On 4 April 1954, the first annual Giant Rock Convention organised by George Van Tassel. The conventions continued until 1977.
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 the Giant Rock Conventions see the following:
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Canadeo, Anne in her “UFO’s: The Fact or Fiction File” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 73 (in Chapter 6 of the pro-UFO side of the book, i.e. the side which starts with the Chapter 1 entitled “Visitors at Cisco Grove”) of the Walker hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in “Alien Worlds : Social and Religious Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact” (2007) (edited by Diana Tumminia) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 27-28 (in Chapter 2) of the |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 2 – Emergence of a Phenomenon” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 176-177 (in an entry entitled “Giant Rock Spacecraft Convention”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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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) in Volume 1:A-K at pages 447-449 (in an entry entitled “Giant Rock Spacecraft Convention”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Cowles and UPI (the editors of ) in “Flying Saucers : Twenty-One Years of UFOs” (1968) at page 133. |
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Curran, Douglas in his “In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Deus Ex Machina”), 79 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “In Advance of the Landing”) of the updated 2001 Abbeville Press hardback edition. |
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Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 44 (in Chapter 2) of the |
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Ellwood, Robert S in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 486 (in an entry entitled “religious movements and UFOs”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 475 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Ellwood, Robert S in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 149 (in an entry entitled “Giant Rock Space Conventions”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Ellwood, Robert S in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 584 (in an entry entitled “religious movements and UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Evans, Christopher in his “Cults of Unreason” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 150 (in Part 2, Chapter 1) of the Panther paperback edition. |
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Evans, Hilary in his “From Other Worlds” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 129 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Green, Gabriel with Smith, Warren in their “Let’s face the facts about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 107, 108-109 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Are You a Believer?”) of the Popular Library paperback edition. |
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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 121-125 (in Chapter 5) (particurlarly at pages 121, 124-125) of the Indiana hardback edition, at pages 106-110 (particurlarly at pages 106-107, 110) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Jacobs, David Michael in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 91 (in an entry entitled “conventions, conferences, and symposia on UFOs”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Kinder, |
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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 75 (in Chapter 3), 160-169 (in Chapter 7) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Randle, Kevin D and Estes, Russ in their “Faces of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 88-89 (in Part 2) of the Fireside softcover edition. |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 90 (in an entry entitled “Giant Rock Space Conventions”) of the MJF hardback edition. |
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Schnabel, Jim in his “Dark White” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 21 (in Chapter 2) of the Hamish Hamilton softcover edition. |
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Smith, Warren in his “UFO Trek” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48-49 (in Chapter 3) of the Sphere paperback edition. |
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Spaceage in its “UFO USA - A Traveler's Guide” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 34-36 (in the chapter entitled “ |
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Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “True Life Encounters – Alien Contact” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 83-84 (in Chapter 7) of the Millenium paperback edition. |
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Steiger, Brad and Hewes, Hayden in their “Inside Heaven’s Gate” (Formerly “UFO Missionaries Extraordinary”) (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 69 (in Chapter 4) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Thompson, Keith in his “Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 32 (in Chapter 3) of the Fawcett softcover edition. |
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Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 112-113 (in Chapter 4) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition. |
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United Press International and Cowles Communications Inc (the editors of ) in “Flying Saucers: A Look Special” (1967) at pages 54-55. |
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