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“The War of the Worlds”
The movieThe War of the Worlds” (1953) was based on the novel by H G Wells. Screenplay written by Barre Lyndon. Directed by Byron Haskin. Produced by George Pal.

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 “War of the Worlds” movie see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1970

Baxter, John in his “Science Fiction in the Cinema” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 108 (in Chapter 9), 148-150 (in Chapter 12), 239-240 (in the “Select Filmography”) of the Zwemmer softcover edition.

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1979

Beckley, Timothy Green in “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (edited by Milt Machlin) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 283 (in Chapter 17, entitled “Flying Saucers In The Movies”) of the Dale paperback edition.

1

1997

Bizony, Piers in his “The Exploration of Mars: Searching for the Cosmic Origins of Life” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 13 (in the Foreword) of the Aurum softcover edition.

1

1979

Boyce, Chris in a list entitled “A Checklist of Ets in the Cinema” in his Extraterrestrial Encounter (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 164 (in Appendix 1) of the David & Charles hardback edition, at page 152 of the 1980 revised NEL paperback edition.

1

1999

Chambers, Paul in his “Life On Mars” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 201 (in Chapter 15) of the Blandford hardback edition.

1

1995

Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 67 (in Chapter 3) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

1

2001

di Fate, Vincent in his “The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51, 54, 55 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Sci-Fi, Hokum and Barry Who? - The Golden Age of Science Fiction Movies”) of the Paper Tiger hardback edition.

3

1998

Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 133 (in Chapter 4) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

1

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 263 (in Chapter 5) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

1

2001

Gross, Loren E in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 641 (in an entry entitled “War of the Worlds, The”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 627 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

1

2001

Gross, Loren E in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 769 (in an entry entitled “War of the Worlds, The”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

1

1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 130 (in Chapter 5) of the Indiana hardback edition, page 114 of the Signet paperback edition.

1

2005

Kaveney, Roz in her “From Alien to The Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 39 (in Chapter 4) of the I B Taurus softcover edition.

1

2001

Kottmeyer, Martin S and Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 641 (in the postscript to an entry entitled “War of the Worlds”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 628 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

1

2001

Kottmeyer, Martin S and Story, Ronald in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 769-770 (in the postscript to an entry entitled “War of the Worlds”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

2

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 475 (in an entry entitled “Reconnaissance Theory of UFOs”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 465 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

1

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 pages 571-572 (in an entry entitled “Reconnaissance Theory of UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

2

1999

Kurland, Michael in his “The Complete Idiot's Guide to Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 290, 292 (in Chapter 28) of the Alpha Books softcover edition.

2

1996

Miller, David and Gatiss, Mark in their “They Came From Outer Space : Alien Encounters in the Movies” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-23 of the Visual Imagination softcover edition.

2

1977

Naha, Ed in his “Science Fiction Aliens - Starlog Photo Guidebook” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 62-63, 71 (in the unnumbered section entitled “Motion Pictures”) of the Starlog softcover edition.

3

1997

Nesheim, Eric and Nesheim, Leif in their “Saucer Attack! : Pop Culture in the Golden Age of Flying Saucers” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80, 90 of the General Publishing softcover edition.

2

1998

Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 49 (in Chapter 4) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition.

1

1996

Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 61 (in Chapter 2) of the Frog softcover edition.

1

1997

Rux, Bruce in his “Hollywood Vs. the Aliens” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 198 (in Chapter 4) of the Frog softcover edition.

1

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 360 (in the first entry entitled “War of the Worlds, the”) of the Corgi softback edition.

1

1998

Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 25 (in Chapter 2) of the Berkeley Hills softcover edition.

1

1978

Siegel, Richard and Suares, Jean-Claude in their “Alien Creatures” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68, 80, 81, 82-83 (in Chapter 2), 116-117 (in Chapter 4), 154 (in the Afterword) of the Reed softcover edition.

8

1979

Simon, Armando in “UFO Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist” (1979) (edited by Richard F Haines) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 48 (and included at page 54 in a list of science fiction films with themes of either visitors from space, or travelling to space or both) (in Chapter 3) of the Scarebrow Press hardback edition.

1

1997

Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “True Life Encounters – Alien Contact” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 234-235 (in Chapter 14) of the Millenium paperback edition.

2

1991

Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 270 (in an entry entitled “Science Fiction and UFOs”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 319 of the Headline paperback edition.

1

1991

Spencer, John in his “UFOs: The Definitive Casebook” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 33 (in the unnumbered section entitled “North America”, in the chapter entitled “Database”) of the Hamlyn hardback 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 pages 28, 30-31 (in Chapter 1) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition.

3

1978

Tompkins, Bolyston in “Alien Creatures” (1978) (by Richard Siegel and Jean-Claude Suares) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14-15, 23-24 (in the Introduction) of the Reed softcover edition.

4

1987

Watson, Nigel in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 334 of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition (in Chapter 5.4, entitled “The Day Flying Saucers Invaded the Cinema”).

1

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 40 (in Chapter 3) of the Blandford softcover edition.

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