surname beginning with b

• Bernal, John D
  

  John D Bernal

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• Bernard, Raymond
  

  Raymond Bernard

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  Books by this person include:

  YEAR	BOOK
  1964	Bernard, Raymond (pseudonym for Siegmeister, Walter) “The Hollow Earth” (1964) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)
  1966	Bernard, Raymond “Flying Saucers from the Earth’s Interior”

   

• Berry, Adrian
  

  Adrian Berry

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  Books by this person include:

  YEAR	BOOK
  1974	Berry, Adrian “The Next Ten Thousand Years”
  1980	Berry, Adrian “From Apes to Astronauts” (SETI:)
  1999	Berry, Adrian “The Giant Leap”

   

• Bethurum, Truman
  

  Truman Bethurum

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  Purported "Contactee".

  This individual’s purported contact is Case 36 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 62 of the books covered by that article. 

   

   

  Books by this person include:

  YEAR	BOOK
  1954	Bethurum, Truman “Aboard a Flying Saucer”

   

• Bielek, Al
  

  Al Bielek

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• Bigelow, Robert
  

  Robert Bigelow

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• Billingham, John
  

  John Billingham

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  Books by this person include:

  YEAR	BOOK
  1977	Morrison, Philip and Billingham, John and Wolfe, John “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : NASA Special Publication 419 (“NASA SP 419”)”. (SETI:)

   

• Binder, Otto
  

  Otto Binder

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  Books by this person include:

  YEAR	BOOK
  1967	Binder, Otto “What we really know about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)
  1968	Binder, Otto “Flying Saucers Are Watching Us” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)
  1974	Flindt, Max and Binder, Otto “Mankind – Child of the Stars” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK). (An expanded book based on Maz Flindt’s original pamphlet, “On Tiptoe Beyond Darwin”).

   

• Birnes, William
  

  Bill Birnes

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  Books by this person include:

  YEAR	BOOK
  1997	Corso, Philip J with Birnes, William “The Day After Roswell” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)
  2004	Birnes, William “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

   

• BIS
  

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  The British Interplanetary Society (“BIS”) has a web presence at:

  http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/

   

   

   

   

   

• Bishop, Greg
  

  Greg Bishop

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  Books by this person include:

  YEAR	BOOK
  2005	Bishop, Greg “Project BETA : The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK).

   

  As noted in Part 3 of Isaac Koi’s “Best UFO Cases” article (i.e. in the Part entitled Existing lists by various individuals), as part of a survey by the Fortean Times in 2007 of various researchers of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most, Greg Bishop refers to the following 10 cases in chronological order, prefaced with the statement that “I do not choose these from an evidentiary standpoint, they are simply personal favourites” (see Footnote 3.59).

  1. Flatwoods Monster – West Virginia, USA, 1952 (Case 38 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article).
  2. Kelly-Hopkinsville – Kentucky, USA, 1955 (Case 14 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article).
  3. Antonio Villas-Boas case – Brazil, 1957 (Case 7 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article).
  4. Along Pan-American highway, Chile, 1950s.
  5. Rex Heflin sighting and photos – Santa Ana, CA, USA, 1965 (Case 62 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article).
  6. Mothman Sightings – West Virginia, USA, 1966.
  7. Herbert Schirmer – Ashland, NB, USA, 1967 (Case 20 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article).
  8. Pascagoula Abduction – Mississippi, USA, 1973 (Case 9 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article).
  9. Scary Night – Thousand Oaks, CA, USA, 1975.
  10. Cash-Landrum Incident – Texas, USA, 1980 (Case 30 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article).

   

• Blackmore, Susan
  

  Susan Blackmore

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  During 1994, BBC 2 broadcast a Horizon episode devoted to alleged alien abductions, presented by Dr Susan Blackmore.

   

   

   

   

• Bloecher, Ted
  

  Ted Bloecher

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  Books by this person include:

  YEAR	BOOK
  1967	Bloecher, Ted “Report on the UFO Wave of 1947” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)
  1978	Bloecher, Ted and Davis, Isabel “Close Encounter at Kelly and others of 1955”

   

• Blum, Howard
  

  Howard Blum

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  Books by this person include:

  YEAR	BOOK
  1990	Blum, Howard “Out There“ (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

   

• Blumrich, Joseph F
  

  Joseph Blumrich

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  Books by this person include:

  YEAR	BOOK
  1974	Blumrich, Joseph F “The Spaceships of Ezekiel” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

   

• Bova, Ben
  

  Ben Bova

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  Books by this person include:

  YEAR	BOOK
  1977	Bova, Ben with Bell, Trudy (Ed) “Closeup: New Worlds”
  1981	Bova, Ben “The High Road” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)
  1990	Bova, Ben and Preiss, Byron (ed) “First Contact” (Later updated as "Are We Alone in the Cosmos?” (SETI:)
  1999	Bova, Ben and Preiss, Byron (ed) “Are we alone in the Cosmos?” (Update of “First Contact”) (SETI:)

   

• Bowen, Charles
  

  Charles Bowen

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  Books by this person include:

  YEAR	BOOK
  1969	Bowen, Charles (Ed.) “The Humanoids” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)
  1977	Bowen, Charles (ed) “Encounter Cases From Flying Saucer Review”

   

• Bowie, David
  

  David Bowie

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• Boyd, Lyle
  

  Lyle Boyd

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  Books by this person include:

  YEAR	BOOK
  1963	Menzel, Donald H and Boyd, Lyle “The World of Flying Saucers” (1963) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

   

• Boyd, Robert D
  

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  Books by this person include:

  YEAR	BOOK
  1988	Boyd, Robert D “International Who’s Who in Ufology Directory” (1988)