This incident is Case 60 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 49 of the books covered by that article.
The National Enquirer reported on 27 May 1973 that it was awarding the Johnson family $5,000 “for supplying the most scientifically valuable UFO evidence in 1972”, following the recommendations of the members of its “blue ribbon” panel of UFO experts.
This incident has also featured in lists by various UFO researchers of the top UFO cases, including the following:
- a list by James Carrion, the International Director of the Mutual UFO Network, of the “top 10 cases” in an interview in 2006.
Web Resources
For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.nicap.org/ar-711102dir.htm
http://www.temporaldoorway.com/ufo/report/711102.htm
This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 271931.
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Delphos Ring incident see the following:
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Ashpole, Edward in his “The UFO Phenomena” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 87-91 (in Chapter 6) of the Headline hardback edition. |
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Baker, Alan in his “The Encyclopaedia of Alien Encounters” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 140 (in an entry entitled “Landing Traces”) of the Virgin hardback edition. |
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Campbell, Steuart in his “The UFO Mystery Solved” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-81 (in Chapter 4) of the Explicit Books softcover edition. |
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Canadeo, Anne in her “UFO’s: The Fact or Fiction File” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39-42 (in Chapter 4 of the anti-UFO side of the book, i.e. the side which starts with the Chapter 1 entitled “Some Important Questions About Visitors From ‘Planet Z’”) of the Walker hardback edition. |
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Chalker, Bill in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 185 of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition (in Chapter 3.4.1, entitled “Physical Traces”). |
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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 168-172 (in an entry entitled “Delphos CE2”. Also briefly discussed at pages 84-85 in an entry entitled “Close Encounters of the Second 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 148-151 (in an entry entitled “Delphos CE2”) of the Omnigraphics hardback 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 page 78 (in an entry entitled “Close Encounters of the Second Kind”) 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) at pages 324-326 of Volume 1:A-K (in an entry entitled “Delphos CE2”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Dash, Mike in his “Borderlands” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 142-144 (in Chapter 4) of the Arrow paperback 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 473-474 (in Chapter 9) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 375-376 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Downing, Barry in “The Bible and Flying Saucers” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 163 (in Appendix 2) of the Sphere paperback edition. |
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Emmons, Charles F in his “At The Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 146 (in Chapter 8) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
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Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 309 (in Section 4) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition. |
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Glenday, Craig in his “The UFO Investigator’s Handbook” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 46 (in Chapter 2) of the Running Press softcover edition. |
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Hansen, Kim in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 79-82 (in Chapter 2.3.2, entitled “UFO Casebook”) of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition. |
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Hendry, Allan in his “The UFO Handbook” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 130-131 (in Chapter 9) of the Sphere softback edition. |
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Hervey, Michael in his “UFOs : The American Scene” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 186-193 (in Chapter 18) 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 pages 59 (in Chapter 3), 137-138, 139 (in Chapter 10) of the Hampton Roads softcover edition. |
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Hynek, J Allen in Jean-Claude Bourret’s “The Crack in the Universe” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 196-197 (in Part 4) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition. |
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Klass, Philip J in “UFOs – The Public Deceived” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 125-134 (in Chapter 15 generally, “Delphos”) of the Prometheus softback edition. |
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Klass, Philip J in his “UFO Abductions: A Dangerous Game” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 90-91 (in Chapter 9) of the updated Prometheus softback edition. |
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Klass, Philip J in his “UFOs Explained” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 312-332 (in Chapter 28, “Delphos: Blue Ribbon Panel’s Choice”) of the Random House hardback edition / pages 370-394 of Random House paperback edition.
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Landsburg, Alan in his “In Search of Extraterrestrials” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-11 (in Chapter 1) of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in “Encounters with UFO Occupants” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-26 (in Chapter 2) of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Oberg, James in his “UFOs and Outer Space Mysteries” (1982) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 7 (in the Introduction) of the Donning paperback edition. |
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Phillips, Ted in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 98-99 (in an entry entitled “Delphos (Kansas) landing”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Phillips, Ted in his “Physical Traces associated with UFO Sightings” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages viii, x (in Part B), 79 (in Part C), 137-138 (in the Appendix) of the CUFOS paperbound edition. |
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Phillips, Ted in MUFON’s “Field Investigator's Manual – 4th Edition” (1995) at pages 129-130, 135, 139 (in Chapter 12) of the MUFON looseleaf edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Scientific Ufology” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145-156, 157 (in Chapter 5), 204 (in Chapter 7), 214-215, 217, 222 (in Chapter 8) of the Avon 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 57-58 (in unnumbered section entitled “1971: Ground Traces”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover 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 page 79 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the Sterling softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Study” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 149-150 (in Chapter 12) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Salisbury, Frank in his “The Utah UFO Display: A Biologist’s Report” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 134-136 (in Chapter 3) of the Devin Adair hardback edition. |
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Sheaffer, Robert in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 3) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. |
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Sheaffer, Robert in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 99 (in an entry entitled “Delphos (Kansas) landing”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Sheaffer, Robert in his “The UFO Verdict” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23-24 (in Chapter 4) 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 44-45 (in Chapter 4) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at pages 111-112 (in Appendix A) of the Congressional Research Service stapled 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 74-76 (in the chapter entitled “Kansas”) of the Hyperion softcover edition. |
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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 page 86 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1967-1977”) 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 page 95 (in an entry entitled “Delphos Ring, Kansas”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 108 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 58 (in the unnumbered section entitled “North America”, in the chapter entitled “Database”) of the Hamlyn hardback edition. |
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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 151-154 (in an entry entitled “Delpos (Kansas) landing trace”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 148-151 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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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 182-185 (in an entry entitled “Delpos (Kansas) landing trace”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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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 77-82 (Chapter 3) of the NEL Hardback edition. |
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Swiatek, Robert P 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 16 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”), 58-61 (in Section 1) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Dimensions“ (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 184-186 (in Part 2, Chapter 6) 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 pages 240-241, 269, 270 of the Documatica Research hardback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “The Invisible College” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 35-38 (in Chapter 1) of the Dutton hardback edition, at pages 44-47 of the Panther paperback edition (published under the title “UFOs : The Psychic Solution”). |
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