Since I’m a big UFO nut, I’ve read a ton of books on the subject over the years. A while back I published a post on Reddit where I put together a list of UFO books and papers that, in my opinion, are worth reading if you really want to dig into the topic. So I figured I’d drop the list here too, in case anyone in this thread is interested in having a pretty extensive bibliography to check out.
- The Flying Saucers Are Real by Donald Keyhoe
- Flying Saucers From Outer Space by Donald Keyhoe
- Flying Saucers - Top Secret by Donald Keyhoe
- The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward Ruppelt
- The UFO Evidence by Richard Hall
- Report on the UFO Wave of 1952 by Richard Hall
- Report on the UFO Wave of 1947 by Ted Bloecher
- The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry by J. Allen Hynek
- The Hynek UFO Report: The Authoritative Account of the Project Blue Book Cover-Up by J. Allen Hynek
- Project Blue Book Exposed by Kevin Randle
- The Best of Project Blue Book by Kevin Randle
- Invasion Washington: UFOs Over the Capitol by Kevin Randle
- Scientific UFOlogy: How Scientific Methodology Can Prove the Reality of UFOs by Kevin Randle
- Science in Default: Twenty-Two Years of Inadequate UFO Investigations by James McDonald
- UFOs: An International Scientific Problem by James McDonald
- Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects by James McDonald
- UFOs? Yes! Where the Condon Committee Went Wrong by David Saunders
- The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence by Peter Sturrock
- Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis by Paul Hill
- UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record by Leslie Kean
- UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites by Robert Hastings
- Earth Lights: Towards an Understanding of the Unidentified Flying Objects Enigma by Paul Devereux
- Crash at Corona: The Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident by Stanton Friedman and Don Berliner
- UFO Crash at Roswell by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt
- The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt
- Roswell UFO Crash Update: Exposing the Military Cover-Up of the Century by Kevin Randle
- Roswell in the 21st Century: The Evidence as it Exists Today by Kevin Randle
- Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe by Karl Pflock
- Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story by Nick Redfern
- The Roswell UFO Conspiracy: Exposing A Shocking And Sinister Secret by Nick Redfern
- Crashed Saucers: Evidence in Search for Proof by William Moore
- UFO Crash Retrievals: The Complete Investigation – Status Reports I-VII by Leonard Stringfield
- Crash — When UFOs Fall From the Sky by Kevin Randle
- The Priests of High Strangeness: Co-Creation of the “Alien Abduction Phenomenon” by Carol Rainey
- The Abduction Enigma: An Investigation of the Alien Abduction Phenomenon by Kevin Randle, Russ Estes, and William Cone
- The Controllers: A New Hypothesis of Alien Abductions by Martin Cannon
- The Space-Gods Revealed: A Close Look At The Theories Of Erich Von Daniken by Ronald Story
- The Past Is Human: Debunking Von Daniken’s Gee-whiz Theories by Peter White
- Ancient Atom Bombs: Fact, Fraud, and the Myth of Prehistoric Nuclear Warfare by Jason Colavito
- Solving the 1897 Airship Mystery by Michael Busby
- Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth by Greg Bishop
- Saucers, Spooks and Kooks: Disinformation in the Age of Aquarius by Adam Gorightly
- X Descending: Two Extraordinary Films Reveal Lies, Deception, and Truth About Unidentified Flying Objects by Christian Lambright
- Top Secret/Majic: Operation Majestic-12 and the United States Government’s UFO Cover-Up by Stanton Friedman and Don Berliner
- Case MJ-12: The True Story Behind the Government’s UFO Conspiracies by Kevin Randle
- The Secret Pratt Tapes and the Origins of MJ-12 by Brad Sparks and Barry Greenwood
Hope this helps anyone looking for good reads on the topic.