tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post2975575359919567179..comments2024-03-15T13:06:18.295-05:00Comments on The Saucers That Time Forgot: Saucer Scares, 1954: Real Things Seen in the Skies Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-2628869521309613052018-04-06T22:20:13.307-05:002018-04-06T22:20:13.307-05:00Just a comment on the article you linked to, I don...Just a comment on the article you linked to, I don't think that weather balloons were the only solution to UFO sightings. The term has always been a grab bag of many different things, the key point being is that whoever saw it didn't know what they saw.<br /><br />The difference after 1947 is that people were encouraged to 'watch the skies' and assume that whatever they saw, that they could not identify was an alien spacecraft.<br /><br />As a comment on just how quickly the UFO field evolved by the mid 1950's you have a science fiction TV series called Science Fiction Theater (1955-57) which has storylines including, Aliens interfering in space missions, humans stumbling across crashed flying saucers ("Hour of Nightmare"), aliens giving the Inca the 'secrets of civilization' (Sun Gold) and one episode (The Legend of Crater Mountain) that comes very close to the storyline used in Zenna Henderson's later "The People" stories.Grahamnoreply@blogger.com