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George Van Tassel

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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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 George Van Tassel see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1998

Alnor, William M in his “UFO Cults and the New Millenium” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 144-145 (in Chapter 9) of the Baker softcover edition.

2

1992

Alnor, William M in his “UFO in the New Age” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 89-90 (in Chapter 5) of the Baker softcover edition.

2

1999

Baker, Alan in his “The Encyclopaedia of Alien Encounters” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 26 (in an entry entitled “Ashtar (aka Ashtar Command)”) , 119-120 (in an entry entitled “Integraton”)of the Virgin hardback edition.

3

1979

Ball, Brian in his “A Young Person’s Guide to UFOs” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 77 (in Chapter 8) of the Dragon paperback edition.

1

2003

Barkun, Michael in his “A Culture of Conspiracy : Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 151 (in Chapter 9) of the California hardback edition.

1

1998

Chalker, Bill in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 622-625 (in an entry entitled “Van Tassel, George W. (1910-1978)”), 105 (in an entry entitled “Contactees”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition.

5

1967

Chambers, Howard in his “UFOs for the millions” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 120-122 (in Chapter 9) of the Bell hardcover edition.

3

1998

Christopher, Paul in his “Alien Intervention: The Spiritual Mission of UFOs” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 33, 36 (in Chapter 2), 76 (in Chapter 4) of the Huntington House softcover edition.

3

2007

Clark, Jerome in “Alien Worlds : Social and Religious Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact” (2007) (edited by Diana Tumminia) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 26 (in Chapter 2) of the Syracuse softcover edition.

1

2000

Clark, Jerome in his “Extraordinary Encounters : An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 27-29 (in an entry entitled “Ashtar”), 70 (in an entry entitled “Contactees”), 255-256 (in an entry entitled “Van Tassel, George W (1910-1978)”) of the ABC-Clio hardback edition.

6

1992

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 2 – Emergence of a Phenomenon” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 390-392 (in an entry entitled “Van Tassel, George W. (1910-1978)”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

3

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 1:A-K at page 244 (in an entry entitled “Contactees”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

1

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition : Volume 2:L-Z” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 972-974 (in an entry entitled “Van Tassel, George W. (1910-1978)”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

3

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition : Volume 1:A-K” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 447-449 (in an entry entitled “Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

3

1992

Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 88 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Into the Wild Blue”) of the Publications International hardback edition.

1

1992

Collins, Andrew in his “The Circlemakers: A Revolutionary New Vision” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 161-162 (in Chapter 17) of the ABC softcover edition.

2

1995

Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 71-72 (in Chapter 3), 189, 191 (in Chapter 7), 217-218 (in Chapter 8) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

6

1996

Craft, Michael in his “Alien Impact” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 91-92 (in Chapter 5) of the St Martin’s Paperbacks paperback edition.

2

1985

Curran, Douglas in his “In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 78, 79-81 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “In Advance of the Landing”) of the updated 2001 Abbeville Press hardback edition.

4

2001

Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 43-44 (in Chapter 2) of the California hardback edition.

2

1995

Eberhart, George M and Melton, J Gordon in “The Gods Have Landed – New Religions from Other Worlds” (1995) (edited by James Lewis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 287-289 (in Chapter 10, “The Flying Saucer Contactee Movement, 1950-1994: A Bibliography”) of the Suny softcover edition.

3

2001

Ellwood, Robert S in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 631-632 (in an entry entitled “Van Tassel, George”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 618-619 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

2

1980

Ellwood, Robert S in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 380-381 (in an entry entitled “Van Tassel, George W.”) of the NEL hardback edition

2

2001

Ellwood, Robert S in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 757-758 (in an entry entitled “Van Tassel, George”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

2

1973

Evans, Christopher in his “Cults of Unreason” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 149-150 (in Part 2, Chapter 1) of the Panther paperback edition.

2

1981

Fowler, Raymond E in his “Casebook of a UFO Investigator” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 10 (in Chapter 2) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition.

1

1967

Green, Gabriel with Smith, Warren in their “Let’s face the facts about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 107-108 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Are You a Believer?”) of the Popular Library paperback edition.

2

1996

Hamilton, William F in his “Alien Magic: UFO Crashes, Abductions, Underground Bases” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-13 (in Chapter 1), 26 (in Chapter 2) of the Global Communications softcover edition.

4

1976

Holzer, Hans in his “The UFOnauts” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 66 (in Chapter 3), 177 (in Chapter 7) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback edition.

2

1997

Kanon, Gregory M in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 109 (in Chapter 7) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

1

1994

Kossy, Donna in her “Kooks” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 184 (in Part 5, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Trevor James Constable : Bioplilia in Extremis”) of the Feral House softcover edition.

1

1999

Kurland, Michael in his “The Complete Idiot's Guide to Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 135 (in Chapter 13) of the Alpha Books softcover edition.

1

1962

Manas, John H in his “Flying Saucers and Space Men” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 29 (in Chapter 2) of the Zavallis softcover edition.

1

1997

Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 195 (in Chapter 7) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

1

1963

Menzel, Donald and Boyd, Lyle in their “The World of Flying Saucers” (1963) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 201-202 (in Chapter 10) of the Doubleday hardback edition.

2

1997

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 page 187 (in Chapter 9) of the Koinonia House softcover edition.

1

2002

Moseley, James and Pflock, Karl in their “Shockingly Close to the Truth!” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 75 (in Chapter 3), 160, 161-162, 163 of the Prometheus hardback edition.

5

1997

Patton, Phil in his “Travels in Dreamland” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 157-158 (in Chapter 11) of the Orion Media hardback edition.

2

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 102-103 (Chapter 7, “The Contactee Era” – in part of a section entitled “Outer Space Communications” and the beginning of the section entitled “Flying Saucer Clubs and Saucerian Conventions”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 123-125 of the Berkley paperback edition.

2

1997

Pope, Nick in his “The Uninvited” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 2) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition.

1

1999

Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ and Cone, William in their “The Abduction Enigma” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 86 (in Chapter 4) of the Forge hardback edition.

1

1997

Randle, Kevin D and Estes, Russ in their “Faces of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 83-89 (in Part 2) of the Fireside softcover edition.

7

2003

Redfern, Nicholas and Roberts, Andy in their “Strange Secrets: Real Government Files on the Unknown” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 102-115, 128 (in Chapter 6), 310 (in Chapter 15) of the Paraview Pocket Books softcover edition.

16

1997

Redfern, Nicholas in his “A Covert Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 292, 293-294 (in Chapter 20) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition.

3

2006

Redfern, Nicholas in his “On the Trail of the Saucer Spies : UFOs and Government Surveillance” (2006) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-32 (in Chapter 2), 45-46, 48 of the Anomalist Books softcover edition.

14

1998

Redfern, Nicholas in his “The FBI Files” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 268-288, 313-314, 315-316 (in Chapter 12) of the Simon & Schuster softcover edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition.

25

1957

Reeves, Bryant and Reeves, Helen in their “Flying Saucer Pilgrimmage” (1957) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 87-88 (in Chapter 12), 90-102 (in Chapter 13 generally), 298-299 (in the Illustrations) of the Amherst Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Amherst Press softcover edition).

17

1994

Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 15-16 (in an entry entitled “Ashtar”), 49 (in an entry entitled “Council of Seven Lights”), 111 (in an entry entitled “Integraton”) of the MJF hardback edition.

4

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 352 (in an entry entitled “Van Tassell, George”) of the Corgi softback edition.

1

2002

Samples, Kenneth in “Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men” (2002) (edited by Ross, Hugh and Samples, Kenneth and Clark, Mark) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 143-144 (in Chapter 13) of the Navpress softcover edition.

2

1994

Schnabel, Jim in his “Dark White” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 21 (in Chapter 2) of the Hamish Hamilton softcover edition.

1

1976

Smith, Warren in his “UFO Trek” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 47-50 (in Chapter 3) of the Sphere paperback edition.

4

1997

Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “True Life Encounters – Alien Contact” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 84 (in Chapter 7) of the Millenium paperback edition.

1

1978

Stemman, Roy in his “Mysteries of the Universe: Great Mysteries” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 204 (in Chapter 10) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

1

1980

Story, Ronald in his “Guardians of the Universe?” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 134-136 (in Chapter 13) of the New English Library paperback edition.

3

1993

Thompson, Richard in his “Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Pheonemena” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 172 (in Chapter 5) of the GHP revised softcover edition.

1

1987

Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 78 (in Chapter 3) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition.

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