Sightings of “ghost airplanes” and “ghost fliers” reported over Scandinavia between 1933 and 1937, with sporadic reports in other countries.
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Book References
For discussion of the “ghost fliers” see the following:
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Baker, Alan in his “Sci-Fi Channel: True Life Encounters: UFO Sightings” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 9-11 (in Chapter 1) of the Orion softcover edition. |
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Bartholomew, Robert E. and Radford, Benjamin in their “Hoaxes, Myths and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 44 (in Chapter 3) of the Prometheus softcover edition. |
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Blum, Ralph and Blum, Judy in their “Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 64-65 (in Chapter 6) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition). |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 32-33 (in Chapter 2) of the BCA hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Blitz hardback edition, and in the Barnes & Noble hardback edition published under the title “UFO: The Complete Sightings”). |
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Bullard, Thomas E in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 3 – High Strangeness” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 572 of the Omnigraphics hardback edition forming part of an entry entitled “Waves”. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 2 – Emergence of a Phenomenon” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 375-376 of the Omnigraphics hardback edition in an entry entitled “UFOs, 1900-1946”. |
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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 2:L-Z at pages 928-930 (forming part of the entry entitled “UFOs, 1900-1946” at pages 916-938) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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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 53-54 (in Chapter 3) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Dash, Mike in his “Borderlands” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 132 (in Chapter 4) of the Arrow paperback edition. |
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Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 7 (in Chapter 1) of the California hardback edition. |
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Devereux, Paul and Brookesmith, Peter in their “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in Chapter 1) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Devereux, Paul in his “Earth Lights Revelation” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 39 (in Chapter 2) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Dolan, Richard M in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 24 (in Chapter 1) of the Keyhole softcover edition, omitted from the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Emenegger, Robert in his “UFOs Past, Present and Future” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 10 (in Chapter 2) of the silver covered Ballantine paperback edition first printing, at pages 10-11 of the blue covered Ballantine paperback edition eighth printing. |
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Evans, Hilary in his “From Other Worlds” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 91 (in Chapter 4) of the Carlton hardback edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13-15 (in the Prologue) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition). |
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Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages xviii-xx (in the Prologue) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition). |
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Good, Timothy in his “Need To Know : UFOs, the Military and Intelligence” (2006) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11-15 (in Chapter 1) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback 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 pages 16-17 (in Chapter 1) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Harbinson, W A in “The Age of the UFO” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 109 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Those mysterious flying machines”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”, Volume 3, page 725. |
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Harbinson, W A in “UFOs: Where Do They Come From?” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 13 (in unnumbered chapter entitled “Those mysterious flying machines”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”, Volume 3, pages 725. |
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Keel, John A in his “UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 127-136 (in Chapter 7), 169 (in Chapter 9) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Abacus softcover edition). |
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Keel, John A in his “Disneyland of the Gods” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 46-47 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Living Legends and Dying Worlds”) of the I-Net softcover edition. |
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Keel, John A in his “Our Haunted Planet” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 100-101 (in Chapter 8) of the Fawcett paperback edition. |
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Liljegren, Anders and Clas Svahn in “Phenomenon“ (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 53-56 (in Part 1, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Ghost Rockets and Phantom Aircraft”) of the MacDonald hardback edition. |
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Liljegren, Anders and Clas Svahn in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-37 (in Chapter 2.1.4) of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition. |
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Marvels and Mysteries (Editors Of) in “Marvels and Mysteries: UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 99 of the Parrallel softcover edition. |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 2 (in Chapter 1, “Prologue”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, page 2 of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Pope, Nick in his “Open Skies, Closed Minds” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 (in Chapter 1) 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 51-52 (in Part 3) of the Fireside softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Project Moon Dust” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 254-255 (in Appendix A) of the Avon 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 42-49 (in Chapter 2) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Something in the Air” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 19-20 (in Chapter 1) of the Hale hardback 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 28 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the Sterling softcover edition. |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 88 (in an entry entitled “ghost aircraft”) of the MJF hardback edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Hollywood Vs. the Aliens” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 (in the Introduction) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Seargent, D A J in his “UFOs: A Scientific Enigma” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-24 (in Chapter 1) of the Sphere paperback edition. |
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Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “The Eternal Subject” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 101-104 (in Chapter 17 generally) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition, at pages 103-106 of the Day Book paperback editon (published under the title “Mysterious Visitors: The UFO Story”). |
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Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 49-53 (in Chapter 4) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Watson, Nigel in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 29-30 of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition (Chapter 2.1.3, entitled “Before the Flying Saucers Came”). |
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Weldon, John and Levitt, Zola in their “Encounters With UFOs“ (1975) (formerly “UFOs, What on Earth is Happening?”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 35 (in Chapter 2) of the Harvest House paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Colin in his “Alien Dawn” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 166-167 (in Chapter 5) of the Virgin softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Virgin paperback edition). |
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