Kelsey's Refrences

Dewan, W. J. (2006). ‘A saucerful of secrets’: An interdisciplinary analysis of UFO experiences.                    Journal of American Folklore, 119(472), 184-202

Donderi, D. (2013) UFOs, ETs and alien abductions: A scientist looks at the evidence.

        Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc.

(June 5, 2012) Florida woodland UFO/black forest entity [Television series episode]. In J. Brenkus and                      M. Stern (Producer), Fact or faked: Paranormal files. SYFY.

Tuvix72 (February 18th, 2013). Meteor Hits Russia 2013 - Best Footage Collection. Retrieved                                   from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmXyJrs7iU

Citations

Citations used to answer the research question of "What is the concentration of alien sightings?"

Book Source:
 Martin, Joel. The Haunting of Twentieth-Century America. 1st ed. New York: Forge, 2011.

Article Source: 
Gepper, Alexander C. T. Extraterrestrial Encounters: UFOs, Science and the Quest forTranscendence, 1947-1972. History & Technology 28, no. 3 (September 2012): 335–62.doi:10.1080/07341512.2012.723340

Internet Source: 

“UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY.” Accessed April 7, 2014. http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/

Primary source: 

“UFO World Sightings.” Accessed April 7, 2014. http://www.ufo-world-sightings.com/Home/Home.html.

Alien Sources I found..

Works Cited

Beyond.html. (n.d.). Retrieved April 7, 2014, from http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/people/jlipps/Beyond.html

Chapter 7: Science and Technology: Public Attitudes and Public Understanding: Science Fiction and Pseudoscience. (n.d.). Retrieved April 7, 2014, from http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/ seind02/c7/c7s5.htm

CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90 — Central Intelligence Agency. (n.d.). Retrieved April 7, 2014, from https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/97unclass/ufo.html

Craft, M. (1996). Alien impact (1st ed.). New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Gepper, A. C. T. (2012). Extraterrestrial encounters: UFOs, science and the quest for transcendence, 1947-1972. History & Technology, 28(3), 335–362. doi:10.1080/07341512.2012.723340

Herald-Journal - Google News Archive Search. (n.d.). Retrieved April 21, 2014, from http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19870313&id=tEIsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KM4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6834,5192350

Jones, M. (2013). Mainstream Media and Social Media Reactions to the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life. Astrobiology, History & Society, 313.

Laura, K. (n.d.). Area 51 officially acknowledged, mapped in newly released documents. CNN. Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/us/area-51-documents/index.html

Lincoln, D. (2013). Alien universe: extraterrestrial life in our minds and in the cosmos. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Osunsanmi, O. (2009). The Fourth Kind. Mystery.

Project Blue Book (UFO) part 1 of 1. (n.d.). FBI. Retrieved April 7, 2014, from http://vault.fbi.gov/Project%20Blue%20Book%20%28UFO%29%20/Project%20Blue%20Book%20%28UFO%29%20part%201%20of%201

Sparks, G. C., & Pellechia, M. (1998). Does television news about UFOs affect viewers’ UFO beliefs?: An experimental investigation. Communication Quarterly, 46(3), 284–294.

Sparks, G. G., Sparks, C. W., & Gray, K. (1995). Media impact on fright reactions and belief in UFOs: the potential role of mental imagery. Communication Research, 22, 3–23. doi:10.1177/009365095022001001

Three in Four Americans Believe in Paranormal. (n.d.). Retrieved April 21, 2014, from http://www.gallup.com/poll/16915/three-four-americans-believe-paranormal.aspx

Tumminia, D. G. (Ed.). (2007). Alien worlds: social and religious dimensions of extraterrestrial contact (1st ed.). Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press.

Googling Aliens

Although throughout much of a student's academic career they think that he or she knows how to use google. When trying to find internet  sources for a topic such as aliens, one has to know how to find something that is useable. Just googling aliens and one will retrieve results including the amount of aliens living in the United States, joe's alien sighting database, lots of videos of supposed alien encounters, but trying to find credible information will take several pages. Google, actually has limiters that most databases have, people just do not use them or know about them. One can limit the domain by adding to the search site:.org or site:.gov or whatever type of source one desires. This is particularly useful when searching for extraterrestrials. Using only this limiter I was able to find project blue book; which is the government study on aliens. I was also to find that the CIA keep track of supposed alien sightings and their reliability. On Google, one can also limit the location, date published, truncation also works with google. The best way to be able to fully take advantage of the Google advance search options and limiters is to use them and just mess around with them.

Reporting an Alien

Have you seen an alien?

If you have, report it! It is important that individuals who have spotted aliens report them.  Since there is not a current database for alien reporting's, a man named Scott Waring has developed a website to report alien sightings.  Scott went to school to get a Bachelors of Science and has written books.  He was a member of the United States Air Force. He published the site to give individuals who have seen aliens or UFO's a place to report them. It is important to report them so that individuals can analyze many encounters and pieces them together to possibly find more about aliens.

http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/ 

The website has a format of a daily blog as information can be updates daily by individuals who have sighted UFO's. The website dates back to 2006 and reports were added daily since then. This also shows the trend of sightings as it becomes more popular as technology increases. People can report sightings easier than in past years with internet sites such as this one.

The source of the sightings are from individuals in society/ We do not not know the credibility of the sightings as we d not know the exact truth about aliens and UFO's. The information that is posted is sometimes accompanied by youtube videos, interviews, and images. 


The website answer the question on how sightings are reported.  It also shows what information is need to sight the information.  The name, location, and a date of discovery is reported with the image, video, or description.  The site also shows were sightings are occurring across the United States.

Check out the site and if you see an alien be sure to report it !!

News Story

This news story popped up on CNN this morning and I thought it would be interesting to share. This shows that what we are researching is current and still be discussed and happening.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/04/05/dnt-trail-camera-ufo-sighting.wlox.html

Kelsey

Finding academic articles

Our research has came to using academic articles to find out more on our research topic and questions. This can be a daunting task but with the right databases and the right search terms one can find good research. Using  a new service called muskiescholar that searches all the school owned databases we can easily search through databases we wouldn't typically think of searching through. Such as sociology or philosophy databases. We also use meta data enabled searching and our previously used truncation and boolean operators. An example of the search I performed was unidentified flying object* OR alien* AND sight*. This search looks for many more searches than just what is stated. It looks for plurals, synonyms and multiple relationships between the terms. Once you do this initial search one can continue to edit the search into a better list of articles with limiters. One limiter I used was Scholarly journals, to make sure I was getting peer reviewed articles, not popular articles of book reviews. Another limiter I used was the subject term extraterrestrial to weed out the articles about illegal aliens. This left a list of around 300 articles in which is better articles and easier to sift through than the approximately 300,000 that initially was returned. There is just some information on finding better scholarly articles that you then can put through the tried and true CRAAP test.

Kelsey