Flying Saucers are Hostile

Brad Steiger and Joan Whritenour

HB: u/k
PB: New York: Award Books, 1967; London: Tandem, 1967 (repr. 1970, 1972, 1975)

Brad Steiger has written numerous books on UFOs and the paranormal. The title of this somewhat racy tome says it all. A chapter describes events also reported in The Warminster Mystery, but we feel that these have been jazzed up.

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Unidentified Flying Objects

Robert Chapman

HB: London: Arthur Baker, April, 1969, second impression, July 1969
PB: London: Mayflower/Fontana, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981

Chapter Five, "Why Warminster?", recaps the events in Warminster up until late 1968. Robert Chapman, who, at the time, was the Science Correspondent at the Sunday Express, visited Cradle Hill with Shuttlewood as part of his research into his book. Shuttlewood claimed that what they saw in the sky there for nearly twenty minutes was a UFO, but Chapman could not be sure. He states that "There could be any number of quite ordinary explanations," but adds, "I have not yet be able to think of one."

Note: This book was retitled UFOs: Flying saucers over Britain? for the paperback reprints.

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Can You Speak Venusian

Robert Chapman

HB: London: David & Charles, 1972
PB: London: Mayflower/Fontana, 1976,

Noted astronomer Patrick Moore's entertaining romp around the fringes of science with various free thinkers. The book contains a chapter, Crockery from the Void, that concentrates mainly on his visit to Warminster and conversations with Arthur Shuttlewood.

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UFO-UK

Peter Paget

London: NEL Books, 1980

Various UFO cases from Warminster are mentioned in passing throughout the book, but a chapter provides details the odd contactee experiences of Kevin Goodman and his friends.

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Flying Saucerers

David Clarke and Andy Roberts

Loughborough, UK: Alternative Albion, 2007

A social history and history of ideas that reveals how the notions of a few inspired 'experts' evolved into one of the most pervasive modern day myths.

Roberts and Clarke devote a chapter of their book to Warminster.

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Zones of Strangeness: An examination of paranormal and UFO hotspots

Peter A. McCue

AuthorHouseUK, 2012

Investigates the notion that certain areas 'play host to a disproportionate number' of paranormal events. Peter McCue asks whether reports from such areas can be believed, and if so, whether the phenomena are genuinely paranormal and whether such areas really do see an unusually high number of anomalous events. Peter then goes on to investigate what might be behind the manifestations. Contains a chapter about the Warminster mystery.

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