15 books
D.W. Pasulka
Pasulka teaches religious studies in North Carolina and wrote her first book on purgatory. Digging through old Catholic accounts, she kept hitting things that sounded oddly familiar: orbs of light, luminous beings, spinning suns, discs in the sky. She spent…
David Darlington
Darlington went out to Rachel, Nevada, in the mid-nineties and hung around long enough to write the book about the people, not the saucers. The base is real and the history is straight: The CIA built it in the fifties…
Michael Newton
Michael Newton was a counseling psychologist and hypnotherapist in Los Angeles, an atheist when he started, who says he stumbled into this by accident when a client under hypnosis went past a past life and started describing what happened between…
Nick Pope
Two days after Christmas 1980, security police at the twin American air bases at Bentwaters and Woodbridge in Suffolk, England, saw lights come down in the pines between them and went out to look. Jim Penniston says he walked up…
D.W. Pasulka
This is Diana Pasulka’s follow-up to American Cosmic and she casts a wide net. Nonhuman intelligence here doesn’t just mean whatever’s flying around — it covers angels, demons, animals, AI, the things people meet in dreams, and the possibility that…
Luis Elizondo
Elizondo ran a Pentagon program on unidentified aerial phenomena, resigned in 2017, and was central to the infamous Navy UFO videos going public. This is his account. He promised more than he delivered—or, to be fair suggested more. But still.…
Ross Coulthart
Coulthart is an Australian investigative reporter with a legitimate journalism career — organized crime, war crimes, corporate fraud — and he came to the UFO subject as a skeptic. The book works through the documented material rather than the folklore:…
Michael Newton
The first of therapist Michael Newton’s “soul” books, from 1994, and the one that started the whole life-between-lives field. He shares twenty-nine cases, transcribed, of subjects under deep hypnosis describing what happens after death. There’s a passage, a reception by…
Keith McCloskey
In February 1959, nine experienced backcountry skiers died on a slope in the northern Urals. They cut their way out of the tent from the inside and ran into a blizzard at night in bare feet and underwear. Some froze;…
James Lacatski, Colm Kelleher, and George Knapp
Lacatski was the Defense Intelligence Agency scientist who got the AAWSAP program funded — the predecessor to the better-known Pentagon UFO office — and this is the insider account of it. The program studied Skinwalker Ranch in Utah and the…
Leslie Kean
Kean is a journalist who applied the same method here she used on UFOs: Go to the best-documented cases, interview the researchers, report what holds up. That means young children with detailed verifiable memories of previous lives, work from the…
Kenneth Arnold
On June 24, 1947, a private pilot flying near Mount Rainier saw nine objects moving in formation and later described their motion as like a saucer skipping across water. A reporter turned that into “flying saucer” and the phrase went…
Philip J. Corso
Corso was a retired Army colonel who ran a Pentagon foreign technology desk and in 1997 he published the claim that he was handed a filing cabinet of debris recovered at Roswell in 1947 and quietly fed the pieces to…
Frank B. Salisbury
Salisbury was a plant physiologist at Utah State — a serious scientist with NASA contracts — who spent years in the late sixties and early seventies documenting sightings in the Uintah Basin, mostly from the Ute reservation and the ranching…
Leslie Kean
The 2010 book that changed the conversation, subtitled “Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record,” and that’s literally the structure. Kean got firsthand accounts from people with names and ranks: A Belgian air force general, an Iranian fighter…
