On 21 December 1977, a letter was written by NASA Administrator, Robert A Frosch, to Dr Frank Press, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President stating that NASA did not feel it could mount a UFO research effort without a better starting point than it had been able to identify thus far. The letter referred to absence of “tangible or physical” evidence for laboratory analysis.
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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
Complete text of letter presented by Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 242-243 (in an entry entitled “NASA and UFOs”) of the NEL hardback edition.
Complete text of letter presented by Peter Paget in his “The Welsh Triangle” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 106-107 (in Chapter 6) of the Grafton paperback 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 Frosch’s letter see the following:
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Discussion by:
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No. of Pages |
Beckley, Timothy Green in his “MJ-12 and the Riddle of Hangar |
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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 341-346 (in an entry entitled “NASA and UFOs”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
6 |
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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) in Volume 2:L-Z at pages 663-665 (forming part of an entry entitled “NASA and UFOs” at pages 663-667) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
3 |
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Edelson, Edward in his “Who Goes There?” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 87-88 (in Chapter 7) of the NEL paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the NEL paperback edition combining this book and Chris Boyce’s “Extraterrestrial Encounter). |
2 |
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Fawcett, George and Greenwood, Barry in their “Clear Intent” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 193 (in Chapter 13) of the Spectrum softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Fireside softcover edition published under the title “The UFO Cover-Up”). |
1 |
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Paget, Peter in his “The Welsh Triangle” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 106-107 (in Chapter 6) of the Grafton paperback edition. |
2 |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 204-205 (in Chapter 13) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, at page 247 of the Berkley paperback edition. |
2 |
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Picknett, Lynn in her “The Mammoth Book of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 100 (in Chapter 2) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
1 |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Beyond Explanation? : The Paranormal Experiences of Famous People” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 77-78 (in Chapter 6) of the TLC hardback edition. |
2 |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 89 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the Sterling softcover edition. |
1 |
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Ross, Hugh in “Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men” (2002) (edited by Ross, Hugh and Samples, Kenneth and Clark, Mark) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 71 (in Chapter 6) of the Navpress softcover edition. |
1 |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 211-212 of the Corgi softback edition in an entry entitled “National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)”. |
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Story, Ronald (including text of letter) in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 242-243 (in an entry entitled “NASA and UFOs”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
2 |
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Story, Ronald in his “UFOs and the Limits of Science” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 70 (in Chapter 3) of the NEL Hardback edition. |
1 |
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Sturrock, Peter in his “The UFO Enigma“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-61 (in Chapter 5) of the Warner Aspect hardback edition. |
2 |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Messengers of Deception : UFO Contacts and Cults” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 3-5 (in the Prologue) of the 1980 revised Bantam paperback edition. |
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Other Material
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