Worldwide waves of airship sightings during 1909-1910 and 1913, with sporadic later reports.
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For discussion of the 1909-1910 and 1913 airships waves see the following:
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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 pages 92-108 (in Chapter 4 generally, entitled “The New Zealand Zeppelin Scare of 1909”), 109-124 (in Chapter 5 generally, entitled “The New England Airship Hoax of 1909-10”), 125-137 (in Chapter 6 generally, entitled “The British UFO Panic of 1912-13”) of the Prometheus hardback 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 pages 43-44 (in Chapter 3), 61-81 (in Chapter 5 generally, entitled “New England’s Great Airship Hoax”) of the Prometheus softcover edition. |
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Batholomew, Robert and Bullard, Thomas in “The Scareship Mystery : A survey of Phantom Airship Scares 1909-1918” (1999) (edited by Nigel Watson) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 143-151 (in Chapter 11 generally) of the Dorma softcover edition. |
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Binder, Otto in his “Flying Saucers Are Watching Us” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 59-60 (in Chapter 5) of the Belmont paperback edition. |
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Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in “The World’s Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 319 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Historical Kind”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition. |
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Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in their “The World’s Greatest UFO Mysteries” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 78 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Historical Kind”) of the Octopus hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Hamlyn softcover edition). |
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Bougard, Michel in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 24 (in Chapter 2.1.2, entitled “UFOs Throught History”) of the Fortean Tomes 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 pages 25-29 (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 pages 570-571, 580 of the Omnigraphics hardback edition forming part of an entry entitled “Waves”. |
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Bullard, Thomas E in Jerome Clark’s “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 page 1007 (forming part of an entry entitled “Waves” at pages 1004-1023) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Butler, Dermot and Nally, Call in their “Conspiracy of Silence : UFOs in Ireland” (2006) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 160-164 (in Chapter 6) of the Mercier softcover edition. |
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Campagna, Palmiro in his “The UFO Files: The Canadian Connection Exposed” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 5-8 (in Chapter 1) of the Stoddart softcover edition. |
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Cathie, Bruce in his “Harmonic 33” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 127-132, 133-135 (in Chapter 12) of the revised Sphere paperback edition. |
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Chalker, Bill in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 2 – Emergence of a Phenomenon” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 333-336 (in an entry entitled “UFOs in Australia and New Zealand through 1909”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Chalker, Bill in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 42-44 of Volume 1:A-K (in an entry entitled “Airship Sightings in New Zealand and Australia”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Chambers, Howard in his “UFOs for the millions” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 54-55 (in Chapter 4) of the Bell hardcover edition. |
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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 page 62 (in an entry entitled “Close encounters of the third kind”), 157-158 (in an entry entitled “Lethbridge’s aeronauts”) of the ABC-Clio hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 4 (in Chapter 1) of the Citadel 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 577-581 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition in an entry entitled “UFOs, 1900-1946”. |
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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 page 363-369 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 919-923 (forming part of the entry entitled “UFOs, 1900-1946” at pages 916-938) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clarke, David in his “The UFO Files : The Inside Story of Real-Life Sightings” (2009) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-17 (in Chapter 1) of the National Archives softcover 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 43-52 (in Chapter 2) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Clarke, David in “The Scareship Mystery : A survey of Phantom Airship Scares 1909-1918” (1999) (edited by Nigel Watson) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16-28 (in Chapter 2 generally) of the Dorma softcover edition. |
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Cohen, Daniel in “The Great Airship Mystery” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 172-178 (in Chapter 13) of the Dodd Mead hardback edition. |
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Craft, Michael in his “Alien Impact” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 6 (in Chapter 1) of the St Martin’s Paperbacks paperback 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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Devereux, Paul and Brookesmith, Peter in their “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 19-20 (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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Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Serious Business” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-11 (in Chapter 1) of the Bantam paperback edition, at pages 16-17 of the Mayflower-Dell paperback edition. |
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Emenegger, Robert in his “UFOs Past, Present and Future” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 9-10 (in Chapter 2) of the silver covered Ballantine paperback edition first printing, at page 10 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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Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 122-128 (in Chapter 7) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Fort, Charles in his “New Lands” (1923) at pages 512-517 (in Chapter 35) of the Devon hardback edition (in “The Complete Books of Charles Fort”) at pages 197-202 of the Ace paperback editions. |
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Garrett, Richard in his “Aliens From Outer Space” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 29 (in Chapter 2) of the Piccolo paperback edition. |
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Gibbons, Gavin in his “The Coming of the Space Ships” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 10 (in Chapter 1) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition. |
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Guieu, Jimmy in his “Flying Saucers Come From Another World” (1956) (edited by Ronald Story) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 200 (in Chapter 9) of the Hutchinson 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 9-13 (in Chapter 1) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Hervey, Michael in his “UFOs : The American Scene” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39-40 (in Chapter 4) of the Hale hardback 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 107-121 (in Chapter 6), 169 (in Chapter 9), 255-256 (in Chapter 13) 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 22, 28-29 (in Part 2) of the McGraw Hill hardback edition. |
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Lore, Gordon and Deneault, Harold in their “Mysteries of the Skies” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 96-103 (in Chapter 7) of the Prentice-Hall hardback 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 pages 36-39, 78-79 of the Parrallel softcover edition. |
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McClure, Kevin in “Frontiers of Reality” (1989) (edited by Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 166-167 (in Chapter 11) of the Guild publishing hardback edition. |
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Nelson, Gilbert in “The Scareship Mystery : A survey of Phantom Airship Scares 1909-1918” (1999) (edited by Nigel Watson) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 7 (in the Foreword) of the Dorma softcover edition. |
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Oldroyd, Granville in “The Scareship Mystery : A survey of Phantom Airship Scares 1909-1918” (1999) (edited by Nigel Watson) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 75-97 (in Chapter 7 generally) of the Dorma softcover edition. |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 1 (in Chapter 1, “Prologue”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, page 1 of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Phillips, Ted in his “Physical Traces associated with UFO Sightings” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 3 (in Part C) of the CUFOS paperbound edition. |
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Picknett, Lynn in her “The Mammoth Book of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 17-28 (in Chapter 1) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Encyclopedia of the Unexplained” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 53 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Space Invaders”) of the Brockhampton hardback 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 14-21 (in Chapter 1) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 137 (in an entry entitled “British Government Interest in UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Investigating the Truth Behind MIB” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 182-183 (in Chapter 14) 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 page 19 (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 pages 25-27 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”), 352 (in Part 3, “UFOs Worldwide”) of the Sterling softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Unexplained: Great Mysteries of the 20th Century” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 17-19 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1900-1909”) of the Index hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Study” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30, 43 (in Chapter 2) of the Hale hardback 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 10 (in Chapter 1) of the Brockhampton Press hardback edition. |
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Schellhorn, G Cope in his “Extraterrestrials in Biblical Prophecy” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 353-354 (in Chapter 17) of the Horus softcover edition. |
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Schnabel, Jim in his “Dark White” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (in Chapter 2) of the Hamish Hamilton 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 page 22 (in Chapter 1), 41 (in Chapter 2) 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 page 201 (in Chapter 12) of the Millenium paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “Perspectives“ (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Part 1(b)) 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 8 (in an entry entitled “Airships Reports 1909”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 9 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Tansley, David in his “Omens of Awareness” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 86-88 (in Chapter 5) of the Abacus paperback 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 page 25 (in Chapter 1) of the Time-Life Book hardback 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 95-96 (in Chapter 16), 109, 112 (in Chapter 19) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition, at page 97-98, 110, 112-113 of the Day Book paperback editon (published under the title “Mysterious Visitors: The UFO Story”). |
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Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “The Flying Saucer Story” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 68 (in Chapter 7) of the revised Tandem paperback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Anatomy of a Phenomenon” (1965) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-22 and 26 (in Chapter 1) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Tandem paperback edition), pages 23-25 and 29 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, pages 46-48 and 53 of the 1966 revised and enlarged Ace Star paperback edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Passport to Magonia” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 187 (in the Appendix entitled “A Century of UFO Landings (1868-1968)”) of the Regnery hardback edition, with the relevant Appendix omitted from the Tandem paperback edition. |
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Watson, Nigel in “The Alien World” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 54-57, 58-60 (in the unnumbered section entitled “British Scareships”) of the Orbis softcover edition. The relevant chapters are articles reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”. |
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Watson, Nigel in “The Scareship Mystery : A survey of Phantom Airship Scares 1909-1918” (1999) (edited by Nigel Watson) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 8 (in the Preface), 9-15 (in Chapter 1), 29-38 (in Chapter 3 generally), 39-51 (in Chapter 4 generally), 52-59 (in Chapter 5 generally), 60-74 (in Chapter 6 generally), 98-110 (in Chapter 8 generally), 129-142 (in Chapter 10 generally) of the Dorma softcover 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 27-29 (Chapter 2.1.3, entitled “Before the Flying Saucers Came”) of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition. |
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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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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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Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 34 (in Chapter 2) of the St Martin’s Press softcover edition. |
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X, Mr in “The Scareship Mystery : A survey of Phantom Airship Scares 1909-1918” (1999) (edited by Nigel Watson) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 111-128 (in Chapter 9 generally) of the Dorma softcover edition. |
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