Ruppelt's Report on UFOs free audiobook

[Kandinsky]

Hiya guys.

I found Ruppelt's legendary book as a free and legal download and know that some of you would appreciate the heads up. It's a long listen and broken down into chapters for easy listening. No commercials and no spam...just the book in its entirety.

LibriVox The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt

If anyone enjoys this and has links to similar audiobooks, please post your links.

 

[Frank Stalter]

It's a great book.

 

[jpw.in.wi]

I've been listening to it, and it's fantastic! Thank you SO much for posting the link! I like the down-to-Earth, hardheaded professionalism of the author. I wish others in "the field" who are involved in the "woo-woo" garbage would realize that this is the sort of work that is MOST fascinating, because it is grounded in reality. The reader's voice is the perfect match for the content of the monologue.

I wish I knew of other similar audio books that I could recommend, but I'm still very new to this. I hope other author names/titles make it into this thread. Thanks again! And Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[jpw.in.wi]

Finally finished listening to the book. Just OUTSTANDING! After hearing Ruppelt's narrative of the serious and professional way he and his colleagues approached the investigation of UFO reports, and how alarmed government and military leaders were by the large percentage of "certifiable" unknowns, I view the Project Blue Book reports in a whole new light. I'll admit, I was so prejudiced against it (of course it just HAD to be an instrument for a government/military coverup of the truth) that I never even bothered exploring the documents. And as far as I know they're all available on-line: Project Blue Book Archives.

Thanks again Kandinsky!

 

[Kandinsky]

Finally finished listening to the book. Just OUTSTANDING! After hearing Ruppelt's narrative of the serious and professional way he and his colleagues approached the investigation of UFO reports, and how alarmed government and military leaders were by the large percentage of "certifiable" unknowns, I view the Project Blue Book reports in a whole new light. I'll admit, I was so prejudiced against it (of course it just HAD to be an instrument for a government/military coverup of the truth) that I never even bothered exploring the documents. And as far as I know they're all available on-line: Project Blue Book Archives.

Thanks again Kandinsky!

Thanks! It's like a breath of fresh air isn't it? The subject and the research was so much more straightforward and Ruppelt is more open-minded than Keyhoe. I'm going through it a second time to catch the bits I missed. The whole book's available as a free pdf download (second edition) http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_10/199000/199898/3/print/ReportOnUFOs.pdf

 

[Charles Swenson]

Thanks for that heads up on the Ruppelt LibriVox edition. The disclaimers at the beginning of each chapter get a little tedious, but it's certainly worth while.

While there, you might also want to look up Charlie Fort's Book of the Damned, which is another of their welcome contributions. And if anyone is so inclined, there is plenty of opportunity there for those who would care to narrate any other book currently in the public domain, which includes a surprising number of the old UFO classics from the 50s.

And if you are into great audio ( I love my Ipod, where I rarely listen to music anymore) don't forget about Archive.org, where there are some tasty little treats for the anomalously minded, including tapes of at least one UFO reporting agency in the Northeast from the early 70s. But I'd esepcially recommend the Welcome to Mars series, for the wonderful feel of just what it was like in the 50s, with quite a bit on UFOs and a delightful soundtrack.

For the more piracy inclined, there is always the Usenet, where one can find, amongst other jewels, a copy of Jacques Vallee's Fastwalker audiobook.

Oh, don't get me started on the vast quantity of useful audio out there, and by all means don't hesitiant to send on other suggestions!

Cthonic Charlie, the Chronic Curmudgeon