UFO History


 

Brief review to be added of Frank Edwards's book “Flying Saucers – Serious Business” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK).

See also references on this website for the memo sent out by the US Air Force Inspector General in December 1959 from which this book gets its title.

 

 

 

 

 

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead included below a search box which can be used to search various leading UFO websites at the same time. You can then click on tabs at the top of the search results to list only results from forums, only results from websites I have labelled as "skeptical" etc. I have included tabs for a couple of specific websites that I find particularly useful, including the valuable archives of the UFO UpDates email discussion List. The relevant websites are all listed in the discussion of the "UFO Searchillion" search engine in Section 2.4 of the "Free UFO Researcher Starter Pack" and continues to evolve...

 

The relevant search box is one of the two main tools on this website which are intended to help reduce the amount of reinvention of the wheel within UFOlogy. The other main tool is the collection of tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.

 

 

 

Book References

The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.

Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. Together with the "UFO Searchillion" search box, I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1995

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 71 (in Chapter 4) of the BCA hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Blitz hardback edition, and in the Barnes & Noble hardback edition published under the title “UFO: The Complete Sightings”).

1

1981

Cohen, Daniel in “The Great Airship Mystery” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 92-93, 95-96 (in Chapter 7) of the Dodd Mead hardback edition.

4

1998

Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 151 (in Chapter 5) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

1

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 289 (in Chapter 6) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

1

2000

Dolan, Richard M in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 390 (in Chapter 7) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 297 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

1

2001

Fitzgerald, Randall in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 202 (in an entry entitled “Flying Saucers – Serious Business”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 198-199 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

1

2001

Fitzgerald, Randall in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 245 (in an entry entitled “Flying Saucers – Serious Business”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

1

1998

Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 117-118 (in Section 2) with a one sentence summary at page 370 (in the Guide To Books) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition.

2

1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 223 (in Chapter 8) of the Indiana hardback edition, at pages 197-198 of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1969

Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “UFOs: The Whole Story” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 126 (in Chapter 5) of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 158-159 (in Chapter 11) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, a pages 190-191 of the Berkley paperback edition.

2

1998

Redfern, Nicholas in his “The FBI Files” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 135-139 (in Chapter 6) of the Simon & Schuster softcover edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition.

5

1973

Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 73 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Challenge to Science”) of the Berkley paperback edition.

1

1976

Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 336 (forming part of Chapter 13) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

1

Other Material

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