UFO History


 

Brief review to be added of Aime Michel's book “Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery” (1958) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK). Discusses “orthoteny”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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.

For discussion of “Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery” and/or orthoteny see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1977

Andrew Boudin and Lucien Clerebaut in Jean-Claude Bourret’s “The Crack in the Universe” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 223-225 (in Part 4) of the Neville Spearman hardback edition.

3

1967

Binder, Otto in his “What we really know about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145-146 (in Chapter 13) of the Fawcett paperback edition.

2

1968

Cathie, Bruce in his “Harmonic 33” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in Chapter 2) of the revised Sphere paperback edition.

1

1987

Chatelain, Maurice in his “Our Cosmic Ancestors” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 195 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Mysterious Visitors”) of the Temple Golden Publications softcover edition.

1

1994

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 15 (in Chapter 1, unnumbered sub-chapter entitled “A Brief History of the UFO-Abduction Phenomenon”) of the North Cambridge Press hardback edition.

1

1992

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 2 – Emergence of a Phenomenon” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 264-265 (in an entry entitled “Orthoteny”), 250 (forming part of an entry entitled “Michel, Aime (1919- )”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

3

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Volume 2:L-Z at pages 682-684 (in an entry entitled “Orthoteny”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

 

1992

Collins, Andrew in his “The Circlemakers: A Revolutionary New Vision” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 101-102 (in Chapter 11) of the ABC softcover edition.

2

1969

Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 890-892 (in Section 5, Chapter 2 “UFOs: 1947-1968”, by Edward U Condon) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at pages 533-535 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links:

http://ncas.sawco.com/condon/text/contents.htm

http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.html

3

1995

Craig, Roy in his “UFOs – An Insider’s View” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 191-192 (in Chapter 11), 230 (in Chapter 14) of the UNT softback edition.

3

1992

Davenport, Marc in his “Visitors from Time” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 85 (in Chapter 7) of the 1994 revised Greenleaf softcover edition.

1

1982

Devereux, Paul in his “Earth Lights“ (1982) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 21 (in Chapter 1), 138 (in Chapter 6) of the Turnstone Press hardback edition.

2

1974

Emenegger, Robert in his “UFOs Past, Present and Future” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-12 (in Chapter 2) of the silver covered Ballantine paperback edition first printing, at page 12 of the blue covered Ballantine paperback edition eighth printing.

2

1973

Evans, Christopher in his “Cults of Unreason” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 175-177 (in Part 2, Chapter 3) of the Panther paperback edition.

3

2001

Fitzgerald, Randall in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 201 (in an entry entitled “Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 198 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 244 (in an entry entitled “Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery”) 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 111-112 (in Section 2) with a one sentence summary at page 370 (in the Guide To Books) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition.

2

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 222 (in Chapter 5) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

1

1973

Holiday, F W in his “The Dragon and the Disc” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 142 (in Chapter 10) of the Futura paperback edition.

1

1979

Holroyd, Stuart in his “Alien Intelligence” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 185-186 (in Chapter 7) of the David & Charles hardback edition.

2

1977

Jenkins, Stephen in his “The Undiscovered Country” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 94-95 (in Part 2, Chapter 2) of the Abacus paperback edition.

2

1970

Keel, John A in his “UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 156-157 (in Chapter 8) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Abacus softcover edition).

2

1971

Kettelkamp, Larry in his “Investigating UFOs” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48, 50 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Sightings and Cases”) of the Target softcover edition.

2

2007

Lagrange, Pierre in “Alien Worlds : Social and Religious Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact” (2007) (edited by Diana Tumminia) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 168-169 (in Chapter 9) of the Syracuse University Press softcover edition.

2

1962

Lorenzen, Coral E in her “The Great Flying Saucer Hoax” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39-40 (in Chapter 5) of the APRO hardback edition.

2

1966

Lorenzen, Coral in “Flying Saucers : the Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space” (1966) (an enlarged version of her “The Great Flying Saucer Hoax” (1962)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 200-201 (in Chapter 14) at page 46 (in Chapter 5) of the Signet paperback edition and mentioned.

3

1961

Maney, Charles And Hall, Richard in their “Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects” (1961) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 91-99 (in Part 2, Chapter 9, by Charles Maney) of the privately published hardback edition.

9

1987

Mauge, Claude in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 162-163 (in Chapter 2.7, entitled “UFO Statistics”) of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition.

2

1972

Menzel, Donald H in “UFO's: A Scientific Debate” (1972) (edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 163-174 (in Chapter 6, Appendix 5) of the Barnes and Noble hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Norton paperback edition.

12

1974

Salisbury, Frank in his “The Utah UFO Display: A Biologist’s Report” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 236 (in the Appendix entitled “Annotated Bibliography”) of the Devin Adair hardback edition.

1

1978

Seargent, D A J in his “UFOs: A Scientific Enigma” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-81 (in Chapter 4) of the Sphere paperback edition.

2

1967

Shuttlewood, Arthur in his “The Warminster Mystery” (1967) at page 33 (in Chapter 4) of the Tandem paperback edition.

1

1976

Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 337 (forming part of Chapter 13) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

1

1973

Thomas, Paul in his “Flying Saucers Through The Ages” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 29-31 (in Chapter 3) of the Tandem paperback edition.

3

1969

Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “Operation Earth” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-37 (in Chapter 5) of the Tandem paperback edition.

2

1966

Vallee, Jacques and Janine Vallee in their “Challenge to Science – The UFO Enigma” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 69-78 (in Chapter 3), 79-96 (Chapter 4 generally), 235-238 (Appendix 1 generally), 239-242 (Appendix 2 generally) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

36

1992

Vallee, Jacques in his “Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969” (1992) at pages 14 (in Chapter 2, journal entry for 1958.0827), 16-17 (in Chapter 2, journal entry for 1958.0909), 18 (in Chapter 2, journal entry for 1958.0921), of the North Atlantic Books hardback edition, at pages 20-21, 22-24 of the 1996 abridged Marlowe paperback edition.

4

1988

Wilson, Clifford in his “The Alien Agenda” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 4-5 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition.

2

1974

Wilson, Clifford in his “UFOs and Their Mission Impossible” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 4-5 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition.

2

Other Material

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