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Broadlands encounter
On 23 February 1955, Briggs (a bricklayer) claimed to have an encounter with a flying saucer over the grounds of the Hampshire residence Lord Mountbatten, “Broadlands”.

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

2001

Bennett, Colin in his “Looking for Orthon” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 162-163 (in Chapter 14) of the Paraview softcover edition.

2

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 56-57 (in Chapter 4) 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 59-66 (in Chapter 4) of the Piatkus hardback edition.

8

1987

Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 37-41 (in Chapter 1), with the image of relevant contemporaneous documents at pages 447-450 (in the Appendix), of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition).

9

1996

Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14-19 (in Chapter 1), with the image of relevant contemporaneous document at page 18 (in Chapter 1), of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition).

7

2001

Picknett, Lynn in her “The Mammoth Book of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 63 (in Chapter 2) of the Robinson softcover edition.

1

1985

Randles, Jenny in her “Beyond Explanation? : The Paranormal Experiences of Famous People” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 66 (in Chapter 5) of the TLC hardback edition.

1

1957

Reeves, Bryant and Reeves, Helen in their “Flying Saucer Pilgrimmage” (1957) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 32 (in Chapter 5) of the Amherst Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Amherst Press softcover edition).

1

1994

Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 34 (in an entry entitled “Broadlands incident, United Kingdom”) of the MJF hardback edition.

1

1991

Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 54 (in an entry entitled “Broadlands”), 219 (in an entry entitled “Mountbatten, Earl Louis”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 63, 257 of the Headline paperback edition.

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Other Material

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