Brief comments to be added on this group.
The Center For UFO Studies (“CUFOS”) was founded by Dr J Allen Hynek and Sherman J Larsen in 1973.
FUFOR, MUFON and CUFOS have all endorsed a document as containing “the best available evidence for the existence of UFOs”. That document and the list of cases that it contains are discussed in Part 11 of Isaac Koi’s “Best UFO Cases” article (i.e. in the Part entitled “The Rockefeller Briefing Document”).
Sections below:
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 CUFOS see the following:
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Baker, Alan in his “The Encyclopaedia of Alien Encounters” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 44 (in an entry entitled “Center For UFO Studies (CUFOS)” of the Virgin hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 1 – UFOs in the 1980s” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 143-145 of the Apogee hardback edition in an entry entitled “J Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies”. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 538-539 (in an entry entitled “J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies”) of Volume 1:A-K of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Cohen, Daniel in his “The World of UFOs” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 151-152 (in Chapter 19) of the Lippincott hardback edition. |
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Conroy, Ed in his “Report on Communion” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 141, 152-153 (in Chapter 4) of the Avon paperback edition. |
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Craig, Roy in his “UFOs – An Insider’s View” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 249-250 (in Chapter 15) of the UNT softback edition. |
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CUFOS in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 67 (in an entry entitled “Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)”. The relevant entry is available online at: |
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Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18-19 (in Chapter 1), 95 (in Chapter 3) of the California hardback edition. |
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Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 307-308 (in Chapter 7) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Jacobs, David Michael in his “Secret Life” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 38 (in Chapter 2) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Fourth Estate hardback edition and in the Virgin paperback edition published under the title “Alien Encounters”). |
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Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 283 (in Chapter 10)of the Indiana hardback edition, page 252 of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Klass, Philip J in “UFOs – The Public Deceived” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 286-288 (in Chapter 30) of the Prometheus softback edition. |
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Klass, Philip J in “Science and the Paranormal” (1981) (edited by Abell, George O and Singer, Barry) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 327-328 (in Chapter 18) of the Junction Books hardback edition. |
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Landsburg, Alan in his “In Search of Extraterrestrials” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 2-3 (in Chapter 1) of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Moseley, James and Pflock, Karl in their “Shockingly Close to the Truth!” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 228-229 (in Chapter 10) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ in their “Spaceships of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 254-255 (in Part 5) of the Fireside softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “50 Years of UFO Encounters” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-61 (in unnumbered section entitled “1973: Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 59-60 (in Chapter 4) of the Blackwell hardback edition. |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Messages from the Stars” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 212-213 (in Chapter 13) of the Fontana paperback edition. |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 52-53 (in an entry entitled “Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)”) of the Corgi softback edition |
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Sheaffer, Robert in his “The UFO Verdict” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in Chapter 3) of the Prometheus softback edition. |
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Sheaffer, Robert in his “UFO Sightings: The Evidence” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 33 (in Chapter 3) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at pages 83-84 (in Chapter 5) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition. |
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Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 274 (in an entry entitled “J Allen Hynek Center For UFO Studies”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 268 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Story, Ronald in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 330 (in an entry entitled “J Allen Hynek Center For UFO Studies”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Forbidden Science : Volume 2 (Journals 1970-1979)” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 228, 275-276, 281-282, 284, 397-398, 431 of the Documatica Research hardback edition. |
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Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 240 (in Chapter 12) of the St Martin’s Press softcover edition. |
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Other Material
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