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On 9 September 1991, the Today newspaper published a story entitled “The Men Who Conned The World” on its front page about Doug Bower and Dave Chorley (commonly referred to as “Doug and Dave”) of Southampton, England and their claim that they had hoaxed crop circles. Asked by the Today newspaper about a crop circle (constructed by Doug and Dave whilst being recorded), Pat Delgado reportedly stated “In no way could this be a hoax. This is without doubt the most wonderful day of my life”.

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1992

Alnor, William M in his “UFO in the New Age” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 38 (in Chapter 2) of the Baker softcover edition.

1

2003

Andrews, Colin with Spignesi, Stephen J in their “Crop Circles: Signs of Contact” (2003) at pages 127, 128 (in Chapter 13), 156-157 (in Chapter 17), 179-180 (in Appendix A), 194 (in Appendix C) of the New Page softcover edition.

7

1999

Baker, Alan in his “The Encyclopaedia of Alien Encounters” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 59 (in an entry entitled “Crop Circles”) of the Virgin hardback edition.

1

2004

Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44-45 (in an entry entitled “Bower, Doug”) of the Pocket Books softcover edition.

2

2005

Brennan, Herbie in his “The Aliens Handbook” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 40-41 (in Chapter 7) of the Faber and Faber softcover edition.

2

1992

Collins, Andrew in his “The Circlemakers: A Revolutionary New Vision” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 232-236 (in Chapter 21), 240-241 (in Chapter 22) of the ABC softcover edition.

7

1999

Coomer, David in his “The UFO Investigator’s Guide” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 131, 132 (in Chapter 10) of the Blandford softback edition.

2

1996

Craft, Michael in his “Alien Impact” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 183 (in Chapter 9) of the St Martin’s Paperbacks paperback edition.

1

1997

Dash, Mike in his “Borderlands” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 283-285 (in Chapter 8) of the Arrow paperback edition.

3

1989

Delgado, Pat in his “Crop Circles: Conclusive Evidence” (1989) at pages 124-125 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Study of Hoaxing”) of the Bloomsbury hardback edition.

2

1997

Devereux, Paul and Brookesmith, Peter in their “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 69-70, 72 (in Chapter 5) of the Blandford softcover edition.

3

1997

Emmons, Charles F in his “At The Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 90-91 (in Chapter 5) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition.

2

1998

Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 289 (in Section 4) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition.

1

1994

Frissell, Bob in his “Nothing in this book is true, but it's exactly how things are” (1994) at page 9 (in Chapter 2) of the Frog softcover edition.

1

1996

Hesemann, Michael in his “The Cosmic Connection” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 4 (in the Foreword), 39-44 (in Chapter 4), 144 (in Chapter 14), 151-152 (in Chapter 15), 158 (in Chapter 16) of the Gateway Books softcover edition.

11

1995

Hoggart, Simon & Hutchinson, Mike in their “Bizarre Beliefs” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 54, 57 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Crop Circles”) of the Richard Cohen Books softcover edition.

2

1998

King, Jon in his “Cosmic Top Secret” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 255, 272-273, 276-277 (in the chapter entitled “Document 07”, “File 27” and “File 28”) of the NEL paperback edition.

5

1997

Larson, Bob in his “UFOs and the Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 99, 102 (in Chapter 6) of the Nelson softcover edition.

2

1997

Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 281-287 (in Chapter 10), 309-310 (in Chapter 11) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

9

1992

Nickell, Joe and Fischer, John F in their “Mysterious Realms” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 201-202 (in Chapter 11) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

2

2001

Picknett, Lynn in her “The Mammoth Book of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 259, 260 (in Chapter 4) of the Robinson softcover edition.

2

1996

Pope, Nick in his “Open Skies, Closed Minds” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 100-101 (in Chapter 5) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition.

2

1997

Pope, Nick in his “The Uninvited” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 247 (in Chapter 15) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition.

1

2002

Presley, Reg in his “Wild Things (They Don’t Tell Us)” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 54-55 (in Chapter 3), 268 (in Chapter 18) of the Metro hardback edition.

3

1995

Randi, James in his “An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 60 (in the entry entitled “Crop Circles”) of the St Martin’s Press hardback edition.

1

1995

Randi, James in his “The Supernatural A-Z: The Truth and the Lies” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 80 (in the entry entitled “crop circles”) of the Brockhampton Press hardback edition.

1

1995

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Encyclopedia of the Unexplained” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Supernatural Earth”) of the Brockhampton hardback edition.

1

1994

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 295-296, 297 (in Chapter 26) of the Piatkus softcover edition.

3

2001

Randles, Jenny in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 147 (in an entry entitled “Crop Circles”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 144-145 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

1

2001

Randles, Jenny in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 177 (in an entry entitled “Crop Circles”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

1

1996

Randles, Jenny in her “The Paranormal Source Book” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 58-59, 64, 65 (in the unnumbered, but alphabetically arranged, chapter entitled “Crop Circles”) of the Piatkus hardback edition.

4

1994

Randles, Jenny in her “The Unexplained: Great Mysteries of the 20th Century” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 128-129 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The 1990s”) of the Index hardback edition.

2

1997

Sagan, Carl in his “The Demon Haunted World” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74-75 (in Chapter 4) of the Headline softcover edition.

2

1993

Schnabel, Jim in his “Round in Circles” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 260-266 (in Chapter 22), 267-277 (Chapter 23 generally), 278, 293 (in the Epilogue) of the Hamish Hamilton hardback edition.

20

1997

Sellier, Charles E and Meier, Joe in their “UFO” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 198, 199, 200 (in Chapter 11) of the Contemporary Books hardback edition.

3

1997

Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 141 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1987-1997”) of the Boxtree hardback edition.

1

1997

Talaraski, Chris in “Making Contact” (1997) (edited by Bill Fawcett) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 329 (in Section 4) of the Morrow hardback edition.

1

2004

Tonnies, Mac in his “After the Martian Apocalypse” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 136 (in Chapter 5) of the Paraview Pocket Books softcover edition.

1

1997

Tutt, Keith in his “True Life Encounters : Unexplained Natural Phenomena” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 281-282 (in Chapter 3) of the Millenium paperback edition.

2

1998

Wilson, Colin in his “Alien Dawn” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-37, 48, 53 (in Chapter 2) of the Virgin softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Virgin paperback edition).

4

 

Other Material

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