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Project Cyclops design study

During 1971, a design study for Project Cyclops was prepared, co-directed by Bernard Oliver and John Billingham.

“Project Cyclops : A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life : NASA Contractor Report 114445 (“NASA CR 114445”)” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK).

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Extracts of Project Cyclops available online at:

http://www.coseti.org/cyclops.htm

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Project Cyclops 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 page 68 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Search for Life Beyond Earth : A Scientific Update”) of the Prometheus Books softcover edition.

1

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 138-139 (in the entry entitled “Project Cyclops”) of the revised 1991 Fact on File hardback edition.

2

1989

Ashpole, Edward in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence”(1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 79 (in Chapter 4) of the Blandford softcover edition.

1

1979

Asimov, Isaac in his “Extraterrestrial Civilizations” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 261-262 (in Chapter 13) of the Crown hardback edition, at page 296-297 of the Pan paperback edition.

2

1979

Ball, Brian in his “A Young Person’s Guide to UFOs” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 64 (in Chapter 6) of the Dragon paperback edition.

1

2003

Benjamin, Marina in her “Rocket Dreams” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 234-236 (in Chapter 6) of the Chatto & Windus hardback edition.

3

1973

Berendzen, Richard in NASA Special Publication 328 (NASA SP-328) entitled “Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man” (1973) (edited by Richard Berendzen) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 47-48 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Berendzen”) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration softcover edition.

2

1978

Billingham, John in “Worlds Beyond” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (edited by Larry Geis and Fabrice Florin) at pages 162-164, 165-166 (in Sequence 18) 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”).

5

1990

Billingham, John 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 252-254 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “John Billingham”) of the Arizona hardback edition.

3

1990

Billings, Linda in “First Contact” (1990) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 226-227 (in Chapter 7) of the NAL Books hardback edition, at page 284-285 of the Headline paperback edition.

2

1979

Boyce, Chris in his Extraterrestrial Encounter (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 91-92 (in Chapter 6) of the David & Charles hardback edition, at page 83 of the 1980 revised NEL paperback edition.

2

1974

Bracewell, Ronald in his “The Galactic Club” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41-47 (in Chapter 5 generally), 49-50 (in Chapter 6), 132 (in the Reader's Guide) of the Heinemann softcover edition.

7

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 144-145 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Ronald N Bracewell”) of the Arizona hardback edition.

2

1999

Clark, Andrew J H and Clark, David H in their “Aliens“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 (in Chapter 2) of the Fromm hardback edition.

1

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 135, 142 (in Chapter 10) of the Springer hardback edition.

2

2000

Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 93-95 (in the entry entitled “Cyclops, Project”) 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 “Cyclops, Project”. The relevant entry is available online at:

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/C/Cyclops.html

1

1999

Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 346 (in Chapter 14) of the Wiley softcover edition.

1

1998

Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 224, 225-226 (in Chapter 7), 241 (in Chapter 8) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

3

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 459, 461-463 (in Chapter 8), 509 (in Chapter 10) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

4

1990

Dixon, Robert in “First Contact” (1990) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 199 (in Chapter 6) of the NAL Books hardback edition, at page 253 of the Headline paperback edition.

1

1991

Drake, Frank and Sobel, Dava in their “Is Anyone Out There?“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 135-140 (in Chapter 7), 232 (in Chapter 10) of the Pocket Books paperback edition.

7

1981

Drake, Frank in “Science and the Paranormal” (1981) (edited by Abell, George O and Singer, Barry) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 345 (in Chapter 19) of the Junction Books hardback edition.

1

1990

Dyson, Freeman 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 320 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Freeman Dyson”) of the Arizona hardback edition.

1

1978

Edelson, Edward in his “Who Goes There?” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 103-104, 106-107 (in Chapter 9), 135-139, 142-143 (in Chapter 11) of the NEL paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the NEL paperback edition combining this book and Chris Boyce’s “Extraterrestrial Encounter).

11

1975

Fairley, Peter in his “Is there Life in Outer Space?” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 68 (in Chapter 5) of the Look-In softcover edition.

1

1974

Flindt, Max H and Binder, Otto in their “Mankind – Child of the Stars” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44 (in Chapter 2), 234-235 (in Chapter 16) of the Fawcett paperback 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 210 (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

1975

Friedman, Stanton T in “Thesis Antithesis” (1975) (edited by A D Emerson) at page 28 (in Part 1, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Scientific Approach to Flying Saucer Behaviour”) of the AIAA paperbound edition.

1

1977

Gallant, Roy A in “Beyond Earth : The Search for Extraterrestrial Life” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 153 (in Chapter 12) of the Four Winds hardback 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 399, 401 (in Chapter 20) of the Benjamin Cummings softcover edition.

2

2001

Goodwin, Simon with John Gribbin in their “XTL” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 168-170, 172 (in Chapter 5) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson softcover edition.

4

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 111-112 (in Chapter 11) of the Tempus hardback edition.

2

1990

Horowitz, Paul 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 408-409 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Paul Horowitz”) of the Arizona hardback edition.

2

1984

Hyams, Ron in “UFOs: Where Do They Come From?” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 83 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Is there anybody out there?”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained” , Volume 1, page 249.

1

2000

Koerner, David & LeVay, Simon in their “Here Be Dragons” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 164 (in Chapter 7) of the Oxford softcover edition.

1

1980

Kuiper, Thomas B H and Morris, Mark 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 170, 171 (in Chapter 34) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “Searching for Extraterrestrial Civilizations” Science, Volume 196, pages 616-621 (1977).

2

2001

Lamb, David in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : A Philosophical Inquiry” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 21-23 (in Chapter 1) of the Routledge softcover edition.

3

1974

Landsburg, Alan and Landsburg, Sally in their “In Search of Ancient Mysteries” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14, 15-16 (in Chapter 2) of the Corgi paperback edition.

3

1976

Landsburg, Alan in his “In Search of Extraterrestrials” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 94-95 (in Chapter 7) of the Corgi paperback edition.

2

1998

Lemonick, Michael in his “Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 240, 241 (in Chapter 13) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Simon & Schuster softcover edition).

2

1995

Marvels and Mysteries (Editors Of) in “Marvels and Mysteries: Aliens” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41, 80, 81 of the Parrallel softcover edition.

3

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 page 387 (in Appendix C, entitled “SETI Program Timeline”) of the O’Reilly hardback edition.

1

1977

Morrison, Philip and Billingham, John and Wolfe, John et al 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 16-17 (in Section 1, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Third Conclusion”) 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

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 pages 30, 42-43 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Philip Morrison”) of the Arizona hardback edition.

3

1988

Nicolson, Iain in his “The Road to the Stars” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 194-195 (in Chapter 11) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

2

1976

O’ Neill, Gerard in his “The High Frontier” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 193-197 (in Chapter 9) of the revised Corgi paperback edition.

5

1974

Oliver, Bernard M 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 159-167 (in Chapter 9) of the Houghton Mifflin softcover edition.

9

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 95, 102 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Bernard M Oliver”) of the Arizona hardback edition.

2

1998

Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 181-182 (in Chapter 10) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition.

2

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 page 117 (in Chapter 6) of the Warner paperback edition.

1

1985

Regis, Edward in “Extraterrestrials: Science and alien intelligence” (1985) (edited by Edward Regis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 232, 233 (in Part 6) of the Cambridge University Press softcover edition.

2

1978

Ridpath, Ian in his “Messages from the Stars” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 124-126 (in Chapter 7), 133-134, 137 (in Chapter 8) of the Fontana paperback edition.

6

1975

Ridpath, Ian in his “Worlds Beyond” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 130-132 (in Chapter 7) of the Wildwood House softcover edition, at pages 138-140 of the revised 1977 Penguin softcover edition entitled “Signs of Life”.

3

1980

Rood, Robert and Trefil, James in their “Are We Alone?“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-154 (in Chapter 10), 243 (in Chapter 16) of the Scribners hardback edition.

2

1973

Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 125, 129, 131, 133, 134, 135-142 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Project Cyclops”) of the Berkley paperback edition.

13

1977

Sachs, Margaret and Jahn, Ernest in their “Celestial Passengers – UFOs & Space Travel” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 72-73 (in Chapter 9) of the Penguin paperback edition.

2

1990

Seeger, Charles 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 286, 291 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Charles L Seeger”) of the Arizona hardback edition.

2

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 pages xlii-xliii (in the Executive Summary), 14, 15-16, 17, 20-22 (in Chapter 1), 70, 71 (in Chapter 3), 134, 135-136 (in Chapter 5), 230 (in Chapter 7) of the SETI Press softcover edition.

15

1998

Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 159-160 (in Chapter 8) of the Berkeley Hills softcover edition.

2

1978

Stemman, Roy in his “Mysteries of the Universe: Great Mysteries” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 248 (in Chapter 13) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

1

1977

Stilley, Frank in his “The Search” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 133-135 (in Chapter 12) of the Putnam hardback edition.

3

1974

Stoneley, Jack and A T Lawton in their “Is Anyone Out There?” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 91-92, 108-109, 110 (in Chapter 6) of the Star Books paperback edition.

5

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 11, 16 (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 pages 179-180 (in Part 5) of the Cambridge University Press softcover edition.

2

2002

Tarter, Jill 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 pages 283-301 (in Appendix A, entitled “Cyclops Revisited”) of the SETI Press softcover edition.

19

1987

Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 126 (in Chapter 5) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition.

1

1977

Von Daniken, Erich in his “According to the evidence” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 34-36 (in Chapter 2) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition.

3

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 13 (in Chapter 1) of the Harvest House paperback edition.

1

1998

White, Michael in his “Life Out There” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 94 (in Chapter 5) of the Little, Brown & Co hardback edition.

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Other Material

Billingham, J, and Oliver, B M "Project Cyclops: A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life," Moffett Field, Calif.: NASA/Ames Pub. Contractor Report Number 114445 (“CR-114445”) (1971). (Commonly referred to as “The Project Cyclops Report”).

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