The movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers” (1956) (also referred to as “Earth versus the Flying Saucers”) was directed by Fred F Sears, with special effects by Ray Harryhausen. It was produced by Charles H Schneer.
Web Resources
Credits and other details included in the Internet Movie Database (imdb) entry online at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049169/
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 “Earth vs the Flying Saucers” 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 220 (in an entry entitled “Science Fiction”) of the Virgin hardback edition. |
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Ball, Brian in his “A Young Person’s Guide to UFOs” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 70 (in Chapter 7) of the Dragon paperback edition. |
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Barclay, David in his “Aliens: The Final Answer?” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 96-97 (in Chapter 7) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Baxter, John in his “Science Fiction in the Cinema” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 154 (in Chapter 12), 219 (in the “Select Filmography”) of the Zwemmer softcover edition. |
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Beckley, Timothy Green in “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (edited by Milt Machlin) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 285 (in Chapter 17, entitled “Flying Saucers In The Movies”) of the Dale paperback edition. |
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Boyce, Chris in a list entitled “A Checklist of ETs in the Cinema” in his Extraterrestrial Encounter (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 164 (in Appendix 1) of the David & Charles hardback edition, at page 152 of the 1980 revised NEL paperback edition. |
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Bullard, Thomas E in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 13 (in an entry entitled “Abduction Phenomenon”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition. |
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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 page 136 (in an entry entitled “Earth Versus the Flying Saucers”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition : Volume 1:A-K” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 357 (in an entry entitled “Earth versus the Flying Saucers”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 68 (in Chapter 3) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 372 (in the entry entitled “science fiction involving extraterrestrials, in films and on television”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition. |
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Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “science fiction involving extraterrestrials, in films and television”. The relevant entry is available online at: |
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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 130 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 477 (in an entry entitled “Reconnaissance Theory of UFOs”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page -467 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 574 (in an entry entitled “Reconnaissance Theory of UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Kurland, Michael in his “The Complete Idiot's Guide to Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 294-295 (in Chapter 28) and included a list entitled “Alien Inspired Movies” in Appendix E at pages 315-316 of the Alpha Books softcover edition. |
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Miller, David and Gatiss, Mark in their “They Came From Outer Space : Alien Encounters in the Movies” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 32 of the Visual Imagination softcover edition. |
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Nesheim, Eric and Nesheim, Leif in their “Saucer Attack! : Pop Culture in the Golden Age of Flying Saucers” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-81 of the General Publishing softcover edition. |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 113-114 (Chapter 8) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 136-137 of the |
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Randle, Kevin D and Estes, Russ and Cone, William in their “The Abduction Enigma” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 123 (in Chapter 7) of the Forge hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The Age of the UFO” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 57 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “ ‘UFOs are bunk’ ”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Alien Contact – The First Fifty Years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 31 (in the chapter entitled “1956”) of the Collins and Brown hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Complete Book of Aliens and Abductions” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) a pages 124, 126 (in Part 4) of the Piatkus hardback edition. |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 62 (in an entry entitled “Earth versus the Flying Saucers”) of the MJF hardback edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Hollywood Vs. the Aliens” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 217 (in Chapter 4) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Siegel, Richard and Suares, Jean-Claude in their “Alien Creatures” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68, 78, 79 (in Chapter 2) of the Reed softcover edition. |
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Simon, Armando in “UFO Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist” (1979) (edited by Richard F Haines) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 48 (and included at page |
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Spencer, John in his “Gifts of the Gods?” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 34, 42-44 (in Chapter 4) of the Virgin paperback edition. |
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Tompkins, Bolyston in “Alien Creatures” (1978) (by Richard Siegel and Jean-Claude Suares) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 38 (in the Introduction) of the Reed softcover edition. |
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Other Material
See also references provided in relation to Donald Keyhoe’s book, “Flying Saucers from Outer Space”
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