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Ronald Story

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Books by this person include:

YEAR

 

BOOK

1976

Story, RonaldThe Space Gods Revealed” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

1980

Story, Ronald (editor) and Greenwell, J Richard (Consulting Editor) “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

1980

Story, RonaldGuardians of the Universe?” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

1981

Story, RonaldUFOs and the Limits of Science” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

2001

Story, Ronald (Editor) “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

2001

Story, Ronald (Editor) “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

 

As noted in Part 3 of Isaac Koi’s “Best UFO Cases” article (i.e. in the Part entitled “Existing lists by various individuals”), Ronald Story has written an interesting book entitled “UFOs and the Limits of Science” (discussed in some detail in PART 6:    Consensus lists : Ronald Story’s poll (1979)) which focuses around a list “of ten ‘best’ cases’”. He selected these 10 cases since they “to me represent the strongest UFO evidence on record”.

The relevant cases selected by Ronald Story as the 10 “best” cases were (see Footnote 3.48):

1. Newport News, Virginia, 14 July 1952 (Nash-Fortenberry case) (Case 44 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article)
2. Lakenheath AFB, England, 13-14 August 1956 (multiple radar-visual) (Case 21 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article)
3. Levelland, Texas, 2-3 November 1957 (Car stop cases) (Case 16 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article)
4. Boianai, New Guinea, 26, 28 June 1959 (Father Gill case) (Case 15 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article)
5. Whitefield, New Hampshire, 19 September 1961 (Betty & Barney Hill case) (Case 2 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article)
6. Exeter, New Hampshire, 3 September 1965 (Incident at Exeter) (Case 29 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article)
7. Ravenna, Ohio, 17 April 1966 (Spaur chase case) (Case 73 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article)
8. Mansfield, Ohio, 18 October 1973 (Coyne helicopter case) (Case 25 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article)
9. Tehran, Iran, 18 September 1976 (Iranian jet case) (Case 47 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article)
10. Wellington/Kaikoura, New Zealand, 31 December 1978 (New Zealand film multiple radar-visual) (Case 57 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article)

In addition to chapters devoted to each of the above 10 cases, Ronald Story’s book contains further chapters devoted to discussing various issues. A chapter entitled “UFO photographs” (see Footnote 3.49) identifies 4 photographic cases which Story states “I have chosen as the ‘best’, in terms of their combined strangeness and reliability”. Those cases are:

1. Wellington/Kaikoura, New Zealand, 31 December 1978 (“the most puzzling picture sequence of all”) (Case 57 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article);
2. McMinnville, Oregon, 11 May 1950 (Trent case photos) (Case 17 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article);
3. Great Falls, Mont, 5 or 15 August 1950 (Mariana film) (Case 41 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article);
4. Trindade Island, Brazil, 16 January 1958 (IGY photos) (Case 26 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article).

 

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

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 see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1988

Boyd, Robert D in his “International Who’s Who in Ufology Directory” (1988) at pages 203-204 of the PMT Publishing softcover edition.

2

2001

Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 565-566 (in an entry entitled “Story, Ronald D”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 553-554 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

2

1997

Emmons, Charles F in his “At The Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 30 (in Chapter 3) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition.

1

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 312 of the Corgi softback edition in an entry entitled “Story, Ronald Dean”

1

2001

Story, Ronald in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 677-678 (in an entry entitled “Story, Ronald D”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

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Other Material

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