UFO Crash at Roswell by Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt
This can probably be called the book that started it all, the first book to be written about the Roswell incident claiming that the government retreived a crashed UFO on a ranch in New Mexico. Although some parts are now a bit dated it lays the groundwork for the UFO hypothesis and is filled with the testimony of witnesses plus contains plenty of references. This is probably the first book on Roswell that you'll want to read.
The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell by Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt
In this sequel to their UFO Crash at Roswell (1991), Randle and Schmitt offer new witnesses and a revised chronology for the alleged crash of a UFO and its retrieval by the U.S. Air Force near Roswell, New Mexico, in July_ 1947. They shed new light on the two distinct sites where evidence of a crash was found, one only 35 miles from Roswell, where alien bodies and a strange craft were found, and the other much farther away, where rancher Mac Brazel discovered a huge amount of bizarre metallic debris. The ominous threats made by military personnel to civilians who had some knowledge of the event contrast sharply with the official cover story that only a weather balloon had been found. The cover-up was so effective, Randle and Schmitt say, that only a glimmer of the truth would begin to emerge years later. Several chapters demolish claims that the debris was from a weather balloon, a Japanese balloon bomb, a V-2 rocket test, or an experimental aircraft.
(From Booklist)
Crash at Corona : The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a UFO by Stanton T. Friedman
On July 8, 1947, the U.S. Army stated that the remains of a "flying disk" had been recovered from a ranch near Corona, New Mexico. Now, this book exposes the government's successful 40-year conspiracy to conceal the truth behind Americ's most documented UFO encounter.
(Synopsis from Amazon.com)
Conspiracy of Silence by Kevin D. Randle
A former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer documents a 50-year cover-up by the U.S. government of UFO activity. While discrediting and discounting eyewitnesses accounts, the government secretly gathering information and material and outright lied to the public about what they were doing Kevin Randle tells the truth about UFOs that the authorities don't want you to know.
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The Day After Roswell by Col. Phillip Corso
A landmark exposé firmly grounded in fact, The Day After Roswell ends the decades-old controversy surrounding the mysterious crash of an unidentified aircraft at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Backed by documents newly declassified through the Freedom of Information Act, Colonel Philip J. Corso (Ret.), a member of President Eisenhower's National Security Council and former head of the Foreign Technology Desk at the U.S. Army's Research & Development department, has come forward to reveal his personal stewardship of alien artifacts from the Roswell crash. He tells us how he spearheaded the Army's reverse-engineering project that led to today's:
Integrated circuit chips
Fiber optics
Lasers
Super-tenacity fibers
and "seeded" the Roswell alien technology to giants of American industry. Laying bare the U.S. government's shocking role in the Roswell incident -- what was found, the cover-up, and how they used alien artifacts to change the course of twentieth-century history -- The Day After Roswell is an extraordinary memoir that not only forces us to reconsider the
past, but also our role in the universe.
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A History of UFO Crashes by Kevin Randle
This decade's most prolific Roswell author takes a look at a lot of other alleged UFO crashes from 1896-1989, dismissing many as hoaxes but leaving the door open for a lot of others that may be genuine. Also contains an appendix ranking various UFO crashes on their validity, a list of witnesses, a 14 page bibliography and 30 pages of footnotes that are worth buying this book alone for.
Area 51: The Dreamland Chronicles by David Darlington
Area 51, Dreamland, Groom Lake, Paradise Ranch, Watertown Strip, the Box: all refer to the top-secret research installation, located a hundred miles north of Las Vegas, which, for many, has come to stand for all that is shadowy and nefarious about the military-industrial-intelligence complex. Built under the direction of the CIA in the 1950s, the base served as the original test site for the U-2 spy plane and F-117 stealth fighter jet. In more recent years, Area 51 has spurred public interest from its role in the government's $30 billion "Black Budget," from legal claims of worker illness due to toxic burning, and from sensational charges about captured alien spacecraft. It has also given birth to a feisty guerrilla subculture bent on exploding the secrecy surrounding this mysterious spot. David Darlington unfolds the history, legends, and characters involved with Area 51, weaving a weird tale of intrigue and outrage that speaks volumes about popular culture and American democracy at the end of the twentieth century.
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Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51 by Phil Patton
Dreamland is journalist Phil Patton's chronicle of his road trip into the low deserts and dry lakes of southern Nevada in search of the truth (which, presumably, is Out There). It's a cultural history of the cold war, a psychoanalysis of the military, and an unswerving look at our fascination for UFOs. What happened at Roswell in the 1940s? What is the Air Force doing out at Area 51? Whether you join the "youfers," and decide that genuine aliens are here, doing their inexplicable thing, or the "Interceptors," who desperately seek sightings of stealth planes, or "black aircraft," you'll need to camp at the perimeters of the vast desert wildernesses set aside for secrecy to do your research. Patton explores the edges (and sometimes the insides) of these strange, lonely places in the same way he examines the psyches and motives of the people who inhabit them--with bemused semiobjectivity. Patton seems to be saying that human weirdness is roomy enough to encompass everything, from UFOs to top-secret military planes to global atomic destruction. He writes of Dreamland: "I came to believe that its legend and lore, its language and paradoxes, provided a strange and yet appropriate time capsule of a half century of cold war and black secrecy. Here, the cultures of nuclear power and airpower merged with the folklores of extraterrestrials and earthly conspiracies; their interference patterns formed a moiré of the weird. It was a place from which to see our own planet with the eyes of an outsider."
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UFO Headquarters : Investigations on Current Extraterrestrial Activity by Susan Wright
State-of-the-art information and testimony on the UFO "hot" spot near Las Vegas--labeled "Area 51" by the U.S. government--where stealth high-speed aircraft, such as the "Aurora" hypersonic spy plane and the TRY "Black Manta" are being developed and tested.
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The Roswell UFO Crash : What They Don't Want You to Know by Kal K. Korff The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup by Philip J. Klass
Two recent books on Roswell written from a skeptical viewpoint attempting to pick apart the eyewitness testimony that most Roswell books are built around and give a more plausible theory, a crashed spy balloon. If future Roswell researchers want to be taken seriously they're going to have to refute some of these claims.
[NOTE: Randle's Conspiracy of Silence tries to refute the spy balloon theory but it was written before these books]
The Roswell Report : Case Closed by James McAndrew
The infamous "Dummy Report" as it's called which claims that the bodies reported by Roswell witnesses were actually parachute dummies. Even when the spy balloon theory was holding some water this report cast some doubt on a lot of their claims. Still will be of interest to all Roswell researchers.
