UFO History


 

Brief review to be added of Harley D Rutledge's book “Project Identification” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK).

Discusses “Project Identification”, established in 1973 by Harley Rutledge of Southeast Missouri State University.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Project Identification and/or Harley Rutledge see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1986

Andrews, George C in his “Extra-Terrestrials Among Us” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18-20 (in Chapter 1) of the Llewellyn softcover edition, at pages 21-23 of the Llewellyn paperback edition.

3

1995

Ashpole, Edward in his “The UFO Phenomena” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 42-43 (in Chapter 3) of the Headline hardback edition.

2

1988

Boyd, Robert D in his “International Who’s Who in Ufology Directory” (1988) at pages 182-183 of the PMT Publishing softcover edition.

2

1994

Campbell, Steuart in his “The UFO Mystery Solved” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 179 (in Chapter 12) of the Explicit Books softcover edition.

1

1991

Crystall, Ellen in her “Silent Invasion” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page xix (in the Introduction) of the Paragon softcover edition.

1

1988

Devereux, Paul in “Phenomenon“ (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 326 (in Part 4, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Earthlights”) of the MacDonald hardback edition.

1

1989

Devereux, Paul in his “Earth Lights Revelation” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 129 (in Chapter 5), 186-187 (in Chapter 7), 222 (in Chapter 8) of the Blandford softcover edition.

1

1989

Evans, Hilary in “Frontiers of Reality” (1989) (edited by Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 52-53 (in Chapter 3) of the Guild publishing hardback edition.

3

1984

Evans, Hilary in “The Age of the UFO” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 28-30 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “First Catch Your Saucer”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”.

3

1998

Evans, Hilary in his “From Other Worlds” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 83-84 (in Chapter 3) of the Carlton hardback edition.

2

1983

Evans, Hilary in his “The Evidence for UFOs” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 28-29 (in Chapter 1), 117, 128 (chapter 7), 149-150 (in Chapter 8) of the Aquarian 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 282 (in Chapter 10) of the Indiana hardback edition, page 251 of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1997

Marvels and Mysteries (Editors Of) in “Marvels and Mysteries: UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 86-89 of the Parrallel softcover edition.

4

1993

Phillips, Ken in “UFOs: The Final Answer?” (1993) (edited by David Barclay and Therese Marie Barclay) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 62 (in Chapter 3) of the Blandford softcover edition.

1

1974

Rehn, K Gosta in his “UFOs Here and Now” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 138-139 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Recent Observations”) of the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition.

2

1988

Spencer, John and Evans, Hilary in “Phenomenon“ (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 175 (in Part 3, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Investigating UFOs - Introduction”) of the MacDonald hardback edition.

1

1991

Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 157 (in an entry entitled “Identification, Project”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 180 of the Headline paperback edition.

1

1980

Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 311 (in an entry entitled “Rutledge, Harley D[ean]”) of the NEL hardback edition.

1

1987

Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 134, 135 (in Chapter 5) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition.

3

Other Material

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