Heard, Gerald “The Riddle of the Flying Saucers”


 

Brief review to be added of Gerald Heard's book “The Riddle of the Flying Saucers” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK). Also published as “Is Another World Watching?”.

 

 

 

 

 

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

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Book References

For discussion of Gerald Heard’s book see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1998

Bartholomew, Robert E and Howard, George S in their “UFOs and Alien Contact” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 193 (in Chapter 9) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

1

2001

Bennett, Colin in his “Looking for Orthon” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 64 (in Chapter 4) of the Paraview softcover edition.

1

1967

Chambers, Howard in his “UFOs for the millions” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 110 (in Chapter 8) of the Bell hardcover edition.

1

1997

Clark, Jerome in “UFO: 1947-1997” (1997) (edited by Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 75-76 of the John Brown hardback edition (Section entitled “The 1950s”, unnumbered chapter entitled “Meeting the Extraterrestrials: How the ETH was Invented”).

2

2000

Clark, Jerome in his “Extraordinary Encounters : An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 166 (in an entry entitled “Martian bees”) of the ABC-Clio hardback edition.

1

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 380 (in an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial Hypothesis and Ufology” at pages 374-393) of Volume 1:A-K of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

1

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 206-207 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition in an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial Hypothesis and Ufology”.

2

2007

Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Flying Saucerers : A social history of UFOlogy” (2007) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-23 (in Chapter 2) of the Alternative Albion softcover edition.

2

1997

Dash, Mike in his “Borderlands” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 154 (in Chapter 4) of the Arrow paperback edition.

1

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 page 27 (in Chapter 2) of the Blandford softcover edition.

1

1964

Drake, W Raymond in his “Messengers From the Stars” (1964) (Formerly “Gods or Spacemen?”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 78-79 (in Chapter 5) of the Sphere paperback edition.

2

2001

Fitzgerald, Randall in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 272-273 (in an entry entitled “Is Another World Watching?”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 266-267 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

2

2001

Fitzgerald, Randall in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 329 (in an entry entitled “Is Another World Watching?”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

1

1998

Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 98-99 (in Section 2) with a one sentence summary at page 369 (in the Guide To Books) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition.

2

1957

Gardner, Martin in his “Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science” (1957) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 65-66 (in Chapter 5) of the Dover softcover edition.

2

1955

Girvan, Waveney in his “Flying Saucers and Common Sense” (1955) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 8 (in the Introduction), 49-52 (in Chapter 4), 56-60, 67-68, 70-74 (in Chapter 5), 75 and 80-81 (in Chapter 6) of the Frederick Muller hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Citadel hardback edition).

20

1996

Hamilton, William F in his “Alien Magic: UFO Crashes, Abductions, Underground Bases” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 113 (in Chapter 10) of the Global Communications softcover edition.

1

1965

Holledge, James in his “Flying Saucers over Australia” (1965) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 37-39 (in Chapter 4) of the Horwitz paperback edition.

3

1970

Keel, John A in his “UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 38 (in Chapter 2) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Abacus softcover edition).

1

1994

Keith, Jim in his “Casebook on Alternative 3” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 157 (in Chapter 21) of the I-Net softcover edition.

1

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 90 of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 110 of the Berkley paperback edition (Chapter 6, “The Robertson Panel” – in part of the section entitled “ ‘Flying Saucers from Outer Space”).

1

1997

Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ in their “Faces of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 83 (in Part 2) of the Fireside softcover edition.

1

1996

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “50 Years of UFO Encounters” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 18 (in unnumbered section entitled “1950: Cosmic Conspiracy”) of the Encounters Magazine softcover edition.

1

1990

Randles, Jenny in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 1 – UFOs in the 1980s” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 28 (in an entry entitled “British Ufology”) of the Apogee hardback edition.

1

1997

Sagan, Carl in his “The Demon Haunted World” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 105-106 (in Chapter 6) of the Headline softcover edition.

2

1974

Sladek, John in his “The New Apocrypha” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 35 (in Chapter 2) of the Panther paperback edition.

1

1997

Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1947-1957”) of the Boxtree hardback edition.

1

1966

Stanton, L Jerome in his “Flying Saucers : Hoax or Reality?” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 87-89 (in Chapter 5) of the Belmont paperback edition.

3

1997

Taylor, Philip in his article “The Mystic and the Spy: Two early British UFO writers” in Magonia, Issue 61, November 1997 (1997). The relevant article is available online at: http://www.magonia.demon.co.uk/arc/90/mysticspy.html

1

1994

Vesco, Renato and Childress, David Hatcher in their “Man Made UFOs 1944-1994 – 50 Years of Suppression” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 49 (in Chapter 2) of the AUP softcover edition.

1

1971

Vesco, Renato in his “Intercept Ufo” (Formerly published as “Intercept - But Don't Shoot”) (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 34, 49 (in Chapter 2) of the Zebra paperback edition.

2

1988

Wilson, Clifford in his “The Alien Agenda” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 99-100 (in Chapter 9) of the Signet paperback edition.

2

1974

Wilson, Clifford in his “UFOs and Their Mission Impossible” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 99-100 (in Chapter 9) of the Signet paperback edition.

2

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