Sputnik 1 was launched on 4 October 1957.
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Sputnik I see the following:
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Discussion by:
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No. of Pages |
Bova, Ben in his “The High Road” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-31 (in Chapter 5), 91 (in Chapter 14), 228-229 (in Chapter 27) of the Houghton Mifflin hardback edition. |
5 |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 91-92 (in Chapter 5) of the Parragon hardback edition. |
2 |
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Chapman, Robert in his “UFO : Flying Saucers Over Britain?” (1969) (also published as “Unidentified Flying Objects”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 166 (in Chapter 13) of the Mayflower paperback edition. |
1 |
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Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Flying Saucerers : A social history of UFOlogy” (2007) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 103-104 (in Chapter 6) of the Alternative Albion softcover edition. |
2 |
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Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 83 (in Chapter 4) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
1 |
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Dean, Jodi in her “Aliens in America” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 70-71 (in Chapter 2) of the |
2 |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 285-286 (in Chapter 6) of the |
2 |
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Dione, R L in “God Drives a Flying Saucer” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 6 (in Chapter 1) of the Corgi paperback edition. |
1 |
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Dolan, Richard M in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 282 (in Chapter 6) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 200-201 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
1 |
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Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 3 (in Chapter 1) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
1 |
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Frazier, Kendrick in “Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence : The First Encounter” (1976) (edited by James L Christian) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-81 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “First Contact : The News Event and the Human Response”) of the Prometheus Books softcover edition. |
2 |
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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 236, 247 (in Chapter 6) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
2 |
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Hartmann, William K in “UFO's: A Scientific Debate” (1972) (edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 18 (in Chapter 2) of the Barnes and Noble hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Norton paperback edition. |
1 |
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Hoyt, Diana Palmer in her Masters thesis entitled “UFOcritique : UFOs, Social Intelligence, and the Condon Report” (2000.0420) in Chapter 2 at page 28. Complete text of the Masters thesis available online at: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05082000-09580026/unrestricted/UFOCRITIQUE.pdf |
1 |
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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 155 (in Chapter 6) of the |
1 |
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Keel, John A in his “UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 210 (in Chapter 11) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Abacus softcover edition). |
1 |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers: Top Secret” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 111 (in Chapter 7), 112-113 (in Chapter 8), 153 (in Chapter 10) of the G P Putnam hardback edition. |
4 |
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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 pages 655-656 (in an entry entitled “Waves (or Flaps), UFO”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 641-642 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
2 |
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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 pages 786-787 (in an entry entitled “Waves (or Flaps), UFO”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
2 |
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Lore, Gordon and Deneault, Harold in their “Mysteries of the Skies” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 166 (in Chapter 10) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition. |
1 |
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Lorenzen, Coral E in her “The Great Flying Saucer Hoax” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 74 (in Chapter 8) of the APRO hardback edition. |
1 |
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Lorenzen, Coral in “Flying Saucers : the Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space” (1966) (an enlarged version of her “The Great Flying Saucer Hoax” (1962)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 91 (in Chapter 8), 194 (in Chapter 13), 212 (Chapter 14) of the Signet paperback edition. |
3 |
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Menzel, Donald and Boyd, Lyle in their “The World of Flying Saucers” (1963) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 172 (Chapter IX) of the Doubleday hardback edition. |
1 |
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Moffitt, John in his “Picturing Extraterrestrials : Alien Images in Modern Mass Culture” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 330 of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
1 |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 127 (in Chapter 9, “The 1957 Flap”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, page 152 of the |
1 |
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Randle, Kevin D in his “Project Moon Dust” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 4 (in the Introduction), 135 (in Chapter 7) of the |
2 |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 167, 176, 181 (in Chapter 13) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
3 |
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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 33 (in the chapter entitled “1957”) of the Collins and Brown hardback edition. |
1 |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Investigating the Truth Behind MIB” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 59-60 (in Chapter 5) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
2 |
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Sagan, Carl in his “The Demon Haunted World” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 71 (in Chapter 4) of the Headline softcover edition. |
1 |
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Spencer, John and Anne Spencer in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 38, 40-41 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1957-1967”) of the Boxtree hardback edition. |
3 |
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Spencer, John Wallace in his “No Earthly Explanation” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 28 (in Chapter 1) of the Corgi paperback edition. |
1 |
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Swift, David W in his “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 379 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Conclusions”) of the Arizona hardback edition. |
1 |
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Tacker, Lawrence (Lieutenant Colonel) in his “Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 83 (in Chapter 7) of the D Van Nostrand hardback edition. |
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Other Material
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