UFO Library
100 essential books — foundational, skeptical, abduction, and military UAP shelves.
The Roswell Incident
The book that resurrected the 1947 Roswell story after three decades of obscurity, arguing an extraterrestrial craft crashed after being struck by lightning while observing nearby nuclear weapons activity, and that the U.S. military staged a cover story and cover-up within hours.
Fire in the Sky: The Walton Experience
Walton's first-person account of his November 1975 disappearance during an Arizona logging job — a claimed five-day abduction that triggered a massive search and briefly made him a homicide suspect — remains one of the best-documented alleged abduction cases, with all six of his coworkers passing polygraph tests on the sighting itself.
Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a UFO
Nuclear physicist Friedman, the original civilian Roswell investigator, and aviation writer Berliner drew on interviews with over 100 witnesses to argue for two New Mexico crash sites and a coordinated multi-decade government cover-up, going further than Berlitz and Moore's original account.
You Can't Tell the People: The Definitive Account of the Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery
Bruni gained access to police, Ministry of Defence, and U.S. military sources to reconstruct the December 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident, in which USAF security patrolmen at RAF Woodbridge/Bentwaters reported a landed craft and physical traces in the forest between the twin bases.
Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah
Kelleher, a biochemist with the National Institute for Discovery Science, and investigative journalist Knapp document a Utah ranch's decades-long history of cattle mutilations, UFO sightings, and reported paranormal entities, examined by a privately-funded scientific team over several years of on-site fieldwork.
Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings
Hynek's final research project, completed by Imbrogno and Pratt after his 1986 death, documented over 7,000 reports of a large boomerang-shaped craft over New York's Hudson Valley and Connecticut between 1982 and 1995, presenting witness data without asserting a firm explanation.
The Cash-Landrum UFO Incident
MUFON's longtime international director spent over a decade investigating the December 1980 Texas case in which Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Colby Landrum suffered radiation-like burns and lasting illness after encountering a diamond-shaped object escorted by military helicopters, documenting the medical evidence and the pair's unsuccessful lawsuit against the U.S. government.
Triangular UFOs: An Estimate of the Situation
The first book-length treatment devoted entirely to triangular UFO reports, cross-referencing newspaper archives, declassified military documents, and firsthand interviews to build a comprehensive profile of the shape's history from the Hudson Valley siege through the 1989-90 Belgian wave and beyond.
UFO Crash at Roswell
A CUFOS-sponsored investigative team's first book-length account of their 1988-91 Roswell witness search, expanding the roster of claimed witnesses to the debris field and adding new testimony about military secrecy in the days after the crash.
The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell
The sequel expanded the Roswell witness list still further, incorporating mortician Glenn Dennis's controversial secret-autopsy and alien-nurse claims that later collapsed under scrutiny — a cautionary tale later cited by critics of the crash-retrieval literature's expanding witness rosters.
UFOs & Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites
Drawing on interviews with more than 170 U.S. Air Force veterans over five decades, Hastings documents recurring reports of UFOs appearing over ICBM silos coinciding with unexplained missile malfunctions, including a March 1967 Montana incident in which numerous missiles reportedly went off alert moments after a disc-shaped object was seen nearby.
The Phoenix Lights: A Skeptic's Discovery That We Are Not Alone
A physician who personally witnessed and photographed the March 13, 1997 mass sighting recounts her journey from skepticism to conviction, compiling eyewitness testimony from police dispatchers, pilots, and then-Governor Fife Symington, who publicly reversed his earlier mockery of the event.
Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-Up
British researcher Good compiled classified-document leaks, military testimony, and international sighting reports from dozens of countries to argue for a coordinated worldwide government cover-up, and was among the first to publicize the contested 'Majestic 12' documents.
Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story
Redfern proposed a startling alternative to both the extraterrestrial and weather-balloon theories: that the Roswell bodies and debris stemmed from a classified U.S. high-altitude balloon program using disabled Japanese test subjects and monkeys from wartime medical experiments, misidentified decades later as alien remains.
Left at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident
Written by one of the USAF airmen present at Rendlesham Forest, this first-person account describes multiple nights of encounters, an alleged military briefing about the events, and what the authors present as a subsequent campaign of intimidation against witnesses.
UFO Crash Landing? Friend or Foe?
British investigator Randles offers a more measured, skeptically-inflected reconstruction of Rendlesham Forest, weighing the lighthouse-beam and military-exercise explanations against the witness testimony and unresolved radiation readings at the site.
The Rendlesham Forest UFO Conspiracy
Redfern argues the Rendlesham events were most likely connected to a highly classified, non-extraterrestrial military exercise or experiment, drawing on FOIA-released documents and interviews with intelligence sources to build a mundane-but-secret alternative explanation.
Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings
Field investigator Ted Phillips compiled the first systematic international catalogue of UFO 'trace cases' — landing marks, scorched vegetation, soil anomalies — cross-referenced by location, date, and physical characteristics, work later expanded into a database of thousands of entries.
Firestorm: Dr. James E. McDonald's Fight for UFO Science
A biography of the atmospheric physicist James McDonald, who used his scientific standing to publicly challenge the Air Force's dismissive UFO stance in the late 1960s — a campaign that made him ufology's most credentialed scientific advocate before his death by suicide in 1971 amid professional and personal turmoil.
The Day After Roswell
A retired Army colonel and former Eisenhower National Security Council staffer claimed personal stewardship of recovered Roswell debris and credited it with seeding Army reverse-engineering that produced integrated circuits, fiber optics, and Kevlar. A New York Times bestseller, it drew heavy criticism for documented factual and chronological errors.