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Gallup poll results
On 8 May 1966, Gallup released the results of the third Gallup Poll to include questions on UFOs. The results indicated that 96% of Americans had either heard or read something about UFOs. 46% considered UFOs to be “real”.

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

Partial text from relevant press release presented by Durant, Robert (with) in “UFO: 1947-1997” (1997) (edited by Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 233-234 (in the section entitled “Aspects”, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Public Opinion Polls and UFOs”) of the John Brown hardback edition.

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 1966 Gallup poll see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1986

Andrews, George C in his “Extra-Terrestrials Among Us” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 250 (in Chapter 7) of the Llewellyn softcover edition, at page 284 of the Llewellyn paperback edition.

1

2003

Barkun, Michael in his “A Culture of Conspiracy : Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80, 81 (in Chapter 5) of the California hardback edition.

2

1998

Bartholomew, Robert E and Howard, George S in their “UFOs and Alien Contact” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 195 (in Chapter 9) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

1

1967

Binder, Otto in his “What we really know about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 14 (in Chapter 1) of the Fawcett paperback edition.

1

1974

Blum, Ralph and Blum, Judy in their “Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 2 (in Chapter 1) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition).

1

1995

Bryan, C D B in his “Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at MIT” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 115 (in Chapter 4) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Knopf hardback edition and the Penguin Arkana softcover edition) at page 153 of the Orion paperback edition.

1

1994

Campbell, Steuart in his “The UFO Mystery Solved” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 40 (in Chapter 3) of the Explicit Books softcover edition.

1

1967

Chambers, Howard in his “UFOs for the millions” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10 (in Chapter 1), 61 (in Chapter 6) of the Bell hardcover edition.

2

1978

Cohen, Daniel in his “The World of UFOs” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 98 (in Chapter 12) of the Lippincott hardback edition.

1

1969

Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-61 (in Section 2 “Summary of the Study”, by Edward U Condon), 316, 317-324, 355 (in Section 3, Chapter 7 “Public Attitudes toward UFO Phenomena”, by Aldora Lee) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at pages 43-44, 210, 211-216, 237-238 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links:

http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.html

12

 

1995

Craig, Roy in his “UFOs – An Insider’s View” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 238-239 (in Chapter 15) of the UNT softback edition.

2

1998

Dean, Jodi in her “Aliens in America” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 36 (in Chapter 1) of the Cornell University softcover edition.

1

2001

Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 36 (in Chapter 2) of the California hardback edition.

1

2000

Dolan, Richard M in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 394 (in Chapter 7) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 301 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

1

1997

Durant, Robert (with extracts from relevant press release) in “UFO: 1947-1997” (1997) (edited by Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 233-234 (in the section entitled “Aspects”, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Public Opinion Polls and UFOs”) of the John Brown hardback edition.

2

1967

Edwards, Frank in his “Flying Saucers – Here and Now!” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 94 (in Chapter 5), 258 (in Chapter 12) of the Lyle Stuart hardback edition, at pages 56 (in Chapter 5), 159 (in Chapter 12) of the Bantam paperback edition.

2

1987

Evans, Hilary in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44-45 of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition (Chapter 2.3.1, entitled “UFOs as Global Phenomenon”).

2

2008

Friedman, Stanton in his “Flying Saucers and Science : A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 206-208 (in Chapter 8) of the New Page softcover edition.

3

1978

Friedman, Stanton T in “Worlds Beyond” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (edited by Larry Geis and Fabrice Florin) at page 204 (in Sequence 21 entitled “Flying Saucers Are Real”) of the And/Or softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Perennial Library paperback edition published under the title “Moving Into Space: The Myths and Realities of Extraterrestrial Life”).

1

1966

Fuller, John G in his “The Interrupted Journey” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at at page 338 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Epilog to New Edition”) of the revised Corgi paperback edition.

1

1968

Fuller, John G in Saunders, David R and Harkins, R Roger’ “UFOs? Yes!” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 10 (in the Introduction) of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1969

Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in the Introduction) of the Putnam hardback edition.

1

1999

Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 286 (in Chapter 7) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

1

2001

Hall, Richard in “The UFO Evidence: Volume 2 – A Thirty Year Report” (2001) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 7 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition.

1

1995

Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at page 237 (in Chapter 12) of the Box Tree hardback edition.

1

1968

Hynek, J Allen in the Roush Hearing (the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics "Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects" on 1968.0729) at page 194 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Edited and annotated transcript presented by Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969), with the relevant extract appearing at page 176 (in Chapter 7) of the Putnam hardback edition. Complete transcript available free online at the following links:

http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/contents.html

http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/contents.html

1

1980

Jacobs, David Michael in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 147 (in an entry entitled “Gallup Polls on UFOs”) of the NEL hardback edition.

1

1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 200 (in Chapter 8) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 177 of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1997

Kanon, Gregory M in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 102-104 (in Chapter 5) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

3

1971

Kettelkamp, Larry in his “Investigating UFOs” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-12 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Introduction”) of the Target softcover edition.

2

1968

Lore, Gordon and Deneault, Harold in their “Mysteries of the Skies” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 183-184 (in the Epilogue) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition.

2

1977

Menzel, Donald and Taves, Ernest “The UFO Enigma“ (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 236 (in Chapter 17) of the Doubleday hardback edition.

1

1977

Peters, Ted in his “UFOs-God's Chariots?: Flying Saucers in Politics, Science & Religion” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 80 (in Chapter 4) of the John Knox hardback edition.

1

2000

Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 65 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the Sterling softcover edition.

1

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 254 (in an entry entitled “Polls”) of the Corgi softback edition.

1

1968

Saunders, David R and Harkins, R Roger in their “UFOs? Yes!” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 24 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1997

Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 74 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1967-1977”) of the Boxtree hardback edition.

1

1974

Spencer, John Wallace in his “No Earthly Explanation” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 30 (in Chapter 1) of the Corgi paperback edition.

1

1978

Stemman, Roy in his “Mysteries of the Universe: Great Mysteries” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 225 (in Chapter 12) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

1

1966

Vallee, Jacques and Vallee, Janine in their “Challenge to Science – The UFO Enigma” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 111 (in Chapter 5) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, at page 95 of the Tandem paperback edition.

1

1978

Watkins, Leslie in his “Alternative 3“ (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 6 (in Section 1) of the Warner Books softcover edition.

1

1975

Weldon, John and Levitt, Zola in their “Encounters With UFOs“ (1975) (formerly “UFOs, What on Earth is Happening?”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 5 (in Chapter 1) of the Harvest House paperback edition.

1

1979

Westrum, Ronald M in “UFO Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist” (1979) (edited by Richard F Haines) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 101-103 (in Chapter 5) of the Scarebrow Press hardback edition.

3

1967

Young, Mort in his “UFO Top Secret” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 4-5 (in Chapter 1), 121 (in Chapter 8) of the Essandess softcover edition.

3

Other Material

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