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Recommended Books |
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A list of
recommended books compiled by the 
Board of Directors. |
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Leap
of Faith
Gordon
Cooper
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In
this engaging memoir, Mercury 7 astronaut Cooper adds his compelling
voice to the chorus of critics charging a U.S. governmental coverup of
the UFO phenomenon. Written in the first person with Henderson (coauthor
of And the Sea Will Tell), this book will challenge UFO skeptics and
believers alike. On the one hand, Cooper states that, despite many
reports to the contrary, neither he nor other astronauts saw UFOs in
outer space. On the other hand, he reports that in 1951, as a young air
force pilot based in Germany, he chased saucer-shaped UFOs, and that
groups of UFOs passed over the base daily at speeds far superior to any
manmade craft. In 1957, at Edwards Air Force Base in the California
desert, Cooper was given photographs of a "classic saucer"
that had reportedly landed at the top-secret military installation. He
sent the photos to a Pentagon general, but never heard about the matter
again. In the late 1970s, Cooper (who's now an aeronautical designer)
unsuccessfully tried to launch a research company devoted to free
worldwide energy transmission using Nikola Tesla's discoveries, as well
as to advanced medical devices and other projects. His partner in this
venture, Valerie Ransone, claims to receive scientifically useful
telepathic transmissions from extraterrestrial sources. The story gets a
lot weirder, as Cooper agrees to join Ransone in the Arizona desert for
a telepathically arranged rendezvous with a UFO. Joining them at this
alleged meeting (which was canceled) was Atlas missile aerospace
engineer Dan Fry, who claims to have flown over Texas on board a UFO in
1950. On a more mundane level, Cooper's reminiscence offers an exciting
insider's look at Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, full of startling
details about NASA's internal politics, disasters, glitches and close
calls. 16 pages of color photos. (Aug.) |
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The
Hunt For Zero Point
Nick
Cook
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The
true, first person account of leading defence journalist Nick Cook's
search for the existence of anti-gravity technology and its limitless
energy potential. The title comes from the proven phenomenon of zero
point energy - a limitless source of potential power that may hold the
key to gravity. Project
overseen by SS
General
Hans Kammler, keeper of Hitler's secret
weapons technology who disappeared at the end of the war. Contains
dozens of interviews with named defense industry officials and
scientists. Describes why today's defense-industrial complex has buried
the science under a mountain of disinformation. Details
NASA-run experiments that have demonstrated gravity control. |
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Why
the Press Acts That Way
D.
Berliner |
This
short article deals with several significant points about how
UFO-related news is treated by the media and why. A frequent
subconscious assumption made by the uninformed is "If all this is
true, I surely would see it somewhere else than in the tabloids."
The active or passive control of media reports is a definite part of the
puzzle, rarely treated explicitly. |
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Flying
Saucers 101
Harold
Burt
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Harold
E. Burt, one of the world's leading UFO researchers, has written THE
most comprehensive and complete primer on the subject of unidentified
flying objects ever published. FLYING SAUCERS 101 is the one book that
tells you everything you need to know about the most controversial and
fascinating subject of this or any millennium. If you don't believe you
are living in a world of High Strangeness, FLYING SAUCERS 101 will prove
it to you! Packed with 448 pages of the most thoroughly researched
material ever printed in one volume. For novices and sophisticated
readers alike. |
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The
Day After Roswell
Col.
Philip Corso
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The
Day After Roswell is Colonel Philip J. Corso's accounting of the
controversial events that took place on a desert night in 1947. Roswell
is the small, New Mexican town of renown where, purportedly, a UFO
crashed into terra firma, scattering debris and extra-terrestrial bodies
over the desert floor like so much weird candy from a shattered pinata.
If the notorious Area 51 can be likened to the ufologists' Holy Grail,
then Roswell is akin to its Bethlehem, the place where it all started
(in the dramatic, if not the actual, sense). According to Corso, he's
been there from almost the beginning. |
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Clear
Intent/The UFO Cover-up
L.
Fawcett, Barry Greenwood
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Greenwood,
Barry & Fawcett, Lawrence. (1992). UFO Cover-Up. NY: Barnes &
Noble Books. (Reprinted from Clear Intent by Barry Green and Lawrence
Fawcett. 1984. NJ: Prentice Hall)
The
best book on the once-controversial but now widely recognized extent of
secret government interest in UFOs. Working from a large quantity of
FOIA'd declassified documents, the authors give an interesting
"just the facts" style of presentation of the revealed
information. Re-published as The UFO Cover-up. |
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Future
Magic
Dr.
Robert L. Forward
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Bob
Forward describes things that are theoretically possible -- not ruled
out by our current understanding of science -- but are so far advanced
from our current technology that they seem like magic -- or science
fiction -- to us today. But remember, most of the technology we have
today would have seemed like black magic only a century ago. |
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Top
Secret/Majic
Dr.
Stanton Friedman 
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(Stanton
T. Friedman, Marlowe, 1996, 272 pages, 5th printing, hardcover, $23). is
the most authoritative book about the Eisenhower Briefing Document (EBD),
describing a top secret research, development and intelligence
operation. It is built on close to fifteen years of research with
archives, historians and authentication experts looking at the real
chance that the government and our Presidents have been informed,
involved and covering-up since 1947. |
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Crash
at Corona
Dr.
Stanton Friedman
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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 America's most documented UFO encounter. |
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Above
Top Secret
Timothy
Good
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Above
Top Secret proves that alien aircraft have been invading the earth's air
space and such incursions threaten our most secure defense systems and
our basic scientific and religious beliefs. Crammed with the testimony
of reliable people. 16 pages of black-and-white photos. |
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Alien
Contact
Timothy
Good
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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.
military, scientific, and intelligence personnel. Photos and
illustrations. |
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Disclosure
Dr.
Steven Greer
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For
the first time ever, over five dozen top-secret military, government,
intelligence and corporate witnesses to secret projects tell their true
stories which disclose the greatest covert program in world history.
This explosive testimony by actual government insiders proves that UFOs
are real, that some are of extraterrestrial origin and that super-secret
programs have energy and propulsion technologies that will enable
humanity to begin a new civilization- A civilization without pollution,
without poverty - A civilization capable of traveling among the stars.
This is not just a story about UFOs, ET s and secret projects: It is the
story of how 50 years of human evolution have been deferred and how
these secret projects contain the real solution to the world energy
crisis, the environmental crisis and world poverty. |
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Extraterrestrial
Contact
Dr.
Steven Greer
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The absolute best UFO/ET cases and
evidence. The best US and other government
smoking gun documents related to UFOs An expose of who is maintaining UFO
secrecy and WHY. A thought-provoking overview of why
ETs are here, what are the implications of disclosing this knowledge
to the world and how the world will change once the truth is known
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The
UFO Evidence
Richard
Hall
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In
July 1964, under Hall's editorship, NICAP released The UFO Evidence,
a classic overview of the phenomenon from 1947 as it looked to
conservative proponents. The UFO Evidence II picks up the story from
then. The result is a comprehensive, intelligent, sober overview of an
implacable mystery which is declared over every other Tuesday, but which
resolutely refuses either to go away or to lend itself to genuine (as
opposed to excitedly asserted) prosaic accounting. Like its predecessor,
UFOEII focuses on the aspects that comprise the enigma's core, from
reports by high-quality witnesses to physical and physiological effects
to the strikingly recurrent, often subtle patterns repeatedly
demonstrated worldwide. |
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Unconventional
Flying Objects
Paul
Hill  |
To
the degree that the engineering characteristics of UFOs can be estimated
by empirical observation, in this reviewer's opinion the
above-referenced, recently-published book by Paul Hill provides the most
reliable, concise summary of engineering-type data available.1
The data were compiled over decades of research by a Chief
Scientist-Manager at NASA's Langley Research Center2 who
acted as an informal clearinghouse for UFO-related data. The strength of
the compilation lies in its thoughtful separation of wheat from chaff,
and the analysis of the former into coherent patterns, including
detailed calculations. Perhaps surprising to the casually interested,
under careful examination the observations, rather than defying the laws
of physics as naive interpretation might suggest, instead appear to be
solidly commensurate with them, as the following discussion shows. |
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An
Alien Harvest
Linda
Moulton Howe 
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"An
Alien Harvest, told by Linda Howe, is as intriguing and absorbing as
a good spy novel. She has had the energy and guts to pursue her
field work. It is a compilation of challenging data. The issues it
raises should concern all of us." - Jacques Vallee, Computer
Scientist and author of Dimensions and Anatomy of A Phenomenon |
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Glimpses
of Other Realities
Linda
Moulton Howe
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"As
I read Glimpses of Other Realities, I found myself in an
almost permanent state of excitement. For anyone who has so far managed
to sleep through the increasing furor about non-human intelligence, I
cannot recommend a better alarm clock than Linda Moulton Howe's 2-volume
book." - Colin Wilson, British author, Mysteries. |
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The
UFO Experience
J.
Allen Hynek
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Cited
by the New York Review of Books as "the best brief for
visitation," this classic study presents an analysis of UFO reports
and concludes that many sightings cannot be easily dismissed. |
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The
UFO Controversy in America
David
Jacobs |
In
1973 Dr. David M. Jacobs completed his doctoral dissertation in the
field of intellectual history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on
the controversy over unidentified flying objects in America. A revised
version of his dissertation was published by Indiana University Press as
The UFO Controversy in America (1975) and it
remains the only positive book toward UFOs published by an academic
press. |
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Hyperspace,
Beyond Einstein
Michio
Kaku  |
Reissued
in new covers, this is the run-away bestseller from one of the world's
leading theoretical physicists. Are there other dimensions beyond our
own? Is time travel possible? Michio Kaku takes us on a tour of the most
exciting work in modern physics, including research into the 10th
dimension, time warps, and multiple universes, to outline what may be
the leading candidate for the Theory of Everything. |
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Passport
to the Cosmos
Dr.
John Mack  |
In
Passport to the Cosmos, Pulitzer Prize-winner and Harvard
professor of psychiatry John E. Mack, M.D., powerfully
suggests that an intelligence in the cosmos is interacting with mankind.
Writing
with the authority and insight that have marked his distinguished career
as a psychiatrist and writer, Dr. Mack provocatively asserts that
these interactions are part of a new era in human consciousness. The
Western world may be poised to embrace notions of a world filled with
spirits, beings and intelligences that can cross the barrier we have
built up between the material and immaterial worlds. |
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The
Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell
Krevin
Randle, Donald Schmitt
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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. George Eberhart --This text
refers to the Hardcover
edition. |
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The
Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
E.J.Ruppelt
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Capt.
Edward J. Ruppelt's The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects has
acquired an almost mythic status. That status is well-deserved since the
book is a carefully balanced synthesis of the late Ruppelt's experiences
as head of the sometimes infamous Project Blue Book. Under his
direction, however, Blue Book did some creditable work. Even now, the
most jaded ufologist would find Capt. Ruppelt's an interesting read.
Unfortunately, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is out of
print. Interested readers should try searching used book stores, flea
markets and library sales. The hardback was published in 1956 by
Doubleday. The paperback was later published by Ace. |
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Invisible
Residents
Ivan
Sanderson |
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Intelligent
Life in the Universe
I.S.
Shklovskii, Carl Sagan
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In
1966 a youthful Carl Sagan co-authored the book Intelligent Life in the
Universe with Russian astronomer I.S. Shklovskii. A virtual tome of
evidence supporting the probability of extraterrestrial life,
Intelligent Life in the Universe is an unquestioned masterpiece. The
book is characterized by candid, forward thinking scientific discussion
of a topic now too taboo for mainstream science. More importantly, it
illustrates the extraordinary divergence between Sagan's early beliefs
and his later, considerably more pessimistic--and some might argue,
politically motivated--views on the subject of ET life. |
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A
Guide to UFO Research
M.
D. Swords |
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Astronomers,
the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis
M.
D. Swords |
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The
UFO Enigma
Jacques
Vallee
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A
comprehensive investigation of encounters with unidentified flying
objects, all the more riveting because it is both skeptical and
scrupulously objective. What facts do we have regarding UFOs? asks an
international team of scientists headed by Sturrock (Physics/Stanford
Univ.). |
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Man
Made UFOs
Renato
Vesco, David Childress
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This
has got to be one of the most thoroughly researched books that I have
ever read. It contains some of the most obscure facts and details
relating to the NAZI war machine during the second world war.
The authors basically believe that all UFO sightings are in fact
man-made machines which were first developed by the NAZI's in the
closing months of the war and that the Americans then moved all the
secrets and scientist over to America, to continue with their work.
There are lots of documents, photos, extracts from papers and quotes
which do put over quite a convincing argument. However, the book avoids
explaining the more strange UFO encounters and abduction stories.
The book is very well written but can be hard work in places. I would
recommend this book for people looking at alternative explanations for
the UFO phenomena. |
