RANDLE'S REFLECTIONS

Kevin Randle. Reflections of a UFO Investigator, Anomalist Books, 2012

Kevin Randle first became interested in UFOs because of his mother's interest in science fiction and became more interested when he was in high school and read Brad Steiger's Strangers from the Skies (Award Books, New York, 1966).  Even in the early days of his research he became aware that some of the UFO witnesses were lying to him.
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ALL OUR YESTERDAYS

John Hanson and Dawn Holloway. Haunted Skies, The Encyclopaedia of British UFOs: Volume 3, 1966-1967. CFZ Press, 2011.

Yet another great nostalgia fest for ageing ufologists, now covering the period in which the prehistoric ancestor of Magonia, the Merseyside UFO Group Bulletin operated. I note, in fact, that there are a number of references to MUFORG Bulletin and our archive website.
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GRASSROOTS UFOS

Michael D. Swords. Grassroots UFOs: Case Reports from the Centre for UFO Studies, (compiled from original interviews by John P Timmerman). Anomalist Books, 2011.

Between 1980 and 1992 John P. Timmerman of the Centre for UFO Studies held UFO-related displays at several locations in the United States and Canada, at which he was approached by numerous people who related their own 'UFO experiences', many of which Timmerman taped.
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SIGNS AND WONDERS

Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck. Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times, and Their Impact on Human Culture, History and Belief. Tarcher/Penguin, 2010.

From its earliest days ufology sought to create a history for itself. To some extent one already existed in the books of Charles Fort, and stories from Fort were used by early writers such as Donald Keyhoe to bolster that history.

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BACK TO THE GOLDEN AGE

Maurizio Verga. When the Saucers Came to Earth: The Story of Italian UFO Landings During the 'Golden Age' of Flying Saucers. Edizione UPIAR, 2007.

It has taken a good while to get hold of this book but the wait has been worth it. At one level this is a collection of Italian UFO landing cases from 1912 to the end of 1954, at another it is a fascinating journey into cultural history.
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UFOs IN THE ARCHIVES

David Clarke. The UFO Files: The Inside Story of Real-life Sightings. The National Archives, 2009.

If someone had said say 20 years ago, that a UK 'government agency' would publish a book on UFOs, or at least one that did not dismiss the subject with a laugh and a sneer, they would have been thought crazy. Well how times change. 
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