On 4 June 1965, there was allegedly a UFO sighting involving Gemini 4 astronauts (including James McDivitt).
This incident is Case 27 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 71 of the books covered by that article.
This was Project Blue Book Case Number 9448.
Web Resources
This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 326827.
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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.
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For discussion of the Gemini 4 sighting 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 31-32 (in Chapter 1) of the Orion softcover edition. |
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Berlitz, Charles and Moore, Bill in their “The Roswell Incident“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 17 (in Chapter 1) of the Granada hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Granada paperback edition). |
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Berlitz, Charles in his “The Bermuda Triangle” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 108 (in Chapter 6) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Berlitz, Charles in his “Without a Trace” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 69 (in Chapter 4) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition, at page 88 of the |
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Binder, Otto in his “Flying Saucers Are Watching Us” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 164 (in Chapter 15) of the |
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Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 142 (in an entry entitled “Gemini |
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Blum, Ralph and Blum, Judy in their “Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 196, 200, 204-205 (in Chapter 17) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback 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 page 443 (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 180 (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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Blundell, Nigel in his “World’s Most Amazing UFO Visits” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 60 of the Select softcover edition. |
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Chatelain, Maurice in his “Our Ancestors Came From Outer Space” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 25 (in the Introduction) of the Pan paperback edition. |
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Chatelain, Maurice in his “Our Cosmic Ancestors” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 24 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Apollo Spacecraft”) of the Temple Golden Publications softcover 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 306, 307-309 (in Section 3, Chapter 6 “Visual Observations Made by Astronauts”, by Franklin E Roach) 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 204, 205-207 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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Dione, R L in “God Drives a Flying Saucer” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 6 (in Chapter 1) of the Corgi paperback 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 page 373 (in Chapter 7) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 282 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Here and Now!” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 254 (in Chapter 12) of the Lyle Stuart hardback edition, at page 156 of the Bantam paperback edition. |
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Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Serious Business” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 120-121 (in Chapter 8) of the Bantam paperback edition, at pages 127-128 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 100-101 (in Chapter 15) of the silver covered Ballantine paperback edition first printing, at pages 115-116 of the blue covered Ballantine paperback edition eighth printing. |
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Fowler, Raymond E in his “Casebook of a UFO Investigator” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 84 (in Chapter 8) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition. |
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Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 36 (in the Introduction) of the Putnam hardback edition. |
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Gelman, Rita and Seligson, Marcia in their “UFO Encounters” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 21 (in Chapter 4) of the Scholastic softcover edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 375-376 (in Chapter 15) 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 pages 446-447 (in Chapter 17) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition). |
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Green, Gabriel with Smith, Warren in their “Let’s face the facts about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 57-58 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Saucers that Spy on our Space Program”) of the Popular Library paperback 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 100-101 (in Chapter 7) of the Abelard-Schuman hardback 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 276-277 (in Chapter 7), 311 (in Chapter 8) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Harold, Clive in his “The Uninvited“ (1979) at pages 171-172 (in the Epilogue) of the Star paperback edition. |
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Helms, Harry L in “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (edited by Milt Machlin) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 240-241 (in Chapter 13) of the Dale paperback edition. |
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Hervey, Michael in his “UFOs : The American Scene” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 31 (in Chapter 3) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Hynek, J Allen and Vallee, Jacques in their “The Edge of Reality” (included in a list entitled “Table of UFO Sighting by Astronauts”, from a list compiled by Mr G Fawcett) (1975) at pages 63-65 (in Chapter 3) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition. |
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Keel, John A in his “UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 228-229 (in Chapter 12) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Abacus softcover edition). |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 212 (in Chapter 14) of the Signet paperback edition, pages 239-240 of the Panther paperback edition. |
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King, Jon in his “Cosmic Top Secret” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 134-135 (in the chapter entitled “Document |
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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 page 122 (in Part 4) of the McGraw Hill hardback 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 172-173 (in the Epilogue) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition. |
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Mantle, Philip and Nagaitis, Carl in their “Without Consent” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-11 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Abduction: The Enigma”) of the Ringpull hardback edition. |
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McCampbell, James M in his “Ufology” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 33 (in Chapter 3) of the Jaymac-Hollman softcover edition, at page 38 of the 1976 Celestial Arts softcover edition. The latter edition has the same page numbering at the version available free online at the following link: http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/ufology.htm |
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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 115-116 (in Chapter 8, “The [Condon Report’s] ‘Unexplained Cases”) of the Doubleday hardback edition. |
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Oberg, James E in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 93 (in an entry entitled “astronauts, sightings by”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 92 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Oberg, James E in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 105-106 (in an entry entitled “astronauts, sightings by”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Oberg, James in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 26-27 (in an entry entitled “astronauts, sightings by”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Oberg, James in his “UFOs and Outer Space Mysteries” (1982) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 of the Donning paperback edition (in the Introduction). |
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Oberg, James in his article entitled “The Gemini 4 UFO”, published in the fall 1981 issue of the magazine “UFO Report”. Article available online at: http://www.igs.net/~hwt/oberg/gemini4.htm |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 155 (in Chapter 11), 209 (in Chapter 13) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 187 and 252 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 44 (in unnumbered section entitled “1965: The Turning Point”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Looking for the Aliens” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 150-151 (in Chapter 17) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 132-134 (in Chapter 22) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Alien Contact – The First Fifty Years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 55 (in the chapter entitled “1965”) of the Collins and Brown 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 62 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Unexplained: Great Mysteries of the 20th Century” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 94 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1960-1969”) of the Index hardback edition. |
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Rehn, K Gosta in his “UFOs Here and Now” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23-25 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Condon-Colorado Report”) of the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition. |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Messages from the Stars” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 207 (in Chapter 13) of the |
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Sachs, Margaret and Jahn, Ernest in their “Celestial Passengers – UFOs & Space Travel” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 185-187 (in Chapter 31) of the Penguin paperback edition. |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 120-121 of the Corgi softback edition in an entry entitled “Gemini |
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Sheaffer, Robert in his “The UFO Verdict” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 59 of the Prometheus softback edition (Chapter 6). |
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Sheaffer, Robert in his “UFO Sightings: The Evidence” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 95 of the Prometheus hardback edition (Chapter 6). |
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Shuttlewood, Arthur in his “The Flying Saucerers” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 35 (in Chapter 3) of the Sphere paperback edition. |
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Shuttlewood, Arthur in his “UFO Magic in Motion” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 9-10 (in Chapter 1) of the Sphere paperback edition. |
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Smith, Susy in her “Strangers from Space” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 15-16 (in Chapter 2) of the Manor paperback edition. |
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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 page 80 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1967-1977”) 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 195 (in an entry entitled “McDivitt, Astronaut James”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 227 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John Wallace in his “No Earthly Explanation” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 167-168 (in Chapter 8) of the Corgi 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 41 (in Chapter 7) of the Award Books paperback 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 page 62 (in Chapter 6) of the revised Tandem 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 166-167 (in Chapter 14) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Weldon, John and Levitt, Zola in their “Encounters With UFOs“ (1975) (formerly “UFOs, What on Earth is Happening?”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51, 59 (in Chapter 3) of the Harvest House paperback edition. |
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White, Dale in his “Is Something Up There?” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 132 (in Chapter 11) 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 35 (in Chapter 4) 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 35 (in Chapter 4) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Don in his “Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon” (1975) at pages 28-31 (in Chapter 2) of the Sphere paperback edition. |
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Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 154 (in Chapter 8) of the |
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Other Material
Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 9448 on the redacted US National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book, released to the National Archives in 1975 – see National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 1. An image of the relevant index page has been given the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB1-334 (page 334 of 1014) at the link below.
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