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- Speiser's Most Recommended UFO Books
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- (reprinted from FIDO UFO Echo 7/10/89)
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- OVERVIEW - HISTORY
- Jacobs, David M. "The UFO Controversy in America" Univ. of Chicago
- All bookshelves should start with this one.
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- OVERVIEW - SYNOPSIS/THEORIES
- Hall, Richard "Uninvited Guests" Aurora
- Best overall primer, a must for the skeptic.
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- OVERVIEW - DEBATE
- Sagan, C. and Page, T., Eds. "UFOS: A Scientific Debate"
- If you thought Sagan was always a skeptic, think again. Contains
- papers contributed to an AIAA symposium on UFOs, including ones by
- Hynek and Menzel. Pay special attention to the paper by Dr. Robert M.
- L. Baker.
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- OVERVIEW - SKEPTICAL
- Klass, Philip J. "UFOs: Explained" McGraw-Hill
- "UFOs: Identified" McGraw-Hill
- "UFOs: The Public Deceived" Prometheus
- Perhaps the most important works in the field. (Surprise!) It
- was these three that convinced me that UFOs are a legitimate,
- bona fide mystery, unanswered by even the world's best debunker.
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- Shaeffer, Robert "The UFO Verdict" Prometheus
- Shaeffer is a Klass Klone to some degree, but does a credible
- job on many investigations of his own, most notably Jimmy
- Carter's sighting when he was Governor of Georgia (it was Venus,
- Jimmy!)
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- SCIENCE AND INVESTIGATION
- Hynek, Dr. J. Allen "The UFO Experience" Regnery
- First attempt at collating and digesting the massive amounts of
- data, and suggesting methods of study for the budding
- proto-science. Gave rise to the term "Close Encounters"
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- " ", Imbrogno, P., and Pratt, R. "Night Siege" Ballantine
- A look at the very most impressive case on record, the Hudson
- Valley Boomerang. 9000 sightings through 1987, videotape,
- stills, sightings at nuclear reactors, hints of cover-up,
- possible abductions....this one's got it all.
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- Story, Ronald J. "UFOs and the Limits of Science"
- Story is known for debunking Von Daniken, and has written for
- the Skeptical Inquirer. But when it comes to UFOs, ah, that's
- another "Story"!
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- CRASHED SAUCERS
- Moore, W. and Berlitz, C. "The Roswell Incident" Random House
- Say what you will about MJ-12, MIBs, and Moore's latest
- bombshell. This is STILL the best documented, best researched
- incident on record. Honorable mention to Stan Friedman, since
- the publisher saw fit not to recognize his contribution.
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- GOVERNMENT COVER-UP
- Fawcett, L. and Greenwood, B. "Clear Intent"
- The authors make a very credible and as-yet unanswered case for
- the Cosmic Watergate. Contains reproduced documents obtained
- under the Freedom of Information Act, many of them acquired by
- Citizens Against UFO Secrecy. Watch out! These guys can back up
- just about everything they say!
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- Keyhoe, Maj. Donald E. "Flying Saucers: Top Secret" Holt
- Honorable mention - Good glimpse of the early days of the
- cover-up, and NICAP's thwarted attempts to "blow the lid."
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- ABDUCTIONS
- Streiber, Whitley "Communion" Morrow/Beech Tree
- The largest selling of all UFO books. Regardless of what you
- think of Streiber and his strange tale, make no mistake: HE
- believes it. He is over-rated as a writer, however.
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- Hopkins, Budd "Intruders" Random House
- Much more readable than Communion, and downright scary in its
- implications. Hopkins does his best to make a case for genetic
- experimentation, but has come under fire for his unscientific
- methodology. Not bad for an artist, though.
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- ABDUCTIONS - SKEPTICAL
- Klass, Philip J. "UFO Abductions: A Dangerous Game" Prometheus
- As with his previous books, important only for its failure to
- convince. Klass argues that the 1975 TV-Movie "The UFO Incident"
- is the genesis for the present spate of abduction-itis.
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- EXTRA CREDIT
- Hungry for more? Itching to get your hands dirty on the real
- nitty-gritty? OK, boys and girls, let's get down, let's get
- funky...
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- Bullard, Dr. Thomas E. "UFO Abductions: The Measure of the Mystery"
- Fund for UFO Research
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- A monumental two-volume, 673 page work by a folklorist who set
- out to show that abductions were nothing more than 20th century
- fairy tales. He admits he failed. Anyone who says we're not
- trying to take an empirical look at this subject should get a
- load of this. If its too much for you...
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- "On Stolen Time" Fund for UFO Research
- Summary of the above work. A much more convenient (and
- inexpensive) 34 pages.
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- Swords, Dr. Michael, Ed. "Journal of UFO Studies" CUFOS
- Ufology's very own refereed science journal. Includes articles
- on the Delphos Landing Trace Case (no, friends, it's NOT a
- "fairy ring"), the ET possibility, and a very revealing round-table
- debate on abductions.
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