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In addition to the sources and references cited throughout this book, we have found the following works important to verify the reliability of many cases in the literature.

Burns, William E.
An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England 1657-1727
. New York: Manchester University Press, 2002.

Christian, William A.
Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain
. Princeton University Press, 1989.

Corliss, William R.
Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature: A Catalog of Geophysical Anomalies.
The Sourcebook Project. Glen Arm, MD, 2001.

Kronk, Gary W.
Cometography: Volume 1, Ancient-1799. A Catalog of Comets.
Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Olivyer, I. L., and J. F. Boëdec.
Les Soleils de Simon Goulart: Vague OVNI de 1500 à 1600
. Marseille: Ada, 1981.

Rasmussen, Susanne William.
Public Portents in Republican Rome
. Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2003.

Wildfang, Robin Lorsch and Isager, Jacob.
Divination and Portents in the Roman World
. University Press of Southern Denmark, 2000.

Among essential online sources are:

Newspaper Archive: www.newspaperarchive.com

Internet Medieval Sourcebook:

www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

Internet Archive: www.archive.org

Chris Aubeck invites comments through the Internet at:

[email protected]

 

Jacques Vallee can be contacted at:

PO Box 641650

San Francisco, California 94164

USA

Jacques Vallee holds a master's degree in astrophysics from France and a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University, where he served as an associate of Dr. J. Allen Hynek. He is the author of several books about high technology and unidentified phenomena, a subject that first attracted his attention as an astronomer in Paris. While analyzing observations from many parts of the world, he became intrigued by the similarities in patterns between moderrn sightings and historical reports of encounters with flying objects and their occupants in every culture. The result was the seminal book
Passport to Magonia
, published in 1969.

After a career as an information scientist with Stanford Research Institute and the Institute for the Future, where he served as a principal investigator for the groupware project on the Arpanet, the prototype of the Internet, Jacques Vallee cofounded a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, where he works.

Chris Aubeck was born in London. His interest in the historical and sociological aspects of unexplained aerial phenomena began at an early age. He moved to Spain at age 19 and now lives in Madrid, where he works as an interpreter and English teacher at the Madrid Development Institute. A student of folklore and philology, he has helped compile the largest collection of pre-1947 UFO cases in the world. He has spoken on his research in many articles and on public radio. In 2008 he was awarded a prize for his contributions to the field by the Spanish organization Fundación Anomalía.

In 2003, Aubeck cofounded a remarkable collaborative network of librarians, students, and scholars of paranormal history on the Internet. This group, known as the Magoniax Project, extends from North and Central America to Russia and Germany. It has accumulated thousands of references, searched media archives in several languages, and gathered hundreds of rare documents, scientific reports, and newspaper clippings from the last four hundred years.