This incident is Case 22 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 76 of the books covered by that article.
This was Project Blue Book Case Number 9479.
This incident featured in a list of cases produced by British ufologist Jenny Randles 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.
Web Resources
For relevant documents and articles online, see:
http://www.ufoevidence.org/Cases/case140.htm
Wikipedia article at : Valensole incident (July 1965)
This incident is discussed on the ATS.com forums in Thread 326822.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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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...
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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 Valensole incident 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 82-84 (in Chapter 3) of the Orion softcover edition. |
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Baker, Alan in his “The Encyclopaedia of Alien Encounters” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 247-248 (in an entry entitled “ |
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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 179-181 (in Chapter 16) 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 276 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Worlwide 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 pages 23-24 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Worlwide 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 pages 119-121 of the Select softcover edition. |
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Bourret, Jean-Claude in his “The Crack in the Universe” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 98-106 (in Part 1), 138 (in Part 3) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition. |
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Bowen, Charles in “The Humanoids” (1969) (edited by Charles Bowen) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 245-248 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Interesting Comparisons: The Hills, A.V.B. and Valensole”) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Futura paperback edition. |
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Bowen, Charles in “UFOs: Where Do They Come From?” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 94 (in unnumbered chapter entitled “Behind The Humanoid Mask”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained” , Volume 1, page 262. |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 83 (in Chapter 4) 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”). |
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Buckle, Eileen and Oliver, Norman in “The Scoriton Mystery: Did Adamski return?” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 283-284 (in Chapter 23) of the Spearman hardback edition. |
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Cassirer, Manfred in his “Dimensions of Enchantment” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-12 (in Chapter 1), 58-59 (in Chapter 5) of the Breese Books softcover edition. |
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Cawthorne, Nigel in his “The World’s Greatest Alien Abductions” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 101 (in the chapter entitled “Abductions World-Wide”) of the Hamlyn softcover edition. Cawthorne, Nigel in “The World’s Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 133-134 (in the chapter entitled “Abductions World-Wide”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition. |
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Chalker, Bill in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 184 (in Chapter 3.4.1, entitled “Physical Traces”) of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 611-615 (in an entry entitled “Valensole CE2/CE3”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 3 – High Strangeness” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 534-537 (in an entry entitled “Valensole CE2/CE3”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Volume 2:L-Z at pages 961-963 (in an entry entitled “Valensole CE2/CE3”). |
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Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 60 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Dimensions of a Phenomenon”) of the Publications International hardback edition. |
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COMETA report (1999) at Chapter 4.1, page 20 of the translation of the report appearing at: http://www.etcontact.net/newsite/files/COMETA_part1.pdf |
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Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 120 (in Chapter 5) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39-40 (in Chapter 2) of the |
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Devereux, Paul and Brookesmith, Peter in their “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 50-51 (in Chapter 4) of the Blandford softcover 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 375 (in Chapter 7) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 283-284 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Evans, Hilary in his “From Other Worlds” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 101-102 (in Chapter 4) of the |
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Evans, Hilary in his “The Evidence for UFOs” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23-25, 30 (in Chapter 1, Case 6), 58 (in Chapter 3) of the Aquarian softcover edition. |
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Evans, Hilary in his “Visions, Apparitions, Alien Visitors” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 148, 151 (in Chapter 1.11) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Glenday, Craig in his “The UFO Investigator’s Handbook” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 39 (in Chapter 1) of the Running Press softcover edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 129-130 (in Chapter 6) 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 111-112 (in Chapter 6) 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 page 68 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Flying Saucer Seduction”) of the Popular Library paperback edition. |
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Haines, Richard in his “CE-5 : Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 47 (in Chapter 3) of the Sourcebooks softcover edition. |
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Hansen, Kim in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 66-69 (Chapter 2.3.2, entitled “UFO Casebook”) of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition. |
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Holroyd, Stuart in his “Alien Intelligence” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 179-180 (in Chapter 7) of the David & Charles hardback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in “Encounters with UFO Occupants” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 127-128 (in Chapter 8) of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “Flying Saucer Occupants” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 101-102 (in Chapter 5) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral in “Flying Saucers : the Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space” (1966) (an enlarged version of her “The Great Flying Saucer Hoax” (1962)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 233-234 (in Chapter 15) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 200-201 (in Chapter 7) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Marvels and Mysteries (Editors Of) in “Marvels and Mysteries: Aliens” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 98-100 of the Parrallel softcover edition. |
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Michel, Aime and Bowen, Charles in “Encounter Cases from Flying Saucer Review” (1977) (edited by Charles Bowen) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 57-71 (unnumbered chapter entitled “A Visit to Valensole”) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Michel, Aime and Bowen, Charles in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 627 (in an entry entitled “Valensole (France) encounter”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 614 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Michel, Aime and Bowen, Charles in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 377 (in an entry entitled “Valensole (France) landing”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Michel, Aime and Bowen, Charles in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 752 (in an entry entitled “Valensole (France) encounter”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Michell, John in his “The Flying Saucer Vision” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 85-86, 87 (in Chapter 5) of the Ace paperback edition. |
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Missler, Chuck and Eastman, Mark in their “Alien Encounters: The Secret behind the UFO Phenomenon” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 75-76 (in Chapter 3) of the Koinonia House softcover edition. |
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Ortzen, Len in his “Strange Stories of UFOs” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 26-27 (in Chapter 4) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
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Phillips, Ted in his “Physical Traces associated with UFO Sightings” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 36 (in Part C) of the CUFOS paperbound edition. |
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Picknett, Lynn in her “The Mammoth Book of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 83-84 (in Chapter 2) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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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 pages 44-45 (in unnumbered section entitled “1965: The Turning Point”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Abduction“ (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 168-169 (in Chapter 7) of the Hale hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Headline paperback 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 54 (in the chapter entitled “1965”) of the Collins and Brown hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Aliens” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-39 (in Part 1) of the Hale hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the |
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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”), 290-291 (in Part 3, “UFOs Worldwide”) of the |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Pennine UFO Mystery" (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 181-182 (in Chapter 13) of the |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFOs and How to See Them” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 25 (in Chapter 1), 94 (in Chapter 4) of the Brockhampton Press hardback edition. |
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Rimmer, John in his “The Evidence for Alien Abductions” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 97 (in Chapter 5) of the Aquarian softcover edition. |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 85 (in an entry entitled “ |
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Smith, Warren in his “UFO Trek” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 173-174 (in Chapter 12) of the Sphere 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 pages 54, 62 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1957-1967”), 175 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Conclusions”) of the Boxtree hardback edition. |
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Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “True Life Encounters – Alien Contact” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 200 (in Chapter 12) of the Millenium paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 306-307 (in an entry entitled “Valensole, France”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 364 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “UFOs: The Definitive Casebook” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 89 (in the unnumbered section entitled “ |
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Steiger, Brad and Whritenour, Joan in their “Flying Saucers are Hostile” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 77-78 (in Chapter 5) of the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Steiger, Brad in his “Alien Meetings” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 144-145 (in Chapter 9) of the Ace 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 52 (in Chapter 7) of the Award Books paperback edition. |
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Strickland, Joshua in his “Extra-terrestrials on Earth” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in Chapter 1) of the |
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Swiatek, Robert P in “The UFO Evidence: Volume 2 – A Thirty Year Report” (2001) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 4 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”), 477-480 (in Section 12) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition. |
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Tansley, David in his “Omens of Awareness” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 192-193 (in Chapter 10) of the Abacus paperback edition. |
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Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “Operation Earth” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 92, 93 (in Chapter 15) of the Tandem 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 pages 53-54 (in Chapter 5) of the revised Tandem paperback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact“ (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 96-100 (in Chapter 7) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Dimensions“ (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 26-28 (in Part 1, Chapter 1) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Passport to Magonia” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 19-21 (in Chapter 1) [and at page 308 (in the Appendix entitled “A Century of UFO Landings (1868-1968)”)] of the Regnery hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “Journey to Infinity” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 168-169 (in Chapter 13) of the |
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Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 164-165 (in Chapter 14) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Wilson, Colin in his “Alien Dawn” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 102-103 (in Chapter 4) of the Virgin softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Virgin paperback edition). |
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Wilson, Colin in his “World Famous UFOs” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 42, 44, 45 (in Chapter 2) of the Parragon softcover edition. |
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Other Material
Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 9479 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-PBB1-335 (page 335 of 1014) at the link below.
Listed (without a Project Blue Book Case Number) on the unredacted Maxwell Air Force Base (“Maxwell”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book – see Maxwell microfilm roll number 30,363. An image of the relevant index page has been given the unique Page ID (“PID”) of MAXW-PBB2-552 (page 552 of 1352) at the link below.
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