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Early on 3rd September 1965, the Exeter, New Hampshire sightings involving Norman Muscarello, Police Patrolmen Eugene Bertrand, David Hunt and others occurred.

This incident is Case 29 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 68 of the books covered by that article.

This was Project Blue Book Case Number 9891.

This incident has also featured in lists by various UFO researchers of the top UFO cases, including the following:

a list of cases produced by Thomas E Bullard 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://www.nicap.org/exeterdir.htm
http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case426.htm

This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 21195. 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 this Incident at Exeter see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1980

APRO in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 113-114 (in an entry entitled “Exeter (New Hampshire) sightings”) of the NEL hardback edition.

2

2004

Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 123 (in an entry entitled “Exeter, New Hampshire”) of the Pocket Books softcover edition.

1

2001

Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in “The World’s Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 363-366 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Arresting Kind”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition.

4

1986

Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in their “The World’s Greatest UFO Mysteries” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 114-116 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Arresting Kind”) of the Octopus hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Hamlyn softcover edition).

3

1995

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 84-85 (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”).

2

1967

Chambers, Howard in his “UFOs for the millions” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 46 (in Chapter 4), 73-75 (in Chapter 6) of the Bell hardcover edition.

4

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 182-188 (in an entry entitled “Exeter CE1”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition.

7

1996

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 3 – High Strangeness” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 178-182 (in an entry entitled “Execter CE1”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

5

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 364-367 of Volume 1:A-K (in an entry entitled “Exeter CE1”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

4

1969

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 898-899 (in Section 5, Chapter 2 “UFOs: 1947-1968”, by Edward U Condon) 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 page 539 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

2

1992

Davenport, Marc in his “Visitors from Time” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 94 (in Chapter 7) of the 1994 revised Greenleaf softcover edition.

1

2001

Davenport, Peter B and Geremia, Peter in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 170-172 (in an entry entitled “Exeter (New Hampshire) Sightings”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 167-169 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

3

2001

Davenport, Peter B and Geremia, Peter in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 205-208 (in an entry entitled “Exeter (New Hampshire) Sightings”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

4

1969

Dione, R L in “God Drives a Flying Saucer” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 18 (in Chapter 3) of the Corgi paperback edition.

1

2000

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 pages 379-381 (in Chapter 7) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 287-289 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

3

1968

Dooley, Edward in “Flying Saucers : Twenty-One Years of UFOs” (1968), published by the editors of Cowles and UPI, at pages 62-65.

4

1967

Dooley, Edward in “Flying Saucers: A Look Special” (1967) published by the editors of United Press International and Cowles Communications Inc, at page 17.

1

2003

Druffel, Ann in her “Firestorm : Dr James E McDonald's Fight for UFO Science” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 96-97 (in Chapter 5) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition.

2

1967

Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Here and Now!” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 40-41 (in Chapter 3) of the Lyle Stuart hardback edition, at page 19 of the Bantam paperback edition.

1

1966

Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Serious Business” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 171-173 (in Chapter 13) of the Bantam paperback edition, at pages 177-179 of the Mayflower-Dell paperback edition.

3

1967

Erskine, Allen Louis in his “Why Are They Watching Us?” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 25-26 (in Chapter 2) of the Tower paperback edition.

2

1983

Evans, Hilary in his “The Evidence for UFOs” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 90 (in Chapter 5, Case 44), 150 (in Chapter 8) of the Aquarian softcover edition.

2

1994

Fawcett, George and Greenwood, Barry in their “Clear Intent” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 58-59 (in Chapter 5) of the Spectrum softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Fireside softcover edition published under the title “The UFO Cover-Up”).

2

1981

Fowler, Raymond E in his “Casebook of a UFO Investigator” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 34-43 (Chapter 4 generally) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition.

10

1974

Fowler, Raymond E in his “UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74 (in Chapter 6), 76-91 (Chapter 7 generally), 112-113 (in Chapter 9) of the Exposition Banner hardback edition, at pages 71-72, 73-88, 109-111 of the Bantam paperback edition.

19

1966

Fuller, John G in his “Incident at Exeter” (1966) generally, particularly at pages 5-23, 41-85, 97-99, 109-114, 140-145, 178-180, 184-189, 211-221 of the Berkley paperback editions.

99

1969

Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18-19 (in the Introduction) of the Putnam hardback edition.

2

1983

Garrett, Richard in his “Aliens From Outer Space” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 73-77 (in Chapter 6) of the Piccolo paperback edition.

5

1978

Gelman, Rita and Seligson, Marcia in their “UFO Encounters” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 40, 42 (in Chapter 7) of the Scholastic softcover edition.

2

1967

Greenfield, Irving A in his “The UFO Report” (1967) at pages 91-92 (in Chapter 10) of the Lancer paperback edition.

2

1970

Gurney, Gene (USAF Lt Col) and Clare Gurney in their “Unidentified Flying Objects” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 53-60 (in Chapter 5) of the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition.

8

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 278-280 (in Chapter 7) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

3

2001

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 5 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”), 182-183 (in Section 5) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition.

3

1987

Hansen, Kim in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 69-72 of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition (Chapter 2.3.2, entitled “UFO Casebook”).

4

1976

Hervey, Michael in his “UFOs : The American Scene” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 113 (in Chapter 12) of the Hale hardback edition.

1

1977

Hynek, J Allen in his “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Chapter 7, at pages 144-156 of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at pages 154-166 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition).

13

1970

Keel, John A in his “UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 253 (in Chapter 13) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Abacus softcover edition).

1

1971

Kettelkamp, Larry in his “Investigating UFOs” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39-41 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Sightings and Cases”) of the Target softcover edition.

3

1973

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 51 (in Chapter 4) of the Signet paperback edition, page 66 of the Panther paperback edition.

1

1968

Lore, Gordon and Deneault, Harold in their “Mysteries of the Skies” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 151-153 (in Chapter 10), 174 (in the Epilogue) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition.

4

1979

Machlin, Milt in his “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 103-105 (in Chapter 5, entitled “The Complete Directory of UFOs : An illustrated history of unexplained sightings from ‘Project Blue Book’ ”) of the Dale paperback edition.

3

1997

Michaels, Susan in her “Sightings: UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 97-105 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Unidentified in Exeter”) of the Fireside softcover edition.

9

2002

Moseley, James and Pflock, Karl in their “Shockingly Close to the Truth!” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 190-191 (in Chapter 8) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

2

1973

Norman, Eric (pseudonum of Warren Smith) in his “Gods and Devils from Outer Space” (1973) at pages 7-8 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Legends of The Sky People”) of the Lancer paperback edition.

2

1977

Ortzen, Len in his “Strange Stories of UFOs” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 129-131 (in Chapter 16) of the Coronet paperback edition.

3

1997

Randle, Kevin in his “Conspiracy of Silence” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 162-163 (in Chapter 8) of the Avon paperback edition.

2

2000

Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 63 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the Sterling softcover edition.

1

1994

Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 73-74 (in an entry entitled “Exeter, New Hampshire, incidents, United States”) of the MJF hardback edition.

2

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 93-94 of the Corgi softback edition in an entry entitled “Exeter, New Hampshire” and included in a list entitled “Chronological list of UFO sightings” at page ix.

2

1968

Salisbury, Frank B in “The Official Guide to UFOs” (1968) (edited by the editors of Science & Mechanics) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 63-65 (in unnumbered chapter entitled “The Scientist and the UFO”) of the Ace paperback edition.

3

1979

Salisbury, Frank in “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (edited by Milt Machlin) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-82 (in Chapter 4) of the Dale paperback edition.

3

1968

Salisbury, Frank in his written statement to the Roush Hearing (the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics "Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects" on 1968.0729) at page 244 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Complete transcript available free online at the following links:

http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/contents.html

http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/contents.html

1

1999

Spaceage in its “UFO USA - A Traveler's Guide” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 112-113 (in the chapter entitled “New Hampshire”) of the Hyperion softcover edition.

2

2003

Sparks, Brad in version 1.7 of his “Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project BLUE BOOK UFO Unknowns” (2003) as Case Number 1406 on pages 173-174 of the PDF edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). Both editions are available online, respectively at the following links:

http://www.cufos.org/BB_Unknowns_1_7.pdf

http://www.nicap.org/bluebook/CufosBBUnknowns.doc

2

1997

Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 62-63 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1957-1967”) of the Boxtree hardback edition.

2

1991

Spencer, John in his “UFOs: The Definitive Casebook” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48-49 (in the unnumbered section entitled “North America”, in the chapter entitled “Database”) of the Hamlyn hardback edition.

2

1966

Stanton, L Jerome in his “Flying Saucers : Hoax or Reality?” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16-17 (in Chapter 1), 97 (in Chapter 6) of the Belmont paperback edition.

3

1966

Steiger, Brad in his “Strangers from the Skies” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 133-137 (in Chapter 28) of the Award Books paperback edition.

4

1981

Story, Ronald in his “UFOs and the Limits of Science” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 156-162 (Chapter 11 generally) of the NEL Hardback edition and included in a list of ten “best” cases offered at pages 21-22.

7

1968

the editors of Science & Mechanics in “The Official Guide to UFOs” (1968) (edited by the editors of Science & Mechanics) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-154 (in unnumbered chapter entitled “Complete Directory of UFOs”) of the Ace paperback edition.

2

1993

Thompson, Richard in his “Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Pheonemena” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 57-59 (in Chapter 2) of the GHP revised softcover edition.

3

1987

Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 99, 100-101, 102-106 (in Chapter 4) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition.

8

1970

Vallee, Jacques in his “Passport to Magonia” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 316 (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.

1

1994

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 page 317 (in Chapter 10) of the AUP softcover edition.

1

1971

Vesco, Renato in his “Intercept Ufo” (Formerly published as “Intercept - But Don't Shoot”) (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 317 (in Chapter 10) of the Zebra paperback edition.

1

1968

Von Daniken, Erich in his “Chariots of the Gods?” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 157-158 (in Chapter 10) of the World Books hardback edition, at pages 118-119 of the Bantam paperback editions.

2

1968

White, Dale in his “Is Something Up There?” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 9-21 (in Chapter 1 generally), 47-50 (in Chapter 4) of the Scholastic Book Services paperback edition.

13

1996

Wilson, Colin in his “World Famous UFOs” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 77, 79 (in Chapter 4) of the Parragon softcover edition.

2

 

Other Material

Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 9891 [query: listed by Sparks and Berliner as Project Blue Book Case Number 9890] 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-PBB1-353 (page 353 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-PBB2-563 (page 563 of 1352) at the link below.

http://www.bluebookarchive.org

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