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Project META begins
On 29 September 1985, the Project META (the “Megachannel ExtraTerrestrial Assay”) all-sky SETI search begins. Conducted by the Harvard SETI group until 1994.

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

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 META see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1999

Achenbach, Joel in his “Captured by Aliens” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 366-367 (in Chapter 36), 397 (in the Notes) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition.

3

1999

Clark, Andrew J H and Clark, David H in their “Aliens“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 79-80 (in Chapter 2) of the Fromm hardback edition.

2

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 137, 139 (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 page 271 (in the entry entitled “META, Project”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition.

1

1991

Drake, Frank and Dava Sobel in their “Is Anyone Out There?“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 219-221 (in Chapter 10) of the Pocket Books paperback edition.

3

2001

Goodwin, Simon with John Gribbin in their “XTL” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 172-173 (in Chapter 5) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson softcover edition.

2

1995

Heidmann, Jean in his “Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 163-164 (in Chapter 10) of the Cambridge 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 401, 414 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Paul Horowitz”) of the Arizona hardback edition.

2

2001

Lamb, David in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : A Philosophical Inquiry” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 18 (in Chapter 1) of the Routledge softcover edition.

1

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 pages 387-388 (in Appendix C, entitled “SETI Program Timeline”) of the O’Reilly hardback edition.

2

1987

McDonough, Thomas R in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Listening for Life in the Cosmos” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 161-168 (in Chapter 12) of the Wiley softcover edition.

8

1997

Missler, Chuck and Eastman, Mark in their “Alien Encounters: The Secret behind the UFO Phenomenon” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-23 (in Chapter 1) of the Koinonia House softcover edition.

2

1998

Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 183 (in Chapter 10) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition.

1

1998

Pickover, Clifford in his “The Science of Aliens” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 158-159 (in Chapter 7) of the Basic Books hardback edition.

2

1999

Poundstone, William in his “Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 327-328, 349-351, 352 (in the chapter entitled “Ithaca 1981-95”), 385, 386-387 (in the Afterword) of the Owl Books softcover edition.

9

1998

Rhodes, Ron in his “Alien Obsession: What Lies Behind Abductions, Sightings and the Attraction to the Paranormal” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 31-32 (in Chapter 2) of the Harvest House softcover edition.

2

1994

Sagan, Carl in his “Pale Blue Dot” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 355-362, 364 (in Chapter 20) of the Random House softcover edition.

9

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 page 401 (in Appendix L, entitled “Archive of SETI Searches”) of the SETI Press softcover edition.

1

2002

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 (in Chapter 4), 259 (in the Notes and Further Reading) of the Copernicus hardback edition.

2

1990

White, Frank in his “The SETI Factor” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 56-57, 61 (in Chapter 5) of the Walker hardback edition.

3

 

Other Material

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