Sputnik 2 launched, containing Laika the dog, was launched on 3 November 1957.
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Sputnik II see the following:
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Discussion by:
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Binder, Otto in his “Flying Saucers Are Watching Us” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 164 (in Chapter 15) of the |
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Binder, Otto in his “What we really know about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 98 (in Chapter 9) of the Fawcett paperback edition. |
1 |
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Brookesmith, Peter in “The Age of the UFO” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 43 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “UFOs: A Federal Case”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”. |
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Brookesmith, Peter in “UFOs: Where Do They Come From?” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 44 (in unnumbered chapter entitled “UFOs: A Federal Case”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”. |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 91-92 (in Chapter 5) of the Parragon hardback edition. |
2 |
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Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 3 (in Chapter 1) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
1 |
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Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 253 (in Chapter 6) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
1 |
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Hynek, J Allen in his “The UFO Experience” (1972) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 123 (in Chapter 9) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition (with same page numbering in the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition) at page 141 of the various Ballantine paperback editions, at page 159 of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 155 (in Chapter 6) of the |
1 |
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Keel, John A in his “UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 210 (in Chapter 11) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Abacus softcover edition). |
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Lorenzen, Coral E in her “The Great Flying Saucer Hoax” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 75, 88 (in Chapter 8) of the APRO hardback edition. |
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Lorenzen, Coral in “Flying Saucers : the Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space” (1966) (an enlarged version of her “The Great Flying Saucer Hoax” (1962)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 92 (in Chapter 8) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Menzel, Donald and Boyd, Lyle in their “The World of Flying Saucers” (1963) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 172-173 (in Chapter 9) of the Doubleday hardback edition. |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 127 (in Chapter 9, “The 1957 Flap”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, page 152 of the |
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Randle, Kevin D in his “Project Moon Dust” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 136, 150 (in Chapter 7) of the |
2 |
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Randle, Kevin D in his “Scientific Ufology” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 17 (in Chapter 2) of the |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “50 Years of UFO Encounters” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 33 (in unnumbered section entitled “1957: Welcome to the Universe”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 167, 168, 181 (in Chapter 13) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
3 |
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Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 58-59 (in Chapter 8) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Investigating the Truth Behind MIB” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 60 (in Chapter 5) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
1 |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Something in the Air” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 76 (in Chapter 6) of the Hale hardback edition. |
1 |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 54-55 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the |
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Spencer, John Wallace in his “No Earthly Explanation” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 28 (in Chapter 1) of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Other Material
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