During 1958, theoretical work begins on Project Orion, which considered the feasibility of constructing a nuclear-pulse rocket powered by nuclear fission, using nuclear bombs for propulsion
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Project Orion see the following:
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Angelo, Joseph A in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia: Man’s Search for Life in Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 144-145 (in the entry entitled “Project Orion (II)”), 201, 202 (in the entry entitled “starship”) of the revised 1991 Fact on File hardback edition. |
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Baxter, Stephen in his “Deep Future” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-154 (in Chapter 18) of the Gollancz paperback edition. |
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Bracewell, Ronald in his “The Galactic Club” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 111 (in Chapter 12) of the Heinemann softcover edition. |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 312 (in the entry entitled “Orion, Project”) 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 “Orion, Project”. The relevant entry is available online at: “http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/O/OrionProj.html |
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Drake, Frank and Sobel, Dava in their “Is Anyone Out There?“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 129 (in Chapter 6) of the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
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Dyson, Freeman in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 45 (in Chapter 7) of the |
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Dyson, Freeman in his “Disturbing the Universe” (1979) at pages 109, 110-115 (in Chapter 10), 127-131 (in Chapter 12), 159 (in Chapter 14), 267 (in the Bibliographical Notes) of the Harper & Row hardback edition. |
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Friedman, Stanton in his “Flying Saucers and Science : A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 84 (in Chapter 2) of the New Page softcover edition. |
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Goodwin, Simon with John Gribbin in their “XTL” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 175 (in Chapter 5) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson softcover edition. |
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Harrison, Albert A in his “Spacefaring : The Human Dimension” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 244-245 (in Chapter 14) of the |
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Kuiper, Thomas B H and Morris, Mark in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 171 (in Chapter 34) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “Searching for Extraterrestrial Civilizations” Science, Volume 196, pages 616-621 (1977). |
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Lunan, Duncan in his “Man and the Stars” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23-25 (in Chapter 2) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition, at pages 30-32 of the Corgi paperback 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 14 (in Chapter 1), 22 (in Chapter 2), 57-67 (in Chapter 4) of the Wiley hardback edition. |
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Marvels and Mysteries (Editors Of) in “Marvels and Mysteries: UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 29 of the Parrallel softcover edition. |
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McDonough, Thomas R in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Listening for Life in the Cosmos” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 175 (in Chapter 13) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Nicolson, Iain in his “The Road to the Stars” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 129-131 (in Chapter 7) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 204-206 (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 pages 47-49, 50, 51 (in Chapter 3) 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 147 (in Chapter 8) of the Wildwood House softcover edition, at pages 154 of the revised 1977 Penguin softcover edition entitled “Signs of Life”. |
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Rood, Robert and Trefil, James in their “Are We Alone?“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 212-213, 214, 215 (in Chapter 14) of the Scribners hardback edition. |
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Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 56-57, 59-60 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Hello, Out There”) of the |
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Sagan, Carl in his “Cosmos“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 231-232 (in Chapter 8) of the Abacus 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 75 (in Chapter 9) of the |
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White, Michael in his “Life Out There” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 150 (in Chapter 8) of the Little, Brown & Co hardback edition. |
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Zubrin, Robert in his “Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 191-194, 197 (in Chapter 9) of the Tarcher Putnam hardback edition. |
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Other Material
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