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On 9 November 1965, the Northeastern United States suffered a major power failure. Some authors have alleged a link to UFO sightings. (Commonly referred to as “The Northeast Blackout”).

This incident is Case 61 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 47 of the books covered by that article.

 

 

 

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/nyne.htm

http://ufologie.net/htm/blackout65.htm

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1986

Andrews, George C in his “Extra-Terrestrials Among Us” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 151-152 (in Chapter 5) of the Llewellyn softcover edition, at pages 170-171 of the Llewellyn paperback edition.

2

1992

Beckley, Timothy Green in his “Strange Encounters: Bizarre and Eerie Contact with UFO Occupants” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 58-61 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Proven Beyond Doubt! UFOs Caused East Coast Blackout”) of the Inner Light softcover edition.

4

1980

Berlitz, Charles and Moore, Bill in their “The Roswell Incident“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 15 (in Chapter 1) of the Granada hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Granada paperback edition).

1

1974

Berlitz, Charles in his “The Bermuda Triangle” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 117-118 (in Chapter 6) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

2

1967

Binder, Otto in his “What we really know about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 76-77 (in Chapter 6) of the Fawcett paperback edition.

2

1974

Blum, Ralph and Blum, Judy in their “Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 156 (in Chapter 14) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback 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 411-415 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Sinister Kind”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition.

5

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 153-156 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Sinister Kind”) of the Octopus hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Hamlyn softcover edition).

4

1966

Cantril, Hadley in his “The Invasion from Mars” (1940) at page vii (in the Preface to the 1966 edition) of the 1966 Harper Torchbooks paperback edition.

1

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 164-171 (in Section 3, Chapter 4 “Indirect Physical Evidence”, by Roy Craig) 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 110-115 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

8

1992

Davenport, Marc in his “Visitors from Time” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 57-58 (in Chapter 4) of the 1994 revised Greenleaf softcover edition.

2

2000

Dolan, Richard in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 384-386 (in Chapter 7) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 292-293 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

3

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 138-139, 145-147, 151 (in Chapter 7), 499-500 (in Chapter 18) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition.

8

1966

Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Serious Business” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145-149 (in Chapter 11) of the Bantam paperback edition, at pages 151-155 of the Mayflower-Dell paperback edition.

5

1967

Erskine, Allen Louis in his “Why Are They Watching Us?” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 98-100 (in Chapter 11) of the Tower paperback edition.

3

1974

Fowler, Raymond in his “UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 96-110 (in Chapter 8) of the Exposition Banner hardback edition, at pages 93-107 of the Bantam paperback edition.

15

1967

Fuller, John in “The Flying Saucer Reader” (1967) (edited by Jay David) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 171-177 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “ ‘The Blackout’ and the UFOs…”) of the Signet paperback edition. The relevant chapter is reprinted from “Incident at Exeter” by John Fuller.

7

1966

Fuller, John in his “Incident at Exeter” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 202-203 (in Chapter 14), 203-210 (in Chapter 15) of the Berkley paperback editions.

10

1996

Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 440 (in Chapter 17) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition).

1

2006

Good, Timothy in his “Need To Know : UFOs, the Military and Intelligence” (2006) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 254-255 (in Chapter 17) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition.

2

1967

Greenfield, Irving A in his “The UFO Report” (1967) at pages 35 (in Chapter 3), 132 (in Chapter 15) of the Lancer paperback edition.

2

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 6 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”), 247-248 (in Section 7) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition.

3

1977

Jenkins, Stephen in his “The Undiscovered Country” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 30 (in Part 1, Chapter 3) of the Abacus paperback edition.

1

1997

Kanon, Gregory in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51-52 (in Chapter 4) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

2

1971

Keel, John A in his “Our Haunted Planet” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 195 (in Chapter 14) of the Fawcett paperback edition.

1

1971

Kettelkamp, Larry in his “Investigating UFOs” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44-45 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Sightings and Cases”) of the Target softcover edition.

2

1973

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 171-175 (in Chapter 11), 176-183 (in Chapter 12) of the Signet paperback edition, pages 196-200, 201-208 of the Panther paperback edition.

13

1976

Landsburg, Alan in his “In Search of Extraterrestrials” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 65 (in Chapter 5) of the Corgi paperback edition.

1

1966

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 253-257 (in Chapter 15) of the Signet paperback edition.

5

1997

Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 147-149 (in Chapter 5) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

3

1968

McDonald, James E in the Roush Hearing (the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics "Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects" on 1968.0729) at pages 31-32 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Edited and annotated transcript presented by Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969), with the relevant extract appearing at pages 87-88 (in Chapter 2) of the Putnam hardback edition. Complete transcript available free online at the following links:

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

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

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

1992

Randles, Jenny in her “UFOs and How to See Them” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 58 (in Chapter 4) of the Brockhampton Press hardback edition.

1

1994

Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 160 (in an entry entitled “power failures, UFOs and”) of the MJF hardback edition.

1

1997

Rux, Bruce in his “Hollywood Vs. the Aliens” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 184-185 (in Chapter 3) of the Frog softcover edition.

2

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 37 (in an entry entitled “Blackouts”) of the Corgi softback edition.

2

1974

Sladek, John in his “The New Apocrypha” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 46-47 (in Chapter 3) of the Panther paperback edition.

2

1994

Spencer, John in his “Gifts of the Gods?” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 38 (in Chapter 4) of the Virgin paperback edition.

1

1991

Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 131-132 (in an entry entitled “Great North-East Blackout”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 150-151 of the Headline paperback edition.

2

1991

Spencer, John in his “UFOs: The Definitive Casebook” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 50-51 (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 150-152 (in Chapter 9) 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 130-131 (in Chapter 27) of the Award Books paperback edition.

2

1969

Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “Operation Earth” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 35 (in Chapter 5) of the Tandem paperback edition.

1

1970

Vallee, Jacques in his “Passport to Magonia” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 320 (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

1996

Watts, Alan in his “UFO Visitation” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41-42 (in Chapter 4) of the Blandford softcover edition.

2

1974

Webb, David in “1973 – The Year of the Humanoid” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 24 (in Section 3) of the privately published first edition, at page 45 of the 1976 revised CUFOS spiral bound second edition.

1

1975

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 10-11 (in Chapter 1) of the Harvest House paperback edition.

2

1996

Wilson, Colin in his “World Famous UFOs” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 79-82 (in Chapter 4) of the Parragon softcover edition.

4

 

Other Material

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