User:Panyd/Ufos

-- Early History in General
 * 1 Origin of the term
 * 2 Fields
 * 2.1 - Religious
 * 2.2 - Artistic?
 * 2.3 - Cultural & Social
 * 2.4 - Military & Scientific

^^^ No idea

3 Key Topics by Field: Religious -- Intro 3.1 - Judeo-Christian and Earlier in History in African Tribal drawings/stories and Australian natives about Dreamtime Bibliography of Classical Folklore Scholarship: Myths, Legends, and Popular Beliefs of Ancient Greece and Rome Adrienne Mayor Folklore Vol. 111, No. 1 (Apr., 2000), pp. 123-138 -- Texts -- Art -- Societies 3.2 - Early cults -- Texts -- Art -- Societies 3.3 - Ufology in modern religion -- include social acceptability of UFOs in modern religions 3.3.1 - Modern cults & tragedies including what is still going on Daniel Wojcik Western Folklore Vol. 55, No. 4, Explorations in Folklore and Cultural Studies (Autumn, 1996), pp. 297-330 3.3.2 - More 'mainstream' religions
 * The Devil at Heaven's Gate: Rethinking the Study of Religion in the Age of Cyber-Space
 * Spiritual Therapies in Japan
 * Embracing Doomsday: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalyptic Beliefs in the Nuclear Age

4 Key topics by field: artistic -- Intro 4.1 - Earliest examples of sci-fi 4.2 - Growth throughout mediums -- Paintings -- Books -- Radio -- TV -- Movies
 * Kubrick's "2001" and the Possibility of a Science-Fiction Cinema

5 Key topics by field: cultural & social -- Intro 5.1 - Earliest - similarities between religious views of other realms with early UFOlogy 5.2 - History of modern day UFO impact on groups -- Earliest probably in Western Europe or South America --- Fear, worship, etc. -- American --- Definite fear, McCarthyism, aggression, worship, tourism, etc. -- Russian --- Hilarious USSR dealing with it because it was and remains hilarious even though it's plain ol' Russia now -- Asian --- New Chinese wave of sightings Government and military response to Chinese citizens --- Thai, Filipino, Indian, etc. etc. etc. Reaction mixed --- African - brand new not much research yet --- Australia Mostly war based so more government response to public panic Dream time and first nations people reacting and suppression

6 Key topics by field: military -- Intro 6.1 - Beginnings -- Foo Fighters -- Roswell -- Cold War -- Modern Day -- Misc

7 Key topics by field: Scientific -- Intro 7.1 - Beginnings -- Investigations of UFO flap in 1947-60s America -- Creation of groups specifically dedicated to that -- Photography as a field coming into scientific research 7.2 - Definition and consensus -- What is a UFO? - dictionary --- Type 1 Reporting + debunking --- Type 2 Reporting + debunking --- Type 3 Reporting + debunking --- Type 4 Reporting + debunking


 * 7.5 - Historical 'evidence', theories & debunking (I'm not saying it's aliens but...)


 * 7.6 - Scientific community, work and current understanding, cause I could go on about this all day so let's stop

8 - Organisations PRO -- Group 1 + history -- Group 2 + history -- Group 3 + history CON -- Group 1 + history -- Group 2 + history -- Group 3 + history


 * 12 See also
 * 13 References
 * 14 Further reading
 * 15 External links