Your list is biased and pre-loaded toward acceptance of the conclusion without questioning the authenticity of the material or the validity of the conclusions of the authors.

In other words, why bother reading anything, just make up what you want as you go along.

Do not be afeared Gawdzilla, I have healthy levels of doubt and paranoia. However if I am going to partake of discussions with people on the subject and argue a line of thinking, it would help immensely to know of the work they are going to quote to me. Thus any time any reference has been made to something I surf the web for information. This time, I thought I would take a proactive approach and ask people for their reading experiences. I would like to know not just the material from the skeptical point of view, but also all the claims that have been made. How else are you to form a logically constructed arguement?

Not a lot of people seem to reference skeptic's or famous skeptical arguments, which is why my list is so narrow. Most people I know will refute a claim themselves, using their own arguements or merely say it has been utterly debunked, or a person descredited. But please go ahead and provide me with a list of reading on the skeptical arguements, I will add them to my list and balance out my reading material.

Now, I make no judgements upon the material - at least, not at this time. This doesn't mean I do not want to thoroughly investigate and read all information that I can. The motto of this website being Deny Ignorance - which means I'm going to need to know about every far-fetched and absolutely insane story or testimony that is out there, along with the interesting and perhaps not quite so insane. Read it all, and read it all in detail.

Thank-you kindly kidflash for your suggestions, I will surely make a point of looking them all up for a read

Don't be shy, suggest them all!

I would suggest you and many others that visit this forum to read Carl Sagan's 'A Demon Haunted World'.

Originally posted by Gawdzilla
You can start with Philip Klass

Go ahead and diss Corso. I personally believe he had insider info on UFOs, but I don't believe everything asserted in the book was 100% truth. But give me a break suggesting Klass as a source, talk about the idea of bias and pre-loaded towards one outcome. The guy was a hack. He didn't use the scientific method to write about UFOs. From the get go, anyone suggesting an ET hypothesis was a a fool. IMO Klass was either one of the dumbest people to achieve journalistic success, or a paid disinfo agent of the CIA. His so called UFO curse is an interesting psychological artifact. He was not on the level.


I also have to say you portray a large ignorance with comments like belief in aliens visiting this planet is tantamount to faith without any basis in reality.

There is a large body of evidence proving beyond doubt, something phenomenal and unexplainable is happening. Since at least WWII, physical objects have penetrated extremely sensitive air space, sometimes engaging in hostile maneuvers, outperforming all known human technology. That's a fact.

If not alien, that what was the UFO tracked by multiple independent radar sites over Washington DC in 1952 that accelerated from a couple hundred mph to over 7,000 mph instantly ? There is no evidence it was from secret US or Soviet origin. I really don't know where you're coming from. To deny there is something very big going on is ludicrous. My impression is you haven't spent much time studying and researching UFOs.

Maybe this thread can give you some tips where to start. Someone already mentioned Flying Saucers and Science. I'll go ahead and recommend you read the book "UFOs/FBI Connection: The Secret History of the Government's Cover-Up". It's written by a PhD defense industry physicist who's rendered expert photographic analysis of the best UFO evidence.

Did you know two of the foremost aircraft designers of the last century, Ben Rich and Kelly Johnson of Lockheed Martin Skunkworks, took the idea of alien UFOs very seriously ? Both of these aerospace giants, thought some UFOs are of ET origin. Something to ponder before dismissing the subject as having no basis in reality. Keep digging.

The Timothy Good books are worth a read.
You will also find interviews with him in some ATS podcasts.