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26. Pearce, Joseph Chilton, Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Pocket Book 1975
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Sources
This book came largely from the sources listed below and from the partial bibliography that follows.
Some interviews lasted minutes, some hours. Some people were interviewed once and some dozens of times. Interviews took place over the telephone, via e-mail, and face-to-face.
A number of those listed retired as colonels or generals but were interviewed about events that occurred when they were lieutenants or captains; thus, to avoid confusion, I have omitted all military ranks.
Arbuckle, Jack
Barshay, Donald
Bellis, Ben
Booth, Jim
Boyd, Jeffrey
Boyd, Kathryn
Boyd, Marion
Boyd, Mary
Brantley, A. L.
Brooks, Mrs. Ralph
Burke, Harold
Burns, Michael
Burton, James
Buttleman, Hank
Byron, Dick
Cameron, Lyle
Case, Jack
Case, Ted
Catton, Ron
Cheney, Dick
Christie, Kathy
Christie, Tom
Colbath, Jeff
Collins, Richard
Cooper, Charles E.
Cowan, Jeff
Creech, Wilbur
Dayton, Allen
Dorsett, Tracy K. Jr.
Drabant, Robert
Fallows, James
FitzPatrick, Hal
Greenwood, John
Grossman, Elaine
Guild, Richard
Hallock, Dick
Hammond, Grant
Hillaker, Harry
Holton, Mary Ellen
Horner, Chuck
Hosmer, Bill
Ingvalson, Roger
Isham, Marty
Jones, John C.
Kan, Bobby
Knox, Robert
Krulak, Charles
Leopold, Ray
Maitland, Jock
Marshall, Michel
MacAlpine, James
McDowell, Robert
McGarvey, Michael
McInerney, Thomas G.
McKinney, Cindy
Mogan, Bill
Moore, Daniel
Morrisey, John C.
Morrison, Blake
Mortensen, Dan
Moser, Dick
Murphy, Charles
Myers, Chuck
No Kum-Sok
Nordeen, Lon
O’Donnell, John
Persky, Arnold
Peterson, Douglas B.
Pettinato, Frank Jr.
Pyle, Joe Mike
Raspberry, Everett
Reichert, Chester
Riccioni, Everest
Richards, Chet
Shanahan, Jack
Smith, R. L.
Sparks, Bob
Speir, Bob
Spinney, Alison
Spinney, Franklin C.
Spradling, Vernon
Sprey, Pierre M.
Stevenson, James
Street, Frank
Stromgren, Ole
Tedeschi, Jim
Thompson, Jim
Thompson, Wayne
Titus, Robert
Toperczer, Istvan
Vandergriff, Donald
Vincent, Hal
Wass de Czege, Huba
Weinert, Charlie
Whatley, James
Wheeler, Winslow
Whitcomb, Darrel
Williams, Lynn F.
Wilman, Jane
Wilson, George
Wilson, G. I.
Winer, Ward O.
Winters, John
Wolford, Connie
Woods, Bill
Wyly, Mike
Yates, Dave
Yunker, Chris
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About the Author
Robert Coram is the author of three nonfiction books and seven novels.