1981.0700 Proxmire and SETI funding

 

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Proxmire and SETI funding
During July 1981, Senator William Proxmire (D-Wis) successfully proposed an amendment to eliminate NASA “subsistence level” funding of SETI (which the Senator referred to as “insterstellar conversation”).

 

 

 

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 Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date.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

Relatively lengthy extract of text of transcript of relevant debate in U.S. Senate presented by Howard Blum’s “Out There“ (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 122-124 (in Chapter 16) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition, pages 127-130 of the Pocket Star paperback edition.

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 see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1990

Blum, Howard in his “Out There“ (1990), with relatively lengthy extract of transcript of relevant debate in U.S. Senate, at pages 122-124 (in Chapter 16) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition, pages 127-130 of the Pocket Star paperback edition.

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1999

Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 484 (in the Notes) of the Wiley softcover edition.

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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 pages 145-146 (in Chapter 10) of the Wiley softcover edition.

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1999

Poundstone, William in his “Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 272-273 (in the chapter entitled “Los Angeles 1978-81”) of the Owl Books softcover edition.

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1998

Sheaffer, Robert in his “UFO Sightings: The Evidence” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 180 (in Chapter 12) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

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Other Material