User:Panyd/Ufology

• 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