Go on then!
"Alien Investigator" by Tony Dodd was one I read recently which was excellent. "MIB" by Jenny Randles was another one I enjoyed.
Any suggestions? B)

HI STORMWATCH,YEAH I READ TONY DODDS BOOK EARLIER IN THE YEAR.JUST FINISHED READING UFO ODYSSEY BY BRAD STEIGER ANOTHER GOOD READ. ;)
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HI STORMWATCH,I FORGOT TO SAY WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE REPORT IN TONY DODDS BOOK ABOUT THE KALAHARI UFO? :ph43r:
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Sorry Harry, I read the book AT LEAST a year ago - I don't remember much about it now, other than the section on HUMAN mutilations. God, that was a bit scary! I'd never read anything about that before. :unsure:

No one else read any good alien/ufo books recently? :(

HI STORMWATCH,I AM HALFWAY THROUGH READING THE LATE DR.JOHN E MACKS ABDUCTION BOOK,I AM ENJOYING IT GOOD BOOK. :D
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as they say, every picture tells a thousand words ..

so goto google image search and find the painting called
'The Riders of the Sidhe'

and give me your thoughts Obi Wan

andrew

People riding horses, with birds flying past them. One looks like she's carrying a bush.
:blink:
You were talking about the PICTURE right? Or were you recommending the book "The Riders Of The Sidhe"?

Right now I'm reading "Alien Dawn" by Colin Wilson. It's a great book. Not much new, more of a "Greatest Hits" of alien contacts, but it's very interesting all the same and highly recommended due to Colin's engaging writing.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0...7586494-6858824


Really, it's pretty cheap and a right good read.

Now! This thread has had practically ZERO hits since I started it ages ago - come on people, you MUST have read some good UFO books, so let us know! :D And if you read a crap UFO book, warn us off it!
Please - post your thoughts.

I can second that, good book.

I am reading a book which aims to solve one of the greatest UFO mysteries of all.

What am I talking about? The Tunguska Fireball by Surendra Verma. He is a terrific writer and I am gripped by it. I haven't finished it yet but he is going through all the theories and it is fascinating. This is one of my favourite mysteries and I can recommend the book to anyone else who is interested. :D

Edit-Having now noticed the date, I just popped back to say, no I'm not joking. :D

There's apparently work going on on the Tunguska thing right now, over in Russia. I think I read about it in Fortean Times and it sounded promising, but not much has been said lately. Any updates on it?

HI ALL,I HAVE JUST BOUGHT RON HALLIDAYS McX BOOK ON E-BAY. IT SAYS ITS SCOTLAND`S X FILES,I HAVE NOT STARTED READING IT YET WILL LET YOU KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE WHEN I DO.
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I read McX Files a few years back. I was just going to mention it.
It is a very informative book.He gives a good account of 'The Livingston Incident'. You even get two nice pictures of Bob Taylor showing the spot in Dechmont Woods.

I read "McX" a few years ago, so I can't really remember it, sorry! I don't even have it any more so I can't read through again. :(


I'm reading "Unearthly Disclosure" by Tim Good just now. Not far into it, but initial impressions are - his writing style is quite boring, compared to someone like Colin Wilson; the so-called alien photos in the book are clearly hoaxes yet he's been taken right in by them; most of the book is just him quoting cases he wrote about in his earlier books instead of researching new ones.
The biggest fault I've found though, is where he says, near the start of the book, that he's going to dedicate the next three chapters to cases that "have problems with credibility" and are outlandish. These three chapters are actually all about ONE case, which he introduces by quoting the guys friend who says he "doesn't believe him"!!! FFS, if his pals don't believe him, how can Tim Good and the rest of us?!! :blink: He then goes on to waste three chapters with this frankly unbelievable case - I didn't even read it all, I won't waste my time on something that has no credibility, sorry.

Overall, this book is NOT recommended IMO.

HI STORMWATCH,THANKS FOR THAT I`LL GIVE IT A BODY SWERVE IF I EVER COME ACROSS IT.
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Just my opinion Harry, you might like it. The guy's a best seller after all.
I just find it ridiculous that he says a case has credibility problems, provides a friend of the witness who says he doesn't believe a word it, then dedicates THREE CHAPTERS to it! What a rip-off.

Well, I finished "Unearthly Disclosure" by Tim Good and I have to say, I struggled. It was boring and littered with large sections lifted straight from other people's work. There was not a single case I found really interesting. The apparent alien photos (do a search for "filiberto caponi" to see them) look like blatant fakes to me. The main problem though was Good's rathe boring writing style - it really makes reading a chore.
After this I'll side-step any more of his books which may be unfair, but hey, there's a LOT of great books out there that need to be read!
I've started a book simply called "UFO" by, er, some guy. B) I'll let you know what it's like when I get through it.

And please - post your own recommendations!!! :angel_not:

HI STORMWATCH,IF YOU CAN FIND IT HAVE A READ OF "THE WELSH TRIANGLE" BY PETER PAGET A REALLY GOOD BOOK OF SOMETHING QUITE CLOSE TO HOME. :ph43r:
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Okay, this one is a little different, but I'd like to hear your thoughts.
"Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke - anyone read it? I've read most of his science fiction, yet never got around to this until today when I got a surprise. It's about an alien invasion of Earth.
I've only just started it, but I wonder if anyone has any thought's on it?
Or, for that matter, his "Rendezvous With Rama", which is also about a UFO appearing in our solar system (man, that is a GREAT book!).

Just finished The Scareship Mystery by Nigel Watson which I have wanted to read for years but have never been able to get hold of. It is mostly a compendium of sightings from different countries, most around the time of WW1 but some earlier and some later as well. I found it very interesting, particularly as many of the sightings of "airships" were clearly nothing of the sort and were mostly prompted by war hysteria and sensational newspaper reports. A fascinating insight into the human psyche there I'd say. Anyone else read it?

Not read that Alison, but I've read a few articles on the subkect in Fortean Times and whatnot. It is a very interesting subject - funny how UFO technology always keeps just ahead of current technology....

Stormwatch its not so funny how UFO technology always keeps just ahead of current technology most are secret goverment crafts that may be kept hidden for 50years or more.
The goal is to perfect UFO craft that has been seen since man started walking earth that technology makes our crafts look like lego kits.
And yes man is geting there as they try on all fronts to be on a par with the Gods/Aliens.

And maybe one day humans will be on a par with Gods/Aliens and have our own crafts flying in and out of another planets air space at will.

The Truth is Outhere nothing wrong in that Its our race its not grown up yet.

HI GROUP,I AM CURRENTLY READING "THE GULF BREEZE SIGHTINGS" BOOK BY ED & FRANCES WALTERS.I HAD ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT THESE SIGHTING WERE HOAXES BUT NOW I`M NOT SO SURE.
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I thought they were hoaxes as well Harry. Was it not proven that they were? I've seen the photos and they're good, but didn't they find bin lids or lamp shades that were exactly like some of his UFOs?

I went to the library to see what new UFO books they had yesterday and they had a huge selection of 0. No new ones, just the same ones theyv'e had for ages, and even then there's only about four. :angry:

Anyway, I got "Confirmation" by Whitley Streiber out. I don't really trust the guy, but the book's pretty impartial and a decent read. Nothing earth shattering in there so far but it's a solid enough book. He does mention a book some guy wrote in the 50's (I think), but never got published until he died in the late 90's. Hints of conspiracy theory...?Maybe, the book sounds interesting, I'll have to check what it was called and see if they have it on Amazon. I'll post the details when I get them.

Please post more good UFO books for us to read, especially CHEAP ones! :lol:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aliens-Why-They-Ar...77446631&sr=8-1

There you go - I got this from the library and have been reading it today, got through about half of it and it's a great read. Does cover a lot of old ground but the author has some interesting ideas and makes even the "boring" old cases seem interesting again. Worth a read if your local library has it. Why he included a chapter on (the undeniably brilliant!) Philip K. Dick I don't know though...

HIYA STORMWATCH,TRY AND GET RON HALLIDAYS BOOK " McX SCOTLANDS X FILES" ITS A GOOD READ ALL FROM SCOTTISH UFO SIGHTINGS. CHEAP TOO £6:99
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I read that a while back Harry, and yep it was a good read. :)

Further to my recommendation of the book "ALiens, Why They Are Here" yesterday, forget it. The second half of the book was garbage! Nicely written but for some reason it focussed very heavily on science fiction which, even to a huge fan of old sci-fi authors, was a bit pointless.

Just finished "Beyond Top Secret" by Tim Good. For some reason I thought it was by NicK Redfearn when I got it out the library, I'm not a big fan of Good's books and this one wasn't great either. He seems to just cut and paste anecdotal evidence from a)other UFO books, B) his own previous UFO books.
There's very little of interest in it unless you like just lists of (fairly short, and quite boring) UFO sighting tales. His constant reference to "sources" grates as well. These stories could have been made up by anyone for all I know, and it got tiresome.

I'm going to try "Left At East gate" although I don't have high hopes for that either as I'm really not sure about the guy that wrote it.

HIYA STORMWATCH, I READ LEFT AT EASTGATE AND FOUND IT QUITE INTERESTING. AS TO THE GUY THAT WROTE IT (WHOS NAME ESCAPES ME JUST NOW) THE US MILITARY DENY THAT HE WAS EVER SERVING IN THE UK IN FACT THEY EVEN SAY THEY HAVE NO RECORDS OF HIM AT ALL WHICH MADE ME THINK IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A BIG COVER UP TO DISCREDIT THE WRITER.PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK AFTER READING IT.
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Will do Harry. I think the guy is called Larry Warren, and I distinctly remember reading other sources (which I took to be reliable) that said he was either never there or making the whole lot up. Which makes me suspicious.
But I'll give it a go - I got a Colin Wilson book out about aliens just now, so that'll keep me occupied for my house move.

Just been reading a book about the "SKinwalker Ranch", the case I mentioned a while back.
I thought the book would be a great read, as there was a Fortean TImes article about the case and it was fantastic.
The book, however, is rubbish. Despite ostensibly being about the "Skinwalker" case, half the book is just padding - whole chapters devoted to totally unrelated old UFO cases.

The meat of the book is also garbage. The NIDS team held a YEARS (plural!) LONG scientific investigation into the phenomena happening on this ranch, yet all they managed to conclusively capture were some photos of blurry lights. Everything else is just anecdotal - guys seeing monsters and stuff, which never show up in photos funnily enough.
Even this anecdotal evidence doesn't, for the most part, come from the scientific team, it comes from the guy who owned the ranch. Him and his wife see all sorts of crazy things, like a wolf which doesn't feel it when shot point blank with guns and things like that.
This guy also claims to have observed an orange "window in space" glowing at night on numerous occasions. Why he never thought to take any photos is beyond me.... :rolleyes:

Overall, the book was just a load of garbage and is NOT recommended.

Oh thats a shame as the Skinwalker Ranch case has always sounded rather interesting. It is indeed very frustrating that very little has come out of it. It is probably the reason why not a great deal has been written about it, as a result the book probably sells anyway even if it is mostly padding!

In a nutshell, the book is basically the Fortean Times article (3 or 4 pages) stretched out to book length. A total swizz. :angry:

I'm re-reading Shockingly Close to the Truth by James Moseley, which is only available on import unfortunately. Unlike a few books reviewed in this thread, this one is highly entertaining! Balanced, funny, insightful and gives a pretty good historical perspective from a guy at the centre of it all (and looking on quietly!)

Funny thing is, I love hearing about cases from the 50s. All the cases seem to have a certain charm about them, that doesn't happen nowadays.

These days the focus seems (I could be very wrong) on sensationalising the cases. Like the SKinwalker one - it's a nothing case, but the hype would have us believe it's the greatest thing mankind ever encountered.

Back in the fifties and sixties people were more like, "What is all this?" Now it's more, "Who cares what this is, if I make it sound mad it'll sell me a load of books."

Call me cynical. :rolleyes: