Ongoing Project: A Bibliography of Unidentified Flying Object Resources

 Unidentified Flying Objects Bibliography

Marilyn A. Hudson, Author and Researcher,  www.ufoskies.blogspot.com

This is an ongoing list. All are works I have personally read, studied, and critiqued are marked with a "+". The range of the topic may include early balloon and aircraft development, written material related to “flying discs”, “flying saucers”, “unidentified flying objects”, “unidentified objects”, and “unidentified aerial phenomena.”  

Classic Works

Kenneth Arnold. The flying saucer as I saw it.[Boise, Idaho?][1950]

Roy Craig. UFOs: An Insider’s View of the Official Quest for Evidence. Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press, 1995.+

Frank Edwards. Flying Saucers – Serious Business. New York: Bantam Books, 1966.+

Loren E. Gross. The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse. Acirca 1991 pre-title that is associated with some online copies. 

Loren E. Gross. Mystery of the Ghost Rockets. Scotia, NY; Arcturus Book Service, 1982, rev. ed.

Loren E. Gross. The Mystery of the Ghost Rockets. 1972. Deals with 1946.

Loren E. Gross. The Mystery of the Unidentified Flying Objects: a Prelude, 1896-1949. Sept. 1971, revised 1973. 309 pp.

Loren E. Gross. The UFO Wave of 1896. 1974.+

Loren E. Gross. The UFO's: A History, 1947. 1988.+

Loren E. Gross. The UFO's: A History, 1946, with Ghost Rockets. 2nd ed. 1988.

J. Allen Hynek. The Hynek UFO Report: The Authoritative Account of the Project Blue Book Coverup. Forward by Paul Hynek. Newburyport, Massachusetts: MUFON, 2020.+

Donald Keyhoe. The flying saucers are real. New York : Fawcett Publications, 1950.+

Donald H. Menzel and Lyle G. Boyd. The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific examination of a major myth of the space age. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc. 1963.+

Edward J. Ruppelt. The Report of Unidentified Flying Objects. New York: Ace, 1956.+

Brad Steiger, editor. Project Blue Book: he Top Secret UFO Files that Revealed a Government Cover-Up.  Newburyport, Massachusetts: MUFON, 1976, 2019.+

Leonard H. Stringfield. The Collected Issues of C.R.F.O. Newsletter combined with C.R.I.F.O. (Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects). N.P.: Saucerian Publisher, 2020.+

Richard L. Weaver. The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert. A. J. Cornell Publications, 2013.+

United States Air Force. The Roswell Report: Case Closed. James McAndrew. Skyhorse Publishing. New York, New York, 2013.+

United States Government. The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995.+

Government Reports

“Project Blue Book” (microfilm/digital copies). National Archives, Washington.

“Project Blue Book” (microfilm/digital copies). Online Archives, accessed at https://archive.org/details/project-blue-book.+

Weaver, Richard L.  McAndrew, James.  “The Roswell Report: Fact vs Fiction in the New Mexico Desert.” Department of the United States Air Force, 1994, downloadable at https://www.usaf-sig.org/index.php/references/reference/114-research-material/396-the-roswell-report-fact-versus-fiction-in-the-new-mexico-desert and also at https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA326148

Unidentified flying objects: hearing by Committee on Armed Forces of the House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session. April 5, 1966. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services,; United States. Congress House.            Committee Serial No. 55. Considers sightings of unidentified flying objects, together with U.S. Air Force evaluations of the sightings as part of Project Blue Book. Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1966.

Project "Grudge": unidentified flying objects. Robert P Swiatek; United States. Air Force. Air Matériel Command; Fund for UFO Research. Mount Rainier, Md. : Fund for UFO Research, ©1999, 1949.                Cover:  "Release date: August 1949." Project no. XS-304:              1 volume (various paging); 28 cm. Alt. titles: Unidentified flying objects: Project Grudge. Responsibility:               from Headquarters Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, Air Materiel Command; foreword by Robert P. Swiatek.

 

                                                                                  Recommended Works                   

Phil Cousineau. UFO: A Manuel for the Millennium. New York: Harper Collins, 1995.+

Raymond E. Fowler. The Andreasson Affair: The documented investigation of a woman’s abduction aboard a UFO.  Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1979.+

Stanton Friedman and Charles Berliner. The Crash at Corona. Paragon House, 1992.+

Stanton T. Friedman. Top Secret/MAJIC: Operation Majestic-12 and the United States Government’s UFO Cover-Up. New York: Marlowe & Company, 1996.+

Timothy Good. Above Top Secret. Wm. Morrow, 1988.+

C. G. Jung. Flying saucers. New York : MJF Books, [1996?], ©1978.

Carmen McLaren. UFO Conspiracy. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2011.+

Donald H. Menzel. Flying Saucers.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1953. 319 pp.

Donald H. Menzel and Ernest H. Taves. The UFO Enigma: The Definitive Explanation of the Ufo Phenomenon. New York: Knopf Publishing, 1977.

Cameron Pack. Restored Project Blue Book UFO files: June 1947 & before. Cameron Pack, 2013. +

Kevin Randle and Russ Estes. Faces of the Visitors: An illustrated reference to Alien Contact. Simon & Schuster, 1997.+

Kevin Randle and Dwight R. Schmitt. UFO Crash at Roswell, New York: Avon/Hearst Books, 1991. +

UFO crash at Roswell: the genesis of a modern myth. Benson Saler; Charles A Ziegler; Charles B Moore.                Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, ©2010.

Flying saucers are real! : the UFO library of Jack Womack. Jack Womack; William Gibson; Michael P Daley; Johan Kugelberg; Gabriel McKee. New York City Anthology Recordings 2016.

Oklahoma Specific Works:

David A. Farris. Mysterious Oklahoma: eerie true tales from the Sooner State. Edmond, Okla. : Little Bruce, 1995.+

Cullan Hudson. Strange State: Oklahoma Mysteries and Legends. 4^th edition. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform: Norman, Oklahoma, 2013.+

Marilyn A. Hudson. Sooner Saucers: Oklahoma UFO’s 1947 to 1969. Amazon/Independent Publishing Platform: Cushing, Oklahoma, 2020.+

Marilyn A. Hudson. Sooner Saucers, Volume 2: Before and After Blue Book. Amazon/Independent Publishing Platform: Stroud, Oklahoma, 2022.+

Bob E. Loftin. Tri-state Spook light: mysterious light of the Ozarks. Galena, Kan. : Sentinel-Times, [1955?]

Richard D. Selfried and Michael S. Carter. Native Encounters: A Look at Oklahoma UFO sighting and abduction reports. N.P.:  M.S. Graphics, 1994.+

Non-Print Resources

Oklahoma voices : LaToris Curtis.; Sandra Richards; Metropolitan Library System (Oklahoma County, Okla.); Friends of the Metropolitan Library System.; Arts Council of Oklahoma City.;  Metropolitan Library System, Oklahoma City and County, Oklahoma Series: Oklahoma Voices [audiobook on CD]. Oklahoma City, Okla. : Metropolitan Library System, 2007. Summary: LaToris Curtis talks with his sister, Sandra Richards, about growing up in the Oklahoma City fairgrounds area, the sighting of a UFO, his call to the ministry, and more.  

Government Sources

UFOs and Related Subjects: An Annotated Bibliography .Lynn E. Catoe , prepared by the Library of Congress Science and Technology Division for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Office of Aerospace Research, USAF , Arlington, Virginia 22209 under AFOSR project orders 67-0002 and 68-0003, accessed at UFOs and Related Subjects: An Annotated Bibliography, Lynn E. Catoe, Prepared by the Library of Congress, July 1969 (governmentattic.org)

UFO Research Guide of the Navy, at UFO Research Guide (navy.mil)

The Central Intelligence Agency, FOIA files related to UFO's, at UFOs: Fact or Fiction? | CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov)