select softcover edition.

1

1995

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 54-55 (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”).

2

1998

Christopher, Paul in his “Alien Intervention: The Spiritual Mission of UFOs” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 34 (in Chapter 2) of the Huntington House softcover 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 pages 26-27 (in Chapter 2) of the Alternative Albion softcover edition.

2

2002

Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Out Of The Shadows” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 106-109, 113 (in Chapter 6) of the Piatkus hardback edition.

5

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 page 185 (in Chapter 4) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 115-116 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

1

2006

Good, Timothy in his “Need To Know : UFOs, the Military and Intelligence” (2006) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 152-156 (in Chapter 10) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition.

5

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 pages 78-79 (in Chapter 3) of the Hutchinson hardback edition.

2

2000

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 193-195 (in Chapter 7) of the Rose Press softcover edition.

3

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 201-202 (in Chapter 4) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

2

2001

Hall, Richard in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 396-397 (in an entry entitled “Operation Mainbrace sightings”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 387-388 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

2

1980

Hall, Richard in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 255 (in an entry entitled “Operation Mainbrace sightings”) of the NEL hardback edition.

1

2001

Hall, Richard in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 480-481 (in an entry entitled “Operation Mainbrace sightings”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

2

1988

Hall, Richard in his “Uninvited Guests” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 200 (in Chapter 13) of the Aurora Press paperback edition.

1

1995

Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at pages 108-109 (in Chapter 6), 234 (in Chapter 12) of the Box Tree hardback edition.

3

1999

Matthews, Tim in his “UFO Revelation” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 69 (in Chapter 5) of the Blandford softcover edition.

1

1956

Michel, Aime in his “The Truth about Flying Saucers” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 121-128 (in Part 2, Chapter 3) of the Robert Hale hardback edition, at pages 136-144 of the Pyramid paperback edition.

8

1977

Michel, Aime in Jean-Claude Bourret’s “The Crack in the Universe” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 244 (in Part 4) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition.

1

1964

NICAP in its “The UFO Evidence” (1964) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 162-163 (in Section 12) 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_12.htm

2

1996

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “50 Years of UFO Encounters” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 21-22 (in unnumbered section entitled “1952: The Invasion”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition.

2

1994

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 155-156 (in Chapter 12) of the Piatkus softcover edition.

2

2001

Randles, Jenny in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 138 (in an entry entitled “British Government Interest in UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

1

1987

Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39-40 (in Chapter 5), 43-44 (in Chapter 6) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition.

4

1998

Randles, Jenny in her “Something in the Air” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 47-49 (in Chapter 4) of the Hale hardback edition.

3

2000

Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 356 (in Part 3, “UFOs Worldwide”) of the Sterling softcover edition.

1

1998

Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Crash Landing? Friend or Foe?” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-154 (in Chapter 13) of the Blandford softcover edition.

2

1991

Redfern, Nicholas in “The UFO Report 1992” (1991) (edited by Timothy Good) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 40-43, 46-48 (in Chapter 3) of the Sidgwick & Jackson softcover edition.

7

1997

Redfern, Nicholas in his “A Covert Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 27-34 (Chapter 3 generally) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition.

8

1956

Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 195-197 (in Chapter 14) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at pages 257-259 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 256-258 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 195-197 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at pages 138-139 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 free online at: http://www.nicap.org/rufo/contents2.htm

3

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 232 of the Corgi softback edition in an entry entitled “Operation Mainbrace”.

1

1979

Shuttlewood, Arthur in his “UFO Magic in Motion” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 151-152 (in Chapter 7) of the Sphere paperback edition.

2

1966

Stanton, L Jerome in his “Flying Saucers : Hoax or Reality?” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 75 (in Chapter 4) of the Belmont paperback edition.

1

1965

Vallee, Jacques in his “Anatomy of a Phenomenon” (1965) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-62 (in Chapter 3) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition), pages 66-67 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, pages 101-102 of the 1966 revised and enlarged Ace Star paperback edition.

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Other Material

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