Brief comments to be added on this individual.
Purported "Contactee".
This individual’s purported contact is Case 36 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 62 of the books covered by that article.
Books by this person include:
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Bethurum, Truman “Aboard a Flying Saucer” |
Sections below:
Web Resources
Wikipedia article at : Truman Bethurum contact (1950s)
This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 310939.{text}
Book References
For discussion of Bethurum see the following:
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Baker, Alan in his “Destination Earth” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 43 (in Chapter 3) of the Blandford 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 page 35 (in an entry entitled “Bethurum, Truman”) of the Virgin hardback edition. |
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Bartholomew, Robert E and Howard, George S in their “UFOs and Alien Contact” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 294 (in Appendix A, entitled “The UFO Contact Catalogue”) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Brennan, Herbie in his “The Aliens Handbook” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-23 (in Chapter 4) of the Faber and Faber 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 65 (in Chapter 3) 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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Bryan, C D B in his “Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at MIT” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 8 (in Chapter 1) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Knopf hardback edition and the Penguin Arkana softcover edition) at page 9 of the Orion paperback 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 page 22 (in the chapter entitled “The First Abductions”) 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 page 25 (in the chapter entitled “The First Abductions”) of the Hamlyn softcover edition. |
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Chambers, Howard in his “UFOs for the millions” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 122-123 (in Chapter 9) of the |
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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 page 34 (in Chapter 2) of the Huntington House softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in “Alien Worlds : Social and Religious Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact” (2007) (edited by Diana Tumminia) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 27 (in Chapter 2) of the |
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Clark, Jerome in his “Extraordinary Encounters : An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 349 (in an entry entitled “Aura Rhanes”), 43-44 (in an entry entitled “Bethurum, Truam (1898-1969)”), 95 (in an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial among us”) of the ABC-Clio hardback edition. |
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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 76-79 (in an entry entitled “Bethurum, Truman (1898-1969)”) 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 1:A-K at pages 156-158 (in an entry entitled “Bethurum, Truman (1898-1969)”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Cohen, Daniel in his “The World of UFOs” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 54 (in Chapter 7) of the Lippincott hardback edition. |
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Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 42-43 (in Chapter 2) of the |
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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 30 (in Chapter 2) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Drake, W Raymond in his “Gods and Spacemen of the Ancient Past” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-11 (in Chapter 2) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Eberhart, George M and Melton, J Gordon in “The Gods Have Landed – New Religions from Other Worlds” (1995) (edited by James Lewis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 267 (in Chapter 10, “The Flying Saucer Contactee Movement, 1950-1994: A Bibliography”) of the Suny softcover edition. |
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Evans, Hilary in his “From Other Worlds” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116, 118-119, 127 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Evans, Hilary in his “Gods, Spirits, Cosmic Guardians” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145-147 (in Chapter 4.3) of the Aquarian softcover edition. |
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Fowler, Raymond E in his “Casebook of a UFO Investigator” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 (in Chapter 2) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition. |
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Jacobs, David Michael in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 108-109 (in an entry entitled “Bethurum, Truman”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 107-108 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Jacobs, David Michael in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 122-123 (in an entry entitled “Bethurum, Truman”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 111-112 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Jacobs, David Michael in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 52-53 (in an entry entitled “Bethurum, Truman”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Jenkins, Stephen in his “The Undiscovered Country” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30 (in Part 1, Chapter 3), 63-64 (in Part 1, Chapter 7) of the Abacus paperback edition. |
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Keel, John A in his “UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 237-238 (in Chapter 12) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Abacus softcover edition). |
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Knight, David C in his “UFOs: A pictorial history from antiquity to the present” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-81 (in Part 3) of the McGraw Hill hardback edition. |
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Leslie, Desmond in George Adamski’s “Inside the Flying Saucers” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (Originally entitled “Inside the Space Ships”) (1955) at pages 19-20 (in the Foreword) of the Paperback Library paperback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in “Encounters with UFO Occupants” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41-42 (in Chapter 3) of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “Flying Saucer Occupants” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39-40 (in Chapter 2) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 195 (in Chapter 7) of the Harper Collins paperback 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 page 201 of the Doubleday hardback edition (in Chapter 10). |
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Michell, John in his “The Flying Saucer Vision” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 104 (in Chapter 5) of the Ace paperback edition. |
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Morris, Peter J in his “Aliens Amongst Us: A Beginner’s Guide” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 6 (in Chapter 1) of the Hodder & Stoughton softcover 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 75 (in Chapter 3), 166 (in Chapter 7) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Nixon, Neil in his “Pocket Essentials : UFOs” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 26 (in Chapter 1) of the Pocket Essentials softcover edition. |
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Ortzen, Len in his “Strange Stories of UFOs” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 123-124 (in Chapter 15) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
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Patton, Phil in his “Travels in Dreamland” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 157 (in Chapter 11) of the Orion Media hardback edition. |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 99 of the Smithsonian hardback edition, page 120 of the Berkley paperback edition (in Chapter 7, “The Contactee Era” – in part of a section entitled “Adamski’s Imitators” ). |
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Peters, Ted in his “UFOs-God's Chariots?: Flying Saucers in Politics, Science & Religion” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 126-127 (in Chapter 7) of the John Knox hardback edition. |
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Pope, Nick in his “The Uninvited” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23-24 (in Chapter 2) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
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Redfern, Nicholas and Roberts, Andy in their “Strange Secrets: Real Government Files on the Unknown” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 115-116 (in Chapter 6) of the Paraview Pocket Books softcover edition. |
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Redfern, Nicholas in his “On the Trail of the Saucer Spies : UFOs and Government Surveillance” (2006) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41-42 (in Chapter 3) of the Anomalist Books softcover edition. |
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Redfern, Nicholas in his “The FBI Files” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 289-290 (in Chapter 13) of the Simon & Schuster softcover edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
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Reeves, Bryant and Reeves, Helen in their “Flying Saucer Pilgrimmage” (1957) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 19-22 (in Chapter 3), 296 (in the Illustrations) of the Amherst Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Amherst Press 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 17 (in an entry entitled “astronomy”), 29-30 (in an entry entitled “Bethurum incident, United States”), 38 (in an entry entitled “Captain Aura Rhanes”), 45 (in an entry entitled “Clarion”) of the MJF hardback edition. |
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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 266-267, 270 (in Chapter 19) of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition. |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 35 (in an entry entitled “Bethurum, Truman”) of the Corgi softback edition. |
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Schnabel, Jim in his “Dark White” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in Chapter 2) of the Hamish Hamilton softcover edition. |
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Smith, Warren in his “UFO Trek” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41-42 (in Chapter 3) of the Sphere paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “True Life Encounters – Alien Contact” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 79-80 (in Chapter 7) of the Millenium paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “Gifts of the Gods?” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 4 (in Chapter 1) 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 38-39 (in Part 1(d)) 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 43 (in an entry entitled “Bethurum, Truman”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 50-51 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Stacy, Dennis in “Phenomenon“ (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 124, 125 (in Part |
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Stemman, |
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Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 109-110 (in the postscript to an entry entitled “Bethurum, Truman”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 108-109 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Story, Ronald in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 124-125 (in the postscript to an entry entitled “Bethurum, Truman”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Story, Ronald in his “The Space Gods Revealed” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 123 (in Chapter 14) of the New English Library paperback 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 page 172 (in Chapter 5) of the GHP revised softcover edition. |
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Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 76, 78 (in Chapter 3) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition. |
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Wilkins, Harold in his “Flying Saucers on the Moon” (1954) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 262-264 (in Chapter 11) of the Peter Owen hardback edition, at pages 255-257 of the Ace paperback edition published under the title “Flying Saucers on the Attack”. |
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Wilkins, Harold in his “Flying Saucers Uncensored” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-38 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Mystics, Venusians and Hoaxes”) of Pyramid paperback edition. |
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