During 1977, the “SERENDIP” (“Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emission from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations”) piggybacking SETI program began operation. It was developed by Professor Stuart Bowyer and colleagues at the
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Serendip see the following:
Year |
Discussion by:
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No. of Pages |
Ashpole, Edward in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 75-76 (in Chapter 4) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
2 |
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Ashpole, Edward in his “Where is Everybody?” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 84 (in Chapter 6) of the Sigma Press softcover edition. |
1 |
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Clark, Andrew J H and Clark, David H in their “Aliens“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-81, 85 (in Chapter 2) of the Fromm hardback edition. |
3 |
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Clark, Stuart in his “Life on Other Worlds and How to Find It” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 138, 139, 142 (in Chapter 10) of the Springer hardback edition. |
3 |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 376 (in the entry entitled “SERENDIP”), 376 (in the entry entitled “SERENDIP I”), 376 (in the entry entitled “SERENDIP II”), 376 (in the entry entitled “SERENDIP III”), 376-377 (in the entry entitled “SERENDIP IV”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition. |
2 |
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Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 223 (in Chapter 7) of the Cambridge hardback edition. |
1 |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 458 (in Chapter 8) of the Cambridge hardback edition. |
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Drake, Frank and Sobel, Dava in their “Is Anyone Out There?“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-154 (in Chapter 7) of the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
2 |
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Edelson, Edward in his “Who Goes There?” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 120 (in Chapter 9) of the NEL paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the NEL paperback edition combining this book and Chris Boyce’s “Extraterrestrial Encounter). |
1 |
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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 9 (in the Introduction) of the ibooks softcover edition. |
1 |
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Goodwin, Simon with Gribbin, John in their “XTL” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 164 (in Chapter 5) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson softcover edition. |
1 |
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Harrison, Albert A in his “After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 41 (in Chapter 2) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
1 |
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Horowitz, Paul and Alschuler, William R in “First Contact” (1990) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 213-220 (in Chapter 6) of the NAL Books hardback edition, at pages 271-276 of the Headline paperback edition. |
8 |
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Koerner, David & LeVay, Simon in their “Here Be Dragons” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 171-172 (in Chapter 7) of the Oxford softcover edition. |
2 |
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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 14 (in Chapter 2), 136 (in Chapter 8), 388 (in Appendix C, entitled “SETI Program Timeline”) of the O’Reilly hardback edition. |
3 |
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Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 182-183 (in Chapter 10) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
2 |
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Pickover, Clifford in his “The Science of Aliens” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 158 (in Chapter 7) of the Basic Books hardback edition. |
1 |
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Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 167-168 (in Chapter 8) of the Berkeley Hills softcover edition. |
2 |
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Tarter, Jill in “Extraterrestrials: Science and alien intelligence” (1985) (edited by Edward Regis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 184 (in Part 5) of the Cambridge University Press softcover edition. Also included as Reference |
2 |
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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 page 388 (in Appendix L, entitled “Archive of SETI Searches”) of the SETI Press softcover edition. |
1 |
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Webb, Stephen in his “Where is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 100, 102, 105 (in Chapter 4) of the Copernicus hardback edition. |
3 |
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Wilkinson, David in his “Alone in the Universe?” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 70 (in Chapter 4) of the Monarch softcover edition. |
1 |
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Zubrin, Robert in his “Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 259 (in Chapter 11) of the Tarcher Putnam hardback edition. |
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