Alien Universe (36 page)

phosphoribose,
150

photosynthesis,
111
,
138
–39,
183

pi,
71

planet(s):
141

Saturn,
149

Venus,
32
.
See also
Mars

plants,
112
–15,
121
,
129

Possible Worlds and Other Papers
(Haldane),
127

pressure,
148

primates,
109

Prokarya,
138

proteins,
131

protists,
111

Psychlos,
101

Pu-36 Space Modulator,
98

pulp fiction,
61
–63

Q,
83
,
101

radio,
169
–76

radio bubble,
166

radio waves,
124

Raëlians,
41
–42

Ramu,
41

Replicators,
89

Reptilians,
51

respiration,
121
–22,
139

River Iss,
58

Robby the Robot,
74
–75

Roddenberry, Gene,
75
,
80

Romulans,
82

Roswell,
33
–37,
91

Roswell
(hoax movie),
36

Roswell
(television show),
36

Roswell Daily Record
,
34
–35

Roswell Incident, The
(Berlitz and Moore),
35

Royal Order of Tibet,
38

Saberhagen, Fred,
157

Sagan, Carl,
3
,
21
,
47
–48,
80
,
141
,
157
,
179

salt,
121
,
144
,
146
–47,
151
,
153

sand,
133

Santilli, Ray,
36

Schiaparelli, Giovanni,
19
–21,
23

Schklovsky, Iosif,
48

Schrödinger, Erwin,
127

Scientology,
42
,
61

Scoriton Mystery, The
(Buckle),
42

Searches for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
See
SETI

Serling, Rod,
49

Sermon on the Mount,
72

SETI,
173
–76,
180

shape shifters,
101

Shoefield, Gary,
36

silicon,
133
,
140
–41,
143
,
154
–58

Simon, Benjamin,
45

Sirius Mystery, The
(Temple),
49
–50

Soter, Steve,
47

Space Brothers,
37
–42,
50
,
100
,
183

spectroscopy,
12

Spock,
183

Sputnik
,
77

SRI International,
175

Stargate
,
50
,
87
–90,
100

stars/galaxies,
141

Aldeberan,
176

Altair,
4
,
74

Milky Way,
162

Sirius B,
50

supernovas,
140
,
178

Star Trek
,
4
–5,
63
,
74
–75,
80
–84,
88
,
100
–101,
108
,
131
,
157
,
162
,
176

Deep Space Nine
,
81
,
83
,
101

Enterprise
(ship),
80
–83

Enterprise
(television show),
81

Next Generation
,
81
–83,
157

the Original Series (TOS),
81
–82

Voyager
,
81
.
See also
Rodenberry, Gene;
individual characters and types of Aliens

Star Wars
,
4
,
84
–86

sterilizing events,
177

Struve, Otto,
172

Suez Canal,
20

sugars,
130

sun,
141

sunlight,
114
–15,
129
–30

Superman,
98

Swift, Jonathan,
83

SyFy,
79

Syndicate,
91
–92

Tarzan,
57
,
60
,
62

Tau Ceti,
173

taxonomy,
108

television shows,
80
,
97
–98,
99

ALF
,
97
,
101

Battlestar Galactica
,
101

In Search of Ancient Astronauts
,
49

Nova
,
49

Outer Limits
,
46
–47,
51

The Twilight Zone
,
49
,
80

Unsolved Mysteries
,
36
. See also
Doctor Who
;
Roswell
;
Star Trek
;
X-Files, The

Teller, Edward,
161

temperature,
146
–48,
151
–52

regulation of,
120

Temple, Robert,
49
–50

Tesla, Nikola,
169
–70

thermodynamic disequilibrium,
128
–130,
149

Therns,
59

Thor,
89

Titan,
149
–50

Toydarian,
85

trees,
114

Tribbles,
101

trilobite,
107

Twain, Mark,
103

UFO(s),
5
–6,
9
–10,
57
,
109
,
160
–61,
182

George Adamski report of,
37
–38

Kenneth Arnold report of,
29
–33

classic film depiction of,
74
–75

in
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
,
93
–97

cultural penetration of,
27

Betty and Barney Hill and,
42
–48

UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry, The
(Hynek),
96

ultraviolet light,
124
,
139

universe,
140

valences,
131

Vega,
176

Verne, Jules,
53

vespertilio-homo,
16
–17

V’ger,
101

vision,
123
–24

von Clausewitz, Carl,
28

von Däniken, Erich,
48
–50,
51
,
89

Vulcans,
81

War of the Worlds, The
(book),
23
,
53
–55,
57

War of the Worlds
(radio show),
55
–57

“watch the skies,”
71
,
184

water,
129
,
143
,
146
–49,
151
–54

Watson, James,
127

Watterson, Bill,
159

Webb, Steven,
162

Weinbaum, Stanley G.,
155

Welles, Orson,
55
–57

Wells, H. G.,
5
,
23
,
53
–57

What Is Life?
(Schrödinger),
127

“Where are they?,”
161
–63

“Who Goes There?” (Campbell),
68
,
101

Wood, Ed,
79

World War II,
63
–64,
71
,
94

“Wow!” signal,
174
–75

xenomorph,
86
–87

Xenu,
42

X-Files, The
,
26
,
90
–92

Yamski,
42
.
See also
Adamski, George

Yoda,
85

Zeta Reticuli,
47

zombies,
118
–19

KEY TO ICONIC ALIENS
Clockwise from top left
: Marvin the Martian (from
Haredevil Hare
, Warner Brothers); Yoda (from
Star Wars
, Lucas Films); Neytiri (from
Avatar
, 20th Century Fox); Little Green Men (from
Toy Story
, Pixar/Disney); Alien (from
Alien
, 20th Century Fox); Spock (from
Star Trek
, Desilu Productions); Superman (from
Superman
, National Allied Publications); E.T. (from
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
, Universal Pictures); and (
center
) a stereotypical Gray (multiple sources as discussed in the text).

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgement

Prologue the Question

One Beginnings

Two Encounters

Three Fictions

Four Blockbusters

Interlude

Five Life-Forms

Six Elements

Seven Neighbors

Epilogue the Visitors

Suggested Reading

Index