On this site, you will find a list of books and magazines about UFOs and related subjects that are part of my collection.
For each book and magazine, publication details and cover images are provided. For many books and magazines, the table of contents is also included. If a digital version of the publication exists, a link to download it is provided. (Digital versions are NOT downloadable from the site).
Leo R. SPRINKLE, Personal and Scientific Attitudes. A Study of Persons interested in UFO Reports pp.6-10 FLYING SAUCER REVIEW Special Issue N. 2 June 1969
Leo R. SPRINKLE, Psychic Impressions of UFO percipients based upon a survey by Dr. Leo Sprinkle of the University of Wyoming pp.23-24 ANOMALY N. 2 September 1969
Leo R. SPRINKLE, Book review: Culling contemporary cults: a review of the book by Ellwood, R. S., Jr. Religious
and spiritual groups in modern America. pp.8-9 THE A.P.R.O. BULLETIN Vol. 22 N. 3 November-December 1973
Leo R. SPRINKLE, Contact with occupants on Oct. 25, 1974, reported. Rawlins, Wyoming, case a puzzle to investigators pp.10-11 Skylook The UFO Monthly No 85 December 1974
Leo R. SPRINKLE, A preliminary report on the investigation of an alleged UFO occupant encounter pp.3-5 Flying Saucer Review Vol. 21 N. 3/4 November 1975
Leo R. SPRINKLE, UFOLOGISTS MEET THE SOCIAL SCIENTISTS: WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF UFO EXPERIENCES? pp.19-20 International UFO Reporter Volume 3 number 10/11 Ocober/November 1978
John S. DERR, Leo R. SPRINKLE, Multiple Phenomena on Colorado Ranch. Report on the Investigation of UFO Experiences on a Rocky Mountain Ranch pp.5-8 THE A.P.R.O. BULLETIN Vol. 27 N. 1 July 1978
John S. DERR, Leo R. SPRINKLE, Multiple Phenomena on Colorado Ranch (PART TWO). Report on the Investigation of UFO Experiences on a Rocky Mountain Ranch pp.7-8 THE A.P.R.O. BULLETIN Vol. 27 N. 2 August 1978
John S. DERR, Leo R. SPRINKLE, Multiple Phenomena on Colorado Ranch (Part Three). Report on the Investigation of UFO Experiences on a Rocky Mountain Ranch pp.6-8 THE A.P.R.O. BULLETIN Vol. 27 N. 3 September 1978
John S. DERR, Leo R. SPRINKLE, Multiple Phenomena on Colorado Ranch (PART FOUR). Report on the Investigation of UFO Experiences on a Rocky Mountain Ranch pp.5-8 THE A.P.R.O. BULLETIN Vol. 27 N. 4 October 1978
A preliminary report on the investigation of an alleged UFO occupant encounter
3-5
Appendix to the preliminary report on Carl Higdon
5-7
Jacques VALLÉE, Claude PHOER
Basic patterns in UFO observations A paper given at the 1975 Meeting of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) at Pasadena, California
8-13
Gordon CREIGHTON
The car that turned transparent
14-15
Oscar A. GALÍNDEZ
The anthropomorphic phenomena at Santa Isabel Part 2
Essay on the Possible Correlazion Between the Geographical Distribution and the Directions of UFOs Based on the Spanish Wave of 1968-1969
13-34
Abstract: A study of the frequency of occurrences and distribution of the flight directions of UFOs during the Spanish wave of 1968-1969 shows that, when the three parameters of direction, course, and frequency of occurrence of said direction, are considered as vectors, the resultant sum of these vectors indicates precisely the centers of maximum UFO information: that of aerial observations (NE Spain), when considering the directions in which the objects were seen to appear; and that of Type I cases (SW Spain), when considering the directions in which they where seen to disappear.
Some subsequent considerations show that the line which joins both centers of information, NE-SW, seems to play an important part in the development of the geographical location of the sightings of the wave.
PSYCHOLOGICAL and PERCEPTIVE ASPECTS
Richard F. HAINES
UFO Apparence Recognition and Identification Test Procedure
39-54
Leo R. SPRINKLE
UFO Activity: Cosmic Consciousness Conditioning?
55-62
Abstract: This paper describes a possible approach to the study of UFO reports: a tentative set of hypotheses which may explains the 'physical', 'biological', 'psycho-social', and 'spiritual' implications of UFO phenomena. UFO reports are considered in light of the hypothesis that the UFO experience tends to increase the level of cosmic consciousness of the UFO witness. Also, the emerging pattern of UFO reports is compared with the views of persons who claims to have obtained prophetic visions of events which are to occur during the next twenty-five years.
EPISTEMOLOGY of the RESEARCH
Ernst BERGER
Are UFOs Poisson-Distribuited?
65-71
Abstract: This paper introduces a new concept in the study of UFO waves. Little has been done with the abundant wave data of the past. The POISSON distribution, a statistical distribution for random and rare occurrences, is explained and applied to the author's data on the 1954 fall wave at Austria. It is shown that the 94 cases reported in the 12 week-period are not related in a casual sense and therefore no 'outside driving force', but a heavy publicistic amplification effect on the reporting of new cases is likely to have produced the 'wave' structure. As the POISSON concept may shake several other 'wave' structures at closer examination, general effects of this Austrian result and possible further tests on the validity of the concept are discussed.
Roberto DORETTI, Roberto FARABONE
A Statistical Approach to the UFO Basic Data for the Institution of an "Recognition Filter"
72-105
Abstract: This paper aims to show a new statistical method to process data interesting UFO research. Mainly it is shown how one can gather data referring to the same set of phenomena or similar type objects, out of the spread-out group of UFO reports. All this will be obtained through the analysis of statistical relations shown by the different sets of data under quantitative aspects through the analysis of correlation coefficients among one sight and the other ones. After a theoretical explanation we will present an easy example which may show in practice to implement such a research. Anyway this example refers to a real situation, even if the set of data is not a very large one, but which is a typical and frequent case. The most important conclusion drawn which appears from this numerical set, the 'filter', in fact allows to recognize the phenomenon besides imprecision and randomness of the gathered data.
Call for Papers
107
Letters to the Editors
Frank B. SALISBURY
Biology and CE III: Raising the Debate
109-110
Roberto FARABONE
The Problem of Terminology
110-111
UFO Research in Italy
111-112
Book Reviews
Michael L. BROYLES
Ufology
113-114
Writing Scientific Papers in English
114-115
Michael L. BROYLES
Quarter Century Studies of UFO's in Florida North Carolina and Tennessee
115
Periodical Publications in UFO Area
116
Francesco IZZO
State of Art?
117-118
Acknowledgements
118
UFO PHENOMENA an international annual review devoted to the scientific study of ufo phenomena VOL. II N. 1 1977 Editecs, Bologna
A comparative analysis of 62 "solid light" beam cases
11-50
Abstract: Witnesses of UFO related events have repeatedly mentioned the fact that the anomalous objects observed by them emitted one or several solid looking, slowly propagating light beams ('solid light' beams).
A comparative analysis of 62 cases of this type is presented. It is shown that the characteristic of 'solid light' beams are remarkably constant: uniform luminosity; sharply defined edges; low propagation velocity; conical or cylindrical shape; and (sometimes) propagation along a curved path.
GATHERING and PROCESSING of DATA
Ernst BERGER
Austrian UFO Patterns
53-89
Abstract: 54 sporadic and 31 local flap reports (on a total of 127 objects/phenomena), 56 of them investigated personally at their original sites by the author, are compared statistically. The first data set consists of cases all over Austria reported by 89 observers during 5 years; the second one is from Traunstein area of Lower Austria with 34 local witnesses (13 reporting) and three years of sightings. The data are similar with regard to time of day, duration, number of objects, shape, size and motion of the phenomenon, but other observed characteristics show deviations. Austrian UFO patterns are extracted and compared with the results of statistical studies by HANSEN, POHER and VALLEE.
The "CE III"
Claude RIFAT
In the Locus Coeruleus, an important anatomical center of the brain, involved in the most bizarre aspects of UFO Report? The induced dream hypothesis
93-120
Abstract: This paper deals with an hypothesis, first proposed by Guérin, which might help in appraising the weird content of UFO reports defined as 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' by Hynek.
The Locus Coeruleus is a small but very important part of the mammalian brains: it would be the inducing mechanism of what we call 'dreaming'. The author suggests that UFOs seen at a close range, and in which the so-called occupants are 'sighted', interfere with the normal functioning of the brain in the waking state by acting on the Locus Coeruleus. The most important conclusion of this work is that UFO reports of that type do not give us any indication on the true stimulus which elicited the report; they give us only what the subject fancies about the nature of a UFO.
If we consider these puzzling reports from this vantage point, a better understanding of bizarre events associated to those occurrences might result. Close Encounters of the Third Kind are LSD-like experiences in which a subject perceives a mixture of the real world and of her/his inner unconscious one.
PSYCHOLOGICAL and PERCEPTIVE ASPECTS
Richard F. HAINES
UFO drawings by witnesses and non witnesses: Is there something in common?
Abstract: This paper describes the results of two separate efforts: (1) administration of a specially prepared UFO drawing 'test' to several groups of alleged UFO eye witnesses and non-witnesses, and (2) a relatively comprehensive review of the published UFO literature containing drawings of UFOs by eye witnesses. This was done in order to determine whether or not any differences might be found between the drawings of the two groups in terms of such features as the UFO's width to height ratio, amount and kind of surface detail, presence or absence of other (environmental) scene detail, and other readily quantifiable information. A second and equally important objective was to allow for the development of a UFO Appearance Recognition and Identification Test Procedure which has appeared in the first issue of this journal (Vol.1, no. 1, 1976). It was found that there are not any readily discernable differences between the eye witnesses and the non eye witnesses UFO drawing on the above features. While this evidence does not prove that the two participant groups come from the same population sample or that all UFO witnesses may be merely portraying (through their drawing) a commonly held social stereotype image of what UFOs are supposed to look like, the evidence could be interpreted this way. Another tentative hypothesis raised from these findings is that almost everyone (eye witnesses and non eye witnesses alike) has seen a drawing, photograph, movie, etc. of a UFO at some time in the past (in distinction to having seen an actual UFO) which might account for the similarities between these two sets of drawings. The paper concludes with illustrations of the most common UFO shapes along with their perspective shape/detail codes derived from the previously published paper (referenced above).
EPISTEMOLOGY of the RESEARCH
Luis SCHÖNHERR
The present situation of UFO Research?
155-173
Abstract: This paper compares the present situation of UFO research with the phase in the development and in the structure of a scientific discipline in general. Some of the problems of documentation as well as of the interpretation of UFO reports are touched. Special attention is given to the question of disinformation (if we are to assume that the UFO phenomenon is a manifestation of some unknown intelligence). The necessity of a thesaurus for all UFO-related qualities is stressed and the main advantages of a proposed 'unlimited' machine readable UFO data base are demonstrated. Finally this paper discusses the possible meaning of the prevalence of the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) in UFO research: Does this hypothesis constitute a methodologically feasible tool or is merely an indication, that UFO research is partly still in a pre-scientific phase?
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