Astronautics: In 1918, Robert H Goddard writes about the use of suspended animation for interstellar travel in his unpublished manuscript entitled “The Ultimate Migration”.
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Goddard’s manuscript see the following:
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Powers, Robert M in his “The Coattails of God: The Trip to the Stars” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page xiii (in the Preface) of the Warner paperback edition. |
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Sagan, Carl in his “Broca’s Brain” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 280 (in Chapter 18) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
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For discussion of suspended animation see the following:
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Asimov, Isaac in his “Extraterrestrial Civilizations” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 230-232 (in Chapter 12) of the Crown hardback edition, at pages 261-263 of the Pan paperback edition. |
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Berry, Adrian in his “The Giant Leap” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 216-222 (in Chapter 17) of the revised Headline softcover edition. |
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Clarke, Arthur C in his “By Space Possessed” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 76 (in Chapter 7) of the Victor Gollancz hardback edition. |
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Crawford, Ian in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 61 (in Chapter 8) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. The relevant chapter is a revised and abridged version of an article published under the title “Interstellar Travel: A Review for Astronomers” in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 31 (1990) at pages 377-400. The text of that article is available free online at: http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~iac/isflight/isflight.html |
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Feinberg, Gerald and Shapiro, Robert in their “Life Beyond Earth” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 432 (in Chapter 14) of the Morrow hardback edition. |
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Hart, Michael in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 2-3 (in Chapter 1) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. (The relevant chapter is a reprint of Hart, Michael “An Explanation for the Absence of Extraterrestrials on Earth”, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 16 (1975), pages 128-135). |
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Jones, Eric M in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 95 (in Chapter 11) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. |
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Mallove, Eugene F and Matloff, Gregory L in their “The Starflight Handbook” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 199-205 (in Chapter 14 generally) of the Wiley hardback edition. |
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Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 210-211 (in Chapter 12) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
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Powers, Robert M in his “The Coattails of God: The Trip to the Stars” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page xiii (in the Preface), 83-87 (in Chapter 5) of the Warner paperback edition. |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Worlds Beyond” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page [insert check Ridpath] (in Chapter 8) of the Wildwood House softcover edition, at pages 150-151 of the revised 1977 Penguin softcover edition entitled “Signs of Life”. |
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Sagan, Carl in his “Broca’s Brain” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 280 (in Chapter 18) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
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Shklovskii, Iosef Shmuelovich and Sagan, Carl in their “Intelligent Life in the Universe” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 441-442 (in Chapter 32) of the Picador softcover edition. |
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Singer, Cliff in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 81 (in Chapter 9) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. |
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White, Michael in his “Life Out There” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-154 (in Chapter 8) of the Little, Brown & Co hardback edition. |
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