Web Resources
Credits and other details included in the Internet Movie Database (imdb) entry online at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/
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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 the movie and/or the novel “Contact” see the following:
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Achenbach, Joel in his “Captured by Aliens” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 151 (in Chapter 14), 278, 285 (in Chapter 28), 292-295 (in Chapter 30) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition. |
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Barkun, Michael in his “A Culture of Conspiracy : Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page ix (in the Preface) of the California hardback edition. |
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Benjamin, Marina in her “Rocket Dreams” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 202, 203, 214-219 (in Chapter 6) of the Chatto & Windus hardback edition. |
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Berry, Adrian in his “The Giant Leap” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 162-163, 164 (in Chapter 13) of the revised Headline softcover edition. |
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Clark, Stuart in his “Life on Other Worlds and How to Find It” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 1 (in Chapter 1) of the Springer hardback edition. |
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Cohen, Jack and Stewart, Ian in their “Evolving the Alien” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 118-119 (in Chapter 6) of the Ebury Press hardback edition. |
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Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Contact”. The relevant entry is available online at: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/C/Contact.html |
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Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 342, 349-352 (in Chapter 14), 355 (in Chapter 15), 399-411 (in Chapter 17), 422-425 (in Chapter 18), 482, 484, 493, 499 (in the Notes) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Davies, Paul in his “Are we Alone?“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 89 (in Chapter 6) of the Penguin paperback edition. |
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Davis, Erik in his “TechGnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 277 (in Chapter 8) of the Serpents Tail softcover edition. |
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Drake, Frank and Sobel, Dava in their “Is Anyone Out There?“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 153 of the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
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Harris, Paola in her “How does one speak to a ball of light?” (2007) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 91-92 (in Section 2) of the Author House softcover edition. |
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Koerner, David & LeVay, Simon in their “Here Be Dragons” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 160, 170 (in Chapter 7) of the Oxford softcover edition. |
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Larson, Bob in his “UFOs and the Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 67 (in Chapter 4) of the Nelson softcover edition. |
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Lemonick, Michael in his “Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 241 (in Chapter 13) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Simon & Schuster softcover edition). |
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Mack, John E in his “Passport to the Cosmos” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 (in Chapter 1) of the Thorsons softcover edition. |
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Mannion, Michael in his “Project Mindshift” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 190-191 (in Chapter 6) of the Evans hardback edition. |
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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 page 51 (in Chapter 3) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Pickover, Clifford in his “The Science of Aliens” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 157-158 (in Chapter 7) of the Basic Books hardback edition. |
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Poundstone, William in his “Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 267-269 (in the chapter entitled “Los Angeles 1978- |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Alien Contact – The First Fifty Years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 138 (in the chapter entitled “1997”) of the Collins and Brown hardback edition. |
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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 page 36 (in Chapter 2) of the Harvest House softcover edition. |
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Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 2, 3, 10 (in Chapter 1), 162, 169 (in Chapter 8) of the Berkeley Hills softcover edition. |
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Tonnies, Mac in his “After the Martian Apocalypse” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 102-103, 107-109 (in Chapter 4) of the Paraview Pocket Books softcover edition. |
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Webb, Stephen in his “Where is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 69 (in Chapter 4), 253 (in the Notes and Further Reading) of the Copernicus hardback edition. |
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White, Frank in his “The SETI Factor” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 53 (in Chapter 5) of the Walker hardback edition. |
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White, Michael in his “Life Out There” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 161 (in Chapter 8) of the Little, Brown & Co hardback edition. |
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Wilkinson, David in his “Alone in the Universe?” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 63-64 (in Chapter 4) of the Monarch softcover edition. |
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Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 228 (in Chapter 12) of the St Martin’s Press softcover edition. |
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Other Material
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