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Robert Forward

proposed using a lightsail in his article “Pluto - the Gateway to the Stars” in April

1962

issue of the magazine “Missiles and Rockets”. The article was reprinted in “Science Digest” in

1962

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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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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 focused on providing tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables of references to discussion in books 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. I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.

For discussion of lightsails, solarsails, and/or lasersails see the following:

Year	Discussion by:	No. of Pages
1999	Achenbach, Joel in his “Captured by Aliens” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 151-152 (in Chapter 14), 244 (in Chapter 24) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition.	3
2001	Alschuler, William in his “The Science of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-66 (in Chapter 3) of the St Martin’s Press hardback edition.	7
1985	Angelo, Joseph A in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia: Man’s Search for Life in Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 171 (in the entry entitled “solar sail”) of the revised 1991 Fact on File hardback edition.	1
1989	Ashpole, Edward in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence”(1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 111 (in Chapter 6) of the Blandford softcover edition.	1
1979	Asimov, Isaac in his “Extraterrestrial Civilizations” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 227 (in Chapter 12) of the Crown hardback edition, at pages 257-258 of the Pan paperback edition.	1
1978	Atkins, Ken in “Worlds Beyond” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (edited by Larry Geis and Fabrice Florin) at pages 151-152 (in Sequence 16) of the And/Or softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Perennial Library paperback edition published under the title “Moving Into Space: The Myths and Realities of Extraterrestrial Life”).	2
1999	Berry, Adrian in his “The Giant Leap” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 142-145 (in Chapter 11) of the revised Headline softcover edition.	4
2000	Clark, Stuart in his “Life on Other Worlds and How to Find It” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 150 (in Chapter 11) of the Springer hardback edition.
1993	Clarke, Arthur C in his “By Space Possessed” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 48 (in Chapter 4) of the Victor Gollancz hardback edition.	1
1982	Crawford, Ian A in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 56-60 (in Chapter 8) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. The relevant chapter is a revised and abridged version of an article published under the title “Interstellar Travel: A Review for Astronomers” in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 31 (1990) at pages 377-400. The text of that article is available free online at: http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~iac/isflight/isflight.html	5
1982	Dyson, Freeman in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 45 (in Chapter 7) of the Cambridge softcover second edition.	1
1982	Dyson, Freeman in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 45 (in Chapter 7) of the Cambridge softcover second edition.	1
1979	Dyson, Freeman in his “Disturbing the Universe” (1979) at pages 115-116 (in Chapter 10), 267 (in the Bibliographical Notes) of the Harper & Row hardback edition.	3
2001	Goodwin, Simon with Gribbin, John in their “XTL” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 177, 178-179, 181 (in Chapter 5) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson softcover edition.	4
2001	Harrison, Albert A in his “Spacefaring : The Human Dimension” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 245-246 (in Chapter 14) of the California softcover edition.	2
1995	Heidmann, Jean in his “Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 122-124 (in Chapter 7) of the Cambridge hardback edition.	3
2000	Koerner, David & LeVay, Simon in their “Here Be Dragons” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 180 (in Chapter 7) of the Oxford softcover edition.	1
1989	Mallove, Eugene F and Matloff, Gregory L in their “The Starflight Handbook” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 71-87 (in Chapter 5), 88-105 (in Chapter 6 generally) of the Wiley hardback edition.	35
1989	Mallove, Eugene F and Matloff, Gregory L in their “The Starflight Handbook” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14 (in Chapter 1), 71-83 (in Chapter 5), 155 (in Chapter 10) of the Wiley hardback edition.	15
1987	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 178-181 (in Chapter 13) of the Wiley softcover edition.	4
1988	Nicolson, Iain in his “The Road to the Stars” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 76-78 (in Chapter 5), 134-136 (in Chapter 7) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.	6
1971	Oliver, Bernard and Billingham, John et al in “Project Cyclops: A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life : NASA Contractor Report 114445 (“NASA CR 114445”)” (1971) (edited by Oliver, Bernard and Billingham, John) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 34 (in Chapter 4) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration softcover edition.	1
1998	Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 208-209 (in Chapter 11) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition.	2
1981	Powers, Robert M in his “The Coattails of God: The Trip to the Stars” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 52 (in Chapter 3) of the Warner paperback edition.	1
1973	Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 59 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Hello, Out There”) of the Berkley paperback edition.	1
1998	Swords, Michael D in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Volume 1:A-K at page 370 (in an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial Hypthothesis and Science”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.	1
2002	Webb, Stephen in his “Where is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 66 (in Chapter 4), 253 (in the Notes and Further Reading) of the Copernicus hardback edition.	2
1977	Wolfe, John in “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : NASA Special Publication 419 (“NASA SP 419”)” (1977) (edited by Morrison, Philip and Billingham, John and Wolfe, John) at page 72 (in Section 3, in Complementary Document 1) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration softcover edition. Text of relevant report available free online at: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-419/contents.htm	1
1999	Zubrin, Robert in his “Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 201-204 (in Chapter 9) of the Tarcher Putnam hardback edition.	4

Other Material

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