On 25 July 1990, Colin Andrews claims in a BBC interview that the members of a cropcircle watch called “Operation Blackbird” had recorded “a major event” the previous night at Bratton, England. Several hours later he accepted that the relevant circle was “an obvious hoax”, claiming that he had earlier suspected this to have been the case.

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 “Operation Blackbird” and related events see the following:

 

Year	Discussion by:	No. of Pages
2003	Andrews, Colin with Spignesi, Stephen J in their “Crop Circles: Signs of Contact” (2003) at pages 131-135, 137 (in Chapter 14) of the New Page softcover edition.	6
1992	Collins, Andrew in his “The Circlemakers: A Revolutionary New Vision” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 50 (in Chapter 6) of the ABC softcover edition.	1
1996	Craft, Michael in his “Alien Impact” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 182-183 (in Chapter 9) of the St Martin’s Paperbacks paperback edition.	2
1996	Hesemann, Michael in his “The Cosmic Connection” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 26-27 (in Chapter 2), 28-30, 33 (in Chapter 3) of the Gateway Books softcover edition.	6
1998	King, Jon in his “Cosmic Top Secret” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 223-241 (in the chapter entitled “Document 06”, “File 25”), 273-275, 278 (in the chapter entitled “Document 07”, “File 28”) of the NEL paperback edition.	23
1992	Nickell, Joe and Fischer, John F in their “Mysterious Realms” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 194-195 (in Chapter 11) of the Prometheus hardback edition.	2
1990	Noyes, Ralph in “The Crop Circle Enigma” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (edited by Ralph Noyes) at page 29 (in the Introduction) of the revised Gateway softcover edition.	1
1995	Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Encyclopedia of the Unexplained” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 26-27 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Supernatural Earth”) of the Brockhampton hardback edition.	2
1993	Schnabel, Jim in his “Round in Circles” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 164-169 (Chapter 17 generally), 170-174 (in Chapter 18) of the Hamish Hamilton hardback edition.	11
1990	Wingfield, George in “The Crop Circle Enigma” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (edited by Ralph Noyes) at page 100 (in Part 2, unnumbered chapter entitled “Beyond the Current Paradigms”) of the revised Gateway softcover edition.	1
1990	Wingfield, George in “The Crop Circle Enigma” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 188 (in Part 4, unnumbered chapter entitled “Epilogue: What Happened in 1990”) of the revised Gateway softcover edition.	1
1991	Wingfield, George in “The UFO Report 1992” (1991) (edited by Timothy Good) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 6-14 (in Chapter 1) of the Sidgwick & Jackson softcover edition.	9

 

Other Material

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