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