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BOOK REVIEWS BY JON FRY (AS PUBLISHED IN RUFOS NEWSLETTERS)

No.

Review Year

Title

Author

1

1991

Confrontation

Jacques Vallee

2

1991

Majestic

Whitney Strieber

3

1991

Parallel Universes, The Search for Other Worlds

Dr. Fred Alan Wolf

4

1991

UFO Crash at Roswell

Kevin Randle & Don R. Schmitt

5

1991

Japan's World War II Balloon Bomb Attacks on North America

Robert C. Mikesh

6

1991

Unexplained Mysteries of the 20th Century

Janet & Colin Bord

7

1991

Flying Saucers

C. G. Jung

8

1991

Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena

William R. Corliss

9

1991

Revelations:  Alien Contact and Human Deception

Jacques Vallee

10

1991

UFO Crash/Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum Status

Leornard Stringfield

11

1991

The Complete Book of ET Encounters

Randall Fitzgerald

12

1991

Mysteries of the Unexplained

Reader's Digest Book

13

1991

The UFO Casebook

Peter Brookermith

14

1991

The UFO Conspiracy:  The First Forty Years

Jenny Randles

15

Jan 92

Mountbatten: A Biography

Philip Ziegler &

Alfred A. Knopf

16

Jan 92

UFOs Over the Americas

Jim & Coral Lorenzen

17

Feb 92

Anatomy of a Phenomenon

Jacques Vallee

18

Mar 92

Secret Life: Firsthand Accounts of UFO Abductions

David M. Jacobs

19

Mar 92

UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union

Jacques Vallee

20

Mar 92

The Edge of Reality

J. Allen Hynek & Jacques Vallee

21

Apr 92

Curious Encounters

Loren Coleman

22

Apr 92

Sky Creatures: Living UFOs

Trevor James

23

Apr 92

The World's Strangest Mysteries

Gallery Books

24

May 92

The Roswell Incident

Charles Berlitz & William L. Moore

25

May 92

All About UFOs

Ted Wilding-White

26

May 92

UFOs 1947-1987: The 40 Year Search For An Explanation

Edited by Hilary Evans & John Spencer

27

May/June 93

Ultimate Encounter

Bill Barry

28

May/June 93

From Out Of The Blue

Jenny Rankles

29

July/Aug 93

Alien Contact:Top Secret UFO File Revealed

Timothy Good

30

Sept/Oct 93

World Atlas Of UFOs

John Spencer

31

Sept/Oct 93

The Fifties

David Halberstam

32

Nov/Dec 93

Scientific Studies of UFOs (Condon Report)

Edited by Daniel Gillmor

33

Nov/Dec 93

Loss Of Eden: A Biography Of Charles and Ann Morrow Lindberg

Joyce Milton

34

Nov/Dec 93

The UFO Encycopedia

Edited by John Spencer

35

Nov/Dec 93

The DoomsDay Conspiracy

Sidney Sheldon

36

Mar/Apr 94

The Truth About the Crash At Roswell

Kevin Randle and Ronald Schmitt

37

Mar/Apr 94

UFOs And The Alien Presence: Six Viewpoints

Michael Lindemann

38

Mar/Apr 94

UFO Crash Retrieval: Search For Proof In A Hall Of Mirrors

Leonard Stringfield

39

May/June 94

The Complete Book of Charles Fort

Charles Fort

40

July/Aug 94

Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal

Townsend Hodges and Douglas Brinkley

41

July/Aug 94

Phenomena:A Book of Wonders

John Mitchell and Robert Richard

42

July/Aug 94

Unexplained: 347 Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurances

Jerome Clarke

43

July/Aug 94

Nighteyes

Garfield Reeves Stevens

44

July/Aug 94

Abductions: Human Encounters With Aliens

John E. Mack

45

Sept/Oct 94

Regional Encounters: The FC Files

Francis L. Ridge

46

Sept/Oct 94

Transformation: The Breakthrough

Whitley Strieber

47

Nov/Dec 94

Alien Identities: Ancient Insights Into Modern UFO Phenomena

Richard L. Thompson

48

Nov/Dec 94

Extraterrestrial Archaeology

David Childress

49

Nov/Dec 94

Mysterious Universe: A Handbook Of Astronomical Anomalies

William Corliss

50

Jan/Feb 95

Mind Monsters:

Invaders From Inner Space

Jenny Randies

51

Jan/Feb 95

Light Years

Gary Kinder

52

Mar/Apr 95

Ghosts Of The Air: True Stories Of Aerial Hauntings

Martin Caidin

53

Mar/Apr 95

The Rebirth of Pan: Hidden Faces of the American Earth Spirit

Jim Brandon

54

Mar/Apr 95

Aliens and Angels: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination

Keith Thompson

55

Mar/Apr 95

The Anomalist

Patrick Huyghe and Dennis Stacy

56

May/Jun 95

The Book of Lists: The 90's Edition

David Wallachinsky & Amy Wallace

57

May/Jun 95

Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFOs

Richard F. Haines

58

Jul/Aug 95

UFOs: A Manual for the Millennium

Phil Cousineau

59

Jul/Aug 95

Haunted Ohio III

Chris Woodyard

60

Jul/Aug 95

Aliens From Space: The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects

Donald E. Keyhoe

61

Jul/Aug 95

Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abductions. UFOs and the Conference at M.I.T.

C.D.B. Bryan, Alfred A. Knopf

62

Sep/Oct 95

UFOs and How to See Them

Jenny Randies

63

Sep/Oct 95

Black Helicopters Over America: Strikeforce for the New World Order

Jim Keith  

64

Sep/Oct 95

Fingerprints of the Gods

Graham Hancock

65

Sep/Oct 95

The Allagash Abductions: Undeniable Evidence of Alien Intervention

Raymond E. Fowler

66

Sep/Oct 95

Ancient Inventions

Peter James and Nick Thorpe

67

Jan/Feb 96

When The Earth Nearly Died

D. S. Allan & J. B. Delair

68

Jan/Feb 96

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Darkness

Carl Sagan

69

May/Jun 96

The Snows Of Olympus: A Garden On Mars: The Illustrated Story Of Man's Colonization Of Mars

Arthur C. Clarke

70

May/Jun 96

Passport To Magonia: From Folklore To Flying Saucers

Jacques Vallee

71

July/Aug 96

Fortean Studies: Volume 2

Edited by Steve Moore

72

July/Aug 96

The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind

Graham Hancock and Robert Vauval

73

July/Aug 96

Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience

Lawrence Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood

74

1st Qtr 1997

UFO Healings:  True Accounts of People Healed By Extraterrestrials

Preston Dennett

75

1st Qtr 1997

Alien Impact:  A Comprehensive Look At the Evidence of Human/Alien Contact

Michael Craft

76

2nd Qtr 1997

Encounter Cases From Flying Saucer Review

Charles Bowen

77

2nd Qtr 1997

Fastwalker: A Novel

Jaques Vallee

78

2nd Qtr 1997

Proceedings of the First International UFO Congress

Edited by Curtis G. Fuller

79

2nd Qtr 1997

The Peoples Almanac

David Wallechinsky

80

3rd Qtr 1997

Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis

Paul R. Hill

81

3rd Qtr 1997

Earth Lights Revelation

Paul Devereux

82

3rd Qtr 1997

MUFON 1997 International UFO Symposium Proceeding

Edited by Walt Andrus

83

3rd Qtr 1997

Open Skies, Closed Minds: For The First Time A Government UFO Expert Speaks Out

Preston

84

4th Qtr 1997

The Randle Report

Kevin D. Randle

85

4th Qtr 1997

The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry

J. Allen Hynek

86

4th Qtr 1997

UFO 1947-1997 Fifty Years Of Flying Saucers

Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy

87

4th Qtr 1997

Cosmic Voyage

Courtney Brown

88

4th Qtr 1997

The Uninvited: An Expose Of The Alien Abduction Phenomenon

Nick Pope

89

1st Qtr 1998

The Complete Guide To Mysterious Beings

John Keel

90

1st Qtr 1998

The Sirius Connection

Murry Hope

91

1st Qtr 1998

UFOs: The Final Answer?  Ufology For The 21st Century

Edited by David Barclay & Therese Marie Barclay

92

1st Qtr 1998

The UFO Evidence

Edited by Richard H. Hall

93

1st Qtr 1998

The Day After Roswell

Colonel Philip J. Corso with William J. Birnes

94

1st Qtr 1998

The UFO Book Encyclopedia Of The Extraterrestrial

Jerome Clark

95

1st Qtr 1998

Fairies: Real Encounters With Little People

Janet Bord

96

2nd Qtr 1998

Project 1947

Jan Aldrich

97

2nd Qtr 1998

Ohio UFOs and Many Others

Dr. Irena Scott

98

2nd Qtr 1998

Alien Base: Earth's Encounters With ETs

Timothy Good

99

4th Qtr 1998

The Mars Mystery - The Secret Connection Between Earth And The Red Planet

Graham Hancock

100

4th Qtr 1998

Project Moondust

Kevin Randle

101

4th Qtr 1998

Contact Of The Fifth Kind

Philip J. Imbrogno & Marianne Horrigan

102

4th Qtr 1998

The Threat: The Secret Agenda: What The Aliens Really Want And How They Plan To Get It

David M. Jacobs

103

4th Qtr 1998

The Mysterious Valley

Christopher O'Brien

104

4th Qtr 1998

Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History Of The Human Race

Michael A. Cremo & Richard L. Thompson

105

1st Qtr 1999

The Big Book of the Weird Wild West

John Whalen

106

1st Qtr 1999

Probability 1: Why There Must Be Intelligent Life In the Universe

Amir D. Aczel

107

1st Qtr 1999

UFO Headquarters: Investigations on Current Extraterrestrial Activity

Susan Wright

108

1st Qtr 1999

Enter The Valley

Christopher O'Brien

109

1st Qtr 1999

MUFON 1998 International UFO Symposium Proceedings

MUFON

110

1st Qtr 1999

Wings of Mystery

Dale M. Titler

111

2nd Qtr 1999

Alien Dawn: An Investigation Into the Contact Experience

Colin Wilson

112

2nd Qtr 1999

Project Mindshift

Michael Mannion

113

2nd Qtr 1999

Heaven's Mirror: Quest for the Lost Civilization

Graham Hancock & Santha Falla

114

3rd Qtr 1999

The Big Book of the Unexplained

Doug Moench

115

3rd Qtr 1999

The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age

Richard Rudgley

116

3rd Qtr 1999

UFOs, JFK, and Elvis Conspiracies You Don't Have to be Crazy to Believe

Richard Belzer

117

4th Qtr 1999

Flying Wings of the Horten Brothers

Hans-Peter Dabrowski

118

4th Qtr 1999

Alien Agenda: Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us

Jim Marrs

119

4th Qtr 1999

Sources of the Illuminati

Jim Keith

120

4th Qtr 1999

Hollywood vs the Aliens: The Motion Picture Industry's Participation in UFO Disinformation

Bruce Rux

121

4th Qtr 1999

Scientific Ufology

Kevin D. Randle

122

1st Qtr 2000

Situation Red: The UFO Seige

Leonard Stringfield

123

1st Qtr 2000

The Hollow Earth

Dr. Raymond Bernard

124

2nd Qtr 2000

The UFO Enigma

Peter Sturrock

125

2nd Qtr 2000

Carl Gustav Jung: A Biography

Frank McLynn

126

2nd Qtr 2000

UFOs: The Secret History

Michael Hesemann

127

2nd Qtr 2000

Last Talons Of The Eagle: Secret Nazi Technology Which Could Have Changed The Course Of World War II

Gary Hyland & Anton Gill

128

2nd Qtr 2000

Encounters With UFO Occupants

Coral & Jim Lorenzen

129

3rd Qtr 2000

The Stairwell To Heaven

Zecharia Sitchin

130

3rd Qtr 2000

Saucer Attack: Pop Culture In The Golden Age Of Flying Saucers

Eric Nesheim & Leif Nesheim

131

3rd Qtr 2000

Making Contact: A Serious Handbook For Locating And Communicating With Extraterrestrials

Bill Fawcett

132

3rd Qtr 2000

Beyond Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Security Threat

Timothy Good

133

3rd Qtr 2000

My Life As A Seer: The Lost Memoirs

Edgar Cayce

134

3rd Qtr 2000

Passport To The Cosmos: Human Transformation And Alien Encounters

John E. Mack, M.D.

135

3rd Qtr 2000

Glimpses Of Other Realities: Volume II High Strangeness

Linda Moulton Howe

136

3rd Qtr 2000

The Soviet UFO Files:  Paranormal Encounters Behind The Iron Curtain

Paul Stonehill

137

3rd Qtr 2000

Pyramids Of Montauk

Preston Nichols & Peter Moon

138

3rd Qtr 2000

The Alien Intent

Raymond A. Robinson

139

3rd Qtr 2000

The Age Of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

Ray Kurzweil

140

3rd Qtr 2000

UFO Briefing Document

Don Berliner

141

3rd Qtr 2000

Are We Alone In The Cosmos?: The Guide To The Search For Extraterrestrials

Edited by Ren Bova & Byron Preiss

142

4th Qtr 2000

Leap Of Faith: Astronaut's Journey Into The Unknown

Gordon Cooper

143

4th Qtr 2000

Rule By Secrecy

Jim Marrs

144

4th Qtr 2000

The Case For Mars: The Plan To Settle The Red Planet And Why We Must

Robert Zubrin

145

4th Qtr 2000

The Roswell Encyclopedia

Kevin D. Randle

146

4th Qtr 2000

UFO: The Definite Guide to Unidentified Flying Objects And Related Phenomena

David Ritchie

147

1st Qtr 2001

Aliens: Encounter with the Unexplained

Marcus Day

148

1st Qtr 2001

The Midwich Cuckoos

John Wyndham

149

1st Qtr 2001

Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet

Sidney D. Kirkpatrick

150

2nd Qtr 2001

Gateway to Atlantis: The Search for the Source of a Lost Civilization

Andrew Collins

151

2nd Qtr 2001

The Field Guide to UFOs

Dennis Stacy

152

3rd Qtr 2001

Aliens: Can We Make Contact With Extraterrestrial Intelligence?

Andrew Clark and David Clark

153

3rd Qtr 2001

Lockheed SR-71: The Secret Mission Exposed

Paul F. Crickmore

154

4th Qtr 2001

The Chinese Roswell

Hartwig Hausdorf

155

4th Qtr 2001

The Mothman Prophesies

John A. Keel

156

4th Qtr 2001

UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse

John A. Keel

157

4th Qtr 2001

The Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up

Terry Hansen

158

1st Qtr 2002

Planet Quest

Ken Croswell

159

1st Qtr 2002

Ancient Mysteries

Peter Jones and Nick Thorpe

160

1st Qtr 2002

Dark Object: The World's Only Government Documented UFO Crash

Don Ledger and Chris Styles

161

1st Qtr 2002

Uriel's Machine: The Prehistoric Technology That Survived The Flood

Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas

162

1st Qtr 2002

UFO Dynamics: Psychiatric and Psychic Aspects of the UFO Syndrome

Berthold E. Schwarz

163

2nd Qtr 2002

Spaceships Of The Visitors: An Illustrated Guide To Alien Spacecaft

Kevin Randle and Russ Estes

164

2nd Qtr 2002

By Any Means Necessary: America's Secret Air War In The Cold War

William E. Burrows

165

2nd Qtr 2002

Tesla: Man Out Of Time

Margaret Cheney

166

2nd Qtr 2002

Mysterious Lights And Crop Circles

Linda Moulton Howe

167

2nd Qtr 2002

Different Child

Sandy Nichols

168

3rd Qtr 2002

The Field Guide To Bigfoot, Yeti And Other Mystery Primates Worldwide

Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe

169

3rd Qtr 2002

The Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking The Ancient Mysteries Of A Long-Lost Civilization

Colin Wilson and Rand Flem-Ath

170

3rd Qtr 2002

Saucer

Stephen Coonts

171

4th Qtr 2002

Shockingly Close To The Truth

James Moseley and Karl Pflock

172

4th Qtr 2002

Underworld: The Mysterious Origins Of Civilizations

Graham Hancock

173

1st Qtr 2003

Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence And Implications

Steven M. Greer

174

1st Qtr 2003

Invasion Washington: UFOs Over The Capitol

Kevin Randle

175

1st Qtr 2003

Faces Of The Visitors: An Illustrated Reference To Alien Contact

Kevin Randle and Russ Estes

176

1st Qtr 2003

Politics Of The Imagination: The Life, Word And Ideas Of Charles Fort

Colin Bennett

177

2nd Qtr 2003

Avrocar: Canada's Flying Saucer: The Story Of Avro Canada's Secret Projects

Bill Zuk

178

2nd Qtr 2003

Titan

Stephen Baxter

179

2nd Qtr 2003

Mothman And Other Curious Encounters

Loren Coleman

180

2nd Qtr 2003

Unearthly Disclosure

Timothy Good

181

2nd Qtr 2003

Strange Secret: Real Government Files On The Unknown

Nick Redfern and Andy Roberts

182

2nd Qtr 2003

The Communion Letters

Whitley Strieber and Anne Strieber

183

2nd Qtr 2003

On This Day In UFO History

Qtr

184

3rd Qtr 2003

Beyond UFO Secrecy: The Story Of "The Black Vaults" Pursuit Of Truth

John Greenewald

185

4th Qtr 2003

From Airships To Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue Of UFO Reports In The Early 20th Century (1900-1946)

Richard Hall

186

4th Qtr 2003

American Antiquities Discoveries In The West

Josiah Priest

187

4th Qtr 2003

Crash At Corona

Don Berliner

188

January 2006

Grass Roots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files

Michael D. Swords

189

March 9, 2006

Weird Ohio: Your Travel Guide to Ohio's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

James A. Willis, Andrew Henderson and Loren Coleman

190

May 2006

UFOs Over Topanga Canyon: Eyewitness Accounts of the California Sighting

Preston Dennett

191

May 2006

UFOs Over California: A True History of Extraterrestrial Encounters in the Golden State

Preston Dennett

192

May 2006

Extraterrestrial Visitations: True Accounts of Contact

Preston Dennett

193

2007

The Inexplicable Sky

Arthur Constance

194

2007

The Field Guide to Ghosts and Other Apparitions

Hillary Evans and Patrick Huyghe

195

2007

Heavenly Lights: The Apparitions of Fatima and the UFO Phenomenon

Dr. Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada

196

2007

Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death

Deborah Blum

197

2006

Bigfoot Encounters in Ohio

Quest For the Grassman

Christopher L. Murphy

198

2007

Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60 Year Cover-up

Thomas Carey and  Donald Schmitt

199

2007

The Grays

Whitley Strieber

200

2007

Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Request

Gerard J. Degroot

201

2007

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman

202

2007

Into The Unknown

Reader's Digest Association

202

2007

Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in WWII

Keith Chester

203

2007

The Roswell Legacy

Jesse Marcel Jr.

204

2007

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience

Stanton Friedman and Kathleen Marden

205

2007

Von Braun: Dreamer of Space

Engineer of War

Michael J. Neufeld

206

2007

The Truth About Flying Saucers

Aim'e Michel

207

2007

Memoirs of a Monster Hunter: A Five Year Journey in Search of the Unknown

Nick Redfern

208

2008

Need To Know UFOs, The Military and Intelligence

Timothy Good

209

2008

Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA

Richard C. Hoagland & Mike Bara

210

2008

June Jeopardies

Kenny Young

211

2008

Fairy Paths and Spirit Roads: Exploring Other Worldly Routes in the Old and New Worlds

Paul Devereux

212

2008

The Mothman's Photographer II

Andrew C. Colvin

213

2008

Three Men Seeking Monsters

Nick Redfern

214

2008

The World's Best UFO Cases

Dwight Connelly

215

2008

Charles Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained

Damon Knight

216

2008

Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations

Brian McConnell

217

2008

Need to Know UFOs, the Military and Intelligence

Timothy Good

218

2008

Demon Lovers

Walter Stephens

219

2008

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

220

2008

PSIence How New Quantum Physics and New Science May Explain the Existence of paranormal Phenomena

Marie D. Jones

221

2008

Shoot Them Down!: The Flying Saucer Wars of 1952

Frank C. Feschino Jr.

222

2017

Edges of Science

Thom Powell

223

2017

UFOs Today
70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Up

Irena McCammon Scott, Ph.D.

224

2018

The Presidents and UFOs
A Secret History from FDR to Obama

Larry Holcombe

225

2018

A Menagerie of Mysterious Beasts

Ken Gerhard

226

2018

The Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned
in Southeast Asia

Bill Hendon and Elizabeth Stewart

227

2018

Area 51

Annie Jacobson

228

2018

Encounters in the Desert

Kevin Randal

229

2018

Flying Saucer Comics

Jon Fry

230

2018

I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me

Trevor Paglen

231

2018

K.I.S.S. Guide to the Unexplained

Joe Levy

232

2018

Physics of the Impossible

Michio Kaku

233

2018

Recommended Book List

Jon Fry

234

2018

Sacred Places North America:
108 Destinations

Brad Olsen

235

2018

Secrets and Mysteries of the World

Sylvia Browne

236

2018

Socorro Saucer in a Pentagon Pantry

Ray Stanford

237

2018

Strange Encounters:
UFOs, Aliens and Mothman

George Dudding

238

2018

The Close Encounters Man:
How One Man Made The World

Believe in UFOs

Mark O'Connell

239

2018

UFO Abductions:
Challenging the Borders of Knowledge

David M. Jacobs

240

2018

UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites

Robert Hastings

241

2018

Kecksburg: The Untold Story

Stan Gordon Publications

242

2018

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