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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Alex Birch photograph see the following:
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Campbell, Steuart in his “The UFO Mystery Solved” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 46 (in Chapter 3) of the Explicit Books softcover edition. |
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Chapman, Robert in his “UFO : Flying Saucers Over Britain?” (1969) (also published as “Unidentified Flying Objects”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 91 (in Chapter 7) of the Mayflower paperback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 3 – High Strangeness” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 258-259 (forming part of an entry entitled “Hoaxes, 1960-1979”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 514 of Volume 1:A-K (forming part of the entry entitled “Hoaxes” at pages 504-519) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in “The UFOs that never were” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) by Jenny Randles, Andy Roberts and David Clarke at pages 128-143 (in Chapter 7, “Flash, Bang, Wallop – Wot A Picture : The Alex Birch photograph!” by David Clarke and Andy Roberts) of the London House hardback edition. |
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Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Out Of The Shadows” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 161-163 (in Chapter 8) of the Piatkus hardback edition. Copy of photograph at page 162. |
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Clarke, David in his “The UFO Files : The Inside Story of Real-Life Sightings” (2009) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 70, 71 (in Chapter 3) of the National Archives softcover edition. |
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Cramp, Leonard in his “Piece for a Jig-Saw” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 139-140 (in Chapter 9) of the Somerton hardback edition. |
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Glenday, Craig in his “The UFO Investigator’s Handbook” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 92 (in Chapter 4) of the Running Press softcover edition. |
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Knight, David C in his “UFOs: A pictorial history from antiquity to the present” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 108 (in Part 4) of the McGraw Hill hardback edition. |
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Picknett, Lynn in her “The Mammoth Book of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 72-77 (in Chapter 2), 456, 457-458 (in Chapter 8) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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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 pages 40-41 (in unnumbered section entitled “1962: Eyes On Space”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “UFOs : A British Viewpoint” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 93 (in Chapter 6) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFOs and How to See Them” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 123, 124 (in Chapter 6) of the Brockhampton Press hardback edition. |
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Shaw, John in “Phenomenon“ (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 218 (Part |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 43 (in an entry entitled “Birch, Alex”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 51 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “UFOs: The Definitive Casebook” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 93 (in the unnumbered section entitled “ |
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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 341 (in Chapter 10) of the AUP softcover edition. |
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Watts, Alan in his “UFO Quest” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 92-95, 96 (in Chapter 9) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Welfare, Simon and Fairley, John in their “Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 260 (in Chapter 10) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Other Material
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