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"Project BETA" SETI search
During 1995, the “Billion-channel Extra-Terrestrial Array” (“Project BETA”) began operation under Paul Horowitz, using the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory.

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 Horowitz’s Project BETA see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1997

Ashpole, Edward in his “Where is Everybody?” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 81-82 (in Chapter 5) of the Sigma Press softcover edition.

2

1999

Clark, Andrew J H and Clark, David H in their “Aliens“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 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, 140 (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 pages 44-45 (in the entry entitled “BETA, Project”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition.

2

1991

Drake, Frank and Dava Sobel in their “Is Anyone Out There?“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 220 (in Chapter 10) of the Pocket Books paperback edition.

1

1999

Horowitz, Paul and William R Alschuler in “Are We Alone in the Cosmos” (1999) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 234-235 (in Chapter 6) of the ibooks softcover edition.

2

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 14-15 (in Chapter 2), 129 (in Chapter 8), 388 (in Appendix C, entitled “SETI Program Timeline”) of the O’Reilly hardback edition.

4

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 page 158 (in Chapter 7) of the Basic Books hardback edition.

1

1998

Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 167 (in Chapter 8) of the Berkeley Hills 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, 105 (in Chapter 4) of the Copernicus hardback edition.

2

1997

Wilkinson, David in his “Alone in the Universe?” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 69 (in Chapter 4) of the Monarch softcover edition.

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Other Material

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