UFO History


 

Brief review to be added of Kenneth Ring's book “The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, UFO Encounters, and the Mind at Large” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Kenneth Ring and/or “The Omega Project” see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1997

Baker, Alan in his “Sci-Fi Channel: True Life Encounters: UFO Sightings” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 269-272 (in Chapter 12) of the Orion softcover edition.

4

1999

Baker, Alan in his “The Encyclopaedia of Alien Encounters” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 (in an entry entitled “Encounter-Prone Personalities”) of the Virgin hardback edition.

1

1994

Basterfield, Keith 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 371 (in Chapter 5, unnumbered sub-chapter entitled “The Fantasy-Prone Personality Hypothesis”) of the North Cambridge Press hardback edition.

1

1994

Brian C Thompson 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 397 (in Chapter 5, unnumbered sub-chapter entitled “Possible Telepathic Spread of UFO Abduction Stories”) of the North Cambridge Press hardback edition.

1

1995

Bryan, C D B in his “Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at MIT” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 150-151 (in Chapter 5), 436-437, 440, 443, 444 (in Chapter 20) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Knopf hardback edition and the Penguin Arkana softcover edition) at pages 201-202, 589-591, 595, 599, 600 of the Orion paperback edition.

7

1994

Bullard, Thomas E 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 pages 400-407 (in Chapter 5, unnumbered sub-chapter entitled “Kenneth Ring’s Imaginal Realm Hypothesis”) of the North Cambridge Press hardback edition.

8

1998

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 11 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition in an entry entitled “Abduction Phenomenon”.

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

1

2000

Clark, Jerome in his “Extraordinary Encounters : An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 129 (in an entry entitled “Imaginal beings”) of the ABC-Clio hardback edition.

1

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 440-441 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition forming part of an entry entitled “Paranormal and Occult Theories about UFOs”.

2

1996

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 3 – High Strangeness” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 380-381 of the Omnigraphics hardback edition in an entry entitled “Paranormal and Occult Theories about UFOs”. Also briefly discussed at page 449 forming part of an entry entitled “Sex and UFOs”.

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 707-708 (forming part of the entry entitled “Paranormal and Occult Theories about UFOs” at pages 696-713) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

2

1995

Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 137-138 (in Chapter 5) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

2

1994

David J Hufford 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 352 (in Chapter 4, unnumbered sub-chapter entitled “Awakening Paralyzed in the Presence of a Strange ‘Visitor’ ”) of the North Cambridge Press hardback edition.

1

1996

Dennett, Preston E in his “UFO Healings” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145-146 (in Chapter 12) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition.

2

2001

Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 113-114 (in Chapter 4) of the California hardback edition.

2

1997

Emmons, Charles F in his “At The Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 174-175 (in Chapter 9), 233-234 (in the Appendix, entitled “Ufologist Case Studies / Biographies) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition.

4

1998

Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 262-264 (in Section 3) with a one sentence summary at page 376 (in the Guide To Books) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition.

3

1995

Fowler, Raymond E in his “The Watchers II” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 273-279, 292-293 (in Chapter 14) of the Wild Flower Press hardback edition.

9

1994

Gilda Moura 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 pages 406-407 (in Chapter 5, in the question and answer section following the unnumbered sub-chapter entitled “Kenneth Ring’s Imaginal Realm Hypothesis”) of the North Cambridge Press hardback edition.

2

1994

Gotlib, David A 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 439 (in Chapter 6, unnumbered sub-chapter entitled “The Abduction Investigator’s ‘Duty of Care’ ”) of the North Cambridge Press hardback edition.

1

2001

Hansen, George P in his “The Trickster and the Paranormal” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 405-406 of the Xlibris softcover edition.

2

1997

Harrison, Albert A in his “After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 86-87 (in Chapter 3) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition.

2

1994

Hopkins, Budd 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 pages 406-407 (in Chapter 5, in the question and answer section following the unnumbered sub-chapter entitled “Kenneth Ring’s Imaginal Realm Hypothesis”) of the North Cambridge Press hardback edition.

2

1994

Hopkins, Budd 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 338 (in Chapter 4, in the question and answer section following the unnumbered sub-chapter entitled “Omega Project: Correlations With Traumatic Childhoods”) of the North Cambridge Press hardback edition.

1

1999

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 89-90 (in Chapter 7) of the Blandford softcover edition.

2

1994

Hufford, David 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 401 (in Chapter 5, unnumbered sub-chapter entitled “Kenneth Ring’s Imaginal Realm Hypothesis”) of the North Cambridge Press hardback edition.

1

1998

Leir, Roger in his “The Aliens and the Scalpel” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 2 (in Chapter 1), 5-6 (in Chapter 2) of the Granite softcover edition.

3

1994

Mack, John E in his “Abduction : Human Encounters with Aliens” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 17 (in Chapter 1) of the Scribners hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books softcover edition) at page 5 of the 1995 revised Ballantine Books paperback edition.

1

1995

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Encyclopedia of the Unexplained” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 68 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Space Invaders”) of the Brockhampton hardback edition.

1

1991

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Looking for the Aliens” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 58-59 (in Chapter 7) of the Blandford softcover edition.

2

1994

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 289 (in Chapter 25) of the Piatkus softcover edition.

1

1995

Randles, Jenny in her “Star Children” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 186-187, 189-194 (in Chapter 13) of the Sterling softcover edition.

8

1999

Randles, Jenny in her “The Complete Book of Aliens and Abductions” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) a page 177 (in Part 5) of the Piatkus hardback edition.

1

1996

Randles, Jenny in her “The Paranormal Source Book” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 15 (in the unnumbered, but alphabetically arranged, chapter entitled “Alien Abductions”) of the Piatkus hardback edition.

1

1996

Randles, Jenny in her “The Paranormal Source Book” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 154-155 (in the unnumbered, but alphabetically arranged, chapter entitled “Out-Of-Body Experience”) of the Piatkus hardback edition.

2

1994

Schnabel, Jim in his “Dark White” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 196-201 (in Chapter 9), 280 (in the Epilogue) of the Hamish Hamilton softcover edition.

7

1997

Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 169 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1987-1997”) of the Boxtree hardback edition.

1

1992

Strieber, Whitley in Kenneth Ring’s “The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, UFO Encounters, and the Mind at Large” (1992) at pages 15-21 (in the Foreword) of the Quill softcover edition.

7

1994

Susan Marie Powers 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 pages 335-338 (in Chapter 4, unnumbered sub-chapter entitled “Omega Project: Correlations With Traumatic Childhoods”) of the North Cambridge Press hardback edition.

4

1993

Thompson, Richard in his “Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Pheonemena” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 128, 156, 168-169 (in Chapter 4) of the GHP revised softcover edition.

4

1997

Van Dyk, Gregory in his “The Alien Files” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 64-65, 88-89 (in Chapter 4) of the Element paperback edition.

4

Other Material

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