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Cynthia Appleton encounters
On 18 November 1957, Mrs Cynthia Appleton of Aston, Birmingham, England claims to see the “materialisation” of a man in her up-stairs sitting room. This was the first in a series of alleged encounters.

This incident is Case 84 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 33 of the books covered by that article.

This incident has 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://ufoexperiences.blogspot.com/2005/03/space-baby-from-fortean-times.html

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1999

Baker, Alan in his “The Encyclopaedia of Alien Encounters” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23-24 (in an entry entitled “Andreasson, Betty”) of the Virgin hardback edition.

2

1993

Barclay, David in “UFOs: The Final Answer?” (1993) (edited by David Barclay and Therese Marie Barclay) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 181 (in Chapter 9) of the Blandford softcover edition.

1

1998

Bartholomew, Robert E and Howard, George S in their “UFOs and Alien Contact” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at 308-309 (in Appendix A, entitled “The UFO Contact Catalogue”) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

2

1969

Bowen, Charles in “The Humanoids” (1969) (edited by Charles Bowen) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 17-18, 23 of the Neville Spearman hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Futura paperback edition (unnumbered chapter entitled “Few and Far Between : Landing and occupant reports a rarity in the British Isles”).

3

2005

Brennan, Herbie in his “The Aliens Handbook” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 25 (in Chapter 4) of the Faber and Faber softcover edition.

1

1994

Budden, Albert in his “Allergies and Aliens” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 2 (in the Introduction) of the Discovery Times softcover edition.

1

1995

Budden, Albert in his “UFOs : Psychic Close Encounters : The Electromagnetic Indictment” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22 (in Chapter 1), 239-280 (in Chapter 7) of the Blandford softcover edition.

3

2001

Cawthorne, Nigel in “The World’s Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 47-49 (in the chapter entitled “Making Babies”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition.

3

1999

Cawthorne, Nigel in his “The World’s Greatest Alien Abductions” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41-43 (in the chapter entitled “Making Babies”) of the Hamlyn softcover edition.

3

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 95-103, 104, 105 (in Chapter 6) of the Alternative Albion softcover edition.

11

1996

Dennett, Preston E in his “UFO Healings” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 33-34 (in Chapter 3), 129 (in Chapter 10) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition.

3

1976

Holzer, Hans in his “The UFOnauts” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 86-88 (in Chapter 4) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition.

3

1999

Kottmeyer, Martin in his article entitled “Titium and Aston’s CE3K” in Magonia Monthly Supplement Number 20, October 1999 (1999). The relevant article is available online at: http://www.magonia.demon.co.uk/arc/00/ms20.html

1

1999

Morris, Peter J in his “Aliens Amongst Us: A Beginner’s Guide” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20 (in Chapter 2), 64 (in Chapter 5) of the Hodder & Stoughton softcover edition.

1

1996

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “50 Years of UFO Encounters” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 35-36 (in unnumbered section entitled “1958: Children of Space”) 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 177-181 (in Chapter 13), 205 (in Chapter 16) of the Piatkus softcover edition.

6

1979

Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “UFOs : A British Viewpoint” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-154 (in Chapter 10) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

2

1988

Randles, Jenny in her “Abduction“ (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 70-72 (in Chapter 5) of the Hale hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Headline paperback edition).

3

1997

Randles, Jenny in her “Alien Contact – The First Fifty Years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-37 (in the chapter entitled “1958”), 45 (in the chapter entitled “1961”), 50 (in the chapter entitled “1964”) of the Collins and Brown hardback edition.

4

1993

Randles, Jenny in her “Aliens” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 148-149, 151-152 (in Part 6) of the Hale hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sterling softcover edition published under the title “Alien Contacts and Abductions”).

4

1997

Randles, Jenny in her “Investigating the Truth Behind MIB” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 61-66 (in Chapter 5), 170 (in Chapter 13) of the Piatkus softcover edition.

7

1995

Randles, Jenny in her “Star Children” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 125-126 (in Chapter 9) of the Sterling softcover edition.

2

1999

Randles, Jenny in her “The Complete Book of Aliens and Abductions” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) a pages 28-29 (in Part 1) of the Piatkus hardback edition.

2

2000

Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 55, 56 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the Sterling softcover edition.

2

1994

Randles, Jenny in her “The Unexplained: Great Mysteries of the 20th Century” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 83-84 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1950-1959”) of the Index hardback edition.

2

1974

Rehn, K Gosta in his “UFOs Here and Now” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 136 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Recent Observations”) of the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition.

1

2004

Roberts, Andy in his article “The Space Baby” in the Fortean Times, Issue 191 (December 2004) at pages [insert check Fortean Times] to [insert check Fortean Times]. The relevant article is available online at:

http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/191_space1.shtml

5

1991

Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 22 (in an entry entitled “Appleton, Cynthia”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 26 of the Headline paperback edition.

1

1988

Steiger, Brad in his “The UFO Abductors” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 19 (in Chapter 1) of the Berkley paperback edition.

1

1978

Stemman, Roy in his “Mysteries of the Universe: Great Mysteries” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 207-208 (in Chapter 10) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

2

1969

Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “Operation Earth” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 42-49 (in Chapter 7), 83 (in Chapter 12) of the Tandem paperback edition.

9

1973

Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “The Eternal Subject” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 64 (in Chapter 9) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition, at page 67 of the Day Book paperback editon (published under the title “Mysterious Visitors: The UFO Story”).

1

1970

Vallee, Jacques in his “Passport to Magonia” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 266-267, 269 (in the Appendix entitled “A Century of UFO Landings (1868-1968)”) of the Regnery hardback edition, with the relevant Appendix omitted from the Tandem paperback edition.

3

1996

Wilson, Colin in his “World Famous UFOs” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 26 (in Chapter 2) of the Parragon softcover edition.

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Other Material

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