SUBJECT: SPEISER'S MOST RECOMMENDED UFO BOOKS                FILE: UFO2355




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Speiser's Most Recommended UFO Books
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(reprinted from FIDO UFO Echo 7/10/89)


OVERVIEW - HISTORY
Jacobs, David M.      "The UFO Controversy in America"  Univ. of Chicago
       All bookshelves should start with this one.

OVERVIEW - SYNOPSIS/THEORIES
Hall, Richard            "Uninvited Guests"     Aurora
       Best overall primer, a must for the skeptic.

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.

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.

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!)

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"

" ", 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.

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"!


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.


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!

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."


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.

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.


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.


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...

Bullard, Dr. Thomas E.  "UFO Abductions: The Measure of the Mystery"
                                               Fund for UFO Research

       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...

                      "On Stolen Time"         Fund for UFO Research
       Summary of the above work. A much more convenient (and
       inexpensive) 34 pages.

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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