This incident is Case 73 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 39 of the books covered by that article.
This incident featured in a list of the ten “best” case published by Ronald Story in his book “UFOs and the Limits of Science” (1981).
Web Resources
For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://ufologie.net/htm/portage66.htm
http://www.nicap.org/portagedir.htm
http://www.nicap.org/portagedoc.htmWikipedia article at : Spaur/Neff Ravenna sighting (1966)
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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
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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 103-106 (in Chapter 9) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition). |
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Chambers, Howard in his “UFOs for the millions” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 105-108 (in Chapter 8) of the |
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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 450-465 (forming part of an entry entitled “Portage County Sightings”) 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 396-407 (in an entry entitled “Portage County Sightings”) of the Omnigraphics hardback 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 pages 395-398 (in Chapter 7) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 302-305 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Druffel, Ann in “The Tujunga Canyon Contacts” (1980) (by D. Scott Rogo and Ann Druffel) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 220 (in Part |
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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 pages 43-45, 55, 57, 58, 59 (in Chapter 3), 141, 144-145, 149, 151 (in Chapter 7) 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 56-58 (in Chapter 4) of the Lyle Stuart hardback edition, at pages 28-30 of the Bantam paperback edition. |
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Erskine, Allen Louis in his “Why Are They Watching Us?” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 114-120 (in Chapter 15) of the Tower paperback edition. |
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Gaddis, Vincent H in “Flying Saucers Have Arrived!” (1970) (edited by Jay David) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 29-32 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Flying Saucer Mystery”) of the World hardback edition. The relevant chapter is reprinted from “Mysterious Fires and Lights” by Vincent H Gaddis. |
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Gaddis, Vincent in his “Mysterious Fire And Lights” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 3-6 (in Chapter 1) of the Dell hardback 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 82-84 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “ |
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Hall, Richard in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 435-437 (in an entry entitled “Portage County (Ohio) police chase”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 426-427 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Hall, Richard in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 271-272 (in an entry entitled “Portage County (Ohio) police chase”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Hall, Richard in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 524-526 (in an entry entitled “Portage County (Ohio) police chase”) of the Robinson softcover 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 7 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”), 44 (in Section 1) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition. |
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Hall, Richard in his “Uninvited Guests” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 217-219 (in Chapter 14), 259-260 (in Appendix A) of the Aurora Press 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 119 (in Chapter 13) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Hill, Paul R in his “Unconventional Flying Objects : A Scientific Analysis” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 145 (in Chapter 11) of the Hampton Roads softcover edition. |
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Hynek, J Allen in his “The UFO Experience” (1972) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (in Chapter 8) at pages 99-109 of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with same page numbering in the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition) at pages 113-125 of the various Ballantine paperback editions, at pages 130-143 of the Corgi paperback edition. Included in a table indicating an assessment of Strangeness Rating/Probability Rating of 4/8 as |
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Jerome Clark’s “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 719-728 (in an entry entitled “Portage County Sightings”) of the Omnigraphics 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 161-162 (in Chapter 10), 181-183 (in the Epilogue) of the Prentice-Hall hardback 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 250-251 (in Chapter 15) of the Signet 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 59-63 (in Chapter 8 generally) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
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Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at pages 72-73 of the manuscript, at pages 85-86 of the NIDS pdf version available free on-line on various websites, including at the following link: http://www.projectbluebook.us/UFOs%20An%20Air%20Force%20Dilemma%20By%20Quintanilla.pdf http://www.nidsci.org/pdf/quintanilla.pdf
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Randle, Kevin in his “Project Bluebook Exposed” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 180-182 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “So, What Do We Make of All This?”) of the Marlowe softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Project Bluebook Exposed” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 133-150 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “April 17, 1966” generally), 182-183 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “So, What Do We Make of All This?”) of the Marlowe softcover edition. |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Life Off Earth” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 116 (in Chapter 10) of the |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 147 (in an entry entitled “Neff-Spaur incident, |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 254-255 (in an entry entitled “Portage County, Ohio”) and included in a list entitled “Chronological list of UFO sightings” at page ix of the Corgi softback edition. |
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Sheaffer, Robert in his “The UFO Verdict” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 179-196 (in Chapter 19 generally) 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 235-255 (in Chapter 18 generally) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Sparks, Brad in version 1.7 of his “Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 224 (in an entry entitled “Neff, Deputy Sheriff Wilbur”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 262-263 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Stemman, |
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Story, Ronald in his “UFOs and the Limits of Science” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 144-155 (Chapter 10 generally ) and included in a list of ten “best” cases offered at pages 21-22 of the NEL Hardback edition |
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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 pages 111, 113-115 (in Chapter 4) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition. |
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Wilson, Colin in his “World Famous UFOs” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 81 (in Chapter 4) of the Parragon softcover edition. |
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Young, Mort in his “UFO Top Secret” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 99-101 (in Chapter 7), 130-131 (in Chapter 9) of the Essandess softcover edition. |
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Other Material
Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 10447 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
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-PBB2-580 (page 580 of 1352) at the link below.
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