On 24 February 1959 there was a UFO sighting involving Captain Peter W Killianand co-pilot John Dee on an American Airlines cargo plane during a flight from
Web Resources
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Book References
For discussion of the Killian sighting see the following:
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Cramp, Leonard G in his “Piece for a Jig-Saw” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 143-145 (in Chapter 10) of the Somerton hardback 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 pages 309-311 (in Chapter 6) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 226-227 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Druffel, Ann in her “Firestorm : Dr James E McDonald's Fight for UFO Science” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 328-329 (in Chapter 13) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
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Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Serious Business” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 135-136 (in Chapter 10) of the Bantam paperback edition, at pages 141-142 of the Mayflower-Dell paperback edition. |
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Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 344-347 (in Chapter 17) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 277 (in Chapter 12) 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 page 354 (in Chapter 15) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition). |
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Gurney, Gene (USAF Lt Col) and Clare Gurney in their “Unidentified Flying Objects” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 85-88 (in Chapter 7) of the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition. |
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Hall, Richard in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 196-197 (in an entry entitled “Killian sighting”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Hopkins, Budd and Rainey, Carol in their “Sight Unseen: Science, UFO Invisibility and Transgenic Beings” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 55-56 (in Chapter 3) of the Pocket Star Books paperback edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 163-165 (in Chapter 11) of the Signet paperback edition, at pages 187-189 of the Panther paperback edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers: Top Secret” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 27-37 (Chapter 2 generally, “The Killian Case”) of the G P Putnam hardback edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald in “The Flying Saucer Reader” (1967) (edited by Jay David) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 227-235 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Killian Case…”) of the Signet paperback edition. The relevant chapter is reprinted from “Flying Saucers : Top Secret” by Donald Keyhoe. |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “UFOs: The Whole Story” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 96-97 (in Chapter 2) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Maney, Charles And Hall, Richard in their “Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects” (1961) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 101-104 (in Part 2, Chapter 10, by Charles Maney) of the privately published hardback edition. |
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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 52-56 (in Chapter 3) of the Doubleday hardback 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 320-322 of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Nesheim, Eric and Nesheim, Leif in their “Saucer Attack! : Pop Culture in the Golden Age of Flying Saucers” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 25 of the General Publishing softcover 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 pages 42-43 (in Section 5, “Pilots & Aviation Experts”), 116-117 (in Section 9) 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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Ortzen, Len in his “Strange Stories of UFOs” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18-20 (in Chapter 2) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
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Rutkowski, Chris in “Making Contact” (1997) (edited by Bill Fawcett) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 131, 132 (in Section 2) of the Morrow hardback edition. |
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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 1143 on page 151 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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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 175-176 (in an entry entitled “Killian, Captain Peter W”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 202-203 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Tacker, Lawrence (Lieutenant Colonel) in his “Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23-25 (in Chapter 3) of the D Van Nostrand hardback edition. |
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Tacker, Lawrence in “The Flying Saucer Reader” (1967) (edited by Jay David) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 237-239 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Killian Case …”) of the Signet paperback edition. The relevant chapter is reprinted from “Flying Saucers and the U S Air Force” by Lawrence Tacker. |
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Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “The Sky People” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 137-139 (in Chapter 9) of the Tandem paperback edition, at pages 117-118 of the Award Books paperback edition. |
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Other Material
Listed as Project Blue Book Case Number 6286 on the redacted US National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book, released to the National Archives in 1975 – see National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 1. An image of the relevant index page has been given the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB1-210 (page 210 of 1014) at the link below.
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-PBB2-450 (page 450 of 1352) at the link below.
http://www.bluebookarchive.org