Durinh April 1983, the first “Contact Conference” organised by Jim Funaro to encourage interdisciplinary speculation about what lies ahead as we enter the space age. The main event was a Cultures Of The Imagination (“COTI”) experiment, in which participants design an integrated world, alien and its way of life, and simulate contact with a future human society.

 

 

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Background article by Jim Funaro available online on the Contact Conference website at:

http://www.contact-conference.com/archive/history.html

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

 

Year	Discussion by:	No. of Pages
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 29-30 (in Chapter 2) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition.	2
1990	White, Frank in his “The SETI Factor” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 107-110 (in Chapter 7), 145-148 (in Chapter 9) of the Walker hardback edition.	8

 

Other Material

Please use the comments section below to share references to any particularly interesting relevant articles.