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