On 3 November 1953, a UFO was reportedly seen by Flying Officer Terry Johnson and his navigator, Flying Officer Geoffrey Smythe, during a flight in a Vampire fighter from RAF West Malling.

(Commonly referred to as “the West Malling incident”).

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 West Malling incident see the following:

 

Year	Discussion by:	No. of Pages
1969	Chapman, Robert in his “UFO : Flying Saucers Over Britain?” (1969) (also published as “Unidentified Flying Objects”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 53-54 (in Chapter 4) of the Mayflower paperback 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 68 (in Chapter 4), 118-119 (in Chapter 6) of the Piatkus hardback edition.	3
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 58, 62 (in Chapter 3) of the National Archives softcover edition.	2
1955	Girvan, Waveney in his “Flying Saucers and Common Sense” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 106-114 (in Chapter 9) of the Frederick Muller hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Citadel hardback edition).	9
1987	Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 33-34 (in Chapter 1) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition).	2
1996	Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 9-10 (in Chapter 1) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition).	2
1977	Macvey, John W in his “Interstellar Travel” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 248 (in Chapter 15) of the Avon paperback edition.	1
1997	Redfern, Nicholas in his “A Covert Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 38-39 (in Chapter 4) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition.	2
1991	Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 167 (in an entry entitled “Johnson, Flying Officer T S”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 192 of the Headline 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 31-33 (in Chapter 4) of the revised Tandem paperback edition.	3
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 256-257 (in Chapter 8) of the AUP softcover edition.	2
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 256-257 (in Chapter 8) of the Zebra paperback edition.	2

 

Other Material

Discussed in the House of Commons on 24 November 1953. See Hansard, House of Commons Vol 521, oral answers column 169-170.

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