Kinross UFO Incident — Source Documents and Bibliography

Kinross UFO Incident — Source Documents and Bibliography

Primary Documents

Project Blue Book File

• Repository: National Archives; Project Blue Book microfilm series
• Status: Declassified
• Contents: The Air Force's official investigation of the Kinross incident; classification as pilot error
• Note: NICAP claimed relevant mission records were expunged; what survives in the file may be incomplete

The Halt Memo (1953) — Kinross Context

Note: The Halt Memo is not directly relevant to the Kinross case. The relevant analogous document is the Air Force's own incident report, which is the Project Blue Book record.

The 1961 RCAF Letter

• Issuer: Chief of the Air Staff, Department of National Defence, Canada
• Date: 1961 (approximately)
• Contents: "A check of Royal Canadian Air Force files has revealed no report of an incident involving an RCAF aircraft in the Lake Superior area on the above date."***
• Significance: The foundational documentary denial of the C-47 explanation; issued eight years after the incident by the relevant Canadian authority

The Capital Times, November 24, 1953

• Publication: The Capital Times, Madison, Wisconsin
• Date: November 24, 1953
• Contents: First major press account of the disappearance; published photographs of Moncla and Wilson; quoted: "The Truax jet was followed on the radar screen at Kinross until its image merged with that of the plane it was checking"
• Significance: Contemporaneous press record; published one day after the event

The State Journal (Madison), November 24, 1953

• Publication: State Journal, Madison, Wisconsin
• Date: November 24, 1953
• Contents: Published Colonel Shoup's initial official explanation attributing the disappearance to an off-course RCAF C-47
• Significance: First official Air Force public statement about the incident

Books

• Donald Keyhoe — Flying Saucers from Outer Space (Henry Holt, 1953) — First major UFO research treatment to include the Kinross case
• Donald Keyhoe — Flying Saucers: Top Secret (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1960) — More detailed treatment; includes the "swallowed our F-89" claim
• Donald Keyhoe — Aliens from Space (Doubleday, 1973) — Final major treatment by the primary investigator
• Various NICAP case files — available through NICAP archives and Francis Ridge's website

Documentaries

• The Moncla Memories (David Cherniack) — Most detailed documentary investigation; includes filmed interview with Gerald Fosberg
• Various History Channel and documentary network features on Cold War UFO cases that include Kinross

Online Resources

• openskiesproject.org/news/kinross-incident — The most thoroughly researched online treatment; includes contemporaneous documentation and detailed timeline
• ufobc.ca/kinross/ — Comprehensive online case file including documentation of the 2006 Great Lakes Dive Company hoax
• nicap.org — NICAP's historical case files including Kinross documentation
• Project Blue Book Archive (bluebookarchive.org) — Digitized Project Blue Book records available for research
• National Archives (archives.gov) — Original Project Blue Book records on microfilm