Recommended Reading
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The list will probably become somewhat of a behemoth, so it's been moved here.
Oh, and it's 'recommended' because most of the sources are free and, also, largely free of speculation.
Books
- The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry (1972, by J Allen Hynek, Astronomer and scientific adviser to U.S. Air Force)
- The Hynek UFO Report (link to downloadable pdf scan) (1977, by J Allen Hynek, Astronomer and scientific adviser to U.S. Air Force)
- The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (pdf) (a book by Edward J Ruppelt, former chief of Project Blue Book), ebook. A note on this book. First edition here.
- The UFO Evidence, Richard Hall, 1964 (published by NICAP).
- Major Donald Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers are Real, 1950.
- John Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff wrote the foreword in Leslie Keane's 'UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record'. To read it, click here (Amazon link) then on the cover to look inside, and scroll to the foreword.
- The UFO Controversy in America (1976, by David M. Jacobs, American Historian and recently retired Associate Professor of History at Temple University specializing in twentieth century American history and culture).
Government Reports / Hearings
- Project Sign Archives (the first official USAF investigation into UFOs, inititated in 1948). A note here.
- Project Grudge (USAFs 1949 UFO study).
- Flying Saucer Working Party report (pdf) (1951 UK Ministry of Defence official report).
- Project Blue Book Archive (Project Grudge was re-named 'Blue Book' in 1952).
- Project Magnet Report (1952 Canadian government report).
- The Condon Report (1968 U.S. government sponsored report, conducted by The University of Colorado). (see below for analysis/ criticisms)
- 1968 Congressional UFO Hearings: Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects.
- UK Ministry of Defence "UAP in the UK Air Defence Region" report (2000, released 2006 -- also known as 'The Condign Report').
- Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs/ 'The Brookings Report' (pdf, NASA archives).
Other Papers / Reports
- The Sturrock Panel's (pdf link) recommended reading list (link to reddit post).
- Science in Default: Twenty-Two Years of Inadequate UFO Investigations, James E McDonald, 1969. (pdf link)
- [1968 Statement of the American Insitute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Subcommittee on UFOs] (tbc: locating reputable source).
- UFOs And The Condon Report: A Dissenting View (presented to The Pacific Missile Range Section, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1969), James E McDonald, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona.
- An Analysis of the Condon Report on the Colorado UFO Project (pdf).
- The COMETA Report, pt1, pt2.
- Five Arguements Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of Unidentified Flying Objects, Jacques F. Vallee (pdf).
- Sovereignty and the UFO (pdf), Alexander Wendt (Mershon Professor of International Security at the Ohio State University) and Raymond Duvall (Morse-Alumni Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota), 2008.
- Brane Worlds, the Subanthropic Principle and the Undetectability Conjecture, Beatriz Gato-Rivera (Specialist in Particle Physics and Mathematical Physics. After spending three postdoctoral years at MIT and another three years at CERN, she joined the permanent research staff of the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC).
- The Rockefeller UFO Report / The UFO Briefing Document.
- Theses and Dissertations Inventory: an inventory of academic theses and dissertations issued for credit toward Masters and Doctoral degrees relating to UFOs and life in space.(pdf), Barry Greenwood.
Audio ('reading' for your ears, until this expands and requires a dedicated section)
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