This incident is Case 62 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 46 of the books covered by that article.
This was Project Blue Book Case Number 9654.
Robert Sheaffer has referred to Heflin’s photographs as “one of the most highly regarded series of ‘classic’ UFO photos of all time”.
The Condon Report states that the case regarding these photos “must remain inconclusive” and comments that the case is “of exceptional interest because it is so well documented”.
This incident has also featured in a list of cases produced by Greg Bishop 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 links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.nicap.org/heflindir.htmThis incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 208479.
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Rex Heflin photographs see the following:
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APRO and Sheaffer, Robert in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 165-167 (in an entry entitled “Heflin photos”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Bowen, Charles in the weekly partwork “The Unexplained” (1983?), Volume 2, pages 304-306. |
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Chambers, Howard in his “UFOs for the millions” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 31 (in Chapter 3) of the |
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Cohen, Daniel in his “The Encyclopedia of Monsters” (1982) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 210-211 (in Chapter 7) of the Guild Publishing hardback edition. |
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Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) as Condon Case 52 at pages 112, 115, 123 (in Section 3, Chapter 2 “Analysis of UFO Photographic Evidence”, by William K Hartmann), 671-697 and plates 42-46 (in Section 4, “Case Studies”, Chapter 3, “Photographic Case Studies”) 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 78, 80, 84-85, 437-455 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: http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.html |
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Craig, Roy in his “UFOs – An Insider’s View” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 158-159, 162-163 (in Chapter 10) of the UNT softback edition. |
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Dione, R L in “God Drives a Flying Saucer” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 8-9 (in Chapter 2) 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 378 (in Chapter 7) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 286-287 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Druffel, Ann in her “Firestorm : Dr James E McDonald's Fight for UFO Science” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 271 (in Chapter 11), 287-309, 322-324 (in Chapter 12) of the Wild Flower Press 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 pages 173-174 (in Chapter 9) of the Lyle Stuart hardback edition, at page 102 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 173-175 (in Chapter 13) of the Bantam paperback edition, at pages 179-181 of the Mayflower-Dell paperback edition. |
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Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 37 (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 pages 36-38 (in Chapter 6) of the Scholastic softcover edition. |
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Goldberg, Bruce in his “Time Travelers from our Future: An explanation of alien abduction” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 101-102 (in Chapter 6) of the Llewellyn softcover edition. |
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Greenfield, Irving A in his “The UFO Report” (1967) at page 52 (in Chapter 5) of the Lancer 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 80-83 (in Chapter 6) of the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition. |
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Hall, Richard 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”), 284-286 (in Section 7) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition. |
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Hartmann, William K in “UFO's: A Scientific Debate” (1972) (edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 13 (in Chapter 2) of the Barnes and Noble hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Norton paperback edition. |
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Hobana, Ion and Weverbergh, Julien in their “UFO's from behind the iron curtain” (1974) at pages 93-98, 107 (in Chapter 6) of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Keel, John A in his “Our Haunted Planet” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 107-108 (in Chapter 9) of the Fawcett paperback edition. |
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Keith, Jim in his “Casebook on the Men in Black” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68-69 (in Chapter 5) of the I-Net softcover edition. |
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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 pages 124-127 (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 page 175 (in the Epilogue) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim “UFOs over the Americas” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 194-195 (in Chapter 10) of the Signet paperback edition and the first 3 pages of the photographic section. |
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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 111-112 (in Chapter 8, “The [Condon Report’s] ‘Unexplained Cases”) of the Doubleday 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 113 (in Chapter 5) of the Donning paperback edition. |
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Ortzen, Len in his “Strange Stories of UFOs” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 49-50 (in Chapter 6) of the Coronet paperback 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 84-86 (in Chapter 2), 276 (in Chapter 4) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ in their “Spaceships of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 149-160 (in Part 3) of the Fireside softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Scientific Ufology” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 114-125, 126-127 (in Chapter 4) of the |
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Randle, Kevin in his “The October Scenario” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 120-122 (in Part 3, unnumbered section entitled “The Modern Era”), 132 (in Part 3, unnumbered section entitled “Solutions and Theories”) of the |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Encyclopedia of the Unexplained” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 166-167 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Strange Beings”) of the Brockhampton hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Investigating the Truth Behind MIB” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 89-94 (in Chapter 8) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Reality” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 185 (in Chapter 13) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Rickard, Robert and Kelly, Richard in their “Photographs of the Unknown” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 50 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “UFOs”) of the NEL softcover edition. |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 280-281 (in an entry entitled “ |
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Sheaffer, Robert in his “The UFO Verdict” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 55-57 (in Chapter 6) of the Prometheus softback edition. |
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Sheaffer, Robert in his “UFO Sightings: The Evidence” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 91-93 (in Chapter 6) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 142 (in an entry entitled “Heflin, Rex”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 162 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Steiger, Brad and Whritenour, Joan in their “The New UFO Breakthrough” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (in Chapter 1) of the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Stemman, |
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Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 88 (in Chapter 3) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition. |
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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 348-349 (in Chapter 10) of the AUP softcover edition. |
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White, Dale in his “Is Something Up There?” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 113-114 (in Chapter 10) of the Scholastic Book Services paperback edition. |
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Wood, Robert M in “Thesis Antithesis” (1975) (edited by A D Emerson) at pages 12, 13 (in Part 1, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Testing the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis”) of the AIAA paperbound edition. |
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Young, Mort in his “UFO Top Secret” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-40 (in Chapter 3), 107 (in Chapter 7), 130 (in Chapter 9), 138-146 (in Appendix 2) of the Essandess softcover edition. |
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Other Material
Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 9654 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-PBB1-342 (page 342 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-PBB2-556 (page 556 of 1352) at the link below.
http://www.bluebookarchive.orgPlease use the comments section below to share references to any particularly interesting relevant articles.