The Truth is Out There

July 2 is World UFO Day. Read about experiences, sightings, and legends with these interesting books.

Updated June 29, 2025
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Chariots of the gods : unsolved mysteries of the past
D©Þniken, Erich von
Paper Book
AS SEEN ON ANCIENT ALIENS * Now in a beautiful 50th anniversary edition with a new foreword and afterword by the author, this is the groundbreaking classic that introduced the theory that ancient Earth established contact with aliens. Immediately recognized as a work of...

001.94 Daniken 2018

Monster hunters : on the trail with ghost hunters, bigfooters, ufologists, and other paranormal investigators
Krulos, Tea
Paper Book
Do ghosts exist? What about the Bigfoot, or Skinwalkers? And how will we ever know? Journalist Tea Krulos spent over a year traveling nationwide to meet individuals who have made it their life's passion to hunt down evidence of entities that they believe exist, but that others might shrug off...

001.94 K939 2015

Ancient aliens : the official companion book
Burns, Kevin
Paper Book
The first official companion book to HISTORY® network's hit series Ancient Aliens®: a powerful journey through human history that explores fascinating unanswered questions about the origins of our civilizations. With a foreword by Series Creator, Kevin Burns. Millions of...

001.942 Ancient 2016

UFO hunters. Book one
Birnes, William J.
Paper Book
UFO Hunters#65533; follows the team of bestselling author William J. Birnes, former NASA physicist Dr. Ted Acworth, and former US Army engineer Pat Uskert as they investigate UFO cases around the world. The team's access to UFO evidence is unparalleled--and their expertise allows them to...

001.942 B538 2014

Area 51 : an uncensored history of America's top secret military base
Jacobsen, Annie.
Paper Book
It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government-but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades. Myths and...

001.942 J156 2011

The 37th parallel : the secret truth behind America's UFO highway
Mezrich, Ben
Paper Book
This real-life The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind tells the true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events along a 3,000-mile stretch through the heart of America and is drawn deeper and deeper into a vast conspiracy. Like "Agent Mulder"...

001.942 M579 2016

Encounter in Rendlesham Forest : the inside story of the world's best-documented UFO incident
Pope, Nick
Paper Book
Roswell was only the beginning! An in-depth look at the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident, the world's most sensational and compelling series of UFO encounters. In 1980, a UFO was tracked on military radar in Rendlesham Forest, England. It landed near two of the most strategically important...

001.942 P81 2014

Unidentified : the UFO phenomenon : how world governments have conspired to conceal humanity's biggest secret
Salas, Robert.
Paper Book
"A sober yet heartfelt narrative which dares you to dismiss it without due consideration." --Fortean Times "...fasten your seat belt. You are in for a fascinating ride." --Stanton T. Friedman, author of Flying Saucers and Science   In 1969...

001.942 Sa31 2014

They are already here : UFO culture and why we see saucers
Scoles, Sarah
Paper Book
An anthropological look at the UFO community, told through first-person experiences with researchers in their element as they pursue what they see as a solvable mystery--both terrestrial and cosmic. More than half a century since Roswell, UFOs have been making headlines once...

001.942 Scoles 2020

The unidentified : mythical monsters, alien encounters, and our obsession with the unexplained
Dickey, Colin
Paper Book
"Absolutely perfect for the current moment." --Buzzfeed America's favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a tour of the country's most persistent "unexplained" phenomena In a world where rational, scientific explanations are more...

130 Dickey 2020

The day it finally happens : alien contact, dinosaur parks, immortal humans -- and other possible phenomena
Pearl, Mike
Paper Book
From a Vice magazine columnist whose beat is "the future," here is entertaining speculation featuring both authoritative research and a bit of mischief: a look at how humanity is likely to weather such happenings as the day nuclear war occurs, the day the global internet goes down, the day...

303.49 Pearl 2019

Frequently asked questions about the universe
Cham, Jorge
Paper Book
"Delightful, funny, and yet rigorous and intelligent: only Jorge and Daniel can reach this exquisite balance." --Carlo Rovelli, author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Helgoland You've got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your...

523.1 Cham 2021

Light of the stars : alien worlds and the fate of the Earth
Frank, Adam
Paper Book
Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity's coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance to our fate on Earth. Astrophysicist Adam Frank traces the question of alien life and intelligence from the ancient Greeks to the leading thinkers of...

523.1 Frank 2018

The zoologist's guide to the galaxy : what animals on earth reveal about aliens--and ourselves
Kershenbaum, Arik
Paper Book
From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space. Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a...

576.83 Kershenbaum 2021

Aliens : the world's leading scientists on the search for extraterrestrial life
Al-Khalili, Jim
Paper Book
In these lively and fascinating essays edited by theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss just what that might look like. Since 2000, science has seen a...

576.839 Aliens 2017


Beyond UFOs : the search for extraterrestrial life and its astonishing implications for our future
Bennett, Jeffrey O.
Paper Book
The quest for extraterrestrial life doesn't happen only in science fiction. This book describes the startling discoveries being made in the very real science of astrobiology, an intriguing new field that blends astronomy, biology, and geology to explore the possibility of life on other planets....

576.839 B439

Life beyond earth
Ferris, Timothy.
Paper Book
The science gift book of the year, a stunning blend of words and images that shows once again why Timothy Ferris has been called today's greatest science writer. Twenty years ago, Timothy Ferris enjoyed his first enormous success with his now-classic picture book, Galaxies. Since then, he has...

576.839 Ferris 2000

Extraterrestrial : the first sign of intelligent life beyond Earth
Loeb, Abraham
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller | Wall Street Journal Bestseller | Publishers Weekly Bestseller | Publishers Marketplace 2020 Buzz Book  | Amazon Best Book of the Year | Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science...

576.839 Loeb 2021

Imagined life : a speculative scientific journey among the exoplanets in search of intelligent aliens, ice creatures, and supergravity animals
Trefil, James
Paper Book
It is now known that we live in a galaxy with more planets than stars. The Milky Way alone encompasses 30 trillion potential home planets. Scientists Trefil and Summers bring readers on a marvelous experimental voyage through the possibilities of life--unlike anything we have experienced so far-...

576.839 Trefil 2019

Out there : a scientific guide to alien life, antimatter, and human space travel (for the cosmically curious)
Wall, Michael (Biologist)
Paper Book
In the vein of Randall Munroe's What If? meets Brian Green's Elegant Universe, a senior writer from Space.com leads readers on a wild ride of exploration into the final frontier, investigating what's really "out there." We've all asked ourselves the question....

576.839 Wall 2018

UFO : the inside story of the US government's search for alien life here--and out there
Graff, Garrett M.
Ebook
"One of the rare books on the topic that manages to be both entertaining and factually grounded." --The Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Watergate (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history)...

999 Graff 2023


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