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The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters
Compiled and Edited by
Ronald D.Story
Constable & Robinson Ltd
5556 Russell Square
London WC1B 4HP
www.constablerobinson.com
First published online by Ronald D. Story as The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters on RonaldStory.com, 2001
First published in the UK by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2012
Copyright Ronald D. Story, 2001
The right of Ronald D. Story to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available from the British Library
ISBN: 978-1-78033-703-6 (ebook)
Printed and bound in the UK
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In Memoriam
This book is dedicated to one of the great pioneers in the search for intelligent life elsewheremy early mentor and advisorwho inspired millions of us earthlings to continue the search for truth wherever it might lead. His inspiration will live on.
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
Carl Sagan
(1934-1996)
Contributors
Gloria Alderson
Arlan K. Andrews
Walter Andrus
Robert Baker
Gray Barker
Charles Bowen
Arthur Bray
Thomas Eddie Bullard
David Chace
William Chalker
Jerome Clark
Daniel Cohen
Filip Coppens
Scott Corrales
Hal Crawford
Wes Crum
Peter Davenport
Steven Dick
Barry Downing
Frank Drake
W. Raymond Drake
Ann Druffel
Robert S. Ellwood
Hilary Evans
Robert Fairfax
Lucius Farish
George D. Fawcett
Randall Fitzgerald
Paris Flammonde
Raymond E. Fowler
Kendrick Frazier
Stanton T. Friedman
Daniel Fry
Peter Geremia
Timothy Good
Stan Gordon
J. Richard Greenwell
Loren Gross
Richard Haines
Richard Hall
Michael Hesemann
Budd Hopkins
Michael Horn
Patrick Huyghe
J. Allen Hynek
Philip Imbrogno
David M. Jacobs
Brian James
Debra Jordan Kauble
John Keel
Donald Keyhoe
Philip J. Klass
Martin S. Kottmeyer
Alvin H. Lawson
Roger Leir
Greg Little
Coral Lorenzen
L. J. Lorenzen
Betty Andreasson Luca
Bruce Maccabee
John Mack
Scott Mandelker
David Marler
Tim Matthews
James E. McDonald
William Louis McDonald
Howard Menger
Monarca Lynn Merrifield
Aim Michel
Charles Moody
James W. Moseley
Joe Nickell
James E. Oberg
Thornton Page
Karl Pflock
Nick Pope
Gary Posner
Diane Prentice
Billy J. Rachels
Kevin D. Randle
Jenny Randles
Scott Rogo
Carl Sagan
John Schuessler
Berthold Schwarz
Robert Sheaffer
Seth Shostak
Zecharia Sitchin
R. Leo Sprinkle
Brad Steiger
Sherry Hansen Steiger
Dennis Stillings
Ronald Story
Frank Stranges
Whitley Strieber
Robert Swiatek
Susan Swiatek
John Timmerman
Jacques Valle
Wim Van Utrecht
Erich Von Dniken
Donald Ware
Walter Webb
Dan Wright
Jennie Zeidman
Acknowledgements
The following acknowledgments and credits are considered an extension of the copyright page:
ABDUCTED: CONFRONTATIONS WITH BEINGS FROM OUTER SPACE and all other mini-book-review entries by Randall Fitzgerald were revised and adapted by the author from his book Cosmic Test Tube: Extraterrestrial Contact, Theories & Evidence. Copyright 1998. Reprinted by permission of Randall Fitzgerald, the author, and Donald Altman, publisher, Moon Lake Media, Los Angeles, CA (www.moonlakebooks.com).
ABDUCTION and all other glossary-style entries by Scott Mandelker were revised and adapted by the author from his book Universal Vision: Soul Evolution and the Cosmic Plan. Copyright 2000. Reprinted by permission of Scott Mandelker, the author, and Universal Vision, publisher, San Francisco, CA (www.universal-vision.com).
ABDUCTION TRANSCRIPTION PROJECT. Copyright 2001 by Dan R. Wright. POSTSCRIPT Copyright 1999, 2001 by Philip J. Klass. Adapted and reprinted by permission from The Skeptics UFO Newsletter (SUN).
ADAMSKI, GEORGE. Copyright 1980, 2001 by Ronald D. Story. Revised and adapted from The Encyclopedia of UFOs (Doubleday/New English Library, 1980).
AETHERIUS SOCIETY. Copyright 1980, 2001 by Ronald D. Story. Revised and adapted from The Encyclopedia of UFOs (Doubleday/New English Library, 1980).
AIRSHIP WAVE OF 1896. Copyright Loren E. Gross 1980, 2001. Revised and adapted from Story, Ronald D. ed., The Encyclopedia of UFOs (Doubleday/New English Library, 1980).
AIRSHIP WAVE OF 1897. Copyright Lucius Farish 1980, 2001. Revised and adapted from Story, Ronald D. ed., The Encyclopedia of UFOs (Doubleday/New English Library, 1980).
ALIEN AUTOPSY FILM. Copyright Joe Nickell 1995, 2001. Reprinted from the Skeptical Inquirer (November 1995) by permission of the author.
ALIEN GALLERY (text and illustrations). Copyright 2001 by David W. Chace.
ALIEN ICONOGRAPHY. Copyright Joe Nickell 1997, 2001. Reprinted from the Skeptical Inquirer (September/October 1997) by permission of the author.
ALIEN MOTIVES. Copyright 2001 by Stanton T. Friedman.
ALIEN ROOTS. Copyright 1979, 2001 by Alvin H. Lawson. Revised and adapted from Alien Roots: Six Entity Types and Some Possible Earthly Ancestors by Alvin H. Lawson. First published in the