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NOTES AND REFERENCES

1. Leslie, quoted in Cramp, Leonard. Space, Gravity and the Flying Saucer. London: Werner Laurie, 1957, p. 173.
2. Interview with Stephen Darbishire, 7 April 2001. All subsequent quotations are drawn from this interview unless otherwise referenced.
3. Lord Mountbatten biography
4. Sunday Dispatch (London), 14 April 1957
5. Adamski, George and Leslie, Desmond. Flying Saucers Have Landed. London:----, 1953.
6. Illustrated (London), 3 October 1953
7. Leslie, in Cramp, op. Cit., p. 13
8. Lancashire Evening Post (Preston), 18 February 1954
9. Illustrated (1954)
10. Flying Saucer News
11. Leslie, in Cramp, p.17
12. Ibid.
13. Lancashire Evening Post (Preston), 24 February 1954
14. Sunday Dispatch (London), 24 March 1954
15. Horsley, Sir Peter. Sounds from Another Room. London: Leo Cooper, 1997, p. 180.
16. Good, Timothy. Above Top Secret. London:-----, 1987, p.
17. Lancashire Evening Post (Preston), 19 February 1954
18. News Chronicle (London), 22 March 1954
19. Leslie, in Cramp, op. cit., p. 15-16
20. Flying Saucer News
21. Zinsstag, Lou and Good, Timothy. George Adamski: The Untold Story.
22. See Cramp, Space, Gravity and the Flying Saucer; Zinsstag & Good, George Adamski: The Untold Story and Flying Saucer Review vol 10/1 (January-February 1964), 13-14.
23. Good, Above Top Secret, p.
24. Interview with Stephen Darbishire by Peter Hough and Dr Harry Hudson, 1993 (?), by courtesy of Peter Hough. The authors wish to make it clear that the views expressed in this article are not shared by Hough or Hudson.
25. Desmond Leslie obituary, The Independent, February 2001.
26. “Alex Birch tells his story,” Flying Saucer Review vol 9/1, 22 (Jan/Feb 1963)
27. Sheffield Star, 9 February 1999
28. Derbyshire Times (Chesterfield), 22 June 1962
29. “The Censors at Work,” Flying Saucer Review vol 9/2, 7 (March/April 1963)
30. FSR vol 9/1, 22.
31. Report by Alan Watts in BUFORA case file, 620009 dated 21 September 1962.
32. “Flying Saucers: The evidence runs on straight lines,” by Waveney Girvan, Sheffield Telegraph Weekend Magazine, 1 September 1962
33. See Clarke, Randles & Roberts, The UFOs that Never Were. London: London House, 2000, p 129-30
34. PRO Air 2/16918, letter from A. Birch (senior) to Air Ministry, 2 July 1962
35. PRO Air 2/16918
36. Interview with Alex Birch, 6 November 1998
37. PRO Air 2/16918
38. FSR Vol 9/2, 7
39. Sheffield Telegraph, 6 October 1972
40. Yorkshire Post (Leeds), 5 March 1999
41. Interview with David Brownlow, 3 December 1998
42. File 7824 Project Blue Book, National Archives, Washington D.C. contains a b/w print of the Birch photo and brief details of the 1962 sighting. The conclusion reads: “Insuffienct data for evaluation. Negatives not with prints. No request made for photo analysis.” The Birch photo was also reproduced in an article by CIA Chief Historian Gerald Haines “A Die Hard Issue: The CIA ----” Studies in Intelligence, 1997.
43. Flying Saucer Review vol 45/2 (summer 2000), 9-11
44. LUFORO Bulletin, op. cit.
45. Fortean Times, op. cit.
46. See David Clarke and Andy Roberts “Flash, Bang, Wallop - Wot a Picture,” in The UFOs that Never Were, p 136-41
47. See Cooper, Joe. The Case of the Cottingley Fairies (London: Robert Hale, 1990) and Sunday Telegraph (London), 12 July 1998.
48. Interview with Stuart Dixon, 6 April 1999

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