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CTA-102
During April 1965, Russian scientists made an announcement regarding CTA-102 (“California Technology catalog A – 102”) , later identified as a quasar.

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 CTA-102 see the following:

 

Year

 

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1965

Allen, Tom in his “The Quest: A Report on Extraterrestrial life " (1965) at pages 50-51 (in Chapter 3) of the Chilton hardback edition.

2

2003

Benjamin, Marina in her “Rocket Dreams” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 226, 228-230, 231, 232, 233-234 (in Chapter 6) of the Chatto & Windus hardback edition.

8

1970

Bergier, Jacques in his “Extraterrestrial Visitations From Prehistoric Times to the Present” (1970) at pages 7-8 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition, at page 8 of the Futura paperback edition (published under the title “Mysteries of the Earth”).

2

1977

Berlitz, Charles in his “Without a Trace” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 141 (in Chapter 8) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition, at page 176 of the Granada paperback edition.

1

1990

Blum, Howard in his “Out There“ (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 125-126 (in Chapter 16) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition, at pages 131-132 of the Pocket Star paperback edition.

2

1979

Boyce, Chris in his Extraterrestrial Encounter (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 89-90 (in Chapter 6) of the David & Charles hardback edition, at page 81 of the 1980 revised NEL 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 70-71 (in Chapter 2) of the Fromm hardback edition.

2

2000

Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 93 (in the entry entitled “CTA-102”), 378 (in the table entitled “SETI Observing Programs: 1960 to the Present”), 385 (in the entry entitled “SETI, false alarms in”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition.

3

2003

Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “CTA-102”. The relevant entry is available online at: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/C/CTA102.html

1

1998

Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 222-223 (in Chapter 7) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

2

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 455-456 (in Chapter 8) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

2

1991

Drake, Frank and Dava Sobel in their “Is Anyone Out There?“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 102-104 (in Chapter 5) of the Pocket Books paperback edition.

3

1968

Drake, W Raymond in his “Gods and Spacemen of the Ancient East” (1968) (originally titled “Spacemen in the Ancient East”) at pages 24-25 (in Chapter 2) of the Sphere paperback edition.

2

1974

Drake, W Raymond in his “Gods and Spacemen of the Ancient West” (1974) at page 12 (in Chapter 1) of the Sphere paperback edition.

1

1975

Drake, W Raymond in his “Gods and Spacemen Throughout History” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in Chapter 1) of the Sphere paperback edition.

1

1966

Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Serious Business” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 84-85 (in Chapter 6) of the Bantam paperback edition, at page 91-92 of the Mayflower-Dell paperback edition.

2

1998

Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 335 (in Section 5) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition.

1

1967

Greenfield, Irving A in his “The UFO Report” (1967) at pages 56, 61 (in Chapter 6) of the Lancer paperback edition.

2

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 233-234, 235 (in Chapter 9) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition.

3

1995

Heidmann, Jean in his “Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 150-152 (in Chapter 9), 191 (in Chapter 12) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

4

1995

Heidmann, Jean in his “Life in the Universe" (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 97-98 (in Chapter 8) of the Cambridge softcover edition.

2

1979

Holroyd, Stuart in his “Alien Intelligence” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 155 (in Chapter 6) of the David & Charles hardback edition.

1

1980

Kardashev, Nikolai S 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 139 (in Chapter 28) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations” Soviet Astronomy, Volume 8, page 217 (1964).

1

1990

Kardashev, Nikolai S 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 185-186, 191, 195 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Nikolai S Kardashev”) of the Arizona hardback edition.

4

1988

Keel, John A in his “Disneyland of the Gods” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 48 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Living Legends and Dying Worlds”) of the I-Net softcover edition.

1

1971

Keel, John A in his “Our Haunted Planet” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 193-194 (in Chapter 14) of the Fawcett paperback edition.

2

2000

Koerner, David & LeVay, Simon in their “Here Be Dragons” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 173 (in Chapter 7) of the Oxford softcover edition.

1

1995

Marvels and Mysteries (Editors Of) in “Marvels and Mysteries: Aliens” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 41 of the Parrallel softcover edition.

1

1968

Pauwels, Louis and Bergier, Jacques in their “Impossible Possibilities” (1968) at page 228 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Giants of the Universe: The Quasars”) of the Mayflower paperback edition.

1

1999

Poundstone, William in his “Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 90-91 (in the chapter entitled “Cambridge 1963-1968”), 130-131 (in the chapter entitled “Ithaca 1968-76”) of the Owl Books softcover edition.

4

1983

Ridpath, Ian in his “Life Off Earth” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 105 (in Chapter 9) of the Granada hardback edition.

1

1973

Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 45-46 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Hello, Out There”) of the Berkley paperback edition.

2

1996

Sagan, Carl in “The Outer Edge : Classic Investigations of the Paranormal” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (Edited by Joe Nickell, Barry Karr and Tom Genoni) at pages 12, 13 (in the Introduction) of the CSICOP softcover edition.

2

1985

Sagan, Carl in his “Contact” (1985) at page 48 (in Chapter 3) of the Legend paperback edition.

1

1973

Sagan, Carl in his “The Cosmic Connection” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 60 (in Chapter 8) of the Double Day hardcover edition, with the same page numbering in the Coronet softcover edition.

1

1997

Sagan, Carl in his “The Demon Haunted World” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 167-168, 170 (in Chapter 10) of the Headline softcover edition.

3

1970

Sendy, Jean in his “The Coming of the Gods” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 102 (in Chapter 11) of the Berkley paperback 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 394-396 (in Chapter 27) of the Picador softcover edition.

3

1991

Shklovskii, Iosif in his “Five Billion Vodka Bottles to the Moon” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 253 (in Chapter 24) of the Norton hardback edition.

1

1964

Sullivan, Walter in his “We Are Not Alone” (1964) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 17 (in Chapter 1), 222-224 (in Chapter 15) of the Signet paperback revised editions.

4

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 x (in the Preface), 11 (in the Introduction) of the Arizona hardback edition.

2

1985

Tarter, Jill in “Extraterrestrials: Science and alien intelligence” (1985) (edited by Edward Regis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 176 (in Part 5) of the Cambridge University Press softcover edition.

1

1974

Umland, Eric and Umland, Craig in their “Mysteries of the Ancients” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 163 (in Chapter 13) of the Panther paperback edition.

1

1990

White, Frank in his “The SETI Factor” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 55 (in Chapter 5) of the Walker hardback edition.

1

1998

White, Michael in his “Life Out There” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 100-101 (in Chapter 5) of the Little, Brown & Co hardback edition.

2

 

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