Operation Earth

Brinsley Le Pour Trench

HB: Neville Spearman, 1969
PB: London: Tandem, 1974, 1975

As with his earlier book, The Flying Saucer Story, Le Poer Trench considers the relationship between Warminster and ley lines.

By the mid 1970s, Brinsley Le Poer Trench had become more involved with the outlandish theory that the Earth was, in fact, hollow, and that UFOs originated from there. Up until that time, he was regarded as one of this country's leading authorities on the subject of UFOs.

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Cults of Unreason

Christopher Evans

PB: London: Panther, New English edition, 1974

Evans tackles various fringe cults, including Scientology and the Aetherius Society. In one chapter, he looks at the Warminster phenomenon in relation to various space-based cults.

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UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse

John Keel

A long printing history, including:
HB: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1970;
      London: Souvenir Press, 1971 (ISBN 0285620010)
PB: London: Abacus, 1976
      London: Atlantic Books, 1996 (0962653462).

One of the defining books on the subject of UFOs. Keel was awarded the honour of being voted "ufologist of the year" in 1967. Because of the wide range of subjects the book encompasses, Warminster only warrants a small mention. This book is, however, a landmark in ufology.

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OZN O Problema Moderna

(UFO: A Modern Problem)

Florin Gheorghita

PB: Iasi, Romania: Editura Junimea, 1973

A Romanian book on UFOs that covers many sightings around the world, including a fair few from Romania. Among these reports are references to Crade (sic) Hill, a photograph (the David Simpson hoax we believe), and references to articles published in Flying Saucer Review.

Florin submitted several articles on Romanian OZNs to FSR.

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Mysteries

Colin Wilson

HB: London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1978
PB: London: Granada, 1979
PB: London: Watkins, 2006

Possibly Colin "I type so fast my fingers bleed" Wilson's second best book.

Blurbed at the time as a sequel to The Occult, it probes "deeply... into the worlds of the paranormal, the occult and the supernatural," attempting to "explain a wide diversity of paranormal phenomenon."

Wilson mentions Warminster in one paragraph, referring to Michell's The Flying Saucer Vision, which discussed Warminster and Cley Hill in relation to ley lines.

The misinterpretations in this one paragaph are discussed in the essay here.

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Earth Lights

Paul Devereux

HB: London: Thorsons, 1982 (ISBN 0855001232)
PB: Turnstone Press, 1982 (0855001232).

Devereux was the editor of The Ley Hunter. He postulates that UFOs are caused by geophysically produced pockets of energy - or, as he refers to it, planetary ectoplasm - which is produced in areas of geological faulting. References to Warminster are scattered throughout the book.

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UFOs: And How to See Them

Jenny Randles

A long printing history, including:
HB: New York: Sterling, 1992;
      London: Anaya, 1992 [1999];
      London: Caxton Editions, 2000
PB: London: Brockhampton Press, 1998 [2000]

As it says on the cover, "this well informed manual on the greatest mystery of the modern world will prove compelling reading for UFO watchers everywhere".

Warminster is discussed in a chapter describing the most UFO-haunted places in the world.

Phenomenon

John Spencer and Hilary Evans (Eds.)

PB: London, Futura: 1988 (ISBN 0708836550)

A collection of essays, published in conjunction with BUFORA. Warminster is mentioned in relation to the SIUFOP hoax (Gerald Mosbleck's essay), and Earthlights (Devereux's essay) - but only a passing mention.

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The UFO Encyclopedia

John Spencer

PB: London, Headline: 1991

Spencer is a prolific UFO author. This encyclopedia has a 3/4 page entry for Warminster.

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The UFO Mystery Solved

Steuart Campbell

PB: London: Explicit Books, 1994 (ISBN 0952151200)

Campbell is an architect and science writer, and is a member of the Association of British Science Writers. In this book, he tackles reports of sightings, and offers rational explanations for them. A short two paragraph section, "A test of reliability" describes the infamous SIUFOP hoax of 1970. (See also David Simpson's monograph.)

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Daimonic Reality

Patrick Harpur

HB: Enumclaw, WA, US: Pine Winds Press, 2003
PB: London: Viking, 1994

Harpur is an author and Fortean who in this book tries to make sense of the Fortean world in a Jungian kind of way - archetypes and all that jazz.

He refers to Shuttlewood, in a few blink-and-you'll-miss-them sentences, as a "real old shaman-style figure".

The paperback is out of print, but a hardback was made available in 2003. See amazon.co.uk.

Fifty Years of UFOs

John and Anne Spencer

HB: London: Boxtree, 1997

Published (like many others) to coincide with the "fiftieth anniversary" of the Arnold sighting (and hence, the beginning of modern ufology), the Spencers' book is a chronology of major UFO sightings.

The Spencers devote about six pages to the Warminster mystery (including the researches of some cove Dewey into the Faulkner photo).

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The UFOs That Never Were

Jenny Randles, Andy Roberts, and David Clarke

HB: London: London Books, 2000

Revisits and re-examines various cases, demonstrating how careful analysis made IFOs of the UFOs.

Warminster is referred to, in one sentence, in relation to crop circles.

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Does it Rain in Other Dimensions

Mike Oram

PB: O Books, 2007

Describes Mike Oram's contactee experiences. Mike Oram lived in Warminster for a while during the 70s, and makes passing references to his time in Warminster.

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