The Hynek UFO Report by Dr. J. Allen Hynek
"The book you are about to read highlights a startling proposition: UFO reports cannot be explained in conventional terms, no matter how loudly official science claims that the observations are merely hallucinations, mirages, and hoaxes. Such debunking does not belie the mountain of reliable testimony presented in these pages."
--From the forward to the 1997 edition by Jacques Vallee
One of the most influential books in UFOlogy, and also one of the best. Hynek spent 20 years as a consultant for the Air Force's Project Blue Book and used to think of UFO enthusiasts as crack pots. In this book he shows what it is that changed his opinion. Among it's contents are over 12,000 sightings, information on what Blue Book was and how they mislead the public and information on what close encounters of the first, second and third kind are. Does a great job of showing that UFO eye-witnesses are not all crack pots. A must read for any UFO enthusiast!
[NOTE: This book is currently out of print but can be ordered through Amazon.com]
Above Top Secret: The World Wide UFO Cover-up by Timothy Good
All of those who entertain the concept of a world wide UFO cover-up really owe something to Timothy Good. In this one of a kind book Good goes through files from the United States, Canada, all over Europe and the very contreversial MJ-12 documents to show that governments all around the world are secretly investigating unidentified flying objects and hiding the truth. Good's conclusions are based more on research as opposed to speculation unlike many other UFO books. Great for an introduction to UFOlogy as well as for the experienced UFO buff looking for something grounded in fact.
Alien Contact: Top Secret UFO Files Revealed by Timothy Good
In his international bestseller Above Top Secret, Good showed evidence that the U.S. and other governments have channeled millions into UFO research. Now, Good exposes the startling results of this research, based on secret government files and scores of interviews with key U.S. millitary, scientific, and intelligence personnel. Photos and illustrations.
(From the synopsis at Amazon.com)
The UFO Book by Jerome Clark
Jerome Clark is the former editor of the UFO magazine Fate and former vice-president and current board member of the J. Allen Hyneck Center for UFO Studies as well as the editor of their quarterly publication The International UFO Reporter. He has published several books and a three-volume UFO Encyclopedia encompassing every conceivable aspect of UFOs possible. In short, Clark has spent the past four decades researching, analyzing and bringing to light anything remotely connected to what the world identifies as UFO's and extraterrestrial life. The UFO Book is actually an abridgment of the much larger, two volume work, The UFO Encyclopedia (2nd Edition) published in the fall of 1997. Clark makes it very clear in the introduction that, "Except in those instances where good reason exists to doubt an informant's sincerity, The UFO Book operates on the assumption that intellectual agnosticism...". True to his word, The UFO Book is clear, in-depth, cross-referenced and user friendly and goes to extremes to stand above any hint of opinion regarding the wealth of information contained in this book. The UFO Book includes a historical overview of UFO phenomenon, an overview of its terminology roots, and in-depth information regarding resources in print an other forms of media. Every subject, whether a discussion of a specific topic or a specific incident is organized alphabetically with painstakingly clear cross referencing throughout. The UFO Book is engrossing reading that can fill a few minutes, an hour, or more. It has the authoritative backbone that brings this incredibly diverse and far reaching subject to light in a meticulously objective manner. Clark has put into one volume an incredible amount of research that is a must read for anyone mildly curious about UFO's and extra- terrestrials.
(From Independent Publisher)
The Complete Book of UFOs: An Investigation into Alien Contacts & Encounters by Jenny Randles and Peter Hough
What is the true story about UFOs? Who or what is behind them? How much "evidence" is there and is it being taken seriously? Throughout the 1990s, UFOs have attracted the attention of specialists from all branches of science. Here, two of the most respected ufologists in the world, Jenny Randles and Peter Hough, share their cumulative knowledge of reported sightings and findings from dozens of countries around the globe. They investigate the extraordinary growth of UFO phenomena and explore the events and major cases that have formed the turning points in UFO history. See how the story has developed decade by decade, from the first cigar-shaped object seen in 1880, to the 1952 wave of sightings in Washington, on to new breakthroughs as we near the 21st century. Randles and Hough shed new light on the subject through unparalleled access to reports as well as previously unpublished material from experts and witnesses around the globe. Accounts from abductees, government officials, witnesses, and more round out this most fascinating and readable work.
(From the Publisher)
The UFO Encyclopedia by John Spencer
Compiled for the world-renowned British UFO Research Association by one of the most respected experts in the field, this extraordinary book is the complete A-to-Z authority on UFOlogy. Using the latest research and findings, the book covers alien abductions, extraterrestrial phenomenon, brilliant hoaxes, and more. 48 pages of photos, 8 in full color.
(Synopsis from Amazon.com)
Cosmic Test Tube : Extraterrestrial Contact, Theories & Evidence by Randall Fitzgerald
This book answers the stunning call from an independent panel of scientists (Society for Scientific Exploration) that made the front pages of nation's newspapers in June, 1998, asking for a re-evaluation of all the evidence on alien visitation and UFO phenomena of the last 50 years.
COSMIC TEST TUBE does exactly that. It's an encyclopedic volume that explores all the major ideas, theories, and evidence presented by every major writer in this area and spanning the entire 20th century--Charles Fort, Carl Sagan, Erich von Daniken, Budd Hopkins, Whitley Strieber, Arthur C. Clarke and dozens more.
In addition to what is an incisively written,! ! well-organized, virtual library of information, COSMIC TEST TUBE includes 100 pages of the author's own original research and synthesis of what happened at Roswell in 1947, the mystery of crop circles, cattle mutilations, structures on Mars, and accounts of human abductions. (From the Publisher)
The UFO Coverup:What the Government Won't Say by Lawrence Fawcett, Barry J. Greenwood
Authors Lawrence Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood reveal in this fascinating, thought-provoking book, based on the government's own research and internal files, what they have learned about: UFO's as a threat to national security. UFO sightings at military bases in the United States, North Africa, and the Middle East. The cover-up role of the FBI and the CIA. The presidents, legislators, astronauts, military leaders, and international scientific authorities who are on record as in favor of renewed investigation of UFO's.
(From Simon and Schuster)
[NOTE: This books is currently out of print but can be ordered througn Amazon.com]
Unconventional Flying Objects : A Scientific Analysis by Paul R. Hill
Here is a book to intrigue both non-technical and more mechanically inclined UFO enthusiasts. Without making a case for the origins of UFOs, Hill argues that their functionality is feasible by applying established principles of physics to existing reports in which an amazingly consistent UFO behavior has been described. In language which is technically sound, but not so advanced that the layman could not understand, Hill works out several possible propulsion systems for these mysterious craft. (From Occult and Metaphysics Editors)
Uninvited Guests by Richard Hall
In 1965, Richard Hall, then Acting Director of a civilian UFO group in Washington, D.C., was questioned by a CIA agent and
given a direct telephone line to his office using it to report some high quality UFO sightings, as requested. Many years later he
used the Freedom of Information and Privacy acts to request CIA files mentioning him by name. Some previously known
documents were obtained after an appeal, but the CIA refused to release the security clearance "paper trail." Information
revealed includes:
+ Close Encounters/The Vehicular Kind + Magic Technology + The Humanoids + Bodies In The Morgue + The Big Secret +
Extraterrestrial Psychology + Case Book: A Global Cross Section Of The UFO Mystery + Sample Government UFO
Documents + Crashed Saucers + Abduction Reports
Are they visitors from another planet? Are they human-like or human time travelers or beings from some other realm presently
unknown to science? This is not a book of answers because nobody on any side of the issue really knows what UFOs are.
Instead it is a book of questions starting with...What if UFOs are real? What might this mean for Humankind?
(From the Publisher)
UFOs Are Real : Extraterrestrial Encounters Documented by the U.S. Government by Clifford E. Stone
Using the Freedom of Information Act to patiently outduel bureaucrats at Air Force and Navy
Intelligence the CIA and the Department of State Stone obtained documents with minimally excised
portions but with significant testimony from armed forces personnel still intact. they not only deal with
major American UFO sites such as the alien crash site in Roswell NM but also major sightings that
include hard evidence (such as unidentifiable metal fragments and chemical residues) in places like
the Caribbean the Horn of Africa and the Himalayas. Beyond records of sightings and other
fascinating reportage by armed forces personnel there is much evidence to prove that the
government is covering up more information than it is reluctantly revealing.
(From Amazon.com)
UFOs and How to See Them by Jenny Randles
Another great introduction to UFOlogy full of great information. Basically a guide for UFO witnesses it contains a brief history of UFOs, objects commonly mistaken for them, how to organize a skywatch, UFO hotspots around the world and lots other other information that everyone slightly interested in UFOlogy should know about. All that and some great pictures which are worth buying the book alone for.
Alien Contact: The First 50 Years by Jenny Randles
A very detailed acount of the first 50 years of the modern UFO era (1947-1997) giving lots of information on specific cases of UFO sightings, abductions, crashes, and men in black among others, plus scientific research and science fiction from around the time. By this point I think it's been established that anything by Jenny Randles is bound to be a good read.
Alien Identities by Richard L. Thompson
This is the intelligent fair and logical examination of modern UFO phenomena that countless readers have been looking for written by a renowned scientist and philosopher. also explores possible UFO incidents recounted in the the ancient Vedic DESCRIPTIONs of flying craft floating cities cosmic battles and other wonders. It examines the extraordinary and the extraterrestrial in European folk tales and looks at religious reports of miraculous visitations particularly the 1917 apparition at Fatima Portugal bringing fresh and convincing insights into the identity and purposes of UFO visitors throughout the centuries.
(Description from Amazon.com)
Night Siege : The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt
New Year's Eve 1982 marked the beginning of one of the most puzzling UFO cases in recent times: the Hudson Valley "siege." The siege begot over 7,000 sightings of a boomerang-shaped craft or crafts moving silently through the sky over New York and Connecticut between 1982 and 1995. Night Siege is the collaborative effort of Hynek, Imbrogno, and Pratt to report the data gathered from witnesses of this mystifying experience, without speculation of what it might be. If you missed the first edition of Night Siege, this is your chance to delve into the Hudson Valley mystery. If you have read the first edition, you may be interested in the additional data covering sightings from 1986 to 1995, the graphical analysis of the UFO's appearance, and the chronology of the sightings. Aside from the purely factual value of the catalog of reports in Night Siege, its coverage of an undeniable series of events that somehow went largely untouched by the local authorities and the national media invites speculation into the origins of these silent objects. --Brian Patterson
(Review from Amazon.com)
Sighting: UFOs by Susan Michaels
Contains many stories that have been explored on the television series Sightings. Included is saucer sightings, the nuclear connection (cases of UFOs stealing nuclear warheads), airborne UFO encounters, sightings with no explanation, intergenerational abductions, men in black, life on Mars, the truth about the so-called "alien autopsy" and much more, plus some never before published photos.
UFO's : A Manual for the Millennium by Phil Cousineau
The UFO phenomenon: Strange visitors from outer space?...Or the nextevolutionary step?
From the latest mind-bending theories of flying saucers emerging from parallel universes to haunting tales of extraterrestrial encounters, this spine-tingling guide includes:
The latest reports on the crashed disk near Roswell, New Mexico, the alien bodies, the government cover-up.
Uncanny parallels between angels and aliens.
The 1952 buzzing of the U.S. Capital by seven UFOs.
Disturbing accounts of thousands of alien abductions.
UFO hot spots and skywatching sites revealed from Florida to Washington state.
Incredible "Close Encounter" stories from presidents, astronauts, and ordinary people.
Listing of UFO organizations, sighting hot lines, conferences, trivia, internet newsgroups, and more!
The UFO Controversy in America by David Jacobs
Although a fairly dated book, it still gives lots of good information on the history of UFOs and social responses to them over the first three decades of the modern UFO era.
[Currently out of print but can be ordered through Amazon.com]
