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Michael Persinger

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Books by this person include:

YEAR

 

BOOK

1977

Persinger, Michael and Lafreniere, Gyslaine “Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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.

1987

[insert check Spencer] in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 249 (in Chapter 4.1, entitled “Explaining the UFO”) of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition.

1

1988

Boyd, Robert D in his “International Who’s Who in Ufology Directory” (1988) at pages 161-162 of the PMT Publishing softcover edition.

2

1998

Brookesmith, Peter in his “Alien Abductions” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 110-111, 114, 116-117 (in Chapter 4) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition.

5

1995

Bryan, C D B in his “Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at MIT” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 437-440, 441 (in Chapter 20) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Knopf hardback edition and the Penguin Arkana softcover edition) at pages 591-595, 597 of the Orion paperback edition.

5

1995

Budden, Albert in his “UFOs : Psychic Close Encounters : The Electromagnetic Indictment” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 211-214 (in Chapter 6) of the Blandford softcover edition.

4

1988

Cassirer, Manfred in his “Parapsychology and the UFO” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12 (in Chapter 6), 17 (in Chapter 7) of the Cassirer softcover edition.

2

1990

Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Phantoms of the Sky: UFOs – A Modern Myth?” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 104-105 (in Chapter 5) of the Hale hardback edition.

2

1992

Collins, Andrew in his “The Circlemakers: A Revolutionary New Vision” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 202-203 (in Chapter 19), 269-270 (in Chapter 24) of the ABC softcover edition.

4

1989

Conroy, Ed in his “Report on Communion” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 224-228 (in Chapter 6) of the Avon paperback edition.

5

1995

Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 105-106 (in Chapter 4) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

2

2003

Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entires entitled “Earthlights”, “Persinger, Michael” and “temporal lobe lability”. The relevant entries are available online respectively at:

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/E/earthlight.html

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/P/Persinger.html

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/T/templobelability.html

3

1997

Devereux, Paul and Brookesmith, Peter in “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 140-142 (in Chapter 10), 172-173 (in Chapter 11) of the Blandford softcover edition.

5

1988

Devereux, Paul in “Phenomenon“ (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 316-328 (in Part 4, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Earthlights”) of the MacDonald hardback edition.

13

1993

Dormer, Jospeh in “UFOs: The Final Answer?” (1993) (edited by David Barclay and Therese Marie Barclay) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145-147, 149, 150 (in Chapter 7) of the Blandford softcover edition.

5

1979

Haines, Richard F in “UFO Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist” (1979) (edited by Richard F Haines) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12-13, 15-16 (in Chapter 1) of the Scarebrow Press hardback edition.

4

1999

Hough, Peter and Kalman, Moyshe in their “The UFO Files: Alien Abductions” (1999) (previously published under the title “The Truth About Alien Abductions) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 168-169, 170-171 (in Chapter 14) of the Blandford softcover edition.

4

1992

Jacobs, David Michael in his “Secret Life” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 296-297 (in Chapter 11) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Fourth Estate hardback edition and in the Virgin paperback edition published under the title “Alien Encounters”).

2

2005

Kelleher, Colm and Knapp, George in their “Hunt for the Skinwalker” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 213-214 (in Chapter 25) of the Pocket Books softcover edition.

2

2001

Lamb, David in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : A Philosophical Inquiry” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 132 (in Chapter 5) of the Routledge softcover edition.

1

2001

Little, Gregory in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 214-215 (in an entry entitled “Geomagnetic explanations of UFOs”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 210-211 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

2

2001

Little, Gregory in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 260-261 (in an entry entitled “Geomagnetic explanations of UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

2

1990

Little, Gregory in his “People of the Web” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 118-119 (in Chapter 9), 220-223 (in Appendix B) of the White Buffalo softcover edition.

2

1990

Long, Greg in his “Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm” (1990) generally, particularly at pages xiv-xv (in the Introduction), 72-102 (in Chapter 12), 103, 116-118 (in Chapter 13) of the CUFOS softcover edition.

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1987

Mauge, Claude in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 163 (in Chapter 2.7, entitled “UFO Statistics”) of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition.

1

2002

Nixon, Neil in his “Pocket Essentials : UFOs” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 47 (in Chapter 3) of the Pocket Essentials softcover edition.

1

1997

Pope, Nick in his “The Uninvited” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 251-252 (in Chapter 15) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition.

2

2006

Radin, Dean in his “Entangled Minds : Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality” (2006) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 47-49 (in Chapter 3) of the Paraview Pocket Books softcover edition.

3

1988

Randle, Kevin in his “The October Scenario” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 135-137 (in Part 3, unnumbered section entitled “Solutions and Theories”) of the Berkley paperback edition.

3

1995

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Encyclopedia of the Unexplained” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18-19, 21, 33, 35 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Supernatural Earth”) of the Brockhampton hardback edition.

5

1985

Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 125-127 (in Chapter 9), 175-177 (in Chapter 12) of the Blackwell hardback edition.

6

1988

Randles, Jenny in her “Abduction“ (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 216-217 (in Chapter 10) of the Hale hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Headline paperback edition).

2

1983

Randles, Jenny in her “The Pennine UFO Mystery" (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13 (in the Introduction), 227-229, 230-233 (in Chapter 17) of the Granada paperback edition.

8

1998

Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Crash Landing? Friend or Foe?” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 195 (in Chapter 16) of the Blandford softcover edition.

1

1983

Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Reality” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 220 (in Chapter 15) of the Hale hardback edition.

1

1992

Ring, Kenneth in his “The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, UFO Encounters, and the Mind at Large” (1992) at pages 199-205 (in Chapter 9) of the Quill softcover edition.

7

1990

Rodeghier, Mark in Greg Long’s “Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages ix-x (in the Foreword) of the CUFOS softcover edition.

2

1989

Rutkowski, Chris in “Frontiers of Reality” (1989) (edited by Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 34-41 (in Chapter 2) of the Guild publishing hardback edition.

8

1997

Rutkowski, Chris in “Making Contact” (1997) (edited by Bill Fawcett) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 105-108 (in Section 2) of the Morrow hardback edition.

4

1987

Rutkowski, Chris in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 274-278 (in Chapter 4.3.2, entitled “UFOs as Natural Phenomena”) of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition.

5

1994

Schnabel, Jim in his “Dark White” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 126-135 (in Chapter 7), 273-278, 386 (in the Epilogue) of the Hamish Hamilton softcover edition.

17

 

1997

Schnabel, Jim in his “Remote Viewers : The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 231-233 (in Chapter 16) of the Dell paperback edition.

3

1997

Sellier, Charles E and Meier, Joe in their “UFO” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 250-251 (in Chapter 14) of the Contemporary Books hardback edition.

2

1980

Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 262-263 (in an entry entitled “Persinger, Michael A”) of the NEL hardback edition.

2

1988

Watson, Nigel in “Phenomenon” (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 341 (in Part 4, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Physical Triggers / Psychic Responses”) of the MacDonald hardback edition.

1

1997

Wilkinson, David in his “Alone in the Universe?” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 99-100 (in Chapter 6) of the Monarch softcover edition.

2

 

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