The Books
UFOs and the National Security State: The Cover-Up Exposed, 1973-1991 by Richard Dolan - This book is part of a two-volume series and focuses on the relationship between UFOs and the national security state during the 1970s, '80s, and early '90s.
The UFO Dossier: 100 Years of Government Secrets, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups by Kevin D. Randle - Randle, a former Air Force investigator, examines government involvement in UFO investigations and alleged cover-ups.
The Presidents and UFOs: A Secret History from FDR to Obama by Larry Holcombe - This book details the secret history of UFOs and the corresponding presidential administration. It examines the startling discoveries facing a president preoccupied by WWII, the explosion of UFO sightings during the Truman years, first contact during the Eisenhower administration, and the possibility of a UFO connection to the Kennedy assassination. In 1975, the Nixon administration came very close to admitting that UFOs exist by funding a documentary by Robert Emenegger.
The Hynek UFO Report by J. Allen Hynek - Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a renowned astronomer and UFO researcher, presents a scientific analysis of UFO sightings and encounters.
Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters by John E. Mack - John Mack, a Harvard psychiatrist, explores the psychological and spiritual aspects of alien encounters, offering a unique perspective on the phenomenon.
American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology by D.W. Pasulka - This book explores the connection between UFOs and religion, as well as the role of technology in shaping our perceptions of the unexplained.
UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says by Donald R. Prothero and Timothy D. Callahan - The authors critically examine various conspiracy theories and pseudoscientific claims related to UFOs and related phenomena.
UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record by Leslie Kean - This book compiles accounts from credible witnesses, including military and government personnel, offering a balanced perspective on UFO sightings.
The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence by Peter A. Sturrock - This book discusses the scientific investigation of UFO sightings and encounters, focusing on the physical evidence and the challenges of studying UFOs.
UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry by Michael Swords, Robert Powell, and Clas Svahn - This book provides a historical perspective on the government's involvement in UFO investigations and the ways it has handled the phenomenon over the years.
UFO Religions edited by Christopher Partridge - This book delves into the religious and spiritual aspects of UFO beliefs and their influence on various new religious movements.
The Hollow Earth: The Greatest Geographical Discovery in History made by Admiral E. Byrd in the Mysterious Land Beyond the Poles by Raymond Bernard - This book is about the epoch-making significance of Admiral Byrd’s flight for 2735 kilometers (1700 miles) into the North Polar opening leading to the hollow interior of the earth, “home of diverse races of advanced humans will startle the world.”
The Government Documents
Ford Press Releases - UFO, 1966 - This document posted by the Gerald Ford Document Museum is a series of letters and news releases written by President Gerald Ford calling for research and investigation on UFOs and other phenomena.
CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90 - This article posted by the Federation of American Scientists: Project on Government Secrecy, is about different programs that the CIA have been involved in UFO research, such as Project Sign, project GRUDGE, and Project Blue Book. It also addresses early CIA concerns like mass hysteria, the Robertson Panel, Blackbird, the Roswell Incident, and the Majestic Twelve.
Project Blue Book - This document posted on the Executive Services Directorate (.mil) by the Air Force is the entire 1966 directive for Project Blue Book, which is originally a 1948 government project investigating UFOs, (also gone by the name of Project Sign, and Project GRUDGE.
Do Records Show Proof of UFOs? | National Archives - This article posted by the National Archives is about some of the more interesting files found while filtering through the recently declassified documents in the archives - such as links to Project 1794, and a transcript of a conversation had by the Gemini VII.
UFOs AND RELATED SUBJECTS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY - This document posted by the Defense Technical Information Center (.mil) and published by the Library of Congress is "believed to be the most comprehensive bibliography published to date (1969) on the subject, and contains the extensive UFO collection of the Library of Congress." (450pg)
Unidentified Flying Objects and Air Force Project Blue Book - This article posted on the Air Force (.mil) website is about the 1947-1969 Air Force investigation of UFOs under Project Blue Book. "Of a total of 12,618 sightings reported to Project Blue Book, 701 remained 'unidentified.'"
Malmstrom AFB Missile/UFO Incident, March 1967 - Nuclear Missile Sites go dark in March 1967.
Pentagon UFO chief says alien mothership in our solar system possible - This article was posted by the Military Times about Oumuamua, the potential alien mothership in our sky.
DOD Working to Better Understand, Resolve Anomalous Phenomena - This article posted by the Department of Defense is discussing the new AARO initiative in which they are trying to better understand and respond to UAP. This specific week in April they were investigating 650 in total.
The 1975 SAC Base Northern Tier Overflights - This is a cumulative list of all sightings at the SAC Base Northern Tier in 1975, including details of each event. It is a small part of a larger report, (1975 UFO Chronology - link not working at time of this post.)
Malmstrom UFO Testimonials - DocumentCloud - This is a document containing “Affidavits from four Malmstrom Air Force Base airmen who witnessed or experienced the events surrounding alleged 1960s UFO visits to missile silos in the Great Falls, Montana, area.”
ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF GATEWAY PROCESS - This is a CIA declassified document explaining Project Stargate and the Gateway Process. It discusses meditation and “hemi-syncing” as a way to control minds among other parapsychological phenomena.
U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D.C. 20535 February 21, 2020 MR. JOHN GREENEWALD JR. SUIT - This is a declassified by the FOIA document pertaining to Operation Paperclip, and all that it entails.
The Bowen Manuscript - This is 14 pages of the Encyclopedia of Flying Saucers that was classified as “TOP SECRET/MAJIC”, and was declassified due to the FOIA.
Operation Majestic 12 (MJ-12 Documents) - This links to a page containing all of the Operation Majestic 12 case files found in the Ronald Regan Library.
Project BLUE BOOK - Unidentified Flying Objects | National Archives - This National Archives page is a full summary of the most important of the Project Blue Book cases. It includes general informal, a reference report, a short summary of most events with a more elaborate summary of each Majestic-12 and the Roswell Incident.
The Articles
What Congress learned in its first public hearing on UFOs since 1966 - This article posted by Axios is an analysis of the July 2023 Congressional Hearings.
WATCH: NASA report says more science and less stigma are needed to understand UFO sightings | PBS NewsHour - This article posted by PBS is about shifting "the conversation about UAPs from sensationalism to science,”
New NASA report lays out roadmap for studying UFOs - This article posted by NPR discusses NASA's plans in beginning to help conduct research with governmental agencies, looking for extraterrestrial life closer to home.
NASA UFO team calls for higher quality data in the first public meeting | Science - This article posted by SCIENCEINSIDER is an analysis of the NASA public meeting calling for UFO research (linked below.)
U.F.O. FILES: THE UNTOLD STORY | CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov) - This is an article posted by the New York Times on October 14th, 1974. It is about how though the government has denied that UFOs are being taken seriously, yet declassified documents are telling a different story - calling it “extensive concern.”
More than 270 UFO sightings reported over 8 months, Pentagon says - CBS News - This is a video news segment explaining that between August 2022 and April 2023, there were 270+ UFO sightings to be reported to the Pentagon. They claim that sightings are classified due to the secrecy of instruments used to detect them.
UFO Sightings Map - This is an interactive map of all reported UFO events from 1910-2014, including information on each report.
Alien motherships: Pentagon official floats a theory for unexplained sightings - POLITICO - This article is about the space object Oumuamua, which Harvard professor Loeb called a potential “parent craft,” that is releasing “dandelion seeds.”
NASA to set up independant study on UAP - The study will focus on identifying available data, how best to collect future data, and how NASA can use that data to move the scientific understanding of UAPs forward.
NASA sheds light on UFO sightings and unidentified aerial phenomena - This article posted by Open Access is about the NASA public meeting discussing their findings from investigations of public UFO sightings. Of the 800 submissions, 2-5% were found to be truly anomalous.
Hundreds more UFO sightings included in latest report - CBS News - This article is about the 400 new cases added to the catalog of the office of tracking reports - a significant rise from the 2021 report of 144.
Former missile officer: UFO whistleblower demonstrates ‘tremendous courage’ | News, Sports, Jobs - Minot Daily News - This article posted by Minot Daily News is about crew commander Schindele, (involved in the ICBM incident of 1966,) and his appreciation and gratitude towards whistleblower David Grusch for his coming forward about disclosure.
120 UFO Sightings In CA So Far In 2023: Find Out Where | Across California, CA Patch - This article was posted by Patch a few days before National UFO day, and is about the total number of sightings in California from January to June of 2023, of which there are said to be 120. It links to several other articles that include photographic evidence of events, and discussed the Pentagon and Grusch trials.
LIFE - Have We Visitors From Space? - This article in the April 1952 edition of LIFE magazine is about the Air Force being ready to concede to the scientific proof that there could be interplanetary saucers.
Author of the Suppressed “Bowen Manuscript” Verified | by Richard Geldreich, Jr. | Medium - This is an article about the Encyclopedia of Flying Saucers that was withheld from publication in the early 1960s until the late 1990s. (An Encyclopaedia of Flying Saucers by Bowen, A. Vernon)
Fifty Years of Mystery: The Enigmatic Black Knight Satellite - This article posted by TS-2.space is about the history of the Black Knight Satellite that was spotted in the late 1940’s and has been a constantly present mystery in our sky. The most interesting element of this satellite is that, at the time of its official observation, no country had the technology to create a satellite with a retrograding orbit - of which this satellite maintains.
The Clinton White House and the Rockefeller Initiave - This article posted by X-PPAC (Extraterrestiral Phenomenon Political Action Committee) is a summary of the 991 page Rockefeller Initiative released by the Clinton Administration.
Understanding Conspiracy
Understanding Conspiracy Theories - This journal entry posted by Advances in Political Psychology is about understanding the nature of “conspiracy theories ranging in topics from science, health, the environment, immigration, racism, terrorism, and politics to international relations.”
Conspiracy | M/C Journal - This article was posted by the Media and Culture Journal and is about all of the highly publicized conspiracies of the last five years, (2017-2022,) including but not limited to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pathways to conspiracy: The social and linguistic precursors of involvement in Reddit's conspiracy theory forum. - This article was posted by Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints and is about how people interact with conspiracies, particularly in Redditt forums. It discusses how “the analyses provide evidence for self-selection into communities with a shared set of interests which can feed into a conspiratorial world-view, and that these differences are detectable relative to controls even before users begin to post in r/conspiracy.”
The Psychology of Conspiracy - This entry posted by Sage Journals is about the, “psychological factors drive the popularity of conspiracy theories, which explain important events as secret plots by powerful and malevolent groups.” It also discusses the different drives and motives that lead one to believe in a conspiracy - the three they list are “epistemic…existential…[and] social.”
Are ‘Conspiracy Theories’ So Unlikely to Be True? A Critique of Quassim Cassam’s Concept of ‘Conspiracy Theories’ - This article posted by Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy is about philosopher Quassim Cassam’s total disbelief in the idea of conspiracy theory, and how different his thoughts are to the rest of philosophy.
Conspiracy Theories: Evolved Functions and Psychological Mechanisms - This article posted by Sage Journals is about how widespread of phenomena that belief in conspiracy theory is ; and why they are such an omniscient present in society.
Conspiracy Theories and the Paranoid Style(s) of Mass Opinion - This article posted by the American Journal of Political Science is about research that shows more than half of Americans believe in at least one conspiracy theory and the political explanations for these shifts of the mass opinion of American Society.
Understanding Conspiracy Theories - Douglas - 2019 - Political Psychology - Wiley Online Library - This article posted by Political Psychology asked three questions - 1) what factors are associated with conspiracy beliefs - 2) how are conspiracy theories communicated - 3) what are the societal risks and rewards associated with conspiracy theories. They decide that the risk is far greater than the reward, and that these theories do more harm than good.
UFOs: The Religious Dimensions - This article posted by Cross Currents is attempting to make “a serious phenomenological and theological analysis” of the correlation between UFO encounters and religious experiences.
The Films
NASA holds first public meeting on UFO study | full video
Hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena | C-SPAN.org
MUFON holds local symposium on UFOs or UAPs
Watch live: Senate panel holds hearing on UFOs | The Hill
Mass 'UFO' sighting caught on camera in California | Jeremy Corbell Interview | 7NEWS
The Hearings
Unidentified flying objects : hearing by Committee on
The 1966 House Armed Services Committee Hearing :
The 1968 House Science and Astronautics Committee Hearing :
The 2023 117th Congress Hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on Nation Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency :
The Last Several Annual Reports -
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2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena- Department of National Intelligence
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2023 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP - Department of Defense
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2023 Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena - Homeland Security
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Annual Report Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) or UFOs - Aerospace Defense
Armed Forces of the House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session. April 5, 1966
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SHG - UFO Symposium 1968: Introduction By Jan L. Aldrich
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July 26 2023 , Hearing Transcript
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Text - S.1605 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022
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The Journal Entries
Making UFOs make sense: Ufology, science, and the history of their mutual mistrust - Greg Eghigian, 2017 - This article posted by Sage Journals is about "the historical sources of the mutual mistrust between ufologists and scientists. It demonstrates that any science doubt surrounding unidentified flying objects and aliens was not primarily due to the ignorance of ufologists about science, but rather a product of the respective research practices of and relations between ufology, the sciences, and government investigative bodies."
NASA Wants to Make UFO Studies a Real Science - Scientific American - This article posted by Scientific American discusses NASA's newly appointed Director of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Research, Mark McInerney.
Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena - This paper written by Abraham (Avi) Loeb and Sean M. Kirkpatrick and posted by Harvard is about the “physical constraints on interpretations of ‘highly maneuverable’ Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) based on standard physics and known forms of matter and radiation. In particular, we show that the friction of UAP with the surrounding air or water is expected to generate a bright optical fireball, ionization shell and tail - implying radio signatures.” It goes into particular detail on the craft Oumuamua, and the potential of it being a craft or some kind of Mothership.
The Pentagon's UAP Task Force - This research report written by Franc Milburn is about the unveiling of UAPTF (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force,) and AATIP (Advance Aerospace Threat Identification Program.) It tries to answer questions such as what these technologies are, where they came from, and what kind of threats they pose. Most importantly, it dives into the question of what we are not being told.
UFOs Won't Go Away - This article posted by Issues in Science and Technology is about the history of UFOs and the disclosure movement through the Government. It discusses topics such as Luis Elizando’s story, Roswell, and the 1966, Walter Cronkite (“the most trusted man in America”) hour-long CBS special report titled UFO: Friend, Foe, or Fantasy - along with multiple others.
Project Paperclip: German Scientists, American Policy, and the Cold War - This article posted by Diplomatic History discusses Project Paperclip and its enveloping of German Nazi scientists into the American Government and Military after WWII.
German Scientists, United States Denazification Policy, and the 'Paperclip Conspiracy' - This article posted by The International History Review is about the public exposure of Project Paperclip, including the reactions and backlash.
National Institute for Discovery Science - This journal entry posted by Academic is a summary of NIDS, a committee instituted in 1995 by Robert Bigelow to investigate paranormal phenomenon.