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In November 1970, the UFO subcommittee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (“AIAA”) published a statement entitled “UFO, An Appraisal of the Problem” in its journal, Astronautics and Aeronautics, criticizing the conclusions of the Condon Report and encouraged further study of the UFO problem. It concluded that it found it “difficult to ignore the small residue of well-documented but unexplained cases which form the hard core of the UFO controversy”.

 

 

Sections below

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 of the AIAA statement see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1974

Blum, Ralph and Blum, Judy in their “Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 169 (in Chapter 15) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition).

1

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 604 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition in an entry entitled “University of Colorado UFO Project”.

1

1996

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 3 – High Strangeness” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 3-4 of the Omnigraphics hardback edition forming part of an entry entitled “American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics UFO Subcommittee”. Also briefly discussed at page 528 forming part of an entry entitled “University of Colorado UFO Project”.

2

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74-75 of Volume 1:A-K (in an entry entitled “American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics UFO Subcommittee”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

2

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Volume 2:L-Z at page 955 (forming part of the entry entitled “University of Colorado UFO Project” at pages 946-959) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

1

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 304-305 (in Chapter 6) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

2

1980

Greenwell, J Richard in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 7-8 of the NEL hardback edition in an entry entitled “AIAA Interest in UFOs”.

2

2001

Hall, Richard in “The UFO Evidence: Volume 2 – A Thirty Year Report” (2001) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 617 (in Section 15) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition.

1

2000

Hoyt, Diana Palmer in her Masters thesis entitled “UFOcritique : UFOs, Social Intelligence, and the Condon Report” (2000.0420) in Chapter 3 at pages 66-67. Complete text of the Masters thesis available online at:

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05082000-09580026/unrestricted/UFOCRITIQUE.pdf

2

2000

Hoyt, Diana Palmer in her Masters thesis entitled “UFOcritique : UFOs, Social Intelligence, and the Condon Report” (2000.0420) in Chapter 3 at page 67. Complete text of the Masters thesis available online at:

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05082000-09580026/unrestricted/UFOCRITIQUE.pdf

1

1977

Hynek, J Allen in his “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 273-274 (in Chapter 12) of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at pages 282-283 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition).

2

1972

Hynek, J Allen in his “The UFO Experience” (1972) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (in Chapter 13) at pages 220-221 of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with same page numbering in the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition) at pages 249-251 of the various Ballantine paperback editions, at pages 273-274 of the Corgi paperback edition.

2

1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 259 (in Chapter 9) of the Indiana hardback edition, page 230 of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1973

Keyhoe, Donald in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 233-234 (in Chapter 15) of the Signet paperback edition, page 262 of the Panther paperback edition.

2

1987

Kinder, Gary in his “Light Years” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 174 (in Chapter 8) of the Viking hardback edition.

1

1985

Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 57 (in Chapter 4) of the Blackwell hardback edition.

1

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 13 (in an entry entitled “American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)”) of the Corgi softback edition.

1

1999

Sturrock, Peter in his “The UFO Enigma“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 43-44 (in Chapter 3, section entitled “Discussion”) and 50-51 (in Chapter 4) of the Warner Aspect hardback edition. The relevant chapter is based on Peter Sturrock’s article “An Analysis of the Condon Report on the Colorado UFO Project” Journal of Scientific Exploration 1, pages 75-100, which is available online at:

http://tinyurl.com/y99j299

2

1993

Thompson, Richard in his “Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Pheonemena” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 95-96 (in Chapter 3) of the GHP revised softcover edition.

2

1973

Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “Journey to Infinity” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 163 (in Chapter 13) of the Fontana paperback edition.

1

1980

Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 171 (in Chapter 14) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

1

 

See also references provided in the entry for the Condon Report (9 January 1969)

 

Other Material

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