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Drake Equation
During November 1961, the Drake Equation (also known as the “Green Bank Formula”) was put forward by Frank Drake at a meeting organised by the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences at the Green Bank Observatory.

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Links to various relevant online documents and articles provided by Robert Bradbury:

http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/ETI/DrakeEquation/index.html

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Drake Equation see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1976

Abell, George in “Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence : The First Encounter” (1976) (edited by James L Christian) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 58-60 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Search for Life Beyond Earth : A Scientific Update”) of the Prometheus Books softcover edition.

3

1999

Achenbach, Joel in his “Captured by Aliens” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 17-18 (in Chapter 1), 281 (in Chapter 28) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition.

3

1998

Aczel, Amir in his “Probability 1” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 15-25 (in Chapter 1), 110 (in Chapter 6) of the Little Brown hardback edition.

12

1965

Allen, Tom in his “The Quest: A Report on Extraterrestrial life " (1965) at pages 32-36 (in Chapter 2) of the Chilton hardback edition.

5

1985

Angelo, Joseph A in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia: Man’s Search for Life in Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 29-30 (in the entry entitled “Drake equation”), 167 (in the entry entitled “search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)”) of the revised 1991 Fact on File hardback edition.

3

1979

Asimov, Isaac (dealing with the factors in the Drake Equation, but not discussing the equation itself) in his “Extraterrestrial Civilizations” (1979) generally, particularly at pages 74-198 (in Chapters 5-10) of the Crown hardback edition, at pages 89-225 of the Pan paperback edition.

125

1987

Baird, John C in his “The Inner Limits of Outer Space” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 4 (in Chapter 1), 70-79 (in Chapter 5) of the Dartmouth hardback edition.

11

1999

Baker, Alan in his “The Encyclopaedia of Alien Encounters” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 68 (in an entry entitled “Drake Equation”) of the Virgin hardback edition.

1

2004

Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-117 (in an entry entitled “Drake Equation”) of the Pocket Books softcover edition.

2

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 pages 165-168 (in Chapter 8) of the Aurum softcover edition.

4

1977

Black, David C and Stull, Mark A in “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : NASA Special Publication 419 (“NASA SP 419”)” (1977) (edited by Morrison, Philip and Billingham, John and Wolfe, John) at pages 64-65 (in Section 2, in Colloquie 6) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration softcover edition. Text of relevant report available free online at: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-419/contents.htm

2

1990

Blum, Howard in his “Out There“ (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 107-121 of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition, pages 110-126 (in Chapters 14 and 15) of the Pocket Star paperback edition.

17

1982

Bracewell, Ronald in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 34, 39 (in Chapter 5) of the Cambridge softcover second edition.

2

1990

Bracewell, Ronald N in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 159-161 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Ronald N Bracewell”) of the Arizona hardback edition.

3

2005

Brennan, Herbie in his “The Aliens Handbook” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 64-65 (in Chapter 12) of the Faber and Faber softcover edition.

2

1978

Briazack, Norman and Mennick, Simon in their “The UFO Guidebook” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 100 (in the entry entitled “Green Bank Forumula”) of the Citadel softcover edition.

1

1999

Brin, David in “Are We Alone in the Cosmos” (1999) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 138-139, 141, 148, 150 (in Chapter 3, essay entitled “Mystery of the Great Silence”) of the ibooks softcover edition.

6

1990

Brin, David in “First Contact” (1990) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 119-120, 122, 130-131 (in Chapter 3, essay entitled “Mystery of the Great Silence”) of the NAL Books hardback edition, at pages 156-158, 169-171 of the Headline paperback edition.

5

1997

Brin, David in “Making Contact” (1997) (edited by Bill Fawcett) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 226-227 (in Section 3), 270-273 (in Section 4) of the Morrow hardback edition.

6

1963

Cameron, A G W in “Interstellar Communication : A Collection of Reprints and Original Contributions” (1963) (edited by A G W Cameron) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 310-314 (in Chapter 31) of the W A Benjamin hardback edition.

5

1963

Cameron, Alastair G W in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 132-134 (in Chapter 27) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “Communicating with Intelligent Life on Other Worlds”, Sky and Telescope, Volume 26 (1963) pages 258ff.

3

1990

Campbell, Bruce in “First Contact” (1990) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 111-112 (in Chapter 3) of the NAL Books hardback edition, at pages 144-146 of the Headline paperback edition.

2

1999

Clark, Andrew J H and Clark, David H in their “Aliens“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 21-26, 32-38, 41-56 (in Chapter 1), 70 (in Chapter 2), 91-94, 97, 99, 108 (in Chapter 3) of the Fromm hardback edition.

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2000

Clark, Stuart in his “Life on Other Worlds and How to Find It” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 105-106 (in Chapter 8) of the Springer hardback edition.

2

2002

Cohen, Jack and Stewart, Ian in their “Evolving the Alien” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-128 (in Chapter 6) of the Ebury Press hardback edition.

13

1995

Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 221 (in Chapter 8) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

1

2000

Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 109-112 (in the entry entitled “Drake Equation”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition.

4

2003

Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Drake Equation”. The relevant entry is available online at: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/DrakeEq.html

1

1999

Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 126-128 (in Chapter 5) of the Wiley softcover edition.

3

1995

Davies, Paul in his “Are we Alone?“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 92-93 (in Appendix 1) of the Penguin paperback edition.

2

2001

Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 75-76 (in Chapter 3) of the California hardback edition.

2

1998

Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 209-212, 215, 216, 217, 218 (in Chapter 7) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

8

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 427-431, 437, 439, 440, 441, 442, 452 (in Chapter 8) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

11

1991

Drake, Frank and Sobel, Dava in their “Is Anyone Out There?“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page xv (in the Preface), 51-52, 54-57, 59, 61-62 (in Chapter 3), 67-68 (in Chapter 4), 207 (in Chapter 9) of the Pocket Books paperback edition.

13

1990

Drake, Frank D in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 73 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Frank D Drake”) of the Arizona hardback edition.

1

1999

Drake, Frank in “Are We Alone in the Cosmos” (1999) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 134-136 (in Chapter 3) of the ibooks softcover edition.

3

1990

Drake, Frank in “First Contact” (1990) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 115-117 (in Chapter 3) of the NAL Books hardback edition, at pages 150-153 of the Headline paperback edition.

3

1974

Drake, Frank in “Interstellar Communication : Scientific Perspectives” (1974) (edited by Cyril Ponnamperuma and A G W Cameron) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 118-121 (in Chapter 8) of the Houghton Mifflin softcover edition.

4

1978

Edelson, Edward in his “Who Goes There?” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 67-74 (in Chapter 6), 167-168 (in Chapter 12) of the NEL paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the NEL paperback edition combining this book and Chris Boyce’s “Extraterrestrial Encounter).

10

1997

Emmons, Charles F in his “At The Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 43 (in Chapter 4) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition.

1

1997

Faulkes, Zen in “The UFO Invasion” (1997) (edited by Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr and Joe Nickell) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 304-306 (in Chapter 40, “Is Intelligence Inevitable?”) of the Prometheus hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an updated version of an article in the Skeptical Inquirer 15 (Sping 1991) entitled “Getting Smart and Getting Smarts”.

3

1997

Fawcett, Bill in “Making Contact” (1997) (edited by Bill Fawcett) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 162-177 (in Section 3) of the Morrow hardback edition.

16

1999

Glenday, Craig in his “The UFO Investigator’s Handbook” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 119 (in Chapter 5) of the Running Press softcover edition.

1

1980

Goldsmith, Donald and Owen, Tobias in their “The Search for Life in the Universe” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 345-351, 363-364 (in Chapter 18) of the Benjamin Cummings softcover edition, at pages 408-414, 429-430 (in Chapter 17) of the 1992 Addison Wesley softcover revised second edition.

9

1999

Goldsmith, Donald in “Are We Alone in the Cosmos” (1999) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 4 (in the Introduction) of the ibooks softcover edition.

1

2001

Goodwin, Simon with John Gribbin in their “XTL” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 143-144, 145 (in Chapter 4) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson softcover edition.

3

1990

Guthke, Karl S in his “The Last Frontier : Imagining Other Worlds From the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction: Imagining Other Worlds From the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 6-8, 9, 12 (in Chapter 1.1) of the Cornell University softcover edition.

5

1997

Halpern, Paul in his “The Quest For Alien Planets” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 244-246 (in Chapter 8) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition.

3

1997

Harrison, Albert A in his “After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 8-20 (in Chapter 1), 303-304 (in Chapter 12) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition.

15

1982

Hart, Michael in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 217-224 (in Chapter 22) of the Cambridge softcover second edition.

8

1995

Heidmann, Jean in his “Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 117-119 (in Chapter 6) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

3

1999

Hennessey, Roger in his “Worlds Without End : The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 129, 131-132 (in Chapter 12) of the Tempus hardback edition.

3

1983

Hickson, Charles and Mendez, William in their “UFO Contact at Pascagoula” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 164-165 (in Chapter 6) of the Stevens hardback edition.

2

1987

Hoagland, Richard in his “The Monuments of Mars” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 222-225 (in Chapter 13) of the 1992 revised North Atlantic softcover edition.

4

1998

Jakosky, Bruce in his “The Search for Life on Other Planets” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 282-285 (in Chapter 17) of the Cambridge University softcover edition.

4

1997

Kanon, Gregory in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 3-6 (in Chapter 1) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

4

1973

Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 62 (in Chapter 4) of the Signet paperback edition, page 77-78 of the Panther paperback edition.

2

2000

Koerner, David & LeVay, Simon in their “Here Be Dragons” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 162-163, 175, 181 (in Chapter 7) of the Oxford softcover edition.

4

1999

Kurland, Michael in his “The Complete Idiot's Guide to Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 228-232 (in Chapter 22) of the Alpha Books softcover edition.

5

2001

Lamb, David in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : A Philosophical Inquiry” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 49-60 (in Chapter 2), 157 (in Chapter 6) of the Routledge softcover edition.

13

1976

Landsburg, Alan in his “In Search of Extraterrestrials” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 83-84 (in Chapter 7) of the Corgi paperback edition.

2

1979

Langford, David in his “An account of a meeting with denizens of another world: 1871” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 9-10 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Question of Proof”) of the David and Charles hardback edition.

2

1998

Lemonick, Michael in his “Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 24 (in the Introduction), 45-46, 55-57 (in Chapter 2), 177-178 (in Chapter 10), 245 (in Chapter 13) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Simon & Schuster softcover edition).

8

1982

Lunine, Jonathan in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 192-193 (in Chapter 21) of the Cambridge softcover second edition.

2

1976

Machel, Robert E in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 155 (in Chapter 31) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “An Ear to the Universe”, IEEE Spectrum, Volume 13 (1976.0300), page 42.

1

1982

Mayr, Ernest in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 152-156 (in Chapter 16) of the Cambridge softcover second edition.

5

2001

McConnell, Brian in his “Beyond Contact : A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 21-34 (in Chapter 3 generally), 35-56 (in Chapter 4 generally), 57-71 (in Chapter 5 generally) of the O’Reilly hardback edition.

51

1987

McDonough, Thomas R in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Listening for Life in the Cosmos” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 112-117 (in Chapter 7) of the Wiley softcover edition.

6

1988

Nicolson, Iain in his “The Road to the Stars” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-31 (in Chapter 2) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

2

1971

Oliver, Bernard and Billingham, John et al in “Project Cyclops : A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life : NASA Contractor Report 114445 (“NASA CR 114445”)” (1971) (edited by Oliver, Bernard and Billingham, John) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 26 (in Chapter 2) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration softcover edition.

1

1998

Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 168-169 (in Chapter 10), 190-194 (in Chapter 11) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition.

7

1963

Pearman, J P T in “Interstellar Communication : A Collection of Reprints and Original Contributions” (1963) (edited by A G W Cameron) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 288-293 (in Chapter 28) of the W A Benjamin hardback edition.

6

1999

Poundstone, William in his “Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 54-58 (in the chapter entitled “Berkeley 1960-1963”) of the Owl Books softcover edition.

5

1981

Powers, Robert M in his “The Coattails of God: The Trip to the Stars” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 115-116 (in Chapter 6) of the Warner paperback edition.

2

1991

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Looking for the Aliens” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 109 (in Chapter 12) of the Blandford softcover edition.

1

1985

Rescher, Nicholas in “Extraterrestrials: Science and alien intelligence” (1985) (edited by Edward Regis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 96-102, 106-109 (in Part 3) of the Cambridge University Press softcover edition.

11

1983

Ridpath, Ian in his “Life Off Earth” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 92, 94 (in Chapter 8) of the Granada hardback edition.

2

1978

Ridpath, Ian in his “Messages from the Stars” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12-25 (in Chapter 1), 54 (in Chapter 3) of the Fontana paperback edition.

12

1975

Ridpath, Ian in his “Worlds Beyond” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13 (in the Introduction), 26-27 (in Chapter 1) of the Wildwood House softcover edition, at pages 12, 26-27, of the revised 1977 Penguin softcover edition entitled “Signs of Life”.

3

1980

Rood, Robert and Trefil, James in their “Are We Alone?“ (1980) generally, particularly at pages 4-7, 8 (in Chapter 1), 45 (in Chapter 3), 58-59 (in Chapter 4), 80-81, 83 (in Chapter 5), 85, 98, 99-102 (in Chapter 6), 119-125 (Chapter 8 generally), 242 (in Chapter 16), 246-247, 251 (in Chapter 17) of the Scribners hardback edition.

28

1973

Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 35-36 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Intelligent Worlds to Discover”) of the Berkley paperback edition.

2

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 130 (in an entry entitled “Green Bank Formula”) of the Corgi softback edition.

1

1974

Sagan, Carl in “Interstellar Communication : Scientific Perspectives” (1974) (edited by Cyril Ponnamperuma and A G W Cameron) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12-18 (in Chapter 1) of the Houghton Mifflin softcover edition.

7

1963

Sagan, Carl in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 207 (in Chapter 38) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “Direct Contact Among Galactic Civilizations by Relativistic Interstellar Spaceflight” Planetary and Space Science Volume 11 (1963), issue 11, pages 485-498.

1

1972

Sagan, Carl in “UFO's: A Scientific Debate” (1972) (edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 267-268 (in Chapter 14) of the Barnes and Noble hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Norton paperback edition.

2

1980

Sagan, Carl in his “Cosmos“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 328-332 (in Chapter 12) of the Abacus softcover edition.

5

1970

Sendy, Jean in his “The Coming of the Gods” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 27 (in Chapter 3) of the Berkley paperback edition.

1

2001

SETI Institute in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 160 (in an entry entitled “Drake Equation”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 156-157 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

1

2001

SETI Institute in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 192 (in an entry entitled “Drake Equation”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

1

2002

SETI Institute’s SETI Science and Technology Working Group (“the SSTWG”) in “SETI 2020 : A Roadmap for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (2002) (edited by Elkers, Ronald D and Cullers, Kent D and Billingham, John and Scheffer, Louis K) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 17 (in Chapter 1) of the SETI Press softcover edition.

1

1966

Shklovskii, Iosef Shmuelovich and Sagan, Carl in their “Intelligent Life in the Universe” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 409-418 (in Chapter 29) of the Picador softcover edition.

10

1998

Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 179-183(in Chapter 8) of the Berkeley Hills softcover edition.

5

1976

Smith, Ronald in “Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence : The First Encounter” (1976) (edited by James L Christian) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-158 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Abdication of Human Intelligence”) of the Prometheus Books softcover edition.

6

1977

Smith, Susy in her “Strangers from Space” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 5 (in Chapter 1) of the Manor paperback 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 6-15 (in Chapter 1) of the Millenium paperback edition.

10

1964

Sullivan, Walter in his “We Are Not Alone” (1964) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16 (in Chapter 1), 246-257 (in Chapter 17) of the Signet paperback revised editions.

13

1990

Swift, David W in his “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 9 (in the Introduction) of the Arizona hardback edition.

1

1982

Tarter, Jill in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 9 (in Chapter 2) of the Cambridge softcover second edition.

1

2000

Tarter, Jill in “Many Worlds” (2000) (edited by Stephen J Dick) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 145 (in Part 3, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “SETI and the Religions of the Universe”) of the Templeton Foundation softcover edition.

1

1985

Tipler, Frank in “Extraterrestrials: Science and alien intelligence” (1985) (edited by Edward Regis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 140-142, 146 (in Part 4) of the Cambridge University Press softcover edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of Frank Tipler’s article “Extraterrestrial Intelligent Beings do not Exist” (1980), Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 21, pages 267-281.

4

1968

Von Daniken, Erich in his “Chariots of the Gods?” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 181-183 (in Chapter 11) of the World Books hardback edition, at pages 139-141 of the Bantam paperback editions.

3

1968

Von Daniken, Erich in his “Return to the Stars” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 17 (in Chapter 1) of the Corgi paperback edition, at page 3 of the Bantam paperback editions later published under the title “Gods From Outer Space”.

1

1982

Von Hoerner, Sebastian in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 4) of the Cambridge softcover second edition.

1

2000

Ward, Peter and Brownlee, Don in their “Rare Earth” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages xvii-xviii (in the Introduction), 267-275 (in Chapter 12) of the Copernicus softcover edition.

11

2002

Webb, Stephen in his “Where is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 19-22 (in Chapter 2) of the Copernicus hardback edition.

4

1990

White, Frank in his “The SETI Factor” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 77-94 (in Chapter 6) of the Walker hardback edition.

18

1999

White, Michael in his “Alien Life Forms : Sci-Fi Explained” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41-44 (in Chapter 2) of the Penguin paperback edition.

4

1998

White, Michael in his “Life Out There” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-89 (in Chapter 4) of the Little, Brown & Co hardback edition.

2

1997

Wilkinson, David in his “Alone in the Universe?” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 66 (in Chapter 4) of the Monarch softcover edition.

1

1998

Wolfendale, Arnold in “The Search for Extraterrestrial Life” (1998) (edited by Peter Day) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 4-5, 8, 9, 12 (in the unnumbered first chapter) of the Oxford hardback edition.

5

1975

Wood, Robert M in “Thesis Antithesis” (1975) (edited by A D Emerson) at page 10 (in Part 1, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Testing the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis”) of the AIAA paperbound edition.

1

1998

Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 198-199 (in Chapter 10) of the St Martin’s Press softcover edition.

2

1999

Zubrin, Robert in his “Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 248-250, 253-258, 269-270 (in Chapter 11) of the Tarcher Putnam hardback edition.

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1982

Zuckerman, Ben in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page, 42-43 (in Chapter 6) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. (Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 26 (1985), pages 56-59).

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Other Material

For discussion of the Green Bank conference see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1999

Achenbach, Joel in his “Captured by Aliens” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 373-374 (in the Notes) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition.

2

1998

Aczel, Amir in his “Probability 1” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14-15 (in Chapter 1) of the Little Brown hardback edition.

2

1965

Allen, Tom in his “The Quest: A Report on Extraterrestrial life " (1965) at pages 19, 30-36 (in Chapter 2) of the Chilton hardback edition.

8

1990

Billings, Linda in “First Contact” (1990) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 225 (in Chapter 7) of the NAL Books hardback edition, at page 283 of the Headline paperback edition.

1

1990

Calvin, Melvin in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 130-131, 132 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Melvin Calvin”) of the Arizona hardback edition.

3

1999

Clark, Andrew J H and Clark, David H in their “Aliens“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 32-35 (in Chapter 1), 65-66 (in Chapter 2) of the Fromm hardback edition.

6

1999

Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 125-128 (in Chapter 5) of the Wiley softcover edition.

4

1998

Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 209-212 (in Chapter 7) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

4

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 427-431 (in Chapter 8) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

5

1991

Drake, Frank and Sobel, Dava in their “Is Anyone Out There?“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 46-49, 51-64 (in Chapter 3) of the Pocket Books paperback edition.

18

1990

Drake, Frank D in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 73 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Frank D Drake”) of the Arizona hardback edition.

1

1965

Drake, Frank in Tom Allen’s “The Quest: A Report on Extraterrestrial life " (1965) at pages 264-269 (in Appendix B generally, entitled “An Imaginary Interstellar Communication”) of the Chilton hardback edition.

6

1975

Fairley, Peter in his “Is there Life in Outer Space?” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 55-56 (in Chapter 5) of the Look-In softcover edition.

2

1999

Hennessey, Roger in his “Worlds Without End : The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 111 (in Chapter 11) of the Tempus hardback edition.

1

1998

Lemonick, Michael in his “Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 54-56 (in Chapter 2) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Simon & Schuster softcover edition).

3

1990

Morrison, Philip in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 29 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Philip Morrison”) of the Arizona hardback edition.

1

1990

Oliver, Bernard M in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 94, 101-102 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Bernard M Oliver”) of the Arizona hardback edition.

3

1998

Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 167-168 (in Chapter 10) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition.

2

1963

Pearman, J P T in “Interstellar Communication : A Collection of Reprints and Original Contributions” (1963) (edited by A G W Cameron) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 287-293 (in Chapter 28) of the W A Benjamin hardback edition.

7

1999

Poundstone, William in his “Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 52-61 (in the chapter entitled “Berkeley 1960-1963”) of the Owl Books softcover edition.

10

1980

Rood, Robert and Trefil, James in their “Are We Alone?“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 3-4 (in Chapter 1) of the Scribners hardback edition.

2

1964

Sullivan, Walter in his “We Are Not Alone” (1964) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 15-16 (in Chapter 1) 242-260 (Chapter 17 generally) of the Signet paperback revised editions.

21

1990

Swift, David W in his “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 8-9, 10 (in the Introduction) of the Arizona hardback edition.

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