[Date to be checked - There has been some confusion over the date of this incident. Ruppelt states a date of 12 August 1953, which is repeated by several authors. Project Blue Book documents indicate the date was 5 August 1953].
Web Resources
For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.nicap.org/ellsworthdir.htm{text}
Book References
For discussion of the
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Binder, Otto in his “What we really know about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 35-36 (in Chapter 3), 91 (in Chapter 8), 115-116 (in Chapter 11) of the Fawcett paperback edition. |
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Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) as radar incident 15-B at pages 196-203 (in Section 3, Chapter 5 “Optical and Radar Analyses of Field Cases”, by Gordon D Thayer) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at pages 132-136 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links: |
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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 209 (in Chapter 5) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 135-136 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road 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 210 (in Chapter 4) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at page 95 (in Chapter 5) of the Box Tree hardback edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 41 (in Chapter 3) of the Signet paperback edition, page 55 of the Panther paperback edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “The Flying Saucer Conspiracy” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 92 (in Chapter 8) of the |
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Menzel, Donald and Boyd, Lyle in their “The World of Flying Saucers” (1963) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 167-171 (in Chapter 8) of the Doubleday hardback edition. |
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NICAP in its “The UFO Evidence” (1964) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 4 (in Section 1) of the privately published paperbound edition, with the same page numbering in the 1997 Barnes & Noble paperbound reprint. Available free online at: |
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Project Blue Book Status Report Number 12 (1953.0930) at pages 20-23 (in Section 7). Complete images of relevant report included on the redacted National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 85 (“Administrative Files: Box 1”), at the link below from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB85-882 (page 882 of 915) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB85-915 (page 915 of 915). Complete images of relevant report included on the unredacted Maxwell Air Force Base microfilm roll number 30,362, at the link below from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-852 (page 852 of 1537) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-885 (page 885 of 1537). Images of complete text of relevant report available free online as a downloadable pdf file from the download section of the website at the link below. |
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Ruppelt, Edward J in “The Flying Saucer Reader” (1967) (edited by Jay David) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41-44 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Chase in |
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Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 232-235 (in Chapter 17) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at pages 302-306 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 304-308 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 232-235 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at pages 167-169 of the reprinted Source Books softcover edition. The first of these editions (i.e. the original 17 chapter hardback edition) has the same page numbering as the version available free online at: http://www.nicap.org/rufo/contents2.htm |
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Sparks, Brad in version 1.7 of his “Comprehensive Catalog of 1,500 Project BLUE BOOK UFO Unknowns” (2003) as Case Number 789 on page 110 of the PDF edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). Both editions are available online, respectively at the following links: |
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Other Material
Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 2668 on the redacted US National Archives and Records Administration (“
Listed (without a Project Blue Book Case Number) on the unredacted Maxwell Air Force Base (“Maxwell”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book – see Maxwell microfilm roll number 30,363. An image of the relevant index page has been given the unique Page ID (“PID”) of MAXW-PBB2-335 (page 335 of 1352) at the link below.
http://www.bluebookarchive.org