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Livingston Incident
On 9 November 1979, the Livingston, Scotland incident involving foreman forester Robert Taylor (“Bob Taylor”) occurred, allegedly involving a close encounter and balls attached themselves to Mr Taylor’s trousers, tearing them. (Commonly referred to as “the Livingston Incident”).

This incident is Case 86 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 33 of the books covered by that article.

This incident has also featured in a list of cases produced jointly by British ufologists Dave Clarke and Andy Roberts 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.

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case682.htm

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Livingston, Scotland incident see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1999

Baker, Alan in his “The Encyclopaedia of Alien Encounters” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 163-164 (in an entry entitled “ ‘Mines’ (Aliens”) of the Virgin hardback edition.

2

2001

Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in “The World’s Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 313-314 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Closest Kind”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition.

2

1986

Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in their “The World’s Greatest UFO Mysteries” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 73 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Closest Kind”) of the Octopus hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Hamlyn softcover edition).

1

1996

Blundell, Nigel in his “World’s Most Amazing UFO Visits” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 162 of the Select softcover edition.

1

1994

Campbell, Steuart in his “The UFO Mystery Solved” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 143-158 (Chapter 9 generally) of the Explicit Books softcover edition.

16

1994

Cassirer, Manfred in his “Dimensions of Enchantment” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 8-9 (in Chapter 1), 147 (in Chapter 10), 178 (in Chapter 12) of the Breese Books softcover edition.

4

1987

Chalker, Bill in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 187 of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition (in Chapter 3.4.1, entitled “Physical Traces”).

1

1990

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 137-138 (in Chapter 7) of the Hale hardback edition.

2

1992

Davenport, Marc in his “Visitors from Time” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 118-119 (in Chapter 9) of the 1994 revised Greenleaf softcover edition.

2

1982

Devereux, Paul in his “Earth Lights“ (1982) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 38-39 (in Chapter 2) of the Turnstone Press hardback edition.

2

1983

Evans, Hilary in his “The Evidence for UFOs” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-21, 30 (in Chapter 1, Case 4), 58 (in Chapter 3), 77 (in Chapter 4) of the Aquarian softcover edition.

5

1999

Glenday, Craig in his “The UFO Investigator’s Handbook” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 39 (in Chapter 1) of the Running Press softcover edition.

1

1997

Halliday, Ron in his “McX : Scotland's X-Files” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page xii-xiii (in the Introduction), 3, 5-9 (in Chapter 1) of the B&W softcover edition.

8

1998

Halliday, Ron in his “UFO Scotland” (1998) at pages viii, ix (in the Introduction), 2-12, 16-19 (in Chapter 1), 206 (in Chapter 6), 276, 278 (in Chapter 8), 301-302, 303, 305, 308 (in Chapter 9) of the B&W softcover edition.

25

1996

Huyghe, Patrick in his “The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 98-99 (in the unnumbered section entitled “Robotic”) of the Avon softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the NEL softcover edition).

2

1994

Mantle, Philip and Nagaitis, Carl in their “Without Consent” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 53-59 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Official Recognition”, sub-section entitled “Robert Taylor”) of the Ringpull hardback edition.

7

1997

Marvels and Mysteries (Editors Of) in “Marvels and Mysteries: UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 7-11 of the Parrallel softcover edition.

5

1985

National Enquirer (Editors of) in “UFO Report” (1985) at pages 16-18 (in Chapter 1) of the Pocket paperback edition.

3

2002

Nixon, Neil in his “Pocket Essentials : UFOs” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-37, 39 (in Chapter 2) of the Pocket Essentials softcover edition.

3

2001

Picknett, Lynn in her “The Mammoth Book of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 127-128 (in Chapter 2) of the Robinson softcover edition.

2

1997

Pope, Nick in his “The Uninvited” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 85 (in Chapter 5) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition.

1

1996

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “50 Years of UFO Encounters” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 71-72 (in unnumbered section entitled “1979: Livingston – An Offical Investigation”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition.

2

1993

Randles, Jenny in her “Aliens” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-63 (in Part 2) of the Hale hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sterling softcover edition published under the title “Alien Contacts and Abductions”).

4

2000

Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 93-94 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the Sterling softcover edition.

2

1998

Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Crash Landing? Friend or Foe?” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 86 (in Chapter 7) of the Blandford softcover edition.

1

1981

Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Study” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-157 (in Chapter 12) of the Hale hardback edition.

5

1992

Randles, Jenny in her “UFOs and How to See Them” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 100-101 (in Chapter 4) of the Brockhampton Press hardback edition.

2

1994

Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 126 (in an entry entitled “Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom”) of the MJF hardback edition.

1

1996

Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 162-163, 178 (in Chapter 5) of the Frog softcover edition.

3

1997

Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 115-116 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1977-1987”) of the Boxtree hardback edition.

2

1991

Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 189-190 (in an entry entitled “Livingston, Scotland”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 219-221 of the Headline paperback edition.

2

1991

Spencer, John in his “UFOs: The Definitive Casebook” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 110-113 (in the unnumbered section entitled “Europe”, in the chapter entitled “Database”) of the Hamlyn hardback edition.

4

1980

Welfare, Simon and Fairley, John in their “Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 255-256 (in Chapter 10) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

2

 

Other Material

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