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Cradle Hill hoax
On 28 March 1970, a photo hoax was performed by members of the Society for the Investigation of UFO Phenomena (“SIUFOP”) involving witnesses/victims at Cradle Hill, Warminster. Commonly referred to as “the Cradle Hill hoax”.

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1994

Campbell, Steuart in his “The UFO Mystery Solved” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 35-36 (in Chapter 2), 46 (in Chapter 3) of the Explicit Books softcover edition.

3

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 257-258 (forming part of an entry entitled “Hoaxes, 1960-1979”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

2

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 513-514 of Volume 1:A-K (forming part of the entry entitled “Hoaxes” at pages 504-519) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

2

2007

Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Flying Saucerers : A social history of UFOlogy” (2007) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 152-153 (in Chapter 9) of the Alternative Albion softcover edition.

2

1982

Oberg, James in his “UFOs and Outer Space Mysteries” (1982) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 103-106, 116 (in Chapter 5) of the Donning paperback edition.

5

1990

Randles, Jenny and Fuller, Paul in their “Crop Circles : A Mystery Solved” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 73, 74, 75 (in Chapter 5) of the Hale softcover edition.

3

1981

Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Study” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 135-138 (in Chapter 11) of the Hale hardback edition.

4

1983

Ridpath, Ian in his “Life Off Earth” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 119-120 (in Chapter 10) of the Granada hardback edition.

2

1987

Rimmer, John in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 344 (in Chapter 5.6, entitled “Levels of Mystification”) of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition.

1

1997

Rimmer, John in “UFO: 1947-1997” (1997) (edited by Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 107 (in the section entitled “The 1960s”, unnumbered chapter entitled “A UFO Flap Area”) of the John Brown hardback edition.

1

1994

Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 49-50 (in an entry entitled “Cradle Hill hoax, Warminster, England”) of the MJF hardback edition.

2

1994

Rogers, Ken in his “The Warminster Triangle” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 65-66 (in Chapter 7) of the Coates and Parker softcover edition.

2

1988

Shaw, John in “Phenomenon“ (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 215 (in Part 3, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words”) of the MacDonald hardback edition.

1

2001

Simpson, D I and Raine, Ken in their article “An Account of Experimental UFO Hoaxing”, Magonia Issue 75 (July 2001), at pages [insert check magonia]-[insert check magonia]. Article available free online at:

http://www.magonia.demon.co.uk/arc/00/hoaxreview.htm

 

1976

Simpson, D I in his article entitled “Experimental UFO Hoaxing” in the March 1976 edition of MUFOB New Series 2 at pages [insert check magonia]- [insert check magonia]. Article available free online at: http://www.magonia.demon.co.uk/arc/70/hoax.html

 

 

Other Material

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