During 1973, molecular biologists Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel wrote an article putting forward the idea that life might have been intentionally spread throughout space and seeded on the surface of other worlds by a guiding intelligence (commonly referred to as “directed panspermia”).
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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
Complete text of article reprinted in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 34-37 (in Chapter 10) of the University Science Books 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 directed panspermia see the following:
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Discussion by:
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No. of Pages |
Aczel, Amir in his “Probability 1” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 95-96 (in Chapter 5) of the Little Brown hardback edition. |
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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 page 66 (in the entry entitled “ ‘infective’ theory of life”), 127-128 (in the entry entitled “panspermia”) of the revised 1991 Fact on File hardback edition. |
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Baird, John C in his “The Inner Limits of Outer Space” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 96-97 (in Chapter 6) of the Dartmouth hardback edition. |
2 |
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Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 103-104 (in an entry entitled “Crick, Francis”) of the Pocket Books softcover edition. |
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Briazack, Norman and Mennick, Simon in their “The UFO Guidebook” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 65-66 (in the entry entitled “Crick, Francis”) of the Citadel softcover edition. |
2 |
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Craft, Michael in his “Alien Impact” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 203 (in Chapter 10) of the St Martin’s Paperbacks paperback edition. |
1 |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 105 (in the entry entitled “directed panspermia”), 310 (in the entry entitled “Orgel, Leslie E (1927- )”) 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 “Directed panspermia”. The relevant entry is available online at: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/dirpans.html |
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Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 158-159 (in Chapter 6) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Davies, Paul C W in “Many Worlds” (2000) (edited by Stephen J Dick) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in Part 1, unnumbered chapter entitled “Biological Determinism, Information Theory, and the Origin of Life”) of the Templeton Foundation softcover edition. |
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Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 186 (in Chapter 6) of the Cambridge hardback edition. |
1 |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 377 (in Chapter 7) of the Cambridge hardback edition. |
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Emmons, Charles F in his “At The Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 120 (in Chapter 7) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
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Fairley, Peter in his “Is there Life in Outer Space?” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 109-110 (in Chapter 7) of the Look-In softcover edition. |
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Feinberg, Gerald and Shapiro, Robert in their “Life Beyond Earth” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 134-135 (in Chapter 5) of the Morrow hardback edition. |
2 |
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Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 340 (in Section 5) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition. |
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Fowler, Raymond E in his “The Watchers“ (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 228-229 (in Chapter 11) of the Bantam paperback edition. |
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Goldsmith, Donald in his “The Hunt For Life On Mars” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-155 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Origin of Life”) of the Dutton hardback edition. |
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Horn, Arthur D and Horn, Lynette M in their “Humanity's Extraterrestrial Origins” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14-15 (in Chapter 1) of the Silberschnur 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 page 210 (in Chapter 20) of the Alpha Books softcover edition. |
1 |
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Lamb, David in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : A Philosophical Inquiry” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 83-87 (in Chapter 3) of the Routledge softcover edition. |
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Landsburg, Alan and Landsburg, Sally in their “In Search of Ancient Mysteries” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 1-6 (in Chapter 1), 9-10, 15 (in Chapter 2) of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Lederberg, Joshua 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 43 (in Chapter 11) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “Exobiology: Approaches to Life beyond the Earth”, Science, 132 (1960), 393. |
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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 pages 67-69 (in Chapter 4) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Missler, Chuck and Eastman, Mark in their “Alien Encounters: The Secret behind the UFO Phenomenon” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 129-131, 141 (in Chapter 6) of the Koinonia House softcover edition. |
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Moore, Patrick and Jackson, Francis in their “Life in the Universe” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 32-33 (in Chapter 2) of the Norton softcover edition. |
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Paker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-31 (in Chapter 3) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
2 |
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Pickover, Clifford in his “The Science of Aliens” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 97-98 (in Chapter 5) of the Basic Books hardback edition. |
2 |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Life Off Earth” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 87 (in Chapter 7) of the Granada hardback edition. |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Worlds Beyond” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 75-76 (in Chapter 4) of the Wildwood House softcover edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 302 (in Chapter 8) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Sitchin, Zecharia in his “The 12th Planet: Earth Chronicles Book I” (1976) at pages 255-256 (in Chapter 8) of the Avon paperback edition. |
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Stoneley, Jack and Lawton, A T in their “Is Anyone Out There?” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 231-233 (in Chapter 14) of the Star Books paperback edition. |
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Webb, Stephen in his “Where is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 45-46 (in Chapter 3), 81 (in Chapter 4) of the Copernicus hardback edition. |
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Wilkinson, David in his “Alone in the Universe?” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 45 (in Chapter 3) of the Monarch softcover edition. |
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Other Material
Crick, F H C, and Orgel, L E "Directed Panspermia," Icarus, Volume 19, page 341 (1973).
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