This incident is Case 65 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 45 of the books covered by that article.
This incident featured in a document (“the Rockefeller Briefing Document”) endorsed by Dr Mark Rodeghier (President of CUFOS), Richard Hall (Chairman of FUFOR) and Walter Andrus (President of MUFON) as containing “the best available evidence for the existence of UFOs”.
Web Resources
Wikipedia article at : Trans-en-Provence encounter (1981)
This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 5161.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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Trans-En-Provence incident see the following:
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Alschuler, William in his “The Science of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 173 (in Chapter 8) of the St Martin’s Press hardback edition. |
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Andrews, George C in his “Extra-Terrestrials Among Us” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-13 (in Chapter 1) of the Llewellyn softcover edition, at pages 11-15 of the Llewellyn paperback edition. |
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Ashpole, Edward in his “The UFO Phenomena” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 78, 81-85 (in Chapter 6) of the Headline hardback edition. |
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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 57-60 (in Chapter 2) of the Orion softcover 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 238-239 (in an entry entitled “Trans-En-Provence, France”) of the Virgin hardback edition. |
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Berliner, Don with Galbraith, Marie and Huneeus, Antonio in their “UFO Briefing Document : The Best Available Evidence“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 21-22 (Part 1:Overview, section entitled “The Case for UFO Reality”, sub-section entitled “Physical Evidence”), at pages 112-120 of the Dell paperback edition (Part 2: Case Histories, section entitled “1981: Physical Trace Case in Trans-En-Provence, France”). |
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Berlitz, Charles in his “World of Strange Phenomena” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 259-260 of the Wynwood hardback edition. |
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Blundell, Nigel in his “World’s Most Amazing UFO Visits” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 122-123 of the Select softcover edition. |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 124 (in Chapter 6) 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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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 139 (in Chapter 7) of the Parragon hardback edition. |
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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 (in Chapter 3.4.1, entitled “Physical Traces”) of the Fortean Tomes 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 561-564 (in an entry entitled “Trans-En-Provence CE2”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition. Also briefly discussed at page |
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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 205-207 (in an entry entitled “Trans-En-Provence CE2”) of the Apogee hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 3 – High Strangeness” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 78 (in an entry entitled “Close Encounters of the Second Kind”) of the Omnigraphics 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 2:L-Z at pages 897-898 (in an entry entitled “Trans-En-Provence CE2”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 58-59, 61 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Dimensions of a Phenomenon”) of the Publications International hardback edition. |
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COMETA report (1999) at Chapter 4.3, page 22 of the translation of the report appearing at: http://www.etcontact.net/newsite/files/COMETA_part1.pdf |
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Dash, Mike in his “Borderlands” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 347-348 (in Chapter 9) of the Arrow paperback edition. |
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Davenport, Marc in his “Visitors from Time” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 149 (in Chapter 11) of the 1994 revised Greenleaf softcover 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 145-146 (in Chapter 8) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
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Evans, Hilary in his “The Evidence for UFOs” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 95 of the Aquarian softcover edition (in Chapter 5, Case 50). |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 135 (in Chapter 6) 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 117-119 (in Chapter 6) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback 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 26 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”), 63-65 (in Section 1) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition. |
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Huneeus, Antonio in “Of Heaven and Earth: Essays Presented at the First Sitchin Studies Day” (1996) (edited by Zecharia Sitchin) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 148-151 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Exploring the Anunnaki-UFO link”) of the The Book Tree softcover edition. |
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Maillot, Eric and Sconaux, Jacques in “UFO: 1947-1997” (1997) (edited by Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 151-159 (in the section entitled “The 1980s”, unnumbered chapter entitled “Trans-En-Provence: When Science and Belief Go Hand in Hand”) of the John Brown hardback edition. |
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Mauge, Claude and Clark, Jerome in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 1 – UFOs in the 1980s” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 114 (in an entry entitled “French Ufology”) of the Apogee hardback edition. |
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National Enquirer (Editors of) in “UFO Report” (1985) at pages 69-71 (in Chapter 3) of the Pocket paperback edition. |
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Nixon, Neil in his “Pocket Essentials : UFOs” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-37 (in Chapter 2) of the Pocket Essentials softcover 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 73-75 (in unnumbered section entitled “1981: Physical Proof at Trans-en-Provence”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Looking for the Aliens” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-62 (in Chapter 7) of the Blandford 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 263-266 (in Chapter 22) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 146-147 (in Chapter 24) of the Barnes & Noble 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 98 (in the chapter entitled “1981”) of the Collins and Brown hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Something in the Air” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 111 (in Chapter 9) 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 pages 97 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”), 291, 292 (in Part 3, “UFOs Worldwide”) of the Sterling softcover 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 96 (in Chapter 4) of the Brockhampton Press hardback edition. |
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Roberts, Andy in “The UFOs that never were” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) by Jenny Randles, Andy Roberts and David Clarke at page 163 (in Chapter 8, by Andy Roberts) of the London House hardback edition. |
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Rodeghier, Mark 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 431 (in Chapter 5, unnumbered sub-chapter entitled “Demonstrating that ETI Is Here: You’d Better Be Clever”) of the North Cambridge Press hardback edition. |
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Ross, Hugh in “Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men” (2002) (edited by Ross, Hugh and Samples, Kenneth and Clark, Mark) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 67-68 (in Chapter 6) of the Navpress softcover edition. |
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Sturrock, Peter in his “The UFO Enigma“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 94-96 (in Chapter 13), 98-100 (in Chapter 14), 258-259 (the Introduction to Chapter 28) of the Warner Aspect hardback edition. The relevant chapters are available online at: http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/articles/ufo_reports/sturrock/4.html#10 http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/articles/ufo_reports/sturrock/4.html#11 |
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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 67-68 (in Chapter 2) of the GHP revised softcover edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact“ (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 94-96 (in Chapter 7) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in Peter Sturrock’s “The UFO Enigma“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 288-297 (in Chapter 28) of the Warner Aspect hardback edition. The relevant chapter is based on the following article: Jacques Vallee “Return to Trans-En-Provence” Journal of Scientific Exploration (1990) 4 at pages 19-25 and is available online at: http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/articles/ufo_reports/vallee_phys/toc.html |
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Velasco, Jean-Jacques in Peter Sturrock’s “The UFO Enigma“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 259-288 (in Chapter 28) of the Warner Aspect hardback edition. The relevant chapter is based on the following article: Jean-Jacques Velasco “Report on the Analysis of Anomalous Physical Traces” Journal of Scientific Exploration (1990) 4 at pages 27-48 and is available online at: |
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