Brief review to be added of John E Mack's book “Abduction : Human Encounters with Aliens” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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.
For discussion of Mack’s “Abduction” see the following:
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Achenbach, Joel in his “Captured by Aliens” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 174 (in Chapter 17) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition. |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “Alien Abductions” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 81-82 (in Chapter 3), 164-165 (in the Epilogue) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition. |
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Brown, Courtney in his “Cosmic Voyage” (1996) at page 118 (in Chapter 15) of the Dutton hardback edition. |
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Bullard, Thomas E in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 3 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition in an entry entitled “Abduction Phenomenon”. |
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Clark, Jerome in “Alien Discussions: Abduction Study Conference Held at M. I. T.” (1994) (edited by Andrea Pritchard et al.) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 17 (in Chapter 1, unnumbered sub-chapter entitled “A Brief History of the UFO-Abduction Phenomenon”) of the North Cambridge Press hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 111-112 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition in an entry entitled “Contactees”. |
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Emmons, Charles F in his “At The Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 38-39 (in Chapter 3) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
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Fitzgerald, Randall in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 1 (in an entry entitled “Abduction : Human Encounters with Aliens”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 1 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Fitzgerald, Randall in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 1 (in an entry entitled “Abduction : Human Encounters with Aliens”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 266-268 (in Section 3) with a one sentence summary at page 376 (in the Guide To Books) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition. |
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Hough, Peter and Kalman, Moyshe in their “The UFO Files: Alien Abductions” (1999) (previously published under the title “The Truth About Alien Abductions) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 152-153 (in Chapter 12) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Kerner, Nigel in his “The Song of the Greys” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 6 (in Chapter 7) of the NEL paperback edition. |
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Mack, John E in his “Abduction : Human Encounters with Aliens” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages ix-xii (in the “Preface to the Paperback Edition”) of the 1995 revised Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Matheson, Terry in his “Alien Abductions : Creating a Modern Phenomenon” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 251-278 of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Moffitt, John in his “Picturing Extraterrestrials : Alien Images in Modern Mass Culture” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 27, 77-84 of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Nickell, Joe in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 315-322 (in an entry entitled “Mack’s Abductees”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 308-314 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Nickell, Joe in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 377-385 (in an entry entitled “Mack’s Abductees”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Nickell, Joe in “The UFO Invasion” (1997) (edited by Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr and Joe Nickell) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 237-244 of the Prometheus hardback edition (in Chapter 33, “A Study of Fantasy Proneness in the Thirteen Cases of Alleged Encounters in John Mack’s Abduction”). The relevant chapter is a reprint of an article in the Skeptical Inquirer 20 (May/June 1996). |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Paranormal Source Book” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 10 (in the unnumbered, but alphabetically arranged, chapter entitled “Alien Abductions”) of the Piatkus hardback edition. |
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Shermer, Michael in his “Why People Believe Weird Things” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 97 (in Chapter 6) of the Freeman softcover edition. |
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Wilkinson, David in his “Alone in the Universe?” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 98, 99 (in Chapter 6) of the Monarch softcover edition. |
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Wilson, Colin in his “Alien Dawn” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 6-11 (in Chapter 1) of the Virgin softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Virgin paperback edition). |
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Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 214 (in Chapter 11) of the St Martin’s Press softcover edition. |
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