This incident is Case 23 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 76 of the books covered by that article.
This incident has featured in a list of twenty UFO cases produced by Bruce Maccabee in 1999 in response to a challenge to produce “the best evidence for an extraterrestrial origin for the UFO phenomenon”.
Web Resources
This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 306532.
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Gulf Breeze sightings see the following:
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Alnor, William M in his “UFO in the New Age” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13-14 (in the Introduction) of the Baker softcover edition. |
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Andrews, Ann and Ritchie, Jean in their “Abducted” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 159 (in Chapter 11) of the Headline hardback edition. |
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Andrus, Walt in “The Gulf Breeze Sightings” (1990) (by Ed Walters and Francis Walters) in statements set out at pages 134-136 (in the unnumbered, but chronologically ordered, chapter entitled “January 17, 1988 – International Director Arrives”) of the Bantam Press hardback edition, at pages 124-126 of the Avon paperback 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 94-95 (in an entry entitled “Gulf Breeze, Florida, USA”) of the Virgin hardback edition. |
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Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 149 (in an entry entitled “Gulf Breeze Incident”), 328 (in an entry entitled “Walters, Ed”) of the Pocket Books softcover edition. |
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Blum, Howard in his “Out There“ (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 150 of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition, page 160 of the Pocket Star paperback edition (in Chapter 20). |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 133 (in Chapter 6), 139 (in Chapter 7) of the BCA hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Blitz hardback edition, and in the Barnes & Noble 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 100 (in Chapter 5), 106-107 (in Chapter 6) of the Parragon hardback 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 249-252 (in the chapter entitled “Weird and Wacky”) 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 181-183 (in the chapter entitled “Weird and Wacky”) of the Hamlyn softcover edition. |
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Christopher, Paul in his “Alien Intervention: The Spiritual Mission of UFOs” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 43-47, 53 (in Chapter 3) of the Huntington House softcover 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 263-267 (in an entry entitled “Gulf Breeze Case”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 1 – UFOs in the 1980s” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 121-128 (in an entry entitled “Gulf Breeze Sightings”) of the Apogee 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 1:A-K at pages 463-466 (in the entry entitled “Gulf Breeze Case”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 191, 195 (in Chapter 7) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Craft, Michael in his “Alien Impact” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12-14 (in Chapter 1) of the St Martin’s Paperbacks paperback edition. |
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Davenport, Marc in his “Visitors from Time” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 63 (in Chapter 5) of the 1994 revised Greenleaf softcover edition. |
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Dennett, Preston E in his “One in Forty : The UFO Epidemic” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 101 (in Chapter 15) of the KB hardback edition. |
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Ware, Donald in “The UFO Report 1991” (1989) (edited by Timothy Good) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 187-212 (Chapter 10 generally) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback 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 pages 65 (in Chapter 4), 91-92, 94 (in Chapter 5), 159 (in Chapter 8) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
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Filer, George A in “UFOs are Real – Here’s the proof” (1997) (by Ed Walters and Bruce Maccabee) at pages 3-9 (in the Introduction) of the Avon paperback edition. |
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Fitzgerald, Randall in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 237 (in the postscript to an entry entitled “Gulf Breeze (Florida) incidents”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 232 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Fitzgerald, Randall in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 288 (in the postscript to an entry entitled “Gulf Breeze (Florida) incidents”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 278, 327-328 (in Section 4) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition. |
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Friedman, Stanton in an interview in “UFOs And The Alien Presence: Six Viewpoints” (1991) (Edited by Michael Lindemann) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 55, 57 (in Chapter 1) of the 2002 Group 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 pages 92-93 (in Chapter 4), 124 (in Chapter 6) of the Running Press softcover edition. |
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Good, Timothy in “The UFO Report 1991” (1990) (edited by Timothy Good) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 8 (in the Editor’s Foreword), 220, 229-230, 236, (in Chapter 10) of the Guild Publishing hardback edition. |
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Good, Timothy in “The UFO Report 1992” (1991) (edited by Timothy Good) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages vii-viii (in the Editor’s Foreword) of the Sidgwick & Jackson softcover edition. |
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Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 327 (in Chapter 10) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Hall, Richard 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 30 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”), 296-297 and 299-300 (in Section 7) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition. |
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Hansen, George P in his “The Trickster and the Paranormal” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 236-237 of the Xlibris softcover edition. |
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Hesemann, Michael in his “The Cosmic Connection” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 67 (in Chapter 5) of the Gateway Books softcover edition. |
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Hoggart, Simon & Hutchinson, Mike in their “Bizarre Beliefs” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-21 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “UFOs”) of the Richard Cohen Books softcover edition. |
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Hopkins, Budd in “The Gulf Breeze Sightings” (1990) (by Ed Walters and Francis Walters) at pages 13-22 (in the Introduction generally) of the Bantam Press hardback edition, at pages xv-xxvi of the Avon paperback edition. |
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Kelleher, Colm and Knapp, George in their “Hunt for the Skinwalker” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 99-100 (in Chapter 13) of the Pocket Books softcover edition. |
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Lindemann, Michael in “UFOs And The Alien Presence: Six Viewpoints” (1991) (Edited by Michael Lindemann) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 56-57 (in Chapter 1) of the 2002 Group softcover edition. |
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Little, Gregory in his “Grand Illusions” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 37, 38, 39, 40-43 (in Chapter 2), 74 (in Chapter 4) of the White Buffalo softcover edition. |
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Maccabee, Bruce in “The Gulf Breeze Sightings” (1990) (by Ed Walters and Francis Walters) at pages 267-311 (in the unnumbered annex entitled “Investigation and Photo Analysis”) of the Bantam Press hardback edition, at pages 275-327 of the Avon paperback edition. |
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Maccabee, Bruce 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 432 (in Chapter |
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Maccabee, Bruce in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 232-237 (in an entry entitled “Gulf Breeze (Florida) incidents”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 228-232 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Maccabee, Bruce in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 284-288 (in an entry entitled “Gulf Breeze (Florida) incidents”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Maccabee, Bruce in “UFOs are Real – Here’s the proof” (1997) (by Ed Walters and Bruce Maccabee) at pages 58-105 (in Chapter 2), 163-214 (in Part 3) of the Avon paperback edition. |
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Moffitt, John in his “Picturing Extraterrestrials : Alien Images in Modern Mass Culture” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 301-302 of the Prometheus 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 pages 285-295 (Chapter 15 generally), 300, 302-303 (in Chapter 16) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Oechsler, Bob in “The Gulf Breeze Sightings” (1990) (by Ed Walters and Francis Walters) at pages 13-22 (in the unnumbered introductory chapter entitled “The Photographic Evidence”) of the Bantam Press hardback edition, at pages xxvii-xxviii of the Avon paperback edition. |
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Oechsler, Bob in “The UFO Report 1992” (1991) (edited by Timothy Good) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-98 (Chapter 7 generally) of the Sidgwick & Jackson softcover edition. |
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Picknett, Lynn in her “The Mammoth Book of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145-146 (in Chapter 2) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Pope, Nick in his “Open Skies, Closed Minds” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 73 (in Chapter 4) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
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Pope, Nick in his “The Uninvited” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 70-71 (in Chapter 4) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
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Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ in their “Spaceships of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 272-285 (in Part 5) of the Fireside softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin D and Estes, Russ in their “Faces of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 206-211 (in Part 3) of the Fireside softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “A history of UFO crashes” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 4-5 (in the Introduction) of the Avon paperback 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 88-89 (in unnumbered section entitled “1990: The Gulf Breeze Sightings”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 315-319 (in Chapter 29 generally) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The UFOs that never were” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) by Jenny Randles, Andy Roberts and David Clarke at pages 174-175 (in Chapter 9, by Jenny Randles) of the London House hardback 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 page 114-115 (in the chapter entitled “1988”) 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 52-53 (in Part 1), 117-118, 131 (in Part 5) of the Hale hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sterling softcover edition published under the title “Alien Contacts and Abductions”). |
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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 110-111 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”), 402-403 (in Part 3, “UFOs Worldwide”) of the Sterling softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Paranormal Source Book” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 62 (in the unnumbered, but alphabetically arranged, chapter entitled “Crop Circles”) of the Piatkus hardback edition. |
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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 67 (in Chapter 4) of the Brockhampton Press hardback edition. |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 94-95 (in an entry entitled “Gulf Breeze incidents, United States”) of the MJF hardback edition. |
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Schnabel, Jim in his “Dark White” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 162-167 (in Chapter 8), 183-186 (in Chapter 9) of the Hamish Hamilton softcover edition. |
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Sheaffer, Robert in “The UFO Invasion” (1997) (edited by Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr and Joe Nickell) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 184-186 of the Prometheus hardback edition (in Chapter 23, “Gulf Breeze UFO Case”). The relevant chapter is a reprint of an article in the Skeptical Inquirer 15 (Winter and Summer 1991). |
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Sheaffer, Robert in his “UFO Sightings: The Evidence” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 100-102 (in Chapter 6) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Spaceage in its “UFO USA – A Traveler's Guide” (1999) at pages 49-51 (in the chapter entitled “Florida”) 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 pages 153-156 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1987-1997”), 176 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Conclusions”) of the Boxtree hardback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “Gifts of the Gods?” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 83 (in Chapter 7) of the Virgin paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “Perspectives“ (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 189-201 (in Part 5(e)) of the Futura paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 316 (in an entry entitled “Walters, Edward”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 374 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 133-135 (in an entry entitled “Gulf Breeze”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 153-154 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 67 (in the unnumbered section entitled “North America”, in the chapter entitled “Database”) of the Hamlyn hardback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “UFOs: The Definitive Casebook” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 (in the unnumbered section entitled “North America”, in the chapter entitled “Last Bastion of |
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Thompson, Keith in his “Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 210-217 (in Chapter 15) of the Fawcett softcover edition. |
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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 pages 5-6, 8 (in the Introduction) of the GHP revised softcover edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 185-192 (in Chapter 6) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Walters, Ed and Walters, Francis in their “The Gulf Breeze Sightings” (1990) generally, particularly at pages 26-265, 312-344 of the Bantam Press hardback edition, at pages 1-274, 328-364 of the Avon paperback edition. |
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Walters, Ed in “UFOs are Real – Here’s the proof” (1997) (by Ed Walters and Bruce Maccabee) at pages 11-15 (in the Prologue), 19-57 (in Chapter 1), 110-112 (in Part 2), 217-232 (in Part 4), 233-238 (in the Afterword) of the Avon paperback edition. |
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Ware, Donald M in an interview in “UFOs And The Alien Presence: Six Viewpoints” (1991) (Edited by Michael Lindemann) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 209-211, 215-218 (in Chapter 6) of the 2002 Group softcover edition. |
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Wingfield, George in “The Crop Circle Enigma” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (edited by Ralph Noyes) at page 103 (in Part 2, unnumbered chapter entitled “Beyond the Current Paradigms”) of the revised Gateway softcover edition. |
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