Web Resources
Links to various relevant online articles and documents available at:
http://www.bigear.org/wowmenu.htmThere 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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Wow! Signal see the following:
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Ashpole, Edward in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 63 (in Chapter 4) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Ashpole, Edward in his “The UFO Phenomena” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 120 (in Chapter 10) of the Headline hardback edition. |
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Ashpole, Edward in his “Where is Everybody?” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 82-83 (in Chapter 6) of the Sigma Press softcover edition. |
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Benjamin, Marina in her “Rocket Dreams” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 225-226 (in Chapter 6) of the Chatto & Windus hardback edition. |
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Blum, Howard in his “Out There“ (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 128-129 (in Chapter 17) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition, page 135 of the Pocket Star paperback edition. |
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Clark, Andrew J H and Clark, David H in their “Aliens“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74-75 (in Chapter 2), 110 (in Chapter 3) of the Fromm hardback edition. |
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Clark, Stuart in his “Life on Other Worlds and How to Find It” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 139 (in Chapter 10) of the Springer hardback edition. |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 45-46 (in the entry entitled “Big Ear”), 304 (in the entry entitled “Ohio SETI program”), 379 (in the table entitled “SETI Observing Programs: 1960 to the Present”), 386 (in the entry entitled “SETI, unexplained signals”), 464-465 (in the entry entitled “Wow! signal”) 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 “ Wow! signal”. The relevant entry is available online at: “http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/W/Wow.html |
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Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 223 (in Chapter 7) of the Cambridge hardback edition. |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 455-457 (in Chapter 8) of the Cambridge hardback edition. |
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Dixon, Robert S in “First Contact” (1990) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 201-202 (with image of record at page 203) (in Chapter 6) of the NAL Books hardback edition, at pages 256-258 (with image of record at plate 29) of the Headline paperback edition. |
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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 141-143, 145-146 (in Chapter 7) of the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
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Ehman, Jerry in his article “The Big Ear Wow! Signal : What we Know and Don’t Know About It After 20 Years” (1997). Available online at: |
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Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 335-336 (in Section 5) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition. |
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Gray, Robert H and Marvel, Kevin B in their article “A VLA Search for the Ohio State ‘Wow’”, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 546 (2001.0110), pages 1171-1177. Available online at: |
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Harrison, Albert A in his “After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 47 (in Chapter 2) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
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Jackson, Robert in his “UFOs” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 70 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Search for Other Worlds”) of the Smithmark hardback edition. |
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Kawa, Barry in his article “The ‘Wow!’ Signal”, Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine section (1994.0918). Available online at: |
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Kraus, John D in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 243-245 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “John D Kraus”) of the Arizona hardback 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 240 (in Chapter 23) of the Alpha Books softcover edition. |
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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 page 17 (in Chapter 1) of the Routledge softcover edition. |
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Lemonick, Michael in his “Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 235 (in Chapter 13) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Simon & Schuster softcover edition). |
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McConnell, Brian in his “Beyond Contact : A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13 (in Chapter 2), 121 (in Chapter 8), 387 (in Appendix C, entitled “SETI Program Timeline”) of the O’Reilly hardback edition. |
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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 142, 143 (in Chapter 9) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Papagiannis, Michael in “Are We Alone in the Cosmos” (1999) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 214 with image of record on page 215 (in Chapter 5) of the ibooks softcover edition. |
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Papagiannis, Michael in “First Contact” (1990) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 189 (in Chapter 5) of the NAL Books hardback edition, at page 241 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 180 (in Chapter 10) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
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Pickover, Clifford in his “The Science of Aliens” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 159 (in Chapter 7) of the Basic Books hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Alien Contact – The First Fifty Years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 78 (in the chapter entitled “1974”) of the Collins and Brown hardback edition. |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Life Off Earth” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 106, 107 (in Chapter 9) of the Granada hardback edition. |
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Robert H. Gray and Simon Ellingsen in their article “A Search for Periodic Emissions at the Wow Locale”, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 578 (2002.1020), pages 967-971. Available online at: |
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Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 165-167 (in Chapter 8) of the Berkeley Hills softcover edition. |
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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 pages 16-17 (in Chapter 1) of the Millenium paperback edition. |
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Swift, David W in his “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 13 (in the Introduction) of the Arizona hardback edition. |
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Tarter, Jill in “Extraterrestrials: Science and alien intelligence” (1985) (edited by Edward Regis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 180-181 (in Part 5) of the Cambridge University Press softcover 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 99, 105 (in Chapter 4) of the Copernicus hardback edition. |
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White, Frank in his “The SETI Factor” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-61 (in Chapter 5), 71 (in Chapter 6) of the Walker hardback edition. |
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White, Michael in his “Life Out There” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 102 (in Chapter 5) of the Little, Brown & Co 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 68 (in Chapter 4) of the Monarch softcover edition. |
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Wood, Ryan in his “MAJIC Eyes Only” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 227 of the Wood Enterprises hardback edition. |
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Other Material
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