The movie “Alien” was directed by Ridley Scott and starred Sigourney Weaver.
Web Resources
Credits and other details included in the Internet Movie Database (imdb) entry online at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 the movie Alien see the following:
Year |
Discussion by:
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No. of Pages |
Alnor, William M in his “UFO in the New Age” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 132-133 (in Chapter 7) of the Baker softcover edition. |
2 |
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Baker, Alan in his “The Encyclopaedia of Alien Encounters” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14-15 (in an entry entitled “Alien (Film)”) of the Virgin hardback edition. |
2 |
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Byers, Thomas in “Alien Zone : Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema” (1990) (edited by Annette Kuhn) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39-42, 45, 49 (in Chapter 3) of the Verso softcover edition. |
6 |
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Cohen, Jack and Stewart, Ian in their “Evolving the Alien” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 49 (in Chapter 3) of the Ebury Press hardback edition. |
1 |
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Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 209 (in Chapter 8) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
1 |
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Creed, Barbara in “Alien Zone : Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema” (1990) (edited by Annette Kuhn) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 128-141 (in Chapter 11) of the Verso softcover edition. |
12 |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (in the entry entitled “Alien”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition. |
1 |
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Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Alien”. The relevant entry is available online at: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/A/Alien.html |
1 |
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Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 134 (in Chapter 4) 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 265 (in Chapter 5) of the Cambridge hardback edition. |
1 |
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Kavanagh, James in “Alien Zone : Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema” (1990) (edited by Annette Kuhn) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 73-81 (in Chapter 6) of the Verso softcover edition. |
9 |
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Kaveney, Roz in her “From Alien to The Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 5 (in Chapter 1), 112-113, 119 (in Chapter 9), 131-147 , 159-174, 175-187, 189-204 (in the section entitled “A Franchise Case Study : Alien and its Sequels”) of the I B Taurus softcover edition. |
66 |
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Kuhn, Annette in “Alien Zone : Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema” (1990) (edited by Annette Kuhn) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 (in the Introduction) of the Verso softcover edition. |
1 |
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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 pages 297-298 (in Chapter 28) of the Alpha Books softcover edition, and included a list entitled “Alien Inspired Movies” in Appendix E at pages 315-316. |
2 |
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Larson, Bob in his “UFOs and the Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 68 (in Chapter 4) of the Nelson softcover edition. |
1 |
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Miller, David and Gatiss, Mark in their “They Came From Outer Space : Alien Encounters in the Movies” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 92-93, 118-119, 132-133 of the Visual Imagination softcover edition. |
6 |
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Newton, Judith in “Alien Zone : Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema” (1990) (edited by Annette Kuhn) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 82-87 (in Chapter 7) of the Verso softcover edition. |
6 |
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Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51-52 (in Chapter 4) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
2 |
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Pope, Nick in his “Open Skies, Closed Minds” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 52-53 (in Chapter 3) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
2 |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Looking for the Aliens” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 25 (in Chapter 3), 44 (in Chapter 6) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
2 |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Life Off Earth” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 90 (in Chapter 7) of the Granada hardback edition. |
1 |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Hollywood Vs. the Aliens” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 301 (in Chapter 6) of the Frog softcover edition. |
1 |
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Sellier, Charles E and Meier, Joe in their “UFO” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 212 (in Chapter 12) of the Contemporary Books hardback edition. |
1 |
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Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 87-88 (in Chapter 4), 111, 115 (in Chapter 6) of the Berkeley Hills softcover edition. |
2 |
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Sobchack, Vivian in “Alien Zone : Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema” (1990) (edited by Annette Kuhn) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 106-107, 110 (in Chapter 9) of the Verso softcover edition. |
3 |
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Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “True Life Encounters – Alien Contact” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 240 (in Chapter 14) of the Millenium paperback edition. |
1 |
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Watson, Nigel in “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) by Paul Devereux and Peter Brookesmith at page 41 (in Chapter 3) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
1 |
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Watson, Nigel in his “Portraits of Alien Encounters” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 14 (in the Introduction) of the Valis hardback edition. |
1 |
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White, Frank in his “The SETI Factor” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 142 (in Chapter 9) of the Walker hardback edition. |
1 |
Other Material
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