This incident is Case 20 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 87 of the books covered by that article.
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
Wikipedia article at : Herbert Schirmer abduction (1967)
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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 Schirmer abduction see the following:
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Andrews, Ann and Ritchie, Jean in their “Abducted” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 129 (in Chapter 9), 144 (in Chapter 10) of the Headline hardback edition. |
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Andrews, George C in his “Extra-Terrestrial Friends and Foes” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 6-7, 8 (in Chapter 1) of the Illuminet Press 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 218-219 (in an entry entitled “Schirmer, Herbert”) of the Virgin hardback edition. |
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Bartholomew, Robert E and Howard, George S in their “UFOs and Alien Contact” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 336-337 (in Appendix A, entitled “The UFO Contact Catalogue”) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Berlitz, Charles in his “World of Strange Phenomena” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 184-185 of the Wynwood hardback edition. |
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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 107-108 (in Chapter 9), 109-121 (Chapter 10 generally) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition). |
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Blum, Ralph with Blum, Judy in “UFO Abductions“ (1980) (edited by D. Scott Rogo) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 112-121 (in Part 2, unnumbered chapter entitled “The Ordeal of Herbert Schirmer” generally) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Brennan, Herbie in his “The Aliens Handbook” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 32-34 (in Chapter 6) of the Faber and Faber softcover edition. |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “Alien Abductions” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 19 (in Chapter 1) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition. |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 92 (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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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 67, 68 (in Chapter 3) of the Parragon hardback edition. |
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Bullard, Thomas E in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Volume 1:A-K at page 3 (in an entry entitled “Abduction Phenomenon”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Bullard, Thomas 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 512, 530-532 (in Section 13) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition. |
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Cassirer, Manfred in his “Dimensions of Enchantment” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 97-98 (in Chapter 7), 150 (in Chapter 10) of the Breese Books softcover edition. |
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Cawthorne, Nigel in “The World’s Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 92-94 (in the chapter entitled “Abductions USA”) of the Chancellor Press 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 pages 72-73 (in the chapter entitled “Abductions USA”) of the Hamlyn softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in “Alien Discussions: Abduction Study Conference Held at M. I. T.” (1994) (edited by Andrea Pritchard et al.) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in Chapter 1, unnumbered sub-chapter entitled “A Brief History of the UFO-Abduction Phenomenon”) of the North Cambridge Press hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “Extraordinary Encounters : An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 2 (in an entry entitled “Abductions by UFOs”) of the ABC-Clio hardback 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 526-530 (in an entry entitled “Schirmer Abduction Case”) also briefly discussed at page 99 (in an entry entitled “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”) 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 427-431 (in an entry entitled “Schirmer Abduction Case”) also briefly discussed at pages 95-96 (forming part of an entry entitled “Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1960-1979”) 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 817-821 (in an entry entitled “Schirmer Abduction Case”) of the Omnigraphics 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 42 at pages 596-598 (in Section 4 “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 389-391 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: |
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Craig, Roy in his “UFOs – An Insider’s View” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 98-104 (in Chapter 7) of the UNT softback edition. |
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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 437-438 (in Chapter 8) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 341-342 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Evans, Hilary and Spencer, John in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 133 of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition (in Chapter 2.5, entitled “Abductions and Contactees”). |
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Evans, Hilary in his “Gods, Spirits, Cosmic Guardians” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 160-161 (in Chapter 4.4) of the Aquarian softcover edition. |
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Evans, Hilary in his “The Evidence for UFOs” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48-49 (in Chapter 2) 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 148-149, 151 (in Chapter 1.11) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Forstchen, William in “Making Contact” (1997) (edited by Bill Fawcett) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 193-195 (in Section 3) of the Morrow hardback edition. |
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Fowler, Raymond in his “Casebook of a UFO Investigator” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 146 (in Chapter 12) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition. |
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Fuller, John G in his “The Interrupted Journey” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at at pages 370-371 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Epilog to New Edition”) of the revised Corgi paperback edition. |
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Gansberg, Alan and Gansberg, Judith in their “Direct Encounters: The Personal Histories of UFO Abductees” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-117 (in Chapter 6) of the Walker & Co 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 58-63 (in Chapter 10) of the Scholastic softcover edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Alien Base” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 271-273 (in Chapter 13), 402 (in Chapter 19) of the Century hardback 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 294 (in Chapter 6) of the Sourcebooks softcover edition. |
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Hervey, Michael in his “UFOs : The American Scene” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 138 (in Chapter 14) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Holzer, Hans in his “The UFOnauts” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 142-143 (in Chapter 6), 178-180 (in Chapter 7), 295-296 (in Chapter 10) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition. |
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Huyghe, Patrick in his “The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-21 (in the unnumbered section entitled “Humanoid”) of the Avon softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the NEL softcover edition). |
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Landsburg, Alan in his “In Search of Extraterrestrials” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 120-121 (in Chapter 9) of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Magor, John in his “Our UFO Visitors” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 226 (in Chapter 11) of the Hancock House hardback edition. |
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Moseley, James and Pflock, Karl in their “Shockingly Close to the Truth!” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 247 (in Chapter 11) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Norman, Eric (pseudonum of Warren Smith) in his “Gods and Devils from Outer Space” (1973) at pages 141-162 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Key to the Future”) of the Lancer paperback edition. |
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Norman, Eric (pseudonum of Warren Smith) in his “Gods, Demons and Space Chariots” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 8 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Angels, Spacemen and UFO’s”), 98 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Angels, Demons, and UFO Entities”), 169-193 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “An Incredible UFO Contactee Case”) of the Lancer paperback edition. |
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Peters, Ted in his “UFOs-God's Chariots?: Flying Saucers in Politics, Science & Religion” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 29-32 (in Chapter 2) of the John Knox hardback edition. |
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Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ and Cone, William in their “The Abduction Enigma” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 40-42, 60 (in Chapter 1), 160, 161-162 (in Chapter 10), 354 (in Chapter 24) of the Forge hardback edition. |
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Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ in their “Faces of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 123, 126, 149-153 (in Part 3) of the Fireside 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 56-57 (in unnumbered section entitled “1970: A New Dawn”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition. |
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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 page 61 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Space Invaders”) of the Brockhampton hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 65-67 (in Chapter 10) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Abduction“ (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-21 (in Chapter 1) 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 pages 59-60 (in the chapter entitled “1967”) 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 39 (in Part 1), 143-145 (in Part 6) of the Hale hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Star Children” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 94-95 (in Chapter 6), 195-197 (in Chapter 14) of the |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Complete Book of Aliens and Abductions” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) a page 34 (in Part 1) of the Piatkus hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 70-71 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) 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 135 (in Chapter 11), 186-188 (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 page 29 (in Chapter 1) of the Brockhampton Press hardback edition. |
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Redfern, Nicholas in his “A Covert Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 291 (in Chapter 20) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition. |
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Rehn, K Gosta in his “UFOs Here and Now” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 31-33 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Condon-Colorado Report”) of the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition. |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 183 (in an entry entitled “Schirmer incident, |
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Rogo, D Scott in “UFO Abductions“ (1980) (edited by D. Scott Rogo) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 109, 110 (in Part 2, unnumbered chapter entitled “Introductory Notes”) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Rogo, D. Scott and Druffel, Ann in their “The Tujunga Canyon Contacts” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-62 (in Chapter 4) of the revised 1988 Signet paperback edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 133-138 (in Chapter 4) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Saunders, David and R Roger Harkins in their “UFOs? Yes!” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 197 (in Chapter 21) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Schnabel, Jim in his “Dark White” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 25 (in Chapter 2) of the Hamish Hamilton softcover edition. |
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Smith, Susy in her “Strangers from Space” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51-60 (in Chapter 7 generally), 151-152 (in Chapter 18) of the Manor paperback edition. |
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Smith, Warren in his “UFO Trek” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 66-86 (in Chapter 5 generally), 86, 99 (in Chapter 6) of the Sphere paperback edition. |
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Spaceage in its “UFO USA - A Traveler's Guide” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 105-107 (in the chapter entitled “ |
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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 67-69 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1957-1967”) of the Boxtree hardback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 268-270 (in an entry entitled “Schirmer, Patrolman Herbert”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 316-318 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 54 (in the unnumbered section entitled “ |
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Spencer, John Wallace in his “No Earthly Explanation” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 108-110 (in Chapter 5) of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Sprinkle, R Leo in “Encounters with UFO Occupants” (1976) by Coral and Jim Lorenzen at pages 268-287 (in Chapter 15) of the |
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Steiger, Brad in his “The UFO Abductors” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 7-8 (in Chapter 1) of the |
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Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 524-527 (in an entry entitled “Schirmer abduction”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 513-516 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 318-319 of the NEL hardback edition in an entry entitled “Schirmer abduction”. |
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Story, Ronald in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 629-633 (in an entry entitled “Schirmer abduction”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Strickland, Joshua in his “Extra-terrestrials on Earth” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23-24 (in Chapter 1) of the |
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Thompson, Richard in his “Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Pheonemena” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 184 (in Chapter 5) of the GHP revised softcover 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 143-146 (in Chapter 10) 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 239-241 (in Part 3, Chapter 8) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Forbidden Science : Volume 2 (Journals 1970-1979)” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 273 of the Documatica Research hardback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Passport to Magonia” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 356 (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. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “The Invisible College” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 57-59 (in Chapter 2) of the Dutton hardback edition, at pages 65-67 of the Panther paperback edition (published under the title “UFOs : The Psychic Solution”). |
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Webb, David in “1973 – The Year of the Humanoid” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18, 19-20, 21-22 (in Section 3) of the privately published first edition, at pages 37, 38-39, 41-42 of the 1976 revised CUFOS spiral bound second edition. |
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Wilson, Clifford in his “The Alien Agenda” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 24-29 (in Chapter 3) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Clifford in his “UFOs and Their Mission Impossible” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 24-29 (in Chapter 3) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Colin in his “Alien Dawn” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 6 (in Chapter 1), 91-95 of the Virgin softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Virgin paperback edition). |
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