During 1960, Edward Purcell of Harvard gave a lecture at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in which he concluded that “all this stuff about travelling round the Universe in space suits, except for local exploration …, belongs back where it came from, on the cereal box”.
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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
Text of article reprinted in “Interstellar Communication : A Collection of Reprints and Original Contributions” (1963) (edited by A G W Cameron) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 121-143 (in Chapter 13) of the W A Benjamin hardback edition.
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 Purcell’s article see the following:
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Discussion by:
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Berry, Adrian in his “The Next Ten Thousand Years” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 99 (in Chapter 8) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
1 |
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Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 37 (in Section 2 “Summary of the Study”, by Edward U Condon) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at page 27 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links: |
1 |
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Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 131 (in Chapter 5) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
1 |
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Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 213 (in Chapter 7) of the |
1 |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 434 (in Chapter 8) of the |
1 |
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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 pages 120-121, 128 (in Chapter 6) of the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
3 |
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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 pages 85-87 (in Chapter 2) of the New Page softcover edition. |
3 |
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Goldsmith, Donald and Owen, Tobias in their “The Search for Life in the Universe” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 370-371 (in Chapter 19) of the Benjamin Cummings softcover edition, at pages 437-438 (in Chapter 18) of the 1992 Addison Wesley softcover revised second edition. |
2 |
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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 page 3 (in Chapter 1) of the |
1 |
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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 3, 15 (in Chapter 1) of the Wiley hardback edition. |
2 |
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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 70 (in Chapter 9) of the |
1 |
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Sullivan, Walter in his “We Are Not Alone” (1964) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 227, 229-232, 234, 237, 241 (in Chapter 16), 274, 276 (in Chapter 16) of the Signet paperback revised editions. |
10 |
Other Material
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