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Gallup Poll
On 20 May 1950, Gallup issues news release about a second Gallup Poll to include questions on UFOs. 5% of respondents indicated they thought “these flying saucers” were “comets, shooting stars, something from another planet”.

 

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 relevant Gallup Poll see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1997

Clark, Jerome in “UFO: 1947-1997” (1997) (edited by Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 (in the section entitled “The 1950s”, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Meeting the Extraterrestrials: How the ETH was Invented”) of the John Brown hardback edition.

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1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 203 (in an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial Hypothesis and Ufology”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition.

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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 page 378 (in an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial Hypothesis and Ufology” at pages 374-393) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

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1969

Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60 (in Section 2 “Summary of the Study”, by Edward U Condon), 316 (in Section 3, Chapter 7 “Public Attitudes toward UFO Phenomena”, by Aldora Lee) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at pages 43, 210 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links:

http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.html

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1997

Durant, Robert (with extracts from relevant press release) in “UFO: 1947-1997” (1997) (edited by Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 231, 233 (in the section entitled “Aspects”, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Public Opinion Polls and UFOs”) of the John Brown hardback edition.

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1950

Heard, Gerald in his “The Riddle of the Flying Saucers: Is Another World Watching” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 56 (in Chapter 7) of the Carroll & Nicholson hardback edition.

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1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 56 (in Chapter 2) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 48-49 of the Signet paperback edition.

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1980

Jacobs, David Michael in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 147 (in an entry entitled “Gallup Polls on UFOs”) of the NEL hardback edition.

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2001

Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 463 (in an entry entitled “Reconnaissance Theory of UFOs”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 453 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

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2001

Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 557 (in an entry entitled “Reconnaissance Theory of UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

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1967

Steiger, Brad and Whritenour, Joan in their “Flying Saucers are Hostile” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 46 (in Chapter 3) of the Tandem paperback edition.

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1994

Vesco, Renato and Childress, David Hatcher in their “Man Made UFOs 1944-1994 – 50 Years of Suppression” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 44 (in Chapter 2) of the AUP softcover edition.

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1971

Vesco, Renato in his “Intercept Ufo” (Formerly published as “Intercept – But Don't Shoot”) (1971) at page 44 (in Chapter 2) of the Zebra paperback edition.

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1997

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 121 (in Chapter 9) of the Blandford softcover edition.

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Other Material

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