On 18 September 1973, there was a report of a phantom helicopter at Harpur Hill, south-east of Buxton in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England. One of a number of sightings of so-called “phantom helicopters” in the North of England in 1973-1974.
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Harpur Hill phantom helicopter see the following:
Year |
Discussion by:
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No. of Pages |
Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Phantoms of the Sky: UFOs – A Modern Myth?” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 55-64 (in Chapter 2) of the Hale hardback edition. |
10 |
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Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “UFOs : A British Viewpoint” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 64-66 (in Chapter 3) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
3 |
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Redfern, Nicholas in his “A Covert Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 115 (in Chapter 9) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition. |
1 |
Other Material
For discussion of reports of black helicopters in England during this period see the following:
Year |
Discussion by:
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No. of Pages |
Bartholomew, Robert E. and Radford, Benjamin with Clarke, David in “Hoaxes, Myths and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking” (2003) (by Robert E. Bartholomew and Benjamin Radford) at pages 185-201 (in Chapter 13 generally, entitled “England’s Black Helicopters”) of the Prometheus softcover edition. |
17 |
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Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Out Of The Shadows” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 213-217 (in Chapter 11) of the Piatkus hardback edition. |
5 |
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Devereux, Paul in his “Earth Lights Revelation” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 104 (in Chapter 4) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
1 |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Pennine UFO Mystery" (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 28-30 (in Chapter 2) of the Granada paperback edition. |
3 |
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Redfern, Nicholas in his “A Covert Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 115-118 (in Chapter 9) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition. |
4 |
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Redfern, Nicholas in his “On the Trail of the Saucer Spies : UFOs and Government Surveillance” (2006) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 118-120 (in Chapter 7), 137-141 (in Chapter 8) of the Anomalist Books softcover edition. |
8 |
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