RecommendedReading
International ufological biibliography
French Federation of Ufology
The intent of the following sections is to present a bibliography of books dealing with the UFO phenomenon, no judgement is made.
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The Barry Greenwood Archives
Barry Greenwood has been collecting UFO publications for over 30 years. His collection has become famous as a reference set for those who want to research the UFO field.
Posted on 4/8/2004 1:54:25 AM

RecommendedReading
The UFO Literature
MUFON
The following survey and summary does not pretend to be complete or objective; the field is far too vast for such sentiments and is expanding exponentially even as we speak. The best we can do is list several categories (you may think of others) and their most prominent and representative titles. R
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June 24, 1947: How It All Began - The Story of the Kenneth Arnold Sighting
Bruce Maccabee
You will not find any conventional history book that even so much as mentions that on this date the human race first became aware of a phenomenon that could well be the most important discovery of the last century, or even in the history of mankind: the presence of "Other Intelligences" (Non-Human Intelligence). The important event of that date was the sighting, by Kenneth Arnold, of a group of strange flying objects which eventually became known throughout the world as flying saucers, Unidentified Flying Objects or UFOs.
Posted on 4/8/2004 1:41:26 AM

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Commentary on COMETA (skeptical)
Claude Mauge
The following commentary was published by the respected Belgian UFO research magazine Inforespace (No.100, June 2000, p.78)
Posted on 3/30/2004 4:20:58 PM

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Original July 8, 1947 "Army Has Flying Disc" Story (Roswell, NM)
Sacramento Bee, July 8, 1947
This is the original story published on July 8, 1947 in which the U.S. Army announced it had recovered a crashed flying disc near Roswell, NM. Quickly thereafter, the official Army story was changed to the "weather balloon" position. R
Posted on 3/15/2004 10:36:14 AM

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Secret UFO Report To Churchill Revealed After 50 Years
The Observer (UK), October 21, 2001
Scientists and generals drew up a top secret report on Unidentified Flying Objects and then decided to cover up a wave of rumours and sightings that swept Britain in the 1950s, The Observer can reveal. The existence of the UFO report, written in 1951 and later used to brief Prime Minister Winston Churchill, was denied by the Ministry of Defence for almost 50 years. R
Posted on 3/15/2004 10:29:50 AM

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UFO/ET Mania Sweeping Beijing
Xinhua News Agency, July 31, 2002
"...science fiction mania spreads throughout China's capital this summer." R
Posted on 3/15/2004 10:27:10 AM

Media
National media sidestep UFOs
Florida Today, May 7, 2002
There was a big subculture buzz in Washington, D.C., a year ago this week when a group called the Disclosure Project launched a bid to end government secrecy surrounding unidentified flying objects. ...The ensuing failure of the national media to respond came as no surprise to a couple of journalists who've spent years monitoring these dynamics. R
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Chilean Government Established UFO Bureau
J. Antonio Huneeus, FATE Magazine
At the end of 1997, Chile joined the handful of nations which at one time or another have conducted official UFO probes. The Chilean Air Force (FACH) recently announced the formation of CEFAA, the name of which translates into English as the Committee for the Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena. R
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Chile announces UFOs are for real
UFOs at Close Sight
On 2nd April 1997, Chilean newspaper "La Cuarta" has the following headline: "UFO Sighting of Arica is Confirmed by La Direccion General de Aeronautic Civil." Chile did start to join the small number of countries who officially stated that the nature of UFOs is of intelligent driven flying machines.
Posted on 3/10/2004 12:44:21 PM

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UFOs do not raise smiles anymore (the Sturrock Panel Report)
La Dépêche du Midi, France, December 1st, 2002 (reprinted on UFOs at close sight)
The conclusions of an american symposium (the Sturrock Panel) are finally published in France.
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The Bob Lazar Story
L. Broden, UFO Area
This is a really fascinating story and the story self has as many supporters as it has debunkers. In 1989, a man named Robert Scott Lazar contacted the Las Vegas television station (KLAS) and claimed that he had been working as a physicist on the government's most highly classified project, Galileo, which involves back engineering alien technology. R
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Retired Chilean General Discusses his Encounters with a Giant UFO
INEXPLICATA, The Journal of Hispanic Ufology, January 2, 2003
In an interview with Terra.cl., retired general Hernan Gabrielli Rojas mentioned that he had squared off against a gigantic UFO while engaging in a training flight in the skies of northern Chile. R
Posted on 3/10/2004 12:32:41 PM

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The Pseudoscience Test
Stanton Friedman, Mutual UFO Network Journal, December 2001
The November 2001, issue of Scientific American (p.36) has a column by Dr. Michael Shermer entitled "Baloney Detection." Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, and is much younger than the old line skepticbunkers to which ufologists have become accustomed, such as Philip Klass. He provides the following rules for testing to see whether claims about unusual phenomena are pseudoscience, or science, and unintentionally provides a means for evaluating debunker views as well. Here are some claims about UFOs (from skeptics) that we can put through Shermer's tests. R
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Telepathy vs. Channeling
John Carpenter, MUFON
If there is one area of research that gives scientists more laughs, investigators more headaches, and skeptics more ammunition, it is that of mental communication. If there is any type of communication between human beings and otherworldly visitors, it seems to be telepathic 95 to 99 percent of the time. That, in itself, is an incredibly high correlational statistic that places the incidence of this form of communication well above chance or fantasy.
Posted on 3/10/2004 12:16:12 PM

AncientAstronauts
UFOs in History: Images of Ancient UFOs
UFOs at Close Sight
A collection of representations of ufos before photography existed. These images might disturb the skeptics who argue that ufos started to be reported only recently and are due to science fiction imagery.
Posted on 3/10/2004 10:51:51 AM

History
A Brief UFO History
UFOs at Close Sight
The general public is convinced that UFOs are a modern phenomena that started after the fashion of science fiction stories started in the Fifties. Maybe this short history will set the clock straight.
Posted on 3/10/2004 10:47:27 AM

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Alien life: Would we recognize it at all?
Seattle Times, January 8, 2003
Hundreds of astronomers yesterday learned that life in outer space is likely to lack green eyes and be far more prosaic, tiny and, quite possibly, completely unlike life as we know it. This blunt appraisal came from the University of Washington's Center for Astrobiology and Early Evolution, one of the first programs in the country to give an advanced degree in astrobiology. R
Posted on 3/10/2004 10:45:38 AM

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Fear of UFO Attack Spurs U.N. Program
Barney Williams, UFO Magazine #5 March 1979 page 52
Last November (1978) an event that may well prove to be one of the most significant of our time took place on international soil. Addressing the 1977-1978 General Assembly meeting of the United Nations, Prime Minister Eric Gairy of Grenada - an island country in the Caribbean - introduced a resolution calling for the establishment of an agency to study UFOs on a global scale. R
Posted on 3/8/2004 11:36:22 PM

Presidents
White House Briefed on UFOs
Sarah McClendon, White House Correspondent, McClendon News Service, March 30, 1998
(This article is written by Sarah McClendon, the nation's longest-serving White House Correspondent, who passed away on 9 January 2003.) Unidentified Flying Objects, a term given for many years to unexplained sightings of craft in the skies over every state in the Union, are actual visitors from other worlds, believe a community of scientists and technicians employed by government. R
Posted on 3/7/2004 11:13:14 AM

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Pressure Building for Congressional Hearings on UFOs
Sarah McClendon, White House Correspondent, McClendon News Service, July 1, 1998
Pressure is building up for Congress to give attention to the controversy over unidentified flying objects. With scientists from Stanford, MIT, Cornell, Princeton and elsewhere studying UFO evidence, the controversy is now being brought out into the open and heavy secrecy surrounding the subject is being lifted. Seminars on UFO evidence are being held periodically throughout the country with laymen discussing the evidence without fear of being ridiculed. (This article is written by Sarah McClendon, the nation's longest-serving White House Correspondent, who died on 9 January 2003.) R
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A Skeptical Manifesto (Skeptical)
Michael Shermer, The Skeptics Society
What does it mean to be skeptical? The key to skepticism is to continuously and vigorously apply the methods of science to navigate the treacherous straits between “know nothing” skepticism and “anything goes” credulity. This manifesto—a statement of purpose of sorts—explores these themes further. R
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What is a Skeptic? (Skeptical)
The Skeptics Society
What does it mean to be a skeptic? Some people believe that skepticism is rejection of new ideas, or worse, they confuse “skeptic” with “cynic” and think that skeptics are a bunch of grumpy curmudgeons unwilling to accept any claim that challenges the status quo. This is wrong. R
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The Difference Between Science and Pseudoscience (Skeptical)
Michael Shermer
Are we living in the Age of Science? It would seem so from the above examples. But if we are, why do so many pseudoscientific and non-scientific traditions abound? Religions, myths, superstitions, mysticisms, cults, New Age beliefs, and nonsense of all sorts have penetrated every nook and cranny of both popular and high culture. One may rationalize that compared to the magical thinking of the Middle Ages things are not so bad. But statistically speaking pseudoscientific beliefs are experiencing a revival in the late 20th century. R
Posted on 3/7/2004 10:34:27 AM

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The truth is out there: that's a scientific fact
The Sunday Herald (Scotland), 2002
Aliens have never had it so good. Their friends the Raelians are claiming to have cloned humans; their PR agent on earth, Steven Spielberg, has just unveiled a new TV mini-series, Taken; and now science is starting to take them seriously. An interest in the existence of cosmic neighbours is no longer the preserve of shadowy conspiracy theorists or sci-fi obsessives: respectable academics are now in on the act. R
Posted on 3/7/2004 10:15:01 AM

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CSICOP: The Paradigm Police
Richard Milton, Alternative Science
In an imperfect world, we all suffer from a gap between how we see ourselves and how others see us: between what we'd like to be and what we are. But in 30 years of journalism I haven't found a more striking gulf between self-image and performance than CSICOP -- the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.
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UFOs: The Psychic Dimension
David Pratt, October 2002
Any light or object that is seen in the atmosphere and is not immediately identifiable is by definition an unidentified flying object, or UFO -- which does not necessarily mean an extraterrestrial spacecraft. There have been hundreds of thousands of UFO sightings all over the world during the past 50 years.
Posted on 3/7/2004 3:04:31 AM

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The Skeptic's Dictionary: UFOs (unidentified flying objects)
Robert Todd Carroll, The Skeptic's Dictionary
A UFO is an unidentified flying object which has been identified as a possible or actual alien spacecraft. So far, however, nothing has been positively identified as an alien spacecraft in a way required by common sense and science. That is, there has been no recurring identical UFO experience and there is no physical evidence in support of either a UFO flyby or landing. R
Posted on 3/7/2004 3:00:10 AM

A Field Guide to Skepticism
Dean I. Radin, from The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena
This chapter does not argue against skepticism. On the contrary, it demonstrates that critical thinking is a double-edged sword: It must be applied to any claim, including the claims of skeptics. We will see that many of the skeptical arguments commonly levelled at psi experiments have been motivated by non-scientific factors, such as arrogance, advocacy and ideology.
Posted on 3/7/2004 2:44:55 AM