During 1971, a design study for Project Cyclops was prepared, co-directed by Bernard Oliver and John Billingham.
“Project Cyclops : A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life : NASA Contractor Report 114445 (“NASA CR
Web Resources
Extracts of Project Cyclops available online at:
http://www.coseti.org/cyclops.htm
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Book References
For discussion of Project Cyclops see the following:
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Abell, George in “Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence : The First Encounter” (1976) (edited by James L Christian) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 68 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Search for Life Beyond Earth : A Scientific Update”) of the Prometheus Books softcover edition. |
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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 pages 138-139 (in the entry entitled “Project Cyclops”) of the revised 1991 Fact on File hardback edition. |
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Ashpole, Edward in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence”(1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 79 (in Chapter 4) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Asimov, Isaac in his “Extraterrestrial Civilizations” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 261-262 (in Chapter 13) of the Crown hardback edition, at page 296-297 of the Pan paperback edition. |
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Ball, Brian in his “A Young Person’s Guide to UFOs” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 64 (in Chapter 6) of the Dragon paperback edition. |
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Benjamin, |
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Berendzen, Richard in NASA Special Publication 328 (NASA SP-328) entitled “Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man” (1973) (edited by Richard Berendzen) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 47-48 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Berendzen”) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration softcover edition. |
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Billingham, John in “Worlds Beyond” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (edited by Larry Geis and Fabrice Florin) at pages 162-164, 165-166 (in Sequence 18) 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”). |
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Billingham, John in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 252-254 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “John Billingham”) of the Arizona hardback edition. |
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Boyce, Chris in his Extraterrestrial Encounter (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 91-92 (in Chapter 6) of the David & Charles hardback edition, at page 83 of the 1980 revised NEL paperback edition. |
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Bracewell, Ronald in his “The Galactic Club” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41-47 (in Chapter 5 generally), 49-50 (in Chapter 6), 132 (in the Reader's Guide) of the Heinemann softcover edition. |
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Bracewell, Ronald N in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 144-145 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Ronald N Bracewell”) of the Arizona hardback edition. |
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Clark, Andrew J H and Clark, David H in their “Aliens“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 (in Chapter 2) of the Fromm hardback 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 pages 135, 142 (in Chapter 10) of the Springer hardback edition. |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 93-95 (in the entry entitled “Cyclops, Project”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition. |
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Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Cyclops, Project”. The relevant entry is available online at: |
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Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 346 (in Chapter 14) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 224, 225-226 (in Chapter 7), 241 (in Chapter 8) of the |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 459, 461-463 (in Chapter 8), 509 (in Chapter 10) of the |
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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 pages 135-140 (in Chapter 7), 232 (in Chapter 10) of the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
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Drake, Frank in “Science and the Paranormal” (1981) (edited by Abell, George O and Singer, Barry) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 345 (in Chapter 19) of the Junction Books hardback edition. |
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Dyson, Freeman in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 320 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Freeman Dyson”) of the Arizona hardback edition. |
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Edelson, Edward in his “Who Goes There?” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 103-104, 106-107 (in Chapter 9), 135-139, 142-143 (in Chapter 11) of the NEL paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the NEL paperback edition combining this book and Chris Boyce’s “Extraterrestrial Encounter). |
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Fairley, Peter in his “Is there Life in Outer Space?” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 68 (in Chapter 5) of the Look-In softcover edition. |
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Flindt, Max H and Binder, Otto in their “Mankind – Child of the Stars” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44 (in Chapter 2), 234-235 (in Chapter 16) of the Fawcett paperback edition. |
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Friedman, Stanton T in “Worlds Beyond” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (edited by Larry Geis and Fabrice Florin) at page 210 (in Sequence 21 entitled “Flying Saucers Are Real”) 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”). |
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Friedman, Stanton T in “Thesis Antithesis” (1975) (edited by A D Emerson) at page 28 (in Part |
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Gallant, Roy A in “Beyond Earth : The Search for Extraterrestrial Life” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 153 (in Chapter 12) of the Four Winds hardback edition. |
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Goldsmith, Donald and Owen, Tobias in their “The Search for Life in the Universe” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 399, 401 (in Chapter 20) of the Benjamin Cummings softcover edition. |
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Goodwin, Simon with John Gribbin in their “XTL” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 168-170, 172 (in Chapter 5) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson softcover edition. |
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Hennessey, Roger in his “Worlds Without End : The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 111-112 (in Chapter 11) of the Tempus hardback edition. |
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Horowitz, Paul in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 408-409 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Paul Horowitz”) of the Arizona hardback edition. |
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Hyams, Ron in “UFOs: Where Do They Come From?” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 83 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Is there anybody out there?”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained” , Volume 1, page 249. |
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Koerner, David & LeVay, Simon in their “Here Be Dragons” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 164 (in Chapter 7) of the |
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Kuiper, Thomas B H and Morris, Mark in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 170, 171 (in Chapter 34) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “Searching for Extraterrestrial Civilizations” Science, Volume 196, pages 616-621 (1977). |
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Lamb, David in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : A Philosophical Inquiry” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 21-23 (in Chapter 1) of the Routledge softcover edition. |
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Landsburg, Alan and Landsburg, Sally in their “In Search of Ancient Mysteries” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14, 15-16 (in Chapter 2) of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Landsburg, Alan in his “In Search of Extraterrestrials” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 94-95 (in Chapter 7) of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Lemonick, Michael in his “Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 240, 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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Marvels and Mysteries (Editors Of) in “Marvels and Mysteries: Aliens” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41, 80, 81 of the Parrallel softcover edition. |
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McConnell, Brian in his “Beyond Contact : A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 387 (in Appendix C, entitled “SETI Program Timeline”) of the O’Reilly hardback edition. |
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Morrison, Philip and Billingham, John and Wolfe, John et al in “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : NASA Special Publication 419 (“NASA SP |
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Morrison, Philip in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30, 42-43 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Philip Morrison”) of the Arizona hardback edition. |
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Nicolson, Iain in his “The Road to the Stars” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 194-195 (in Chapter 11) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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O’ Neill, Gerard in his “The High Frontier” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 193-197 (in Chapter 9) of the revised Corgi paperback edition. |
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Oliver, Bernard M in “Interstellar Communication : Scientific Perspectives” (1974) (edited by Cyril Ponnamperuma and A G W Cameron) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 159-167 (in Chapter 9) of the Houghton Mifflin softcover edition. |
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Oliver, Bernard M in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 95, 102 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Bernard M Oliver”) of the Arizona hardback edition. |
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Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 181-182 (in Chapter 10) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
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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 117 (in Chapter 6) of the Warner paperback edition. |
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Regis, Edward in “Extraterrestrials: Science and alien intelligence” (1985) (edited by Edward Regis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 232, 233 (in Part 6) of the Cambridge University Press softcover edition. |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Messages from the Stars” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 124-126 (in Chapter 7), 133-134, 137 (in Chapter 8) of the |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Worlds Beyond” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 130-132 (in Chapter 7) of the Wildwood House softcover edition, at pages 138-140 of the revised 1977 Penguin softcover edition entitled “Signs of Life”. |
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Rood, Robert and Trefil, James in their “Are We Alone?“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-154 (in Chapter 10), 243 (in Chapter 16) of the Scribners hardback edition. |
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Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 125, 129, 131, 133, 134, 135-142 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Project Cyclops”) of the |
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Sachs, Margaret and Jahn, Ernest in their “Celestial Passengers – UFOs & Space Travel” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 72-73 (in Chapter 9) of the Penguin paperback edition. |
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Seeger, Charles in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 286, 291 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Charles L Seeger”) of the Arizona hardback edition. |
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SETI Institute’s SETI Science and Technology Working Group (“the SSTWG”) in “SETI 2020 : A Roadmap for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (2002) (edited by Elkers, Ronald D and Cullers, Kent D and Billingham, John and Scheffer, Louis K) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages xlii-xliii (in the Executive Summary), 14, 15-16, 17, 20-22 (in Chapter 1), 70, 71 (in Chapter 3), 134, 135-136 (in Chapter 5), 230 (in Chapter 7) of the SETI Press softcover edition. |
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Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 159-160 (in Chapter 8) of the Berkeley Hills softcover edition. |
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Stemman, |
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Stilley, Frank in his “The Search” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 133-135 (in Chapter 12) of the Putnam hardback edition. |
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Stoneley, Jack and A T |
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Swift, David W in his “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11, 16 (in the Introduction) of the Arizona hardback edition. |
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Tarter, Jill in “Extraterrestrials: Science and alien intelligence” (1985) (edited by Edward Regis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 179-180 (in Part 5) of the Cambridge University Press softcover edition. |
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Tarter, Jill in “SETI 2020 : A Roadmap for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (2002) (edited by Elkers, Ronald D and Cullers, Kent D and Billingham, John and Scheffer, Louis K) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 283-301 (in Appendix A, entitled “Cyclops Revisited”) of the SETI Press softcover edition. |
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Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 126 (in Chapter 5) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition. |
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Von Daniken, Erich in his “According to the evidence” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 34-36 (in Chapter 2) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition. |
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Weldon, John and Levitt, Zola in their “Encounters With UFOs“ (1975) (formerly “UFOs, What on Earth is Happening?”) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 13 (in Chapter 1) of the Harvest House paperback edition. |
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White, Michael in his “Life Out There” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 94 (in Chapter 5) of the Little, Brown & Co hardback edition. |
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Other Material
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