Robert E. Bartholomew

Robert E. Bartholomew is a researcher and author who treats many strange sightings as social phenomena. In 1989 he used South Africa's 1914 phantom monoplane wave to test Smelser's theory of hysterical beliefs. Later, he included it in Outbreak! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior. He also studied Canada's air raid scares of 1914 to 1917, including the Brockville scare, and called them classic examples of collective delusion. In 2013 he published a 1980 letter about the missing negative of Sandra Mansi's Champ photograph. His book UFO Lore covers the Mindalore landing.

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1914 South African "Phantom Monoplane" Wave and the Greytown, Natal Landing Report

August 11, 1914 · Union of South Africa (Cape Town, Vryburg, Pretoria, Natal); landing report near Greytown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal)

UAP · Other · 15 sources

26Thinly documented

Studied the wave as a case of hysterical belief (Sociological Inquiry, 1989); co-author of Outbreak!

The Phantom Air Raid on Ottawa: Brockville's "German Aeroplanes" (1915)

February 14, 1915 · Brockville, Ontario (and Parliament Hill, Ottawa)

UAP · Other · 18 sources

33Partially documented

Researcher, author of the 1998 study of Canada's phantom air raids

The Hermínio and Bianca Reis Abduction (Caso Karran)

January 12, 1976 · Rio de Janeiro to Belo Horizonte highway, near Matias Barbosa, Minas Gerais

UAP · Being / humanoid · 17 sources

14Thinly documented

The Sandra Mansi "Champ" photograph, Lake Champlain

July 5, 1977 · Vermont shore of Lake Champlain, between St. Albans and the Canadian border, near Missisquoi Bay

Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources · 2 photos

25Thinly documented

Researcher who published the negative discrepancies, 2013

The Mindalore Landing: Meagan and Andre Quezet

January 3, 1979 · Mindalore, Krugersdorp (now Mogale City), West Rand, near Johannesburg

UAP · Egg · 11 sources

13Thinly documented

Author of UFO Lore, which quotes Hind's account