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Andy Roberts

Brief comments to be added on this individual.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Books by this person include:

YEAR

 

BOOK

1990

Clarke, David and Roberts, AndyPhantoms of the Sky” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

2000

Randles, Jenny and Clarke, David and Roberts, AndyThe UFOs that never were” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

2002

Clarke, David and Roberts, AndyOut Of The Shadows” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

2003

Redfern, Nicholas and Roberts, AndyStrange Secrets: Real Government Files on the Unknown” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

2007

Clarke, David and Roberts, AndyFlying Saucerers : A social history of UFOlogy” (2007) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

 

As noted in Part 3 of Isaac Koi’s “Best UFO Cases” article (i.e. in the Part entitled “Existing lists by various individuals”), as part of a survey by the Fortean Times in 2007 of various researchers of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most, British UFO skeptics David Clarke and Andy Roberts provided comments jointly which refer to the following 10 cases, with an indication that the list represents their “Top Ten list of ‘classic’ unresolved UFO cases, incorporating our two ‘best’ cases, and reflecting our bias towards UK incidents that we have personally investigated or researched” (Footnote 3.62):

1. RAF Lakenheath-Bentwaters (see FT213:28-32) (Case 21 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article).
2. RAF Farnborough, Hampshire (see FT164:43).
3. Livingston incident, Scotland, 1979 (Case 86 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article)
4. Exercise Mainbrace sightings, September and October 1952 (Case 90 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article).
5. Rendlesham Forest (see FT204:32–39) (Case 18 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article).
6. PC Alan Godfrey’s encounter, Todmorden, 28 November 1980 (Case 56 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article).
7. Cynthia Appleton “contactee” story, Birmingham, 1957-58. (see FT191:32-38)
8. Ilkley alien photo, West Yorkshire, 1 December 1987.
9. Stephen Darbishire photo, Coniston, Cumbria, February 1954 (Case 91 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article).
10. Alitalia UFO, 21 April 1991. (See FT194:23).

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1988

Boyd, Robert D in his “International Who’s Who in Ufology Directory” (1988) at pages 174-175 of the PMT Publishing softcover edition.

2

2002

Nixon, Neil in his “Pocket Essentials : UFOs” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 8 (in Chapter 1) of the Pocket Essentials softcover edition.

1

2000

Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 447 (in Part 4) of the Sterling softcover edition.

1

 

Other Material

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