- 1 Origin of the term
- 2 Fields
- 2.1 - Military
- 2.2 - Scientific
- 2.3 - Fortean
- 3 - Definition and consensus
- 4 - Large scale investigations
- 4.1 - Notable Instances of fraud
- 5 - Historical theories & debunking (I'm not saying it's aliens but...)
- 6 - Organisations
- 7 - Thought experiments
- 8 - Technology
- 9 - Places where it overlaps other fields, if it does
2.1 Key topics by field: military
-- Intro
2.1.2 - Military responses and studies
-- USA - What did they do? --- again - 47 - 60 --- and again 60 - 80 --- and again 80 - 00 --- and they won't stop 00 - Now -- South America --- Brazil -- UK --- Closed line -- Russia -- China --- What are they doing now? -- Misc
2.2 Key topics by field: Scientific
-- Intro
2.2.1 - Beginnings
-- Investigations of UFO flap in 1947-60s America -- Creation of groups specifically dedicated to that -- Photography as a field coming into scientific research
2.3 Key topics by field: Fortean
-- Intro
2.3.1 - Early 'researchers'
-- Formation of groups -- Activities and campaigns
2.3.2 - Current 'researchers'
-- Impact on life and what they do
3 - Definition and consensus
-- What is a UFO? - dictionary --- Type 1 ---- Reporting + debunking --- Type 2 ---- Reporting + debunking --- Type 3 ---- Reporting + debunking --- Type 4 ---- Reporting + debunking
4 - Large scale investigations
-- 1 -- 2
4.1 - Notable Instances of fraud
-- 1 -- 2 -- 3
5 - Historical theories & debunking (I'm not saying it's aliens but...)
6 - Organisations PRO
-- Group 1 + history -- Group 2 + history -- Group 3 + history
CON
-- Group 1 + history -- Group 2 + history -- Group 3 + history
7 - Thought experiments
-- Intro
Good source from Condon Report Fear, pandemonium, equanimity and delight: human responses to extra-terrestrial life Albert A. Harrison Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences Vol. 369, No. 1936, The detection of extra-terrestrial life and the consequences for science and society (13 February 2011), pp. 656-668
The implications of the discovery of extra-terrestrial life for religion
Ted Peters
Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Vol. 369, No. 1936, The detection of extra-terrestrial life and the consequences for science and society (13 February 2011), pp. 644-655 - ALSO GOOD FOR ASTROTHEOLOGY
--- What happens if it's true and governments tell us --- Germ theory --- Whatever else people like Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking say
8 - Technology
-- Intro --- When they built a flying saucer --- 'Alien' things that have been made
- 9 - Places where it overlaps other fields, if it does
- 12 See also
- 13 References
- 14 Further reading
- 15 External links