tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85748549319012272622024-03-15T13:06:18.328-05:00The Saucers That Time ForgotThe Strange History of UFOs
- Founded by Curt Collins & Yvan DefoyCurt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.comBlogger209125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-40410909445902247222024-02-15T15:00:00.002-06:002024-03-07T17:29:10.783-06:00A Lost UFO Film: Attack of the Flying Saucers<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;">From Fliegende Untertassen to Attack of the Flying Saucers</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-405ad54d-7fff-e730-01a0-16a89705e20c" style="font-size: medium;"><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>This is a “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” story, one about flying saucer movies.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc-r6Ewr21-wlMFlLwVSMiNTcJG8M2ZIRL-CSs0MYscRMwMGHvQz7Oy2mn1NmWvDyLeO3Wv2WJVxIu19YWlQEeXnV9w_KkDnyWyENjF2o9_XtlJdsccXO11ZeyXToFeeCaxXgsjzKdr6lV6Rn7R03H_CG1yOe5E48erx-wQ3gHx0tuZowS4h576EQQQlA/s825/Attack%20of%20the%20Flying%20Saucers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc-r6Ewr21-wlMFlLwVSMiNTcJG8M2ZIRL-CSs0MYscRMwMGHvQz7Oy2mn1NmWvDyLeO3Wv2WJVxIu19YWlQEeXnV9w_KkDnyWyENjF2o9_XtlJdsccXO11ZeyXToFeeCaxXgsjzKdr6lV6Rn7R03H_CG1yOe5E48erx-wQ3gHx0tuZowS4h576EQQQlA/w640-h334/Attack%20of%20the%20Flying%20Saucers.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The 1951 movie, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The Day the Earth Stood Still</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, was a bit of bait and switch, advertised as being about space invaders, while the real mission of the aliens was to promote peace (by force if necessary). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdeKucwaGeyGBnU0oF8qiBOZagIwLpwu5ZBpPTkEaLcxGyJjeRAjSYu12TxBVdcca7GpeSTp5TIetkfwqWNKYmRzHgItYQ_LHYuZ0wUdTPWiSBb3uE74nxiV_Cl2Pel3HP5MzEKEJgwfjU-tKKw3kfwdQnV8zO81D980lSUlJ-iGgPpSoQkWGwraM8bA4/s584/The%20Day%20the%20Earth%20Stood%20Still%20-%20Long.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="584" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdeKucwaGeyGBnU0oF8qiBOZagIwLpwu5ZBpPTkEaLcxGyJjeRAjSYu12TxBVdcca7GpeSTp5TIetkfwqWNKYmRzHgItYQ_LHYuZ0wUdTPWiSBb3uE74nxiV_Cl2Pel3HP5MzEKEJgwfjU-tKKw3kfwdQnV8zO81D980lSUlJ-iGgPpSoQkWGwraM8bA4/w640-h482/The%20Day%20the%20Earth%20Stood%20Still%20-%20Long.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br />There was one scene of a newspaper illustration sensationalizing flying saucers, depicting the planet under siege by fleets of alien invaders. The headline asked, “Are We Long For This World?” It’d be a few years before such an attack made it to film, but one step in that direction was an obscure short documentary made in Germany.</span><p></p></span><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Walther Johannes Riedel 1903-1974</span><a href="http://www.astronautix.com/r/riedelwalther.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Following World War II, one of the Nazi scientists brought to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip was “<a href="http://www.astronautix.com/r/riedelwalther.html" target="_blank">Dr. Walther Riedel</a>, international rocket authority and father of Germany's World War II V-2 program…” An Associated Press story from March 14, 1949, quoted Riedel as being certain of the future of interplanetary travel. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTHG3NOReLTr4JF5YDmeB82NyUUEPkwKzrjsWCLOGaBjcZzg_gPPhn96U5XtfWHSvf6E1QC21lvDnRrrHN80au7c5sM6uDlWLsfZwAvNEjLwl1oTB-eaoASdsxE8SbNR37jmTKvue1zQyKVpVjZOF94p1z6qavEFVkVcOG9qq9GX0R97RMQS2XEq0R2T8/s732/1949%2003%2016%20AP%20Riedel.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="434" height="501" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTHG3NOReLTr4JF5YDmeB82NyUUEPkwKzrjsWCLOGaBjcZzg_gPPhn96U5XtfWHSvf6E1QC21lvDnRrrHN80au7c5sM6uDlWLsfZwAvNEjLwl1oTB-eaoASdsxE8SbNR37jmTKvue1zQyKVpVjZOF94p1z6qavEFVkVcOG9qq9GX0R97RMQS2XEq0R2T8/w298-h501/1949%2003%2016%20AP%20Riedel.JPG" width="298" /></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKi-HOBTchNNTvq28XFMRlGfTryJaPrx8NdZeRqrm1tuUoUNJ2flH-daQz5bVZy-O2AVkxunbdUwH3gILZnix0KA-6NYKdqfohVIVd1MBJILN_5UWWV_SwbgIkERnat5wEO3yRzvA7-0grTaFxTf-wF6Z7fTcoZjRDvdP2Nm6dkR8C-qJPyjog1hQ8txQ/s585/1949%2003%2014%20The%20La%20Crosse%20Tribune,%20March%2014,%201949.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="492" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKi-HOBTchNNTvq28XFMRlGfTryJaPrx8NdZeRqrm1tuUoUNJ2flH-daQz5bVZy-O2AVkxunbdUwH3gILZnix0KA-6NYKdqfohVIVd1MBJILN_5UWWV_SwbgIkERnat5wEO3yRzvA7-0grTaFxTf-wF6Z7fTcoZjRDvdP2Nm6dkR8C-qJPyjog1hQ8txQ/w318-h378/1949%2003%2014%20The%20La%20Crosse%20Tribune,%20March%2014,%201949.JPG" width="318" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #111111; font-size: medium; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>The La Crosse Tribune</i>, March 14, 1949</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">There was no mention of flying saucers, but he later revealed he’d been interested in aerial phenomena reports since the mid-1940s. Working for the North American Aviation company, Riedel met some professional scientists and aeronautical engineers interested in the mystery of UFOs. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Flying Saucers Are Real</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, Donald Keyhoe wrote
that while he was doing his initial research in 1949, he met a key source, a “private
engineer’ who:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“asked that he not be quoted by name. The name I am
using, Paul Redell, will serve that purpose. Redell is a well-known
aeronautical engineer. He has worked with major aircraft companies and served
as a special consultant to government agencies and the industries.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">UFO historian Jerome Clark identified Redell as Walther
Riedel in his 2003 book, </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Strange Skies</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, but it’s also possible “Redell”
was a fictional or composite character chiefly based on Riedel. Keyhoe also wrote that </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">“Redell” thought saucers were of interplanetary origin
and “was convinced that the earth had been under observation a long time.” When
Keyhoe asked about the power source of saucers, Redell speculated about the “use
of electromagnetic fields” for propulsion:</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“there must be some way to tap this force and go from
one planet to another without using any fuel. You’d use your first planet’s
magnetic field to start you off and then coast through space until you got into
the field of the next planet.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In late 1951 Edward J. Sullivan, a technical writer for NAA, formed the <a href="https://www.project1947.com/shg/csi/csiintro.html" target="_blank">Civilian Saucer Investigation</a> group of Los Angeles, a serious but part-time UFO organization.</span><a href="https://www.project1947.com/shg/csi/csiintro.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Riedel was described an honorary member and vice-president, but served as the leader of CSI’s board of scientific and aeronautical experts.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgev2HP-aEO1eP-uBPMu-to4gK-rPjGN1UoD0fMz21gTa3LI81JS7VsWNxcKyfYUHXS02gRZGaD0Ju_LhEARNUUHwOF4TxJeeKBO79VPEzqQHNvph-Hz-erW_MTkhoTMnvJej-TG6c4DazcPlXG1_z0h1hNZJsRoEKDlDq7PQbSsr52VLJ1GTJRmioIsgc/s695/Life%20magazine%20-%20Riedel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="532" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgev2HP-aEO1eP-uBPMu-to4gK-rPjGN1UoD0fMz21gTa3LI81JS7VsWNxcKyfYUHXS02gRZGaD0Ju_LhEARNUUHwOF4TxJeeKBO79VPEzqQHNvph-Hz-erW_MTkhoTMnvJej-TG6c4DazcPlXG1_z0h1hNZJsRoEKDlDq7PQbSsr52VLJ1GTJRmioIsgc/w490-h640/Life%20magazine%20-%20Riedel.jpg" width="490" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Chiefly due to his association with the group, Riedel was featured on national television programs and in the famous pro-UFO article in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Life</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> magazine April 7, 1952, "<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ElYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=life%20magazine&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=true" target="_blank">Have We Visitors from Space?</a>" He gave </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Life</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> his view on flying saucers. "I am completely convinced that they have an out-of-world basis."</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The topic of the NBC television show, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We, the People</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, on Aug 1, 1952, was</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Flying Saucers." It was a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> half-hour news magazine show produced by the editors of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Life</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> magazine. (</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">See: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/07/ufos-on-tv-1952-washington-dc-saucer.html" target="_blank">UFOs on TV: The 1952 Washington, DC Saucer Flap</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> For links to clips from the show.</span>) </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyv4lX9glhDVjzv0YDswRYiIULqEJ1fvzCqUaRJThmPKxl9UGZZYszRx2sfO_cYb8g2u4j30qV-N8h3rTTFfnUrt5Mv1OxHmao2V2CExjVMxW7NnIncneoJnIg9N3wOWsFgFBYHPu4Mpd9Qz3RAc-afJqpzSh_aoZqYFqetjFS2UWqf2lhbLXG4KSNaFI/s505/Riedel%20-%20We%20the%20People.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyv4lX9glhDVjzv0YDswRYiIULqEJ1fvzCqUaRJThmPKxl9UGZZYszRx2sfO_cYb8g2u4j30qV-N8h3rTTFfnUrt5Mv1OxHmao2V2CExjVMxW7NnIncneoJnIg9N3wOWsFgFBYHPu4Mpd9Qz3RAc-afJqpzSh_aoZqYFqetjFS2UWqf2lhbLXG4KSNaFI/w634-h640/Riedel%20-%20We%20the%20People.jpg" width="634" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Riedel was interviewed, and his position was summarized in an article in the <span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Aug. 5, 1952 (<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/pittsburgh-post-gazette/4757501/" target="_blank">Part 1</a>, <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/pittsburgh-post-gazette/4757516/" target="_blank">Part 2</a>).</span></span><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">"[Dr. Walther Riedel]… Said flat out the saucers were real; that they were in fact piloted by residents of another planet, and that there, was nothing very surprising about the whole thing because we could build similar space platters "if we put enough money into the job during the next 15 years or so."</span></blockquote><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">During the next year, Riedel was involved with a film project, an effort to present the UFO topic factually and scientifically. Later, novice ufologist Jim Moseley was conducting interviews for a proposed book on flying saucers, and in Dec. 1953, he interviewed Riedel. From his unpublished notes:</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“In Los Angeles I interviewed Dr. [Walther] Riedel… an honorary member of Civilian Saucer Investigation... According to Riedel, the interplanetary answer is highly probable but not proven.... However, Riedel believes none of the [Contactee] stories of space-men landing, etc…</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In Germany, Dr. Riedel made a short documentary film on flying saucers. This film does not contain or pretend to contain any actual film of flying saucers, but it has a good running commentary on saucers, and by animation, shows the various types that have been seen. The film in its present form runs about 18 minutes, and was shown to me by Mr. Martin Nosseck, a friend of Riedel’s who is a motion picture producer in Hollywood; He has an independent studio, and operates on a very small scale. He told me that the documentary will be built up to a half hour in length and sold to T.V. - The film is particularly interesting in one part which explains scientifically the magnetic theory of propulsion.”</span></span></p></blockquote><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwAREQG6n-173KTLWuvC5qgKI5dUfcLxN9pDv_AJTFmsXHLjmRGnlO_vzqiyRX7JAf1qrYDVCwWtrLwix8uMZUN2dsRNCZcyFIJBoBoje0AuOSAp4hroXcTc24caVUo0Gh5f_zli2yHNDEkKsWDbb3PBaTHEsW7f6BQcknhejjn1Vo10xYwVeC1luLMVE/s511/Nosseck%20Productions.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="242" data-original-width="511" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwAREQG6n-173KTLWuvC5qgKI5dUfcLxN9pDv_AJTFmsXHLjmRGnlO_vzqiyRX7JAf1qrYDVCwWtrLwix8uMZUN2dsRNCZcyFIJBoBoje0AuOSAp4hroXcTc24caVUo0Gh5f_zli2yHNDEkKsWDbb3PBaTHEsW7f6BQcknhejjn1Vo10xYwVeC1luLMVE/w400-h190/Nosseck%20Productions.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The title of the film was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fliegende Untertassen</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, German for “Flying Saucers,” made in 1953. Based on the available evidence, the short’s special effects were very good, creating cinematic flying saucers to rival anything that Hollywood was producing at the time. The flying saucers are depicted via stop-motion animation, not only zipping across the sky, but also interacting with the environment, moving over cities and flying behind buildings and clouds.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFcWlEaU7u8EvN4l02cX-lr2YhfcjQ_pOxj9sbAiW6Cxu6bCv0MPHVWbAdqp0DoGzEiXX2NeO4yqf5ihuReYUIa4peuP5VJ2LD8rsbrRlG9hbVj8hSoMxkosJutoZQATQ3m9nBFlBg-L3bC44lfXI0o9SoAHZXSyHBSHronCat7RmX4xVlYgA8QoeUGrs/s890/Attack%20Stills.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="602" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFcWlEaU7u8EvN4l02cX-lr2YhfcjQ_pOxj9sbAiW6Cxu6bCv0MPHVWbAdqp0DoGzEiXX2NeO4yqf5ihuReYUIa4peuP5VJ2LD8rsbrRlG9hbVj8hSoMxkosJutoZQATQ3m9nBFlBg-L3bC44lfXI0o9SoAHZXSyHBSHronCat7RmX4xVlYgA8QoeUGrs/w432-h640/Attack%20Stills.jpg" width="432" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;">The film included scenes of people reacting to the arrival of flying saucers, their emotions ranging from amazement to fear.</p></span><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The credits for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fliegende Untertassen</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> we’ve been able to find:</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Directed and written by Georg Zauner and Friedrich Wollangk.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Scientific consultant: Walther Riedel.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Music by Horst Dempwolff.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sound effects: Werner Schlagge.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Studio: Filmaufbau GmbH (Göttingen), Hans Abich, Rolf Thiele.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Producer: Friedrich Wendt.</span></span></p></blockquote><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The French site for <a href="https://www.bd-cine.com/fiche.php?id=18386" target="_blank">Boulevard du Ciné</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.bd-cine.com/fiche.php?id=18386" target="_blank"> </a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> has a listing for 16mm print of the film but is described as “unavailable,” and carries a brief description, including three still images. They state the project was, “filmed according to testimonies collected in the USA by Walther Riedel.” It’s unknown if it was part of the original promotion, but it goes on to say:</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Do flying saucers come from the Moon? From Mars? Is a squadron of flying saucers observing the Earth? What would be the reactions of Earthlings if they found themselves face to face with these extraterrestrial machines? These are many points that this film will address.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The film was probably shown in Europe before feature attractions in theaters, but it’s not documented how it was exhibited in the U.S. It’s likely that it was shown at private gatherings, Dr. Riedel’s flying saucer lectures, and possibly at club meetings and conventions. Who knows, Hollywood filmmakers may have seen the short and been inspired to make movies of aliens attacking the planet, from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Earth vs the Flying Saucers</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, to Ed Wood’s </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Plan 9 from Outer Space</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Attack of the Flying Saucers</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Martin Nosseck’s plans to sell the film to television didn’t pan out. A few years later, he sold the film (or at least the US rights) to a show biz couple, June and Ron Ormond there. June had been a singer and dancer, Ron was a B-movie writer and director. Both were interested in the paranormal and attended and lectured at flying saucer conventions. As Ron Ormond Enterprises, their day job was making low budget exploitation films for drive-in theaters.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6eUi0sJasiKGTdM7I_IwDDk8wgVfB-73iuONUPrfx98eAWkhzbtg6r0WygS2BonuHxFTKB1_RkU-oucEHG3McoFlH0A9ds-855IyES5hwDg6q1l02DDQJsrc9Huh5ZgcOmleUVLF973ZiXFil5Z0xM85HMwQTeGqajZBfNPU4nxmLoX8JWipQXemrw7k/s445/Ron%20and%20June%20Ormond.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="445" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6eUi0sJasiKGTdM7I_IwDDk8wgVfB-73iuONUPrfx98eAWkhzbtg6r0WygS2BonuHxFTKB1_RkU-oucEHG3McoFlH0A9ds-855IyES5hwDg6q1l02DDQJsrc9Huh5ZgcOmleUVLF973ZiXFil5Z0xM85HMwQTeGqajZBfNPU4nxmLoX8JWipQXemrw7k/w400-h300/Ron%20and%20June%20Ormond.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Their son, Tim Ormond was quoted in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Psychotronic Video</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> magazine, no. 26, 1997, in “<a href="https://archive.org/details/Psychotronic_Video_26/page/n49/mode/2up" target="_blank">The Ormonds - Into the Strange Unknown: The Untamed Story of Nashville's First Family of Film</a>”</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">by David D. Duncan and Jim Ridley.</span></span><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Since June was interested in flying saucers and had quite a few contacts in the UFO field, she met Reinhold Schmidt and Dan Fry," Tim says. "In conversations with the group, June found out that this film [</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fliegende Untertassen</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">] was made and that a mother ship was portrayed. At that time, to her knowledge, this hadn't been shown before. So when she saw it, she bought it from a Mr. Nosseck for $1,500 from Germany. Mr. Nosseck was acting as the film's agent and was soliciting it for a company in Germany."</span></span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5WYEIr9-Frhhef8Tc-p79uVgZnN0jTPNukii7XBhZ5K6oazFw-ciU14XloousAHGjXmNCDIBO4gsxseq-1R8qpB8H8kPllcVDDW1KhR2cUFdDHiqJq7cLywNmGWXrlTGgCG0BakcocoigMiuIY4znpk3-FEKSMZYeFXZteJBINoyCP1l7ojuY0OCln0A/s520/1956%20Earth%20vs%20the%20Flying%20Saucers.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="411" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5WYEIr9-Frhhef8Tc-p79uVgZnN0jTPNukii7XBhZ5K6oazFw-ciU14XloousAHGjXmNCDIBO4gsxseq-1R8qpB8H8kPllcVDDW1KhR2cUFdDHiqJq7cLywNmGWXrlTGgCG0BakcocoigMiuIY4znpk3-FEKSMZYeFXZteJBINoyCP1l7ojuY0OCln0A/w316-h400/1956%20Earth%20vs%20the%20Flying%20Saucers.JPG" width="316" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The original title planned for the movie, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Earth vs. the Flying Saucers</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Attack of the Flying Saucers</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, and while it was changed, they still used “Flying Saucers Attack” prominently in their ad campaign. That film was released in May 1956, and it seems the Ormonds attempted to cash in. They e</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">dited and repackaged the German short into their</span></span> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Attack of the Flying Saucers</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, copyright July 4, 1956, by Ron Ormond Enterprises. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">June Ormond was quoted in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/Filmfax271991/page/n46/mode/1up" target="_blank">Filmfax</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/Filmfax271991/page/n46/mode/1up" target="_blank"> no. 27, 1991</a>, about how the film was marketed, as part of a triple feature with a UK documentary on palm reading they’d re-edited.</span><a href="https://archive.org/details/Filmfax271991/page/n46/mode/1up" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span></p><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“We did a terrific campaign with a big, hairy, Hitler hand in the middle of it and called it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Eternal Question</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. We triple-billed it with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Attack of the Flying Saucers</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fire Maidens from Outer Space</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. They made a lot of money."</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Attack of the Flying Saucers</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> debuted in Nov. 1956. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">imagery used to promote the short was similar to the art used to advertise </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Earth vs. the Flying Saucers</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, an assault on earth from alien invaders.</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ezxdqs_U-_LcTZRBgaW78PqXXkDv4FATgDZlqH5XwLFejd-5kIAz-hbYi6jfVZJqn-lKoH2DiDdSgyFXosYPqiKRoZdF6I_cbTrUHK41WB8K1HPVmvkmJt_r7eE0fXq0mee6JMdHJMGrfpT6m_c8067MY860yoKxLwD_GZEwApfdYyyV_9lN6crLS70/s904/1956%20Attack%20of%20the%20Flying%20Saucers%20-%20Cowtown.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="435" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ezxdqs_U-_LcTZRBgaW78PqXXkDv4FATgDZlqH5XwLFejd-5kIAz-hbYi6jfVZJqn-lKoH2DiDdSgyFXosYPqiKRoZdF6I_cbTrUHK41WB8K1HPVmvkmJt_r7eE0fXq0mee6JMdHJMGrfpT6m_c8067MY860yoKxLwD_GZEwApfdYyyV_9lN6crLS70/w309-h640/1956%20Attack%20of%20the%20Flying%20Saucers%20-%20Cowtown.JPG" width="309" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The News Tribune</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (Tacoma, Washington), Nov. 11, 1956</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvgtO3TK_dDWJrCZkvGwvRNt1-pg4wyz-wgiIZfClPgEV5b4j3-8qW4vw4kw_v7Fky375WZqQ9aLtyrOfdLbHbur4gMaOdzk9zZCqwXHSzOyYITFAB3Ncwps3_JpedQf2suqXXlMZFf5uXYl1qvhXnMED4osubi8OHeKO9GKWByIgGk3x6nVUeThU5S94/s846/1957%20Attack%20of%20the%20Flying%20Saucers%20-%20Unknown.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="288" height="879" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvgtO3TK_dDWJrCZkvGwvRNt1-pg4wyz-wgiIZfClPgEV5b4j3-8qW4vw4kw_v7Fky375WZqQ9aLtyrOfdLbHbur4gMaOdzk9zZCqwXHSzOyYITFAB3Ncwps3_JpedQf2suqXXlMZFf5uXYl1qvhXnMED4osubi8OHeKO9GKWByIgGk3x6nVUeThU5S94/w299-h879/1957%20Attack%20of%20the%20Flying%20Saucers%20-%20Unknown.jpg" width="299" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1957, source unknown</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwat1zgXOyVs6oHkgpPubAl6vXzW7WLGh9ur605i9fu3KCT00u8p5-CbLsP90VfEplRfAsTPmpxkUsCZFB3X3mo3-nRGA0qJxTWbysUh0UB2WoSqfDM6c7MfK0_Dh_IAFj3iORpj7ls1DANTdvhU29D7rBZVGbC4xlI4dlyEz1iUovmArSHRxbP5JZOhM/s819/1958%2001%2012%20%20Philadelphia%20Inquirer%20Attack%20of%20the%20Flying%20Saucers.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="819" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwat1zgXOyVs6oHkgpPubAl6vXzW7WLGh9ur605i9fu3KCT00u8p5-CbLsP90VfEplRfAsTPmpxkUsCZFB3X3mo3-nRGA0qJxTWbysUh0UB2WoSqfDM6c7MfK0_Dh_IAFj3iORpj7ls1DANTdvhU29D7rBZVGbC4xlI4dlyEz1iUovmArSHRxbP5JZOhM/w491-h384/1958%2001%2012%20%20Philadelphia%20Inquirer%20Attack%20of%20the%20Flying%20Saucers.jpg" width="491" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <i>Philadelphia Inquirer,</i> Jan. 12, 1958</td></tr></tbody></table></span><br /></span><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The narration for the film’s trailer was likewise sensational:</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>“Watch for the date, it's coming to this theater, the most unusual featurette ever made…”</b></span></blockquote><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> A question bursts on the screen, </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4sbw-bePudfn4OwZw6W5fy6FqfMMNOgBnPZcuXnte83S2Mq8BOz8XAz09l6DFVhYYa61-W-N-fJosY9sNmwegr8EDsDHXA_GHO7VD8YWNpPUpVsGqKbaBe4MLfDqkwxNtm6yCWwKWS8OKc2zKIbQwFEQHbmbdPDddCc5JTMpQR7C8ep-vkIhIeSKldwU/s716/Attack%20of%20the%20Flying%20Saucers%20-%20Possible.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="716" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4sbw-bePudfn4OwZw6W5fy6FqfMMNOgBnPZcuXnte83S2Mq8BOz8XAz09l6DFVhYYa61-W-N-fJosY9sNmwegr8EDsDHXA_GHO7VD8YWNpPUpVsGqKbaBe4MLfDqkwxNtm6yCWwKWS8OKc2zKIbQwFEQHbmbdPDddCc5JTMpQR7C8ep-vkIhIeSKldwU/w400-h264/Attack%20of%20the%20Flying%20Saucers%20-%20Possible.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Is it possible?”</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuHTm9KERDK5kTiwr9qi_BgXTXMoTc-tQx_L-Sc7RPxjNj_TwK3Q8TxrK2_l2byH-VB7EUSJaarRb11UdBqCHAv4XtVainBvcfcCJkEujAEfNBVy1ieaoWXVS68vd4HbKccifw0IWWjmYM6Y8Aq0uwI5V5OLAp4puYWCHJvbp6HT1_lwmDRLeyiIBiK34/s755/Attack%20of%20the%20Flying%20Saucers%20-%20Title.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="755" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuHTm9KERDK5kTiwr9qi_BgXTXMoTc-tQx_L-Sc7RPxjNj_TwK3Q8TxrK2_l2byH-VB7EUSJaarRb11UdBqCHAv4XtVainBvcfcCJkEujAEfNBVy1ieaoWXVS68vd4HbKccifw0IWWjmYM6Y8Aq0uwI5V5OLAp4puYWCHJvbp6HT1_lwmDRLeyiIBiK34/w400-h236/Attack%20of%20the%20Flying%20Saucers%20-%20Title.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Attack of the Flying Saucers,"
</span>below it, <br />"A Ron Ormond Enterprise Picture”<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><blockquote><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Do we have visitors from space?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Are the many sightings, fact or fiction?</span></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Is this a prediction of things to come, of flying saucers bent on conquering the world?</b></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>How will mankind react to spacecrafts?</b></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Was Air Force Captain Mantel </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">really </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">killed by flying saucers?</span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKwHoKx9RdRYKTpDVXVr4o1hAHXXtgSWaqbQF7pM_lyM7yror73KUfGmnO5ybAz70Egp0tuiAux-Ai_SPpYuz7PVs1xSsYqxLmoA3N32ph5vLFu30IiRgdyOJn-5S6oWNdPIuokQa08v48mcxYVKcfXCDCzrjjGX5hkFeKAr1oxi1w18lgvfESoK1oCS0/s728/Mantell.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="728" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKwHoKx9RdRYKTpDVXVr4o1hAHXXtgSWaqbQF7pM_lyM7yror73KUfGmnO5ybAz70Egp0tuiAux-Ai_SPpYuz7PVs1xSsYqxLmoA3N32ph5vLFu30IiRgdyOJn-5S6oWNdPIuokQa08v48mcxYVKcfXCDCzrjjGX5hkFeKAr1oxi1w18lgvfESoK1oCS0/w640-h397/Mantell.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;">[Dialogue] “Captain Mantel to Godman Tower - I’ve sighted the thing. It looks metallic, and it's a tremendous size.”</div></span><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now for the first time, learn the truth about this awe-inspiring subject.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">See </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Attack of the Flying Saucers</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, the most gripping short ever photographed."</span></span></p></blockquote><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Bellingham Herald</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Bellingham, Washington, January 6, 1957, carried a brief and garbled description of what the film was supposed to depict:</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“In ‘Attack of the Flying Saucers,’ showing a simulated attack on a real city, Captain Mantell’s pictures of flying saucers are used.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj26uRucOtUrfVctnYH08MsAq7iPemU7MSWNjbhrI8zPsGMLfyN-cdN9J2uyF6nq1yKIiuIgHerGQZwdAa6OX8sHmCBptMwqQz6k-aDVBKIUAicbVaw2leH_Y084Fr0zzBi3KHTALigUAM-lb4pa-5RNM3TAXbdA-poRBh7WxUaEcuAWLdnO6IyNgiDMfY/s1995/1960%2006%2024%20Los%20Angeles%20Times,%20%20June%2018,%201960.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1995" data-original-width="569" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj26uRucOtUrfVctnYH08MsAq7iPemU7MSWNjbhrI8zPsGMLfyN-cdN9J2uyF6nq1yKIiuIgHerGQZwdAa6OX8sHmCBptMwqQz6k-aDVBKIUAicbVaw2leH_Y084Fr0zzBi3KHTALigUAM-lb4pa-5RNM3TAXbdA-poRBh7WxUaEcuAWLdnO6IyNgiDMfY/w182-h640/1960%2006%2024%20Los%20Angeles%20Times,%20%20June%2018,%201960.jpg" width="182" /></a></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Attack</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> was packaged with various other films until 1960, such as </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Untamed Mistress</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Lost/Outlaw Women. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As far as we can tell, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Attack of the Flying Saucers</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> is a lost film. Ron Ormond died in 1981, June in 2006. Somehow, an outside party staked a claim on the film. From </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Motion Picture Copyrights & Renewals, 1950-1959</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> by David Pierce, 1989:</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">ATTACK OF THE FLYING SAUCERS. Copyright 4 July 1956, PA - 233-371, by Ron Ormond Enterprises. Renewed 17 September 1984, RE - 259-431, by Wade H. Williams, III.</span></blockquote><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931897/" target="_blank">Wade Williams</a> died in 2023, </span><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931897/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> If he owned a print of the film, maybe his heirs will unearth and release it one day. Until then…</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The trailer for </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Attack of the Flying Saucers</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> surfaced in 2022 on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNy24txiTx8" target="_blank">YouTube</a>, so we can at least get a glimpse of it.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="341" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oNy24txiTx8" width="410" youtube-src-id="oNy24txiTx8"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Some additional pictures from the film, displaying the different types of UFOs depicted.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVrdlqtWt-EwsLo7EWexyRcaN4TP7_Df4trXVOCyLaDDZj_zMtzkCJD-908LOzDVI1AK0yPgY7MgIvbXxGvelPYgS_1bksG1zLXDwaigII1uBx1Uvz_BZJJHVV7TIR2yWrfpfTFxe1tbNIZfOgVSc6y0dDvxpugrMYvCZxNFji_KGMb21PnmmTxlvOVL4/s327/Attack%20of%20the%20Flying%20Saucers%20-%20Albert.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ron and June Ormond</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">An article in the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">San Mateo Times</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> of Oct. 9, 1958, reported that June Ormond would be speaking at a UFO club, discussing “The Real Flying Saucer Story” film project, also called, “Crusade to New Horizons.” Several prominent figures were to be on board. "The talents of George Van Tassel, Kenneth Arnold, Dan Fry, Ray and Rex Stanford, Dana Howard, Carl Anderson, Buck Nelson, Reinhold Schmidt and many others will be utilized.” </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It never happened, but Ron and June Ormond <i>did</i> go on to make a UFO movie, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Edge of Tomorrow</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> debuted on May 28th, 1961, based on the first encounter of Reinhold O. Schmidt. His story is examined in: </span><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-trial-of-ufo-gold-digger.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Trial of a UFO Gold Digger</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></a><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-trial-of-ufo-gold-digger.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Walther Riedel</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Los Angeles Times</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Feb. 21, 1954, announced a lecture by Dr. Walther Riedel for the American Legion Hall on Feb. 25, 1954, “Rocket Expert to Give Flying Saucers Lecture.” His presentation was to “be illustrated with a motion picture and a series of slides on the subject of flying saucers.” As far as we can find, it was Riedel’s last public involvement with the UFO topic.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Donald Keyhoe’s “Redell” surfaced again as a major
character in his book about 1953-</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">54 events, </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Flying Saucer Conspiracy</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, 1955.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jim Moseley’s unpublished book notes contained a 1954 update on Riedel, but didn’t describe where he’d gathered the information:</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Some time between talking to me in December 1953, and leaving for a vacation in his native Germany, Riedel unaccountably changed his position on saucers, and now professes to believe they are all natural phenomena, etc.”</span></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Moseley printed something similar, that Riedel, "now says that they do not exist." on page 4 of (<i>Saucer News</i>) <a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Nexus%20(James%20Moseley)/1955%2002%2000%20-%20Nexus%20-%20No%2008.pdf" target="_blank"><i>Nexus</i>, Feb. 1955</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>That was essentially the last the UFO world heard from Dr. Riedel, and in </span><span>time, he moved permanently back to Germany. However, </span><span>his old quotes on saucers continued to be quoted by UFO advocates, even today. Fans think he "</span><span>Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers," and was silenced.</span></span></p><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>It’s mostly speculation, but trouble had been brewing for some time before that. A CIA memorandum (</span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005515970.pdf" target="_blank">CIA PDF</a></span><a href="https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005515970.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> – <a href="https://www.project1947.com/shg/csi/csicia.html" target="_blank">Transcribed text</a></span>) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">from Feb. 9, 1953, based on Riedel’s statements of his CSI activities in Los Angeles:</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Of incidental interest may be the fact that NAA (National Aeronautical Association) suggested politely and perhaps indirectly to Dr. Riedel that he disassociate himself from official membership [in] CSI.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">UFO historian Michael Swords thinks that after CIA’s Robertson Panel (chaired by Dr.</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Howard P. Robertson), the U.S. government was responsible. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">From </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">UFOs and Abductions: Challenging the Borders of Knowledge</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, David M. Jacobs, ed., 2000, p. 115:</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Within a month, the FBI was investigating Los Angeles’s Civilian Saucer Investigations, and [Walther] Riedel was being pressured to resign. Robertson shortly wrote to [CIA Assistant Director] Marshall Chadwell: “That ought to fix the Forteans.” </span></blockquote><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CSI had also received some negative press, and besides, their work had stagnated in 1954 due to it being a part-time endeavor. They shut it down. Jerome Clark wrote in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The UFO Encyclopedia</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, “[The CSI leadership and] associates left the field and were not heard from again.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ4lkyIa4njFWuGl4BzVskGKVJi0hjpxLlb9PFxHIhwrlMVLe0CjPMZcpN1cvWl8izqGmXv_d2-OtrAS2_CAM2S6dZs2YAfhVsTtn_hTZsx-Vy0kbbts6Y0sqrv-kQy3ZAjbpkkIy01H11jdxwNPfKxBjWdb2NkQgSvo-N2zziVjauKXN3FaUJXRNmhAs/s614/Worlds%20of%20If-%20Dec.%201956.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="614" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ4lkyIa4njFWuGl4BzVskGKVJi0hjpxLlb9PFxHIhwrlMVLe0CjPMZcpN1cvWl8izqGmXv_d2-OtrAS2_CAM2S6dZs2YAfhVsTtn_hTZsx-Vy0kbbts6Y0sqrv-kQy3ZAjbpkkIy01H11jdxwNPfKxBjWdb2NkQgSvo-N2zziVjauKXN3FaUJXRNmhAs/w640-h348/Worlds%20of%20If-%20Dec.%201956.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The science fiction magazine, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">IF: Worlds of Science Fiction , </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dec. 1956, featured “<a href="https://archive.org/details/1956-12_IF/page/n37/mode/2up" target="_blank">This Lonely Earth</a>” by Dr. Walther Riedel, a 9-page essay about the possibility of extraterrestrial life and the challenge of traveling to find it. He was confident that, “The existence of intelligent life within the Universe, and within our own Milky Way galaxy is beyond doubt.” However, he made no mention of flying saucers.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. . .</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Additional Sources and References</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Thanks to Jeff Knox and Issac Koi for their help in researching Riedel and the film.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Profile on Civilian Saucer Investigation from </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Eugene Guard</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Aug. 17, 1952, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-eugene-guard-convinced-saucers-are-r/130550304/" target="_blank">UO Graduate Convinced Saucers Are Real After Study</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-eugene-guard-convinced-saucers-are-r/130550304/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Exotic-Ones-Fabulous-Film-Making-Presents/dp/1913051188/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3N0GWN707VM07&keywords=jimmy+mcdonough+ormond&qid=1706710987&s=movies-tv&sprefix=jimmy+mcdonough+ormond%2Cmovies-tv%2C83&sr=1-1&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.f5122f16-c3e8-4386-bf32-63e904010ad0" target="_blank"><b>The Exotic Ones: That Fabulous Film-Making Family from Music City, USA - The Ormonds</b></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> by Jimmy McDonough, 2023</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Post by “doctor kiss,” Sept. 24, 2010, on “</span><a href="https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/monsterkidclassichorrorforum/the-cinema-of-dwain-esper-t27599-s120.html#p677270" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">a late 1950's Ron Ormond release called </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Attack of the Flying Saucers</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.”</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Luis Ruiz Noguez wrote a series of articles in 2016 on Ron Ormond and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fliegende Untertassen</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> at Marcianitos Verdes (Spanish) </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2016/09/los-ormonds-primera-parte/" target="_blank">Part One</a></span><a href="https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2016/09/los-ormonds-primera-parte/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a>- <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2016/10/los-ormond-y-el-mundo-de-los-platos-voladores-parte-2/" target="_blank">Part Two</a></span><a href="https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2016/10/los-ormond-y-el-mundo-de-los-platos-voladores-parte-2/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a>- <a href="https://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2016/10/los-ormond-y-el-mundo-de-los-platos-voladores-final/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Part Three</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-89625149447373685232024-02-14T15:57:00.003-06:002024-02-15T07:14:39.907-06:00Lost TV Classic: The Flying Saucers<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM0db5MvmsidFI_J8nbmP3vTzNo-T79AniyaOaKreXpQQS-g374f14DA3-cIZu2CMqRHZG4fvFWzAiQab1ovV4VFrOiKYNeF-fGklVHN0THe04eNLigRLNztHm5hLyaYSoe6wewz9u2yD1XZ-UWkQj6XcF4iMMgSmGfy76jtTYmQdrNfaH5ojvRYBNibA/s825/The%20Flying%20Saucers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM0db5MvmsidFI_J8nbmP3vTzNo-T79AniyaOaKreXpQQS-g374f14DA3-cIZu2CMqRHZG4fvFWzAiQab1ovV4VFrOiKYNeF-fGklVHN0THe04eNLigRLNztHm5hLyaYSoe6wewz9u2yD1XZ-UWkQj6XcF4iMMgSmGfy76jtTYmQdrNfaH5ojvRYBNibA/w640-h334/The%20Flying%20Saucers.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This article, like many at </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Saucers That Time
Forgot</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, started with a question. Finding a listing from a television anthology series from 1950, one of the first dramas written about UFOs, we asked: What was "The Flying Saucers?"</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The plot almost sounds like it could have been an episode of a later show, R</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">od Serling's</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Twilight Zone</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Peaceful extraterrestrials in saucer-shaped spaceships contact a prominent
scientist on earth via telepathy. They are in search of a new home for their people.
The scientist carries the news to the world, but he’s thought to be mad. Then
comes the twist ending.</span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>What makes this story important was when it was told. Only a few months earlier, Donald Keyhoe’s article in True magazine had been released, “The Flying Saucers are Real,” which got the public seriously considering that maybe aliens from space were here. It was before any science fiction television anthology shows or any major motion picture featuring aliens in flying saucers. It may have been the first serious treatment of contact with aliens on television, and it’s notable that instead of invading space monsters, the extraterrestrials were depicted as intelligent and peaceful.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Hands of Destiny<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Hands of Murder</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">
was a crime and suspense half-hour dramatic anthology television series from the
DuMont Television Network. It aired from 1949 to 1952, later retitled <i>Hands of
Destiny</i>. Created by <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Lawrence-Menkin-2712716.php" target="_blank">Lawrence Menkin</a> and written by him in partnership with <a href="https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/sports/high-school/swimming-diving/2022/05/26/swimmer-charles-speer-palm-beach-countys-first-iconic-athlete/9583085002/" target="_blank">Charles Speer</a>, the series was performed and broadcast live. Unfortunately, no known recordings of
episodes survive.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUoJS7w6Vqbd6ZC_247MH95ztwQo-gWbJ9MmcipkPrZLhGHTAWt0H-ONw9whRGCW6QfUkdLGOXcOPDa2h1J6exDdCO2mdGYGEfWdyQi5BTvXCTp6GfptdmumipGvfIVAD5lH1t3plN5lDm_Cg-AqaxUVLj33sZM0V2yLlrchfUU_Pw4gZrqJQ-JFwvSz4/s318/DuMont%20Television.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="318" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUoJS7w6Vqbd6ZC_247MH95ztwQo-gWbJ9MmcipkPrZLhGHTAWt0H-ONw9whRGCW6QfUkdLGOXcOPDa2h1J6exDdCO2mdGYGEfWdyQi5BTvXCTp6GfptdmumipGvfIVAD5lH1t3plN5lDm_Cg-AqaxUVLj33sZM0V2yLlrchfUU_Pw4gZrqJQ-JFwvSz4/w350-h324/DuMont%20Television.JPG" width="350" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyOcPPdar3MNxn50flrbE_lwOMrr67nCh_BFD28YxhlaH7YulClC1X1JHflk-DOCn1ymm_fTrqeL2h_Xm3wnsCSHkWmOm83GXuIFu3YC3BsGAMkIPS8YFqxylB9QIQHyq0Llf4iE8u2LNReQ1Cq7Xv9vr5JvT3p7vt0V6OnLVyAMo0xiebGXjcOXX7CpQ/s554/1950%20Radio%20Annual.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="410" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyOcPPdar3MNxn50flrbE_lwOMrr67nCh_BFD28YxhlaH7YulClC1X1JHflk-DOCn1ymm_fTrqeL2h_Xm3wnsCSHkWmOm83GXuIFu3YC3BsGAMkIPS8YFqxylB9QIQHyq0Llf4iE8u2LNReQ1Cq7Xv9vr5JvT3p7vt0V6OnLVyAMo0xiebGXjcOXX7CpQ/w474-h640/1950%20Radio%20Annual.jpg" width="474" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/radioannualtele00radi/page/966/mode/2up?view=theater" target="_blank">1950 Radio Annual</a></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhenwWhwJLAXNxTrFZEiioAuvmYC07Lvbvv01kHv2TrDt3X03jRsw-srjvSWqWnmuuJpOFm-sRGzOzRiQ3Z-L4yCQBlHZMlYQDhgcHYjfBNtJH7WYGeHqdM3VvgH4j8RyVsQ6UkYJLZrld6TkjxtObzJBrWKLrzF1AiKfUNDvu8dxvRaxlEVk7ULWVOzQI/s388/Lawrence%20Menkin%20-%20Charles%20Speer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="388" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhenwWhwJLAXNxTrFZEiioAuvmYC07Lvbvv01kHv2TrDt3X03jRsw-srjvSWqWnmuuJpOFm-sRGzOzRiQ3Z-L4yCQBlHZMlYQDhgcHYjfBNtJH7WYGeHqdM3VvgH4j8RyVsQ6UkYJLZrld6TkjxtObzJBrWKLrzF1AiKfUNDvu8dxvRaxlEVk7ULWVOzQI/w400-h291/Lawrence%20Menkin%20-%20Charles%20Speer.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The series was described at <i>The Retro Set</i>, “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230602195352/http://theretroset.com/?p=7649" target="_blank">Monstravaganza:Classic TV Horror!</a>” by Terence Towles Canote: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></i></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Hands of Murder</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">
debuted on 7 October 1949 on the DuMont Television Network… [It] was produced
on a shoestring budget and aired live. In fact, according to Tim Brooks and
Earle F. Marsh in <i>The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable
Shows: 1945-Present</i>, <i>Hands of Destiny</i> was notable for its lack of
sets and props. Lighting and camera angles were used to suggest the setting.
Despite the low budget, <i>Hands of Destiny</i> received sterling reviews from
critics, with even Walter Winchell praising its camera work.” </span></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6h7Vww6rYZjE4z40Vj28cMlAaSuS00zpUgRMB8a27LsHbe7-HVh1RHTHJt0QHifPkOy9H5bw-_eytJl6s_b5Q8Rhyphenhyphen31UtZ8kcqHu2ARIH8IWG_nnP5YRB0uqLJWqhfsP5RiyYqXMEeVyOiaknpSIt1R4TjGDpJLLjCoNNJp7EAv416rzTnbels6ONINA/s1389/Captain%20Video.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1389" data-original-width="975" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6h7Vww6rYZjE4z40Vj28cMlAaSuS00zpUgRMB8a27LsHbe7-HVh1RHTHJt0QHifPkOy9H5bw-_eytJl6s_b5Q8Rhyphenhyphen31UtZ8kcqHu2ARIH8IWG_nnP5YRB0uqLJWqhfsP5RiyYqXMEeVyOiaknpSIt1R4TjGDpJLLjCoNNJp7EAv416rzTnbels6ONINA/w450-h640/Captain%20Video.jpg" width="450" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span><span>The show’s co-creator Lawrence Menkin is more well-known
for his role in launching the DuMont program, </span><i><a href="https://scifist.net/2020/03/02/captain-video-and-his-video-rangers/" target="_blank">Captain Video and His VideoRangers</a></i><span>, the first science fiction television series on American television.
It ran from 1949-1955.</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Hands of Destiny</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">
departed radically from its standard format of depicting crime stories in an
episode by Menkin and Speer concerning contact with UFOs.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">The Flying Saucers</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The <i>Hands of Destiny</i> episode, “The Flying
Saucers” was originally broadcast on April 28, 1950, and it was shown again or
rerun in some areas in June. The episode listing as presented in the <i>Press-Telegram</i>
(Long Beach, CA) Wednesday, June 7, 1950:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>9:30</b> - KTLS - Viewer imagination will
determine whether the drama, “The Flying Saucers” is fact or fiction in tonight’s
edition of "The Hands of Destiny." A man is thought to be a lunatic when
he claims to be contacted by visitors from outer space, but a surprise ending
clears him of the charges.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It wasn’t just any man. He was a scientist, one that
closely resembled Albert Einstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLQ9ZZPvbuvWhrfxTjFRtvCe8eYb01hvZcdHibGA4pLZ0JPnk4iGeb4YkL8jGZf3M8uYS_ZGr9CVoJYjio4ZQ8Lmu9_9OAk3oi3iTzTdqA7TSkR22akmD0MU6O77gMea1QjuOPezBnustqCVzBTqfmgFD3V5nUbZshuLNq03YOyVL1UxDG38H4TJDpvpU/s397/Bruno%20Wick.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="397" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLQ9ZZPvbuvWhrfxTjFRtvCe8eYb01hvZcdHibGA4pLZ0JPnk4iGeb4YkL8jGZf3M8uYS_ZGr9CVoJYjio4ZQ8Lmu9_9OAk3oi3iTzTdqA7TSkR22akmD0MU6O77gMea1QjuOPezBnustqCVzBTqfmgFD3V5nUbZshuLNq03YOyVL1UxDG38H4TJDpvpU/w400-h253/Bruno%20Wick.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Bruno Wick starred as the scientist.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><span><br /></span><span>Below is a clipping of the review of “The Flying
Saucers” by June Bundy from </span><i>Billboard</i><span>, May 20, 1950, followed by the
complete text.</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj069ox5sMsY9qpZ4XaUG9NJk_TGxvtEJTTvhJGK4K0Jq_6dk_Py6hzTAc0uuCVBFAYEgtmJA808PCiwCsltPPuJ1My5weazzy3t8fbEFGxMF45bOEVu_J0HTYmbV-MfBJZFCSZJlq-HpafeIbkZOf_-oUgSSoaHsI3qspe9VCplg-JocYbtRsIUxiges/s623/Billboard,%20May%2020,%201950.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="623" data-original-width="528" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj069ox5sMsY9qpZ4XaUG9NJk_TGxvtEJTTvhJGK4K0Jq_6dk_Py6hzTAc0uuCVBFAYEgtmJA808PCiwCsltPPuJ1My5weazzy3t8fbEFGxMF45bOEVu_J0HTYmbV-MfBJZFCSZJlq-HpafeIbkZOf_-oUgSSoaHsI3qspe9VCplg-JocYbtRsIUxiges/w542-h640/Billboard,%20May%2020,%201950.jpg" width="542" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/50s/1950/Billboard%201950-05-20.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.26px;">Billboard</span></i><span style="line-height: 19.26px; text-align: left;">, May 20, 1950</span></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></b></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hands of Destiny</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Reviewed Friday (28), 8-8:30 p.m. Sponsored by New
York Chevrolet Dealers' Association thru Campbell-Ewald via WABD, New York.
Director, Frank Bunetta. Writers, Lawrence Menkin and Charles Speer. Music, Lew
White. Cast: Bruno Wick, Ruth White, James Maloney, Richard Sanders, Ray Mulderick,
Frederick Draper. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Hands of Destiny</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">
is the new monicker for the Charles Speer-Larry Menkin <i>Hands of Murder</i>
program, and the title switch, which considerably broadens the show's script
scope, coincides with the series' bow as a co-op show under local sponsorship
of the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut Chevrolet Dealers' Association.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In line with the public's current fetish for science
fiction, last Friday's drama centered around flying saucers. The space yarn
provided a natural showcase for the series' unique camera technique, which
integrates lengthy line-up of short terse scenes into a smooth whole, via multi
close-ups and unusual technical effects.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It seemed that the whirling disks represented an
attempt by visitors from space to contact earth's most intelligent inhabitant,
a thinly disguised version of Dr. Einstein. Utilizing mental telepathy (the
saucer face was literally made of light and invisible to human eyes), the disks
told the professor they were looking for a world to call home, and earth was
being screened for the honor. In spite of their lack of substance, tho, the
saucer set was darned choosy and ultimately decided to by-pass war-torn earth
in favor of another planet location. By that time Joe Public had labeled the
professor a crackpot, so he and his wife joined the saucer safari into space.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ingenious Production<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Production-wise the airer was easily one of the most
ingenious dramas ever staged on video. Parts of the script were unnecessarily
padded with trite melodrama, but the story struck sparks with its opening shot
of shimmering space, a pulsating "talking" light ray effect and a
powerful close-up of the professor's distorted face at the climactic point of
"brain contact" with the light men. Unfortunately, tho, with the
exception of Bruno Wick as the professor and Richard Sanders as the "voice
of a flying saucer," all acting wasn't on a par with the production.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Chevrolet commercials followed a varied pattern,
including a conventional-type film clip of new models and an imaginative
animated take-off on the headless horseman. The latter was positively
pun-happy. (i.e. "I lost my head over Chevrolet… I flipped my lid over the
service…. and you get a head with Chevrolet.") <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>June Bundy.</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></p></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Based on the review, we can see that the script by Menkin
and Speer had some interesting concepts percolating about flying saucers. The
next year, we’d see similar ideas explored in Hollywood movies. Among them was
the notion that aliens were peaceful while our world was far from it. Such an idea
was at the heart of the classic 1951 film <i>Day the Earth Stood Still</i>,
where a flying saucer landed with a warning from space. Klaatu sought the help
of “the smartest man on earth,” physicist Dr. Jacob Barnhardt, played by Sam
Jaffe, whom reviewers noted was “obviously based on Prof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Albert Einstein.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizXH_q9hptuOBhQAluEW8eGVO4xAIVzd6VCIUZv1GQw1ABLKwR8U9xxn8zIXhoEOEwmu-s4j8oN5rVjYIq5wXznG5AMQ_fOH-1rOS9C5UM0166maH7V42KlmLcjlKepIfCYUScyseUnE7AIOTOi-EMkgCQycKer-VLGzlY8INyhBRvy41O1U2wr05h/s800/Day%20the%20Earth%20Stood%20Still.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizXH_q9hptuOBhQAluEW8eGVO4xAIVzd6VCIUZv1GQw1ABLKwR8U9xxn8zIXhoEOEwmu-s4j8oN5rVjYIq5wXznG5AMQ_fOH-1rOS9C5UM0166maH7V42KlmLcjlKepIfCYUScyseUnE7AIOTOi-EMkgCQycKer-VLGzlY8INyhBRvy41O1U2wr05h/w485-h320/Day%20the%20Earth%20Stood%20Still.JPG" width="485" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;">The</i><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><i style="text-align: left;">Day the Earth Stood Still </i><span style="text-align: left;">- Sam Jaffe as Prof. Jacob Barnhardt</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><span><br /></span><span>The UFO episode of</span><i> Hands of Destiny </i><span>was a bold
departure from the series usual storylines and the favorable review from </span><i>Billboard</i><span>
may have proved to the television industry that the public had an appetite for flying
saucer programming.</span></span><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijWA1cBk7jpL2_4lXm6R3gnzwvZgqQraOOqLhWoJ_7vM4RfInGtsndkgaqgSSpfuc7ZYqTnusbxS20zSE7ilh7p9dqtUw84p81zu0wo5mj4NNq0kbNMdUCJsTkl4RNZ9-z1JwFfjOw2bM9rr3L8N6fCA9Uo8MY0pwsg3NeT-m_vrzWX0Qy66FiVI4w/s623/1961%20Saturday%20Evening%20Post.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="623" height="403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijWA1cBk7jpL2_4lXm6R3gnzwvZgqQraOOqLhWoJ_7vM4RfInGtsndkgaqgSSpfuc7ZYqTnusbxS20zSE7ilh7p9dqtUw84p81zu0wo5mj4NNq0kbNMdUCJsTkl4RNZ9-z1JwFfjOw2bM9rr3L8N6fCA9Uo8MY0pwsg3NeT-m_vrzWX0Qy66FiVI4w/w479-h403/1961%20Saturday%20Evening%20Post.JPG" width="479" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">For more on Albert Einstein and UFOs in fact and
fiction, see:</p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2023/05/einstein-evangelist-and-ufos.html" target="_blank">Einstein, the Evangelist and UFOs</a></span></span></p><p></p>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-43226518026651908142024-01-11T09:24:00.002-06:002024-01-11T09:24:59.754-06:00UFOs and Autos<p></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Over the years, cars encountering saucers on lonely roads has become something of a UFO cliché, but it's good to examine how things started. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We’ll open our Autos and Saucers scrapbook with what may be the first documented such encounter.</span><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWRQHKXVBpM09STuCRPPTN-gzWKFtlqRPWVqzpKIVLLqt75b3CCK_bsxFz5HSUFws9UtedFUr9bbWK1lsK3b6mAHn1ghHuxS1gHyxWxqrePKvmpQ5WzOYey0Iu5N1-y88hMx6eYLuHa4E0kPgvwLhVjAGMr5bzKRKXT_DHSZ_T_wrlFYRIXNbFMMnL1no/w640-h334/UFOs%20and%20Autos.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art from <i>Fate</i> magazine, Aug. 1957</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWRQHKXVBpM09STuCRPPTN-gzWKFtlqRPWVqzpKIVLLqt75b3CCK_bsxFz5HSUFws9UtedFUr9bbWK1lsK3b6mAHn1ghHuxS1gHyxWxqrePKvmpQ5WzOYey0Iu5N1-y88hMx6eYLuHa4E0kPgvwLhVjAGMr5bzKRKXT_DHSZ_T_wrlFYRIXNbFMMnL1no/s825/UFOs%20and%20Autos.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in New Mexico was established in 1941 for the development and testing of missiles by the U.S. military. Atomic bombs were later detonated there at the Trinity test site. The Range was renamed the White Sands Proving Ground in July of 1945, and in 1947 it became part of UFO history.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2h5_zCMFibvleRDN5tbeKJ9OGNKpsB2xFpTOp0Ca5WbUZzEbEPHKMVt2IEE4JnTukuSbftwnAdDAeAg5XJPCBJ1XWldqQ5gH-Z-7wt6UHeAJ8VFPXhEz5wXdUNiKYrhlD3pORoaJToyR-dqCcjhYkZUTDyzQA8Ol16vWgr94LksBbhNDMwDYBFygq5EI/s664/White%20Sands.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="664" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2h5_zCMFibvleRDN5tbeKJ9OGNKpsB2xFpTOp0Ca5WbUZzEbEPHKMVt2IEE4JnTukuSbftwnAdDAeAg5XJPCBJ1XWldqQ5gH-Z-7wt6UHeAJ8VFPXhEz5wXdUNiKYrhlD3pORoaJToyR-dqCcjhYkZUTDyzQA8Ol16vWgr94LksBbhNDMwDYBFygq5EI/w398-h373/White%20Sands.jpg" width="398" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span><span>On the afternoon of June 29, 1947, three naval
research scientists had a sighting, 15-20 miles ENE of Las Cruces near White
Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico.</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKSv4ydHyUv3OGzQ4_eUu3lOkIE0bhWZXQAv1gOyWUMKPisFo62DWInhBfkCZcEvPaHNbgcEvKc-_Nxje2g9yw7DF6_ovBin69wQbZswiLB-snCCO1uQMVSoOS7XXD_m1-zurFhp2g-_Q7FmnvdqzMQz7cxOsMRNcm59STge0i_rftwWpx5CKPuvMPIxY/s800/1947%20Project%20Blue%20Book.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="800" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKSv4ydHyUv3OGzQ4_eUu3lOkIE0bhWZXQAv1gOyWUMKPisFo62DWInhBfkCZcEvPaHNbgcEvKc-_Nxje2g9yw7DF6_ovBin69wQbZswiLB-snCCO1uQMVSoOS7XXD_m1-zurFhp2g-_Q7FmnvdqzMQz7cxOsMRNcm59STge0i_rftwWpx5CKPuvMPIxY/w640-h290/1947%20Project%20Blue%20Book.png" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 19.26px; text-align: left;">From the files of <a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/9668857" target="_blank">Project Blue Book</a> </span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTmRNDt57ld0JEGoK1C0oPhKYCgzdyXHeosKfVU23yJ9-aFEyzL2BWPyO-T8RkKWNClcWuHbza7O-oUkbaw_-ZG0jiLDLDtICB9tf1cTnLZJJaJBWTOLpdGrv6GbPhnDQlUxNUPU2niUU0zDjC2XJLMDudByY0SYyKrvlfICZulPguTAKS9Fvkmi-zrjM/s298/1947%2007%2007%20AP.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="283" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTmRNDt57ld0JEGoK1C0oPhKYCgzdyXHeosKfVU23yJ9-aFEyzL2BWPyO-T8RkKWNClcWuHbza7O-oUkbaw_-ZG0jiLDLDtICB9tf1cTnLZJJaJBWTOLpdGrv6GbPhnDQlUxNUPU2niUU0zDjC2XJLMDudByY0SYyKrvlfICZulPguTAKS9Fvkmi-zrjM/w380-h400/1947%2007%2007%20AP.png" width="380" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Associated Press clipping, July 7, 1947</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Around 1:30 p.m., three White Sands scientists, Dr. C. J. Zohn, Curtis C. Rockwood, and John R. Kauke, were driving near the grounds when they observed a bright flash of light from above. Dr.Zohn said, “We noticed a glare in the sky. We looked up and saw a silvery disc whirling along. We watched the thing for nearly sixty seconds and then it simply disappeared. It didn’t go behind the mountain range. At one time it was clearly visible, and then it just wasn’t there.”</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSBIDtSnHAjz09_QgTjh676nQp-cks7Ia14mFMUM4PyRT5ymnCzf1eW6b93MotME76Ivmj7HbQSeFl6ifAAxUjeUzRMDfoOhklqhtPiVNZJug0nyNUfzWuDlqqtxRw63kIfPTLr0zCfnpgE0mvBA13Wo_E5ft-50X940itVp_jw3evFLPaB_EhPcn-SKA/s510/1947%2007%2009%20Nevada%20State%20Journal,%20July%209,%201947.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="285" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSBIDtSnHAjz09_QgTjh676nQp-cks7Ia14mFMUM4PyRT5ymnCzf1eW6b93MotME76Ivmj7HbQSeFl6ifAAxUjeUzRMDfoOhklqhtPiVNZJug0nyNUfzWuDlqqtxRw63kIfPTLr0zCfnpgE0mvBA13Wo_E5ft-50X940itVp_jw3evFLPaB_EhPcn-SKA/w279-h498/1947%2007%2009%20Nevada%20State%20Journal,%20July%209,%201947.JPG" width="279" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">Clipping from </span><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/nevada-state-journal-1947-war-department/1184711/" target="_blank"><i style="text-align: left;">Nevada State Journal</i><span style="text-align: left;">, July 9, 1947</span></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyAiAevnRmW-OJVsEC-0SZRB-Ts7auY9EOgjSJEhW0jsaqOiSFrYwwDduVn1GguOePaJV1cznjkx6Qdxqk5TW7og_DxzqiDVjZqcRh7XZKTHUAFz0ZcZGSCZU4z6gaXRXjnztU5Ly8DM_aoXmPIQ1lhyKimyEdaW2eNpgxiIufwlWmjX-ceAtxGkk5eYc/s895/1947%2007%2008%20The%20Evening%20Star%20July%208,%201947.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="895" data-original-width="401" height="1152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyAiAevnRmW-OJVsEC-0SZRB-Ts7auY9EOgjSJEhW0jsaqOiSFrYwwDduVn1GguOePaJV1cznjkx6Qdxqk5TW7og_DxzqiDVjZqcRh7XZKTHUAFz0ZcZGSCZU4z6gaXRXjnztU5Ly8DM_aoXmPIQ1lhyKimyEdaW2eNpgxiIufwlWmjX-ceAtxGkk5eYc/w516-h1152/1947%2007%2008%20The%20Evening%20Star%20July%208,%201947.JPG" width="516" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">The (Washington, D.C.) </span><i style="text-align: left;">Evening Star</i><span style="text-align: left;">, July 8, 1947</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span>Since then, m</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">any famous cases involving autos followed, the 1957 Levelland vehicle interference case, the 1958</span><span> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Loch
Raven Reservoir case, the 1961 Betty and Barney Hill abduction story to name a
few. There were also many minor incidents where flying saucers were part of
some unfortunate encounters with automobiles.</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjilUoPGNcYbtdkRIqqIhLeQhaegYL-6wi-62f7QPCembUD6hvkR87x3tW3pyxc0vNoNQFcm36xV96dorh9EnsJrKU6Ges88l8qtz-sTRmAfmq_8OOpaYKTOoKyAuR215oeKfgXEetCE8tNRMxsSYYB6AgHoOmqjy8N_SqtkdtTYbUcIhZEhyphenhyphenKllMFGerE/s600/UFO%20Flying%20Saucers%20%231,%201968.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="600" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjilUoPGNcYbtdkRIqqIhLeQhaegYL-6wi-62f7QPCembUD6hvkR87x3tW3pyxc0vNoNQFcm36xV96dorh9EnsJrKU6Ges88l8qtz-sTRmAfmq_8OOpaYKTOoKyAuR215oeKfgXEetCE8tNRMxsSYYB6AgHoOmqjy8N_SqtkdtTYbUcIhZEhyphenhyphenKllMFGerE/w400-h316/UFO%20Flying%20Saucers%20%231,%201968.png" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;">UFO Flying Saucers</i><span style="text-align: left;"> #1, 1968</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><span><br /></span><span>Here’s a few sample cases from our files:</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">1947: The first speeding incident blamed on a UFO.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></i></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn_Nfh8wHwO_4LlOONElTmqGfvNzzrb5siVI4U2Be5kZS5OGGdP2UBy0vBtHmqY4-iLOGmGJIqOL7rMYGsEY7P4pXW8OHgtNVeGCqQ9TAMAYmoeXuq9wmoNt4Frz_eN5LNs2xGQKP5UT1QJ1FXnJ3dLBJiKu8-4U59IMQ-ct-RLdYiZ6HxeBd8-11lULc/s591/1947%2007%2008%20Muncie%20Evening%20Press.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="439" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn_Nfh8wHwO_4LlOONElTmqGfvNzzrb5siVI4U2Be5kZS5OGGdP2UBy0vBtHmqY4-iLOGmGJIqOL7rMYGsEY7P4pXW8OHgtNVeGCqQ9TAMAYmoeXuq9wmoNt4Frz_eN5LNs2xGQKP5UT1QJ1FXnJ3dLBJiKu8-4U59IMQ-ct-RLdYiZ6HxeBd8-11lULc/w298-h400/1947%2007%2008%20Muncie%20Evening%20Press.jpg" width="298" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.26px;">Muncie Evening Press</span></i><span style="line-height: 19.26px; text-align: left;">, July 7, 1947</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1950: The first car crash blamed on a UFO.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></i></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfV8bSNh9eOh3NbGmcmrXvGkgvh5TWmaFTFL_1wNjVUpEMK0SUMHJUropH12QcmigbgOQT9j3DnlH1_3L3ESyNfQdgzdGwseyZYKkhl6NWUfm2LMsGU-g2S_Gh4k7u5qAIsbuJ-dQAyqTuN-Z5Qn-luT-o2vPRSB8WGTj8u5_gD4092xnYyAkAWFdyHGI/s445/1950%2001%2006%20Mexico%20Ledger,%20Jan%206%201950.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="339" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfV8bSNh9eOh3NbGmcmrXvGkgvh5TWmaFTFL_1wNjVUpEMK0SUMHJUropH12QcmigbgOQT9j3DnlH1_3L3ESyNfQdgzdGwseyZYKkhl6NWUfm2LMsGU-g2S_Gh4k7u5qAIsbuJ-dQAyqTuN-Z5Qn-luT-o2vPRSB8WGTj8u5_gD4092xnYyAkAWFdyHGI/w290-h380/1950%2001%2006%20Mexico%20Ledger,%20Jan%206%201950.png" width="290" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.26px;">Mexico Ledger</span></i><span style="line-height: 19.26px; text-align: left;">, Jan. 6, 1950</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1953: “Saucer” Wrecks Truck<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></i></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF3AM_cnMM0dUeIuNIS86eNGrrGGIkvK-7ufR0zLSVXsGe2M2XFH_Aj36QtPcVNExDhredDvDA2KTofDuxknI7PJYC_HQNYNvMpNbDQUUz7sgT4kRAvtIP5I0iqX1ddCkkvuCcOUCE_zxs8667ycKwxdBx6TkYRQYMooHx5Z8z0je7-uAcrI-2OiBkJNo/s410/1953%2006%2026%20Galesburg%20Register%20Mail%20June%206,%201953.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="345" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF3AM_cnMM0dUeIuNIS86eNGrrGGIkvK-7ufR0zLSVXsGe2M2XFH_Aj36QtPcVNExDhredDvDA2KTofDuxknI7PJYC_HQNYNvMpNbDQUUz7sgT4kRAvtIP5I0iqX1ddCkkvuCcOUCE_zxs8667ycKwxdBx6TkYRQYMooHx5Z8z0je7-uAcrI-2OiBkJNo/s320/1953%2006%2026%20Galesburg%20Register%20Mail%20June%206,%201953.jpg" width="269" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.26px;">Galesburg Register Mail</span></i><span style="line-height: 19.26px; text-align: left;">, June 6, 1953</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">1953: Trucker spots “flying wedge” triangular UFO.</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></i></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioLiUF5vWH7QOzcg_MmfhUVO8sghFW_SGqnujpjvvlZhOQwSbc4hUUhpRHZSXyI8hjm335bQKUUoBfknrwFaIYSH7mCpjVCDFMCiQNPuL6rJj9tc_iVX5sulmuuGaYkSvldzzGMX9oemJsQsEwORJ4pGqkOyC9JuA4kpRVGMSulon4qqAavlXXw1ujxns/s708/1953%2009%2011%20Freeport%20Daily%20Facts-Review%20Sept%2011,%201953.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="659" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioLiUF5vWH7QOzcg_MmfhUVO8sghFW_SGqnujpjvvlZhOQwSbc4hUUhpRHZSXyI8hjm335bQKUUoBfknrwFaIYSH7mCpjVCDFMCiQNPuL6rJj9tc_iVX5sulmuuGaYkSvldzzGMX9oemJsQsEwORJ4pGqkOyC9JuA4kpRVGMSulon4qqAavlXXw1ujxns/w596-h640/1953%2009%2011%20Freeport%20Daily%20Facts-Review%20Sept%2011,%201953.jpg" width="596" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.26px;">Freeport Daily Facts-Review</span></i><span style="line-height: 19.26px; text-align: left;">, Sept. 11, 1953</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">1967: Saucer causes car wreck in Portland.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></i></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgG0_2-4Ncc9hYF-gliJ1ReJtaiuNHZA3r0u5NQsl9UrPhs0ES0-jgt52eVLdMnhMej6MR8XJYDc26SzYvRQutcbGgzTWXThJYdlOYmU80bzcIf7KWaBFKVNJChq-sCd4UgbPoresGKNDWfXdt7f_9EIMfPMxa7fWbm1oHaJ9GPxymR8ksI718rqKsa38/s786/1967%2001%2018%20The%20Tribune,%20Jan.%2018,%201967.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="594" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgG0_2-4Ncc9hYF-gliJ1ReJtaiuNHZA3r0u5NQsl9UrPhs0ES0-jgt52eVLdMnhMej6MR8XJYDc26SzYvRQutcbGgzTWXThJYdlOYmU80bzcIf7KWaBFKVNJChq-sCd4UgbPoresGKNDWfXdt7f_9EIMfPMxa7fWbm1oHaJ9GPxymR8ksI718rqKsa38/w303-h400/1967%2001%2018%20The%20Tribune,%20Jan.%2018,%201967.png" width="303" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Tribune</span></span></i><span style="line-height: 17.12px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">, Jan. 18, 1967</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Legions of Legends</b><br /></span></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUSIqR1lYw0rCDGibmjeDHvwkgRSU8KHcSBF_O04Yn6_m5iEReGCiNwSZRZrqbcxCYwVRwSElnKJ2PwQXQJd5GvxiS7uhlfhP1TEb5rx0Dr3khiUV-dYk4t6tmBkIJ-5IJCwLKk1EkPZtZECVyDsdiDkHSpS71nNURpwujnED6yw0GZnXWq-UgAPIjRXM/s1044/CashLandrum_2_2_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="1044" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUSIqR1lYw0rCDGibmjeDHvwkgRSU8KHcSBF_O04Yn6_m5iEReGCiNwSZRZrqbcxCYwVRwSElnKJ2PwQXQJd5GvxiS7uhlfhP1TEb5rx0Dr3khiUV-dYk4t6tmBkIJ-5IJCwLKk1EkPZtZECVyDsdiDkHSpS71nNURpwujnED6yw0GZnXWq-UgAPIjRXM/w400-h269/CashLandrum_2_2_3.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chris Lambright's depiction of the 1980 Cash-Landrum UFO</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">That concludes this collection, but there are hundreds of other incidents, from fly-by encounters to tales of alien abduction. Looking back to understand how legends were born, that's our job here at <i>The Saucers that Time Forgot</i>.</span><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="331" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/92yB-UhrtV4" width="398" youtube-src-id="92yB-UhrtV4"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. . .</span></b></div><p></p></div>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-90033403582733815852023-11-23T08:30:00.035-06:002023-11-28T07:16:25.489-06:00UFO Information and Research - Sources & Sites<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeE4ata4rS7o0jBS7Gu81WjkN8xsWgcLqsR76Z7EmVzABPZXaXi2UGbeve9cbN8M_0NqOCeoYCaLPe5Sd9kKr6fjjCV5Z33xbX0hZBuiOoOz39Ajk-cqfc3mBCFlnUK7utbP_4UCZyUN0CO3TaPIjedGQtD21ZLGOF9wRXTSQT4BmQiyMFobGU5V3aA7c/w640-h334/UFO%20Information%20and%20Research.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration from "The Strange Shapes Seen in the Sky," <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=iD8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=Strange%20shapes%20seen%20in%20the%20sky.%20From%20Life%20magazine%201955&pg=PA177#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><i>Life</i> magazine Dec. 5, 1955</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeE4ata4rS7o0jBS7Gu81WjkN8xsWgcLqsR76Z7EmVzABPZXaXi2UGbeve9cbN8M_0NqOCeoYCaLPe5Sd9kKr6fjjCV5Z33xbX0hZBuiOoOz39Ajk-cqfc3mBCFlnUK7utbP_4UCZyUN0CO3TaPIjedGQtD21ZLGOF9wRXTSQT4BmQiyMFobGU5V3aA7c/s825/UFO%20Information%20and%20Research.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Sturgeon's Law is the adage stating, "ninety percent of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">everything</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> is crap." It’s based on author Theodore Sturgeon responding to an insult of science fiction, emphasizing that we should focus on the positive and seek out the exceptional 10%. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">There is an overwhelming amount of material on UFOs, from books to television shows, blogs, podcasts, YouTube channels, etc., and 90% of it is inaccurate or sensationalized. The good news is that there are reliable sources of information, archives of original case documents and classic UFO literature. Here are a few I personally recommend, the majority of which can be found online.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-3c1e23a2-7fff-8f5a-7a08-c71d3b389cd5" style="font-size: medium;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>Documents, Chronologies, and Literature</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJwDYVA-7g4wa17muxSMDrKkPrvkC9mSe20GDSfVnv54Nv51fqyXcrVzY8enAL-TitnfPod1pfMBn048mqomussCqNpnaON0t4rqVtizUmExmG333t3yUsuS_yWfXAwuarehlcMJiTe2SqiCvl42CiUVxSvJVG2y0SwffxfnNlgTS55d9TXaBrYAIx34/s785/Isaac%20Koi.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="785" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJwDYVA-7g4wa17muxSMDrKkPrvkC9mSe20GDSfVnv54Nv51fqyXcrVzY8enAL-TitnfPod1pfMBn048mqomussCqNpnaON0t4rqVtizUmExmG333t3yUsuS_yWfXAwuarehlcMJiTe2SqiCvl42CiUVxSvJVG2y0SwffxfnNlgTS55d9TXaBrYAIx34/w400-h229/Isaac%20Koi.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.isaackoi.com" target="_blank">Isaac Koi: UFOs and Rationality</a></span><a href="https://www.isaackoi.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">contains many valuable features:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.isaackoi.com/starter-pack.html" target="_blank">Free UFO Researcher Starter Pack</a></span><a href="https://www.isaackoi.com/starter-pack.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> - Tools to get started or improve locating UFO information and resources.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.isaackoi.com/ufo-history.html" target="_blank">UFO History Timeline</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> - Chronological listing of UFO events with a list of resources on each item.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.isaackoi.com/best-ufo-cases.html" target="_blank">Best UFO Cases</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">,</span><a href="https://www.isaackoi.com/best-ufo-cases.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">not necessarily the best, a survey of the most famous historical cases up to about 1990.</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Additionally, see his blog, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://isaackoiup.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Isaac Koi - New Uploads</a></span><a href="https://isaackoiup.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">for details on new additions to the digital collection housed by the AFU.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGEFO7lNPC_Q6qj4IJk8iYNT_Iwz76Kao5D2FZMj0Y_r77zLtUDT4TfD-f2kCXlIQ2rOMjlpE6OXuWYGUQ4Y3R1Ab9KWOG8YwvpMSrIQh05CCGXV5GhJY8DR85flUemclre-JmSQL-QOOweC6NBik3T5f5tZNxE1cEY-MjtZP1yusLpc97nhdePlZdC0/s825/AFU.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="825" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtGEFO7lNPC_Q6qj4IJk8iYNT_Iwz76Kao5D2FZMj0Y_r77zLtUDT4TfD-f2kCXlIQ2rOMjlpE6OXuWYGUQ4Y3R1Ab9KWOG8YwvpMSrIQh05CCGXV5GhJY8DR85flUemclre-JmSQL-QOOweC6NBik3T5f5tZNxE1cEY-MjtZP1yusLpc97nhdePlZdC0/w428-h239/AFU.jpg" width="428" /></a></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">AFU: <a href="https://www.afu.se" target="_blank">Archives for the Unexplained</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> was founded in Sweden and has become an international repository for collections related to all phenomena studies, not only experiences of unidentified flying objects. In addition to their physical collection, there’s a vast digital collection of UFO literature and documents curated by Isaac Koi, see the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads" target="_blank">AFU Digital Directory</a></span><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">for the ever-expanding selection.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikjg6QO1MaAKOKoecgGwfsJjcWJvpEW_-F1gdEtQ1zxlaprm7tluMxNYTAFz3c17j8V1Me1tV9q9wEPAVf1Mw8lAMk99Qu2DqS975CnkFp5YsU71irkGiVWtAp8LPbzvepOnizxDYAKszRwmMVncgXyOkALggjaHOC10tmhsJKiE_7IKfAXF_N8UmDR88/s944/CUFOS%20site.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="791" data-original-width="944" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikjg6QO1MaAKOKoecgGwfsJjcWJvpEW_-F1gdEtQ1zxlaprm7tluMxNYTAFz3c17j8V1Me1tV9q9wEPAVf1Mw8lAMk99Qu2DqS975CnkFp5YsU71irkGiVWtAp8LPbzvepOnizxDYAKszRwmMVncgXyOkALggjaHOC10tmhsJKiE_7IKfAXF_N8UmDR88/w400-h335/CUFOS%20site.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The J. Allen Hynek </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org" target="_blank">Center for UFO Studies</a></span><a href="http://www.cufos.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(CUFOS) recently announced their website has been updated and expanded: </span></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><blockquote>"The site now contains a complete set of issues of the <i>International UFO Reporter,</i> the<i> Journal of UFO Studies</i>, the C<i>UFOS Associate Newsletter</i>, and the <i>CUFOS Bulletin</i>, as well as NICAP’s <i>UFO Investigator</i>. It also features a UFO sighting report form, a comprehensive and updated UFO timeline, and basic information on the UFO phenomenon."</blockquote><p> </p></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKcejTF2MG6UZKcY0B93I70wZCHleIelXfc1HStbU9zQ7-wm9sRp0SzeBdywf28wOKRzJFFLCMmTHTWTbRHR9WGb0wzMymKEm_SndnxFEDDtpDoVGkX-yovUkCakuFRBg3c9OlHJhNl9O7rp_3BaP736wTXIZNlnS8gykJTe4JSuNIGHxl3Mh2e91b6bU/s820/NICAP%20Chronos.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="820" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKcejTF2MG6UZKcY0B93I70wZCHleIelXfc1HStbU9zQ7-wm9sRp0SzeBdywf28wOKRzJFFLCMmTHTWTbRHR9WGb0wzMymKEm_SndnxFEDDtpDoVGkX-yovUkCakuFRBg3c9OlHJhNl9O7rp_3BaP736wTXIZNlnS8gykJTe4JSuNIGHxl3Mh2e91b6bU/w400-h210/NICAP%20Chronos.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">NICAP, the<b> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena</span><a href="https://www.nicap.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> was a premier UFO organization from the mid-1950s into the early 1970s. It lives on today as the official </span><a href="http://www.nicap.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>NICAP website</b></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> curated by Fran Ridge, supported by an international team of UFO experts. The site features many resources, perhaps the most valuable is the <a href="http://www.nicap.org/chronos" target="_blank">UFO Sighting Chronologies</a>.</span><a href="http://www.nicap.org/chronos/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Another great feature is the collection of twenty credible classic books on unidentified aerial phenomena. <a href="http://www.nicap.org/onlinebooks.htm" target="_blank">NICAP Online Books</a>.</span><a href="http://www.nicap.org/onlinebooks.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2H2vzsXeoUCL4Uq6dRTyTTTh6N7UyPTr20cv0MpJV0HFW1hxJFftPh3hzpSw2Pfo1O-dWz4cBuGgYHakCQRXyrd-UfUO1W5Ay3WRbGrIkePEBTeruQ-nwU12zZtowj-ouOyc3Ske29u5XJ5Z-qgiCudBbz1SOonkIZuTMPA403a-3BTc_hmnSxFeTauE/s1386/Expanding%20Frontiers%20Archive.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="1386" height="81" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2H2vzsXeoUCL4Uq6dRTyTTTh6N7UyPTr20cv0MpJV0HFW1hxJFftPh3hzpSw2Pfo1O-dWz4cBuGgYHakCQRXyrd-UfUO1W5Ay3WRbGrIkePEBTeruQ-nwU12zZtowj-ouOyc3Ske29u5XJ5Z-qgiCudBbz1SOonkIZuTMPA403a-3BTc_hmnSxFeTauE/w400-h81/Expanding%20Frontiers%20Archive.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.expandingfrontiersresearch.org/items-1" target="_blank">Expanding Frontiers Research</a></b><span> was primarily born out of the ongoing research collaborations of Erica Lukes and Jack Brewer, and is </span><span>"committed to collecting, preserving, and archiving historical information to share with the public. Our organization houses one of the most critical and unique UFO archives in the United States."</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3btaMrMlTyQpmtEmeDQrNCc1QGJzcHiY8BHIk5CnVroP8LeV6mGeMeK5lnNnrZr-MwNVWB9_V0r2C_7IwI_iPN3gMFJIRNJp88Af59xtTgd2rK4evaurnHNBiFrUl9zvk3gpkr6niqtQEu_dA5rqh9XYHU5tISrs-2ef-IH9xzJBJsZGkejYXRPmqS0w/s345/The%20Black%20Vault.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="345" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3btaMrMlTyQpmtEmeDQrNCc1QGJzcHiY8BHIk5CnVroP8LeV6mGeMeK5lnNnrZr-MwNVWB9_V0r2C_7IwI_iPN3gMFJIRNJp88Af59xtTgd2rK4evaurnHNBiFrUl9zvk3gpkr6niqtQEu_dA5rqh9XYHU5tISrs-2ef-IH9xzJBJsZGkejYXRPmqS0w/w400-h290/The%20Black%20Vault.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive" target="_blank">The Black Vault</a></span><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">by John Greenewald, Jr. is “the largest privately run online repository of declassified government documents anywhere in the world.” For ease of navigation, here are some direct links to UFO-related departments of interest:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Documents</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> released by the US. Government.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/category/ufos/ufological-history" target="_blank">Ufological History</a></span><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/category/ufos/ufological-history/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> - A collection of rare UFO literature.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/desks-project-blue-book " target="_blank">From the Desks of Project Blue Book</a></span><a href="https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/desks-project-blue-book/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="color: #1155cc;"><u>- </u></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">PDFs of original Air Force files from the collection of Project Blue Book staffer Lt. Carmon Marano.</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqr7vCNJ5qGqQbx5C1X58EhCqJO7g3K4VGCjuXMwc52pXtQ0Fg-pB1KGckBVwDFY3AzZQXmxJocF3L0VpQVfLokZ4_6Ymuz64U16X3h6qA7UuOBrO-AsinEXuK9LLP7x7YxdUXAcut7aM/s824/Disclosure+1952.png"></a></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqr7vCNJ5qGqQbx5C1X58EhCqJO7g3K4VGCjuXMwc52pXtQ0Fg-pB1KGckBVwDFY3AzZQXmxJocF3L0VpQVfLokZ4_6Ymuz64U16X3h6qA7UuOBrO-AsinEXuK9LLP7x7YxdUXAcut7aM/s824/Disclosure+1952.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="824" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqr7vCNJ5qGqQbx5C1X58EhCqJO7g3K4VGCjuXMwc52pXtQ0Fg-pB1KGckBVwDFY3AzZQXmxJocF3L0VpQVfLokZ4_6Ymuz64U16X3h6qA7UuOBrO-AsinEXuK9LLP7x7YxdUXAcut7aM/w400-h209/Disclosure+1952.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.fold3.com/publication/461/us-project-blue-book-ufo-investigations-1947-1969/browse" target="_blank"><br /></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.fold3.com/publication/461/us-project-blue-book-ufo-investigations-1947-1969/browse" target="_blank">Project Blue Book - UFO Investigations, 1947-1969</a></span><a href="https://www.fold3.com/publication/461/us-project-blue-book-ufo-investigations-1947-1969/browse" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">is the collection of US government files on aerial phenomena from the Air Force. The National Archives houses the originals and were scanned by Fold3 and are available for public viewing.</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkYbur_LVk01jpVvN_tWBLOeIoiERq_W4sl0j5Si4hGTVA9RYabM3bXToNgkeA0_JSqM4mMKay75vxhYA8wGgaIR4X-UMMM_rb5fmEZPJ6UFG3wpvcnrIc4dxa-TaHz9MHy7tZ0lPg1IQnRS1XnD9yz6M2-lbte_A-CMUyASJeiuem5eFiZ7XxRU_hm40/s664/Paul%20Dean.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="664" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkYbur_LVk01jpVvN_tWBLOeIoiERq_W4sl0j5Si4hGTVA9RYabM3bXToNgkeA0_JSqM4mMKay75vxhYA8wGgaIR4X-UMMM_rb5fmEZPJ6UFG3wpvcnrIc4dxa-TaHz9MHy7tZ0lPg1IQnRS1XnD9yz6M2-lbte_A-CMUyASJeiuem5eFiZ7XxRU_hm40/w400-h256/Paul%20Dean.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2017/03/ufo-books-101-required-reading-by-paul.html " target="_blank">UFO Books 101: Required Reading by Paul Dean</a></span><a href="https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2017/03/ufo-books-101-required-reading-by-paul.htmlw" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">was prepared by Australian researcher Paul Dean, his list of about twenty solid books on the phenomena.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>Discussion Groups, Social Media, Blogs…</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD6NHQeth9xPS_RDDVY5GQ7cMa-waADXoS0eT-w83uC2f1NHs_f5oZ_YYlhmy8di_ZKGZO32E9AXlX3WQanbOQFXbKKBrScetYbXmJun0RD1ZKOQ7hVI-q4jR3-XpsQJ0KBhSMAgEAx2bQ0pSlPLQhM9A_5bb6WX3navkYkRz3D_tyUyO43i_1yGAxnxE/s686/UFO%20Case%20Review.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="686" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD6NHQeth9xPS_RDDVY5GQ7cMa-waADXoS0eT-w83uC2f1NHs_f5oZ_YYlhmy8di_ZKGZO32E9AXlX3WQanbOQFXbKKBrScetYbXmJun0RD1ZKOQ7hVI-q4jR3-XpsQJ0KBhSMAgEAx2bQ0pSlPLQhM9A_5bb6WX3navkYkRz3D_tyUyO43i_1yGAxnxE/w400-h308/UFO%20Case%20Review.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">For those looking for a sincere attempt to present information via video, see the YouTube </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@UFOCaseReview/videos" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">UFO Case Review </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">channel</span></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@UFOCaseReview/videos" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and also the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc9zbu1ZOD2vmqHj-Lttz-oAX4lDBXC4r" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">UFO Case Review </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">playlist</span></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc9zbu1ZOD2vmqHj-Lttz-oAX4lDBXC4r" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">from Think Anomalous.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizfU6QeJ7SBGFcXluI2rJATK5HpgRVwXATi0NwTBvu-uhRnaVuDbpYqaAnmkZNsX_v56Nu8rFam7jFNf48fkJXlKFnI4mkufd_w4UbEmksmjAlcF1DsQT1bZlQuhPoCqBC9xMIA_Fn1ayZfRGrIFcMHwv6f_ANeiH7gzpYguEQBFl_2rzTveVdNOdH6xs/s825/UFO%20UpDates%20stars%20Header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizfU6QeJ7SBGFcXluI2rJATK5HpgRVwXATi0NwTBvu-uhRnaVuDbpYqaAnmkZNsX_v56Nu8rFam7jFNf48fkJXlKFnI4mkufd_w4UbEmksmjAlcF1DsQT1bZlQuhPoCqBC9xMIA_Fn1ayZfRGrIFcMHwv6f_ANeiH7gzpYguEQBFl_2rzTveVdNOdH6xs/w400-h209/UFO%20UpDates%20stars%20Header.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The UFO Updates List was curated by Errol Bruce-Knapp through the 1990s into 2013, a top resource for current information, ideas, and discussions on the phenomena available anywhere, and it’s preserved at the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220205134659/http://www.ufoupdateslist.com" target="_blank">UFO UpDates Archives</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220205134659/http:/www.ufoupdateslist.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> After closing the list in 2013, Errol launched </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/ufoupdates" target="_blank">UFO UpDates Facebook Group</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/ufoupdates" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Errol passed away in 2016, but UFO Updates goes on. As with the original, it’s a curated forum, and while anyone may read the discussions, participation is by invitation only.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXW9VBHC7uII2xf5oP0FQgJ2yOJ8FlrDezvoZHCeypcoBKbe04-y4e65zMCrfgt97UZDWbiJmaUxZ0leMukHUGqxxRTbtAD7dwhz0zspCSkjvLIOyogd3l3II1simF7m2Mfy0aL5QiI6Hy8-iACZ56w-ByXU7nG4n50uB8GEbo90LDgX_NuCxiPCCabDE/s361/Esotericism.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="306" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXW9VBHC7uII2xf5oP0FQgJ2yOJ8FlrDezvoZHCeypcoBKbe04-y4e65zMCrfgt97UZDWbiJmaUxZ0leMukHUGqxxRTbtAD7dwhz0zspCSkjvLIOyogd3l3II1simF7m2Mfy0aL5QiI6Hy8-iACZ56w-ByXU7nG4n50uB8GEbo90LDgX_NuCxiPCCabDE/w339-h400/Esotericism.JPG" width="339" /></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Håkan Blomqvist (co-founder, archivist and vice chairman of the AFU) has an excellent blog with a wealth of information for those interested in the more metaphysical side of things. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><a href="https://ufoarchives.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Håkan Blomqvist´s Blog</a> </b>also<b> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">includes a link to a free PDF of his book, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Esotericism and UFO Research</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs_I0fgNHtaieFUl_l571KyXqLCX_LYXFvxCWQTMvhyphenhyphenSpyr1n7qelUANnj2_FzEqiBoX3zPhN62JqOKGPaderJBnzbJ4G_3Bt_csXN5qo_nawBxfzPfXBUDB0uN1nQKqeKS2hk1Av8HZg3ZwoaidMZEWVLnHnhlK3UdZA1ofqaZoMSTWZvGjhzFDy2Bj0/s395/where%20do%20i%20report%20my%20ufo%20sighting.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="395" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs_I0fgNHtaieFUl_l571KyXqLCX_LYXFvxCWQTMvhyphenhyphenSpyr1n7qelUANnj2_FzEqiBoX3zPhN62JqOKGPaderJBnzbJ4G_3Bt_csXN5qo_nawBxfzPfXBUDB0uN1nQKqeKS2hk1Av8HZg3ZwoaidMZEWVLnHnhlK3UdZA1ofqaZoMSTWZvGjhzFDy2Bj0/w400-h209/where%20do%20i%20report%20my%20ufo%20sighting.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://uforum.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Ufology Research</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">is the blog by veteran Canadian UFO researcher Chris Rutkowski. It provides a balanced look at the topic, and among the many excellent articles, he takes on the question, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="http://uforum.blogspot.com/2022/01/where-do-i-report-my-ufo-sighting.html" target="_blank">Where do I report my UFO sighting?</a></span><a href="http://uforum.blogspot.com/2022/01/where-do-i-report-my-ufo-sighting.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and provides a look at the choices available.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">There’s a virtual universe of UFO material out there, but also a lot of dead space. Investigate these sites to help you on your journey.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-927209175406204982023-11-09T08:30:00.023-06:002023-11-10T11:06:37.692-06:00Gremlins in the Flying Saucer Era<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(For Part I, see: </span></span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2023/10/before-ufology-gremlinology.html" target="_blank">Before UFOlogy: Gremlinology</a>)</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gremlins and Gremlinology, Part II:</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-380ac258-7fff-d2b7-2308-28e3a6182770"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>Into the Flying Saucer Era</span></span></p></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Wl0tetpg3r_B5uP6iSbOq_uFoGr4yXmqB0RhnHRvdHwsDVP1981j_BkhM52GBS2AD_Ie85cLwlRq09-0MKsB9cBnf4dey-zoUVEQR6JegSHI7SEXu0ZhvZfI61SUu11bxpyg4IB9u-UXZu2oy46L1nG5ebCaEWU5is8mlxhrL9tY4wS6BxPENZU8VQo/s825/Gremlins%20-%20Flying%20Saucer%20Era.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Wl0tetpg3r_B5uP6iSbOq_uFoGr4yXmqB0RhnHRvdHwsDVP1981j_BkhM52GBS2AD_Ie85cLwlRq09-0MKsB9cBnf4dey-zoUVEQR6JegSHI7SEXu0ZhvZfI61SUu11bxpyg4IB9u-UXZu2oy46L1nG5ebCaEWU5is8mlxhrL9tY4wS6BxPENZU8VQo/w640-h334/Gremlins%20-%20Flying%20Saucer%20Era.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8ef40c19-7fff-5355-4dc3-589731ebe8c2"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Little Green Men from </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Invasion of the Saucer Men</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, 1957</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Before flying saucers, Gremlins dominated the talk of aerial phenomena. After the end of World War II, Gremlins were less often discussed but not completely forgotten. Thereafter, the term was most often used to describe an unexplained or mysterious problem or annoyance. One of the last contemporary references to Gremlins proper was in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/All_Hands/j67wWI7JHtsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA5-PA55&printsec=frontcover" target="_blank">All Hands</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/All_Hands/j67wWI7JHtsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA5-PA55&printsec=frontcover" target="_blank">, June, 1947</a>, a cheeky piece about which apparently was intended to be illustrated. It claimed a new sub-species of Gremlin had been discovered, one targeting experimental high-speed aircraft:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>“One school of thought has suggested that these gremlins are some who, dismayed by human activities during World War II, donned space suits and helmets, left their former homes, and settled in the transonic regions to avoid all humanity. If this hypothesis is true, it assures that their battle against human interference in the transonic speeds will be bitter in the extreme.”</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-disclosure-of-richard-shavers.html" target="_blank">The Shaver Mystery</a> had been introduced in 1945 in the pages of the fantasy and science fiction magazine </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amazing Stories</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> edited by Ray Palmer. The series by Richard Shaver purported to be non-fiction, with the premise that the ancient spacefaring Titans and Atlans abandoned earth, leaving behind their underground cities and machinery, also their rejected citizens, the “dero,” who took pleasure in destruction. Weeks before the flying saucers debuted, in the issue of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amazing Stories</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> dated June 1947, Palmer disclosed that Gremlins were real:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“With the aid of such machines as the telaug (telepathic augmentor) and disintegrating rays…these dero took to tormenting surface people and thereby being the basis for all of our legends of cavern wights, little people, demons, ghosts and — during the war — gremlins. They cause many unexplained accidents, such as those train wrecks, plane crashes, cerebral hemmorhages, etc. which are otherwise unexplainable.”</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibooB_xnmh2v57KwBTXj0UF5dLKNqy2Rrk30FxC6YD0DxADNXzZOyra7cHTcoSuAcPGHXOeTpW_Lo8ke_VZe3jJaYCa-8JeVvIuIesm8P3p5iyH7lEt7aEZwjvnaNFW63U37HIgtg1fgkubmNsS3NeGSWAl1saE7OGtCY_z0tv63tcehHyvBqBjt_TLTk/s609/Shaver%20Mystery.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="609" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibooB_xnmh2v57KwBTXj0UF5dLKNqy2Rrk30FxC6YD0DxADNXzZOyra7cHTcoSuAcPGHXOeTpW_Lo8ke_VZe3jJaYCa-8JeVvIuIesm8P3p5iyH7lEt7aEZwjvnaNFW63U37HIgtg1fgkubmNsS3NeGSWAl1saE7OGtCY_z0tv63tcehHyvBqBjt_TLTk/w640-h640/Shaver%20Mystery.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">1947 A.A. (After Arnold).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> When flying saucer fever hit, some newspaper stories discussed earlier phenomena, Forteana, 1890s airships, foo fighters, and ghost rockets. Where were the Gremlins? They were seldom mentioned at all.</span></span></span> </p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRmEPVI5HTcZdhBCySseltMKTtg5nVM1BK-Ixv-O9pnzLnVSdit-WAWHmABX1s9OR_ax4GLVAGcxkiDbIdKZJVowzarQZ4H7VHrgHMYI8e21VMs6agn20NOSDTipV6QDlBpVS4fY_TPwI/s825/Ken+Arnold+Products.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRmEPVI5HTcZdhBCySseltMKTtg5nVM1BK-Ixv-O9pnzLnVSdit-WAWHmABX1s9OR_ax4GLVAGcxkiDbIdKZJVowzarQZ4H7VHrgHMYI8e21VMs6agn20NOSDTipV6QDlBpVS4fY_TPwI/w547-h286/Ken+Arnold+Products.jpg" width="547" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Press Democrat</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, July 9, 1947, Santa Rosa, California, featured a satirical piece on UFOs, an interview with Honest John, “the only man who hasn't seen a ‘flying disc.’" Asked about his technique he said, “Why, I opened my eyes and looked at the skies." "Old-fashioned," one of the reporters murmured to the gremlin sitting on his shoulder. "He should have kept them shut."</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Metropolitan Pasadena Star-News</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Pasadena, CA), July 9, 1947, noted, “Now they claim that Saucers have been flying for years. Older than Gremlins, eh?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Los Angeles Times</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, July 10, 1947, featured a verse:</span></span></p></span><span><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Silly Season Sophistries</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">Twinkle, twinkle, little disk!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Merrily you skim and frisk.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Be watchful, Gremlin crew,</div><div style="text-align: center;">Or the movies will shoot you.</div><div style="text-align: center;">R.A.M.</div></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Gremlins in July” in the Holyoke Mass. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transcript-Telegram,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> July 7, 1947, speculated that flying saucers and Gremlins might have something in common:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>“Early in the war the pilots and crews of the high-flying bombers up where it was cold could have their nerves assaulted by all sorts of atmospheric pranks, such as miniature lightnings and thunders. They would hear them tapping at their windows, or flashing by. They called the spirits they had drawn from the upper air ‘gremlins.’ Perhaps these luminous discs [flying saucers] are freaks of the air where man has been bothering things a good while now.”</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Flying Saucers Join the Flying Dutchman in Lore” by Nick Carter in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Buffalo News</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, July 19, 1947, dismissed saucers as nonsense along the lines of Orson Welles’ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">War of the Worlds</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> radio play. It closed by asking:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span> “And did you hear a flying saucer manned by six gremlins was carrying the Loch Ness Monster to meet the Cardiff Giant and the Silver Lake Serpent so that they can wait together for the end of the world?”</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Ottawa Citizen</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, April 11, 1950, editorial</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>“One Royal Air Force veteran has suggested that the explanation for flying saucers lies in the gremlins. These were little men who upset pilots and made things go wrong with aircraft during the war. Sometimes they sat on the plane’s wing, where they wrought havoc. The bolder snuggled in right beside the pilot to distract him from his work. It is suggested that these gremlins have now learned to fly themselves. Hence the flying saucers.”</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Little Men in Flying Saucers</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">After flying saucers became a sensation in 1947 Gremlins were seldom connected, but when Aztec-related crash-retrieval stories started circulating in 1950, “the little men” in the saucers were described in some newspaper accounts as “a gremlin type gent only 23 inches tall.”</span></div><div style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl2Qx_f2nPeolOFwVzxJ9P-e-d6HdHyX_0NN6eANTwMs1puDIG5vb_Ml0dwCnNBGDl03BdjsGAYEE9_NCHuMd-KeXse6NwaZs-ORFCWeD6qrVecYxpbcn3onL8OyItj8fcl5ykzmroIIUMYmBhUB-OCLIztaMnXALRhwxcMPixW5u3gM28G7-3LMZrVBE/s513/SilasNewton%201950%20(2020_12_02%2016_05_45%20UTC).jpg" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl2Qx_f2nPeolOFwVzxJ9P-e-d6HdHyX_0NN6eANTwMs1puDIG5vb_Ml0dwCnNBGDl03BdjsGAYEE9_NCHuMd-KeXse6NwaZs-ORFCWeD6qrVecYxpbcn3onL8OyItj8fcl5ykzmroIIUMYmBhUB-OCLIztaMnXALRhwxcMPixW5u3gM28G7-3LMZrVBE/w640-h356/SilasNewton%201950%20(2020_12_02%2016_05_45%20UTC).jpg" /></a></div><span style="text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=whAkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZX0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=2140%2C365738" target="_blank"><i>The St. Petersburg Times</i>, April 2, 1950</a>, men "three feet tall, beardless with perfect teeth.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQYIPrt4hEb69DiBA17Mv5bAZp6b_joIMRzE4mA7F0gE-Wx7T6L5oGhjYGub3cAlksBiIvmtPgA__lb0EuqYs4h8rgRLKWEwJzLh-FE4nAKVNncII1BVe4U6G7dCwpUenPxyPFZjkdbrs7D62gK-T9t05UVoOWAeYRGMqf19GlXN8kvNq1AjtfSbQDaIQ/s709/1950%2004%2011%20The%20Ottawa%20Evening%20Citizen%20April%2011,%201950%20Gremlins.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="709" height="628" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQYIPrt4hEb69DiBA17Mv5bAZp6b_joIMRzE4mA7F0gE-Wx7T6L5oGhjYGub3cAlksBiIvmtPgA__lb0EuqYs4h8rgRLKWEwJzLh-FE4nAKVNncII1BVe4U6G7dCwpUenPxyPFZjkdbrs7D62gK-T9t05UVoOWAeYRGMqf19GlXN8kvNq1AjtfSbQDaIQ/w640-h628/1950%2004%2011%20The%20Ottawa%20Evening%20Citizen%20April%2011,%201950%20Gremlins.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aug. 21, 1955: Space goblins come to </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Christian County, Kentucky</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">?</span><br /></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr9QPR4J93lQ_wp3C0eYTYLgyK-VHS1AjQ2l1Ocr3fH_OzeLDvKHkkAphpCmY_HxE24otg2_GWmMsS83L5Wk3P4ce_gil3gRfwN2xj1belIwiX1OXdgs4MMNJJhrsBYBi4esEvqb2rGmU8/s1253/Kelly+Hopkinsville+Goblin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="1253" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr9QPR4J93lQ_wp3C0eYTYLgyK-VHS1AjQ2l1Ocr3fH_OzeLDvKHkkAphpCmY_HxE24otg2_GWmMsS83L5Wk3P4ce_gil3gRfwN2xj1belIwiX1OXdgs4MMNJJhrsBYBi4esEvqb2rGmU8/w640-h296/Kelly+Hopkinsville+Goblin.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></span></div>“</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Space Ship's Little Men” was an editorial in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/125305226/" target="_blank">The Lexington Herald</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/125305226/" target="_blank">, Aug. 25, 1955</a>, which discussed how the little <a href="http://www.nicap.org/reports/550821hopkinsville_hendry.htm" target="_blank">Kelly-Hopkinsville invaders</a> were thought not to be "gremlins from the Kremlin," but “critters’ from another world.”</span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidv9lWieRehOzsG4rCcG5hnPYhhU0m724qsP3QA4md0bruZg4sHpl6tSB3C5xATa-EyNMEiluc8yGmbnSKSIo_a7eqKdVhHdh6957r8KonGZsPYHM2UsZ58hj70oxsPgFiQ_pNQ31KxiZWdet8eiBn_7M6VC9gVYstEZwPECWuXGw3vmaQAeUlSDMJdRY/s907/1955%2008%2025%20The%20Lexington%20Herald,%20Aug.%2025,%201955.JPG" style="font-family: Times, serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="907" data-original-width="685" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidv9lWieRehOzsG4rCcG5hnPYhhU0m724qsP3QA4md0bruZg4sHpl6tSB3C5xATa-EyNMEiluc8yGmbnSKSIo_a7eqKdVhHdh6957r8KonGZsPYHM2UsZ58hj70oxsPgFiQ_pNQ31KxiZWdet8eiBn_7M6VC9gVYstEZwPECWuXGw3vmaQAeUlSDMJdRY/w484-h640/1955%2008%2025%20The%20Lexington%20Herald,%20Aug.%2025,%201955.JPG" width="484" /></span></a></div><span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Foo Fighter Foolishness</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In his </span><a href="https://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/ahcpublic/UFO/Foo%20Fighter%20Files_ah12722.pdf" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">Feb 21, 1952, letter to Air Force Intelligence</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Albert Rosenthal, former fighter controller (USAAF 64th Fighter Wing) said:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“During the winter of 1944-45 I was a fighter controller with the 64th Fighter Wing supporting the 7th Army in France and Germany. …We repeatedly received reports from the Beaufighter crews of similar phenomena, which they named 'foo-fighters.' …We never did solve the problem of what they were. Theories propounded included 'St Elmo's Fire' (a form of static electricity); German barrage balloons; meteors; and gremlins from the Black Forest nearby. And of course we suspected the possibility of some new secret weapon."</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This letter may have resulted in boneheaded confusion by Project Blue Book that Gremlins were another name for foo-fighters. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flying Saucers and the U. S. Air Force</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Lawrence J Tacker, USAF, 1960:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“World War II and the Korean War gave us a few sightings of strange phenomena or unidentified objects in the sky from pilots flying at higher altitudes and speeds than man had attained up to that time. Our flying personnel jokingly referred to these strange objects or sightings as “foo fighters” or “gremlins.” The St. Elmo’s fire phenomena, or static electricity, was blamed at the time for most of these sightings.”</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Decades later, Col. Robert Friend, Project Blue Book head from 1958 to 1963, repeated this view on the 1988 TV special, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UFO Cover Up? Live</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Discussing historical sightings, Col. Friend said, “During World War II our pilots saw what were called gremlins and foo fighters. These were fireballs that appeared to fly along with our aircraft.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Gremlins as a Border to Reason</b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Confused by the conflicting claims of the Contactees, John Lythee, had a letter in the Summer 1955 issue of the UK magazine, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flying Saucer News</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. “If one accepts the Adamski story, shouldn’t one accept every saucer landing story? Giant men... green men... Monsters, gremlins - and probably even a few leprechauns... These things seem to be becoming a matter of faith.”</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy13Q0NNlXtpfoKr3aZe2hCruIFRchUHbqiwvj2hqqBkCZSmxdgh2vGp7jGRXJm5y_u-BVEh0E43knpyaPZUD2WTEbroECDhT2a5JLd8aWGqV6m5xe2GVU1jO7-VV8ZabYIx-CjlmXbpOUM7Q_PbpFbfUnizfDmxR7Dex3n2RKfRBCKTTuoApzQkFogA0/s799/1955%20FSN%209.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="799" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy13Q0NNlXtpfoKr3aZe2hCruIFRchUHbqiwvj2hqqBkCZSmxdgh2vGp7jGRXJm5y_u-BVEh0E43knpyaPZUD2WTEbroECDhT2a5JLd8aWGqV6m5xe2GVU1jO7-VV8ZabYIx-CjlmXbpOUM7Q_PbpFbfUnizfDmxR7Dex3n2RKfRBCKTTuoApzQkFogA0/w640-h410/1955%20FSN%209.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://iapsop.com/.../flying_saucer_news_gb_summer_1955.pdf" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Flying Saucer News</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> – Summer – 1955</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. Thornton Page (the astronomer most famous for his participation in the CIA’s Robertson Panel) criticized a report about a 1958 flying saucer sighting. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(Quoted in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The World of Flying Saucers</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, by Donald H. Menzel and Lyle G. Boyd, 1963.)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“As a scientist I am interested in unexplained phenomena… your fundamental error is in oversimplifying your explanations of complex natural phenomena by assuming a common cause without justification. If you say that everything you cannot understand is caused by gremlins, then gremlins are everywhere!"</span></span></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/retcon-history-and-meaning" target="_blank">Retconning</a> Gremlins into Little Green Men</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lionel Beer gave a lecture for BUFORA on Feb. 27, 1965, on the topic of the Little Green Men from flying saucer reports. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Saucer%20Forum%20(Jimmy%20Goddard)/Saucer%20Forum%20vol%203%20no%202%201965%2004-06.pdf#page=5" target="_blank">Saucer Forum</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Saucer%20Forum%20(Jimmy%20Goddard)/Saucer%20Forum%20vol%203%20no%202%201965%2004-06.pdf#page=5" target="_blank"> vol. 3 no. 2, 1965</a> reported he discussed:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“…how in the folklore of many countries there were accounts very similar to the modern day ‘little men’ stories... He mentioned that RAF pilots in World War II would say that ‘the gremlins’ had been at their aircraft if anything went wrong with them, and wondered how the expression had originated. …could ‘gremlin’ be a corruption of ‘green thing’?”</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Flying Saucer Review</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July-Aug. 1970, contained “A Weird Case from the Past,” by Gordon Creighton, who suggested that creatures like Gremlins were a clue to understanding the phenomena, “reports about them must be collected and studied.”</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEgLcSXw3rQMmIExxGMSZPzjM-nC9IEPkW4qJzULBPQY0vekte64sR_FSD40RUCaA7UTG2Z8O06lb4zH--l6szjD58qRTzNQhNSbExAmFp6X5h5qHtfPQI5N27K9MZqtjIigMzacEYeEeo2y9sJA1X30iIueGRN2tqxtKcZeJ4sQjPSqtGsj-WO5-nwtk/s463/1970%20FSR%20Creighton.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="324" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEgLcSXw3rQMmIExxGMSZPzjM-nC9IEPkW4qJzULBPQY0vekte64sR_FSD40RUCaA7UTG2Z8O06lb4zH--l6szjD58qRTzNQhNSbExAmFp6X5h5qHtfPQI5N27K9MZqtjIigMzacEYeEeo2y9sJA1X30iIueGRN2tqxtKcZeJ4sQjPSqtGsj-WO5-nwtk/w448-h640/1970%20FSR%20Creighton.JPG" width="448" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">John Keel also attempted to recast Gremlins into saucer-type Little Green Men. In </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Our Haunted Planet</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (Fawcett, 1971, p. 208) he presented an imaginative reinterpretation of World War II encounters.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The press labeled them gremlins and the popular conclusion was that the crews were merely hallucinating because of the high altitude and thin atmosphere. Since then there have been thousands of little green men reports from all over the world. They are now an integral part of flying saucer lore.”</span></span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiktz7q8dYdalNk5fYB9zf2Mc2yUTIRNZc_L9tIc6qbz76exEKZKd9soFJGAnxsNVDzPOOY0y2N0jlNepiPNWVNLa_MvPfjIOCvukesk0XIpic-REQ3q6nMCEkJBNxT00wvV2Yw5GHKQ-OF2L-gdW4psLIvjkcpG3fISEKnfoFljWbBD2H7YcGMp6zfP-o/s581/1971%20John%20Keel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="581" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiktz7q8dYdalNk5fYB9zf2Mc2yUTIRNZc_L9tIc6qbz76exEKZKd9soFJGAnxsNVDzPOOY0y2N0jlNepiPNWVNLa_MvPfjIOCvukesk0XIpic-REQ3q6nMCEkJBNxT00wvV2Yw5GHKQ-OF2L-gdW4psLIvjkcpG3fISEKnfoFljWbBD2H7YcGMp6zfP-o/w400-h319/1971%20John%20Keel.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Ufology’s Lessons from the Gremlins</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Here at </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">STTF</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, we’ve run numerous articles on how the news industry <a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/search?q=exploitation" target="_blank">exploited the topic of flying saucers</a> and playfully spread almost any rumor to capitalize on the public’s interest. Seeing the headlines, it was a matter of days before businesses began offering saucer-themed products to cash in. But by looking at the treatment of the Gremlin story just a few years earlier, we see it had played out before, and perhaps it explains the whimsical, cynical, or dismissive tone taken by some of the reporters covering the topic. Self-appointed experts popped up and were featured in the press, telling all they knew and more to an eager public. It resulted in a teasing believe-it-or-not presentation that they were real, leading to their status as quasi-mythology. Before ufology, Gremlinology.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. . .</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-061c4da3-7fff-fb4e-da88-1b55262d85c6"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Thanks to Martin Kottmyer, author of the article “ETs With Teeth: The Gremlin Theory of UFOs” from </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">UFO’s Alien Encounters</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, 2, #1 1995, pp. 28-34.</span></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span></div>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-45790822506184959652023-10-26T08:00:00.002-05:002023-10-28T13:36:33.071-05:00Before UFOlogy: Gremlinology<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJzfBjGwk321kU-6Rd18R7vXBHDtP9cugAB5SBmYycQlHdTRla4QUISQsNKQqXH4sWZATW7nhZLUIw3Y2pyt-fxRocQLw9SZojkmG39frybUwRF6OEaGGLn8Xg3hkxYse4nHiPYwZfXgvZkh7a5k69WNRUSIgJS5L-E2CsAzPtXI8b-vfR9aboSSSHCzQ/s825/Gremlinology.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJzfBjGwk321kU-6Rd18R7vXBHDtP9cugAB5SBmYycQlHdTRla4QUISQsNKQqXH4sWZATW7nhZLUIw3Y2pyt-fxRocQLw9SZojkmG39frybUwRF6OEaGGLn8Xg3hkxYse4nHiPYwZfXgvZkh7a5k69WNRUSIgJS5L-E2CsAzPtXI8b-vfR9aboSSSHCzQ/w640-h334/Gremlinology.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The original flying saucer witness, Kenneth Arnold, was taken seriously by military investigators and the press due to the fact he was an experienced pilot. It established a tradition that continues today. Leslie Kean in her 2010 book, "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">asserted that pilots are the most reliable witnesses of aerial phenomena:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[Professional pilots] represent the world’s best-trained observers of everything that flies. …What better source for data on UFOs is there? ... Pilots are among the least likely of any group of witnesses to fabricate or exaggerate reports of strange sightings.”</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sound reasoning. What, then, do we make of pilots’ reports of Gremlins?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gremlins and Gremlinology</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The most famous aerial phenomena during World War II? Almost everyone knows about the </span><a href="https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/foofightersofworldwariipartone.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">foo fighters</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> but at the time, they were overshadowed by another menace in the skies. Gremlins. And it turns out ufology has an older brother: Gremlinology. The topic doesn’t get much love in ufology, and there’s no discussion of Gremlins in the early flying saucer books and literature. The unofficial title for this installment is:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Gremlins that Time Forgot</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before Gremlins, a word about fairies. From Michael Martin, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sophia in Exile</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 2021:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In the early twentieth century, there was a veritable faerie craze, an artifact of which is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peter Pan</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a rousing success in both print and in the theatre... Not only Barrie’s work, but the [hoaxed photos] of the Cottingley Faeries who became cause célèbre in 1917… contributed to what was by that point a far-reaching cultural phenomenon.”</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s worth a brief mention that some of the legendary wee folk were described as little green men. They were rarely seldom associated with anything unearthly, but right after Orson Welles’ <i>War of the Worlds</i> radio adaptation for Halloween in 1938, a whimsical column by Bill Barnard in the <i>Corpus Christi Times</i> was a notable exception. But not from Mars. These 3-fingered Little Green Men came from Mercury</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrP-5Ev5n4EuqFn3f4nxv8rwYn1t6lxK1sTi13qaOvFaHJgL6GVFH-87e4zK74jhAmk6O8FPNm_Xzfe99qBZbiPeQoo5M0mBmaHwhcViQNLQeSZnD7V2l0HVfh7cdtpNwV4OeZuzeRQDWr88tTMUbPG1M8suB3RUSJdcITXCjHrKfsDx7jYZ07G6FjqTc/s1071/1938%2011%2001%20Corpus%20Christi%20Times.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1071" data-original-width="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrP-5Ev5n4EuqFn3f4nxv8rwYn1t6lxK1sTi13qaOvFaHJgL6GVFH-87e4zK74jhAmk6O8FPNm_Xzfe99qBZbiPeQoo5M0mBmaHwhcViQNLQeSZnD7V2l0HVfh7cdtpNwV4OeZuzeRQDWr88tTMUbPG1M8suB3RUSJdcITXCjHrKfsDx7jYZ07G6FjqTc/s16000/1938%2011%2001%20Corpus%20Christi%20Times.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><span>The concept of Gremlins had been percolating for a decade or two, but it was popularized in the early 1940s by airmen of the Royal Air Force (RAF) units during World War II. Let’s not confuse these creatures with later media misinterpretations, since the most famous depiction of Gremlins in television and movies were far off-model.</span></span><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJCYlWftR2ayWoUsVix8j28H0qiixrFwBttaq8V79cHI5zgEAXw3hkqgoW4_FY9i3jlFBAZTlcFDU-l9Hr_Gur9Ox9U4brgX5U5vbtk7kuzat5-e7lMA65-w6WrarzXLg37VnlS9BfDerLK2iAFwmjXv3it5rDETQ3mkhiZO3SXiBXqKPtUQm89I-ju7Y/s3137/1942%2010%2031%20Collier%E2%80%99s%20magazine,%20Oct.%2031,%201942.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2712" data-original-width="3137" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJCYlWftR2ayWoUsVix8j28H0qiixrFwBttaq8V79cHI5zgEAXw3hkqgoW4_FY9i3jlFBAZTlcFDU-l9Hr_Gur9Ox9U4brgX5U5vbtk7kuzat5-e7lMA65-w6WrarzXLg37VnlS9BfDerLK2iAFwmjXv3it5rDETQ3mkhiZO3SXiBXqKPtUQm89I-ju7Y/w458-h396/1942%2010%2031%20Collier%E2%80%99s%20magazine,%20Oct.%2031,%201942.jpg" width="458" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: medium;">Illustration by Gustaf Tenggren for Quentin Reynolds' article<br />in Collier’s magazine, Oct. 31, 1942.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” was a short by Richard Matheson first published in the paperback anthology, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Alone by Night</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (1962). A passenger on a commercial flight saw something sinister on the wing of the plane, intent on destroying it:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Suddenly, Wilson thought about war, about the newspaper stories which recounted the alleged existence of creatures in the sky who plagued the Allied pilots in their duties. They called them gremlins, he remembered. Were there, actually, such beings? Did they, truly, exist up here, never falling, riding on the wind, apparently of bulk and weight, yet impervious to gravity?”</span></span></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNrMZN5BJJoDG0M-OcxL3UuS7jrTobDvOFxT_uSFzQDSkchOoZ_JyesOgCUKuadqylphPeoofkC_4D0wikbjIo25dSr4aU2019--EIBZbXRaKONrhBWHKgnwU7o7VWq9GnH9v4hg8ZmnlE3kKapPpOM9nXVOiVcX37zdrduIEyERTTTvbGcOZXHZg5GxA/s951/Nightmare%20at%2020,000%20Feet%20-%20Gremlins.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="951" data-original-width="825" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNrMZN5BJJoDG0M-OcxL3UuS7jrTobDvOFxT_uSFzQDSkchOoZ_JyesOgCUKuadqylphPeoofkC_4D0wikbjIo25dSr4aU2019--EIBZbXRaKONrhBWHKgnwU7o7VWq9GnH9v4hg8ZmnlE3kKapPpOM9nXVOiVcX37zdrduIEyERTTTvbGcOZXHZg5GxA/w426-h490/Nightmare%20at%2020,000%20Feet%20-%20Gremlins.jpg" width="426" /></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s most famous from the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Twilight Zone</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> television adaptation starring William Shatner, broadcast Oct. 11, 1963. It’s a classic, but more of a monster story. At least it involved a plane, which is more than we can say for </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Gremlins</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, the 1984 film written by Chris Columbus and produced by Steven Spielberg. The furry creatures, “mogwai,” bore little resemblance to “real” gremlins. Director Joe Dante said, "Our gremlins are somewhat different… they do incredibly, really nasty things to people and enjoy it all the while."</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNlfLpqX0Tf3uPGm_c6C64F4xkONdBNkbWA3YYC7_8QviXySnjZ9ktySrM3Xv6m7HM9l-P1I3lKqFx1Zp5jFG11a75svaVxNznW5o7x272eHE2UYV5rS8DWUqIzkvaqs2aIHz_79X_EU1K3Uz1x-M0GHDU69vWe1kyT6ibQlf_wnYPNiewawrrD7z2rOo/s610/1943%2002%2026%20San%20Bernadino%20Sun%20-%20Smilin'%20Jack.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="505" height="491" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNlfLpqX0Tf3uPGm_c6C64F4xkONdBNkbWA3YYC7_8QviXySnjZ9ktySrM3Xv6m7HM9l-P1I3lKqFx1Zp5jFG11a75svaVxNznW5o7x272eHE2UYV5rS8DWUqIzkvaqs2aIHz_79X_EU1K3Uz1x-M0GHDU69vWe1kyT6ibQlf_wnYPNiewawrrD7z2rOo/w406-h491/1943%2002%2026%20San%20Bernadino%20Sun%20-%20Smilin'%20Jack.jpg" width="406" /></span></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The original Gremlins were introduced to the public by RAF crewmen, many of whom had grown up with the fairy folklore fad. According to the lore, Gremlins were cute elfin or fairy-like creatures but they bore a grudge against airplanes and were responsible for aircraft-related malfunctions and annoyances. Also, they were invisible, except to pilots and crew. An excellent overview of the history is “Gremlins!” by Robert O. Harder in the Autumn 2019 issue of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191019135548/https://www.historynet.com/gremlins.htm" target="_blank">MHQ—The Quarterly Journal of Military History</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191019135548/https:/www.historynet.com/gremlins.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gremlins were usually discussed whimsically or with a dry wit, but there were people who regarded them seriously. Australian fighter-pilot Mark Sheldon was quoted in “The Gremlin Question,” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.angelfire.com/id/100sqn/gremlins.html" target="_blank">Royal Air Force Journal</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.angelfire.com/id/100sqn/gremlins.html" target="_blank">, April 18, 1942</a>, “The whole thing is, they more or less reflect your mood: - if you fly carefully and well, they treat you good - if you fly badly, they act badly by you."</span><a href="https://www.angelfire.com/id/100sqn/gremlins.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The Royal Air Force has begun to make its own myths. Just as the sailor has his sea serpent, so the pilot of the skies has his ‘Gremlin.’” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Ottawa Citizen</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Sept. 19, 1942.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyNLZGKWNCQzZHB7V1yGiV_QSGNw0zb3wpYVRYeSTGV2gRKb-bgEmfuHDNPPqNRs55Xs1xl0QA3DOwDAZi9UjvNdpD7gT2mIpaivdq_pf4B5qkx4eVn96-kPxoKQcL6s89BAHCdF081tyUAl4Qcdy3_Lvnn3CDyGcBejr2mrcQYNpYQ-fIFbwmFzXR9O0/s1541/1942%2004%2015%20The%20Leader-Post%20Regina,%20Saskatchewan,%20Canada%20April%2015,%201942.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1541" data-original-width="1016" height="772" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyNLZGKWNCQzZHB7V1yGiV_QSGNw0zb3wpYVRYeSTGV2gRKb-bgEmfuHDNPPqNRs55Xs1xl0QA3DOwDAZi9UjvNdpD7gT2mIpaivdq_pf4B5qkx4eVn96-kPxoKQcL6s89BAHCdF081tyUAl4Qcdy3_Lvnn3CDyGcBejr2mrcQYNpYQ-fIFbwmFzXR9O0/w509-h772/1942%2004%2015%20The%20Leader-Post%20Regina,%20Saskatchewan,%20Canada%20April%2015,%201942.jpg" width="509" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Leader-Post</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada April 15, 1942</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Many Americans were introduced to Gremlins via a 2-page article, “It's Them” in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,802434,00.html" target="_blank">Time</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,802434,00.html" target="_blank"> magazine, Sept. 14, 1942</a>., which said:</span></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“For nearly three years the gremlins devoted themselves exclusively to the R.A.F… A noted gremlinologist, [Pilot Oscar Coen found out] that the gremlins had joined the U.S. Air Forces and that the time had come for their activities to be explained properly to the U.S. public.”</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Columnist Edith Johnson wrote in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/26949672/" target="_blank">The Daily Oklahoman</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/26949672/" target="_blank">, Sept. 16, 1942</a>, “Does the Royal Air Force believe in fairies? Will U. S. airmen, participating in the bombing of German-controlled territory, come to believe in fairies, too? … In the belief of certain rational and intelligent persons these ‘little people’ as they sometimes are called, actually exist - a few declare they have seen them.”</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv2Fp-mvXiFQ_4e_13Wh2lahM4yhqljl_m1lb0iik2Ep1bK-oPx281HLcTYmgtajtEdZ1NY0VSilOT-hQplshLBZ7EfeW8vYzm9qE_5s2keOXld_zVSWAmrrsEwt5AurcV9-U0KU9Cr3PsoXVfSPygW3iVy6gMD_Ta9EEueCh5aK0wamjzKdE3lkjtpiw/s655/Disney%20and%20Dahl.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="655" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv2Fp-mvXiFQ_4e_13Wh2lahM4yhqljl_m1lb0iik2Ep1bK-oPx281HLcTYmgtajtEdZ1NY0VSilOT-hQplshLBZ7EfeW8vYzm9qE_5s2keOXld_zVSWAmrrsEwt5AurcV9-U0KU9Cr3PsoXVfSPygW3iVy6gMD_Ta9EEueCh5aK0wamjzKdE3lkjtpiw/w640-h350/Disney%20and%20Dahl.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Walt Disney and Roald Dahl</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Roald Dahl, long before </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, in 1942 was a Flight Lieutenant of the Royal Air Force. Due to medical problems sustained during a crash, he’d been relieved of active service as a pilot, and he tried his hand at writing. He drafted a work based on the stories he heard from RAF crewmen about Gremlins. <a href="https://www.mouseplanet.com/11728/The_True_Origin_of_Disneys_Gremlins" target="_blank">Walt Disney was interested </a>in turning the story into a movie, using “live actors for the pilots and real airplanes… Only the little fellows themselves will be animated.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge_HApnxvn6Qj5hIeMr7pH4XGscaHCKGQIMbL3_77UZPEVh2_H0Xrxltpx08AUO0CHWJXP98sSHzXWjlzBhpd2lgFVuzX-g0Crq5e-hiReqpTiqNSZQnPFAQinjHaUqdz5zYPdjnplE3qK4d_lvp3B6GIKpZLFwNXZedZera76ycWj9xO4_UK7vXvrC40/s1514/1942%2010%2014%20Daily%20News%20Los%20Angles,%20Nov.%2014,%201942.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="1514" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge_HApnxvn6Qj5hIeMr7pH4XGscaHCKGQIMbL3_77UZPEVh2_H0Xrxltpx08AUO0CHWJXP98sSHzXWjlzBhpd2lgFVuzX-g0Crq5e-hiReqpTiqNSZQnPFAQinjHaUqdz5zYPdjnplE3qK4d_lvp3B6GIKpZLFwNXZedZera76ycWj9xO4_UK7vXvrC40/w640-h312/1942%2010%2014%20Daily%20News%20Los%20Angles,%20Nov.%2014,%201942.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DNLA19421114.1.15&srpos=11&e=--1942---1947-194-en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-gremlin-------" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Daily News</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (Los Angeles), Nov. 14, 1942</span></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">CAPTION:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> IN THE STRIP above are preliminary sketches for Walt Disney's film version of "The Gremlins," Flight Lieut. [Roald] Dahl's story of the hobgoblins of the air who ride with Allied flyers. Reading from left, to right, we have a Widget, or child gremlin; a Fifinella, one of the ladies of the tribe; Gus, oldest known gremlin, and a common or garden specimen of the gremlin family with a sand gun.</span></span></span></blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gremlins were getting a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lot</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of U.S. press and catching on.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=JEAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA93&dq=gremlin&pg=PA93#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">LIFE </a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=JEAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA93&dq=gremlin&pg=PA93#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">magazine, Nov. 16, 1942</a>, presented a 4-page article with “authentic illustrations”, “The Gremlins.” It stated, “Only aviators see gremlins. But gremlins are just as real for aviators as, for instance, Santa Claus is for children. … Gremlins have never caused fatal accidents or, if they have, pilots haven't lived to tell them.” The article pointed out that “Special Kinds have Special Jobs to Do,” some sabotaging paperwork and airfields, not just planes. It inconspicuously disclosed, “All the gremlins on these pages, by the way, were drawn by Boris Artzybasheff w</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">h</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">o has never seen one.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnCTswt2Ga5Zsr1yJ9gMLBI_jMtVaCoff7yb_B9nRwT1AnZiPsanGUukX4pe7Mh5DA5W7I-L4hb8yp-KVfBQjuv-arUZefnasSS4b6wBIm1VtJjeqavagUYIQqhLWZpRTklOV8VEkWx4BApmtuwBVOI3WcCxdhu1Bkzn5ThTtFFzC7hE_ftYAWr6lCSiU/s906/1942%2011%2016%20Life%20Nov.%2016,%201942.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="906" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnCTswt2Ga5Zsr1yJ9gMLBI_jMtVaCoff7yb_B9nRwT1AnZiPsanGUukX4pe7Mh5DA5W7I-L4hb8yp-KVfBQjuv-arUZefnasSS4b6wBIm1VtJjeqavagUYIQqhLWZpRTklOV8VEkWx4BApmtuwBVOI3WcCxdhu1Bkzn5ThTtFFzC7hE_ftYAWr6lCSiU/w640-h538/1942%2011%2016%20Life%20Nov.%2016,%201942.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Walt Disney didn’t want to lose his company’s claim on Gremlins, and made sure a few things were published to establish the copyright.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG3Cs8ec5dj5vG1upYjHUfH8eZAwFDAafpJtMj5df4HgC4P7Ir5aHB3onXc1592koQ28CKQWS0dcxUULRN3asMTEslHCgHO3g0vpPOI8dzXBENXde5TTZaVbEi7nYWl9QYSJXjDHAhcHCTgT_LHapWMeB8IDrmO_wQCKJ_AsqosizA9O3VS68NTFjl6pg/s812/1942%2010%2017%20Evening%20Star,%20Nov.%20%2017,%201942%20Cosmopolitan%20ad.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="600" height="497" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG3Cs8ec5dj5vG1upYjHUfH8eZAwFDAafpJtMj5df4HgC4P7Ir5aHB3onXc1592koQ28CKQWS0dcxUULRN3asMTEslHCgHO3g0vpPOI8dzXBENXde5TTZaVbEi7nYWl9QYSJXjDHAhcHCTgT_LHapWMeB8IDrmO_wQCKJ_AsqosizA9O3VS68NTFjl6pg/w367-h497/1942%2010%2017%20Evening%20Star,%20Nov.%20%2017,%201942%20Cosmopolitan%20ad.JPG" width="367" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Evening Star,</i> Nov. 17, 1942 </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZPs5NRQ4VxOfoX37nDxm8NWOz8wIuBwBSiJYWFD77yfIdI0bKOSfSeF8Ixxe_m_jQcl79fgf1PcrgVsjmFYbNZ__7HUAri9Gfc43MKDdjEF5zV9A9mr4ygaLKseyNOq_O5oU-h5BgnZQHDlyPizYb8SHC8wLtFg5UsUGFRv4HdyEdAPrJlalvf0HZ0xA/s1000/1942%20Cosmopolitan.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="1000" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZPs5NRQ4VxOfoX37nDxm8NWOz8wIuBwBSiJYWFD77yfIdI0bKOSfSeF8Ixxe_m_jQcl79fgf1PcrgVsjmFYbNZ__7HUAri9Gfc43MKDdjEF5zV9A9mr4ygaLKseyNOq_O5oU-h5BgnZQHDlyPizYb8SHC8wLtFg5UsUGFRv4HdyEdAPrJlalvf0HZ0xA/w640-h486/1942%20Cosmopolitan.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cosmopolitan</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> magazine, Dec. 1942 featured “The Gremlins,” an article by Roald Dahl under the pseudonym “Pegasus.”</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqPogATJ_EAdse3JVX3cxWTDmr4pe3K_Sk2bAxvg6FkxtvX9aftoLGlHf70TIUEc7BLZ5rPE06JgyP_q-110-WHo1yQhkvlZ3ZiUGAUpLhbHOyVqQ1Z1fG444ro6wuavDZQkdEG09XqC4IRMJPchPJ5dGRcXpxdAx-5pZ2TxZh9jt2lna9y63iv__7HCA/s724/1942%20Gremlinology.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="724" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqPogATJ_EAdse3JVX3cxWTDmr4pe3K_Sk2bAxvg6FkxtvX9aftoLGlHf70TIUEc7BLZ5rPE06JgyP_q-110-WHo1yQhkvlZ3ZiUGAUpLhbHOyVqQ1Z1fG444ro6wuavDZQkdEG09XqC4IRMJPchPJ5dGRcXpxdAx-5pZ2TxZh9jt2lna9y63iv__7HCA/w640-h226/1942%20Gremlinology.png" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Gremlinology" by Keith Shackleton, published in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Canadian Air Cadet</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Aeroplane</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Dec. 4, 1942, featured a directory of Gremlins, and stated that Flt. Lieut. Montagu Trimtabb was an expert who had looked “deeply into the biological side of Gremlinology.” As best we can tell, Lt. Trimtabb was as real as any Gremlin.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYuFV_cLizREliYIBExJafJOD1zCW_fMMWK4UloB9SYpywEMrR9EeGZJNeH8odDAEWLN27-7JxnWot6YjHfmwQqrzV71izYK50tYBMLohlZ71772kI0lyjj288Gkj5uOdMtTbTASYUVSOAjblTqxZVSA410l2WywrL0FdF1y2aEC6LrpV9g1ZD0nu4Vd4/s671/1943%2001%2025%20Whittier%20Star%20Review,%20Jan.%2025,%201943.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="671" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYuFV_cLizREliYIBExJafJOD1zCW_fMMWK4UloB9SYpywEMrR9EeGZJNeH8odDAEWLN27-7JxnWot6YjHfmwQqrzV71izYK50tYBMLohlZ71772kI0lyjj288Gkj5uOdMtTbTASYUVSOAjblTqxZVSA410l2WywrL0FdF1y2aEC6LrpV9g1ZD0nu4Vd4/w494-h396/1943%2001%2025%20Whittier%20Star%20Review,%20Jan.%2025,%201943.JPG" width="494" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Gremlin smoke" contrails </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Whittier Star Review</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Jan. 25, 1943</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKGRnElp2kBdfgMzToZFHrhm9_QQwZn23cQZWFV_m9fQycff8C4gv1HQsUDWBmifa4a_Vaz8LMOKT5GKFDMtHsvHpQR7OZ5He6zYISRUZiuGS1aUdvkfGaxA8HhsIBsAzsiVnUu82Rtzs73-n4JXqjgxyzpVCT9wOqu_sx_zXOAnDAfeXVyEiYD1m1vxI/s823/1943%2002%2025%20AP%20San%20Pedro%20News%20Pilot,%20Feb.%2025,%201943.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="823" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKGRnElp2kBdfgMzToZFHrhm9_QQwZn23cQZWFV_m9fQycff8C4gv1HQsUDWBmifa4a_Vaz8LMOKT5GKFDMtHsvHpQR7OZ5He6zYISRUZiuGS1aUdvkfGaxA8HhsIBsAzsiVnUu82Rtzs73-n4JXqjgxyzpVCT9wOqu_sx_zXOAnDAfeXVyEiYD1m1vxI/w418-h231/1943%2002%2025%20AP%20San%20Pedro%20News%20Pilot,%20Feb.%2025,%201943.JPG" width="418" /></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>Meanwhile, the gremlin fad had some prominent detractors. U.S. war correspondent Gladwyn Hill reported from London in an Associated Press story in the </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">S<a href="https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19430225.2.63&srpos=48&e=--1942---1947-194-en--20--41-byDA-txt-txIN--------" target="_blank">an Pedro News-Pilot</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19430225.2.63&srpos=48&e=--1942---1947-194-en--20--41-byDA-txt-txIN--------" target="_blank">, Feb. 25, 1943</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Everybody was just o-oh so tickled a few months ago when somebody discovered the imaginary sprites which the RAF has cherished for years as the explanation for otherwise inexplicable flying accidents. …everybody from magnates to mounted police was a coy, giggling expert on [gremlinology]… ad nauseam. Well, the nauseam has set in.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">…[O]ne of England’s most popular columnists, Tom Driberg of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daily Express</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">… flew in the face of the whimsicalists… He made the further serious suggestion that the public craze for gremlins had dangerous implications of mass escapism."</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aeronautics</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> magazine said, "The gremlin whimsy… [is] inappropriate to the RAF... Surely the greatest flying and fighting service is not going to ape Sir James Barrie at his worst… Yet here are distinguished authors writing about gremlins, artists drawing gremlins, and film companies and newspapers adopting gremlins. An impression is abroad that the whole thing is quaint, clever and delightfully whimsical and sweet… Those who persist in this twee and twittering whimsy should visit a psychoanalyst.”</span></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuiSquhSG-8Yg73kGPXwrBd8tuplgrtMZ1hdgVkaR3wVVMTEnpMaEkRtQtFrFBFHQ3APVdntI3vYIhSapP5GaR5X3Z2cYEqBMEmmlkK3zc0h6-KgQUyvo3fafFIcEGAohKpY6beMX4m3cLa5kL8GMUMyKMo8QsSTBUjZtfxe3DNCs_6x8OuBPYiHum_rw/s894/1943%20Gremlins.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="866" data-original-width="894" height="621" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuiSquhSG-8Yg73kGPXwrBd8tuplgrtMZ1hdgVkaR3wVVMTEnpMaEkRtQtFrFBFHQ3APVdntI3vYIhSapP5GaR5X3Z2cYEqBMEmmlkK3zc0h6-KgQUyvo3fafFIcEGAohKpY6beMX4m3cLa5kL8GMUMyKMo8QsSTBUjZtfxe3DNCs_6x8OuBPYiHum_rw/w640-h621/1943%20Gremlins.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A 6-page comic book adaptation of Dahl’s “The Gremlins” appeared without fanfare in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=20683" target="_blank">War Heroes</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=20683" target="_blank"> #4 from Dell Comics</a>, dated April 1943.</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ewCuEDNbcC4uQ1bSPPUgIvFSaJ4M7Z5wEyIIumPQEvQcSBWsFZUN16Y83-Phtse9PPUwOroykmK4S6sFGCTtYciCsUDmZyqm65GH-166xg0lKe86fXwyT0GKlPUKpy3KXGKs1ClU09yVi7JkNCWvnvPe6jgZJ1XEXQhiXy_pq4vesmvrIoBbB0iKv1E/s976/1943%2004%2011%20This%20Week%20magazine,%20April%2011,%201943.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="976" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ewCuEDNbcC4uQ1bSPPUgIvFSaJ4M7Z5wEyIIumPQEvQcSBWsFZUN16Y83-Phtse9PPUwOroykmK4S6sFGCTtYciCsUDmZyqm65GH-166xg0lKe86fXwyT0GKlPUKpy3KXGKs1ClU09yVi7JkNCWvnvPe6jgZJ1XEXQhiXy_pq4vesmvrIoBbB0iKv1E/w640-h284/1943%2004%2011%20This%20Week%20magazine,%20April%2011,%201943.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roald Dahl’s “Gremlins: A Warning!” appeared in the newspaper magazine supplement, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This Week</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> magazine, April 11, 1943:</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“All through this war, we in the RAF have had our Gremlins. … Allied pilots the world over... are capable of seeing them. But </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">no one else</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. …Nevertheless, the legend grew. …We heard with surprise that Gremlins were supposed to be puncturing tires and undoing shoelaces… of a hundred other wild and ludicrous things. …don’t, for heaven’s sake, blame them for all the silly things that happen everywhere in the world!”</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Released in May of 1943</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, The Gremlins</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was Dahl's first book and was written for Walt Disney Productions, published to promote the forthcoming feature-length animated film. Likewise, the characters were featured in advertisements, <a href="https://www.mouseplanet.com/11532/Walt_Kelly_and_the_Disney_Gremlins" target="_blank">comic books</a>, and merchandise.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.mouseplanet.com/11532/Walt_Kelly_and_the_Disney_Gremlins" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhecSsX6NvGYfKLFRSamusLs-AaONirmaU54BzqFP690d_O4d0npHGAlBOtLWnjOK3YhvTc33-JbpaOJ1jpAunqQpiJsifwHCC_jbC_z_A978G5MQioYVHgIpELAWOBKR-oGaXS3YdePjDWxMVm7AYHrp6ep7P3HU_KthL3Nx_QdLJjFzpHxZpJst-yLPg/s690/1943%2005%2031%20Life,%20May%2031,%201943.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="529" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhecSsX6NvGYfKLFRSamusLs-AaONirmaU54BzqFP690d_O4d0npHGAlBOtLWnjOK3YhvTc33-JbpaOJ1jpAunqQpiJsifwHCC_jbC_z_A978G5MQioYVHgIpELAWOBKR-oGaXS3YdePjDWxMVm7AYHrp6ep7P3HU_KthL3Nx_QdLJjFzpHxZpJst-yLPg/w490-h640/1943%2005%2031%20Life,%20May%2031,%201943.JPG" width="490" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Life</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, May 31, 1943 - Life Savers ad</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.mouseplanet.com/11532/Walt_Kelly_and_the_Disney_Gremlins" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /> </span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Despite the favorable reception from the public, Disney decided to <a href="https://simanaitissays.com/2018/12/17/the-gremlins-the-lost-disney-and-dahl-production/" target="_blank">not to make</a> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Gremlins </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">movie.</span><a href="https://simanaitissays.com/2018/12/17/the-gremlins-the-lost-disney-and-dahl-production/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKpvA-9wrFTvlAOEoZxksFmrDLfmaWvYoYCvOESWjiS35_VLrVWdRRoxznkIfQN9HwKl8B0dYaPKZtxIqanqpgt3eFYK7XRSAIKQYqYixBXQn8PwLo-NUbgyeORNy0kokgu0b7yD6H3_n7-UsTg7PwgcrYF0f-CcT9ShDLo9dTwfYlxOzZT_El7cMw46U/s605/1948%20Fantasy%20Review%20Oct-Nov%201948.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="605" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKpvA-9wrFTvlAOEoZxksFmrDLfmaWvYoYCvOESWjiS35_VLrVWdRRoxznkIfQN9HwKl8B0dYaPKZtxIqanqpgt3eFYK7XRSAIKQYqYixBXQn8PwLo-NUbgyeORNy0kokgu0b7yD6H3_n7-UsTg7PwgcrYF0f-CcT9ShDLo9dTwfYlxOzZT_El7cMw46U/w454-h327/1948%20Fantasy%20Review%20Oct-Nov%201948.gif" width="454" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roald Dahl continued to write, and five years later, he released another book on Gremlins, an adult novel with a decidedly darker tone, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. 1948. Gremlins were the original rulers of the earth but the spread of mankind drove them underground. They briefly reemerged in World War II “in an effort to hasten the eradication of the human race.” Concluding humans would destroy themselves, they wait until after the atomic destruction of World War IV to emerge. The fanzine </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://efanzines.com/FR/fr11.pdf" target="_blank">Fantasy Review</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> likened it to the tales of Richard Shaver!</span><a href="https://efanzines.com/FR/fr11.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Government Disclosure of Gremlins?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During World War II, Gremlins were frequently featured in U.S. military publications, depicted on unit patches, war plane nose art, safety posters, and other places. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8mQzBwZ3A0yxO3bKtnBKqR8rkIT0tgpAMCVO9pgWyztpKn6y6Afz8ISV7ciZCCFMEVSfFWegA3fjI4rNnF4RWVhv5Qdl9pOMGyeb85qPKMzneu_XLHqxAH5XdwtKzBw-k8C5uPVVmC39hqp2k4lB8O6K7iIgrYLWCG4fRSJ70Xc1soMUeSCjAnmx3qBo/s1244/1943%2005%20All%20Hands,%20May%201943.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1244" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8mQzBwZ3A0yxO3bKtnBKqR8rkIT0tgpAMCVO9pgWyztpKn6y6Afz8ISV7ciZCCFMEVSfFWegA3fjI4rNnF4RWVhv5Qdl9pOMGyeb85qPKMzneu_XLHqxAH5XdwtKzBw-k8C5uPVVmC39hqp2k4lB8O6K7iIgrYLWCG4fRSJ70Xc1soMUeSCjAnmx3qBo/w640-h436/1943%2005%20All%20Hands,%20May%201943.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The U.S. Navy magazine, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All Hands</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, May 1943 featured a photo article of Gremlins plaguing sailors at the Naval Training Station in San Diego. The editor’s note stated, “the only gremlins recognized so far were those that haunted the RAF.... With reports from Navy ships and stations such as those here... will probably possibly set off a feud between students of gremlinology. The debate; Whether U.S. gremlins are the original article, or close relatives.”</span></span><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAVARWqgpGhxZj8xSBKNPPwUFZfmXtHYjg4c9H0Z4i6YV9qx_GZg_tJh9Ss6I256TPEC95XFy0CvKi65L2bt_lYSAheYDoeqRSsyhvZ4Y1zpIOuiATonOX5mxF-GOFrvR_8XhIWfpbpKMUyZgoOSHb_71e-P3hEnEbQE_q0fzjZaa4tmSqkx4At4LmkiU/s943/1944%20LIFE%20May%2015,%201944.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="943" data-original-width="857" height="519" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAVARWqgpGhxZj8xSBKNPPwUFZfmXtHYjg4c9H0Z4i6YV9qx_GZg_tJh9Ss6I256TPEC95XFy0CvKi65L2bt_lYSAheYDoeqRSsyhvZ4Y1zpIOuiATonOX5mxF-GOFrvR_8XhIWfpbpKMUyZgoOSHb_71e-P3hEnEbQE_q0fzjZaa4tmSqkx4At4LmkiU/w472-h519/1944%20LIFE%20May%2015,%201944.jpg" width="472" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>LIFE</i>, May 15, 1944, Gremlin imagery adopted by the 339</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Fighter Squadron.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The U.S. Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) asked permission and adopted Disney’s drawing of a Gremlin </span><a href="http://www.wingsacrossamerica.us/wasp/fifi.htm" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">Fifinella as their mascot</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> for patches on their flight jackets.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2A8bWWajG5l_lKEkIaarOS0fi1hO9LVlfrMsShkUkUWbMWfmDsYarUABIQ4Ib9Aayo_FDOztFux6oabws2DPBeI_7AqPITViu_hOCvKwRogHwLx_H7-l1t9RPXZJQc2qCqHQEiSFdwk3IbeAgfzn3YK0t2zj5VKXPsUN-WrYOuevRWzujHWHHpF3MfnE/s950/WASP%20-%20Fifinella%20-%20Nose%20Art.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="727" data-original-width="950" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2A8bWWajG5l_lKEkIaarOS0fi1hO9LVlfrMsShkUkUWbMWfmDsYarUABIQ4Ib9Aayo_FDOztFux6oabws2DPBeI_7AqPITViu_hOCvKwRogHwLx_H7-l1t9RPXZJQc2qCqHQEiSFdwk3IbeAgfzn3YK0t2zj5VKXPsUN-WrYOuevRWzujHWHHpF3MfnE/w640-h490/WASP%20-%20Fifinella%20-%20Nose%20Art.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Starting in the 1950s, ufologists began discovering similar government paraphernalia relating to flying saucers in military patches and emblems. Since then, proponents have asserted it was tacit evidence of the reality of extraterrestrial UFOs by the U.S. government, a “soft Disclosure.” If so, it proves Gremlins, too.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Exploitation, Overexposure, and Commercialization</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gremlins were everywhere, cartoons, comic books, advertisements…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggs9fToJL3HC8sXHBpk0Ri8M36bXdYSVpx1GtXXWZtOvIk-B197fosg9-TQBvZbicoaC4VpIqOdOxkIbIzgbJwipAq1IczcfIez3cm3WL0NAGuQAAe5suPLaNtci8231NV4wpnu0Qm4IHu3gEvYwIgIVV5GXdZgNDEKAJrUFv8wOd9122oMVy_vcERNR0/s1268/1943%20Falling%20Hare.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1268" data-original-width="770" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggs9fToJL3HC8sXHBpk0Ri8M36bXdYSVpx1GtXXWZtOvIk-B197fosg9-TQBvZbicoaC4VpIqOdOxkIbIzgbJwipAq1IczcfIez3cm3WL0NAGuQAAe5suPLaNtci8231NV4wpnu0Qm4IHu3gEvYwIgIVV5GXdZgNDEKAJrUFv8wOd9122oMVy_vcERNR0/w388-h640/1943%20Falling%20Hare.jpg" width="388" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Gremlins. What a fairy tale. Little men, oh brother!”</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bugs Bunny in “Falling Hare,” released Oct. 30, 1943. The title was changed from "Bugs Bunny and the Gremlin" at the request of Disney who was trying to protect their brand.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8caxD53chTGwqvLHat2HMwkEfxektaTEUuhwGlyl0ag7z3sshDpwWR8H_3KZUV0cW1owjG_MOCBPhPIWZ4DZAOT9nFnmhlo8Yknfc-QtqZKN160U31jOpyfM4mQkhggm-EJZGNOVCMzX9KlqzaF_8cf6GkNfQi8W8Iz45JUX7v7Kj1q_JqXa5RPXvgs4/s1026/1943%20-%20Superman%20-%2022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="1026" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8caxD53chTGwqvLHat2HMwkEfxektaTEUuhwGlyl0ag7z3sshDpwWR8H_3KZUV0cW1owjG_MOCBPhPIWZ4DZAOT9nFnmhlo8Yknfc-QtqZKN160U31jOpyfM4mQkhggm-EJZGNOVCMzX9KlqzaF_8cf6GkNfQi8W8Iz45JUX7v7Kj1q_JqXa5RPXvgs4/w640-h568/1943%20-%20Superman%20-%2022.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://viewcomiconline.com/superman-1939-issue-22/" target="_blank">Superman</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://viewcomiconline.com/superman-1939-issue-22/" target="_blank"> no. 22</a>, cover dated May-June 1943 (on sale March 3</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">) featured, “Meet the Squiffles, little green imps led by Ixnayalpay who allied with Hitler. Superman recruits the (orange) Gremlins to defeat them. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZRhJuZ9TAQ4SjMnTyuI_v6vPaGYIdI3z4NC8BnHm_zwiIlbPYqBnj5jSFAxvXRz0RNHUc57-BH-w2n64XZnIdE8rHyxIFdztKoU8hR1r8lzq0Z4JvnrezSQkM0uMEJ9JemUxPGJixB3PRgiDeV8AlyJ6YdmtvOzfPRKsSFiFNLV8eV22mHEEjZvs6vQ/s655/1944%20-%20Superman%2030.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="655" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZRhJuZ9TAQ4SjMnTyuI_v6vPaGYIdI3z4NC8BnHm_zwiIlbPYqBnj5jSFAxvXRz0RNHUc57-BH-w2n64XZnIdE8rHyxIFdztKoU8hR1r8lzq0Z4JvnrezSQkM0uMEJ9JemUxPGJixB3PRgiDeV8AlyJ6YdmtvOzfPRKsSFiFNLV8eV22mHEEjZvs6vQ/w400-h288/1944%20-%20Superman%2030.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(Ixnayalpay from this story may have been retooled into Superman’s interdimensional impish Gremlin-like foe, <a href="https://community.cbr.com/showthread.php?75972-The-Super-Men-(and-Women)-of-All-Planets&p=3785044&viewfull=1#post3785044" target="_blank">Mr. Mxyzptlk</a>.)</span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzqsvklSvRB7OE2WgDPZoCOCnzhOENrS3_bL3NMeaFdOrvDi4M6lRVIvDoTxA9uxygGq9gHuiZBh7GA3gHavhVsWPCyvYyiL9IkTbXGwtImx92TAow73KbsdCReLMQ6BAi0WwR3aCOvK6k9pQs9wDYeFaVAzrN-9HRIFbn6xaYloQsUcENLbpdsZdTEAY/s677/1943%2012%2019%20Superman%20Sunday%20comic%20strip,%20Dec.%2019,%201943.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="677" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzqsvklSvRB7OE2WgDPZoCOCnzhOENrS3_bL3NMeaFdOrvDi4M6lRVIvDoTxA9uxygGq9gHuiZBh7GA3gHavhVsWPCyvYyiL9IkTbXGwtImx92TAow73KbsdCReLMQ6BAi0WwR3aCOvK6k9pQs9wDYeFaVAzrN-9HRIFbn6xaYloQsUcENLbpdsZdTEAY/w640-h310/1943%2012%2019%20Superman%20Sunday%20comic%20strip,%20Dec.%2019,%201943.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Months later, a different version of the Gremlins appeared in the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Superman</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Sunday comic strip, Dec. 19 & 26, 1943, uncharacteristically depicted as little green men. They were meddlesome ghost-like imps, vulnerable only to being struck by patriotic articles like ration books and war bonds.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiugZWo_Z6j8xDPO4tFtOoeKssY3ewIrJkUCGKee9xCKpX9bfVX762eFB2odyyrnRUJLqZbT1aM7OepUWxITV5Z8tHeId9WAmz7O7QP_bouv1g3xE3hst72KsnR8Q2D5kMxayBooGyC23G6-netDvIFvALhIMUXvLihPVWe0df4-ZnwKT5cXmiQZq8p_ms/s823/1943%2010%2027%20Press%20Democrat,%20Oct.%2027,%201943.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="749" data-original-width="823" height="582" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiugZWo_Z6j8xDPO4tFtOoeKssY3ewIrJkUCGKee9xCKpX9bfVX762eFB2odyyrnRUJLqZbT1aM7OepUWxITV5Z8tHeId9WAmz7O7QP_bouv1g3xE3hst72KsnR8Q2D5kMxayBooGyC23G6-netDvIFvALhIMUXvLihPVWe0df4-ZnwKT5cXmiQZq8p_ms/w640-h582/1943%2010%2027%20Press%20Democrat,%20Oct.%2027,%201943.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mobilgas launched an extensive ad campaign to protect consumers’ automobiles against the Gremlins.</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Two RAF Gremlinologists, Sqd-Ldr V.A Hodgkinson, and Flt-Lieut T.L. Dulgan, modeled 15 varieties of Gremlins in plasticine figures.</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfKk4yDKzAbaGttDcn43UtQv2lFWu4-oR1LwFoZWjy_cRH4qm4uMFPf0p8nzzrlg8rQpykh1C5Fiq2ogOIIUFTsMNOM7NzAnw1XBcWo8nB2V0X4fVmJqQSHJ_sD-yJPokmqyF1MXLXbFgSh3wQ2Igc7wHkDsYUtSpofVB8qOZynTdxn5W5w94X4C21Qdc/s1601/1944%2001%2015%20The%20Argus%20(Melbourne,%20Victoria%20(Australia)%20Jan.15,%201944.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="1601" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfKk4yDKzAbaGttDcn43UtQv2lFWu4-oR1LwFoZWjy_cRH4qm4uMFPf0p8nzzrlg8rQpykh1C5Fiq2ogOIIUFTsMNOM7NzAnw1XBcWo8nB2V0X4fVmJqQSHJ_sD-yJPokmqyF1MXLXbFgSh3wQ2Igc7wHkDsYUtSpofVB8qOZynTdxn5W5w94X4C21Qdc/w640-h288/1944%2001%2015%20The%20Argus%20(Melbourne,%20Victoria%20(Australia)%20Jan.15,%201944.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Argus</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) Jan. 15, 1944</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Gremlins — True or False” was the subject of the lecture on Jan. 23, 1944, at the headquarters of the Theosophical Society headquarters in Wheaton, Illinois.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRAl4J3vbJ52rVkr9NlqYwSW7GUDOGMuA_KLb8KWKVpfXRQlzHntT6YgUJQoC2ADBZn93GJCmpwzJJr6fqEgPt2k3EeK5NvvwSj_PCZ50ubPYedA4JCCaRn6GwJq73PX74s2Fiq6w5jPnB-QdHBjM3JCWUOcmfTMbj8xSdRTucnkh4G0AOpIH-46ECbEo/s576/1944%20March%20The%20American%20Theosophist.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="426" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRAl4J3vbJ52rVkr9NlqYwSW7GUDOGMuA_KLb8KWKVpfXRQlzHntT6YgUJQoC2ADBZn93GJCmpwzJJr6fqEgPt2k3EeK5NvvwSj_PCZ50ubPYedA4JCCaRn6GwJq73PX74s2Fiq6w5jPnB-QdHBjM3JCWUOcmfTMbj8xSdRTucnkh4G0AOpIH-46ECbEo/w342-h462/1944%20March%20The%20American%20Theosophist.jpg" width="342" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/theosophic_messenger_all/american_theosophist_v32_n3_mar_1944.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The American Theosophist</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, March 1994</span></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Someone who saw Gremlins as more than a joke was Charles Massinger, who wrote the “The Gremlin Myth” in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Journal of Educational Sociology</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">., Vol. 17 No. 6 (Feb. 1944). pp. 359-367. He was gravely concerned about how the “fantastic imps” had “infected the psychology of the American airmen,” and that rational people were becoming believers.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzUx4Z7eB8lHPW5Ti8Ja60ktRWVKraS2C6EL9r9o23Z6dGhJHwslj1DfMMCBNl809ztF9CeLwWfPqMrIwpqOK51c2HpwYYjbIPIE_BKEpuWgYhxzWpLQUZFZBATJXxe3d79Zi5WEkqn0B9SLSSkPkWoeHxeBPJ6B8uz-9i-QlsYwRbtN47z088S47BisE/s630/1944%2002%20-%20The%20Gremlin%20Myth.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="630" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzUx4Z7eB8lHPW5Ti8Ja60ktRWVKraS2C6EL9r9o23Z6dGhJHwslj1DfMMCBNl809ztF9CeLwWfPqMrIwpqOK51c2HpwYYjbIPIE_BKEpuWgYhxzWpLQUZFZBATJXxe3d79Zi5WEkqn0B9SLSSkPkWoeHxeBPJ6B8uz-9i-QlsYwRbtN47z088S47BisE/w400-h248/1944%2002%20-%20The%20Gremlin%20Myth.gif" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ESoIKNOSQ5lRH19aTu-4sh7cIDDXHeupfI2t9yLgEDLaxeYFG3sASFE8cUTIvA12WnODabV8ZPSH6DNOZF77uuHrnqrMV1F4kIXpE9daFZPX7Uw-W4HT_UP6gsKcrco4Xi4gS60p3gxAm15azB0DCSyw063BRFMhBQGY91ZhTmqoar8Pj6-9juksqgw/s449/1944%2003%20The%20Indian%20Listener,%20March%201944.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="324" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ESoIKNOSQ5lRH19aTu-4sh7cIDDXHeupfI2t9yLgEDLaxeYFG3sASFE8cUTIvA12WnODabV8ZPSH6DNOZF77uuHrnqrMV1F4kIXpE9daFZPX7Uw-W4HT_UP6gsKcrco4Xi4gS60p3gxAm15azB0DCSyw063BRFMhBQGY91ZhTmqoar8Pj6-9juksqgw/w289-h400/1944%2003%20The%20Indian%20Listener,%20March%201944.JPG" width="289" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Indian Listener</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, March 1944</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As World War II came to an end, the talk of Gremlins diminished. In 1947, news exploded about <i>something else</i> pilots reported seeing in the skies. Next time in part two, we'll look at <b>Gremlins in the Flying Saucer Era</b>.</span></p>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-55338325778442179712023-10-12T08:30:00.000-05:002023-10-12T08:30:00.163-05:00Triangular UFO Formation in Idaho, July 24, 1949<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6BGrT2_tnO_4e1xlscIprPGTgIRmdc8IsJohwnGEfCwo1zH6fXbsujj9tGSmLQzZdjWG3EfgObmHSQdF7pCNc6EHg7ebbED9vmsAVHozpHLEi18V4AMH9TmJW9LFTEufWOxL2ush_qRpfHEmoWQwLzJQPsANoIj2Z8D8tE9A8koQJSDECfAWVVSNiuU0/s825/Credible%20Observers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6BGrT2_tnO_4e1xlscIprPGTgIRmdc8IsJohwnGEfCwo1zH6fXbsujj9tGSmLQzZdjWG3EfgObmHSQdF7pCNc6EHg7ebbED9vmsAVHozpHLEi18V4AMH9TmJW9LFTEufWOxL2ush_qRpfHEmoWQwLzJQPsANoIj2Z8D8tE9A8koQJSDECfAWVVSNiuU0/w640-h334/Credible%20Observers.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The U.S. Air Force admitted in 1952 that while most UFOs could be explained, others remained unidentified, including some “reports that have been made by credible observers of relatively incredible things.” This is one of those cases.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-18437372-7fff-45bb-4629-40749e059004"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It happened just after noon on July 24, 1949, and involved a credible observer who was not seeking publicity. He reported a daylight encounter with a formation of unknown triangular aircraft demonstrating extraordinary maneuvers and performance. As they blew past his plane, electromagnetic interference affected his engine.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw1ZiWtZJbf6u_tYAHK1iUCHs-YL6j-1Wi8y-KXL9JGK3UKhBejSHRpJChZkwCbh-SaU0D0TmlTiLymWNjOFA0xMupzmjttgfyN-9Wc2urZEuo5DVAFIGPe4iMNF57s3m5q5BQjC9J35jhh-ITuPx4PuMbYma4YSiEFqU8Y7hrV7xzkXKl-UaWQw0CLNg/s600/Piper%20Clipper.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw1ZiWtZJbf6u_tYAHK1iUCHs-YL6j-1Wi8y-KXL9JGK3UKhBejSHRpJChZkwCbh-SaU0D0TmlTiLymWNjOFA0xMupzmjttgfyN-9Wc2urZEuo5DVAFIGPe4iMNF57s3m5q5BQjC9J35jhh-ITuPx4PuMbYma4YSiEFqU8Y7hrV7xzkXKl-UaWQw0CLNg/w400-h266/Piper%20Clipper.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Piper Clipper, type of plane flown by the witness.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The news was published in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The Idaho Statesman</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, July 25, 1949, written by Dave Johnson, Aviation Editor. The lone witness spoke to authorities but insisted his name be kept out of the press.</span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq8qKAZ-fb1S6d0n2twNJ9ehJ1wz7JXPXuPQ0FVZ10iQ0SBhxDfBHZVeRCqDTdrPIaUOkL3Tj3d4WqMWmTljQNkR4dXCyk-7Sd0unn8G3Rdo3EpMY9wOzOLI31GgrYQVjJqP6ItELkJ1rEXv18HvJyLC3cLxGkwtCN_W7riuE13g2QGDaQH4I7Hyif5zs/s579/1949%2007%2027%20Idaho%20Statesman.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="579" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq8qKAZ-fb1S6d0n2twNJ9ehJ1wz7JXPXuPQ0FVZ10iQ0SBhxDfBHZVeRCqDTdrPIaUOkL3Tj3d4WqMWmTljQNkR4dXCyk-7Sd0unn8G3Rdo3EpMY9wOzOLI31GgrYQVjJqP6ItELkJ1rEXv18HvJyLC3cLxGkwtCN_W7riuE13g2QGDaQH4I7Hyif5zs/w498-h288/1949%2007%2027%20Idaho%20Statesman.JPG" width="498" /></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Here's a slightly condensed version, from the paper’s evening edition:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Strange Flying Objects Leave Boise… </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Investigation By Air Force To Be Started</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mysterious Craft Pass</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Frightened Flyer</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> At Very Close Range</span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> A Boise valley pilot told Sunday of seeing seven V-shaped flying objects at close range over the Mountain Home desert, and said the experience left him “frightened and shaken.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The strange craft, he said, were not United States aircraft, as far as he could determine, and they had no visible means of propulsion, yet traveled at what he said was a “tremendous rate of speed.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It has been learned that the Air Force's intelligence division is sending an operative to investigate the incident. The Boise valley pilot released the information only on the condition that his name not be used. He is the manager of one of the valley's major airports.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The pilot said the seven objects, or aircraft, came within 1000 or 2000 feet of his plane as he was flying toward Boise, about 10 miles west of Mountain Home.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 12pt 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No Pilot Discernible</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They looked like a V, he said, with a circular body within the V and a belly-like object sitting under the nose of the V. He said that he could see no sign of a pilot or “anything like a human being” in the aircraft.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The color, he said, was not the metallic color one usually associates with military aircraft. He said it was “neither white nor gray” but a shade that he had never seen before.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A circular portion of the body just behind the nose of the V appeared to change in color from time to time, he said, and the outer edges of the V seemed to [oscillate] once or twice during the two minutes he had the craft under observation.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The pilot saw the objects at 12:05 p.m. yesterday while he was at an altitude of 10,000 feet on the right hand side of the highway from Mountain Home to Boise.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>No Markings on Craft</b></span></span> </div></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><blockquote>He said the objects came up from his left side at about 9000 feet and crossed in front of his plane to the right, and disappeared on an easterly heading at “tremendous speed.”<br /><br />There were no visible markings on the craft, he said. Their formation was unlike any ordinary military formation flying. He said they were in two “tight lines of three each, with the seventh object either in the middle of the lines or slightly above.”<br /><br />He said he could not see a propeller or any smoke trail indicating jet or rocket power in the objects.<br /><br />The pilot said the objects departed between the mountains and the town of Mountain Home. The Mountain Home air base, informed of the occurrence, said it had “no experimental aircraft on the field.”<br /><br />And, the Air Force's flight center at McChord Field, Wash., said no formation of aircraft had been cleared through this area. The pilot said the experience left him with a “funny, ghostly feeling.”</blockquote></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Associated Press and United Press news agencies picked up the story and it spread nationwide.</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPfvhr5SyDPnkDy4Mpd3Jbb0GK8PYFxLlyAgDOJjOy4DwjgidijdyIuWUHCfEApf_AuPkIaz1KfVUZMq24UVV4fgaMwHc_Nt5JaExSRBk-OSWrhfR1agy8WWZHITF-ro8f9gFb2kbaxi78IqvMscqrba_nk3eK2-eHY61-C3ACANMsa3KujfKK8_lbPjo/s873/1949%2007%2025%20AP-%20Tyler%20Morning%20Telegraph%20Tyler,%20Texas%20July%2025,%201949.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="873" data-original-width="819" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPfvhr5SyDPnkDy4Mpd3Jbb0GK8PYFxLlyAgDOJjOy4DwjgidijdyIuWUHCfEApf_AuPkIaz1KfVUZMq24UVV4fgaMwHc_Nt5JaExSRBk-OSWrhfR1agy8WWZHITF-ro8f9gFb2kbaxi78IqvMscqrba_nk3eK2-eHY61-C3ACANMsa3KujfKK8_lbPjo/w600-h640/1949%2007%2025%20AP-%20Tyler%20Morning%20Telegraph%20Tyler,%20Texas%20July%2025,%201949.jpg" width="600" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Associated Press story - </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tyler Morning Telegraph</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 25, 1949</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Air Force File</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At the time, Unidentified Aerial Objects were being investigated by the U.S. Air Force under Project Grudge, and they were on this case immediately. The information that follows is chiefly based upon the file held in the records of Project Blue Book and contains details far beyond what appeared in the press.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZwOw8QE_H7EB4oSzoLvnRYJqh7PHs6audlMgiXasd0KnSdyGfjAtGCu2Qta8K8J4iBZ11xtkb7SW0Xlg8D4f88I45LILlp-1mvtskpRvMbISevMJAuDM885DNDnP5ZGQQs7hVYr6XYRDj7U9c-uaDhZzyUqY3zhd4SX3caBJwRk12eSNabR0bVORCjaM/s826/UFO%20Sketch.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="826" height="592" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZwOw8QE_H7EB4oSzoLvnRYJqh7PHs6audlMgiXasd0KnSdyGfjAtGCu2Qta8K8J4iBZ11xtkb7SW0Xlg8D4f88I45LILlp-1mvtskpRvMbISevMJAuDM885DNDnP5ZGQQs7hVYr6XYRDj7U9c-uaDhZzyUqY3zhd4SX3caBJwRk12eSNabR0bVORCjaM/w640-h592/UFO%20Sketch.png" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Clark’s sketches of the UFO made for the Air Force</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Harry Frank Clark leased the small Ritchey Field Airport from the city of Nampa, Idaho in 1939, serving as its manager. He also opened Clark’s Flying Service there with his wife Vivienne, the business including crop dusting and a flight school. During World War II, he was a commander in the local Civil Air Patrol, a flight instructor training pilots for the U.S. Army and Navy. (For further biographical details, see the 1940s entry from </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82421060/harry-frank-clark#view-photo=99070610" target="_blank">Who’s Who for Idaho</a></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU_ggWinxIY7O340Mcirn-JV16kBXJYSFH-5kRri5ha3tPrJwNkHwSjxlOn3O8eaepZIQb4OlskngfBPNC6Fz0azEQrj-lgIWPDvk6BQqsAxxYHi1sEjn7RwDCNBtfT9P0DmjrGZ2YZWbavJDc453mDrAC6NwgCmgJZFvOZ7gF8RdjeVR-JB2MXHcmsVY/s825/Henry%20Clark%20Flying%20Service.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="825" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU_ggWinxIY7O340Mcirn-JV16kBXJYSFH-5kRri5ha3tPrJwNkHwSjxlOn3O8eaepZIQb4OlskngfBPNC6Fz0azEQrj-lgIWPDvk6BQqsAxxYHi1sEjn7RwDCNBtfT9P0DmjrGZ2YZWbavJDc453mDrAC6NwgCmgJZFvOZ7gF8RdjeVR-JB2MXHcmsVY/w640-h354/Henry%20Clark%20Flying%20Service.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Harry Frank Clark (1899–1988)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At the time of his sighting, Harry Clark was 49 years old, with 21 years of flying experience. He was flying his new Piper Clipper in a nearly cloudless sky, visibility excellent. Clark initially thought he was seeing F-51 Mustangs in an unusual formation until he got a closer look and saw the shape was all wrong. These objects had a and they had a larger wingspan than a Mustang and were flying at about twice its top speed. He assumed the objects were metal airframes, but their color was, “Darker than normal aluminum skin and not shiny. …seemed to be between a light gray and a dirty white with no markings…” They had no visible means of propulsion, no windows or portholes, and the flat triangles scarcely had room for a person or an engine as we know it.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnQptM0BXY14EBAYSrT3GdRkG1_JIIqCHrTPNSMrZ6QNqxWR71nUsLIkr0zKf7j5rEpQBwaIObERM7Sp894Pbfhcmga6p6L5rQnNj2JZHyAXyeQmsf0pTnEmtsHWdUCaVbGVPXN6WHbNjsgNagZoTBvDBllK1AT2Y7u8CNa7WYHhUOuQR1IScgGLkAv-s/s1302/Mustang%20vs%20UFO.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="835" data-original-width="1302" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnQptM0BXY14EBAYSrT3GdRkG1_JIIqCHrTPNSMrZ6QNqxWR71nUsLIkr0zKf7j5rEpQBwaIObERM7Sp894Pbfhcmga6p6L5rQnNj2JZHyAXyeQmsf0pTnEmtsHWdUCaVbGVPXN6WHbNjsgNagZoTBvDBllK1AT2Y7u8CNa7WYHhUOuQR1IScgGLkAv-s/w640-h410/Mustang%20vs%20UFO.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">F-51 Mustang compared to the UFO.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The description of the UFOs from the Project Grudge interviews:</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“…Clark said they were delta shaped flying wings. He estimated their span as being between that of an F-51 and an A-26 aircraft (35 to 55 feet), their length (nose to trailing edge) at about 20 to 30 feet, and their thickness at 2 to 5 feet. Clark said that the objects were a light color except for a circle of dark color of approximately 12 feet in diameter… and that the bottom of the object was flat except for a shallow dome-like protrusion of approximately 10-12 feet in diameter, with a depth of approximately 2 to 5 feet.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">The report by Lt. Col. Earl J. Liversay report described the maneuvers in the aerial encounter:</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Mr. Clark was enroute from Burley, Idaho, to Nampa, Idaho, in a Cub Cruiser when the objects were sighted. When the formation was first sighted they were going in approximately the same direction as Mr. Clark and were approximately one-fourth (1/4) of a mile to his left and below. Mr. Clark was cruising at ten (10) thousand feet at the time. He observed the formation until it made the one hundred and eighty (180) degree turn at which time Mr. Clark descended in his aircraft and made a ninety (90) degree turn to the left in an effort to intercept the formation. He was able to get below the level of the formation at eight (8) thousand five (5) hundred feet at which time he noticed the dark circular bulge on the bottom side of the objects. Because of their speed the flying objects soon became lost from the sight of Mr. Clark who proceeded on to his destination. Mr. Clark is known personally by Captain [redacted] of this organization who states that in his opinion Mr. Clark is a reliable witness.” </span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim-0SVcg5shVqxh5uO0RadFgghYCyh2L5UFADbjrRwz1bmZ8PgL1l7SyZz5-o-yXdlNCoHO8fa7y3bW1_zGlN0A9CjxmTyoiu-RhrhQRfOi26OKlPoYYpjvIJK8uEat20LqdXJUzYP-pys3_WuvVxA3y-YQGs5lH3AgyVpVnP_E1AIPf7QdK1J293BCt0/s721/Formation.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="721" height="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim-0SVcg5shVqxh5uO0RadFgghYCyh2L5UFADbjrRwz1bmZ8PgL1l7SyZz5-o-yXdlNCoHO8fa7y3bW1_zGlN0A9CjxmTyoiu-RhrhQRfOi26OKlPoYYpjvIJK8uEat20LqdXJUzYP-pys3_WuvVxA3y-YQGs5lH3AgyVpVnP_E1AIPf7QdK1J293BCt0/w640-h524/Formation.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Simulated approximation of the UFO formation.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When the objects made their 180-degree turn, Clark thought they were attacking his plane. The extraordinary maneuver was made in unison by the formation of objects, “without a bank or skid.” Clark originally observed the objects from above but as they changed course, got a good look at them from the front and in profile. As they flew past him, he expected great turbulence but there was nothing, not even a sound. However, his plane engine began running rough. The objects flew away from him at 600 mph or so, but they did not gradually fade from view as expected, they suddenly “disappeared from sight.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After a few minutes’ thought, Clark made an emergency radio transmission to Gowen Field (Boise, Idaho) asking them to check for aircraft in the area. The results were negative, and a subsequent Air Force inquiry found no records of any military aircraft flying in the area.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once he landed back at his airfield in Nampa, Clark had a mechanic inspect the engine. All eight of his spark plugs were found to have “been shorted and burned out,” and were discarded and replaced. When the Air Force investigator asked for them, only seven were found in the waste can. They were examined at the lab at Wright-Patterson AFB. “A test of the spark plugs from Clark’s plane failed to show any evidence of having broken down and were found to be entirely serviceable." The files provide no insight into the conflicting information.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Unidentified</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Air Force investigated into September, but were unable to locate any additional witnesses, or anything to either prove or disprove Clark’s report, eventually the case was closed as “Unidentified.” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNkkzemIE82BVwP_8En2v0NW9pD1GeVllsy3wSTsjummXF0CxEdQYxkz2T1HFdFgT3lH5P6DAXOYhNtwat3HMIfv-scxGGdjEOQkU9xuVU__bdStUknuH9dvqIgCgV-mtFFj3SCY6r3Kj9ns17Xip4M_Qd74_72JBEclp-DiXWP1YNsrdpVPxwG2x4FB8/s833/1949%20-%20Unidentifed.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="833" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNkkzemIE82BVwP_8En2v0NW9pD1GeVllsy3wSTsjummXF0CxEdQYxkz2T1HFdFgT3lH5P6DAXOYhNtwat3HMIfv-scxGGdjEOQkU9xuVU__bdStUknuH9dvqIgCgV-mtFFj3SCY6r3Kj9ns17Xip4M_Qd74_72JBEclp-DiXWP1YNsrdpVPxwG2x4FB8/w640-h436/1949%20-%20Unidentifed.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p>The 30-page file can be read at Fold3, <a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/1/6310669" target="_blank">24 July 1949, Mt Home, Idaho</a>.</span><a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/1/6310669" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Or at NICAP’s site in a <a href="http://www.nicap.org/docs/490724mtnhome_docs.pdf" target="_blank">single PDF</a>.</span><a href="http://www.nicap.org/docs/490724mtnhome_docs.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Harry Clark did not seek fame as a UFO witness and as far as is known, his life was not disrupted by the sighting. He continued to operate his flying service until his retirement in 1975. He died Jan. 4, 1988, and was buried in Caldwell, Canyon, Idaho. No mention of the UFO sighting was made in his obituary, which can be found at the <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82421060/harry-frank-clark" target="_blank">Find a Grave site</a>.</span><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82421060/harry-frank-clark" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span></p><div><br /></div></span>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-12125151351602038542023-09-28T08:30:00.047-05:002024-03-02T13:09:23.260-06:00Saucer News & Saucer Smear Archives - The Historic UFO magazines by Jim Moseley<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw1EW3U0Nt3T0L75I-hR5y5ycjBrgZUt0y3EEujev5H-MRxGznUPqYqkSu6fYiIJmSOBtOOZEMPTHNgBCn9_SCU4kSopIjtGgt-NdPZ1gxzBAxGKRWUhAzQFCM0dKauFzdsj7U60IXlw1kivy32xCAQ_0DbL-e2w0yf2E4wiGsZa612sMrQfEVFfYjO-Q/s825/Saucer%20News%20Archives.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw1EW3U0Nt3T0L75I-hR5y5ycjBrgZUt0y3EEujev5H-MRxGznUPqYqkSu6fYiIJmSOBtOOZEMPTHNgBCn9_SCU4kSopIjtGgt-NdPZ1gxzBAxGKRWUhAzQFCM0dKauFzdsj7U60IXlw1kivy32xCAQ_0DbL-e2w0yf2E4wiGsZa612sMrQfEVFfYjO-Q/w640-h334/Saucer%20News%20Archives.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.jimmoseley.com/" target="_blank">James W. Moseley</a> (1931-2012) got his start in ufology while
w<em><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2b2b2b; font-style: normal; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">orking on a
proposed flying saucer book. During 1953-54, he travelled throughout the USA
tracking down UFO witnesses, also interviewing authors of early saucer literature
and as well as prominent figures in clubs and research organizations. The <a href="https://www.jimmoseley.com/2018/08/james-w-moseley-flying-saucers-and-me/" target="_blank">book didn’t come together as planned</a>, but with the connections and friendships Moseley
</span></em>had cultivated, he launched a magazine dedicated to flying saucers
instead. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jerome Clark wrote in his entry for Jim Moseley in <i>The
UFO Encyclopedia Vol II: The Phenomenon from the Beginning</i>, 1992:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">With August Roberts and Dominic Lucchesi, Moseley
founded <i>Saucer News </i>in July 1954, at first calling the magazine <i>Nexus</i>
but changing it to the more self-explanatory title the next year. <i>Saucer
News </i>was noted for its freewheeling, iconoclastic, personal style. In its
pages Moseley praised friends, lashed out at enemies, exposed frauds and hoaxes</span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">(even
perpetrating one himself, the notorious <a href="https://www.jimmoseley.com/2014/02/george-adamski-r-e-straith-and-the-seven-letters-of-mischief/ " target="_blank">“Straith letter” [sent to] contactee George Adamski</a>) and reported gleefully on the doings of ufology’s sane and not-so-sane. <i>Saucer
News </i>was never less than entertaining, sometimes infuriating, but more
often very funny. In 1968 the magazine was sold to flying saucer publisher Gray
Barker. The last issue appeared four years later.</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPwAAvRLrF7JHEA0xYr2ejxnxGTcTi26FeBEbiDS3tPywgCY98hGppI9QWQT_wwf-QLYYy_D33vMlcAWktmAKrloUkwNv8F1EC4HnjZTm281wiA-GkJCc9i0BDlESntEetjvnRx3XailxxGK9mYOWNOIpvlNeCaIy16ZJzvpK4YKy8wzpV8NKn3TCV9ss/s693/Moseley%20-%20Barker.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="693" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPwAAvRLrF7JHEA0xYr2ejxnxGTcTi26FeBEbiDS3tPywgCY98hGppI9QWQT_wwf-QLYYy_D33vMlcAWktmAKrloUkwNv8F1EC4HnjZTm281wiA-GkJCc9i0BDlESntEetjvnRx3XailxxGK9mYOWNOIpvlNeCaIy16ZJzvpK4YKy8wzpV8NKn3TCV9ss/w400-h260/Moseley%20-%20Barker.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jim Moseley and Gray Barker</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Issues of <i>Saucer News</i> are somewhat rare, but
thanks to a former subscriber, there’s a large collection now available. The
University of Wyoming hosts the <a href="https://www.wyominghistoryday.org/theme-topics/collections/frank-scully" target="_blank">papers of Frank Scully</a>, which were recently
shared online through their American Heritage Center. The collection includes
scans of correspondence, "newsletters, magazine articles, comics, lecture
ads, and more." Lots of good stuff, including a near complete run of <i>Saucer
News </i>from 1954 to 1964<i>. </i></span></span><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Update: </b>The AFU now hosts a complete collection of <i>Saucer News </i>from 1954 to 1970.</span></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">The individual issues:</span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/?dir=Magazines%2FUnited%20States%2FNexus%20%28James%20Moseley%29" target="_blank">Nexus</a></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/?dir=Magazines%2FUnited%20States%2FSaucer%20News%20(James%20Moseley)" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Saucer News</span></i></a></b></div><div><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/?dir=.%2FMagazines%2FUnited%20States%2FSaucer%20News%20Non-Scheduled%20Newsletter%20(James%20Moseley)" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"><b><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Saucer News Non-Scheduled Newsletter</span></i></b></a></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The (preliminary) directory below is largely based on Jim Moseley’s
own listing of back issues. Besides the feature articles listed, each issue of <a name="_Hlk146713206"><i>Saucer News </i></a>generally contained a summary of
UFO sightings and related news, a gossip and rumor roundup, photos, cartoons,
and listings of saucer clubs and conventions. Also, book reviews, as well as letters
from readers, often prominent figures in the saucer community. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The online digital
collection hosted by the Archives For the Unexplained (AFU), curated by Isaac
Koi. (<b>Note</b>: The links open PDFs, some files contain issues out of
sequence.)</span></span></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Saucer
News </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Archive<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></i></b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Documents/0%20-%20UFO%20Researchers/Frank%20Scully/University%20of%20Wyoming/Scully%20-%20NEXUS%2C%20THE%20FIRST%20NEWSLETTER%20OF%20S.A.U.C.E.R.S%2C%201954-1955.pdf" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="732" height="558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7KnAl7-i4BkiQdFNcdU4ddfI4p4IHBKBWdGHa-yri-OGzxOxYPs4-lXxlXkl4eB0InIVS3vsrCNiTmP6a_vMZGTlgrszBnSdnweR_PpFxqXnBrCV0XOnLRPb79BjqT6UdPqj3cfs8bTSjo_EdBugS43Q-OTMy2DY-NGEPohr0Py9av8DNCfiVmZEyOzc/w640-h558/SN%201953.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Documents/0%20-%20UFO%20Researchers/Frank%20Scully/University%20of%20Wyoming/Scully%20-%20NEXUS%2C%20THE%20FIRST%20NEWSLETTER%20OF%20S.A.U.C.E.R.S%2C%201954-1955.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.26px;">Saucer News</span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.26px;"> (<i>Nexus</i>) 1-10, 1954-1955</span></b></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">AFU links to individual issues: </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/?dir=Magazines%2FUnited%20States%2FNexus%20%28James%20Moseley%29" target="_blank">Saucer News: Nexus</a></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#l (July 1954) – First issue contains articles by James
Moseley and saucer pioneers August C. Roberts and Dominick Lucchesi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#2 (Aug. 1954) - Contains interesting accounts of a
little-known saucer film taken in Africa, and of the activities of the Civilian
Saucer Intelligence of New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#3 (Sept. 1954) - Contains one of the most important
articles we have ever published, concerning a lady in Miami who claims to have
seen official government photographs of a crashed flying saucer from outer
space.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#4 (Oct. 1954) - Contains “The Flying Saucer Mystery –
solved” by James W. Moseley and “On the Fringe of the Supernatural” by Dominick
Lucchesi.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#5 (Nov. 1954) - “Analysis of the Lubbock [Lights] Incident”
by James W. Moseley and “Flying Saucers Fact and Fiction” by John P. Bessor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#6 (Dec. 1954) - Contains “The Green Fireballs of the
Southwest” by “Dr. D.” (Leon Davidson), “Invasion from Space” by Richard Cohen,
“The Phantom Caravan by John P. Bessor, and “Jersey City’s Mystery Lights by August
C. Roberts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#7 (Jan. 1955) - Contains editorial on William Dudley
Pelley and fascism, a report on “Two Meetings held by Civilian Saucer
Intelligence,” and a George Adamski exposé, “Some New Facts About ‘Flying
Saucers Have Landed’” by James W. Moseley.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#8 (Feb. 1955) - Contains a fascinating account of the
strange events which have occurred in recent years in the vicinity of Mount
Shasta, California.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#9 (March 1955) - Contains an interesting article by Frank
Scully, author of "Behind the Flying Saucers." (The Aztec
crash-retrieval hoax.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#10 (April 1955) - Contains an important article by
the late Dr. Morris K. Jessup, author of several saucer books, whose mysterious
death is still a subject of controversy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#11 (May 1955) - Contains an article by Desmond Leslie,
co-author with George Adamski of "Flying Saucers Have Landed." Also
contains the results of experiments in extrasensory perception conducted by the
<i>Saucer News</i> Staff. Also in this issue are articles by Dr. Morris K. Jessup
and Frank Scully.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></i></b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Documents/0%20-%20UFO%20Researchers/Frank%20Scully/University%20of%20Wyoming/Scully%20-%20SAUCER%20NEWS%20%28FORMERLY%20NEXUS%29%2C%20THE%20NEWSLETTER%20OF%20S.A.U.C.E.R.S.%2C%201955-1957.pdf" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="737" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_J9f3o01h0CdvQWBgvCJxlEv3KeSHPJgL6-OiFEwcGu-Aa6fgOJD-2J74J-u9FBBxyV_6iwOMfFXKa0_OJDc06YkKXQZJCKeBcGkN6q0XNu33O_AY-q3ETn0Nxre2fEIUxsgd1wY_g41Jey_6H4CoScTbl-PaqG2R5O9n2NKaQ6VRNkoDk91luM5nnig/w632-h640/SN%201955.JPG" width="632" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Documents/0%20-%20UFO%20Researchers/Frank%20Scully/University%20of%20Wyoming/Scully%20-%20SAUCER%20NEWS%20%28FORMERLY%20NEXUS%29%2C%20THE%20NEWSLETTER%20OF%20S.A.U.C.E.R.S.%2C%201955-1957.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.26px;">Saucer News</span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.26px;"> 1955-1957</span></b></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">#13 (Aug.-Sept. 1955) - Contains outstanding “UFOs, Atlantis,
& The Antiquity of Civilized man” by Dr. M.K. Jessup, “A Parable” by
Desmond Leslie, “A Report on the UFO's and Levitation” by John P. Bessor.</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">#14 (Oct.-Nov. 1955) – Contains</span> “<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">The
Sky Cross” by Frank Reid, “Concerning ‘Space, Gravity, and the Flying Saucer’"
by Desmond Leslie, “Are There Other Inhabited Planets?” by Justin Case, and “The
Green Fireballs of the Southwest” by “Dr. D.” (Leon Davidson). <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#15 (Dec.-Jan. 1955-1956) – Contains “What on Earth
Were They?” by Harold T. Wilkins, “The ‘Little People' Case for the UFO” by M.K.
Jessup), and “Summary, Notes and comments on Project Blue Book Special Report
#14” by Justin Case and James W. Moseley.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#16 (Feb.-March 1956) – Contains “The Al Bender Story”
by James W. Moseley, “Conquest of Gravity is Aim of Top U.S. Scientists”
(Condensed from the <i>N.Y. Herald-Tribune</i>) comments by Justin Case, “The
Air Force and the Saucers - Part One” by “'Dr. D.” (Leon Davidson).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#17 (April-May, 19.56) - Contains an
interesting account of pre-World War II sightings by saucer researcher Frank
Reid.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#18 (June-July, 19.56) - A most important issue,
containing James Moseley's "Earth Theory" solution to the flying
saucer mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#19 (Aug.-Sept. 1956) - Contains an interesting
article entitled "UFO’ s and Unnatural Clouds," by Frank Reid.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#20 (Oct.-Nov. 1956) - Contains another documented
account of pre-World War II sightings, by Frank Reid, and an article by the
noted French saucer author Aime Michel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#21 (Dec.-Jan. 1956-57) - Contains an article entitled
"How to Separate Facts from Fiction," by Justin Case, a noted
mechanical engineer and saucer researcher.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#22 (Feb.-March 1957) - Contains an important report
on attempts to build flying saucers here on earth, and also a report on the
early problems of NICAP, written by Dr. M.K. Jessup.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#23 (April-May 1957) - Contains an article entitled
"Flying Saucer Research on Trial," by saucer researcher Tom Comella.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#24 (June-July 1957) - Contains interesting articles
by Justin Case and “The Air Force and the Saucers” (Part II) by Dr. Leon
Davidson, an atomic physicist who is also a noted saucer researcher.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><span>#25 (Aug.-Sept. 1957) - Contains an </span><span>exposé</span><span> of Contactee George Hunt Williamson, written by Y. N. ibn Aharon, an expert on
ancient history.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#26 (Oct.-Nov. 1957) - Contains interesting articles
by Justin Case and Richard Hall, Major Donald Keyhoe's assistant at NICAP.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span>#27 (Oct. 1957) - <u>The Special Adamski E</u></span></span><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">xposé</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> Issue</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">
contains a collection of several articles showing the fallacies in George
Adamski's first two books, "Flying Saucers Have Landed" and
"Inside the Spaceships." This is one of the most important issues we
have ever published.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#28 (Dec.- Jan. 1957-58) - Contains the first in a
series of articles by Y. N. ibn Aharon entitled "Extraterrestrialism as an
Historical Doctrine." This series purports to prove that the God of the
Old Testament, was in reality a being from another planet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></i></b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Documents/0%20-%20UFO%20Researchers/Frank%20Scully/University%20of%20Wyoming/Scully%20-%20SAUCER%20NEWS%2C%20THE%20NEWSLETTER%20OF%20S.A.U.C.E.R.S.%2C%201958-1959.pdf" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="672" height="630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3w2ffB0WBRuy_1vzadeQtbVyj8VrhI8aGHtzZS8fusB9HWeGzhVIEiwWaWkMgLuA3AbPTovqn5ml38az9IdLPszyknp4UzpHU5yCmapC_AH1-unbymKO86Qc0uPC74p9wSgEQSED0SVClJ-hk1HjxzVi-XpwZHwZes18VbTSfmKxdknQg2rwZu-9NrG8/w640-h630/SN%201958.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Documents/0%20-%20UFO%20Researchers/Frank%20Scully/University%20of%20Wyoming/Scully%20-%20SAUCER%20NEWS%2C%20THE%20NEWSLETTER%20OF%20S.A.U.C.E.R.S.%2C%201958-1959.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.26px;">Saucer News</span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.26px;"> 1958-1959</span></b></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">#29 (Feb.-March 1958) - Contains </span><a name="_Hlk146636401" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">news coverage of the Levelland, Texas, UFO reports and
other possibly related cases (including the Reinhold O. Schmidt hoax). “The Air
Force and the Saucers” (Part III) by Leon Davidson</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">.</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#30 (April-May 1958) - Contains two of the most
important articles we have ever published, The first, by Ulbricht Von Rittner,
gives the inside story of research on saucer-shaped craft in Germany during
World War II; the second, by James Moseley, gives a complete account of the
mysterious disappearance in 1953 of saucer researchers Karl Hunrath and Jack
Wilkinson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#3l (June-July 1958) - Contains an outstanding article
"Saucers and the International Geophysical Year," by John Corman, an
article called "Rationalism in Ufology" by Richard Hall, and another
of Y. N. ibn Aharon's series on Extraterrestrialism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#32 (Aug.-Sept. 1958) - Contains “Study of a Pre-1947
Sighting” by Dr. Leon Davidson and part 3 of the series by Y. N. ibn Aharon. Also,
“The Rise and Fall of NICAP” by Moseley and Richard Cohen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#33 (Oct.-Nov. 1958) - Contains an outstanding article
by Major Lawrence J. Tacker of the U.S. Air Force, plus “The Case of the
Crashed UFO,” written by noted saucer researcher Bob Barry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><span>#34 (Dec.-Jan. 1958-59) - Contains an </span><span>exposé</span><span> “Otis T.
Carr and the Free Energy Principle,” written by NICAP member Robert Durant,
plus another of Y. N. ibn Aharon's series on Extraterrestrialism., and a report
on the first The Howard Menger Space Convention.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><span>#35 (Feb.-March 1959) - Contains outstanding articles
by Tom Comella, “ECM +CIA= UFO, or How to Cause a Radar Sighting by Dr. Leon
Davidson, plus an </span><span>exposé</span><span> of George Hunt Williamson written by noted saucer
researcher Michael Mann, together with James Moseley.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><span>#36 (June 1959) - This most important issue
contains a detailed </span><span>exposé</span><span> of Gray Barker, written by the noted amateur
astronomer Lonzo Dove.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#37 (Sept. 1959) - Contains an article by Bob Barry
called "The Case of the Mysterious Airplane Crash," “Who Is Fooling
Donald Keyhoe?” by Justin Case, plus articles by Michael Mann and Y. N. ibn
Aharon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#38 (Dec. 1959) - Contains a scathing rebuttal to <i>Saucer
News</i> from Major Donald Keyhoe of NICAP, and an article by Frank Reid entitled
"The Aerial Phenomena of Earthquakes."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></i></b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Documents/0%20-%20UFO%20Researchers/Frank%20Scully/University%20of%20Wyoming/Scully%20-%20SAUCER%20NEWS%2C%20THE%20NEWSLETTER%20OF%20S.A.U.C.E.R.S.%2C%201960-1962.pdf" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="744" height="576" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxtmNvw3gwlwrlUwPUBf-kHfpxkdCjLR2l4JnO1pvQBSW20CrR-VSKLpWViLa3g2jujoIr2ChxSwmvsF8WCqzfyhR8EUY1SfJYvweEEGmZNl5ZDiHogbGna55TlOgUpuWUMC_bB_ZICqTk0SnXM3ZrIi44rrtYrBK5ZlYKrsLHxfWtJ5i_B7VfgdTQAWw/w640-h576/SN%201960.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Documents/0%20-%20UFO%20Researchers/Frank%20Scully/University%20of%20Wyoming/Scully%20-%20SAUCER%20NEWS%2C%20THE%20NEWSLETTER%20OF%20S.A.U.C.E.R.S.%2C%201960-1962.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.26px;">Saucer News</span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.26px;"> 1960-1962</span></b></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">#39 (March 1960) - Contains interesting articles by
Michael Mann and Justin Case, plus an article by Y. N. ibn Aharon entitled "How
to Build a Saucer.”</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#40 (June 1960) - Contains an important article by
noted saucer researcher Lee Munsick, plus a review of one of George Hunt Williamson's
books, by Y. N. ibn Aharon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#41 (Sept. 1960) - This outstanding issue contains a
long report on the 1960 Giant Rock saucer convention by James Moseley, with
many photographs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#42 (Dec. 1960) - Contains an important article by Y.
N. ibn Aharon and an article by Justin Case entitled "Proof by
Ignorance."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#43 (March 1961) - Contains an important scientific
UFO article by David Wightman, editor of the outstanding British saucer
magazine "Uranus." Also, “An Open Letter to Saucer Researchers” (Part
One) by Dr. Leon Davidson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#44 (June 1961) - Contains an interesting article on
extrasensory perception by Justin Case, plus an article by our Associate Editor
Melvyn Stiriss.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#45 (Sept. 1961) - Contains a very interesting account
of an unexplained plane crash by saucer researcher Max Miller, editor of
"Saucers." There is also an article on Extraterrestrialism by Y. N.
ibn Aharon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#46 (Dec. 1961) - Contains the first half of an
unusually interesting article by the famous naturalist and saucer researcher Ivan
Sanderson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#47 (March 1962) - Contains the conclusion
of the above-mentioned article by Ivan Sanderson, and a well-documented article
by Lonzo Dove entitled "Humanoids and the Mars Saucer Cycle."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#48 June 1962) - Contains “Why the Bender Book Has
Been Delayed” by Gray Barker and “An Open Letter to Saucer Researchers” (Part
Two) by Dr. Leon Davidson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#49 (Sept. 1962) - Contains a long and very important
article by James Moseley concerning his exclusive interview with the head of
the Air Force UFO project at Wright-Patterson Field, in Dayton, Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#50 (Dec. 1962) - Contains the first half of an
interesting article by Tom Comella, called "A New Inquiry Into the Flying
Saucer Mystery.” Also included is a long exclusive report on the recent saucer
"flap" in South America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Documents/0%20-%20UFO%20Researchers/Frank%20Scully/University%20of%20Wyoming/Scully%20-%20SAUCER%20NEWS%2C%20THE%20NEWSLETTER%20OF%20S.A.U.C.E.R.S.%2C%201963-1964.pdf" target="_blank"></a></span></i></b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Documents/0%20-%20UFO%20Researchers/Frank%20Scully/University%20of%20Wyoming/Scully%20-%20SAUCER%20NEWS%2C%20THE%20NEWSLETTER%20OF%20S.A.U.C.E.R.S.%2C%201963-1964.pdf" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="762" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibFnK-Kk0CPCL7nNHgQa-HeBFJYoYxdpEAnFL98vOtW_CVKCPorY79Ag-wG455efr_Y92zfAUYRGIX-aUxGQqnk_SA2A1PzWkEQVWYL47MXbXyUSBTRRfP_6PiRKDcNDUE7fz08bTwMwzcip9BhE7ULmUzFPYar5otUdZhzisCd4qo5OKpq7J4B_Sz9Vw/w640-h518/SN%201963.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Documents/0%20-%20UFO%20Researchers/Frank%20Scully/University%20of%20Wyoming/Scully%20-%20SAUCER%20NEWS%2C%20THE%20NEWSLETTER%20OF%20S.A.U.C.E.R.S.%2C%201963-1964.pdf" target="_blank"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.26px;">Saucer News</span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.26px;"> 1963-1964</span></b></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">#51 (March 1963) - Contains the conclusion of the
above-mentioned article by Tom Comella, plus a wealth of recent saucer
sightings from around the world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#52 (June 1963) – Contains “The Olden Moore Story” by
C. W. Fitch, “The Mystery of the Disappearing Planes” by Sandy Moseley, and “The
End or an Era” by Gray Barker, on the merging of "The Saucerian Bulletin”
with <i>Saucer News</i> and his role as associate editor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#53 (Sept. 1963) – Contains “Florida's Coral Castle” by
James W. Moseley, “George Hunt Williamson Re-Visited” by John J. Robinson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#54 (Dec. 1963) Contains “The Electromagnetic Effects
of Flying Saucers” (Part One) by John J. Robinson, “Spacemen in our Midst” by
Gray Barker, “How Animals Tell Time Without Clocks" by Gene Steinberg, and “Further
Information About Jonathan Swift and the Moons of Mars” by Robert J. Durant and
James W. Moseley.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#55 (March 1964) – Contains “Space Ships Over Times
Square” by Ed Sparks, Part 2 of John J. Robinson’s article on UFO Electromagnetic
Effects, and “The X-4 Electro-Craft” by Howard Menger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#56 (June 1964) - Contains “Flying Saucers and the
Father's Plan” by Laura Mundo and “The Flying Saucers” by Rolf Telano.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhayq9TSCG22N7C_hPm4GG4ImWco9jWeSw41DswoPaI2vDdI8jTM2028YPhSZBlTex8Zy3lecDsd8aD4BXh1zoWGJU6yEyVebyxAn-aydacli4yshqdJfct5n02DvK3zm7fpBSqwMtUaqfqKoVPK6nwOYIjA4aJgJZmbwMVZ2sPqtbRcl2moVCAeiVOObU/s733/Saucer%20News%201965.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="645" data-original-width="733" height="565" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhayq9TSCG22N7C_hPm4GG4ImWco9jWeSw41DswoPaI2vDdI8jTM2028YPhSZBlTex8Zy3lecDsd8aD4BXh1zoWGJU6yEyVebyxAn-aydacli4yshqdJfct5n02DvK3zm7fpBSqwMtUaqfqKoVPK6nwOYIjA4aJgJZmbwMVZ2sPqtbRcl2moVCAeiVOObU/w640-h565/Saucer%20News%201965.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/?dir=Magazines%2FUnited%20States%2FSaucer%20News%20(James%20Moseley)" target="_blank"><i>Saucer News</i> 1965-1970</a></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Saucer News</i> issues from 1965-1970 are available individually in the collection hosted by the AFU.</span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>SN Non-Scheduled Newsletter</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">There's now a stand-alone collection of t</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">he </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Saucer News Non-Scheduled Newsletter</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> from 1955 - 1968. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Moseley hyped the newsletter as often containing “material that we consider ‘too hot to handle’ in the regularly-scheduled issues of our magazine.”</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/?dir=.%2FMagazines%2FUnited%20States%2FSaucer%20News%20Non-Scheduled%20Newsletter%20(James%20Moseley)" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="125" data-original-width="357" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh03072MZmDxShvdWctUmSyowB7Uw-A8qtEG1sQtc11ZqAZhu4ZBoXyroYGlVsAglDBAqYym1X8dHnlvQkVuz3JEVutvtWt9YazRH0_3m9QcI6U_ePVZM6Tr5seoFLtLvYGpVOspi1mGdA3pDWGRN7io4MEe2fDjztKx-GQTRLms45uOkHMnjXv8SyRn1E/s320/Saucer%20News%20Non-Scheduled%20Newsletter.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/?dir=.%2FMagazines%2FUnited%20States%2FSaucer%20News%20Non-Scheduled%20Newsletter%20(James%20Moseley)" target="_blank"><b><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Saucer News Non-Scheduled Newsletter</span></i></b></a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. . .</span></span></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuVxh0GPmSX7Cum7ONYcKgCVjVLBKOLJR2777vpDgQnJvnUbwhccBUxt4YRNykmJgPs1a6YwCAMPsyiZ25L_z8t_aKUdt8S7nDOariXTaAYkckReFC0ID_dRfyr6E89-kU5XHYPvGIl5_Dhq8MCr6Fm5urUrMfr939cNRXVYH9di2XgUBjpd2qBKfG7jY/s902/Moseley%20SS%20SN%20(2020_12_02%2016_05_45%20UTC).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="902" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuVxh0GPmSX7Cum7ONYcKgCVjVLBKOLJR2777vpDgQnJvnUbwhccBUxt4YRNykmJgPs1a6YwCAMPsyiZ25L_z8t_aKUdt8S7nDOariXTaAYkckReFC0ID_dRfyr6E89-kU5XHYPvGIl5_Dhq8MCr6Fm5urUrMfr939cNRXVYH9di2XgUBjpd2qBKfG7jY/w640-h504/Moseley%20SS%20SN%20(2020_12_02%2016_05_45%20UTC).jpg" width="640" /></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Moseley continued <i>Saucer News</i> until 1968 when he sold the magazine to Gray Barker, then it faded away in a few years. In the 1970s, Moseley revived it as a non-scheduled newsletter, eventually named <i>Saucer Smear</i>, published up until his death in 2012. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://isaackoiup.blogspot.com/2024/02/searchable-pdfs-300-issues-of-saucer.html" target="_blank">Isaac Koi</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://isaackoiup.blogspot.com/2024/02/searchable-pdfs-300-issues-of-saucer.html" target="_blank"> recently announced</a> that the </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">complete </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Saucer Smear</i> collection<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> has been added by to the files hosted at the AFU site. Click the picture below to begin your studies.</span></span></p><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/?dir=.%2FMagazines%2FUnited%20States%2FSaucer%20Smear%20%28Jim%20Moseley%29" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWSXa3BCuGwoUjzRICJEhkqKDbRTHm2g8797k6T-WigpZLWGuEH8CxirWjgnZndtrghsSi5kHpcegHJTHF4nUiAf-QoiUJg57iVdQw8WsQecvZdLq3f_vy7VUHJ3F0Ex7PTRIabg3kd1fU9vH50X3CMgdJy8rh-6rORfJrr15rIfvS8X9HFLJzrQw6_b4/w640-h334/Saucer%20Smear%20Header%20(2020_12_02%2016_05_45%20UTC).jpg" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/?dir=.%2FMagazines%2FUnited%20States%2FSaucer%20Smear%20%28Jim%20Moseley%29" target="_blank"><i><b>Saucer Smear</b></i></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/?dir=.%2FMagazines%2FUnited%20States%2FSaucer%20Smear%20%28Jim%20Moseley%29" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Every <i>Saucer News</i> issue has several points of interest to even the casual student of UFO history. In the news section, it’s interesting to see the amount of attention given to cases and see what was said about them at the time. Some obscure and forgotten cases often were the subject of lingering examinations, while some stories that became classics were initially treated as routine. UFO history mavens will enjoy cross-referencing cases and prominent figures in ufology with the period coverage in <i>Saucer News</i> to see how it was discussed and regarded in its day.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">The links again to the AFU collections for individual issues:</span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/?dir=Magazines%2FUnited%20States%2FNexus%20%28James%20Moseley%29" target="_blank">Nexus</a></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/?dir=Magazines%2FUnited%20States%2FSaucer%20News%20(James%20Moseley)" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Saucer News</span></i></a></b></div><div><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/?dir=.%2FMagazines%2FUnited%20States%2FSaucer%20News%20Non-Scheduled%20Newsletter%20(James%20Moseley)" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"><b><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Saucer News Non-Scheduled Newsletter</span></i></b></a></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/?dir=.%2FMagazines%2FUnited%20States%2FSaucer%20Smear%20%28Jim%20Moseley%29" target="_blank">Saucer Smear</a> </span></i></b></div></blockquote></div></div><div><div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><span>.
. .</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"></span></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8KkbBopG98ICdwtfzuW9Hfc3XVV4_ExlgHL0zL7p0rTaEBS36Z-2h9T0eNN07p1OvWwBaY07YisG8rihihKkmxxoX1s2ClaQGAPhce2ThkPIrBHDIHkVvxF39gWuwiMs6UBhn-0m2TEZgF7M19AB60IPDvhT_SHROumElDL0HNwatGab5cP0Z5Oj7pHo/s868/Moseley%20FS%20and%20Me%20(2020_12_02%2016_05_45%20UTC).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="868" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8KkbBopG98ICdwtfzuW9Hfc3XVV4_ExlgHL0zL7p0rTaEBS36Z-2h9T0eNN07p1OvWwBaY07YisG8rihihKkmxxoX1s2ClaQGAPhce2ThkPIrBHDIHkVvxF39gWuwiMs6UBhn-0m2TEZgF7M19AB60IPDvhT_SHROumElDL0HNwatGab5cP0Z5Oj7pHo/w481-h314/Moseley%20FS%20and%20Me%20(2020_12_02%2016_05_45%20UTC).jpg" width="481" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For more information on Jim Moseley and the <i>Saucer News</i> era, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">see the collection of articles at <a href="https://www.jimmoseley.com/">JimMoseley.com</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"></span></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; text-align: left;"><b></b></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><p></p></div></div>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-58259916272500596242023-09-14T08:30:00.000-05:002023-09-14T08:30:00.141-05:00Donald E. Keyhoe: From Saucers to Swamp Gas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgz9MvNb654GPH5Hf5diXXGV1uvcyb4LSkHSZbRMpuaFGq92cbTq8Xa7Hx0jZCYFXWquA6A_1wzAqZlwLOcq-dzEwd9-YOpxXEyQiWfoP8sQTVSQ3jvxIiKBwFKrw2MWRLtYza18jeroOqN7BH_uhLI-VDSKTs9E5sHGxbwpZUa18bpooJ08oWaRJgF4M/s825/Keyhoe%20from%20Sauces%20to%20Swamp%20Gas.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgz9MvNb654GPH5Hf5diXXGV1uvcyb4LSkHSZbRMpuaFGq92cbTq8Xa7Hx0jZCYFXWquA6A_1wzAqZlwLOcq-dzEwd9-YOpxXEyQiWfoP8sQTVSQ3jvxIiKBwFKrw2MWRLtYza18jeroOqN7BH_uhLI-VDSKTs9E5sHGxbwpZUa18bpooJ08oWaRJgF4M/w640-h334/Keyhoe%20from%20Sauces%20to%20Swamp%20Gas.png" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;"><br />Donald E. Keyhoe was
born in Iowa in 1897, so he was a 50-year-old man during the summer the flying
saucers arrived in 1947. He went on to become the best-known figure on the topic,
and this article is chiefly a scrapbook on him as a pioneering author and UFO
lecturer. It’s not intended as a complete biography, but along the way we’ll hit
some of his career highlights. </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"> </span></span><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;">Donald Edward Keyhoe
was a retired Marine major who had served in World War I and became a writer of
both news articles and fiction, including <a href="https://thepulp.net/pulpsuperfan/2022/12/12/donald-keyhoe-from-pulp-to-ufo/" target="_blank">adventure stories</a> for pulp magazines. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEE2CCpeOsjFl6mcf8WKalBE1SouyPlWBZKPWSBL8v8HaPfh3ckwthdodRN_TFoyBd2veF8tS81DEO2Nk1IOLIj4wBnCeKBRs1xilGFWiuKg8LIh_hlEjDmM1oeFC1pYCHu8HhRnBz-HbwXpL3S2o7VLUtctHJ-Gtex89JyOzAOlFEjZyYQ9f6PdWx/s794/Flying%20with%20Lindbergh%20-%20Keyhoe.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="539" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEE2CCpeOsjFl6mcf8WKalBE1SouyPlWBZKPWSBL8v8HaPfh3ckwthdodRN_TFoyBd2veF8tS81DEO2Nk1IOLIj4wBnCeKBRs1xilGFWiuKg8LIh_hlEjDmM1oeFC1pYCHu8HhRnBz-HbwXpL3S2o7VLUtctHJ-Gtex89JyOzAOlFEjZyYQ9f6PdWx/w297-h438/Flying%20with%20Lindbergh%20-%20Keyhoe.JPG" width="297" /></a></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">In 1927
<a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2023/01/ufos-factoids-and-true-confessions.html" target="_blank">Charles Lindbergh</a> made his historic solo trans-Atlantic flight. Afterwards, he flew across the US on a 3-month
publicity tour, managed by retired Marine pilot Donald E. Keyhoe. The
experience was later documented by Keyhoe in the 1928 book, <i>Flying with
Lindbergh</i>. That was the start of Keyhoe’s new career as an author of
adventure stories and non-fiction.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Keyhoe’s article on the potential of rocketry
and space in </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Baltimore Sun</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, April 10, 1938, “<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119309942/donald-e-keyhoe-to-paris-by-rocket-19/" target="_blank">To Paris by Rocket</a>.” His
closing lines discussed the price of being a pioneer:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“The first who dares will probably never
be heard of again. Many others may follow and fail before the secrets of space
are learned. But success will come. There has never been a frontier which man
has not dared to cross.”<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisGhpfWTYtG0qB8hsee-Pv3IMfeym1fjpnssa9Z_N5TBe0A24Jfqz0vrb0oedGjnPu0aoGns1nqX0WTZCoksydWtqsyOH8ujQrd6367LxOYgb2Rqjfb69i-w1q1_WLqUvU1Wgo0r3MKMo/s640/Keyhoe+Flying+Saucers.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="640" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisGhpfWTYtG0qB8hsee-Pv3IMfeym1fjpnssa9Z_N5TBe0A24Jfqz0vrb0oedGjnPu0aoGns1nqX0WTZCoksydWtqsyOH8ujQrd6367LxOYgb2Rqjfb69i-w1q1_WLqUvU1Wgo0r3MKMo/w640-h334/Keyhoe+Flying+Saucers.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20.7px;">In 1949 the editor of <i>True</i> magazine sent Keyhoe the assignment on the flying saucer story, hoping Keyhoe’s military contacts could help him penetrate the secrecy by the government. The resulting article was a sensation almost as big as the original fever of 1947, and along with the resulting 1950 book, <i>The Flying Saucers Are Real</i>, proved it was a bankable topic. </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium;">Keyhoe was persuasive since he focused on factual, documented cases from credible witnesses, but he often leapt far ahead of the evidence. His message </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large;">solidified some notions that had been circulating into the tenets of UFO belief:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20.7px;"></span></div><blockquote><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20.7px;">1) Flying saucers are spacecraft from other worlds. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20.7px;">2) The government knows it. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20.7px;">3) There is a government cover-up. </span></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"></span></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSqW9TREkyj59Op-nNavzWbhCjufLiKyJCTotnkpG5DiNYLbGkm4aEWESe7DCMsx8CuwFvf2nGmm_TraASENduIEv3C9pWdX29pakm0BgogiMBEPgTNxelCPJgIcCsy5HLXZFdqaSH1Pcd1Xd6-61vbLSVxrTGERzELOACa1oJ_lafneSiRZiNqtciiSI/s1382/1949%2012%2027%20St.%20Louis%20Post-Dispatch,%20%20Dec.%2027,%201949.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1382" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSqW9TREkyj59Op-nNavzWbhCjufLiKyJCTotnkpG5DiNYLbGkm4aEWESe7DCMsx8CuwFvf2nGmm_TraASENduIEv3C9pWdX29pakm0BgogiMBEPgTNxelCPJgIcCsy5HLXZFdqaSH1Pcd1Xd6-61vbLSVxrTGERzELOACa1oJ_lafneSiRZiNqtciiSI/w464-h640/1949%2012%2027%20St.%20Louis%20Post-Dispatch,%20%20Dec.%2027,%201949.jpg" width="464" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Keyhoe was promoting flying saucers just as the Air Force was trying to close the book on the problem. They became the villain in Keyhoe's story, and to them, he was a major pain in the neck.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjutO1Yt6k20OT_2-PT_pA3V3_N2sX2ZV03sCMf0lfavthaeQatJXDogw-WV-Emqdb513Xlmdi_aQNZcptnTphTbKzn_xOSAsXQQWqYNL0ef3O6lcPTu8RzqJxi7gqL1Z5Vrmwu-JhKEoLJChluJ8eFBeMjo02FdM0Yb1DwVGozAuHc1aao00T15BZBxg4/s726/1950%2001%2006%20The%20Buffalo%20News%20-%20Daily%20News%20Ad%20%20Keyhoe.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="726" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjutO1Yt6k20OT_2-PT_pA3V3_N2sX2ZV03sCMf0lfavthaeQatJXDogw-WV-Emqdb513Xlmdi_aQNZcptnTphTbKzn_xOSAsXQQWqYNL0ef3O6lcPTu8RzqJxi7gqL1Z5Vrmwu-JhKEoLJChluJ8eFBeMjo02FdM0Yb1DwVGozAuHc1aao00T15BZBxg4/w458-h319/1950%2001%2006%20The%20Buffalo%20News%20-%20Daily%20News%20Ad%20%20Keyhoe.jpg" width="458" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">The Buffalo News</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px; text-align: left;"> - <i>Daily News</i> Ad, Jan. 6, 1950</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">When Keyhoe expanded the material into </span><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;">The Flying Saucers Are Real</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;">,</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"> he received some free
press by claiming authorities were suppressing the book.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></i></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtLVt0exl1dkoiL0gFdYQuD3AqbSnropjIwvFh2oS5DSxVnH9E7Diu2h49Bw09BPlU0zB1wrUoINlZTWyEbIw66dOuU9jkvZz-4Jr686PMtbkMaw0ycoQuaNBSUV_1Xcn2xmslC3tKjy4H2R5zBo_7dt_0MsDaYqC2ju-SrgwOQ5gdi2CFOKJ-FS3IUPo/s883/1950%2005%2025%20Reading%20Eagle%20Keyhoe.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="883" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtLVt0exl1dkoiL0gFdYQuD3AqbSnropjIwvFh2oS5DSxVnH9E7Diu2h49Bw09BPlU0zB1wrUoINlZTWyEbIw66dOuU9jkvZz-4Jr686PMtbkMaw0ycoQuaNBSUV_1Xcn2xmslC3tKjy4H2R5zBo_7dt_0MsDaYqC2ju-SrgwOQ5gdi2CFOKJ-FS3IUPo/w640-h458/1950%2005%2025%20Reading%20Eagle%20Keyhoe.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">Reading Eagle</span></i><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 20.7px; text-align: left;">, May 25, 1950</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="322" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CFdvc4FCgpg" width="387" youtube-src-id="CFdvc4FCgpg"></iframe></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Clip of Donald Keyhoe that was used in the
1950 movie short, <i>The Flying Saucer Mystery.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">Keyhoe had a best-selling paperback book, and was in demand by the media, becoming a popular attraction on the lecture circuit. </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The typical flying saucer lecture was generally held at a public venue, anything from a gymnasium to an auditorium, with a modest admission or donation charged to attendees. The program usually included a speaker or two, followed by a question and answer session. There was also a table set up where the host could sell the guest’s merchandise, and also gather attendees’ addresses for mailing lists, and recruit new members for their organization.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyUW1A6HHhrfKRmImNmwKnQCeMcEKydvrzIl58TL6rGH5V0fKD8M3y_C-CU0NsQypxqaZ1f080WETkCuu3bMRYQ61Oo5PDo4JX37v3cCDmuAR1nT2335kiJzFvIs5mZKNuU6f0vsKpNKT6JmyyA3O0O8neN_E21ulKYfCHeGEEeAppLng4lWpbBohftl8/s818/tvkeyhoe.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="818" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyUW1A6HHhrfKRmImNmwKnQCeMcEKydvrzIl58TL6rGH5V0fKD8M3y_C-CU0NsQypxqaZ1f080WETkCuu3bMRYQ61Oo5PDo4JX37v3cCDmuAR1nT2335kiJzFvIs5mZKNuU6f0vsKpNKT6JmyyA3O0O8neN_E21ulKYfCHeGEEeAppLng4lWpbBohftl8/w446-h327/tvkeyhoe.JPG" width="446" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Keyhoe at press conference about the Washington, DC, UFOs of 1952</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Keyhoe’s second book was </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Flying Saucers
from Outer Space</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, this time a hardcover release.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyhsL8qZQttLK0yUdmPHiClvvbnFhaTBlwCqYUIgofZM4ZeAKLgkvBF5PWqV3UidqWHZnKS_DKp8l_dIB0dcFE074dCJB4-FgYc6t6M32bLlDRrgMT-rM-PawrVdsibLOrB6fGYm1JIhUx4UHtT1I6DQC97WVnfGdofVRT99HUUV8pSC4QU6pB4RFCtKY/s1409/1953%2010%2001%20Ventura%20County%20Star-Free%20Press%20%20Oct.%201,%201953.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1409" data-original-width="475" height="761" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyhsL8qZQttLK0yUdmPHiClvvbnFhaTBlwCqYUIgofZM4ZeAKLgkvBF5PWqV3UidqWHZnKS_DKp8l_dIB0dcFE074dCJB4-FgYc6t6M32bLlDRrgMT-rM-PawrVdsibLOrB6fGYm1JIhUx4UHtT1I6DQC97WVnfGdofVRT99HUUV8pSC4QU6pB4RFCtKY/w257-h761/1953%2010%2001%20Ventura%20County%20Star-Free%20Press%20%20Oct.%201,%201953.jpg" width="257" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">Ventura County Star-Free Press</span></i><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 20.7px; text-align: left;">, Oct. 1, 1953</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“He's in demand for serious TV and radio performances, lectures and technical advice. Each morning an average of 20 letters are delivered to his home near Mount Vernon ‘from serious, respectable and the honest persons quote reporting the signings and offering additional information on saucers.’”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRqJJGImajzS7IlJjDvcErGGuR5tFh_rJEIVDia9jcimAiE7ppt3y1Nn9ioHZu8tH2TfNcxsgr9AH-LDtLYQSKgnN8xOYz4BerHckOrRhxChljaf1LvS17Ll_Taz9xRNyC_TqZ6orZp_3bVkuhCgf3yFPCW5PwiClIib9MhIW7zW3l7bq7YNAYSWKSoAc/s1492/1953%2012%2018%20The%20Daily%20Home%20News%20Dec.%2018,%201953.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1492" data-original-width="536" height="1063" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRqJJGImajzS7IlJjDvcErGGuR5tFh_rJEIVDia9jcimAiE7ppt3y1Nn9ioHZu8tH2TfNcxsgr9AH-LDtLYQSKgnN8xOYz4BerHckOrRhxChljaf1LvS17Ll_Taz9xRNyC_TqZ6orZp_3bVkuhCgf3yFPCW5PwiClIib9MhIW7zW3l7bq7YNAYSWKSoAc/w382-h1063/1953%2012%2018%20The%20Daily%20Home%20News%20Dec.%2018,%201953.jpg" width="382" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEG8Os195e2qmSA5U8WGFpuPfycD3IBG0vwJ8T8b8L1QRRF2sYf1tEnU4Yf74HM28zefiTKpjKJsqdmnaruvNVPkDVNnHR1odJzgq9xFYsyUn4ILDKy7K18YJaNGu-iFdoHrUOY5WLpnutSNVnhBVsWhktnMZJzAzcv1kmbu4UOdE_K4WODGkCExch8oY/s657/1953%2012%2024%20NEA%20Dec.%2024,%201953.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="657" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEG8Os195e2qmSA5U8WGFpuPfycD3IBG0vwJ8T8b8L1QRRF2sYf1tEnU4Yf74HM28zefiTKpjKJsqdmnaruvNVPkDVNnHR1odJzgq9xFYsyUn4ILDKy7K18YJaNGu-iFdoHrUOY5WLpnutSNVnhBVsWhktnMZJzAzcv1kmbu4UOdE_K4WODGkCExch8oY/w499-h375/1953%2012%2024%20NEA%20Dec.%2024,%201953.jpg" width="499" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Keyhoe NEA news article, Dec. 24, 1953.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzXg1b2vojJp9eebDPh1cz05pf0-ovnPzQW8ttCMQPRjL1NWyYCWALXKgI9b_BaP-_xy-YZEjNxJi0n9bq8swjwrdKov0XY8RFfPHACtfWJa9lBnw7leMfRlpgb2Nsy8qNPpE1fnmg3mCW3FjZKG7gj1JFcxWABH61TxvP57lAU7KEVaTsqt5Z-X-a9V8/s672/1954%2005%2015%20The%20Daily%20Times%20May%2015,%201954.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="312" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzXg1b2vojJp9eebDPh1cz05pf0-ovnPzQW8ttCMQPRjL1NWyYCWALXKgI9b_BaP-_xy-YZEjNxJi0n9bq8swjwrdKov0XY8RFfPHACtfWJa9lBnw7leMfRlpgb2Nsy8qNPpE1fnmg3mCW3FjZKG7gj1JFcxWABH61TxvP57lAU7KEVaTsqt5Z-X-a9V8/w241-h518/1954%2005%2015%20The%20Daily%20Times%20May%2015,%201954.jpg" width="241" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">The Daily Times</span></i><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 20.7px; text-align: left;">, May 15, 1954</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><b>Some Professional Advice</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">Donald Keyhoe frequently corresponded
and “talked shop” with Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the head of the U.S. Air
Force UFO investigation from 1951 until 1953. After Ruppelt retired from the
AF, and in 1954 he was consulting for the movie, </span><span class="s1"><i><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/08/project-blue-book-ufo-motion-picture.html" target="_blank">Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story ofFlying Saucers</a></span></i></span><span class="s1"><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"> (</span></span><span lang="EN" style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">released May 1956</span>) and began working on <span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">a book about his days with Project Blue Book. Ruppelt asked Keyhoe
for business advice. Keyhoe’s June 28, 1954, reply detailed the grind of being
on the lecture circuit:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">“You asked about lectures... don't
sign up unless you get a good offer, better than the one I had. My outfit took
40% of the gross and I had to pay my own expenses. I wouldn't agree to less </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">than a 70-30 split if I talked
next season, and I'd try for 75-25%. You should be able to get some paid
engagements out in your area, I think; I don t know any California bureaus, but
your movie company people should know some names. You could arrange for evening
talks, so they wouldn’t interfere with your work — or Saturday and Sunday appearances,
before clubs, etc. Regular bureaus often get $250 for a luncheon engagement
from the bigger luncheon clubs, Ad, Rotary, etc.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">If you didn’t have to travel
out of your area, you would make some money. They’d want about a 30-minute talk,
for noonday clubs; 45 minutes to an hour for evening talks. My trouble was that
I </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">was scheduled for isolated
talks involving expensive travel — to Milwaukee, Kansas City, Buffalo, etc.
Considering the lost time, plus expenses, I figure I barely broke even;
however, I did it at first in order to get more people talking about my book. I
learned later that one good TV program, on a network, is worth twenty such
lectures, probably worth a hundred of them.”</span></p></blockquote></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEWBZ_7nZD51wa0MAgxGl32HV6XtJhpPm9gGMr0n32cbhElIGebTNtsMgmXo_993fU_waKf7c3lAEMOqRI9VUX_ZGu96ac8XKRUpfhGSkiSlLzNQhNKmt2GmXLXExcLEmTevyp3hhnbQR2Dna-LBlxhdBCZofZNQ1d7qMwbX-0vehnX0rn4ziEHh6bcZc/s1387/1954%20to%20Ruppelt.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1387" data-original-width="695" height="875" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEWBZ_7nZD51wa0MAgxGl32HV6XtJhpPm9gGMr0n32cbhElIGebTNtsMgmXo_993fU_waKf7c3lAEMOqRI9VUX_ZGu96ac8XKRUpfhGSkiSlLzNQhNKmt2GmXLXExcLEmTevyp3hhnbQR2Dna-LBlxhdBCZofZNQ1d7qMwbX-0vehnX0rn4ziEHh6bcZc/w508-h875/1954%20to%20Ruppelt.jpg" width="508" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">June 28, 1954</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC1s6QmwNS6V-r2J4d3WMKTW6H8Jh1vdk6S39l2mOmojW1AsWfhMXTEAN50mUDP5_7_YB-shWLlz2HwE_tASG9XnecQuoH2FGN86gXa-Ytrn_w7dKs8f_jbFUyyGhg81p7vlSAMA5lWrHLk329KS6KcHC6wmjz8bn4Sfo9afYp5Flu8Y-JgEWCwOMZNBE/s589/Flying%20Saucer%20Conspiracy.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="400" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC1s6QmwNS6V-r2J4d3WMKTW6H8Jh1vdk6S39l2mOmojW1AsWfhMXTEAN50mUDP5_7_YB-shWLlz2HwE_tASG9XnecQuoH2FGN86gXa-Ytrn_w7dKs8f_jbFUyyGhg81p7vlSAMA5lWrHLk329KS6KcHC6wmjz8bn4Sfo9afYp5Flu8Y-JgEWCwOMZNBE/w332-h490/Flying%20Saucer%20Conspiracy.jpg" width="332" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">Flying Saucer Conspiracy</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px; text-align: left;">, 1955</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-zo10bMqqUmW0d5fwxtJvilcmDSfhgelH1JQV8DhNDU85PjRPyTE2Ly3aFOrqIfEOtrYHlD-Ls4PkYohNHbIY575HQvJKd7fAkWaSpXoeqwgabVXfFeEBGJxklkYsYStgLy92l8D6IcJQfngSJEHPS3VA9OrNwtv6Hf5eWRgY-1Na3yJnOOookTGLEac/s841/1956%2004%2008%20Detroit%20Free%20%20Press.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="841" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-zo10bMqqUmW0d5fwxtJvilcmDSfhgelH1JQV8DhNDU85PjRPyTE2Ly3aFOrqIfEOtrYHlD-Ls4PkYohNHbIY575HQvJKd7fAkWaSpXoeqwgabVXfFeEBGJxklkYsYStgLy92l8D6IcJQfngSJEHPS3VA9OrNwtv6Hf5eWRgY-1Na3yJnOOookTGLEac/w617-h181/1956%2004%2008%20Detroit%20Free%20%20Press.JPG" width="617" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">Detroit Free Press</span></i><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 20.7px; text-align: left;">, April 8, 1956</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">Keyhoe had a 1956 movie based on his 1953 book. Sorta. <i>Earth vs. the Flying Saucers</i>, was "Suggested by the novel Flying Saucers from Outer Space..."</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYgc9Y9pBA0As5h-VIaFn9IIuGodOeLuQevN_jtVLz2dbBlJLiVUi6PU2uzHTnA0xy3FfRBUEFR6BlhjESkGei58U2s1QH0F7yyIqSav36LQ50KegSQ1vB-Qk26cGVelzyabNzraMLQvry5Tv9wg8y8gZPO4rIqoRRa6xjicSvcSHtP2Qwthx-zQSKjNU/s956/Earth%20vs%20the%20Flying%20Saucers%20poster.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="757" data-original-width="956" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYgc9Y9pBA0As5h-VIaFn9IIuGodOeLuQevN_jtVLz2dbBlJLiVUi6PU2uzHTnA0xy3FfRBUEFR6BlhjESkGei58U2s1QH0F7yyIqSav36LQ50KegSQ1vB-Qk26cGVelzyabNzraMLQvry5Tv9wg8y8gZPO4rIqoRRa6xjicSvcSHtP2Qwthx-zQSKjNU/w400-h316/Earth%20vs%20the%20Flying%20Saucers%20poster.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsgE5xkz1cmoaVu3drdCkWSfGyyId3zGfusHGPrkle472M8pPFLns-zOA8ctq_H1dg4W7Lx5bpePsOeRWKq2nlx7tgNFCHPvgDs0fFZjrG2x7ZfPN55ShsR-OZc7QeNMa0DD_XONGVfzadJ_PqDQBCJ44XnhoQmgScynaVSZc7KcKZqcYx4vv4ImQHrgw/s577/Earth%20vs%20the%20Flying%20Saucers%20Pressbook.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="577" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsgE5xkz1cmoaVu3drdCkWSfGyyId3zGfusHGPrkle472M8pPFLns-zOA8ctq_H1dg4W7Lx5bpePsOeRWKq2nlx7tgNFCHPvgDs0fFZjrG2x7ZfPN55ShsR-OZc7QeNMa0DD_XONGVfzadJ_PqDQBCJ44XnhoQmgScynaVSZc7KcKZqcYx4vv4ImQHrgw/w400-h326/Earth%20vs%20the%20Flying%20Saucers%20Pressbook.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvQCGsMjT1WARlQZAcQJzKjnXqypKh0zFKLJJG6go1tvmoEubcbvQ4geWk9wtIwf8FIhrxQWDZ6r5FcDF2S-8JbuiEL7vgaqTVpXmsD38epUi9TYIuH-UlvK-oy7IdDUXvy8kne9isq7ScVL-jrWFWqQD1IgaXBqkT7t7Zo23zXG-HLJ4NX0CL8Tf4DiY/s779/1956%2007%2008%20The%20Boston%20Globe%20Boston,%20July%208,%201956.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="322" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvQCGsMjT1WARlQZAcQJzKjnXqypKh0zFKLJJG6go1tvmoEubcbvQ4geWk9wtIwf8FIhrxQWDZ6r5FcDF2S-8JbuiEL7vgaqTVpXmsD38epUi9TYIuH-UlvK-oy7IdDUXvy8kne9isq7ScVL-jrWFWqQD1IgaXBqkT7t7Zo23zXG-HLJ4NX0CL8Tf4DiY/w264-h640/1956%2007%2008%20The%20Boston%20Globe%20Boston,%20July%208,%201956.jpg" width="264" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The Boston Globe</i>, July 8, 1956</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">In 1956, Edward J. Ruppelt’s <i>The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects</i> was released, and a few passages had barbs about Keyhoe. Of his 1950 book, “Keyhoe had based his conjecture on fact, and his facts were correct, even if the conjecture wasn't.” Of Keyhoe’s 1953 book, Ruppelt said:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"></span></p><blockquote>“The book was based on a few of our good UFO reports that were released… The details of the specific UFO sightings that he credits to the Air Force are factual, but in his interpretations of the incidents he blasts way out into the wild blue yonder.”</blockquote><p></p></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7Hwzabt85HYO-eGC39YEC4O4KhCXIBNjJZKwwLzweEE4xjsSQaz4w1PHcwq12764tPgNeqXi973QAdjYSD4oWXEOEuDrvB15zibQrnEfz6I9Ss-6zhEwEaigiNj3CQuciEyeEfVfxYho/s600/1957+03+22+Daily+Press+Newport+VA.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="537" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7Hwzabt85HYO-eGC39YEC4O4KhCXIBNjJZKwwLzweEE4xjsSQaz4w1PHcwq12764tPgNeqXi973QAdjYSD4oWXEOEuDrvB15zibQrnEfz6I9Ss-6zhEwEaigiNj3CQuciEyeEfVfxYho/w572-h640/1957+03+22+Daily+Press+Newport+VA.jpg" width="572" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span><i>Daily Press</i> (Newport News, VA), March 22, 1957</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMmGOfkKJKkm13yDXqSOr8ILrmfNam9BXfNhSH2wxLUbWab_GWvY8XzbdsWb6E-NtiQcDMUoqOo8Zou5wwDdfpR2Lo5F-fifQqH4QJcSgAa7e6Sn8wAP4LzYL2ROCzqCjmlTczOJl5ezFRda30U4Mh8ryhkzeWOyh2LpgPX4g4JppUJdUi1m_xRU_4zQ/s632/1957%2003%2025%20The%20Cincinnati%20Enquirer,%20March%2025,%201957.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="547" height="489" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMmGOfkKJKkm13yDXqSOr8ILrmfNam9BXfNhSH2wxLUbWab_GWvY8XzbdsWb6E-NtiQcDMUoqOo8Zou5wwDdfpR2Lo5F-fifQqH4QJcSgAa7e6Sn8wAP4LzYL2ROCzqCjmlTczOJl5ezFRda30U4Mh8ryhkzeWOyh2LpgPX4g4JppUJdUi1m_xRU_4zQ/w423-h489/1957%2003%2025%20The%20Cincinnati%20Enquirer,%20March%2025,%201957.jpg" width="423" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The Cincinnati Enquirer</i>, March 25, 1957</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (<a href="http://www.nicap.org/papers/hall-IUR1994.htm" target="_blank">NICAP</a>) was founded in 1956, with Keyhoe becoming its director early the next year.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJloUjVVeXCGW3bE8BRldxtEr6MMRBI8vPb1H-GR2LIPUUftuhGeflm-7ShrwoMUmXhhJzl3zAUgdKQVCmqIQ2CX8FTAxYEaiw-dkKzJBqHUMzaqduRhrIpZwrK03AyKOEZ1XDCcbSN1BXP60RQFPB9uTl3QfHrWdMtmVUtzcGbnm9e7e4-NRMZtanOR8/s637/1957%2011%2017%20Democrat%20and%20Chronicle,%20Nov.%2017,%201957.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="453" height="619" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJloUjVVeXCGW3bE8BRldxtEr6MMRBI8vPb1H-GR2LIPUUftuhGeflm-7ShrwoMUmXhhJzl3zAUgdKQVCmqIQ2CX8FTAxYEaiw-dkKzJBqHUMzaqduRhrIpZwrK03AyKOEZ1XDCcbSN1BXP60RQFPB9uTl3QfHrWdMtmVUtzcGbnm9e7e4-NRMZtanOR8/w441-h619/1957%2011%2017%20Democrat%20and%20Chronicle,%20Nov.%2017,%201957.JPG" width="441" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/13882500/democrat_and_chronicle/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.4px;">Democrat and Chronicle</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: left;">, Nov. 17, 1957</span></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxB2gSs4FqrzVUj6xU-s_XfIelnwH3otcDDY0aPsCmEOkZY6jOTQwk6VvnV5V1d5gV6xEMrAolw2TSFtaawycyO-CmMEJyKSMkUAKgSY-bkYDosV_ENRaO7z1934bzdQkeUF5s_i7YegYv54UPWVNaFABTrwwmUxV6QK2hotbLduFL9L8evuH3vJt8kRE/s607/1958%2001%2005%20The%20Pittsburgh%20Press,%20Jan.%205,%201958.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="365" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxB2gSs4FqrzVUj6xU-s_XfIelnwH3otcDDY0aPsCmEOkZY6jOTQwk6VvnV5V1d5gV6xEMrAolw2TSFtaawycyO-CmMEJyKSMkUAKgSY-bkYDosV_ENRaO7z1934bzdQkeUF5s_i7YegYv54UPWVNaFABTrwwmUxV6QK2hotbLduFL9L8evuH3vJt8kRE/w261-h435/1958%2001%2005%20The%20Pittsburgh%20Press,%20Jan.%205,%201958.jpg" width="261" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">The Pittsburgh Press</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px; text-align: left;">, Jan. 5, 1958</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIrdtEEmXsLRtXjsp00e8EO8oYvzPJag-xOwPNJB4Kedkw8NbwIOLuoB6JzfX-BachyeiScHysSyvtgG8EFHN_IwUdezM3phvkcEy0ubM61JqL7fhsQxVQ4fz8CMnf8sWLNgTegR7ewHbQC3mYybgV-VGBNbmhQadavkYeBhBMMmZwTU6w38QU3o3lPWY/s950/1958%2001%2010%20Pittsburgh%20Post-Gazette%20Jan.%2010,%201958.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="950" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIrdtEEmXsLRtXjsp00e8EO8oYvzPJag-xOwPNJB4Kedkw8NbwIOLuoB6JzfX-BachyeiScHysSyvtgG8EFHN_IwUdezM3phvkcEy0ubM61JqL7fhsQxVQ4fz8CMnf8sWLNgTegR7ewHbQC3mYybgV-VGBNbmhQadavkYeBhBMMmZwTU6w38QU3o3lPWY/w400-h249/1958%2001%2010%20Pittsburgh%20Post-Gazette%20Jan.%2010,%201958.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">The Pittsburgh Press</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px; text-align: left;">, Jan. 10, 1958</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRyKuSQzmcx8F7AfilptbaNFfe8luKnGsDBDs9NlIdQz7k42QeOhsaRmsonFW84GWKyRbKIbNzcdJa8SO0of3uB9Y0AUejF5L0_vXSYdZjVFSsrlDf18PWYc6caormxRiTYL_k_YTi0YBWPOZHACh_58afATO9JfmHf58L0b10FioCHd6ff0HYcou2Vls/s843/1958%2009%2007%20Tulsa%20World,%20Sept.%207,%201958.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="680" height="575" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRyKuSQzmcx8F7AfilptbaNFfe8luKnGsDBDs9NlIdQz7k42QeOhsaRmsonFW84GWKyRbKIbNzcdJa8SO0of3uB9Y0AUejF5L0_vXSYdZjVFSsrlDf18PWYc6caormxRiTYL_k_YTi0YBWPOZHACh_58afATO9JfmHf58L0b10FioCHd6ff0HYcou2Vls/w464-h575/1958%2009%2007%20Tulsa%20World,%20Sept.%207,%201958.jpg" width="464" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">Tulsa World</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px; text-align: left;">, Sept. 7, 1958</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTjYkRxc40uWJQ8XyH5z7lkIzigsHutfLAjTVNABkVjA7WyaYy6Od5_lvuobDN5IDagdMKXn5iHM3wfKphiemq0pd-t7P50wamxm5_Y7XndxlUpdOwCHpRvJ48Gq6gFLx7cfw-c2372XjW7D9oMujFjUczvWZqFFGvnd4W9dAdroOLBf4bYIoL9pz1xw4/s471/1958%2010%2004%20The%20Oklahoma%20Courier.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="274" height="457" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTjYkRxc40uWJQ8XyH5z7lkIzigsHutfLAjTVNABkVjA7WyaYy6Od5_lvuobDN5IDagdMKXn5iHM3wfKphiemq0pd-t7P50wamxm5_Y7XndxlUpdOwCHpRvJ48Gq6gFLx7cfw-c2372XjW7D9oMujFjUczvWZqFFGvnd4W9dAdroOLBf4bYIoL9pz1xw4/w266-h457/1958%2010%2004%20The%20Oklahoma%20Courier.jpg" width="266" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">The Oklahoma Courier</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px; text-align: left;">, Oct. 4, 1958</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNvkl_zaNp2wkgsjr98gZe38PLD03S2a7exNByEuLGYqGJHaZAMUzFpnKWj8KfOB0bOCPu1IthS93Ks8uStH0bTGXp1jQByw9LiAc_mYANmqxwa0j2VFJWPOYC08ni00Bwb-nQv-HweSR_2X5_lklZeS-vOMH35fPW2Q5Dip4b0ST3vBRqCtJU1vd0zAc/s372/1958%2011%2005%20Tulsa%20World%20-Keyhoe.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="219" data-original-width="372" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNvkl_zaNp2wkgsjr98gZe38PLD03S2a7exNByEuLGYqGJHaZAMUzFpnKWj8KfOB0bOCPu1IthS93Ks8uStH0bTGXp1jQByw9LiAc_mYANmqxwa0j2VFJWPOYC08ni00Bwb-nQv-HweSR_2X5_lklZeS-vOMH35fPW2Q5Dip4b0ST3vBRqCtJU1vd0zAc/s320/1958%2011%2005%20Tulsa%20World%20-Keyhoe.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">Tulsa World</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px; text-align: left;">, Nov. 5, 1958</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">George Adamski was the first Contactee, followed by many imitators came forward claiming to have met aliens, rode in their ships and heard their spiritual messages of cosmic peace and brotherhood. Keyhoe thought it was all hokum.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpbUsUFhO3haeEIgqzh_nK4NoY0WPuqD6FIkHAB1KJSo4Tzrfbd0Z-E56pn5G6pzvrFO84IdRhSC2eds6Nw512papAxGJyaaSXJLxn_vrAOwOimc_xG2bjm3PW8uef3uV4kOwgIkaV9hd2fPHW_3YF4eLNGbaI-76x77-MwQ1ahcXyvEmwJnVBqeOKJNU/s779/1959%2007%2013%20Daily%20Herald%20UPI.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="513" height="532" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpbUsUFhO3haeEIgqzh_nK4NoY0WPuqD6FIkHAB1KJSo4Tzrfbd0Z-E56pn5G6pzvrFO84IdRhSC2eds6Nw512papAxGJyaaSXJLxn_vrAOwOimc_xG2bjm3PW8uef3uV4kOwgIkaV9hd2fPHW_3YF4eLNGbaI-76x77-MwQ1ahcXyvEmwJnVBqeOKJNU/w351-h532/1959%2007%2013%20Daily%20Herald%20UPI.jpg" width="351" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">UPI story, <i style="text-align: left;">The Daily Herald</i><span style="text-align: left;">, July 13, 1959</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiafMJfhKL2GQkXRpeSf97UbUsI2al6YUkTq9-DGoWbmK9p-moT6Tx_6o2byf8JSrmSsgi7daq4XqtaGRtejwZ8GFS1MeM6XXfhbvlhHWCAHJo5AnVb6JKLWBzSJbUMZ7Cds_coKkrtp81isdkuRarAZlozVhklx09MGIrgfgv57aS8HawOeXD1agu6o4Y/s560/Flying%20Saucers%20Top%20Secret.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="386" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiafMJfhKL2GQkXRpeSf97UbUsI2al6YUkTq9-DGoWbmK9p-moT6Tx_6o2byf8JSrmSsgi7daq4XqtaGRtejwZ8GFS1MeM6XXfhbvlhHWCAHJo5AnVb6JKLWBzSJbUMZ7Cds_coKkrtp81isdkuRarAZlozVhklx09MGIrgfgv57aS8HawOeXD1agu6o4Y/w325-h470/Flying%20Saucers%20Top%20Secret.JPG" width="325" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">Flying Saucers: Top Secret</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px; text-align: left;">, 1960<br /><br /></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIbdlMD-wQsECFdYxCzLKUI-0Kp4d-reSBlhX-uNzZ-GbgfHnB7gsjHEvreeoE_JYmIKm1KqvJtOA1sy-wEQLNM8wsxxE_bj-2DX38I_gbIrIguSwECIGt3O6d0vEcqAEJr8haISplafQ2vTfSIvFUt9rkXAZqMdQjqx9VFlRl7CjLBXYP-kQegF2RC3g/s496/1962%2003%2027%20The%20Rock%20Island%20Argus%20March%2027,%201962.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="496" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIbdlMD-wQsECFdYxCzLKUI-0Kp4d-reSBlhX-uNzZ-GbgfHnB7gsjHEvreeoE_JYmIKm1KqvJtOA1sy-wEQLNM8wsxxE_bj-2DX38I_gbIrIguSwECIGt3O6d0vEcqAEJr8haISplafQ2vTfSIvFUt9rkXAZqMdQjqx9VFlRl7CjLBXYP-kQegF2RC3g/s320/1962%2003%2027%20The%20Rock%20Island%20Argus%20March%2027,%201962.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">The Rock Island Argus</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px; text-align: left;">, March 27, 1962</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;">Keyhoe continued to get under the skin of the Air Force. In Jan. 1965, his picture appeared in a UFO newspaper article. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1F48PqGvtg--uyYubI9MdAXTwEyxKecvxGivRAXpd6xsBCGX0sAMIWa4RqZk0zhlwWdaVtFBbEjvFSahX7t_UZFaND7sq_rCWzDI-U1Te4YPzdHNOBUPZOMSEnncB1DF2LBnGR_-wxkdRCncDrJVL2QAglClcv6jYJsANoqBAjHVkNZ2qjZINakVouuE/s450/PBB.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="211" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1F48PqGvtg--uyYubI9MdAXTwEyxKecvxGivRAXpd6xsBCGX0sAMIWa4RqZk0zhlwWdaVtFBbEjvFSahX7t_UZFaND7sq_rCWzDI-U1Te4YPzdHNOBUPZOMSEnncB1DF2LBnGR_-wxkdRCncDrJVL2QAglClcv6jYJsANoqBAjHVkNZ2qjZINakVouuE/s320/PBB.JPG" width="150" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Someone in Project Blue Book made an <a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/8722248/harrisonburg-virginia-blank-page-47-project-blue-book-ufo-investigations" target="_blank">artistic alteration</a> that indicates they viewed him as a villain.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-BmXjzFgUyWH5tlA015t9eYr4Otd3ekJZlLykIvnJS70XIk2spQs8ZCWjjnszpm4mtY16IZhvKaWwuUmLj_ni0n8MSA_qe7PPe_JwcsOiOPgibX9lsS29nYrfmauIUIuQ0JJhKJinHP9n8Yt9e9gG07UeLCnKgzi2nmg-GIXwzBuRmTojE0Z-uNXoy4I/s575/1966%2003%2003%20TV%20lisiting.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="89" data-original-width="575" height="63" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-BmXjzFgUyWH5tlA015t9eYr4Otd3ekJZlLykIvnJS70XIk2spQs8ZCWjjnszpm4mtY16IZhvKaWwuUmLj_ni0n8MSA_qe7PPe_JwcsOiOPgibX9lsS29nYrfmauIUIuQ0JJhKJinHP9n8Yt9e9gG07UeLCnKgzi2nmg-GIXwzBuRmTojE0Z-uNXoy4I/w400-h63/1966%2003%2003%20TV%20lisiting.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">TV listing March 3, 1966</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcAWOH9sR-BU2p712N3EGcnDrcG5u85XmExt5isdWOGciA15KCD-DgV0JiQAyS-uvFHfwc_ToAhft_MUk7hwYWsbu-69wzvT6v3lKou81pZp14a4ie56a98x1wq2kW0sh_oYOLVqtel_xT5OgHpcZOzPf6Rc2nvQle85uwDWxoZibJlgVu9H2BPLoFK_k/s714/1966%2003%2014%20TV%20lisiting.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="714" data-original-width="217" height="562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcAWOH9sR-BU2p712N3EGcnDrcG5u85XmExt5isdWOGciA15KCD-DgV0JiQAyS-uvFHfwc_ToAhft_MUk7hwYWsbu-69wzvT6v3lKou81pZp14a4ie56a98x1wq2kW0sh_oYOLVqtel_xT5OgHpcZOzPf6Rc2nvQle85uwDWxoZibJlgVu9H2BPLoFK_k/w170-h562/1966%2003%2014%20TV%20lisiting.JPG" width="170" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhupLeot25DjB3tpU2veOCKZiWhsUJb3Qvc3gJna_FZpERaSqsXXOrs7B2YEttw3-hgIZ7DBPFYoP0Xqdtk2GUJraR3774tTPz0asUTjuPkLKeBJ1JJcjy4QEZiIJGKSsa_lw_Q1bcr4J5LyD6tFSwaK-wb-TogjbnKLs_AUNMrCEaj8amoUToMb1chcBA/s755/1966%2004%2014%20The%20Pittsburgh%20Press%20April%2014,%201966.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="357" height="561" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhupLeot25DjB3tpU2veOCKZiWhsUJb3Qvc3gJna_FZpERaSqsXXOrs7B2YEttw3-hgIZ7DBPFYoP0Xqdtk2GUJraR3774tTPz0asUTjuPkLKeBJ1JJcjy4QEZiIJGKSsa_lw_Q1bcr4J5LyD6tFSwaK-wb-TogjbnKLs_AUNMrCEaj8amoUToMb1chcBA/w265-h561/1966%2004%2014%20The%20Pittsburgh%20Press%20April%2014,%201966.JPG" width="265" /></a></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">TV listing March 14, 1966. - </span><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">The Pittsburgh Press</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">, April 14, 1966</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFbXyzi6YqBEnOr6QcQgvJsg_p7k6qO6mDN7h5SxScYsIBEEs7xxoxGL_yB8QQyKwxZ602gXVNqtZq4MCZefP7QGpGzQMEn_64_1exAz-soAoI5Tp0WVzEQ6aiD-ZD_IsFdBhA2YuBQ1wVBYELTcKUS2qZ_F6RY_0TGl90tUGACJMQxomZuAg0MBqX-dw/s535/1966%2004%2019%20The%20Kingston%20Daily%20Freeman,%20April%2019,%201966.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="442" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFbXyzi6YqBEnOr6QcQgvJsg_p7k6qO6mDN7h5SxScYsIBEEs7xxoxGL_yB8QQyKwxZ602gXVNqtZq4MCZefP7QGpGzQMEn_64_1exAz-soAoI5Tp0WVzEQ6aiD-ZD_IsFdBhA2YuBQ1wVBYELTcKUS2qZ_F6RY_0TGl90tUGACJMQxomZuAg0MBqX-dw/w289-h350/1966%2004%2019%20The%20Kingston%20Daily%20Freeman,%20April%2019,%201966.JPG" width="289" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">The Kingston Daily Freeman</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px; text-align: left;">, April 19, 1966</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0LoipITbAdPHLXzf3svdWNXD2rQl3HpTPq2ygxegU7BympCOEivh7O69K7QcC_O2zm_1Xy8mNXuYW79D0d5UH5C_0jAow4Yis4Zapnll5alPh-_Xl9gXGj3mLPGFE2Kpqg8YfBCt6ncB6QH4FGFaiKfvZXuLn_f3BSqe8L5J5LQcYI-uoWmJ9KfCver4/s653/1966%2011%2018%20Tulsa%20World,%20Nov.%2018,%201966.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="431" height="570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0LoipITbAdPHLXzf3svdWNXD2rQl3HpTPq2ygxegU7BympCOEivh7O69K7QcC_O2zm_1Xy8mNXuYW79D0d5UH5C_0jAow4Yis4Zapnll5alPh-_Xl9gXGj3mLPGFE2Kpqg8YfBCt6ncB6QH4FGFaiKfvZXuLn_f3BSqe8L5J5LQcYI-uoWmJ9KfCver4/w376-h570/1966%2011%2018%20Tulsa%20World,%20Nov.%2018,%201966.JPG" width="376" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tulsa World</span></span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">, Nov. 18, 1966</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="783" data-original-width="358" height="1048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGBlDxLqTX38_4akelctiSzg_-MfKwcqgOLK8hqySckGix6OH3DmTo3ue1DJEKHpItVv5uG1VyaBfmejys0QJG1nsIVvgRJDysO3aYKKckAYJA3drbwuRtErhI010XcBRT39N1WS27aGo/w479-h1048/Screen+Shot+2017-07-25+at+9.48.30+AM.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="479" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;">The Y-12 Bulletin</i><span style="text-align: left;">, Jan. 18, 1967 (P</span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;">aper For Y-l2 Employees of </span><span style="background-color: white;">Union Carbide</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Corporation—Nuclear Division, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Oak Ridge, Tennessee.)</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGBlDxLqTX38_4akelctiSzg_-MfKwcqgOLK8hqySckGix6OH3DmTo3ue1DJEKHpItVv5uG1VyaBfmejys0QJG1nsIVvgRJDysO3aYKKckAYJA3drbwuRtErhI010XcBRT39N1WS27aGo/s1600/Screen+Shot+2017-07-25+at+9.48.30+AM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Swamp Gas</span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Project Blue Book’s “Swamp Gas” fiasco at
the March 1966 flap in Ann Arbor, Michigan, caused a public outrage and an upsurge
of interest in flying saucers. The demand for UFO lecturers was so great, two
other speakers tried to horn in on Keyhoe’s territory, Jim Moseley, publisher of
<i>Saucer News</i>, and the flying saucer physicist, Stanton Friedman.</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9uvWqynQIF5VqZ-DrSSjwAjm9lAQwH7bhz3tPpdbRdaD3uiaaFNixezOi7mFqj4YPKfogjpAwGhlBX9MCx4Fn5WoyPvrdgHyRQ0gp1BnmDp7X-kvqqE7j-m75Vm3JD8UcnupP2t7TYQWlbbdbSVK7mg_-YZ6uRbxc3yqKNVWUhcIRQ07H4YtZgdNqCZY/s691/1967%2003%2030%20Akron%20Beacon.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="415" data-original-width="691" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9uvWqynQIF5VqZ-DrSSjwAjm9lAQwH7bhz3tPpdbRdaD3uiaaFNixezOi7mFqj4YPKfogjpAwGhlBX9MCx4Fn5WoyPvrdgHyRQ0gp1BnmDp7X-kvqqE7j-m75Vm3JD8UcnupP2t7TYQWlbbdbSVK7mg_-YZ6uRbxc3yqKNVWUhcIRQ07H4YtZgdNqCZY/w487-h292/1967%2003%2030%20Akron%20Beacon.JPG" width="487" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px;">Akron Beacon</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20.7px; text-align: left;">, March 30, 1967 (Friedman)</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCGk3pxBuhD_Ip_Pjv2U3l4JFZxDJFOHyH1t81SCprUg70kmXjau8-igkuHq-WojCrzTCe93GiEI-bY_TmyVNLEwCW3UnL-_cIxpxauN2y_HqbyppM-yx9IT4BOMVdg0kieipjyPApVqylnSuY68gN-ZUYECwDDx9R4O69iAm4r7j8n1Z6f8OoxMco4QY/s1104/1967%2004%2011%20Mt.%20Vernon%20Register-News,%20April%2011,%201967.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="819" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCGk3pxBuhD_Ip_Pjv2U3l4JFZxDJFOHyH1t81SCprUg70kmXjau8-igkuHq-WojCrzTCe93GiEI-bY_TmyVNLEwCW3UnL-_cIxpxauN2y_HqbyppM-yx9IT4BOMVdg0kieipjyPApVqylnSuY68gN-ZUYECwDDx9R4O69iAm4r7j8n1Z6f8OoxMco4QY/w389-h526/1967%2004%2011%20Mt.%20Vernon%20Register-News,%20April%2011,%201967.jpg" width="389" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mt. Vernon Register-News</span></span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">, April 11, 1967 (Moseley)</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The findings of the government-contracted
UFO evaluation led by Dr. Edward U. Condon was published as <i>Scientific Study
of Unidentified Flying Objects</i> in 1969. Keyhoe gave it the thumbs down.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBsCiu1UAvDFiaD7ZYCOZCrda8jLNlgOKQh_A27lpHYvQdWMbjiNtyhazQcjXlmsjKjSmeyolUl-rj0lVTuMM4oF_gNBwiT3VyO5kokv_UEm3yQ2_vMFsm9HXJ2oTiJnMjqxTzefYd5-VCoV86LWEn9KzJvd1QwBtBrrHLFdix2C4lIpFQuxepK2f9PU/s455/1969%2001%2011%20Buffalo%20News%20-%20Condon.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="334" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBsCiu1UAvDFiaD7ZYCOZCrda8jLNlgOKQh_A27lpHYvQdWMbjiNtyhazQcjXlmsjKjSmeyolUl-rj0lVTuMM4oF_gNBwiT3VyO5kokv_UEm3yQ2_vMFsm9HXJ2oTiJnMjqxTzefYd5-VCoV86LWEn9KzJvd1QwBtBrrHLFdix2C4lIpFQuxepK2f9PU/w293-h399/1969%2001%2011%20Buffalo%20News%20-%20Condon.JPG" width="293" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.4px;">Buffalo News</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: left;">, Jan. 11, 1969</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">NICAP was struggling with declining
membership and financial problems, and in December 1969, the board forced
Keyhoe to retire as director. Things continued to decay under the new
leadership and NICAP was dissolved in 1980.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Donald Keyhoe’s final book was </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Aliens From Space: The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, 1973.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO8jhySU9SGZaKkzt5c6MzCOH53uQ-fTwrnL_w_bRXZX7LuI1Fu0l-emNMB-7mXgzHOpNykURcdNirg5k4bXg6mugcb8YBUeP7KZfxlObFoqmgt7lB3M8amRfUYc-XLhgVUPg8tu-U_Df5sRmrtWDPSLNtUZ_arbWJwtTT-luu-dnLaHai5-VVZ9ixSGA/s567/Aliens%20from%20Space.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="379" height="457" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO8jhySU9SGZaKkzt5c6MzCOH53uQ-fTwrnL_w_bRXZX7LuI1Fu0l-emNMB-7mXgzHOpNykURcdNirg5k4bXg6mugcb8YBUeP7KZfxlObFoqmgt7lB3M8amRfUYc-XLhgVUPg8tu-U_Df5sRmrtWDPSLNtUZ_arbWJwtTT-luu-dnLaHai5-VVZ9ixSGA/w306-h457/Aliens%20from%20Space.JPG" width="306" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">Review from </span><i style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/129130339/debunking-debunkers-from-rich-times-dis/" target="_blank">Richmond Times-Dispatch</a></i><span style="text-align: left;">, Dec. 29, 1973</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Hynek on Keyhoe's Disclosure </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium;">Campaign</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;">In the 1975 book, <b>The
Edge of Reality</b>, Dr. J. Allen Hynek was asked about UFO literature, </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Would you recommend the books by Kehoe?” Hynek
replied with some criticism:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I wouldn't recommend that
myself. When I have a seminar on UFOs </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I do not put that on the reading list, but if a person
wants a sociological perspective he should have it, because Kehoe was very
largely fighting city he. He took as his objective to vilify the Air Force, to
try and get congressional investigations and prove that the Air Force was
covering up. What he should have done, of course, was publish solid technical
reports on cases and then the sheer weight of those would eventually have
toppled the Air Force. But instead he kept importuning congressman and didn't
get anywhere.”</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></p></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"><b>Keyhoe on Flying Saucer Crash-Retrievals</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;">The subject of crashed UFOs came up when Keyhoe appeared on a television
show in 1975, debating UFOs with a colonel in the USAF. Here’s the Toronto,
Canada show listing from </span><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;">The
Ottawa Journal</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;">, March 15, 1975:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;">Sunday 7:30 March 16,
1975 (Channel 6) </span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;">Great Debate</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;"> Resolved: "That Unidentified Flying.
Objects from Outer Space - Exist." Speaking for the motion is Major Donald
Keyhoe, author of several books on the subject of UFOs. His opponent Is Colonel
William T. Coleman, former chief of Public Information for the U.S. Air Force
and a science fiction novelist.</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;"></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;">A recording of the
show was archived in the Faded Discs project by</span><span lang="EN"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;">Wendy Connors, in the collection “Profiles In
Ufology” item no. 20: </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/ProfilesInUfologyMajorDonaldE.KeyhoeDr.JamesE.McDonaldFrankEdwardsGuide/20.mp3" style="font-family: Times, serif;" target="_blank">Major Donald E. Keyhoe and Col. William Coleman, USAF… 41:30</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">When asked about if
any UFOs had been recovered and studied, Keyhoe brought up Silas Newton’s Aztec
saucer story. (30:54 in the recording)</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“There was the story about
the crashed UFOs way down in the southwest and the small beings who were deep frozen.
As far as I’m concerned, you can write that one off. I investigated that for <i>True</i>
magazine, years and years ago. The who men who were putting it out were really
trying to raise some dough. There may have been such a thing that happened, but
I never found <i>any</i> evidence of it.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;">(Keyhoe didn’t mention
the saucer crash tale in his Jan. 1950 <i>True </i>article, but did discuss it in
his first book. He said he’d flown to Denver to investigate, but it “turned out
as expected – a dud…</span><span lang="EN"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;">a big joke. But in spite of this, the ‘little men’ story goes on and on.”)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Recognition from MUFON</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">Ufologist Bob Pratt interviewed Keyhoe by
telephone, “in 1977, 1978 and 1979 for thirty to fifty minutes each time.” See: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051218015337/http://www.bobpratt.org/keyhoe.html" target="_blank">Conversations with Major Keyhoe</a>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">The annual Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Symposium
was held July 29-30, 1978, in Dayton, Ohio. Major Donald E. Keyhoe delivered
the lecture, “Behind the UFO Secrecy," opening with his tenet, “The UFO
cover-up is the greatest deception in the history of the United States.” <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">He was later named to MUFON's board of directors, to recognize his lifetime contributions.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Fgx06Yw6xQqX1ghnrO9dpMBtK524_NOdIP1zLIET4XTAblrI-HYOWgo4fE5aRTe1CzgCD10Wvpnm078dndevhS4katWCNqM1nGMcGYXvlXyS40j9qivaIeEqO7VT3m0hLJgBimizHdMiYOSk8DkA5WZ0-R1lO-AHxdDiKrMTkj9sEfz8bbGlTygoC80/s432/1981%2004%20MUFON%20Journal%20April%201981.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="211" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Fgx06Yw6xQqX1ghnrO9dpMBtK524_NOdIP1zLIET4XTAblrI-HYOWgo4fE5aRTe1CzgCD10Wvpnm078dndevhS4katWCNqM1nGMcGYXvlXyS40j9qivaIeEqO7VT3m0hLJgBimizHdMiYOSk8DkA5WZ0-R1lO-AHxdDiKrMTkj9sEfz8bbGlTygoC80/w267-h548/1981%2004%20MUFON%20Journal%20April%201981.JPG" width="267" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.theblackvault.com/encyclopedia/documents/MUFON/Journals/1981/April_1981.pdf" target="_blank"><i>MUFON Journal</i>, April 1981</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">Throughout the 1980s, Keyhoe was often referred
to in newspapers and occasionally reached for quotes. Major Donald E. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;">Keyhoe died November 29, 1988, at the age of
91. </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">His obituary appeared in the </span><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49213163/donald-edward-keyhoe" style="font-family: Times, serif;" target="_blank"><i>Washington Post</i>, Dec. 2, 1988</a><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg_dK262LKssj_shZmjUcEwz1WXBs-KMtate8Vusnw3F1F9y73taGJaGoMINN89yNdAQxUbaTmcm0lsV4XKHmF0ISk108bkh_WSVWPxaafqynrLOQY5TbeYFGz-L-Fag09TmyEZHjJAviNbgmRgQbocJbgWj-78PUaKBCtofVC6H053vq2NuI8-czOPkw/s473/Keyhoe%20on%20TV.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="473" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg_dK262LKssj_shZmjUcEwz1WXBs-KMtate8Vusnw3F1F9y73taGJaGoMINN89yNdAQxUbaTmcm0lsV4XKHmF0ISk108bkh_WSVWPxaafqynrLOQY5TbeYFGz-L-Fag09TmyEZHjJAviNbgmRgQbocJbgWj-78PUaKBCtofVC6H053vq2NuI8-czOPkw/w408-h308/Keyhoe%20on%20TV.jpg" width="408" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></i></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTlX_6jhezjCbLFK_gf9yrx_Y9fq5nte5LaeGJLRkqFnzmML0wHBRKgSFFzN8U5nj5V-wOei35u87AN9vgQqya8pkB1_66Q0D8ezUubbPko93OHl6tlW9Cs3X7A17qu4vQHFDkGWvUtb0oHG6eyuF4ZgW9bafohTeAPY2wuUFL6mI6-z_P822EmtGMlR4/s360/1988%2012%2007%20Lincoln%20Journal%20Star,%20Dec.%207,%201988.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="120" data-original-width="360" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTlX_6jhezjCbLFK_gf9yrx_Y9fq5nte5LaeGJLRkqFnzmML0wHBRKgSFFzN8U5nj5V-wOei35u87AN9vgQqya8pkB1_66Q0D8ezUubbPko93OHl6tlW9Cs3X7A17qu4vQHFDkGWvUtb0oHG6eyuF4ZgW9bafohTeAPY2wuUFL6mI6-z_P822EmtGMlR4/w400-h134/1988%2012%2007%20Lincoln%20Journal%20Star,%20Dec.%207,%201988.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 20.7px;">Lincoln Journal Star</span></i><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 20.7px; text-align: left;">, Dec. 7, 1988</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div>
Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-51505522323079114082023-08-31T08:30:00.004-05:002023-08-31T09:11:42.247-05:00A Lost UFO Book Discovered<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoy0Vj4eXl9QGUm3NuRI8-lreX3Rz1243JGZjgikzuL_GIwoRPS9nhFP_IUMxZfgLeNfY3kbOKBKi-FdAjchNSFxMCVIo9K-YiHZXnK3uuQWBHkLtjWCUOOo93gkQqTy85nlBVOIpEQSpTlRZDoN1W8f83iHe8QJsSslN-92fbacJgUEFOSUelazUoQOs/w640-h334/The%20Venusians%20-%20Hal%20J.%20Berney.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Venusians</i>, text and images © Harold J. Berney Estate, 1960 and 2023.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoy0Vj4eXl9QGUm3NuRI8-lreX3Rz1243JGZjgikzuL_GIwoRPS9nhFP_IUMxZfgLeNfY3kbOKBKi-FdAjchNSFxMCVIo9K-YiHZXnK3uuQWBHkLtjWCUOOo93gkQqTy85nlBVOIpEQSpTlRZDoN1W8f83iHe8QJsSslN-92fbacJgUEFOSUelazUoQOs/s825/The%20Venusians%20-%20Hal%20J.%20Berney.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The first person convicted to prison for UFO-related crimes was the subject of an in-depth </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">April 9, 2020, article at</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Saucers That Time Forgot</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, “<a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/04/harold-j-berney-fbis-flying-saucer.html" target="_blank">Harold J. Berney: The FBI's Flying Saucer Fugitive</a>.” There’s been a new development, but first, for those who need it, a recap of the UFO-related part of his story. </span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-605f11e5-7fff-1af2-7341-85e371dc7df2" style="font-size: medium;"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/04/harold-j-berney-fbis-flying-saucer.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX3ZaWpg5gGVuKMjiW5_O1Vz-3QdSx24BdFydEEoCENS_4JHqRdJ5gQR7uuvEThIvXSVWjZhcdmOzmeJq3PrW4ohlPrgNg4gbW5vUEuHk6UVrH0I4dk3Kr9rrCNSR7D-ylZuB0iJsWHk8/w640-h334/Harold+J+Berney+Header+2020.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the mid-1950s, </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Harold Jesse</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Berney approached a few individuals and confided that he was working on a top-secret project based on alien technology. Once a prototype was manufactured, the U.S. government contract would guarantee any early investors an enormous return. Hal was an interesting character, charismatic, an inventor, a talented artist, but all of that was overshadowed by his lifelong penchant for fraud. He’s remembered chiefly as a sign painter and swindler. The key thing that led to his downfall and conviction was a book he had written about flying saucers and aliens.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>Berney’s story was the same thing he was telling investors, that he’d been hired by the U.S. government to study the technology of a captured flying saucer. Shortly after setting foot on the craft, he was contacted by an alien and accepted the invitation to go to Venus to learn about their technology. Upon his return, he worked with a major government contractor to build the powerful Magnetic Flux Modulator for the defense of the United States</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In 1956, Berney worked with Pauline E. Goebel, a major investor, a legal secretary by profession. She typed up his story into a 118-page manuscript,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Two Weeks on Venus</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, saved until the Modulator project was no longer secret. When she got word that Berney had died on another trip to Venus, Pauline tried to recoup the investment of her life savings by taking the manuscript to a publisher. After hearing her story, they suggested she call the police because she’d been swindled. From there, the FBI took over, and when they caught Berney, he claimed to be innocent of fraud, the book “just fiction.” To avoid the maximum penalty, on October 3, 1957, Berney agreed to a guilty plea for lesser crimes, two charges of fraud. He spent about three years in prison, and after his release he went back to work as a sign painter in Silver Spring MD, until his death in 1967. Hal’s name stayed out of the papers, and as far as the world knew, he had no other UFO-related activity. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Other than a patent application, none of his drawings, paintings or writings are known to have survived. The sole manuscript for Berney’s </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Two Weeks on Venus </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">was never published, </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">taken by the FBI as evidence in Berney’s trial, afterwards filed with case records</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. UFO historians have never gotten to examine the text to see if it was merely derivative of early 1950 Contactee tales or was an original science fiction story. Depending </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">on years of waiting for a FOIA response seemed the only hope of seeing it. It came as a delightful surprise to learn, "No, there is another." </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>A Warehouse Find</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In August of 2023, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Saucers That Time Forgot</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> received an unexpected message in reply to our 2020 article on Berney. It stated, “I have a copy of the actual draft The Venusians by Hal J Berney… with hand painted art…” I texted the number provided, and the following conversation revealed that the book had been found in a Virginia warehouse (over 100 miles from Berney’s last home) and the owner knew nothing about it, or how it got there. Pictures were also sent, about a dozen photographs of a massive manuscript bound in a scrapbook. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxHGboXO1br9BWQUuO9ohErAQrAk8lPaWGO6x7YGEaZiknaxka1x3oK0tYzabLyByi9aOX0edy9V5-Fh56pPqHfdyhiR78oI4h7RKYarj4C6W687irQO1N85bVRGkH3l-2NhA0i23fLGXjLrILuN_a46VqKpuNDdkG6bzzdPHF-BOEJRtGHXaRKjYmU6w/s765/1%20Cover%20A1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxHGboXO1br9BWQUuO9ohErAQrAk8lPaWGO6x7YGEaZiknaxka1x3oK0tYzabLyByi9aOX0edy9V5-Fh56pPqHfdyhiR78oI4h7RKYarj4C6W687irQO1N85bVRGkH3l-2NhA0i23fLGXjLrILuN_a46VqKpuNDdkG6bzzdPHF-BOEJRtGHXaRKjYmU6w/w536-h640/1%20Cover%20A1.png" width="536" /></a></span></div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>The scrapbook has a hand painted cover of the title, </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>The Venusians</i>, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and the book itself is about 525 (single-sided) pages long, including hand-painted illustrations. The author is listed as Hal J. Bernéy, emphasizing that his last name was pronounced not like burn-ee, but like <i>burr-nay</i>.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Examining the photos of the text and illustrations, it indicates that this was Berney’s second attempt at a book. It was made after his conviction, and some of the paintings were made while he was incarcerated. One of the illustrations includes the year 1960 next to Berney’s signature.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBVCBWmhORivJzacxCs-tpBKPnbHhOa--ROc8ZZj3Kr3VyXydNQWO3ksqIBusTG39jQtB_HJwbyKa57enYxGUV7eKZMSYYjjzlT6AiJvGYPvEkLtBM182fZR2p8gOHz2sKiQXfBxFndGghbprFhT-v6VIeg7mHv1XYlbzgf2dxYBoE8jI3IXQpeEikb-Q/s551/3%20Cover%20art%20A2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="408" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBVCBWmhORivJzacxCs-tpBKPnbHhOa--ROc8ZZj3Kr3VyXydNQWO3ksqIBusTG39jQtB_HJwbyKa57enYxGUV7eKZMSYYjjzlT6AiJvGYPvEkLtBM182fZR2p8gOHz2sKiQXfBxFndGghbprFhT-v6VIeg7mHv1XYlbzgf2dxYBoE8jI3IXQpeEikb-Q/w474-h640/3%20Cover%20art%20A2.png" width="474" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">An introductory page stated:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The Venusians</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A web of uncontrollable circumstances</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This book is the culmination of the controversial manuscript… though at the time was called ‘Two Weeks on Venus’ was merely the outline basis for the now completed book named ‘The Venusians’.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A Fiction Novel by Hal J. Berney”</span></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A following page emphasized the story as presented as a work of fiction:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“There are no true names of persons used in this book. Any similarity to names of persons living or dead is coincidental and not intended as such. The use of names of hotels, corporations, laboratories, Army and Navy personnel, Governments or courts are used fictionally, and do not imply their true connection in any actuality; while the laws in court procedures are correctly stated in a degree in their use, and then surrounded by fiction. The book is written in ambiguous obscureness, and is endowed with intricate, scientific facts. It is felt compulsory by the author to so state here, for his welfare, that the contents of this book are fiction.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Author: Hal J. Berney</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Edited by: Lorene D. Wells”</span></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Venusians</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> was greatly expanded from the tale begun in Berney’s unpublished </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Two Weeks on Venus</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, and the second half of the book continued the story far beyond the events of including his trial for “Conspiring to Defraud through False Pretense.” Harold J. Berney’s character is called “Albert J. Carlton,” and his company, “The Venusian Corporation of America.” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here are a few pages and illustrations from the manuscript that were sent as examples:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTL6FxtWrhkyeTJnXyk5BFXqkMZ_rNlCA8DxnwtchaB-PksXuYU41UxzJJOMoqJ9G4vujPuvYwmbKKhoaUhgPVBtC8BwQoABC_hUGoCcdiOOCvwkJsyopgnx49HSERECXg0gJ4C5u6CcY-e1OAdkbrRb6xDzszUfIR38uydK53j6RW7ON2OuPfFvl625E/s943/6%20-%208%20Illustration%201.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="943" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTL6FxtWrhkyeTJnXyk5BFXqkMZ_rNlCA8DxnwtchaB-PksXuYU41UxzJJOMoqJ9G4vujPuvYwmbKKhoaUhgPVBtC8BwQoABC_hUGoCcdiOOCvwkJsyopgnx49HSERECXg0gJ4C5u6CcY-e1OAdkbrRb6xDzszUfIR38uydK53j6RW7ON2OuPfFvl625E/w640-h414/6%20-%208%20Illustration%201.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Double-page fold out: “Milky Way and our Galaxy Map.”</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: collapse;">Figures approaching to examine a landed flying saucer.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvFV4CjLGBBMpGVcH96_WmYbLTRQA0xlXSrVYP7TdJIh22uMwleAJFnbYuuBKdxoRjw0VLbgv3klTm2hNrbBuIaqmQxfj9PxCk5KbEiRp2-LY-yxi57Wc4JU8noSNFFQ3DisAa6D8e-cOTG0CyrbtdBdnvHP8poxgv5hzBBvbCcdj5fNMxLQ3beW50CL8/s994/8%20-%2019%20Illustration%201.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="994" data-original-width="642" height="688" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvFV4CjLGBBMpGVcH96_WmYbLTRQA0xlXSrVYP7TdJIh22uMwleAJFnbYuuBKdxoRjw0VLbgv3klTm2hNrbBuIaqmQxfj9PxCk5KbEiRp2-LY-yxi57Wc4JU8noSNFFQ3DisAa6D8e-cOTG0CyrbtdBdnvHP8poxgv5hzBBvbCcdj5fNMxLQ3beW50CL8/w445-h688/8%20-%2019%20Illustration%201.jpg" width="445" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: start;">“The ship had a flat concaved circular orbit-like band around the center of its ball shape.”</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />A scene discussing the scientists who would manufacture the Venusian technology on earth.</span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtXiE62qQrZNhQV-naKp-QQcV1EmHz47rjAxojagHvat9KoS0-n9wBHJmOw_OWx_AW6aRr2XcFerX48unKIdc8PrgnwGC8KoptfcMGStSKuEhzPPmBP8KNAtFJJEdk6Ck00xfRQd0x4EAkgKVzkhhUClzwP2CQA9FWqE2vFWSsPkkjYbUAPKJlK3ZddkY/s865/7%20-%2065%20Page%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="865" data-original-width="598" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtXiE62qQrZNhQV-naKp-QQcV1EmHz47rjAxojagHvat9KoS0-n9wBHJmOw_OWx_AW6aRr2XcFerX48unKIdc8PrgnwGC8KoptfcMGStSKuEhzPPmBP8KNAtFJJEdk6Ck00xfRQd0x4EAkgKVzkhhUClzwP2CQA9FWqE2vFWSsPkkjYbUAPKJlK3ZddkY/w442-h640/7%20-%2065%20Page%201.jpg" width="442" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In Berney’s fictionalized trial, The Grand Jury charged Al Carlton of perpetrating:</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“a scheme that disrupted and stagnated the Corporation and its investors and the deliveries of the necessary ships to the United States Government, thus not only depriving the Government, but his investors, and leaving the entire Nation unprotected by the lack of the Venusian ships, and at the mercy of other foreign powers who might obtain the invention from the Defendant.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Xzz7xF5VQdDaLJqknoD--ZHvW2V3AvHWvL1OteiemK6Ub11hZ66QtP_bueGQ6652M6qLYVG2qilJyQ_WbMDLnIm_P4PwI0aZE9deUV0ISibgEQ-N8WVygFEBP1ratkQqwyW16uCHHLeQpvoUHUf5gtymTCCRjqEk8KvTzCUly7iJgkB7LCD567D1DyQ/s976/11%20-%20296%20Illustration%201.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="976" data-original-width="604" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Xzz7xF5VQdDaLJqknoD--ZHvW2V3AvHWvL1OteiemK6Ub11hZ66QtP_bueGQ6652M6qLYVG2qilJyQ_WbMDLnIm_P4PwI0aZE9deUV0ISibgEQ-N8WVygFEBP1ratkQqwyW16uCHHLeQpvoUHUf5gtymTCCRjqEk8KvTzCUly7iJgkB7LCD567D1DyQ/w396-h640/11%20-%20296%20Illustration%201.jpg" width="396" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The “North American Nebula”</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /><span>There wasn’t enough shown to reveal the entire story, but it seems the existence of the Venusians visitors were revealed in some kind of public disclosure. There was a s</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">cene of a crowd of people gathered under a phenomenal night sky. </span></span><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQPYh8FS6Nad3HcNwgAO58fRP15MlZfL3rRR6VogA3fQMiOpNKww7YBH_IU7dTVIYRZZ7CUi7a_V30-v55llElgy3sKwpgoFdaUHIaNkfM9THFh0csHF3IzxJ8xhUzVQT9PLDqgV9d5wjOnN_oCQV_HXIvfcJX5KqehC3pOTexlZ8TTYGQyjqUSkWKHw8/s924/12%20-%20364%20Illustration%201.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="642" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQPYh8FS6Nad3HcNwgAO58fRP15MlZfL3rRR6VogA3fQMiOpNKww7YBH_IU7dTVIYRZZ7CUi7a_V30-v55llElgy3sKwpgoFdaUHIaNkfM9THFh0csHF3IzxJ8xhUzVQT9PLDqgV9d5wjOnN_oCQV_HXIvfcJX5KqehC3pOTexlZ8TTYGQyjqUSkWKHw8/w444-h640/12%20-%20364%20Illustration%201.jpg" width="444" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“As they sat huddled together, the air seemed filled with soft strange music, as if some great choir of thousands of people were singing heavenly praises."</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I AM</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Part of the story involved an ill-fated interplanetary romance. Al Carlton had fallen in love with a Venusian princess, but they were separated by her untimely death. Somehow, after his trial, Berney’s character traveled back to Venus. At the end, Al died in an accident and was buried beside the princess. The closing page describes their bittersweet reunion with a religious acknowledgment of “the great ‘I AM’.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVkKG-UsqeCbqdaSm1g2zZ3vMt1wSl8g1B6kVRpolA0qXNKBEN5ONBuJqScr71RJILUQHOghLodracgliTc2CLHN6I2n2XZpQzKqsvgsI3FOD0Rs3rCwtGkEFXblglId0_F---WUluq3aOGyZWgQq7vCAgPFD63NJWROinXQLCCo7mV_NqvJuVgOqpFFo/s614/13%20-%20525%20Page%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="305" data-original-width="614" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVkKG-UsqeCbqdaSm1g2zZ3vMt1wSl8g1B6kVRpolA0qXNKBEN5ONBuJqScr71RJILUQHOghLodracgliTc2CLHN6I2n2XZpQzKqsvgsI3FOD0Rs3rCwtGkEFXblglId0_F---WUluq3aOGyZWgQq7vCAgPFD63NJWROinXQLCCo7mV_NqvJuVgOqpFFo/w640-h318/13%20-%20525%20Page%201.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There’s been no documentation found, but there seems to be some overlap between Berney and the spiritual Contactees and the I AM followers, even if they were only among his prey in his investment schemes.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lost and Found</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Prior to this discovery, no one had a clue that the book existed. So far, no further information has been found about it, or Lorene D. Wells, the woman who helped Berney produce it. What will happen to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Venusians</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">? The people who found the manuscript contacted me to get information on the author for the purpose of selling it. I gave them the background on Berney and put them in touch with his surviving relatives. Ideally, the manuscript will find a home with Berney’s family, and that scans of the document are made and made available to researchers. As of this writing, t</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">he final fate of the book has yet to be determined.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>. . .</b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Connections? Two Flying Saucer Corporations</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I've been unable to connect Hal Berney to any saucer club, but there was a lot of UFO-related activity nearby. Berney lived in Washington, D.C., but conducted business in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Flying saucer inventor </span><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-life-and-legend-of-otis-t-carr-part_46.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">Otis T. Carr</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">'s home and office was in Baltimore, Maryland, and there’s some interesting similarities between the two. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They both had studied art, but neither of them had a formal education beyond the eighth grade. In the early 1950s, both started developing flying saucer technology, were granted patents for inventions, and incorporated businesses.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">Harold J. Berney’s Telewand Corp. sought investors for his “Magnetic Flux Modulator.”<br />Otis T. Carr’s OTC Enterprises Inc. sought investors for his “Utron Electric Accumulator.”</span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Berney’s Modulator was a box unit that produced "its own power by drawing energy from the atmosphere.” Carr’s Utron produced “free energy” to power “a fourth dimensional space vehicle... the OTC-X1 circular-foil spacecraft.”</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4HX73bM0NSrpfdssbYb4iufFhW7xzj6KdFKKNNXTVdss57qMR1UkT7uM2ML1UCO7A9PrCZ9UEwih_a6XSqmuplALHJBB4t8Kmhdmoav8sTgdYkc3v-lS13M1BMmfBLH6TRkREAHNRQC4/s621/1957+Otis+Utron.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="500" height="441" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4HX73bM0NSrpfdssbYb4iufFhW7xzj6KdFKKNNXTVdss57qMR1UkT7uM2ML1UCO7A9PrCZ9UEwih_a6XSqmuplALHJBB4t8Kmhdmoav8sTgdYkc3v-lS13M1BMmfBLH6TRkREAHNRQC4/w356-h441/1957+Otis+Utron.jpg" width="356" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Carr holding Utron Electric Accumulator, 1957.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Both attracted believers in Contactee lore, but Carr was far more public in recruiting investors. Carr employed a publicist, Margaret Storm (author of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Return of the Dove</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> - </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">a Theosophical biography of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Nikola Tesla as a Venusian). </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Alice Beulah Schutz as a stenographer, and as A.D.K. Luk, she wrote </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Law of Life</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, a book for the “I AM” saucer-related religious cult. Whether through her or another source, Berney was aware of the religion and prominently featured a mention of “I AM” in the closing line of his book.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>A Distinctive Saucer Design</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The typical UFO of the day was pictured like a saucer or an automobile hubcap. Another distinctive saucer design debuted around 1957, a windowless elliptical fuselage ringed by an orbit-like band around its center. In Carr’s colorful spiral-bound pamphlet, published in October 1957, “OTC Enterprises, Inc, Brings You Atoms For Peace,” there was a spectacular illustration of his concept for a </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Fourth Dimensional Space Vehicle.” </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The original art hung in his office and replicas and 17 x22 inch lithographs of the picture were offered to the public.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwM-neOcbPSlsWPFSdu2Nvx86cPNY3-PVm6eJ1sWt0kzGTPhjXDc6PSKz49ifY6Wa0Ew9Dvrf1SGK2LNBV1CZJaL_vrkmTerhiP4lBADAcfJVJmYrOamKXxXPaXrxInEkldXedG9HpI5Tiwa1jTgaRFLA8p8x7DAvBiv_3LJOzSE8a_4pZcboG87Ma2sY/s868/Saucer%20Signature.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="868" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwM-neOcbPSlsWPFSdu2Nvx86cPNY3-PVm6eJ1sWt0kzGTPhjXDc6PSKz49ifY6Wa0Ew9Dvrf1SGK2LNBV1CZJaL_vrkmTerhiP4lBADAcfJVJmYrOamKXxXPaXrxInEkldXedG9HpI5Tiwa1jTgaRFLA8p8x7DAvBiv_3LJOzSE8a_4pZcboG87Ma2sY/w640-h482/Saucer%20Signature.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1957 Carr publicity photo.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span><br /></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The photo of Carr in front of the picture seems to show the artist’s signature in the bottom right corner, but it was cropped out of the published versions. While the identity of the artist is unknown, his space scene and the distinctive flying saucer design look very much like the work of Hal Berney, and an identical design appears on the cover of </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The Venusians</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. B</span><span style="color: #111111; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">erney and Carr’s flying saucers looked like they all came from the same factory on Venus.</span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh35jMIc1V46lgdWgG6pgKHSlUZ3tk_HqoNEDDqnPBORyRisN5WHQw1kaRaiTpDK8w5cErZtPeYOjVpeAWDv20ZLS1QEou6Fysa5eaXKFClJwHoxFyx5K9m317xpqd5mjFo5XOgqiGzBwEYS_V-ILXe0LySemTMJWZcyI3ezld04JZo8SggVTWXXsUrnV8/s901/Saucer%20Comparison.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="901" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh35jMIc1V46lgdWgG6pgKHSlUZ3tk_HqoNEDDqnPBORyRisN5WHQw1kaRaiTpDK8w5cErZtPeYOjVpeAWDv20ZLS1QEou6Fysa5eaXKFClJwHoxFyx5K9m317xpqd5mjFo5XOgqiGzBwEYS_V-ILXe0LySemTMJWZcyI3ezld04JZo8SggVTWXXsUrnV8/w640-h462/Saucer%20Comparison.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Berney was arrested in March 1957 and was sentenced to prison in Oct. (about the time Carr printed the brochure). The book and art apparently began during or after his prison sentence, one picture is dated 1960. Without documentation, all we can say is that it’s possible Berney saw Carr’s saucer and copied it for his book cover. They are too similar in style and design to ascribe to coincidence.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Similar Fates</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Both Berney and Carr were charged with crimes related to their flying saucer investment schemes.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQXg9QmqwVkRA5pg8vIdpyq3BVSJSEVmE3uZ9Hy-xmHCSgQBjEQn0MMR10XNo42oea5iQSBvFNUvt3GxPz9GW4r946FFl40-xOvwpmsg9baZ1yMuvcLV73gkG_R7ah-vL80V6Hk1Lu3Ac/s999/1957+UPI+Mugshot+Crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="999" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQXg9QmqwVkRA5pg8vIdpyq3BVSJSEVmE3uZ9Hy-xmHCSgQBjEQn0MMR10XNo42oea5iQSBvFNUvt3GxPz9GW4r946FFl40-xOvwpmsg9baZ1yMuvcLV73gkG_R7ah-vL80V6Hk1Lu3Ac/w640-h496/1957+UPI+Mugshot+Crop.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9DoWvHgvW3Dg6RN_ji25KhKyuEpqnWcQbQK53AfzTuCyVsEiakRzODv1cBL720P3uYvAUXBJ7TjFK5bWYQnVWVURjVh2m7wqeN15W1gN6fPQ5RliylHMQkrkviIIRRoc2a0kVA6iz6wOOs9FKp5DVTcHjkdGoqrzq3lgHycVIRATzYTC0TZPyiK6e2Ok/s800/Otis%20T.%20Carr%20-%20Jail.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="647" height="786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9DoWvHgvW3Dg6RN_ji25KhKyuEpqnWcQbQK53AfzTuCyVsEiakRzODv1cBL720P3uYvAUXBJ7TjFK5bWYQnVWVURjVh2m7wqeN15W1gN6fPQ5RliylHMQkrkviIIRRoc2a0kVA6iz6wOOs9FKp5DVTcHjkdGoqrzq3lgHycVIRATzYTC0TZPyiK6e2Ok/w637-h786/Otis%20T.%20Carr%20-%20Jail.png" width="637" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Berney and Carr</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> share the rare distinction of being among the few <a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/p/saucer-swindlers.html" target="_blank">Saucer Swindlers</a> to ever serve time behind bars in punishment for their crimes.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/p/saucer-swindlers.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3TapiruLpoQmpQzRaeABIDp02Z-KJxGvgNCtdhHfOlM43YMXhHqaeax5uhK1-NRKELWa0BskKjkuEJawkLiBCKXvA9BARvo02TRuf_hsMIhmmkjhyphenhyphenEVuEODpO79xOWcNl8Wyc7oKjG9ts/w509-h266/Saucer+Swindlers.png" width="509" /></span></a></div>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-90137061652048017252023-08-11T11:02:00.005-05:002023-09-18T07:36:58.321-05:00Alien Attack Unites Humanity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh81IKOH7yJiynSA_id5pwzTR29X9i7Qh3WxWyvGYdBOto0N9RkhD3-_9Wqi3wpJzsqqAGzbDpIntCY9Ho8rWx6P604fIqhlhI3Gj_J3z7fZdnqPXmzwCbAu88Rs4ek3tjEs59OsaB2d31PJ3F_r7rN3JCjT2RcSQWtkYFRFg8gVgeCvBRv5Ank3PEYt4/s825/Alien%20Attack%20Unites%20Humanity.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh81IKOH7yJiynSA_id5pwzTR29X9i7Qh3WxWyvGYdBOto0N9RkhD3-_9Wqi3wpJzsqqAGzbDpIntCY9Ho8rWx6P604fIqhlhI3Gj_J3z7fZdnqPXmzwCbAu88Rs4ek3tjEs59OsaB2d31PJ3F_r7rN3JCjT2RcSQWtkYFRFg8gVgeCvBRv5Ank3PEYt4/w640-h334/Alien%20Attack%20Unites%20Humanity.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” </span></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5590d2be-7fff-69b6-8220-fb772c9d1174"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">That adage dates to the 4th century or before, and it applied to more than individuals. Feuding villages sometimes set aside their differences, uniting when faced by a mutual threat. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Saucers That Time Forgot</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> specializes in examining how UFO-related concepts were born and spread. The timeline below chronicles the development of the idea of an </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">alien</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> threat uniting humanity, with over 30 examples from public figures like science fiction authors, playwrights, sociologists, philosophers, economists, international statesmen, generals, CIA operatives, and U.S. presidents. </span></span></p><h4 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>Timeline: Alien Attack Unites Humanity</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></h4><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1897 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj07SHDGi0Xer2pciY55RwfhEBaABB0xUiRO9rC5JgKAj8X-IHhsfqPf9t--X02F6_u05b-OCImoyPE2P7B9WUKHMUfFefr2Z6nlXbmMLEJOP1ImPLEPV2SowsRTv8dyN8657CbgYCBNb20YsSTS9Pahk8d_cFnuvGNqYrk_InsVi4AgmPQKstFrDOT-BE/s1024/Herbert%20George%20Wells.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj07SHDGi0Xer2pciY55RwfhEBaABB0xUiRO9rC5JgKAj8X-IHhsfqPf9t--X02F6_u05b-OCImoyPE2P7B9WUKHMUfFefr2Z6nlXbmMLEJOP1ImPLEPV2SowsRTv8dyN8657CbgYCBNb20YsSTS9Pahk8d_cFnuvGNqYrk_InsVi4AgmPQKstFrDOT-BE/w200-h200/Herbert%20George%20Wells.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ktd3Dx4WScCdnyThLlMzMZlNhy3TmsBqUyCQ8M2GeZrFFYH6g_iry2zjYiT5WmkQ8JHdSgYbj_3nqPCfo-FLW7DWaWPJSVOjCpGUNCFGzu8e_UnoCQzS8lA-5JumC6zPPlBLAp_Pju5DYnclbJmGLZYQwW3qY3jJgmE6rqkTjMkL87Q95a2UbHyWM64/s531/War%20of%20the%20Worlds.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="291" data-original-width="531" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ktd3Dx4WScCdnyThLlMzMZlNhy3TmsBqUyCQ8M2GeZrFFYH6g_iry2zjYiT5WmkQ8JHdSgYbj_3nqPCfo-FLW7DWaWPJSVOjCpGUNCFGzu8e_UnoCQzS8lA-5JumC6zPPlBLAp_Pju5DYnclbJmGLZYQwW3qY3jJgmE6rqkTjMkL87Q95a2UbHyWM64/w400-h219/War%20of%20the%20Worlds.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span><br /><i>The War of the Worlds</i></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, the 1897 novel by H.G. Wells, was not the first alien invasion story, but it established the concept of an otherworldly threat causing the people of earth to unite.</span></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Did [Martians] grasp that we in our millions were organized, disciplined, working together? … Never before in the history of the world had such a mass of human beings moved and suffered together.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Wells' epilogue was more optimistic:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“It may be that in the larger design of the universe this invasion from Mars is not without its ultimate benefit for men… it has done much to promote the conception of the commonweal of mankind.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">An unauthorized lesser-known sequel traded on that idea. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the 1898 novel,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19141/19141-h/19141-h.htm" target="_blank">Edison's Conquest of Mars</a>,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> by Garrett P. Serviss, earth scientists use the technology from the fallen Martian war machines to strike back at Mars to prevent another invasion. To do it, a “great congress of the nations” comes together:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmX5ICNYsjPeqwl-N1Vycz7Oo0tr3UfpmtjGF8vCGoDR3l8b8NFtHqMY0qfjUTksAVj6jl5XMafRbkfFQ_hTFJj0RoMcVjr2b7uZPZ3WsO7x5z-mmPPNfKr_yJg2J5XMdXj5gEZY2jP5lRL56YJLMRZNgaDb7vPustTtSIqTUbhx8iyuY5kquQAjir7aE/s640/Edison's%20Conquest%20of%20Mars.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="640" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmX5ICNYsjPeqwl-N1Vycz7Oo0tr3UfpmtjGF8vCGoDR3l8b8NFtHqMY0qfjUTksAVj6jl5XMafRbkfFQ_hTFJj0RoMcVjr2b7uZPZ3WsO7x5z-mmPPNfKr_yJg2J5XMdXj5gEZY2jP5lRL56YJLMRZNgaDb7vPustTtSIqTUbhx8iyuY5kquQAjir7aE/w540-h378/Edison's%20Conquest%20of%20Mars.png" width="540" /></span></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“The salvation of the planet… depended upon the successful negotiation of a gigantic war fund... The electrical ships and the vibration engines must be constructed by scores and thousands. ... All the nations, then, must now conjoin... unite their resources...” </span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1914 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>Nations were anything but united. World War I started in 1914 and lingered into the early 1920s.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1917 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmSLkg8I4vXkhGMAuVS9UPh5i2aW0bHPqBemYYpgDiD7ps494RPZK9b1taBjtC5OOrj0bPiCrDotNFkylYHZLNUwZaf79NYy3UtsJC_NHJeN1rZe3_AsvPcbefpgT-sg8lf2tbTCy7lGGiqhcHnHkxtEzeHTv1ULUIXxJUAfWmY7xxk0skfwAECtV_Oho/s402/John%20Dewey.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="402" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmSLkg8I4vXkhGMAuVS9UPh5i2aW0bHPqBemYYpgDiD7ps494RPZK9b1taBjtC5OOrj0bPiCrDotNFkylYHZLNUwZaf79NYy3UtsJC_NHJeN1rZe3_AsvPcbefpgT-sg8lf2tbTCy7lGGiqhcHnHkxtEzeHTv1ULUIXxJUAfWmY7xxk0skfwAECtV_Oho/w200-h200/John%20Dewey.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />John Dewey, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, opened his remarks at the reception for Japanese diplomat Viscount Kikujiro Ishii in New York City, by saying:</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Someone remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with a sense of their unity of interest and purpose..."</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(Documented in the 1918 book, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://archive.org/stream/imperialjapanes01clargoog#page/n116/mode/2up" target="_blank">The Imperial Japanese Mission, 1917</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.) </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1918-1920 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, the Great War prompted H. G. Wells to write about the need for a League of Nations to preserve world peace. It became a reality in Jan. 1920 at the Paris Peace Conference that formally ended WW I. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1926 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Harold Stewart’s prize-winning 1926 speech, “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Messenger_of_Peace/srcKAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA205&printsec=frontcover " target="_blank">Powers for Peace</a>,” stated:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“If the war God, Mars, were suddenly to descend upon this earth with the purpose of destroying humanity, irrespective of nationality, all peoples of earth would unite to overthrow their common foe.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1927 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz35xlgzBR0M2bxDjjCPaOpRg0xd4-cwIB5mgBbft-tvIJwihUK4VUsPCu48SCgwsh_-z-Sk7egnpWaatqCVjEk47tJtgzXBZxQlFZpfsukPEBXdBDG-3d2chYnP2tVcJ_hJhRrwloG4T6Du3b4lnYaizxvr2vwGpdccQoHY1tRelEzZbW1lbhLo1Q46I/s620/Andr%C3%A9%20Maurois.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="500" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz35xlgzBR0M2bxDjjCPaOpRg0xd4-cwIB5mgBbft-tvIJwihUK4VUsPCu48SCgwsh_-z-Sk7egnpWaatqCVjEk47tJtgzXBZxQlFZpfsukPEBXdBDG-3d2chYnP2tVcJ_hJhRrwloG4T6Du3b4lnYaizxvr2vwGpdccQoHY1tRelEzZbW1lbhLo1Q46I/w161-h200/Andr%C3%A9%20Maurois.jpg" width="161" /></a></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The concept, perhaps born in fiction, made its way back, with the alien threat being hoaxed, or a “false flag" attack. <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andre-Maurois" target="_blank">André Maurois </a>wrote the 1927 novella, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.17880/page/n7/mode/2up" target="_blank">The Next Chapter: The War Against the Moon</a></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, was set in the far future, the early 1960s. In the aftermath of World Wars, the earth is a peaceful but dull place. A cabal of newspaper barons concoct a war against the supposedly uninhabited Moon to reinvigorate mankind by uniting it against a common enemy. Their 3-step plan:</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBZcZ0OkgWzIZEX-EZUtN9opZ1g7pJpaQI022dDBqstgIR9Eb-2aMHmy17QmWrXj_LWd3Ges41yl5_-Fmf4g_r_imwPgtvXWibLCwRdFOSutoK_n5emk0h40GRmY97Qe46-eU6z5avNt34Sym8h0RBsEtu9lgI9lLEU4BNP8Z5JteaoC9sYnYacn_s9WU/s453/1928%20War%20Against%20the%20Moon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="358" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBZcZ0OkgWzIZEX-EZUtN9opZ1g7pJpaQI022dDBqstgIR9Eb-2aMHmy17QmWrXj_LWd3Ges41yl5_-Fmf4g_r_imwPgtvXWibLCwRdFOSutoK_n5emk0h40GRmY97Qe46-eU6z5avNt34Sym8h0RBsEtu9lgI9lLEU4BNP8Z5JteaoC9sYnYacn_s9WU/w316-h400/1928%20War%20Against%20the%20Moon.jpg" width="316" /></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Since they control the news, the public believes their reports of attacks. Earth fires an energy ray weapon at the Moon fight back. In an unfortunate twist, the Moon is inhabited and retaliates, burning four cites to ashes. “The era of Inter-Planetary War had begun.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1938-1946 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles directed and narrated an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The War of the Worlds</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> for the Mercury Theatre on CBS Radio. The story was moved to the present day, all the action took place in the USA, and it was presented as a typical radio program interrupted by urgent news bulletins. The part about uniting mankind was left out, but with the anticipation of a war, some listeners believed the Martian invasion was real. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgorzVIdCX8zEQxcY_l1yQsFTpUuOapxeqpv5MbHUTpE4NhC3fz3sHdFIaCfO-dkJhRFHFD4YENng9ZVH8aqlqYHwZ2-2fIHJu5pMsHQcPWcO56hpwnGpr4mYRrfTOtv0NlcD6zN0uAQgk92KCKowrAi9YxXwyqhZAi2qGleGKR8mKUXENohi1LX7q109Y/s748/1946%20United%20Nations.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="748" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgorzVIdCX8zEQxcY_l1yQsFTpUuOapxeqpv5MbHUTpE4NhC3fz3sHdFIaCfO-dkJhRFHFD4YENng9ZVH8aqlqYHwZ2-2fIHJu5pMsHQcPWcO56hpwnGpr4mYRrfTOtv0NlcD6zN0uAQgk92KCKowrAi9YxXwyqhZAi2qGleGKR8mKUXENohi1LX7q109Y/w400-h364/1946%20United%20Nations.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br />World War II showed that the League of Nations had failed, and it came to an end. Near the end of the war, allies agreed to try again and established the United Nations (UN) in 1946 with the goal of preventing further world wars and the use of atomic weapons. </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrNixi2lpxRRD1lwY_lVH1G5jQhkbrOB-JlCNX0ObYCIpqsCLSYIWk3WW1TuO4T_XkaGy3SwnoeMaKXUILpHYE9BCBBOLx5tuBdOPYKA3UPbba8UzlEBrw--2qzpSvpsdi95Ao-tdYcFgZ7tN8nRoRpJYcQXDqMZe4FDsqfZh3RD8LyeEZRrohT02SHFg/s726/One%20World%20Or%20None.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="726" data-original-width="568" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrNixi2lpxRRD1lwY_lVH1G5jQhkbrOB-JlCNX0ObYCIpqsCLSYIWk3WW1TuO4T_XkaGy3SwnoeMaKXUILpHYE9BCBBOLx5tuBdOPYKA3UPbba8UzlEBrw--2qzpSvpsdi95Ao-tdYcFgZ7tN8nRoRpJYcQXDqMZe4FDsqfZh3RD8LyeEZRrohT02SHFg/w313-h400/One%20World%20Or%20None.JPG" width="313" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />In 1946, the Federation of American (Atomic) Scientists published the book, <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://oneworld.fas.org/fulltext.pdf" target="_blank">One World Or None</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, a collection of essays by scientists including E.U. Condon, Albert Einstein, and J.R. Oppenheimer on the universal dangers posed by atomic bombs. Niels Boer wrote in the foreword: “Civilization is presented with a challenge more serious perhaps than ever before, and the fate of humanity will depend on its ability to unite in averting common dangers…” <span><!--more--></span></span></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx5va9bdclUDNx1gUHO0VOWl0XVrnKG7zoMzWneJQ9naJXWTJFBob-GXQo79Ex0DYrZ8SXSyW107-TclPMBDOVw0vTYUAEszrxWJT-MJzZAoOgbt4O1L4PDw8xXR7nJn0bMOfBSJahwJ2flVm-9olMxljmU983Pk-lgAvnPoIorvyx_2mikAATsYmxN3g/s282/Arthur%20Kestler.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="149" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx5va9bdclUDNx1gUHO0VOWl0XVrnKG7zoMzWneJQ9naJXWTJFBob-GXQo79Ex0DYrZ8SXSyW107-TclPMBDOVw0vTYUAEszrxWJT-MJzZAoOgbt4O1L4PDw8xXR7nJn0bMOfBSJahwJ2flVm-9olMxljmU983Pk-lgAvnPoIorvyx_2mikAATsYmxN3g/s1600/Arthur%20Kestler.JPG" width="149" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggtqEsu69KSrVv8x9_eK01Gml2LkfYZBUD-Z9Gl3m6y43CvDx_uTWFf_IjDaE6NJbfO29KU4sPsmUOci3yP0LtDgz1ov9zzWjr4ijw-6bpFUBc-RgTw283e8pM466PWxVv2zVKc0bkL35i_HTqlKiV-PMXgo7YWHM5Cd1xtuje9XiummDVWxjOdyghRO8/s436/Twilight%20Bar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="300" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggtqEsu69KSrVv8x9_eK01Gml2LkfYZBUD-Z9Gl3m6y43CvDx_uTWFf_IjDaE6NJbfO29KU4sPsmUOci3yP0LtDgz1ov9zzWjr4ijw-6bpFUBc-RgTw283e8pM466PWxVv2zVKc0bkL35i_HTqlKiV-PMXgo7YWHM5Cd1xtuje9XiummDVWxjOdyghRO8/w202-h294/Twilight%20Bar.jpg" width="202" /></a></div><br />World happiness, not peace, was at stake in <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Twilight Bar</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, a satirical 1945 play (and book) by Arthur Koestler (originally conceived in 1933). The story is confined to an island republic where two aliens, Alpha and Omega, have come from afar by a spaceship on a mission of judgment from the Interplanetary Federation. They need our planet for a new civilization, and the miserable inhabitants of Earth will be exterminated in three days – unless they become happy. People are motivated to become happy – until word circulates that the aliens are frauds, and people revert to their old ways. The audience is left in suspense whether the aliens were real as the deadline of midnight draws near. </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1947</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">June 24, 1947, launched flying saucer fever, but months before that, public figures were speculating about men from Mars. </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcGbnPdwCAHgDj4YXay9o3grbBJO99gpMIXFQC35Bsd6gxNLXlQ28IPEts4V1Z_drk5e2L6iKSMkbG6JrO26NmGAkY5FQfXcnZLLWiQx_YNAu4UnVtLOMKZz6csxnzWy40SSpAbrZ3PWQt5ShQgJr0NN7CTN948idcEEX_khDLJsu8dGtGk-oHdm4HFRM/s483/Anthony%20Eden.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="391" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcGbnPdwCAHgDj4YXay9o3grbBJO99gpMIXFQC35Bsd6gxNLXlQ28IPEts4V1Z_drk5e2L6iKSMkbG6JrO26NmGAkY5FQfXcnZLLWiQx_YNAu4UnVtLOMKZz6csxnzWy40SSpAbrZ3PWQt5ShQgJr0NN7CTN948idcEEX_khDLJsu8dGtGk-oHdm4HFRM/w162-h200/Anthony%20Eden.JPG" width="162" /></a></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">British Foreign Secretary <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/eden_anthony.shtml" target="_blank">Anthony Eden</a> gave the speech, “<a href="http://airminded.org/2006/12/10/great-minds/ " target="_blank">Living on the Same Main Street</a>,” on March 1, 1947,</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">at a United Nations Association rally at the Albert Hall in London. He spoke about how technology made the world a smaller and deadlier place:</span></span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“…a future conflict, with the added horror of modern weapons, may seal the doom of the human race. The choice is as simple as that. Suspicions, jealousies, even hostility, are as easy to engender between nations as between neighbours. Sometimes I think the people of this distracted planet will never really get together until they find someone in Mars to get mad against.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The speech was <span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">quoted in UK papers such as </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The Times</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, March 3, 1947, p. 6, and in the USA in the Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1947, p.1. The full text of it was later published in </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">United Nations News</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> magazine.<span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdRdxvF0BNP6bjy2eEZ6cyjumP6iuRMrybEti8p8ozb_ciRi1sNeFsYmBmJQgXE45sKZM1xEQK5ec2eipcTJaM32We6mrEQoBLIbeudSw78ctpaSqI23ZOspH0QEZgR7IlhglrfZkL-COEK8vuzQB6s9jFONQR2DTA_I7yjDUHSrJLFSN9lP7cEuIfeck/s355/Sydney%20J.%20Harris.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="236" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdRdxvF0BNP6bjy2eEZ6cyjumP6iuRMrybEti8p8ozb_ciRi1sNeFsYmBmJQgXE45sKZM1xEQK5ec2eipcTJaM32We6mrEQoBLIbeudSw78ctpaSqI23ZOspH0QEZgR7IlhglrfZkL-COEK8vuzQB6s9jFONQR2DTA_I7yjDUHSrJLFSN9lP7cEuIfeck/w121-h182/Sydney%20J.%20Harris.JPG" width="121" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggqEiiYq0MAApEIea9tNaXt9tBm42g_DIUO1gP5EjLwIf0s9x7ZrRzprzozNFKUS-uXeFXriZeKGWPYFHhI_541ph56kJrJue4UrjdQ6pW1hhBg4UUGINtPIfImwdCq9xOwaPHm7Pke4oJZLiMmzt-nGcbgIfUrhu3dC8xYtteePnx-yZD4qTx4dOIetM/s330/1947%20Harris.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="130" data-original-width="330" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggqEiiYq0MAApEIea9tNaXt9tBm42g_DIUO1gP5EjLwIf0s9x7ZrRzprzozNFKUS-uXeFXriZeKGWPYFHhI_541ph56kJrJue4UrjdQ6pW1hhBg4UUGINtPIfImwdCq9xOwaPHm7Pke4oJZLiMmzt-nGcbgIfUrhu3dC8xYtteePnx-yZD4qTx4dOIetM/w393-h155/1947%20Harris.jpg" width="393" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Sydney J. Harris wrote in his syndicated column “Strictly Personal,” (appearing in such papers as the </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Waterloo Daily Courier</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> and The Ottawa Citizen) (Canada, and the </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Waterloo Daily Courier</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">) on May 23, 1947:</span></p></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Our only hope is that life does exist on Mars. … How do you suppose everyone down here would feel about it? We’d be scared silly… We’d be forced to prepare a plan against a possible invasion from these aliens. … All factionalism and nationalism would be forgotten in the common defense against those frightening Martians …All it would take is the threat of another inhabited world to make this world recognize how dependent all of us are on one another. …Come on, men from Mars, we’re waiting for you."<span style="font-weight: 700;"> <span><!--more--></span></span></span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnPV9mXs-A2ybYnXTYm1GBYb3ezjU4Fi0BUnDc5TivuqdBpjsn-_fS0jxbRZfuqBdtNJVvu3r5Hz5SuOpHbHUZMJw_KI4QI0PB445mk80WNPCgl7hAjFt_jI-Ae0pqB-e1j47wk5hr6KTs0Ap_pk9m5FmT_QwyEXC4L1zleasYLptzvdv0vl9jWUVv678/s560/Glen%20H.%20Taylor.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="544" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnPV9mXs-A2ybYnXTYm1GBYb3ezjU4Fi0BUnDc5TivuqdBpjsn-_fS0jxbRZfuqBdtNJVvu3r5Hz5SuOpHbHUZMJw_KI4QI0PB445mk80WNPCgl7hAjFt_jI-Ae0pqB-e1j47wk5hr6KTs0Ap_pk9m5FmT_QwyEXC4L1zleasYLptzvdv0vl9jWUVv678/w194-h200/Glen%20H.%20Taylor.JPG" width="194" /></a></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Senator Glen H. Taylor (Dem. OH) is the first one known to explicitly tie the concept to flying saucers: "Taylor said he almost hoped flying saucers would turn out to be space ships from another planet. He said the ‘mere possibility’ that they might be hostile would ‘unify the peoples of the earth as nothing else could’.” -- </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Milwaukee Journal</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 9, 1947 </span></span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1948 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFAqApFWQt018vPqI35OTllOFo-bkHVz6ZnkgG4MTG16CIs4f7bOjlbU3N6S_aQtKU-QYxqQggqUzfqNdJwleygTK5PeyW5_Amj19QDKdeWWsmoYeT1GAq4pc87viZnep-pcY1qeNkQhS_cW1ogTjJWrMkWIBfhM3PQdc6JWjF3r9KCQze9U8rSD9a24g/s399/Bernard%20Newman.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="350" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFAqApFWQt018vPqI35OTllOFo-bkHVz6ZnkgG4MTG16CIs4f7bOjlbU3N6S_aQtKU-QYxqQggqUzfqNdJwleygTK5PeyW5_Amj19QDKdeWWsmoYeT1GAq4pc87viZnep-pcY1qeNkQhS_cW1ogTjJWrMkWIBfhM3PQdc6JWjF3r9KCQze9U8rSD9a24g/w176-h200/Bernard%20Newman.JPG" width="176" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7g8Z0bBfvYJXbD7u2B1k1ql2MVtwS1814Fp4y6f3zqqYg7lZ00IJ5Zop2TItOsPSvTUeEtq3GFOS728RyZlDSkwQxYzJiBvF56dlDvny6Pwr82V3nJNL7fFKeMYP4uFACBafejvMM93zdo8aF_GX1weptUEHkUwJNMYGhicsPyiCQBlfpba_FHrtio3g/s688/Bernard%20Newman%20-%20The%20Flying%20Saucer.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="459" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7g8Z0bBfvYJXbD7u2B1k1ql2MVtwS1814Fp4y6f3zqqYg7lZ00IJ5Zop2TItOsPSvTUeEtq3GFOS728RyZlDSkwQxYzJiBvF56dlDvny6Pwr82V3nJNL7fFKeMYP4uFACBafejvMM93zdo8aF_GX1weptUEHkUwJNMYGhicsPyiCQBlfpba_FHrtio3g/w266-h400/Bernard%20Newman%20-%20The%20Flying%20Saucer.JPG" width="266" /></a></div><br /><br />The Flying Saucer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> novel by Bernard Newman debuted in June 1948 in the UK, later printed in the USA in Jan. 1950. Newman’s book was remarkable in several ways, chiefly that it was the first one written on flying saucers, and to explore the impact of an extraterrestrial threat on our societies and governments. Newman cited André Maurois’ story as inspiration and had a character react to Sir Anthony Eden’s comments, “Interesting... but not novel. Mr. Eden did not claim it as such. It has often been used previously.” It inspires scientists to stage a few saucer crashes with rockets to sell the idea of an alien invasion. They plant a phony Martian in one, a fake body made from exotic animal parts that will defy analysis after being destroyed on impact. As the novel closes, the world is on a peaceful course. “In general, our plan goes smoothly.” </span></span><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNhHVM8Y225zkKXvU9R0LfZ0FCHFlimTepGZJ66Ptxjyeqj2UGcKF4xcepFwRBlDM5fG2yRw4WxQPsy2-aRZj2aEIrLFNgOhS5UHbnHfca7Lqcz4KI8YYfsoyBztBMDGzZrflzjn3dDNR2L9hgB4kLvfJCTeSMnxHA4IW8IT7oj4PKH2bRKfC7PnIA1Mg/s663/Bernard%20Newman%20-%20The%20Flying%20Saucer%20Illustrations.png" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="663" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNhHVM8Y225zkKXvU9R0LfZ0FCHFlimTepGZJ66Ptxjyeqj2UGcKF4xcepFwRBlDM5fG2yRw4WxQPsy2-aRZj2aEIrLFNgOhS5UHbnHfca7Lqcz4KI8YYfsoyBztBMDGzZrflzjn3dDNR2L9hgB4kLvfJCTeSMnxHA4IW8IT7oj4PKH2bRKfC7PnIA1Mg/w640-h290/Bernard%20Newman%20-%20The%20Flying%20Saucer%20Illustrations.png" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Illustrations from the 1949 serialization in the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Sunday Herald</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Sydney, Australia </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In his 1948 nonfiction book, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">News from the East</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Newman wrote: </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Mr. Eden set me off when he mentioned in a speech that it seemed the nations of the world were only united when fighting against something - what we really needed was an attack from Mars to bring in all together.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><!--more--><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwRzxsrs7sr_y2LTHuXkqK62Kda1FCC4oYUOlv8eVHrE5eP3ZMB_NOfLxBr8eIcNQ-QwVw1QDnAkCleIVL6yAuGnZiaA2Fm05UBbbwzSZTKrHjkxxZ_P5yXhNtLlxO0FbwM9CEgrwY4tIEcjKwFADBB1NuaGuMODFHGENxf2e8rdNj-yVH4drECtwr0co/s300/Theodore%20Sturgeon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="300" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwRzxsrs7sr_y2LTHuXkqK62Kda1FCC4oYUOlv8eVHrE5eP3ZMB_NOfLxBr8eIcNQ-QwVw1QDnAkCleIVL6yAuGnZiaA2Fm05UBbbwzSZTKrHjkxxZ_P5yXhNtLlxO0FbwM9CEgrwY4tIEcjKwFADBB1NuaGuMODFHGENxf2e8rdNj-yVH4drECtwr0co/w200-h181/Theodore%20Sturgeon.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMoJtz1Wok-dyNiUDyIEd2FYsamS3X0QI4-Ntd_M_2KZC05Mw-e6kfhALuilD-ArIKOFCJ290lgnMQAhib7i6fagBN_v4BNPiLD5GsDw88TXXQrG6Qa_asLjO2kfihCwVoK4rL25VFWvyxXYBheLuP6dnSNWB_HHpplpXfqtlU7M8qRVQRiC03P79Og80/s439/1948%20Unite%20and%20Conquer.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="199" data-original-width="439" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMoJtz1Wok-dyNiUDyIEd2FYsamS3X0QI4-Ntd_M_2KZC05Mw-e6kfhALuilD-ArIKOFCJ290lgnMQAhib7i6fagBN_v4BNPiLD5GsDw88TXXQrG6Qa_asLjO2kfihCwVoK4rL25VFWvyxXYBheLuP6dnSNWB_HHpplpXfqtlU7M8qRVQRiC03P79Og80/s320/1948%20Unite%20and%20Conquer.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Theodore Sturgeon wrote “<a href="https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v42n02_1948-10_cape1736/page/n61/mode/2up " target="_blank">Unite and Conque</a>r” for </span>Astounding Science Fiction</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Oct. 1948. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A scientific genius uses technology (including several unmanned spy drones) to simulate an alien invasion. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The dialogue credits the scheme's inspiration:</span></span></div><div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[H.G.] Wells pointed out, mostly indirectly, that only a miracle could make humans work together…. a common enemy — the Martian invasion, for example. Now, that makes sense. It did then and it does now.” </span></span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1949 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">“X the Unknown," was a science fiction story by
Edwin P. Hicks published in </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Collier’s</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> magazine, Feb. 12, 1949. The
setting is a Utopian earth of 3051, with the characters reminiscing how centuries
ago, “the Russians were the bad boys who were going to blow us off the earth
with atomic bombs. The poor devils had the same kind of nightmares about [us].
The world might have been blown up, too, but for the arrival of that first
spaceship from Mercury… and that saved the world. Undoubtedly! We Earthians
started thinking constructively then instead of destructively.”</span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-YTYRdZepxpbNBiHhYrHrAdz04_gMcCGyqB3nCPvAJRo6YYfM1vHgFN9GtG7nXmRw0qt89Ho32hSFNir-skw0cV3vRnwIW5YEnJeTUHIfuHqosxAC6AzLRWeICMpkclUTAmqF2us1qLsedQXQxpuF1Xf-avRIS-RNxPoSvReWdgF_fMiE5QGbcnCSki0/s553/1949%20Collier's%20X%20the%20Unknown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="433" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-YTYRdZepxpbNBiHhYrHrAdz04_gMcCGyqB3nCPvAJRo6YYfM1vHgFN9GtG7nXmRw0qt89Ho32hSFNir-skw0cV3vRnwIW5YEnJeTUHIfuHqosxAC6AzLRWeICMpkclUTAmqF2us1qLsedQXQxpuF1Xf-avRIS-RNxPoSvReWdgF_fMiE5QGbcnCSki0/w502-h640/1949%20Collier's%20X%20the%20Unknown.jpg" width="502" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_THxNmrn9H20Exhe55nsfn2myjDgZUVvecwJ71WlplLZjgGkxCxPo3MDhlRSDlPgWAoY_-V42B6He3-zOsHTE8xyJjRsS5HJ0BmScNduy8-B5u7hsST_je996ckC0KO6az35JF7uc31jLNmkHj5nrTCuE7TDKnC8HXhFFoH9840SRwKIHmv9cKXK3T1U/s517/11169072_10204797498602938_1365358184508474804_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="386" height="455" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_THxNmrn9H20Exhe55nsfn2myjDgZUVvecwJ71WlplLZjgGkxCxPo3MDhlRSDlPgWAoY_-V42B6He3-zOsHTE8xyJjRsS5HJ0BmScNduy8-B5u7hsST_je996ckC0KO6az35JF7uc31jLNmkHj5nrTCuE7TDKnC8HXhFFoH9840SRwKIHmv9cKXK3T1U/w340-h455/11169072_10204797498602938_1365358184508474804_n.jpg" width="340" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The story was reprinted in <i>25 Short Short Stories
from Collier’s</i>, a 1-shot digest magazine published in 1953, edited by
journalist Bob Considine, cover and interior illustrations by Ed Emshwiller.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9r7WmalUXwvlSCih_aTKjkfjoBiaH9cMWuPfWTelyH_ekkHAjUs4njjRJiFwjyMYY3AF-jp1D86rvjSWwysMZD6ck8mXhSp8jHHFg_nOmCrft9fMOQXXMApS3_-hetFSDoZYtiMQYy4/s695/GiuE8JJXZcRI.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="695" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9r7WmalUXwvlSCih_aTKjkfjoBiaH9cMWuPfWTelyH_ekkHAjUs4njjRJiFwjyMYY3AF-jp1D86rvjSWwysMZD6ck8mXhSp8jHHFg_nOmCrft9fMOQXXMApS3_-hetFSDoZYtiMQYy4/w400-h265/GiuE8JJXZcRI.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">“<a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-outer-limit-by-graham-doar-ufo.html" target="_blank">The Outer Limit</a>” by Graham Doar was a short story published in </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The Saturday Evening Post</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> on December 24, 1949. It doesn’t exactly fit our model, but it’s closely related and influential. A U.S. test pilot is abducted by aliens in a flying saucer. They are from the peace-loving "Brotherhood of Worlds," which has outlawed war and atomic weapons. They give him a warning to share with the planet. "Catalyst X" has been deployed, and upon detecting radiation from atomic bomb tests it will turn the Earth into “roaring ball of flame.” The pilot delivers the message, but they think he’s crazy. Still, they wonder, just what would happen to the world if his story about the aliens got out?</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1950 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Life</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> magazine, Jan. 9, 1950, editorials section, page 24, “Out of This World,” commented on various space stories, addressing stories of flying saucers from outer space, and of a radio story about a downed saucer with little men.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Well, suppose the flying discs were the forerunners of a potential invader from a planet far to the east of Pluto. Could any other news be more likely to unify the earth? faced with a common menace from interstellar space, the divided nations would come together just like that.”</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSGHeuRTOOML1rSUyVy1cH0w9Rm6SKnuLyKqgexk2U-N04KjiiED-6Z6LewZuI15LYziy7txDgfb88hf-SD_StFyq93XAXilaVFd0irLr0s6P_nF-X7gKdX54XWT2fN4dFSqveDeBrYhFzhLZTToFFFTqEZZIHtkDUzZF4pE_VZcRnC1XmyvGUIWw1NjE/s715/1952%201%2009%20Life%20magazine%20Out%20of%20this%20World%20-%20Unify%20Earth.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="608" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSGHeuRTOOML1rSUyVy1cH0w9Rm6SKnuLyKqgexk2U-N04KjiiED-6Z6LewZuI15LYziy7txDgfb88hf-SD_StFyq93XAXilaVFd0irLr0s6P_nF-X7gKdX54XWT2fN4dFSqveDeBrYhFzhLZTToFFFTqEZZIHtkDUzZF4pE_VZcRnC1XmyvGUIWw1NjE/w544-h640/1952%201%2009%20Life%20magazine%20Out%20of%20this%20World%20-%20Unify%20Earth.JPG" width="544" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=T0AEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA24&dq=flying%20saucer&pg=PA24#v=onepage&q&f=false " target="_blank"><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Life</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> magazine, Jan. 9, 1950
</span></span></a><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><!--more-->----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfYFbJAagMlTsfuwJBYAuxokXvSbu7DS1ikRFoLHNH5hCfeaG1jLFB_LsySHYjxCF1YKfaoNAdlANJ7nPtcT-_QXPVqATbtUrqq-ku88UvObudgxzX3eYjy2Fy-68NeeOYiqiXP99e0Y9xZ8BI6nk2M4UYcmS1LzdTfIYVe2y3KGTYX3xiocf-LERro-A/s402/Daniel%20V.%20Gallery.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="402" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfYFbJAagMlTsfuwJBYAuxokXvSbu7DS1ikRFoLHNH5hCfeaG1jLFB_LsySHYjxCF1YKfaoNAdlANJ7nPtcT-_QXPVqATbtUrqq-ku88UvObudgxzX3eYjy2Fy-68NeeOYiqiXP99e0Y9xZ8BI6nk2M4UYcmS1LzdTfIYVe2y3KGTYX3xiocf-LERro-A/w200-h174/Daniel%20V.%20Gallery.JPG" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Rear Admiral D. V. Gallery wrote “<a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_saturday-evening-post_1950-09-30_223_14/page/n21/mode/2up" target="_blank">The Enemy Planet</a>” for <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Saturday Evening Post</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Sept. 30, 1950. The story was set decades in the future, and the opening stated:</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“For the past 100 years we have been preparing to defend this earth from invasion by monsters from outer space. It is now revealed that these monsters only exist in our minds, and that for the last century mankind has been jousting with celestial windmills. World Government is making this disclosure because the unbroken era of peace which the world has enjoyed since 1950 ensures that war between the peoples of earth is now impossible.”</span></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3od3Skt-tcQhkocvaMbJfEFicaathTXpU97sSVMySJUqK6nKilRmgLlTSjnooXVC5WWtPxl5olgpHOpvN9TRtyb7rb0425GKCo687fQfPwvw4viXXld_P4d9i_WDbH_rKat0WoRSg8Am5XThlPfl_d0zatXFkM2qLQbR66ZZmQ5Z1Rx3umP4kKCF1maw/s343/Robert%20C.%20Raurk.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span><!--more--></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3od3Skt-tcQhkocvaMbJfEFicaathTXpU97sSVMySJUqK6nKilRmgLlTSjnooXVC5WWtPxl5olgpHOpvN9TRtyb7rb0425GKCo687fQfPwvw4viXXld_P4d9i_WDbH_rKat0WoRSg8Am5XThlPfl_d0zatXFkM2qLQbR66ZZmQ5Z1Rx3umP4kKCF1maw/s343/Robert%20C.%20Raurk.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="312" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3od3Skt-tcQhkocvaMbJfEFicaathTXpU97sSVMySJUqK6nKilRmgLlTSjnooXVC5WWtPxl5olgpHOpvN9TRtyb7rb0425GKCo687fQfPwvw4viXXld_P4d9i_WDbH_rKat0WoRSg8Am5XThlPfl_d0zatXFkM2qLQbR66ZZmQ5Z1Rx3umP4kKCF1maw/w182-h200/Robert%20C.%20Raurk.JPG" width="182" /></span></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Robert C. Ruark wrote in his Dec. 30, 1950, nationally syndicated column, he wished that:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #141923; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">"the flying saucer business turns out to be probably true and that some spaceship would land in every major capital of the world. …[nations] would knock off the current stupidities of chopping up each other in order to band against an unknown enemy..."</span></blockquote><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJuz8-kIt4cGhK7KhkhS6-RBC0qJ3m2WfIvF9vMh-7BHLWgmOdvzvxA4ISNvmIteHnB0pXWhNKeLrQKNElCQ4ANXE_0vFOHzk-jLyINqX0oiKXj-ifzT7mI4c9FpkqtpFlXZHVeR4YumaQUhCZulgK8TmcOk0uL2pbIU20s5Tp_cAUMBJ-Q4UYTzc0jDo/s747/1950%2012%2030%20The%20Evening%20Independent%20-%20Ruark%20ET%20Unite%20(2020_12_08%2016_33_49%20UTC).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="578" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJuz8-kIt4cGhK7KhkhS6-RBC0qJ3m2WfIvF9vMh-7BHLWgmOdvzvxA4ISNvmIteHnB0pXWhNKeLrQKNElCQ4ANXE_0vFOHzk-jLyINqX0oiKXj-ifzT7mI4c9FpkqtpFlXZHVeR4YumaQUhCZulgK8TmcOk0uL2pbIU20s5Tp_cAUMBJ-Q4UYTzc0jDo/w496-h640/1950%2012%2030%20The%20Evening%20Independent%20-%20Ruark%20ET%20Unite%20(2020_12_08%2016_33_49%20UTC).jpg" width="496" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #141923; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Evening Independent</span><span style="color: #141923; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Dec. 30, 1950</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1951 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWUIg1ZVRR5rwFlp6ZfHZk2rqoxJl4RyJlkeZQI_J6j9pij0yXHZu2KvLCJiZTUWafGQDTgSZwsGkFwiYDyfqaYO1Ks_-3LNzjnoJtCrVs2b6DUVOLz6bKrUqJt10zqQJtWUuqKxM6SLZww5C_0_qPaJMrDjjMDuwtV-h41I0uuJgPfslL6LaHDGXpXj8/s801/Weird%20Science%20%235.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="579" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWUIg1ZVRR5rwFlp6ZfHZk2rqoxJl4RyJlkeZQI_J6j9pij0yXHZu2KvLCJiZTUWafGQDTgSZwsGkFwiYDyfqaYO1Ks_-3LNzjnoJtCrVs2b6DUVOLz6bKrUqJt10zqQJtWUuqKxM6SLZww5C_0_qPaJMrDjjMDuwtV-h41I0uuJgPfslL6LaHDGXpXj8/w346-h480/Weird%20Science%20%235.jpg" width="346" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br />Weird Science</i> #5, January/February 1951, from EC Comics: “<a href="https://comics.ha.com/itm/memorabilia/comic-related/ec-weird-science-5-the-last-war-on-earth-complete-story-silverprint-proof-group-ec-1951-/a/121504-14600.s" target="_blank">The Last War on Earth</a>” by Harvey Kurtzman. Professor Harlow decides to end war on earth by faking a Martian attack by dropping an atomic warhead on a small town. His plan works and the UN launches a missile strike on Mars. Much like in André Maurois’ 1927 tale, it backfires: there really are aliens and they retaliate.</span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNess4Drso7LC18CQ-5wCsYs1pIY0RcVeamWn9OUHh7oFnrI23hrR3yU9UOKWZLKX2A3upkSav43_9o2A9L3iYrN1hgqDB4M7_ViwZtaYEy--afncM15EYz2hds0L8B3AlymNTse_iz1JBrCZOOc0sh9EG_fk6EwQNKhkvxQ3SirYFaKcHqJu74JwpIoQ/s1066/Day%20the%20Earth%20Stood%20Still.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNess4Drso7LC18CQ-5wCsYs1pIY0RcVeamWn9OUHh7oFnrI23hrR3yU9UOKWZLKX2A3upkSav43_9o2A9L3iYrN1hgqDB4M7_ViwZtaYEy--afncM15EYz2hds0L8B3AlymNTse_iz1JBrCZOOc0sh9EG_fk6EwQNKhkvxQ3SirYFaKcHqJu74JwpIoQ/s1066/Day%20the%20Earth%20Stood%20Still.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="825" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNess4Drso7LC18CQ-5wCsYs1pIY0RcVeamWn9OUHh7oFnrI23hrR3yU9UOKWZLKX2A3upkSav43_9o2A9L3iYrN1hgqDB4M7_ViwZtaYEy--afncM15EYz2hds0L8B3AlymNTse_iz1JBrCZOOc0sh9EG_fk6EwQNKhkvxQ3SirYFaKcHqJu74JwpIoQ/w496-h640/Day%20the%20Earth%20Stood%20Still.jpg" width="496" /></span></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>The Day the Earth Stood Still</i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Sept. 1951, screenplay by Edmund H. North, based loosely on a story by Harry Bates. Space man Klaatu comes with a message of peace from a galactic federation, but it’s ultimately backed by force. The aliens see our technology as “a threat to the peace and security of other planets.” At the end of the film, he tells an assembly of the world’s scientists, “if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder.” Producer Julain Blaustein said that beyond entertainment, the film was intended to promote “a strong United Nations.” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYsJ1V3_jB3T1Mg0jyQHugnxKhwaURtcNRK0BdYpLLI4mmrMg35nJCmx636KmMK3M0J8vWkBByJbnmKGNqgLnfMwP4toJdNnllV814cgu2bKBprpCUi80UFDXMQtTiQaSycMTKTp-NncxDziHOmlFH_WJ8Ux89vd_66bG2hiqKOm4a0Ar5w-gOdHgcIAw/s965/Harmony%20Shelby.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><!--more--></span><span><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="965" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYsJ1V3_jB3T1Mg0jyQHugnxKhwaURtcNRK0BdYpLLI4mmrMg35nJCmx636KmMK3M0J8vWkBByJbnmKGNqgLnfMwP4toJdNnllV814cgu2bKBprpCUi80UFDXMQtTiQaSycMTKTp-NncxDziHOmlFH_WJ8Ux89vd_66bG2hiqKOm4a0Ar5w-gOdHgcIAw/w522-h307/Harmony%20Shelby.jpg" width="522" /></span></span></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“<a href="http://gotomars.free.fr/comics2/The%20Confessions%20of%20a%20Martian.pdf" target="_blank">The Confessions of a Martian</a>” in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Strange Adventures</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> March 1951 from DC Comics, story by science fiction author <a href="https://ncpedia.org/biography/wellman-manly-wade" target="_blank">Manly Wade Wellman</a>, art by Curt Swan. Martians send a scientist as spy to monitor Earth’s development of rockets to attack their planet. When he learns the space program’s goal is peaceful, he switches sides, then learns his leaders had duped him, and it was Mars, not earth on the attack. He confesses to his scientist sweetheart Harmony Shelby, who urges him to warn our planet about the invaders, saying, “…the time has come at last for all peoples of our world to work together.”</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1953 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_r8U1UbVdkkWIF06TQGTR-uK3in5Gpko9wKDqgB9_ssBaY748f_wo8JkyAyMWzuo_lId3pcdMPYcVz6hInzvYVIQfpJksqotiyZD3ljv8eiHkA5Fak8reE4T-RXFa-H3pCgaEam-SfriKuG6he8ZybiDMND546KepVjp4FiDFx-cmjYlgfjlRhPBLoBg/s309/Fred%20Durant.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="309" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_r8U1UbVdkkWIF06TQGTR-uK3in5Gpko9wKDqgB9_ssBaY748f_wo8JkyAyMWzuo_lId3pcdMPYcVz6hInzvYVIQfpJksqotiyZD3ljv8eiHkA5Fak8reE4T-RXFa-H3pCgaEam-SfriKuG6he8ZybiDMND546KepVjp4FiDFx-cmjYlgfjlRhPBLoBg/w200-h199/Fred%20Durant.JPG" width="200" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) convened a panel on UFOs in Jan 1953, under the direction of Professor Howard P. Robertson. <a href="https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/remembering-astronautics-and-museum-leader-frederick-clark-durant-iii" target="_blank">Fred C. Durant</a> was the author of the Robertson Panel’s conclusions. <a href="https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/robertsonpanelreport.pdf" target="_blank">The Durant Report</a> stated that Dr. Robertson thought that the discovery of extraterrestrial artifacts “would be of immediate and great concern to not only the U.S. but all countries. (Nothing like a common threat to unite peoples!)”</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYOUDKn4j3G2ylFStvKdzobIJyoVviknD7emqYus0H2qLK2KiGSIsEQhG6o6f8WunIrpxw4mn8b6NdJ5v7peVGliq2sU-fKshQ-jF6eojN7lh-1L7GMMsbz9iiAjdc7lMN9L7ofnoEvQXyK1jCVu7hd00aNaR2hDM8uN_x3Fw3G_D2AtdLHa2m25bVw3c/s618/Robertson%20Panel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="618" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYOUDKn4j3G2ylFStvKdzobIJyoVviknD7emqYus0H2qLK2KiGSIsEQhG6o6f8WunIrpxw4mn8b6NdJ5v7peVGliq2sU-fKshQ-jF6eojN7lh-1L7GMMsbz9iiAjdc7lMN9L7ofnoEvQXyK1jCVu7hd00aNaR2hDM8uN_x3Fw3G_D2AtdLHa2m25bVw3c/w476-h256/Robertson%20Panel.jpg" width="476" /></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1955 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMCB6dGN7TmU0ZnhqldiiZdx6ce5m4pY3Aul85gQN8gvDdv5Vhk3F-M3rmnvgCHItrIG7JZrSyaYicmtZzKdPjBLyCKS7IDlzbDkYgKKNvALx9C7Xu-M-MFkTMZ4gmmOD8oI5bBW3x1EhGRW0JpUH1vf89pW4MdzGPUz7cMuD0-VcB6LkUqbEgsTmdMFk/s550/MacArthur%20-Life-Magazine%201955.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="413" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMCB6dGN7TmU0ZnhqldiiZdx6ce5m4pY3Aul85gQN8gvDdv5Vhk3F-M3rmnvgCHItrIG7JZrSyaYicmtZzKdPjBLyCKS7IDlzbDkYgKKNvALx9C7Xu-M-MFkTMZ4gmmOD8oI5bBW3x1EhGRW0JpUH1vf89pW4MdzGPUz7cMuD0-VcB6LkUqbEgsTmdMFk/s320/MacArthur%20-Life-Magazine%201955.png" width="240" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><a href="https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-people/m/macarthur-douglas.html" target="_blank">General Douglas MacArthur</a> met with Mayor Achille Lauro of Naples, Italy, who told reporters, MacArthur speculated that nuclear war would be avoided, and that in a thousand years, the politics of the future would be interplanetary. The Mayor said:</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><blockquote>"He believes that because of the developments of science all the countries on earth will have to unite to survive and to make a common front against attack by people from other planets."<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></blockquote></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQXhznuaMLdwqwGYWoosOPoBkWAR9ap8OUUaDRoFUOTmpUtsE9MvgrM7MuUDShd4gjCOxOqAi15VqkGgC1SvVFHzaKWqCHA5w4qY0mYcra64lf9zf1fZJRqcCJrzQkLj5prELoQYbhd73AwQ5n7fq9P1mZcDyhR3P7nPnx9pTs2VMFxOVFyXaMrg5uDI/s631/1955%2010%2009%20San%20Bernardino%20Sun-Telegram,%20Oct.%209,%201955.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="332" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQXhznuaMLdwqwGYWoosOPoBkWAR9ap8OUUaDRoFUOTmpUtsE9MvgrM7MuUDShd4gjCOxOqAi15VqkGgC1SvVFHzaKWqCHA5w4qY0mYcra64lf9zf1fZJRqcCJrzQkLj5prELoQYbhd73AwQ5n7fq9P1mZcDyhR3P7nPnx9pTs2VMFxOVFyXaMrg5uDI/w336-h640/1955%2010%2009%20San%20Bernardino%20Sun-Telegram,%20Oct.%209,%201955.jpg" width="336" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">San Bernardino Sun-Telegram</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Oct. 9, 1955 </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Several years later, Gen. MacArthur</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19991021223849/https://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/au-24/au24-352mac.htm " target="_blank">d</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19991021223849/https://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/au-24/au24-352mac.htm " target="_blank">elivered a speech</a> to the cadets of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on May 12, 1962. He speculated about what the future might bring: </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“of harnessing the cosmic energy… controlling the weather… of spaceships… of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy; of such dreams and fantasies as to make life the most exciting of all times.”</span></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1956 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Earth vs the Flying Saucers</i>, 1956, featured an alien invasion attacking the major cities of the world. We aren’t shown the nations unite; the cooperation happens off-screen. The narrator states, “From all parts of the globe under top priority came every facility in scientific help the governments of the world could furnish.” When Prof. Kanter is credited for developing a defense, he says, “My idea, nonsense it was just as much yours and Dr. Patek's in India and a dozen other scientists all over the world.”</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_9dphOmZ7z3GVBiEqE0Lr7EG6hhG8659kA2HNy3DfA316saaznE2owYUqKqDilL23TmmThXX-rKncqo4ixykUsnXQqNd8S5616CBlgeKx1Odao3W4nt2rwsgnkutoTgbCxWMX1Me40b-kGfJP_EEknnBSMo90blDQK3YlyZhpLxgxP8_Zmo7wrFTo7GE/s750/Earth%20vs%20the%20Flying%20Saucers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="750" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_9dphOmZ7z3GVBiEqE0Lr7EG6hhG8659kA2HNy3DfA316saaznE2owYUqKqDilL23TmmThXX-rKncqo4ixykUsnXQqNd8S5616CBlgeKx1Odao3W4nt2rwsgnkutoTgbCxWMX1Me40b-kGfJP_EEknnBSMo90blDQK3YlyZhpLxgxP8_Zmo7wrFTo7GE/w510-h361/Earth%20vs%20the%20Flying%20Saucers.jpg" width="510" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">There were several versions of the posters and <a href="Earth vs the Flying Saucers, 1956, featured an alien invasion attacking the major cities of the world. We aren’t shown the nations unite; the cooperation happens off-screen. The narrator states, “From all parts of the globe under top priority came every facility in scientific help the governments of the world could furnish.” When Prof. Kanter is credited for developing a defense, he says, “My idea, nonsense it was just as much yours and Dr. Patek's in India and a dozen other scientists all over the world.” There were several versions of the posters and advertisements, some of which hyped the united earth’s resistance. “We are prepared to resist your attack! …For the first time our world is united, we will not surrender!” Pressbook https://www.zomboscloset.com/zombos_closet_of_horror_b/2019/08/earth-vs-the-flying-saucers-1956-pressbook.html" target="_blank">advertisements</a>, some of which hyped the united earth’s resistance: “We are prepared to resist your attack! For the first time our world is united, we will not surrender!”</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>1957 </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgzzry4IY5q5fK2hHuLsFSx6XEQlMCD4yFGQ_f5DNgCkgXxdZMBhfPL8gaFh7vVXQ0JFUUs346_fxFuRW9bgLu9mPlMw7OFDLFur36jr5hagXGJad8QIUWDR_DSdpm4siYFXxk3VTwoCk/s1000/The+Mysterians.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="697" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgzzry4IY5q5fK2hHuLsFSx6XEQlMCD4yFGQ_f5DNgCkgXxdZMBhfPL8gaFh7vVXQ0JFUUs346_fxFuRW9bgLu9mPlMw7OFDLFur36jr5hagXGJad8QIUWDR_DSdpm4siYFXxk3VTwoCk/w279-h400/The+Mysterians.jpg" width="279" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The Mysterians<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> was a 1957 Japanese film from Toho, where the aliens wanted earth women for breeding stock, which launches a war. </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Whether they like it or not, America and the Soviet Union live on the same Earth … You can be sure that unless all people on Earth unite to fight the Mysterians, the entire Earth will eventually be destroyed.” </span></blockquote><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Canadian Diplomat Lester Bowles Pearson (later Prime Minister 1963-68) gave his <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1957/pearson/lecture/" target="_blank">Nobel Peace Prize Lecture</a> on December 11, 1957:</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrumMriRT8ONgt-cqp0iTjw74YOzcJshNMINpCwaKZzDxNej6z1zC-y3nUR7A0zJrR4trJub3Vo8WjTD4ogj1iPGG-iRGMZA-NgBLU71ohBWXvX3XTQl-UI7gWZNZbN1UgJm53inqxbvfwPmhTHJ8_hKoQvIWj7LibhE5iLbetVCibaMe5e434sQQjmUI/s295/Lester%20B.%20Pearson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="220" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrumMriRT8ONgt-cqp0iTjw74YOzcJshNMINpCwaKZzDxNej6z1zC-y3nUR7A0zJrR4trJub3Vo8WjTD4ogj1iPGG-iRGMZA-NgBLU71ohBWXvX3XTQl-UI7gWZNZbN1UgJm53inqxbvfwPmhTHJ8_hKoQvIWj7LibhE5iLbetVCibaMe5e434sQQjmUI/s1600/Lester%20B.%20Pearson.jpg" width="220" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;"> Lester B. Pearson</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“A common fear, however, which usually means a common
foe, is also, regrettably, the strongest force bringing people together, but in
opposition to something or someone. Perhaps there is a hopeful possibility here
in the conquest of outer space. Interplanetary activity may give us planetary
peace. Once we discover Martian space ships hovering over earth’s airspace, we
will all come together. “How dare they threaten us like this!” we shall shout,
as one, at a really United Nations!”</span> </blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1958 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnHn9rduhoFLfp2uUcnUu5lFjugPBeGhxKzN_93CAv-QRfjLPXNwMMBhQZtYonPNv_E9l9i8gVI0ab5_VLo-dL61LS6UTXz4cBTROy8jVCA5N5f37-eyeiuyuGNvzgAdegA8FUkBDbGfelpJhn0Y7AYg088Kugf7De3rkfJj7MdtbomCrIjJfKsT_gB5s/s378/Henry%20Slesar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnHn9rduhoFLfp2uUcnUu5lFjugPBeGhxKzN_93CAv-QRfjLPXNwMMBhQZtYonPNv_E9l9i8gVI0ab5_VLo-dL61LS6UTXz4cBTROy8jVCA5N5f37-eyeiuyuGNvzgAdegA8FUkBDbGfelpJhn0Y7AYg088Kugf7De3rkfJj7MdtbomCrIjJfKsT_gB5s/w159-h200/Henry%20Slesar.jpg" width="159" /></a><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXPgwabRhmakGGkz0ZY3BtzSlt6FvT8P8vrXZHRwJtQHGOw1dJaTQ64IGTXEZHlUWjDsVaq87J8SOPcNU43iZfs3YoehGlTdtzoLGHBhivuUbmQ9TRt4JsBFo2aD3DUR0JUThEJoVPoJ_keLvYEasYyJkrcLwlBfzKm8d80kirzLqfVHqXIqg6KweY5do/s800/Amazing%20Science%20Fiction%20Stories,%20Oct.%201958.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="579" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXPgwabRhmakGGkz0ZY3BtzSlt6FvT8P8vrXZHRwJtQHGOw1dJaTQ64IGTXEZHlUWjDsVaq87J8SOPcNU43iZfs3YoehGlTdtzoLGHBhivuUbmQ9TRt4JsBFo2aD3DUR0JUThEJoVPoJ_keLvYEasYyJkrcLwlBfzKm8d80kirzLqfVHqXIqg6KweY5do/w145-h200/Amazing%20Science%20Fiction%20Stories,%20Oct.%201958.jpg" width="145" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>“<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25086/25086-h/25086-h.htm " target="_blank">The Delegate from Venus</a>” by Henry Slesar, published in <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Amazing Science Fiction Stories</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Oct. 1958. A small saucer-like spaceship lands carrying an 8-foot-tall robot with a message that could have been cribbed from Klaatu. If Earth starts a nuclear war, “we of Venus will act swiftly… to destroy your world completely." Shortly afterwards, the ship and the robot both self-destruct in explosions, but it’s said, “that damn robot did more for peace than anything that's ever come along.” Much like Bernard Newman’s novel, the alien threat was manufactured by well-meaning scientists.</span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1959 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnpJsfjPMtcWuG7ulB5DU4eqkREWPKB0G3IWovJszc9u4Ya3efq5O0kmR06DnJzi2XjGVdSYlNDzTPWZes6SSFpogPmcB2qY7PQzrRoREk3HIcRPyDQBiWt9wLVCIA_UecIS6H16MATVlnhppHdYNxi4aYxNUYfAHOMiD4_wa91kuUi89gj90pGFUjTp0/s439/Stan%20Lee%20&%20Jack%20Kirby.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="439" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnpJsfjPMtcWuG7ulB5DU4eqkREWPKB0G3IWovJszc9u4Ya3efq5O0kmR06DnJzi2XjGVdSYlNDzTPWZes6SSFpogPmcB2qY7PQzrRoREk3HIcRPyDQBiWt9wLVCIA_UecIS6H16MATVlnhppHdYNxi4aYxNUYfAHOMiD4_wa91kuUi89gj90pGFUjTp0/w200-h164/Stan%20Lee%20&%20Jack%20Kirby.webp" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stan Lee & Jack Kirby</td></tr></tbody></table><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1cJBoVQsTxlJ3ao2VBLVDTX8Ird57LSNyTmCklX8ejKjx6eRMP2ofxlspaiqqRSArwCdHLdasoxCJbtOxJHL4Ymj4Q7kR7pJSc3lhHhIMLPPuBTJK7gsv0QrOXYlPN9quAOoTz8zePUyyrGsiuunfxNX5TaCTN3NCCDSgcGPpoQsESZA7YyqZTn2jNPQ/s672/1959%20Tales%20of%20Suspense%20-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="672" height="463" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1cJBoVQsTxlJ3ao2VBLVDTX8Ird57LSNyTmCklX8ejKjx6eRMP2ofxlspaiqqRSArwCdHLdasoxCJbtOxJHL4Ymj4Q7kR7pJSc3lhHhIMLPPuBTJK7gsv0QrOXYlPN9quAOoTz8zePUyyrGsiuunfxNX5TaCTN3NCCDSgcGPpoQsESZA7YyqZTn2jNPQ/w470-h463/1959%20Tales%20of%20Suspense%20-2.jpg" width="470" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Tales of Suspense<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> #2, March 1959, “<a href="https://www.zipcomic.com/tales-of-suspense-1959-issue-2 " target="_blank">Invasion from Outer Space</a>” (by Marvel Comics) was illustrated by Jack Kirby, writer uncredited, edited by Stan Lee. An unnamed (Einstein lookalike) elderly scientist invents a projector he uses to spoof an invasion of alien spaceships to trick the major powers into disarming their nuclear weapons.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxbM0ZZ1JtYj3WZxuB7PcmxJUwrWUAXvKtGZZjgr8VO8sVoi_kLpDqJ9ktNnAsV9YFMxC6Mt91An0M-8CuRAbyQoy4TMjdsdHDhUn4jcDFAfvH7QR3I2iF8H7BnRdzIEHRP0BRStN2fxePFtWh9Dm2d5NfMa2EL6on3j_vvfafRKND56seuzER9gqr8nQ/s745/Invisible%20Invaders.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><!--more--></span><span><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="745" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxbM0ZZ1JtYj3WZxuB7PcmxJUwrWUAXvKtGZZjgr8VO8sVoi_kLpDqJ9ktNnAsV9YFMxC6Mt91An0M-8CuRAbyQoy4TMjdsdHDhUn4jcDFAfvH7QR3I2iF8H7BnRdzIEHRP0BRStN2fxePFtWh9Dm2d5NfMa2EL6on3j_vvfafRKND56seuzER9gqr8nQ/w444-h283/Invisible%20Invaders.jpg" width="444" /></span></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span><i>Invisible Invaders</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i> </i>(May 1959) was a science fiction B-movie featuring an actual alien invasion that’s thwarted. At the end, the heroes received thanks at the UN, and the closing narration tells us a valuable lesson has been learned, “The nations of the world could work and fight together in a common cause."</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHj6dF8PmuijZn2IXoD7_PoLekVrulYqD28LXjA6tPeBu08xxi9EOs56SMrMmk2nlqhMWklGdN9YaXDeZZ063CxHUobZDquObbfDEtL7HQQI4qHuetoiIGdZEETDVyqxF3emwJZW6Fpxf8J2n-DHBGdga1yz0hfx-zXGdJtdDlNYKRxeCyjL0tPmBerKg/s549/1959%2010%2029%20United%20Press.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><!--more--></span><span><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="492" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHj6dF8PmuijZn2IXoD7_PoLekVrulYqD28LXjA6tPeBu08xxi9EOs56SMrMmk2nlqhMWklGdN9YaXDeZZ063CxHUobZDquObbfDEtL7HQQI4qHuetoiIGdZEETDVyqxF3emwJZW6Fpxf8J2n-DHBGdga1yz0hfx-zXGdJtdDlNYKRxeCyjL0tPmBerKg/w359-h400/1959%2010%2029%20United%20Press.jpg" width="359" /></span></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The United Press reported on Oct. 29, 1959, that Dr. Vasco Viera Garin of Portugal argued in the United Nations </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">against </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">nuclear disarmament, because we might need the bomb to defend ourselves against a Martian invasion. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><!--more--></span><span><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/exdHFnKL2-Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="exdHFnKL2-Q"></iframe></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>Battle in Outer Space</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> was made by Toho in Japan (originally intended as a sequel to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Mysterians</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">) and released in late 1959, then debuted in the USA in July 1960. In this film, the world is already working together for the goal of space exploration under the United Nations. When an alien force attacks, the allied earth army fights together to save the world. </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1960 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAtTs6sGuwn2HBxYMQI9aEfb8OsTDak61oyxaVQBMUtcn5KaCGsR2DUkdMpetixETwQNtP8PZ_jeY42p6LSIqX0jGpZYoYeNB2jxU99byh8NJbVuvn3E4WLnwzwNSQAURiG9dQ1pEoZOmmBXJshwxJhhz6nnJPnvU6qFxhv8x94XN31aqRR0mM_jP6QY8/s363/Brookings%20Report.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="363" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAtTs6sGuwn2HBxYMQI9aEfb8OsTDak61oyxaVQBMUtcn5KaCGsR2DUkdMpetixETwQNtP8PZ_jeY42p6LSIqX0jGpZYoYeNB2jxU99byh8NJbVuvn3E4WLnwzwNSQAURiG9dQ1pEoZOmmBXJshwxJhhz6nnJPnvU6qFxhv8x94XN31aqRR0mM_jP6QY8/s320/Brookings%20Report.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The Brookings Report: On December 14, 1960, The Brookings Institution released a report prepared for NASA, "<a href="http://www.nicap.org/papers/brookings.pdf " target="_blank">Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs</a>.” It included a section entitled "Implications of a Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life,” which stated: </span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“The knowledge that life existed in other parts of the universe might lead to a greater unity of men on earth, based on the oneness of man or on the age-old assumption that any stranger is threatening.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1962 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimzKkhqcQ80vSmb4nejfBZlKrrEOgiH8Ht2Hddtmudq2_DI9GP9MXO5Q5mrKnnhoX6KJdiXgJR1KhqEi2AIHIqwzqx1qRHFS1pgak1vl_wR1zYlFuaWeGA8B438nNOIpxCRoxhvCWGQ380rpavOEwsEEPwKRNZExRywmtGKUnMdBlD_0E1WUBZ3Foz5SA/s950/1962%20-%20Mars%20Attacks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="950" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimzKkhqcQ80vSmb4nejfBZlKrrEOgiH8Ht2Hddtmudq2_DI9GP9MXO5Q5mrKnnhoX6KJdiXgJR1KhqEi2AIHIqwzqx1qRHFS1pgak1vl_wR1zYlFuaWeGA8B438nNOIpxCRoxhvCWGQ380rpavOEwsEEPwKRNZExRywmtGKUnMdBlD_0E1WUBZ3Foz5SA/w640-h472/1962%20-%20Mars%20Attacks.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />“<a href="https://www.oldsportscards.com/mars-attacks-cards/" target="_blank">Mars Attacks</a>” was the name of the Topps trading cards issued in early 1962, The cards told the horrific tale of a deadly invasion. "No country on Earth was safe from the Martians’ devastating attack.” They fight back but are overwhelmed. With card #46, the tide turned.</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Governments from every country on Earth worked hand in hand to fight the menace from Mars. Tanks, guns, rocket-planes and soldiers were loaded into space-ships, ready to continue the vicious war with the Martians on Mars. … Volunteers… were eager to fight the worst peril that had ever threatened civilization."<span style="font-weight: 700;"> </span></span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1963 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicvfNeJoiwybAaaFPm9NrgYzKJINeuB8J32sTzy6pUl3VhQYEpxrBf-DqUJ8FkaGarvYItgMd4hVoNfjnmwlqSqgU0nhkt92bVf2QS-i6ppfGHCHN3HWOpE4k5UyUUkeMP5AiiLxhJfKm5A353FIiu5jT-ljN21wHWqY_94I0zTUt7m3dM8dqbPLeZHRc/s394/Meyer%20Dolinsky.JPG" style="font-weight: 400; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="394" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicvfNeJoiwybAaaFPm9NrgYzKJINeuB8J32sTzy6pUl3VhQYEpxrBf-DqUJ8FkaGarvYItgMd4hVoNfjnmwlqSqgU0nhkt92bVf2QS-i6ppfGHCHN3HWOpE4k5UyUUkeMP5AiiLxhJfKm5A353FIiu5jT-ljN21wHWqY_94I0zTUt7m3dM8dqbPLeZHRc/w200-h180/Meyer%20Dolinsky.JPG" width="200" /></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkEgXtcT2NB-BpHKGUGqopFeue9s1JU7Z_BJjtxrAeQqBSg-PE9oNvXB1N2Q3IKDky6-2IpkyBIZxGJJ3e0eqbj-TqXQJW1k5pJaxf1XGLuPkqEHH7E0r-t5RiQbL3-i0VM2bl8fyn-hGc-xAv1rSnLshaYXsXATP_RJFjxyIFPcgWTW-duFmG68z_3k/s819/The%20Architects%20of%20Fear.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="819" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkEgXtcT2NB-BpHKGUGqopFeue9s1JU7Z_BJjtxrAeQqBSg-PE9oNvXB1N2Q3IKDky6-2IpkyBIZxGJJ3e0eqbj-TqXQJW1k5pJaxf1XGLuPkqEHH7E0r-t5RiQbL3-i0VM2bl8fyn-hGc-xAv1rSnLshaYXsXATP_RJFjxyIFPcgWTW-duFmG68z_3k/w640-h464/The%20Architects%20of%20Fear.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">September 30, 1963, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The Outer Limits</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">: “The Architects of Fear” written by Meyer Dolinsky featured a group of scientists secretly working to surgically alter one of their own, transforming him into an “alien,” to persuade the world to unite in the face of an alien invasion. The phony alien is launched in a space capsule towards the United Nations to frighten the delegates. The flight is knocked off course and things get worse from there. The plan tragically fails. </span></div></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1967 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSO1V_c3V5yld83nGe7ojh94uvQm7G5mvba8hwXOYjfPZnc6H-1vMJK9sqgZL-tRu7oIquKm_o7Q1qda-vGZ7_QoprVx3ImAa9yHhy5AZnkNYnB45dTkFH-bqSbUA-1jfs4eAEx6W3CO3HzXjLVDDTwgb22_iqKsWJXCs0zGXOHk4GpCtFoM_dbOW4s1E/s425/Report%20from%20Iron%20Mountain.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="310" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSO1V_c3V5yld83nGe7ojh94uvQm7G5mvba8hwXOYjfPZnc6H-1vMJK9sqgZL-tRu7oIquKm_o7Q1qda-vGZ7_QoprVx3ImAa9yHhy5AZnkNYnB45dTkFH-bqSbUA-1jfs4eAEx6W3CO3HzXjLVDDTwgb22_iqKsWJXCs0zGXOHk4GpCtFoM_dbOW4s1E/w291-h400/Report%20from%20Iron%20Mountain.jpg" width="291" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /><i>The Report from Iron Mountain</i> was a 1967 bestselling "nonfiction" book, purported to be a leaked secret government study but was political satire,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> a </span><a href="https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_ironmountain12.htm " style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">literary hoax</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> in 1967 by Leonard C. Lewin. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><blockquote>“Credibility, in fact, lies at the heart of the problem of developing a political substitute for war. This is where the space-race proposals, in many ways so well suited as economic substitutes for war, fall short. The most ambitious and unrealistic space project cannot of itself generate a believable external menace. It has been hotly argued that such a menace would offer the ‘last, best hope of peace,’ etc., by uniting mankind against the danger of destruction by ‘creatures’ from other planets or from outer space. Experiments have been proposed to test the credibility of an out-of-our-world invasion threat; it is possible that a few of the more difficult-to-explain ‘flying saucer’ incidents of recent years were in fact early experiments of this kind.” </blockquote></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p><i>U.S. News and World Report</i> published an article about it, "Hoax or Horror? A Book that Shook the White House," and though it was suspected to be bogus early on, it had tremendous impact, still in print today and embraced as real by some conspiracy theorists. Here's a film clip discussing its "invasion threat" the quote from a <a href="https://youtu.be/bJ6Q4h5Srl0?t=209 " target="_blank">1967 television show</a>. </p></span></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1968 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRfV4d5S886IlLt79eFAGMSKU5eyVy1nKqK0HWnkx_KrFLmn3lMRqL2g0IHlyQ3FN7gF5VyTgP6F1bUbl33qhS2LBPmN6hZhXHUZ3wtlDiVi1jx2a0WOEXF5TxLk4LqP0m5CJWhhbU3GZfYCsF-40l6WFOj-aiZOJD6aEsa4whI7O_yFblQtDs1o5JB4E/s800/Clarke.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="569" data-original-width="800" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRfV4d5S886IlLt79eFAGMSKU5eyVy1nKqK0HWnkx_KrFLmn3lMRqL2g0IHlyQ3FN7gF5VyTgP6F1bUbl33qhS2LBPmN6hZhXHUZ3wtlDiVi1jx2a0WOEXF5TxLk4LqP0m5CJWhhbU3GZfYCsF-40l6WFOj-aiZOJD6aEsa4whI7O_yFblQtDs1o5JB4E/w320-h229/Clarke.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Arthur C. Clarke’s article, “<a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Playboy/1968%2001%2000_Playboy%20-%20Arthur%20C%20Clarke.pdf#page=7 " target="_blank">When Earthman and Alien Meet</a>,” in <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Playboy</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Jan.1968, was not about saucers, but he did briefly speculate:</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Let us take the line of least resistance and assume that the strange apparitions whizzing through our skies are, indeed, of extraterrestrial origin, and that this is finally proved beyond all reasonable doubt. The first result would be a drastic lowering of the international temperature; any current wars would rapidly liquidate themselves. This point has been made by numerous writers - starting with the late André Maurois, whose </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">War Against the Moon</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> suggested almost half a century ago that the only way to secure peace on Earth would be to manufacture a fake menace from space. A genuine one would be even more effective.”</span></span></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2MGKRFARvWR0by1jkF4A7t7Vm6xqGLM1zGjLDZrZrybbiYl3lO3s_0GqlN-MY_1oavRb3bVFnoaRrj1fEoHlnxGzyByDVghve-9ZR07qCa6H4-1lLdCV_pp_2q93r3oWl87WvERNm8tzqdalbcgGD9T3kMAzHvp5ZoCuBSw-TBgljIL9si7Vigh4J=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><!--more--></span><span><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="747" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2MGKRFARvWR0by1jkF4A7t7Vm6xqGLM1zGjLDZrZrybbiYl3lO3s_0GqlN-MY_1oavRb3bVFnoaRrj1fEoHlnxGzyByDVghve-9ZR07qCa6H4-1lLdCV_pp_2q93r3oWl87WvERNm8tzqdalbcgGD9T3kMAzHvp5ZoCuBSw-TBgljIL9si7Vigh4J=w374-h400" width="374" /></span></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-lost-ufo-film-that-wasnt-project.html" target="_blank">The Bamboo Saucer</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> was conceived by Jerry Fairbanks as “Project Saucer” in the early 1950s but was not filmed and released until 1968. Rival teams from the US and Soviets fight to capture a flying saucer that landed in China. The Chinese government attacks to capture the saucer and the two teams reluctantly agree to work together for mutual survival. The three survivors agree to fly the craft to neutral Geneva.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“You know, when the world sees this ship, everybody's gonna have to realize there are other intelligent beings in the universe. They will have to meet them face to face one day. All the nations of this earth better be ready to stand together.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1972 - 1974 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Tkpa2YzSev8fTA34tA_CLDXNKLBtTG7cy_lLOuf_o3cXmk5dwmME-iMxypxukp9gtWQKuuz8D5Vek6wXOMyEF9byyWy31L73y21V8fPyxQ-uKdm4dAjYAWb-axz_P-sJS0diT0Z9BrTQieC6YymTwulPGoWY-HP1bSVnvLLWPvKN_6pNgWrqu3CBztI/s416/1974%20UFOs.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="365" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Tkpa2YzSev8fTA34tA_CLDXNKLBtTG7cy_lLOuf_o3cXmk5dwmME-iMxypxukp9gtWQKuuz8D5Vek6wXOMyEF9byyWy31L73y21V8fPyxQ-uKdm4dAjYAWb-axz_P-sJS0diT0Z9BrTQieC6YymTwulPGoWY-HP1bSVnvLLWPvKN_6pNgWrqu3CBztI/w176-h200/1974%20UFOs.JPG" width="176" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Alan C. Elms (psychologist, academic and author) was quoted <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">in Robert Emenegger’s</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> 1974 TV documentary and companion book, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">UFOs Past Present and Future</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. Citing Elms’ 1972 book, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Social Psychology and Social Relevance</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Emenegger</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> wrote:</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“As Elms points out, some social scientists have suggested “that what we really need is an enemy invader from outer space; </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">then</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> we would unite as one species to drive the invader away, and live in peace thereafter’.”</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><!--more--></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimsW3cjjicijAjaWOY2Mxs8bKIkVBOQ4-zRvuj-tzsyyXTTM5n9IlLPfTBwhitb23bO38erx4obulQMXSfwg5xY_KGEZu9wmugLo2hOJa9CUrdkYKE6CsfENKqT7F6_znZyJmVM-GCqOpCXPgxoVegDuBfpsY40dC5yrngpNjBEKHtMwnuCEByezLjjbY/s906/Modesty%20Blaise.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="906" height="616" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimsW3cjjicijAjaWOY2Mxs8bKIkVBOQ4-zRvuj-tzsyyXTTM5n9IlLPfTBwhitb23bO38erx4obulQMXSfwg5xY_KGEZu9wmugLo2hOJa9CUrdkYKE6CsfENKqT7F6_znZyJmVM-GCqOpCXPgxoVegDuBfpsY40dC5yrngpNjBEKHtMwnuCEByezLjjbY/w640-h616/Modesty%20Blaise.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000008; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">From Feb. to June 1974, the </span><span style="color: #000008; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Modesty Blaise</span><span style="color: #000008; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> newspaper comic strip story by Peter O’Donnell and Enrique Badia Romero, "<a href="https://issuu.com/milniko-gmail/docs/np_modesty_blaise_-_29_-_take_me_to_your_leader" target="_blank">Take Me to Your Leader</a>" featured an attempt to shock humanity into peace through a faked alien landing.</span></span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000008; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000008; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“A handful of people... believe that the human race will <i>destroy</i> itself by war <i>unless</i> some huge new happening changes our whole psychology, so that we rise above national jealousies to become one united world.”</span><a href="https://issuu.com/milniko-gmail/docs/np_modesty_blaise_-_29_-_take_me_to_your_leader" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #000008; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://issuu.com/milniko-gmail/docs/np_modesty_blaise_-_29_-_take_me_to_your_leader" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #000008; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></a></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZZTKqY04SyUZ2gtLPRObpBmbITzpRxMqw-XgpXsx_vAh4ys9L2B0QlXxGwYdZM_7rjpdtbKXhFl-RHnpz5bMEbkh_epcqi_tpt6SYeGPr-YoeTAU2THzWrAoqjRIX6bYjF3zjXGuvBpl7nVtV1TpgxhaWKC7YaN7aEs0YpL06SgnMAj20GlJOg29fSB4/s414/wild%20card.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><!--more--></span><span><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="357" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZZTKqY04SyUZ2gtLPRObpBmbITzpRxMqw-XgpXsx_vAh4ys9L2B0QlXxGwYdZM_7rjpdtbKXhFl-RHnpz5bMEbkh_epcqi_tpt6SYeGPr-YoeTAU2THzWrAoqjRIX6bYjF3zjXGuvBpl7nVtV1TpgxhaWKC7YaN7aEs0YpL06SgnMAj20GlJOg29fSB4/s320/wild%20card.JPG" width="276" /></span></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Wild Card<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> by Raymond Hawkey with Roger Bingham, (May 1974, revised 1988) was a novel where the U.S.A. is crumbling from unrest and terrorism. The President and his Science Advisor launch a scheme, crashing a fake flying saucer and (bio-engineered) aliens into Los Angles, unleashing a virus that kills thousands of people. The event is staged to save the nation and unite the world against the alien threat. </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1981 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSoUJi9QgZ_RbZM2und_xpccZ2Lh-OLE-sr5BkItNDH_0JNgzmtbJ0McXAJ2-lc0VaAYZbBDD9SKyj5QW4wcJSKY1jXZMgQ3asrqOrEPKIr6XkICZhQNmoDp9Necav1xxFpUVpCDdXbaOrwNAqZZLAu0tvQWYYU2HJNoBJYhiRU8tylklV9klWdbtSrCA/s970/Spider-Man%20-%20Doctor%20Doom%201981-82.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="970" data-original-width="728" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSoUJi9QgZ_RbZM2und_xpccZ2Lh-OLE-sr5BkItNDH_0JNgzmtbJ0McXAJ2-lc0VaAYZbBDD9SKyj5QW4wcJSKY1jXZMgQ3asrqOrEPKIr6XkICZhQNmoDp9Necav1xxFpUVpCDdXbaOrwNAqZZLAu0tvQWYYU2HJNoBJYhiRU8tylklV9klWdbtSrCA/w480-h640/Spider-Man%20-%20Doctor%20Doom%201981-82.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br />The Amazing Spider-Man<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> newspaper comic strip by Stan Lee Fred Kida from 1981-1982, “<a href="http://www.mjhibbett.co.uk/doom/showblog.php?blogid=3366">Doctor Doom and the Flying Saucer</a>,” began with Doom announcing he’d captured a crashed UFO and gloating that all nations fear his “omega ray" based on its advanced technology. Spider-Man eventually learns the saucer is a phony, part of Doom’s "planned a bloodless coup!" to conquer and "bring order to the world, without a shot being fired." Thwarted, Doom tells him, "All I wanted was to bring peace to the world!" Amazingly, Spider-Man becomes an accomplice to the hoax, but with a twist. As Peter Parker, he returns to the USA with a filmed message of Doom claiming that the saucer and its aliens have departed, but with a deadly warning. “Unless we abandon war and violence, they will return to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">destroy</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> us -- before we can threaten the peace of the galaxy!”</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></b></p><!--more--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1982 <o:p></o:p></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">DC Comics, </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">All-Star Squadron</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> 10-12,
June-Aug. 1982, written by Roy Thomas, art by Adrian Gonzales featured a
variation on theme. Set during World War II, this 3-part story began in Washington
D.C. with the arrival of an eye-shaped UFO and a tall alien. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzyx3jXVKcGvPXvGmzPkpR9H-0AM1pjPquqf36g6WyY_A76MXHXJipDaMkgeoLFeniEQLpraZ1s5VE70SPVAuqXh-V8uqTD94hNmJFrL6DRjxU441J7adgexFGQaKwEgHqRqDxblZWC3QqhhAXi_prqexlmeD1wCJ7_zG6tQlpVEXN3_0E8XUAFf_Tpf8/s1000/1982%20All-Star%20Squadron.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="1000" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzyx3jXVKcGvPXvGmzPkpR9H-0AM1pjPquqf36g6WyY_A76MXHXJipDaMkgeoLFeniEQLpraZ1s5VE70SPVAuqXh-V8uqTD94hNmJFrL6DRjxU441J7adgexFGQaKwEgHqRqDxblZWC3QqhhAXi_prqexlmeD1wCJ7_zG6tQlpVEXN3_0E8XUAFf_Tpf8/w640-h452/1982%20All-Star%20Squadron.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br />He announced
himself as Akhet, representative of the Binary Brotherhood, and that earth must
surrender or be obliterated. The message was repeated to other nations’ capitals,
and leaders agreed to work together. The superheroes discovered that an international
group of peace-loving scientists built the ship and phony alien, but a villain
amongst them sabotaged their plan. He sought to unite the world, but under his
rule. The villain was stopped, and the war resumed.</span></span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Super Dimension Fortress Macross</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> was a Japanese animated science fiction series.
Synopsis from <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142183/plotsummary/" target="_blank">IMDb</a>: “</span><span lang="EN">In</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span> the middle of World War III in 1999, an alien
spaceship crashes on deserted Macross Island. In response to this event, a
cease fire is declared as the ship reveals evidence of a potential
extraterrestrial threat </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ...the nations of the world unite to create the United Nations Space Navy.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">” It debuted in 1982, repackaged for US
audiences in 1985 as </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Robotech: The Macross Saga</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">.</span></span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1985-1987 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglyQZxmdX4o-VnVShrseZdp29l0vxTaelQVolQywG3cHPAC2ttUKCQ68elZhAWES1Svlem9gVSpz2R65bJPSmz_is-zxHIb38jsPUW70BbicLbWdOikt2yXNU-MZw4TJ3M82coXUYuXVOvLzaAIjwSgteiw5-njxK7-QoQk0FR92XEXft8SsgEzNROk4c/s239/Ronald%20Reagan.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="239" data-original-width="207" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglyQZxmdX4o-VnVShrseZdp29l0vxTaelQVolQywG3cHPAC2ttUKCQ68elZhAWES1Svlem9gVSpz2R65bJPSmz_is-zxHIb38jsPUW70BbicLbWdOikt2yXNU-MZw4TJ3M82coXUYuXVOvLzaAIjwSgteiw5-njxK7-QoQk0FR92XEXft8SsgEzNROk4c/w173-h200/Ronald%20Reagan.JPG" width="173" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />U.S. president Ronald Reagan met with the Soviet Union president of Mikhail Gorbachev in November 1985 at the Geneva Summit (arms talks) in Switzerland. Afterwards at a speech in Maryland to Fallston High School students, Reagan disclosed that during a private conversation, he and Mr. Gorbachev had agreed that in the event of an alien invasion, their nations would fight it together. “We would forget all the local differences we have between our two countries and find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.”</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEyk5soz03keGR6FaskCfYMpT4kjDsmbfuE7Vm9u5rpq6RzSXQIpOyXSMQ-aeIt3bl2yJP61icnsw4UsI2G9eTNdDhMOg81GKKhvLrY8LMfKbcotMdL0cVd9nNiFNy4m9LGGDkPltmC8zO6L4z6R35YVpoLn1zd49jVlSWYnmXkTkSWP47M584FjNUXNM/s426/1985%2012%2019%20National%20City%20Star-News,%20Dec.%2019,%201985.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="334" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEyk5soz03keGR6FaskCfYMpT4kjDsmbfuE7Vm9u5rpq6RzSXQIpOyXSMQ-aeIt3bl2yJP61icnsw4UsI2G9eTNdDhMOg81GKKhvLrY8LMfKbcotMdL0cVd9nNiFNy4m9LGGDkPltmC8zO6L4z6R35YVpoLn1zd49jVlSWYnmXkTkSWP47M584FjNUXNM/w278-h354/1985%2012%2019%20National%20City%20Star-News,%20Dec.%2019,%201985.jpg" width="278" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">National City Star-News</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Dec. 19, 1985,
syndicated column by Art Hoppe </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Reagan called this scenario his “Fantasy” and frequently used it in his speeches from then on. Preparing to address the 42d Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 21, 1987, Reagan made a </span><a href="https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/RRUFOSpeech.pdf" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">note to his speechwriter</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> insisting his alien scenario be included. The passage as it was presented in </span><a href="https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/address-42d-session-united-nations-general-assembly-new-york-new-york " style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">the UN address</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">: </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: underline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/dJ-mf8agFP0?t=1754"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dJ-mf8agFP0" width="320" youtube-src-id="dJ-mf8agFP0"></iframe></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Video from the Reagan Library</span></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">"Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?”</span></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></b></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE1e4YehNwMgACk86NLuln6MyRaDXJSg_Y7U-1xKAlvhGzONaWtBki0BALGO-14LGIoRqUgFVBUD-W5hFI1qwV-s7y7t1fOEcQOorRd7xTJiXl7MDCCKKZg09pS9Vya6YsDf1OqONHIwYExYWN1kh1XcC5njcdtueL2XUQtsJAtAAZElibcp42lG94uQU/s734/Watchmen.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="734" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE1e4YehNwMgACk86NLuln6MyRaDXJSg_Y7U-1xKAlvhGzONaWtBki0BALGO-14LGIoRqUgFVBUD-W5hFI1qwV-s7y7t1fOEcQOorRd7xTJiXl7MDCCKKZg09pS9Vya6YsDf1OqONHIwYExYWN1kh1XcC5njcdtueL2XUQtsJAtAAZElibcp42lG94uQU/w400-h335/Watchmen.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Watchmen<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons from DC Comics was a dark take on superheroes published in 1976-87, near the end of the Cold War. The story begins as a murder mystery, finally revealed to have been committed by the “hero” Ozymandias to cover up his plot. He creates a biologically engineered telepathic creature and teleports it to New York City where it explodes killing millions of people. As intended, it is believed to be an alien attack, convincing nations on the brink of nuclear annihilation to unite against the “alien” threat.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></b></p><!--more--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1991-1994 </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>Behold a Pale Horse</i>, was a 1991 book by "</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2002/conspiracy-theorist-slain-police-shootout" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">paranoid, far-right conspiracy theorist</a><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">" Bill Cooper. His Appendix E, "New World Order" included pages reproducing John Dewey's 1917 remarks and the alien invasion passage from </span></span><i>The Report from Iron Mountain</i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">. In the chapter, "Anatomy of an Alliance," Cooper wrote that </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">many world leaders were Illuminati, and a</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">fter World War II they found reasons for bringing about the New World Order. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">"It is possible, however, that [some] of these reasons are not real, and thus manipulations. ...If it were secretly discovered that extraterrestrial beings were visiting the earth it certainly would make sense to unite humanity against the possible threat that this would present. If extraterrestrials are not visiting earth, then it would make sense to invent them in order to convince opposing forces to unite against the threat."</span></blockquote><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Henry Kissinger was among the many government figures named in Cooper's loopy claims, which may explain the motivation for the invention of the following item.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A hoaxed quote from Henry Kissinger about an alien
threat? New World Order <a href="https://www.missionislam.com/nwo/illuminati.htm" target="_blank">conspiracy sites</a> allege Kissinger was secretly taped during
the 1991 or 1992 Bilderberger Conference in Evaians, France, saying: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">“Today, America would be outraged if UN troops entered
Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially
true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether
real or promulgated, that threatened our</span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">very existence. It is then that all peoples of the
world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears
is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be
willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by
the World Government.”</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><span>There’s <a href="https://mythdetector.ge/en/what-did-henry-kissinger-not-say-during-the-bilderberg-conference/" target="_blank">no documentation</a> of the quote and it can be
considered bogus or <a href="https://quotepark.com/quotes/1789237-henry-kissinger-today-america-would-be-outraged-if-un-troops-ente/" target="_blank">misattributed</a>.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpi5HaTG_vKVXgKsq4o1fwJuEj_m3HMSwmAuUPx4CkawfzdXMrm0sUDKGu_d6rmdanfGLsjQa3RSdVTJ8zWnYIfkPfaaMn251sAFclz-xfCs0oLPW_ZC6TSB2p3E-334QFmyNvUW2y4AWoUMvlqqu_ecO5mQQQw0t6jPE7c4_Y-p9XJnlALIZzBdQtUyQ/s581/Peter%20Rogerson.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="581" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpi5HaTG_vKVXgKsq4o1fwJuEj_m3HMSwmAuUPx4CkawfzdXMrm0sUDKGu_d6rmdanfGLsjQa3RSdVTJ8zWnYIfkPfaaMn251sAFclz-xfCs0oLPW_ZC6TSB2p3E-334QFmyNvUW2y4AWoUMvlqqu_ecO5mQQQw0t6jPE7c4_Y-p9XJnlALIZzBdQtUyQ/w443-h166/Peter%20Rogerson.jpg" width="443" /></a></div></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in;"><i><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Magonia/Magonia%20-%20No%2043%20-%201992%2007.pdf#page=14" target="_blank">Magonia</a></i><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Magonia/Magonia%20-%20No%2043%20-%201992%2007.pdf#page=14" target="_blank"> No. 43</a>, July 1992: <a href="https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/p/peter-rogerson.html" target="_blank">Peter Rogerson</a>, in reviewing <i>Revelations: alien contact and human deception</i> by Jacques Vallee, talked about the paranoia and conspiracy theories plaguing the UFO scene at the time. Rogerson came up with a hypothetical conspiracy of his own set after WWII, Project Far Stranger: </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in;"></p><blockquote>“…based on after-dinner musings by Churchill to Truman about how the external danger of Germany had saved Britain from insurrection in 1914. Wouldn't it be nice if some external threat could unite the dangerously divided wartime victors… promote the theme of the Martian bombers.”</blockquote><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in;"></p></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </div></span></div></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In 1994, conspiracy author Serge Monast (1945- 1996) published </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Project Blue Beam (NASA)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, where he claimed a cabal was orchestrating a false alien invasion by using 3-D holographic projections for the purpose of uniting nations in a New World Order. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1996 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Independence Day</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, co-written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, was like a G.I. Joe riff on </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The War of the Worlds</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. The invasion happens, and the U.S.A is the star of the show, but nations come together to help in the effort.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2001 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Around 2001, Dr. Carol Rosin claimed that when she met Wernher von Braun back in 1974, he warned that the U.S. “intelligence community” was manufacturing a series of threats to justify the building of space-based weapons systems, and “the last card would be the extraterrestrial threat.” The alleged scheme sounded like it was ripped from the pages of <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Report from Iron Mountain.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2011 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMiBlZxsvxU40z6UpOq_QHPpJlUF_6N0x2YezNxL9SJkdf4gLRuQRau_eBiSAgHzF1-xXY1RTwL-Ov1kjKYd6j_BRGbMyKZdSskpxQgILzLeb6TD_ZQpkA62vSA-rz5VPOQf_ho9A-d3uNhhoi3Ex7XCe_AQHoMK0uIdWPSxUziwF4EBxHbNVS5d-pEkg/s722/2011%20CNN.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="722" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMiBlZxsvxU40z6UpOq_QHPpJlUF_6N0x2YezNxL9SJkdf4gLRuQRau_eBiSAgHzF1-xXY1RTwL-Ov1kjKYd6j_BRGbMyKZdSskpxQgILzLeb6TD_ZQpkA62vSA-rz5VPOQf_ho9A-d3uNhhoi3Ex7XCe_AQHoMK0uIdWPSxUziwF4EBxHbNVS5d-pEkg/w237-h182/2011%20CNN.JPG" width="237" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br />In an Aug. 14, 2011, <a href="https://youtu.be/jaED2ErdIv8 " target="_blank">CNN interview</a>, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman told Fareed Zakaria,:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“If we discovered that space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive build-up to counter the space alien threat, and inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. And then if we discovered, "whoops, we made a mistake," we'd [still be better off]... There was a </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Twilight Zone</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> episode like this, in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace. …this time we need it to get some fiscal stimulus.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Krugman named the wrong show, he was thinking of “The Architects of Fear” from </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Outer Limits</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2014 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS-GUEfBsi8u48MHzbNn2jDAB4_2aKEYfF27muskgoNzFHAo5S4KDzKfP0lEd4icZr--8hWMFzVGgm9mWT-UNnGY2-lMeoxHuxfY187MRlwabG6fxDfqTY5VQxZ3KoBegV6KHpkjc_Wh305N9OxRtaWboQgOKldXAad0kBLzeIAY7DAhl3jTxbgCt3WMY/s1020/Clinton.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="1020" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS-GUEfBsi8u48MHzbNn2jDAB4_2aKEYfF27muskgoNzFHAo5S4KDzKfP0lEd4icZr--8hWMFzVGgm9mWT-UNnGY2-lMeoxHuxfY187MRlwabG6fxDfqTY5VQxZ3KoBegV6KHpkjc_Wh305N9OxRtaWboQgOKldXAad0kBLzeIAY7DAhl3jTxbgCt3WMY/w400-h225/Clinton.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br />On April 2, 2014, former U.S. president Bill Clinton was asked on </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://time.com/48132/bill-clinton-wouldnt-be-surprised-if-aliens-existed/ " target="_blank">Jimmy Kimmel Live</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> about the possibility of extraterrestrial life and visitation. </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“If we were visited someday, I wouldn’t be surprised, I just hope it’s not like </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Independence Day</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, the movie, that it’s a conflict. [It] may be the only way to unite this increasingly divided world of ours. If they’re out there, think of how all the differences among people on earth would seem small if we felt threatened by a space invader.”</span></span></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The HBO television series </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Watchmen</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> was written as if it were a sequel to the 1980s DC comic book. Ozymandias’ alien threat scheme succeeded, and decades later the world is still on guard against an alien attack. To perpetuate the ruse, he uses teleportation to cause frequent incidents of small squid falling from the sky, reinforcing the fear of invasion.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a Sept. 15, 2021, article on existential threats, Robert S. Litwak cited Ronald Reagan’s “fantasy” about earth uniting against an alien threat, then says, “Today the world faces the functional equivalent in climate change. The most vital issue in international relations is whether the great powers can take concerted action to avert climate catastrophe...” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the early 20</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> century stories, the greatest threat was that of global war. Harmony between races was less of a concern but was an implied byproduct of uniting humanity. In Tyler Austin Harper’s Oct. 23, 2021, article at </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Slate</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, he explored the topic in, “<a href=" https://slate.com/culture/2021/10/invasion-apple-tv-tomorrow-war-watchmen-aliens-racism.html " target="_blank">The Aliens Are Here, and They Fixed All the Racism</a>.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span></span></span></span></p><!--more--><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A Speculative Afterword</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The alien threat manipulation idea has come up so often by politicians of different persuasions during the last century, we must wonder if any government has actually tried to exploit it. Since the 1980s, persistent rumors have circulated that captured UFO technology was being reverse engineered by the U.S. military at Area 51 for the development of aerospace weapons. Was this a ploy to avoid war by making the Russians fear they were outgunned? </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ0rgu5IOqlQf5u6pElo34mWtvtw1YPoD0YtQbRPXG5fOqJl0fk9QcJT7ph8opVv7N19PMUKeJ9c8X2Df3OrO9L1HVOHTypRqmmx9eS4iUER07NA1hwg0lJlQejVWzyMzmSHzZwjaqydPuT1g0a0CXt6aNWiDoWHqWS1be6l2Kx7Y_GDoxkmPUop-t4qw/s1000/ATTIP%20-TTSA.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1000" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ0rgu5IOqlQf5u6pElo34mWtvtw1YPoD0YtQbRPXG5fOqJl0fk9QcJT7ph8opVv7N19PMUKeJ9c8X2Df3OrO9L1HVOHTypRqmmx9eS4iUER07NA1hwg0lJlQejVWzyMzmSHzZwjaqydPuT1g0a0CXt6aNWiDoWHqWS1be6l2Kx7Y_GDoxkmPUop-t4qw/w511-h371/ATTIP%20-TTSA.png" width="511" /></a></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In recent years, some U.S. ex-military and intelligence figures have become involved in promoting the idea that UFOs constitute a threat — to air safety, national security, and perhaps that of the entire planet. Their tactics are indistinguishable from some of the actions by manipulators in André Maurois’ 1927 tale, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The War Against the Moon</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. . .</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you know of early instances of the alien threat concept we’ve overlooked, or have any suggestions or corrections, please drop us a note, either in the comment section or by email.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Acknowledgements</b>
Thanks to the many helping hands since I began collecting information on this topic back in 2011: SMiles Lewis - Shepherd Johnson - Isaac Koi - Drew Williamson - Martin Kottmeyer - Ricky Poole – and many others here and there.
</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p></div></div>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-85104433569579433242023-08-03T08:00:00.003-05:002023-08-03T08:00:00.154-05:00Crashed Flying Saucers and the Hydra Club<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwKDZcwx7WKMzRqJJ7Wh-3h-ivAjuQkSb-mGHmN6qGRimUJZjZ1v9SJRv8r8XASAX_JjpcDbC5FIoBi_7ep_tJPqp20Pcvj_ecBdQ5mSncEksBMd_1suI-Ml__KjQPtKmAJGQEoZCMYYg884u8ikE4417neY0eP0UrRyyRzOjoEf__Po_PjQulFO7v9Fg/s825/Crashed%20Flying%20Saucers%20and%20the%20Hydra%20Club.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwKDZcwx7WKMzRqJJ7Wh-3h-ivAjuQkSb-mGHmN6qGRimUJZjZ1v9SJRv8r8XASAX_JjpcDbC5FIoBi_7ep_tJPqp20Pcvj_ecBdQ5mSncEksBMd_1suI-Ml__KjQPtKmAJGQEoZCMYYg884u8ikE4417neY0eP0UrRyyRzOjoEf__Po_PjQulFO7v9Fg/w640-h334/Crashed%20Flying%20Saucers%20and%20the%20Hydra%20Club.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Caption: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fletcher Pratt and the Roswell UFO crash via The X-files</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In January 1950, newspapers reported the autopsy of small extraterrestrial bodies from a flying saucer captured by the U.S. government, information from insiders, “confidential sources” disclosed via a reputable journalist and military expert. Ufologists later cited the report as credible supporting evidence of Roswell and other crash-retrieval cases. Who leaked the story, and how?</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-3d76d1c8-7fff-1a96-23bd-04c8649f99e3" style="font-size: medium;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhibghPPLw6COfWkU43kB2wQUE7ap1VekOrmfea6I2VH4wQ0lAvHHJMQkekflL0RVmNsSoKAuLZv7emmZTAg0AVV-7EJdgK6JbTDpRbwG1J0XHhR6Gf9TKw33RRuWW_NanYNTptrvV2BONlxpspxbCwdRdOONPxnjHatjwvwLz0_CNx7aWOyf6Pl2UsEZE/s687/Fletcher%20Pratt%20-%20Wonder%20Stories%20Quarterly,%20Winter%201932.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="506" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhibghPPLw6COfWkU43kB2wQUE7ap1VekOrmfea6I2VH4wQ0lAvHHJMQkekflL0RVmNsSoKAuLZv7emmZTAg0AVV-7EJdgK6JbTDpRbwG1J0XHhR6Gf9TKw33RRuWW_NanYNTptrvV2BONlxpspxbCwdRdOONPxnjHatjwvwLz0_CNx7aWOyf6Pl2UsEZE/s320/Fletcher%20Pratt%20-%20Wonder%20Stories%20Quarterly,%20Winter%201932.JPG" width="236" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fletcher Pratt
</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Wonder Stories Quarterly</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Winter 1932</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>Murray Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) was a prolific author, primarily of naval and military history. He was also famous for his science fiction and fantasy, frequently written in collaboration with L. Sprague de Camp.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidXzY0rpzGgAGuBrb7gveDUK4YJCOeQDmfIuTINrh_aoSytLR8kkb4rGBxPlUD_fe4oA1G3EvBGStbkkfyIYLEM0JQxuGwAjskrre_s0lo_dyeQDkJ1nluLu-INdTt_qplEb9H_JFM8SJfqxslmSeQTHjvF3S_vEqrIBxFas9bNpE5xqNONLZjTItoqCQ/s456/Modern%20Science%20Fiction%201953.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="456" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidXzY0rpzGgAGuBrb7gveDUK4YJCOeQDmfIuTINrh_aoSytLR8kkb4rGBxPlUD_fe4oA1G3EvBGStbkkfyIYLEM0JQxuGwAjskrre_s0lo_dyeQDkJ1nluLu-INdTt_qplEb9H_JFM8SJfqxslmSeQTHjvF3S_vEqrIBxFas9bNpE5xqNONLZjTItoqCQ/w640-h478/Modern%20Science%20Fiction%201953.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fletcher Pratt bio from </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Modern Science Fiction</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> 1953</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A UFO crash opened one of Pratt’s early science fiction stories, an alien encounter story written fifteen years before the flying saucers of 1947.</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyDtwmqLHHkJAxRVERtGcSb9lZiC7nsTtau-nVqcDDpZhhSFDQ_kH5hFB1d_RlTzDwCLT6XBrli43aVcvpUe8Q84NXW_4lSmWVDAArJcrFqwS15zS4b7oCirzucjPyqsHWbInUfXMkaiTPnH2WPpd5wxB_Youe_pFUxMRRq-pWKJawQAUJt5ysRXxl6Bg/s727/Amazing%20Stories%20Quarterly.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="727" data-original-width="494" height="689" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyDtwmqLHHkJAxRVERtGcSb9lZiC7nsTtau-nVqcDDpZhhSFDQ_kH5hFB1d_RlTzDwCLT6XBrli43aVcvpUe8Q84NXW_4lSmWVDAArJcrFqwS15zS4b7oCirzucjPyqsHWbInUfXMkaiTPnH2WPpd5wxB_Youe_pFUxMRRq-pWKJawQAUJt5ysRXxl6Bg/w467-h689/Amazing%20Stories%20Quarterly.JPG" width="467" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Amazing Stories Quarterly</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Winter 1932</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“A Voice Across the Years” was a novella published in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_Quarterly_v05n01_1932-Winter_pulpscans-cape1736/page/n3/mode/2up" target="_blank">Amazing Stories Quarterly</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_Quarterly_v05n01_1932-Winter_pulpscans-cape1736/page/n3/mode/2up" target="_blank">, Winter 1932</a>, by Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Pratt, illustrated by Hans Wessolowski. Two men see a “meteor” crash into a lake and go to investigate. There, they eventually meet and befriend an extraterrestrial shaken from the crash of his “cometary car.” The spaceship is irretrievable, so they assist the alien in construction of a new one. Just as it’s finished, the police come to capture him. In an unintentional abduction, one man is trapped inside the ship as the alien takes off for another world.</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnlBJdY4hfNoQlFrf3tT3nsacd4pWvQUVf3v-9aJnbJEB4YG9dn6aIYUZmWL1SeEhwQjupDvrM9ex1Ys-lciN8fVMs0QdxDR3i9QC92x2aFDvA7r8F_gZoY8BCWgiZHPnSOBe9C2rpCuqgqY64SPAE82d5sxE9qAN7PJv7YzrwbNhG98rh4GznPuzPF50/s600/Alien%20Planet%201962.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="522" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnlBJdY4hfNoQlFrf3tT3nsacd4pWvQUVf3v-9aJnbJEB4YG9dn6aIYUZmWL1SeEhwQjupDvrM9ex1Ys-lciN8fVMs0QdxDR3i9QC92x2aFDvA7r8F_gZoY8BCWgiZHPnSOBe9C2rpCuqgqY64SPAE82d5sxE9qAN7PJv7YzrwbNhG98rh4GznPuzPF50/w348-h400/Alien%20Planet%201962.jpg" width="348" /></a></span></div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Thirty years later, the story was edited and expanded by Pratt’s widow, Inga, and published as the 1962 book, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Alien Planet</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. Cover artist Ed Emshwiller depicted the alien’s circular spaceship with a flattened appearance, making it look very much like a flying saucer.</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH0e2Lhi0iOtCs9BeH6kAVZRODjxK-rATrOqMbWSqRTMoX67BIDxvSmzHCyMZnvIJuUe5FPpOkY1RN0f3317-pJsU6YM2RZ5VglO333wP2omS2WgMKSIXCZCC3nvnHPCzZ3KqICJe6EXK1b2ljIfduhN-IAQhrBNxpQPo8G1W5nBoiafTHXjH8eKlEzH4/s693/Astounding%20Oct.%201954%20-%20Hydra%20Club%20SF%20Book%20Club%20ad.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="693" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH0e2Lhi0iOtCs9BeH6kAVZRODjxK-rATrOqMbWSqRTMoX67BIDxvSmzHCyMZnvIJuUe5FPpOkY1RN0f3317-pJsU6YM2RZ5VglO333wP2omS2WgMKSIXCZCC3nvnHPCzZ3KqICJe6EXK1b2ljIfduhN-IAQhrBNxpQPo8G1W5nBoiafTHXjH8eKlEzH4/w640-h540/Astounding%20Oct.%201954%20-%20Hydra%20Club%20SF%20Book%20Club%20ad.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Astounding</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Oct. 1954 - SF Book Club ad </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the early 1950s Fletcher Pratt was among the top science fiction authors, and a member of an elite network of professionals sharing common interests.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Hydra Club</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In October of 1947, a group of professional science fiction writers and editors founded a group in New York, calling themselves the Hydra Club. The founding members included: Lester del Rey, David A. Kyle, Judith Merril, and Frederik Pohl. Lester del Rey described the early days at his </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112655/http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2011/01/fletcher-pratt-part-2-the-place-where-things-happened/ " target="_blank">The Way the Future Was</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> blog:</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><blockquote>“There were nine of us. The mythological Hydra was said to have nine heads. That was good enough, so we called it The Hydra Club and began beating the brush for members. In the process of inviting all the area’s sf writers and editors whose addresses we could locate, Fletcher Pratt was one of the first we reeled in. He was a key recruit. We original nine of course knew all the book and magazine editors, and most of the writers, in the area. Fletcher knew everybody else…”</blockquote></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Besides Fletcher Pratt, they were later joined by more than forty others, including: L. Jerome Stanton, Hans Stefan Santesson, Willy Ley, Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, and L. Sprague de Camp. The group’s early history was chronicled in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160307102621/https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6635968041_fb9c93a8b3_o.jpg" target="_blank">Marvel Science Fiction</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160307102621/https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6635968041_fb9c93a8b3_o.jpg" target="_blank"> Nov. 1951</a>, by Judith Merril, with art by Harry Harrison:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3REePuK_RZ3v9a6drjpm0Im3JKHBzQNr5YERsCIbFpvN5R0iEt0FBIdFIYrvfac6ypJ3hIep_-cq_kN5OFFlMMl8ksqKgzsQe9SxJoH82p1P-OTfGd530s4hzWBxow-Q7BVeTU55W6c6QwBLjnpQ5Y-2lf6vLxDVoIDmY9c-UU6O0R27QXzxJAP8XXy8/s1187/Hydra%20Club%20-%20Marvel%20Science%20Fiction%20Nov.%201951.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="935" data-original-width="1187" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3REePuK_RZ3v9a6drjpm0Im3JKHBzQNr5YERsCIbFpvN5R0iEt0FBIdFIYrvfac6ypJ3hIep_-cq_kN5OFFlMMl8ksqKgzsQe9SxJoH82p1P-OTfGd530s4hzWBxow-Q7BVeTU55W6c6QwBLjnpQ5Y-2lf6vLxDVoIDmY9c-UU6O0R27QXzxJAP8XXy8/w640-h504/Hydra%20Club%20-%20Marvel%20Science%20Fiction%20Nov.%201951.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Founding member David A. Kyle wrote "The Legendary Hydra Club" for <a href="http://jophan.org/mimosa/m25/kyle.htm" target="_blank">Mimosa 25,</a></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="http://jophan.org/mimosa/m25/kyle.htm" target="_blank"> </a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="http://jophan.org/mimosa/m25/kyle.htm" target="_blank">April 2000</a>. The group held monthly meetings at the homes of members or in a rented hall, and once hosted a convention, “the famous New York Science Fiction Conference of July 1-3, 1950, sometimes known as the '<a href="https://fancyclopedia.org/Hydracon" target="_blank">Hydracon</a>'. …Over 300 authors, publishers, scientists, and interested spectators attended. … </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Life</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> magazine covered the event and [published a] panoramic picture of the assembled diners at the banquet.”</span><a href="https://fancyclopedia.org/Hydracon" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivT4SNGd1MQXhHnl3fMYFf4jJdkRqZpTL9yGFoQvDd70BJ3xgKrh542B0p2x00gBiHvVj5Q29ziFv7mFPgvLJzp9q4AIxUr3yR9fYzsMLKKnIruXXEkWyE_F67n-GjNl9U5OQdDgFXITKdUCuYkKcm8gaEqtMdiIp1U3xTyjK3v_5u5O7iTX_1kS6CAhk/s1102/Hydra%20Club%201950.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="729" data-original-width="1102" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivT4SNGd1MQXhHnl3fMYFf4jJdkRqZpTL9yGFoQvDd70BJ3xgKrh542B0p2x00gBiHvVj5Q29ziFv7mFPgvLJzp9q4AIxUr3yR9fYzsMLKKnIruXXEkWyE_F67n-GjNl9U5OQdDgFXITKdUCuYkKcm8gaEqtMdiIp1U3xTyjK3v_5u5O7iTX_1kS6CAhk/w640-h424/Hydra%20Club%201950.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Life</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> magazine May 21, 1951</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span><br />The photo was included in </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“</span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fVEEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=Life%20magazine%20May%2021%2C%201951&pg=PA127#v=onepage&q&f=false " style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">Through the Interstellar Looking Glass</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">” by Winthrop Sargeant was a look inside the world of science fiction fandom. It also discussed the “rumpus that rocked the world of science fiction—the Shaver hoax… The deros were responsible for... catastrophes, from shipwrecks to sprained ankles... for the reports of flying saucers." </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hydra Club members were serious about their science fiction but skeptical about things in popular culture they considered unscientific: Dianetics, Velikovsky, Atlantis, reincarnation and so on. They’d groaned at Ray Palmer presenting the Shaver Mystery tales as true in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Amazing Stories</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, and to them, flying saucer mania was cut from the same cloth. At club gatherings, these pseudo-scientific topics could be the target of criticism, jokes, or satire. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilQKDeLIfmFPUnyAVM9wmuyVE7NOZzCOKDEYXgSze04s9jaJMhFDgWDtDLD8hHos7bz19Lz2bh63COaMxLNUDD-ggQjnTh1fBCrPk_k0q6nGVs-5Xj_I8t0mDUjWCq2AanTBh5U3hIVi62l-SThr_EebTOcRLhIrExjVK-hIEMXhh5KEC1SXZq9pi1tUg/s2427/Fletcher%20Pratt%20-%20L.%20Sprague%20de%20Camp.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1995" data-original-width="2427" height="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilQKDeLIfmFPUnyAVM9wmuyVE7NOZzCOKDEYXgSze04s9jaJMhFDgWDtDLD8hHos7bz19Lz2bh63COaMxLNUDD-ggQjnTh1fBCrPk_k0q6nGVs-5Xj_I8t0mDUjWCq2AanTBh5U3hIVi62l-SThr_EebTOcRLhIrExjVK-hIEMXhh5KEC1SXZq9pi1tUg/w492-h405/Fletcher%20Pratt%20-%20L.%20Sprague%20de%20Camp.jpg" width="492" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Photo from “<a href=" https://spraguedecampfan.wordpress.com/tag/fletcher-pratt/" target="_blank">Review: The Compleat Enchanter</a>” by Phil Sawyer</span><a href="https://spraguedecampfan.wordpress.com/tag/fletcher-pratt/" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Kyle wrote, “A Hydra Club meeting was always a party… The biggest and best” was held in 1949 on New Year's Eve. Several reporters were present, and their stories on it appeared in the press, including </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The New York Times</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. One reporter present was from the French international news agency, Agence France-Presse (AFP). His story focused solely on a talk given by Fletcher Pratt, and it appeared in French in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Var-Matin République</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Jan. 1-2, 1950, and in the English language daily newspaper in Rangoon, Burma, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Nation</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Jan. 2, 1950. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>“Flying Disc” Visitors From Strange Planet</b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bodies of 3-Foot High “Strange Creatures” in American Hand</span>s</div></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">New York, December 31. -- The American newspaper man, Fletcher Pratt, a former U.S. war correspondent, today claimed that contrary to recent official announcement, flying saucers were not a product of the imagination but visitors from another planet.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Speaking at a meeting sponsored by science magazine, Fletcher Pratt said that according to “confidential sources”’ one of such flying discs together with its occupants -- all of them dead --had fallen into the hands of American authorities. These visitors from another world were killed, Pratt said when their flying disc entered the atmosphere of the earth. Atmospheric pressure proved fatal to them and their bodies were now being dissected and studied, he claimed. Quoting the same source, Pratt said the interplanetary travelers were “strange creatures”. -- AFP.</span></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTG-SDALfswiCLIGMp1zVA_Y_lSeKk-npleElChc-r-oAQ65ces7weGvTd-Me6pWBfwZBk7KWd01fm8WTXDJ-zarLUfaMQnCZ7eF0e-PxnbzUVwMz0T_ljZvhRTmIgbJB9vK9MJBn3klRbebcRbRxlhMoC_pnD3uMKueDFQexSaTlopJF_eK4i0AWnmk4/s693/1950%2001%2001%20Var-Matin%20R%C3%A9publique,%20Jan.%201-2,%201950.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="693" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTG-SDALfswiCLIGMp1zVA_Y_lSeKk-npleElChc-r-oAQ65ces7weGvTd-Me6pWBfwZBk7KWd01fm8WTXDJ-zarLUfaMQnCZ7eF0e-PxnbzUVwMz0T_ljZvhRTmIgbJB9vK9MJBn3klRbebcRbRxlhMoC_pnD3uMKueDFQexSaTlopJF_eK4i0AWnmk4/w640-h274/1950%2001%2001%20Var-Matin%20R%C3%A9publique,%20Jan.%201-2,%201950.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Var-Matin République</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Jan. 1-2, 1950 (transcribed by Patrice Seray)</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb67fN6FzW6MP-p2EEsdkWTUXdw8ceht9KmTPN8ppOQCojJRDcXFw0hsctOiQbeiqsCO-nEQCbhetxSLMk_Yl_qQy8uO2RHOQ0XVKF_1pSqG9pLRzEm-9VABFzrvSDLW1IQC1EirCn0Ylj9zfpOX8iuxPAh-SoFaY14hZHh78sTheXwvgzf7OhkZY7yqM/s939/1950%2001%2002%20The%20Nation%20Jan.%202,%201950%20-Rangoon,%20Burma.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="939" data-original-width="505" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb67fN6FzW6MP-p2EEsdkWTUXdw8ceht9KmTPN8ppOQCojJRDcXFw0hsctOiQbeiqsCO-nEQCbhetxSLMk_Yl_qQy8uO2RHOQ0XVKF_1pSqG9pLRzEm-9VABFzrvSDLW1IQC1EirCn0Ylj9zfpOX8iuxPAh-SoFaY14hZHh78sTheXwvgzf7OhkZY7yqM/w344-h640/1950%2001%2002%20The%20Nation%20Jan.%202,%201950%20-Rangoon,%20Burma.jpg" width="344" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Nation</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Jan. 2, 1950 </span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Amazing if true. Let’s see what other reporters made of the speech. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Weird, Astounding</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At the end of 1949, spaceships and aliens were headline news due to the release of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">True</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> magazine’s article by Donald E. Keyhoe, “The Flying Saucers are Real.” Also, Hollywood gossip columnist Frank Scully had published two </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Variety</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> articles late in the year (based on the claims of Silas Newton) about the U.S. military’s capture of flying saucers and the bodies of the little aliens inside. At the Hydra Club’s holiday party for 1949, Pratt spoke on the topic of saucers. Here’s an account, co-written by one of the club members, “Weird, Astounding” in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The New Yorker,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> January 21, 1950, page 19, b</span><span style="color: #6a6a6a; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">y</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Jerome Stanton and John McCarten: </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><blockquote>“We were invited down to Werdermann's Hall, on lower Third Avenue, the other evening to attend the annual party of the Hydra Club, an outfit composed of writers of science fiction... Fletcher Pratt appeared on the platform and made a speech about flying saucers, which he branded a big fake. He was followed by Mr. [Willy] Ley, who told a story about the footprints of an aardvark being mistaken for those of a dinosaur and expressed agreement with Mr. Pratt's conclusion as to flying saucers. A man about five feet tall interrupted the proceedings at this point, screaming ‘Leave the saucers as a matter of faith!’ "That's Lester del Rey," a gentleman next to us said. "One of the best in the field." </blockquote></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5NMkYEBmkvyJwQjW0u1zRueGShzfvGFsz1SpG6BYjyHfHYgN_LUbUSk6yVGWxcRgZ4l0avqWW3BJ0WJSGdlRsVC7po0qzQwFOb3lJ1lxhWdPk6evaABBYi8hrm2l-oAdlbWxPYuz6-izRaZx6TuJ4clUXJ265RtQfpDsvXgOI5Nzv1-YseFfGeXMxrGc/s729/The%20New%20Yorker%20Jan.%2021,%201950.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="729" data-original-width="530" height="737" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5NMkYEBmkvyJwQjW0u1zRueGShzfvGFsz1SpG6BYjyHfHYgN_LUbUSk6yVGWxcRgZ4l0avqWW3BJ0WJSGdlRsVC7po0qzQwFOb3lJ1lxhWdPk6evaABBYi8hrm2l-oAdlbWxPYuz6-izRaZx6TuJ4clUXJ265RtQfpDsvXgOI5Nzv1-YseFfGeXMxrGc/w537-h737/The%20New%20Yorker%20Jan.%2021,%201950.jpg" width="537" /></a></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The New York Times</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Jan. 2, 1950,<a href="https://sciencefiction.loa.org/timeline.php " target="_blank"> discussed the party</a>, but only in business terms, “Science fiction has made incredible progress in the past two decades, graduating from the pulp magazine era to its modern respectability of hard-cover books…” There was no mention of saucers.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University houses the <a href="https://library.syracuse.edu/digital/guides/print/pratt_f_prt.htm" target="_blank">Fletcher Pratt Papers</a>; his correspondence, manuscripts, scrapbooks, and memorabilia. Hoping to locate the text of Pratt’s 1949 flying saucer speech, I contacted the SCRC librarian. Nothing was found about crashed flying saucers or the talk: “No speeches of any kind, unfortunately, and definitely not one from the Hydra Club party.” It may have been that Pratt’s saucer talk that night were no more than impromptu remarks.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This AFP’s sensational saucer story was given a one sentence summary in the 1980 book by Charles Berlitz and William Moore, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Roswell Incident</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, along with these comments:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“This further reference to a Roswell-type incident was, of course, denied in official circles with the customary vehemence. However, it must not be forgotten that Fletcher Pratt was a reputable military historian with a historian's regard for the highest possible accuracy of information and therefore would have been reticent to accept a report dealing with startling information from an unreliable source.” </span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">With the conflicting news accounts and the interpretation by Roswell crash authors, one might wonder where Fletcher Pratt really stood on the phenomenal topic. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9nFGr4HXzih-i0v9WjprmApyWjKxpHAw8w52r_DszJ--F1T8E06OB20-1EaIi_wdA2BfFnkQa68xi2uqZuE5WUDwJ9iwH0Z2b9r2JNNn5Q5Ra7fPB5TXVthXClXJriP6R823LHnndJG1etNA0adOeYqbfp7bSTU5YfFtqdVK6RexgRGiJwjcM2M4dh20/s967/Saucer%20Men.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="967" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9nFGr4HXzih-i0v9WjprmApyWjKxpHAw8w52r_DszJ--F1T8E06OB20-1EaIi_wdA2BfFnkQa68xi2uqZuE5WUDwJ9iwH0Z2b9r2JNNn5Q5Ra7fPB5TXVthXClXJriP6R823LHnndJG1etNA0adOeYqbfp7bSTU5YfFtqdVK6RexgRGiJwjcM2M4dh20/w400-h300/Saucer%20Men.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mechanix Illustrated</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> June, 1951 </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Scientists had announced that life was probable throughout our galaxy, and in “<a href="https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/how-scientists-visualize-the-real-flying-saucer-men.338406/" target="_blank">How Scientists Visualize the REAL Flying Saucer Men</a>,”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mechanix Illustrated</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> checked with a couple of science fiction authors. John W. Campbell said, “There is every reason to suppose that life on Venus, or on any other planet, if it has developed to a high level, has taken human form. But this form would have to conform to the specific conditions of the planet.” Fletcher Pratt played along but reasoned that if it were possible, “any life form there must be completely different from ours.”</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Saturday%20Review/1953%2003%2014_Saturday%20Review_Review%20of%20Menzel%20book.pdf#page=1" target="_blank">Saturday Review</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Saturday%20Review/1953%2003%2014_Saturday%20Review_Review%20of%20Menzel%20book.pdf#page=1" target="_blank">, March 14, 1953</a>, Pratt gave a favorable review of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Flying Saucers</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> by Donald H. Menzel.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1l9MaAyP_tbRRHvoLOP6Nel1ZATEBGaXKOzNsLmNpyyed-kc8ccJEfrcFN1DDhyGPJ_Sc4H-GUEYFYr1uCtAQEDSXkedBCREo89YLWqFnzTqofsexRfnmvRM_Fffx2JEn35fBI7OK7EMVG_tJs-lE8pK89p1Izn3E8P0JLyW646JeMhWsSJzOcPGP27A/s612/Flying%20Saucers%20by%20Donald%20H.%20Menzel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="612" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1l9MaAyP_tbRRHvoLOP6Nel1ZATEBGaXKOzNsLmNpyyed-kc8ccJEfrcFN1DDhyGPJ_Sc4H-GUEYFYr1uCtAQEDSXkedBCREo89YLWqFnzTqofsexRfnmvRM_Fffx2JEn35fBI7OK7EMVG_tJs-lE8pK89p1Izn3E8P0JLyW646JeMhWsSJzOcPGP27A/w400-h333/Flying%20Saucers%20by%20Donald%20H.%20Menzel.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Among the many answers are mirage, auroral phenomena, formations of ice crystals in the upper air, sun dogs, moon dogs. reflections of earthly objects or the moon on layers of mist... In other words, almost anything but little green men from Venus or educated bees from Mars. It is rather a pity that a good scientist had to take time from his work to clear up this clotted nonsense, but now that he has done it we can all be glad he did. And it certainly makes good reading.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDww0RbQvoQWauKOm5P1iiTJiZ5egGmbdygIjnPaUs5YcDJI2WQuL1z2au0WdfaZSS8WQcVXMEW9r8GqCggomVwZVsZsll-8R8u-2KxohvUwGKewCbwQgkS1VRLCYsmCowl-sYrZSn1e7fCgvlCx14wp2BZthCMYsld_Oy3VFQRHzMCk9FpaSEsOgrR7Y/s340/Pratt%20LGM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="325" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDww0RbQvoQWauKOm5P1iiTJiZ5egGmbdygIjnPaUs5YcDJI2WQuL1z2au0WdfaZSS8WQcVXMEW9r8GqCggomVwZVsZsll-8R8u-2KxohvUwGKewCbwQgkS1VRLCYsmCowl-sYrZSn1e7fCgvlCx14wp2BZthCMYsld_Oy3VFQRHzMCk9FpaSEsOgrR7Y/w383-h400/Pratt%20LGM.jpg" width="383" /></a></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Hydra Club on UFOs, and Little Green Men from Afar</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fletcher Pratt was a key member of the Hydra Club. He died of cancer in 1956 and his obituary was published in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The New York Times</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, June 11, 1956 </span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiih6HnlcYZNa9xLMT094f2E8vzuwqODsF1QSJ9mJkP8r354dw9IKT_RILMfDOYcAMJWQDNqFICR-SoC9eCNWd-kxIVPYsqFvbNeA0WpGg4lUzhi4u_mO3WoZ8gcCB95quTa3UeMxsPvirOR8w0WbSqh97OPX3R3yU2n6ARRGozUI5k01a8YSD6u1mEN24/s1278/1956%2006%2011%20The%20New%20York%20Times.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1278" data-original-width="456" height="1320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiih6HnlcYZNa9xLMT094f2E8vzuwqODsF1QSJ9mJkP8r354dw9IKT_RILMfDOYcAMJWQDNqFICR-SoC9eCNWd-kxIVPYsqFvbNeA0WpGg4lUzhi4u_mO3WoZ8gcCB95quTa3UeMxsPvirOR8w0WbSqh97OPX3R3yU2n6ARRGozUI5k01a8YSD6u1mEN24/w471-h1320/1956%2006%2011%20The%20New%20York%20Times.JPG" width="471" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(Full text)</span><a href="http://www.northofseveycorners.com/write/pratt.htm" style="text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">http://www.northofseveycorners.com/write/pratt.htm</span></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">According to </span><a href="https://fanac.org/fanzines/Mimosa/Mimosa26.pdf" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">Dave Kyle</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, the Hydra Club faded away sometime in the 1960s. Both before and after the club’s demise, several members had some things to say on the topic of UFOs.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Lester del Rey</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> was a frequent Panelist on Long John Nebel’s Party Line radio show, and wrote “The Saucer Myth” in </span><a href="https://archive.org/stream/Fantastic_Universe_v08n02_1957-08#page/n5/mode/2up" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fantastic Universe</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Aug. 1957</span></a>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Frederik Pohl</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> informally investigated the 1964 Lonnie Zamora case in Socorro, NM, and wrote a skeptical UFO editorial about it, “Air and Space” in </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/1965-09_IF/page/n3/mode/2up" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Worlds of</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">IF</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/1965-09_IF/page/n3/mode/2up" target="_blank"> Sept. 1965</a>.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">L. Jerome Stanton</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> wrote a skeptical UFO book, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Flying Saucers: Hoax or Reality?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, 1966.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hans Stefan Santesson</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> edited </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/07/fantastic-universe-ufos-and-civilian.html" target="_blank">Fantastic Universe</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> magazine where he frequently featured non-fiction articles by ufologists.</span><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/07/fantastic-universe-ufos-and-civilian.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Willy Ley</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> frequently discussed UFOs skeptically and took the negative side of the debate against <a href="https://tangentonline.com/the-pulp-magazines/the-pulp-magazines-the-pulp-magazines/flying-saucers-a-the-stymie-factor-by-raymond-a-palmer/" target="_blank">Ray Palmer</a> in 1950. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He also slammed saucers on the CBS talk show, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://youtu.be/nS1Gte6KPX4" target="_blank">Longines Chronoscope</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://youtu.be/nS1Gte6KPX4" target="_blank">, Aug. 4, 1952</a>.</span><a href="https://youtu.be/nS1Gte6KPX4" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Isaac Asimov</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> wrote a favorable review of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Flying Saucers</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> by Donald H. Menzel in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Galaxy Science Fiction</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> July 1953, and closed by saying, “My own personal use for it will involve braining with its edge the next innocent who says: ‘But don’t all science-fiction writers believe in flying saucers?’”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">L. Sprague de Camp</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> also gave a positive review of Menzel’s book, for </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Science Fiction Quarterly</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, November 1953, saying, </span><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“As an old debunker, I can tell you that one of our species’ odder characteristics is that they will pay much more to be bunked than to be debunked.” Two decades later, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">L. Sprague de Camp wrote “<a href="https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/literature/fiction/science_fiction/08%20-%20Little%20Green%20Men%20from%20Afar%20by%20L.%20Sprague%20de%20Camp.txt " target="_blank">Little Green Men from Afar</a>'' as a lecture for the conference where the notorious Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, CSI was founded, "The New Irrationalisms: Antiscience and Pseudoscience," April 30-May 1, 1976, at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His lecture started by discussing the same topic as Fletcher Pratt’s 1949 speech Silas Newton’s flying saucer hoax. Then he turned to the broader issue: </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“The story of pseudoscientific cultism, of which the enlighteners in UFOs form but one small part, is depressing to believers in human rationality. Some cultist ideas… are so absurd that they beguile few followers and soon fade away. Others attract huge followings and persist for generations.” </span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Theodore Sturgeon</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> reviewed two UFO books in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v35n11_1974-11/page/n153/mode/2up " target="_blank">Galaxy</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v35n11_1974-11/page/n153/mode/2up " target="_blank"> science fiction</a> magazine, Nov. 1974, saying:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“My personal opinion on the whole subject… is that yes, there are UFOs, and no, I have no opinions as to what they are, where they come from, or why, being perfectly content to wait for further evidence — ‘hardware or bodies,’ as the late Fletcher Pratt used to say.”</span></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4XrY3XFMioK9Mk1GUNDlzOYWMfpVaFV-Xfx7EFiIVXLdkLQyi-6wJDuXBFLRWV1P04hL2NiHKpEtY9YvyRrNLuVXXobqildRHIbIJvW9THfRzbC2n_jfvp3eMyZE5BE5jKQHnpbAN0VG_yA4dertHvxxuUOsDbOowTPKgatxEursCovi3decPRV7xZKc/s600/Pratt%20Saucer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="600" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4XrY3XFMioK9Mk1GUNDlzOYWMfpVaFV-Xfx7EFiIVXLdkLQyi-6wJDuXBFLRWV1P04hL2NiHKpEtY9YvyRrNLuVXXobqildRHIbIJvW9THfRzbC2n_jfvp3eMyZE5BE5jKQHnpbAN0VG_yA4dertHvxxuUOsDbOowTPKgatxEursCovi3decPRV7xZKc/w640-h330/Pratt%20Saucer.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fletcher Pratt became a footnote in UFO history for making fun of flying saucers at a Hydra Club party. All because someone didn’t get the joke. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. . .</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">For Further Reading</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://endlessbookshelf.net/fletcherpratt.html" target="_blank">Fletcher Pratt, Military & Naval Historian</a> by Henry Wessells</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> )</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">L. Sprague de Camp’s “<a href="https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/literature/fiction/science_fiction/08%20-%20Little%20Green%20Men%20from%20Afar%20by%20L.%20Sprague%20de%20Camp.txt " target="_blank">Little Green Men from Afar</a>” was published as an essay in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Humanist</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July/Aug. 1976. In recognition of his lifetime achievement, de Camp was awarded the Grand Master Nebula of 1978 by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Editor Frederik Pohl chose de Camp’s essay to represent his work in the 1980 book, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Nebula Winners Fourteen</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, and it also was presented in two other collections:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Fringe of the Unknown</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, by L. Sprague de Camp, 1983</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The SFWA Grand Masters</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Volume 1, edited by Frederik Pohl, 1999</span></span></p>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-36190097442415652182023-07-20T08:00:00.028-05:002023-07-20T08:00:00.149-05:00The Rocket Expert Who Stopped the War on UFOs<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoHKxfAqr1uLLeYzwht58OjY0gtAaWgSSm8Ww8yk11d0NtcVyjxQzelKsyWW2HcZFwmgiV88rZbhoKl9CgVhpfcvCnub23_NlsOjZdrsk6Ofa_XIDQo9kGZ4kq3T8MBQzFGj7mHs6XgZbnSJC7Bs9IIROvP9m7h8RtBw3RlXgo8qwyzxTzxHfzYV3p6ls/s825/Robert%20F.%20Farnsworth%20Warns.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoHKxfAqr1uLLeYzwht58OjY0gtAaWgSSm8Ww8yk11d0NtcVyjxQzelKsyWW2HcZFwmgiV88rZbhoKl9CgVhpfcvCnub23_NlsOjZdrsk6Ofa_XIDQo9kGZ4kq3T8MBQzFGj7mHs6XgZbnSJC7Bs9IIROvP9m7h8RtBw3RlXgo8qwyzxTzxHfzYV3p6ls/w640-h334/Robert%20F.%20Farnsworth%20Warns.png" width="640" /></span></a></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d48ef8b0-7fff-18c5-889d-efefef01c375"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Looking for perspective on the flying saucer panic of 1952, newspapers turned to experts in science and space travel.</span><a href="http://www.nicap.org/articles/newsarticlesJuly1952.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Washington Daily News</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 28, 1952, quoted a rocket specialist: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Several scientists, tho stumped for an explanation of ‘flying saucers’ today said they’re convinced the mysterious objects really exist.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">‘I definitely believe the objects sighted over Washington were not a figment of someone’s imagination,’ said Robert L. Farnsworth, president of the U.S. Rocket Society, a reputable organization devoted to the study of rocket travel. He said, ‘there is a possibility’ they are interplanetary space ships.” </span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">R. L. Farnsworth would go on to make one of the most famous statements ever on the topic of UFOs and aliens. We’ll look at who was, his beliefs, and the organization he led. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Rocket Society</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The <a href="https://www.aiaa.org/about/History-and-Heritage/AIAA-History-Introduction#the-ars-%E2%80%93-early-years-(1930-1944)" target="_blank">American Rocket Society</a> was founded in 1930 by some space enthusiasts, however, it rapidly evolved into a prestigious professional and technical association. According to the group’s history by 1934, “Most of the original science fiction crowd had left, to be replaced by scientists and engineers.” The ARS had very little to do with flying saucers<b>*</b> but there was another group, and the press probably mixed up the two.</span><a href="https://www.aiaa.org/about/History-and-Heritage/AIAA-History-Introduction#the-ars-%E2%80%93-early-years-(1930-1944)" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjecvnTvpVDcAxrawh07Cb1tONw75JAghmtBGiFVzb-_m_eCDNbgR4ugiQFlfZqPOZQk7cuy6ZWssb9L_nBbqJxUe1C9MG4nMj9mVyTokAQEA3TV6Je4nBlY-wz0u7gd0Nit3QV-oMXB9SLwfK3FstLD3wvH0J8gt16wmOKLsqaawcEt8x-kbAZlTLlSYA/s879/spaceways%201942.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="879" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjecvnTvpVDcAxrawh07Cb1tONw75JAghmtBGiFVzb-_m_eCDNbgR4ugiQFlfZqPOZQk7cuy6ZWssb9L_nBbqJxUe1C9MG4nMj9mVyTokAQEA3TV6Je4nBlY-wz0u7gd0Nit3QV-oMXB9SLwfK3FstLD3wvH0J8gt16wmOKLsqaawcEt8x-kbAZlTLlSYA/w640-h234/spaceways%201942.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In 1942, an organization with a similar name sprung up in Illinois, the United States Rocket Society, founded and led by Robert Lee Farnsworth (1909-1998). Farnsworth was in the real estate business for most of his life, but his passion was for the stars. The USRS was essentially a fan club for proponents of rockets and space travel, and Harry Warner’s science fiction fanzine </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Spaceways </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">was listed as their “official organ.” </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnwoQ-ceOBPNsPBT4s8HtGNzkOMGTopqY8Xh8-PMWqvMmpf5yUYlujLOboN9Mz27-oF6tcu4QQFdnc6x_iUGhTOWpNbBQacYfKBtURprUeWmHrY2sYu19ISWsgb29njJL6UpX7LYJPB1dLl8A8mgQHb_DNxbwj7M4Atswcf9qlmaBBt7KZAR5OwkWAobs/s734/Rockets%201945.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="734" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnwoQ-ceOBPNsPBT4s8HtGNzkOMGTopqY8Xh8-PMWqvMmpf5yUYlujLOboN9Mz27-oF6tcu4QQFdnc6x_iUGhTOWpNbBQacYfKBtURprUeWmHrY2sYu19ISWsgb29njJL6UpX7LYJPB1dLl8A8mgQHb_DNxbwj7M4Atswcf9qlmaBBt7KZAR5OwkWAobs/w453-h341/Rockets%201945.jpg" width="453" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Well before the UFOs of 1947, Farnsworth believed in the likelihood of extraterrestrial life and visitations. In his 1943 booklet, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b80383&view=1up&seq=7 " target="_blank">Rockets: New Trail to Empire</a></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, Farnsworth said, “In times to come the Nation which owns the Moon will rule the universe!" It shouldn’t be the Nazis, he said, “Let’s get there first, - AMERICA!” In another passage he alluded to what’s become known as the “Ancient Aliens”' hypothesis, and lauded Charles Fort, “Many of the phenomena he reported pointed to life and exploration from other worlds!"</span></span></p></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge0VXWm5i6oxSqyAL16SLApeEa8zWID7HDF7AHwIKlUPWUSHAa33iphVXtfifhkG6Cq22XoW43-_lC5dx4kPQB5HMK_2CoxfjUyar0evmVP2swWI47DEAMMkVXgTp9aaci9rhftk_itpERbR6o8HFXwSVHtjgTeAfH7lfhNLJEq5c5w2wgHfmZRnk-j58/s813/Rockets%201945%20Charles%20Fort.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="813" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge0VXWm5i6oxSqyAL16SLApeEa8zWID7HDF7AHwIKlUPWUSHAa33iphVXtfifhkG6Cq22XoW43-_lC5dx4kPQB5HMK_2CoxfjUyar0evmVP2swWI47DEAMMkVXgTp9aaci9rhftk_itpERbR6o8HFXwSVHtjgTeAfH7lfhNLJEq5c5w2wgHfmZRnk-j58/w640-h432/Rockets%201945%20Charles%20Fort.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The U.S. Rocket Society received some publicity in 1944 and 1945, for Farnsworth asking US authorities about the possibility of land ownership of the moon, and of the use of atomic powered rockets to fly there. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibZzk1SgiO0PjOIF4d2zqUHRz5uUxiQ_6Gs-5LLmYfu6znYEz657CqePuwc6XnlDOSqZ0xAFu78F-5QH0PjwKP6gar2h9vN81EDO2KUTzNI4xcimiovf9AZ_Sk2rCW-i5TR28wP6bLjbDWI_Gmcpm2E5M9laxy-6tLhgm7eSN_MYobeuOU51ZTDF86pUs/s691/1945%2008%2019%20NEA%20Aug.%2019,%201945.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="288" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibZzk1SgiO0PjOIF4d2zqUHRz5uUxiQ_6Gs-5LLmYfu6znYEz657CqePuwc6XnlDOSqZ0xAFu78F-5QH0PjwKP6gar2h9vN81EDO2KUTzNI4xcimiovf9AZ_Sk2rCW-i5TR28wP6bLjbDWI_Gmcpm2E5M9laxy-6tLhgm7eSN_MYobeuOU51ZTDF86pUs/w266-h640/1945%2008%2019%20NEA%20Aug.%2019,%201945.JPG" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NEA item, Aug. 19, 1945 </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Farnsworth capitalized on the media attention and reprinted the </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Rockets</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> pamphlet in 1945. Arthur C. Clarke (of the British Interplanetary Society) received a copy and wrote a scathing essay in opposition to the idea that the moon and space should be the subject of national or commercial exploitation. In “The Moon and Mr. Farnsworth” (Later collected in </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays, 1934-1998</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">) Clarke also said, “The brochure will, I am afraid, have a deplorable effect on any intelligent layman and will attract the most undesirable type of member, if indeed it attracts any at all.” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPeu_zxmbYl9XRQF6T6UGqc1T7q7PZAxL1mrzmnVmGb4lJ0npSjea0kOoE50t8C4NvGoor5G8lkYkLXjSRTy4f36MXKp-lZbRvc_pLKfVKIcTbFxKvZJy3lmD81b8ItleC-5QO7MUCphGKcfYvLp5smejcmmOqSc9EMmNrK7QMIuhA6Ebdze1G9sbCidk/s640/Rockets%20Feb%201946.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="640" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPeu_zxmbYl9XRQF6T6UGqc1T7q7PZAxL1mrzmnVmGb4lJ0npSjea0kOoE50t8C4NvGoor5G8lkYkLXjSRTy4f36MXKp-lZbRvc_pLKfVKIcTbFxKvZJy3lmD81b8ItleC-5QO7MUCphGKcfYvLp5smejcmmOqSc9EMmNrK7QMIuhA6Ebdze1G9sbCidk/w400-h313/Rockets%20Feb%201946.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfBVBuF9XIg9-_a_Z-b3cH3q0oIQvCfGT6dG8R-VGb4pL3YKmsrD-iIkR4XFe4Tb87nTHkcUJiXc0nvP0MGbFWqEg2l5r1fBdd2qFarUEYmPi2AmHojRJDYtisITCG3iSy8wcvHPYwpRa308ldi3V_XiZK-XsEk9cK6372P16QVeDO3nw9Yyz2vxSibI/s404/Popular%20Science%20May%201946.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="404" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfBVBuF9XIg9-_a_Z-b3cH3q0oIQvCfGT6dG8R-VGb4pL3YKmsrD-iIkR4XFe4Tb87nTHkcUJiXc0nvP0MGbFWqEg2l5r1fBdd2qFarUEYmPi2AmHojRJDYtisITCG3iSy8wcvHPYwpRa308ldi3V_XiZK-XsEk9cK6372P16QVeDO3nw9Yyz2vxSibI/s320/Popular%20Science%20May%201946.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1946, USRS launched their own quarterly fanzine, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Rockets: The Magazine of Space Flight</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, featuring a mix of content about aerospace developments and science fiction. Ads for it appeared in pulps like </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Fantastic Adventures</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, and in the classifieds in magazines like </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Popular Science</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></div></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Farnsworth believed in the possibility of extraterrestrial visitations. After the reports by Kenneth Arnold and others, he speculated further. From </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Decatur Daily Review</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 8, 1947: </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Illinois' Disks Vary in Color, Speed, Height” by the Associated Press: </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“But whatever their shapes, sizes or behavior, R. L. Farnsworth, a Chicago amateur astronomer and member of the U. S. Rocket society, suggested they might be animate and came from Venus or they might be electronic eyes from Mars. It is possible, he added, that Venus had evolved a form of life able to fly by use of electric currents, such as a sting-ray fish which has an electric charge. And if they really are fish from Venus, Farnsworth said, they might find themselves out of bounds in buzzing the earth because they might not be able to survive in its atmosphere.” </span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Butte Montana Standard</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 8, 1947, carried a similar lengthier article where Farnsworth discussed Charles Fort, and the fact that strange things had been seen in the skies for hundreds of years. </span></span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVi3Zx0WLbNc8svA00FL5YwXZsXytAuQgo5N6X7-WLgW6_H3bfIGCX8bG0qtOVUqpBw9H8vE-N_4rPNNkxKO2eg3yDkCmoTztr50vZFshvoLCnQOBMuhFYCU6utR8hKYVTJWfdbaQsX6JILrQ9XyS-t4tRLzeb9eb6DBBt_53H-dvCboYEQnJVIOSn7Yw/s1066/1947%2007%2008%20Butte%20Montana%20Standard.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="786" height="689" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVi3Zx0WLbNc8svA00FL5YwXZsXytAuQgo5N6X7-WLgW6_H3bfIGCX8bG0qtOVUqpBw9H8vE-N_4rPNNkxKO2eg3yDkCmoTztr50vZFshvoLCnQOBMuhFYCU6utR8hKYVTJWfdbaQsX6JILrQ9XyS-t4tRLzeb9eb6DBBt_53H-dvCboYEQnJVIOSn7Yw/w508-h689/1947%2007%2008%20Butte%20Montana%20Standard.png" width="508" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Butte Montana Standard</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 8, 1947</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Saucers were not mentioned in the United Press article from July 11, 1947, about Farnsworth’s editorial, but it reported on his speculation that long ago, the moon might have been an atomic battleground for “Ancient Aliens.” Inhabitants flew from the dying moon to our young planet, and he hinted their secrets might have been sunk with Atlantis and Lemuria. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXUNrpI9zg59N6cqHU6DVJ12CZuqUAIAfFSvdHMYL8qtrKlNocTYUiVM_QMuvpsVi7cL6crezWL3y4AFywiEh3YkChj5Tqy8JN1OhiWuO_AeLQIG2aB1BlsoeGHW3ZKyOzVL2_dCOoDV8-D9cgojULlQNdz27UAORAH1fV84QYrD0ivTnDY4FEKY-OmYU/s601/1947%2007%2011%20UP%20Craters.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="601" height="417" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXUNrpI9zg59N6cqHU6DVJ12CZuqUAIAfFSvdHMYL8qtrKlNocTYUiVM_QMuvpsVi7cL6crezWL3y4AFywiEh3YkChj5Tqy8JN1OhiWuO_AeLQIG2aB1BlsoeGHW3ZKyOzVL2_dCOoDV8-D9cgojULlQNdz27UAORAH1fV84QYrD0ivTnDY4FEKY-OmYU/w469-h417/1947%2007%2011%20UP%20Craters.jpg" width="469" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">United Press, July 11, 1947</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: Times, serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></i></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZAY-VpvayvoyAGxjETSF-Z1N8bk3gck2Jo5ggTnri1iQ35LJmvOt1tfNo9KLe9fhN95Z1107hPNQbSI5QhBoPmX2dzGlHnhcHwyWeY9Y45x5gRqCZ344DOjtsSuFYlbNExcKkxejgz8lIAfx7h24a7BS5vg2HQyb4hv6nBarwKDXBZPDjqy1_ivp0XAM/s891/Startling%20Stories%201948.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="891" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZAY-VpvayvoyAGxjETSF-Z1N8bk3gck2Jo5ggTnri1iQ35LJmvOt1tfNo9KLe9fhN95Z1107hPNQbSI5QhBoPmX2dzGlHnhcHwyWeY9Y45x5gRqCZ344DOjtsSuFYlbNExcKkxejgz8lIAfx7h24a7BS5vg2HQyb4hv6nBarwKDXBZPDjqy1_ivp0XAM/w640-h444/Startling%20Stories%201948.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Startling Stories</i><span style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Sept. 1948</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/Startling_Stories_v18n01_1948-09/page/n99/mode/2up" target="_blank">Startling Stories</a></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/Startling_Stories_v18n01_1948-09/page/n99/mode/2up" target="_blank">, Sept. 1948</a> published Farnsworth’s essay on rockets, “First Target in Space,” where he speculated there might be life on the moon and our surrounding planets. Their <a href="https://archive.org/details/Startling_Stories_v19n02_1949-05/page/n91/mode/2up" target="_blank">May 1949</a> issue featured a sequel where he speculated about the future discoveries that space travel would allow. </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Farnsworth was confident Mars held life, and he speculated that the “Dipodomys Deserti” might be found there. “This little mammal resembles a gopher, a rat, a rabbit and a miniature kangaroo!”</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For a while, things were relatively quiet in the press for Farnsworth, but he ran as a candidate for Congress from Illinois' 14th District in 1950 and again in 1952, both times unsuccessfully. Then came the famous saucer flap in the summer of 1952. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5c5hZaVO9njdTuUElhTsVlQIuwLwInt76T4OpdgDuaE_iYmw-2p8N3Suo5VvaIg_vzPzDR-tLKjGdRHIFaJ9Ew_ivU47IaRVmmrR4S1Q7IbsvQEJGx6BADFqVM-oYkK-z1QezhdfSswOeBdZuiVoPoxP49IGO2cgPFFj3Pme9JRVzdPUD-6aRysOoXw/s1520/1952%2007%2029%20Scranton%20Tribune,%20July%2029,%201952.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1520" data-original-width="660" height="746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5c5hZaVO9njdTuUElhTsVlQIuwLwInt76T4OpdgDuaE_iYmw-2p8N3Suo5VvaIg_vzPzDR-tLKjGdRHIFaJ9Ew_ivU47IaRVmmrR4S1Q7IbsvQEJGx6BADFqVM-oYkK-z1QezhdfSswOeBdZuiVoPoxP49IGO2cgPFFj3Pme9JRVzdPUD-6aRysOoXw/w324-h746/1952%2007%2029%20Scranton%20Tribune,%20July%2029,%201952.jpg" width="324" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://images.saymedia-content.com/.image/cs_srgb,dpr_1.0,q_80/MTYyNTE2MzY5MDU5ODgyMTMy/the_tribune_tue__jul_29__1952_.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Scranton Tribune</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 29, 1952 </span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLRMNFHjMAgRJH48x7yy1BqZ4KY_I_OQzxWH5d0s8GC0_ZzD2NddFWqmpWgfWWWe0Ogew9r63Dt1cCbGgjCDFhO3OLcihSZlyPi1SQy2qVwGJxSaTLcW4WCM_96V9R1NTLxGGFA81_qlMQhQ8eUOiFMwFiPlh0O4jNylyamxdXr0VmT5AbXu7jzwkxh5k/s921/Topps%20-%20Scoops%201954%20-%20Flying%20Saucers.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="921" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLRMNFHjMAgRJH48x7yy1BqZ4KY_I_OQzxWH5d0s8GC0_ZzD2NddFWqmpWgfWWWe0Ogew9r63Dt1cCbGgjCDFhO3OLcihSZlyPi1SQy2qVwGJxSaTLcW4WCM_96V9R1NTLxGGFA81_qlMQhQ8eUOiFMwFiPlh0O4jNylyamxdXr0VmT5AbXu7jzwkxh5k/w400-h279/Topps%20-%20Scoops%201954%20-%20Flying%20Saucers.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Scoops" 1954 trading card from Topps</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Shoot Them Down</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">From </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Flying Saucers From Outer Space</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> by </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Donald Keyhoe, </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1953:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“…INS had reported a new Air Force order—if saucers ignored orders to land, pilots were to open fire. At Washington, [radio show host] Frank Edwards had picked up the flash and repeated it on the Mutual network. Telegrams protesting the order were now coming in from all over the country.” </span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One of those telegrams was sent to US President Harry Truman.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8BEw0DCjgpkYWJ72neDkjD56r31Iv5pN8r9IA5wq9uogNqjwQDgdYESXG4AHYne0hqPZvY9DFHokrFLtFe1yKSxdLvSKXUTSHOS9LAMSokgp0JqKQ3nG6YAuzvFtemZIl00RAZr74256HlToBIjsJWZVU83YIZmPyn9BJyyQPjz1TGaiiLbbOMiHd-OI/s313/1952%20Topps%20Look%20'n%20See%20-%20Harry%20Truman.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="223" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8BEw0DCjgpkYWJ72neDkjD56r31Iv5pN8r9IA5wq9uogNqjwQDgdYESXG4AHYne0hqPZvY9DFHokrFLtFe1yKSxdLvSKXUTSHOS9LAMSokgp0JqKQ3nG6YAuzvFtemZIl00RAZr74256HlToBIjsJWZVU83YIZmPyn9BJyyQPjz1TGaiiLbbOMiHd-OI/s1600/1952%20Topps%20Look%20'n%20See%20-%20Harry%20Truman.jpg" width="223" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqg3hHsHUzzkhUPku0XNkKCAcYB6Gq8KVHLRYTqmAySiTViLWMINEyPcGkJFTsvQCY4oSLtaDbl-6KL9S_S0o1TBku4Pf2Wv35KCQkgqF0cZkUd58iPxiwC39lnZrcSf-WeWpmmm2AwAcj8g11_IaCKc5qj5mZijwltuaCODJw83xZV9v0stZxBVV8AvE/s639/Farnsworth%20Telegram.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="639" height="584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqg3hHsHUzzkhUPku0XNkKCAcYB6Gq8KVHLRYTqmAySiTViLWMINEyPcGkJFTsvQCY4oSLtaDbl-6KL9S_S0o1TBku4Pf2Wv35KCQkgqF0cZkUd58iPxiwC39lnZrcSf-WeWpmmm2AwAcj8g11_IaCKc5qj5mZijwltuaCODJw83xZV9v0stZxBVV8AvE/w640-h584/Farnsworth%20Telegram.gif" width="640" /></a>.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">From here, we’ll let Farnsworth tell the story. From </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Rockets: The Magazine of Space Flight</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Vol.3. Nol. January 1953. pp.13-14.[As quoted by Loren Gross in </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf " target="_blank">UFOs: A History, 1952: July 21–31</a></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (Supplemental Notes) page 88)</span><a href="https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"On the night of July 27 Mr. Farnsworth was called by United Press and asked to give his opinion or a statement about his view of these releases [of UFO news of the day]. This was given wide publicity, over the entire United States and should be to the Society's credit. Next night we were called by the Society Vice-President, Mr. John M. Griggs in New Jersey, and told of a news </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">dispatch which purported to say that the Armed Forces had orders to shoot these objects down on sight. At this Mr. Farnsworth immediately sent the following wire to the President of the United States, to the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Army and of the Navy:</span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">'I respectfully suggest that no offensive action be taken against the objects reported as unidentified which have been sighted over our Nation. Should they be extra-terrestrial such action might result in the gravest consequences, as well as possibly alienating us from beings of far superior powers. Friendly contact should be sought as long as possible.</span></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Signed, Robert L. Farnsworth, President, U.S. Rocket Society, Inc.' </span></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The next day, July 29, 1952, through the courtesy of Radio and TV station WGN, Mr. Farnsworth appeared on a short news interview given by Spencer Allen at 6:45 Chicago time." </span></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here are a few samples of the coverage in the newspapers in the following days:</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Times, serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzBbv9jrjc2oa_vodmfZOmpizOTq0_Eb6NcT_oHLw18Lt0xGWJZSzyAMLK5xdBiMXkgLtD7mTpHkLwR9umu91kp-_O34J41Ozro6Hgiuja2tafyDWcvnyz6Nx553EaezqGgp1TQ_EKmV8/s734/P96u5JB9oh8q.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="734" height="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzBbv9jrjc2oa_vodmfZOmpizOTq0_Eb6NcT_oHLw18Lt0xGWJZSzyAMLK5xdBiMXkgLtD7mTpHkLwR9umu91kp-_O34J41Ozro6Hgiuja2tafyDWcvnyz6Nx553EaezqGgp1TQ_EKmV8/w545-h383/P96u5JB9oh8q.jpg" width="545" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Long Beach Independent,</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> July 30, 1952
</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaY5ZLC3IRi64CfvBPVHC2cugNb-eTDqEKTsRK9G7ZwXLVSTvrWial4cuH_dwZJn2ywBiJplXLBTAhWTYHmOtURY95MBK6AGZNzgW3aegmAep0007yT2em92hkCvfEw31Byilf3tmiUhUj8OumXkdTOV4Ai5wk8KRGMoT-CKF5m1ZMQbcd71io0ktr7IQ/s535/1952%2007%2030%20Lodi%20News-Sentinel,%20July%2030,%201952.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="356" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaY5ZLC3IRi64CfvBPVHC2cugNb-eTDqEKTsRK9G7ZwXLVSTvrWial4cuH_dwZJn2ywBiJplXLBTAhWTYHmOtURY95MBK6AGZNzgW3aegmAep0007yT2em92hkCvfEw31Byilf3tmiUhUj8OumXkdTOV4Ai5wk8KRGMoT-CKF5m1ZMQbcd71io0ktr7IQ/w266-h400/1952%2007%2030%20Lodi%20News-Sentinel,%20July%2030,%201952.JPG" width="266" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Lodi News-Sentinel</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 30, 1952</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3yoVhIKXJlreHIEB2qQrTsZci7V8iqhe-GLL4NLGLjxRGSRWOWD3lJHbAXGtsjoAwHQn8yzCxcIYClbMt_55KRKpMzo5iHI0SEmW0W7ChJfhBf2BLj4QqdACrLFhvFDBrngAiDXwGYx8J1UGPC3Px3fRQmDfraFFS5969kvkVyyz96X8ikT76ziPIPec/s450/1952%2007%2031%20Daily%20Globe,%20July%2031,%201952.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="450" height="573" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3yoVhIKXJlreHIEB2qQrTsZci7V8iqhe-GLL4NLGLjxRGSRWOWD3lJHbAXGtsjoAwHQn8yzCxcIYClbMt_55KRKpMzo5iHI0SEmW0W7ChJfhBf2BLj4QqdACrLFhvFDBrngAiDXwGYx8J1UGPC3Px3fRQmDfraFFS5969kvkVyyz96X8ikT76ziPIPec/w640-h573/1952%2007%2031%20Daily%20Globe,%20July%2031,%201952.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Daily Globe</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (Ironwood, Michigan), July 31, 1952</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">That was the last significant UFO-related press on Farnsworth, but his interest in the topic continued. </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/Rockets0203.pdf" target="_blank">Rockets</a></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/Rockets0203.pdf" target="_blank"> vl. 2 no. 3</a> from 1952 was largely devoted to the Tenth Anniversary World Science Fiction Convention (which included some UFO programming) held in held on Labor Day weekend in Chicago. Farnsworth privately paid for a suite there for the purpose of promoting the USRS. </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Rockets</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> also featured two items about flying saucers, a notice for the International Flying Saucer Bureau, and commentary on the news of the day about military balloons being reported as UFOs.</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhww_HhgSG7cegKbmbFBYkJrnZbeP9FYLzSGHSNT3k6jRzSH5Fq7vIab10mGJjOICf55Y75NWefy6iCNcnR5_e9IZpwvAc2Ipjv3WaD9CAU2_otRYigS3sxNL-ma5tv9aWcdDa5CREDZJQ8JCBZPD7oy34jwKCxNsJqho-__9V7oaHusuSiM_12tXwi7tM/s763/1952%20WorldCon.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="763" data-original-width="502" height="687" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhww_HhgSG7cegKbmbFBYkJrnZbeP9FYLzSGHSNT3k6jRzSH5Fq7vIab10mGJjOICf55Y75NWefy6iCNcnR5_e9IZpwvAc2Ipjv3WaD9CAU2_otRYigS3sxNL-ma5tv9aWcdDa5CREDZJQ8JCBZPD7oy34jwKCxNsJqho-__9V7oaHusuSiM_12tXwi7tM/w453-h687/1952%20WorldCon.JPG" width="453" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ad for WorldCon</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/Rockets0302.pdf" target="_blank">Rockets</a></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/Rockets0302.pdf" target="_blank"> vl. 3 no. 2</a> from 1953 carried several items about flying saucer clubs and publications. </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Farnsworth had been a member of the Fortean Society and frequently submitted clippings to their journal </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Doubt</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> up until the mid-1950s. The collection of the USRS’s magazine online is not complete, but the July 1956 issue of </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Rockets</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> contained no mention of anything UFO-related, indicating he may have given up on the topic. We found no other documentation of Farnsworth being connected with UFOs for his next four decades. Joshua Buhs on Farnsworth’s final years:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Rockets</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> continued into the late 1950s... By that point, Farnsworth had relocated to Nevada, reaching that state in 1955. … [His wife] Evelyn died in 1970. Robert died 3 August 1998, exactly one month after his 89th birthday.”</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Obituary from the </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://lasvegassun.com/news/1998/aug/13/obituaries-for-august-13-1998/" target="_blank">Las Vegas Review-Journal</a></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://lasvegassun.com/news/1998/aug/13/obituaries-for-august-13-1998/" target="_blank">, August 13, 1998</a>:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Robert Lee Farnsworth, 89, of Las Vegas died Aug. 3 in Las Vegas. He was born July 3, 1909, in Chicago. A resident for 43 years, he was a real estate appraiser, president of the Tennessee Uranium Mining Co., former congressional candidate in Illinois, early advocate of space flight, founder and president of the United States Rocket Society and member of the Masons and Shriners.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Farnsworth’s association with the flying saucers was relatively brief, but he made a lasting impact. He is still frequently quoted today for his plea not to shoot them down, and we’ll never know for sure, but he may have also saved our planet.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Robert L. Farnsworth, one of...</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLWg6d6Tvv06yRYia_uOWHs97nngS24NPhfEW4ZyLXP9vMx0592g4nRbflZDOvS4ZHm4det0xLiyK58Ha4RTgYtnLdyQfmo35UDbTUyfpqluYJTrgyq8FaWcKG_PJI6eNJpGnEd-pJd9XcN1kMkqNtpJUFAbsU58aZZUHM-jYUJ03aDokLG4LqCcngWdo/s500/Ufologists%20Noir.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLWg6d6Tvv06yRYia_uOWHs97nngS24NPhfEW4ZyLXP9vMx0592g4nRbflZDOvS4ZHm4det0xLiyK58Ha4RTgYtnLdyQfmo35UDbTUyfpqluYJTrgyq8FaWcKG_PJI6eNJpGnEd-pJd9XcN1kMkqNtpJUFAbsU58aZZUHM-jYUJ03aDokLG4LqCcngWdo/w400-h400/Ufologists%20Noir.png" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Ufologists That Time Forgot
</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. . .</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For more biographical data on Farnsworth, see:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean" target="_blank">Robert L. Farnsworth as a Fortean</a></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> by Joshua Buhs</span><a href="https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><b style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">* The <i>Other </i>Rocket Society President</b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The same 1952 UFO Washington, DC, events that led to Farnsworth’s famous telegram also resulted in something else. The Central Intelligence Agency convened a panel on UFOs, under the direction of Professor Howard P. Robertson. The CIA’s Robertson Panel concluded the population should be educated about UFOs to avoid fear or panic, “The ‘debunking’ aim would result in reduction in public interest in ‘flying saucers’…"</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOsiqw9lVb6ey16Mixm7T9YF8B0a65NbDifiel9FLRd60WNK7A2zE6jq2_zvddawKcKTHVsHqyzPc2B_EIWwZ5KHFG965qN3DCtr8pv6W9A-sZV7NQ6xcz9m6zz1MJSuyop_xn33g0sSYSKeO6dD4oyurI3SCBP-kMUsYClwYk5wzUMXg3UF4pE8OZ-pQ/s504/Naval%20Aviation%20News%20April%201951.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="504" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOsiqw9lVb6ey16Mixm7T9YF8B0a65NbDifiel9FLRd60WNK7A2zE6jq2_zvddawKcKTHVsHqyzPc2B_EIWwZ5KHFG965qN3DCtr8pv6W9A-sZV7NQ6xcz9m6zz1MJSuyop_xn33g0sSYSKeO6dD4oyurI3SCBP-kMUsYClwYk5wzUMXg3UF4pE8OZ-pQ/w400-h295/Naval%20Aviation%20News%20April%201951.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Naval Aviation News</i>, April 1951</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
Frederick C. Durant (1916-2015) was an engineer that rose to prominence for his expertise in rocketry and served as president of the American Rocket Society in 1953. He was also a consultant to the Department of Defense, and the CIA, serving as the author of the Robertson Panel’s conclusions, known as <a href="https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/robertsonpanelreport.pdf" target="_blank">the Durant Report</a>.
</span></span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-52385750247759193952023-07-06T08:47:00.002-05:002023-11-01T13:34:24.662-05:00Flying Saucers Foiled Again <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHKd-CKLwfDbVKQ_sCuigKGaYlSwfi0OQLOGkgSsp0w9fholSEnuzq_Y987XsN7axvSYLdTQr062QjQ3NwdDbHzhDxv9Hzb-cyqqptxcmXqpwmtaTlMlvzMikemRuR5do6faKVGRV69yv-I6vjBLGfqT0bgTdlVYESwwnVLeN-AE6f8L2KZQKbuO9HmlE/s706/Flying%20Saucer%20Foiled%20Again.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="706" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHKd-CKLwfDbVKQ_sCuigKGaYlSwfi0OQLOGkgSsp0w9fholSEnuzq_Y987XsN7axvSYLdTQr062QjQ3NwdDbHzhDxv9Hzb-cyqqptxcmXqpwmtaTlMlvzMikemRuR5do6faKVGRV69yv-I6vjBLGfqT0bgTdlVYESwwnVLeN-AE6f8L2KZQKbuO9HmlE/w640-h390/Flying%20Saucer%20Foiled%20Again.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Three days before the saucer news broke from Roswell, New Mexico, a flying disc crashed on a farm in Ohio. In the following weeks (and years) other objects were found, some of them photographed and printed in newspapers. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoRjueKI5YT7S0iW1L-1kCuhHy-sNrglyx2s8P_D1lmwd1oqrlHYp9PSs8V6AqvhNrQR9O5FXzP4_tTYxNCQ_RQgexEDt-32s5cxHubgDePkWdfejOJw7vVSfU2MMHQEaVPWJ8QafNA3rNWvxlbSM9Q-GfrRI0ul6jbEWbh-6gX82q4stTeyfftEORjAo/s709/1947%2007%2007%20AP.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="510" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoRjueKI5YT7S0iW1L-1kCuhHy-sNrglyx2s8P_D1lmwd1oqrlHYp9PSs8V6AqvhNrQR9O5FXzP4_tTYxNCQ_RQgexEDt-32s5cxHubgDePkWdfejOJw7vVSfU2MMHQEaVPWJ8QafNA3rNWvxlbSM9Q-GfrRI0ul6jbEWbh-6gX82q4stTeyfftEORjAo/w461-h640/1947%2007%2007%20AP.png" width="461" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">July 7, 1947, Associated Press</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Our Captured Flying Saucer Scrapbook begins with an item from </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Circleville Herald</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 5, 1947: </span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-769a50b4-7fff-ebb8-70c3-19a72a0e3c61" style="font-size: medium;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">'Flying Disc' Believed Found On Pickaway Farm</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span></span></span></p><blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>One of the "flying discs" which have been puzzling aviators all over the United States was believed Saturday to have been found on a Pickaway county farm. Sherman Campbell, who lives on the Westfall road in Wayne township, near the Pickaway-Ross county line, reported the finding of a star-shaped silver foil covered object which he believes is one of the mysterious "flying saucers."</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>While working in the field he spotted a strange object. He described his find as 50 inches high, 48 inches wide and weighing about two pounds. He said the silver foil was stretched over a wooden frame. The star-shaped object had six points. He said there was a balloon attached which had deflated and there was no way of knowing how big it was.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>Discovery of the object was the first reported in the country. A Coast Guardsman on the west coast reported photographing one from a distance, but no one has seen one of the "flying discs" close. </span></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Another photo:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Pw8cRlSPLywzjoDdPphKevNlUPfyXizEuK5Q-Fb3to0nPJ7I4PLBc_waMir-Z_bVdC9-jLzKQ2zr4oMcIjuJgAuWr06EPkq3TgzOytDn1ar_gV5vz-dvUiXA5craLq87cRYmsdvTtBM/s819/20136319_10213992981122551_1581235833_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="819" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Pw8cRlSPLywzjoDdPphKevNlUPfyXizEuK5Q-Fb3to0nPJ7I4PLBc_waMir-Z_bVdC9-jLzKQ2zr4oMcIjuJgAuWr06EPkq3TgzOytDn1ar_gV5vz-dvUiXA5craLq87cRYmsdvTtBM/w640-h518/20136319_10213992981122551_1581235833_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Wisconsin State Journal</i>, July 7, 1947</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Yet another “flying saucer” was found in Oxford, Ohio, on Monday July 7, 1947, as reported in </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="PHOTO Yet another “flying saucer” was found in Oxford, Ohio, on Monday July 7, 1947, as reported in The Palladium-Item (Richmond, IN), July 9, 1947." target="_blank">The Palladium-Item</a> </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(Richmond, IN), July 9, 1947.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhONOl5xhm9pm5fUgsyzTJYbWzIDx-RpVw96BYe58rWgIC33bNb85G7iC_Nsx6sTC-Iks-j_lvEpD5hTCUF4TwvpkHfKD0hTWRUrEH7MrSgjVu0vkCJgMBqd3Nz43_plBB3E1Wa4TcuGIzPl61eB61GV7M7Jrf3y8RlcVWDAmzqSyVTxYGxaSkn9Z90bdE/s606/1947%2007%2009%20Palladium-Item%20(Richmond,%20IN),%20July%209,%201947.JPG"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="499" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhONOl5xhm9pm5fUgsyzTJYbWzIDx-RpVw96BYe58rWgIC33bNb85G7iC_Nsx6sTC-Iks-j_lvEpD5hTCUF4TwvpkHfKD0hTWRUrEH7MrSgjVu0vkCJgMBqd3Nz43_plBB3E1Wa4TcuGIzPl61eB61GV7M7Jrf3y8RlcVWDAmzqSyVTxYGxaSkn9Z90bdE/w526-h640/1947%2007%2009%20Palladium-Item%20(Richmond,%20IN),%20July%209,%201947.JPG" width="526" /></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Saucers were everywhere. Amazingly, </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">another</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> strange object fell close to Circleville, Ohio. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span></span></span></p><blockquote><span>“The second such find was reported to Sheriff Charles Radcliff Tuesday afternoon by David C. Heffner, who said he discovered it on a line fence on his farm on the old Tarlton road four and one half miles east of Circleville. ... The gadgets found by Mr. Campbell and Mr. Heffner were … constructed of a light wood frame. Only a remnant of the thin rubber balloon remained attached to the Campbell find, but the other contraption discovered on the Heffner farm includes most of the remains of the balloon which must have measured more than 15 feet in diameter when it was inflated."</span></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMLmX8swi8XTWYiyhIJtqtjYURNHIK1QlFne45RbnPPVlfVr10VIUYpvGXvnCqWaubK9fO6erSkZjuvVQQ4Xs83-nRaQYgezFBY6RVWnkFSUfrhhd2oTezwo5Rj-SDDSJkbLFhO3g9gpOIeau_jnygWl1vpCYTNaAJggHD6EOPA5oKOFsa4hulTJPWTPM/s2403/1947%2007%2009%20The%20Circleville%20Herald%20-%20Ohio%20-%20July%209,%201947.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2403" data-original-width="1021" height="1177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMLmX8swi8XTWYiyhIJtqtjYURNHIK1QlFne45RbnPPVlfVr10VIUYpvGXvnCqWaubK9fO6erSkZjuvVQQ4Xs83-nRaQYgezFBY6RVWnkFSUfrhhd2oTezwo5Rj-SDDSJkbLFhO3g9gpOIeau_jnygWl1vpCYTNaAJggHD6EOPA5oKOFsa4hulTJPWTPM/w500-h1177/1947%2007%2009%20The%20Circleville%20Herald%20-%20Ohio%20-%20July%209,%201947.jpg" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Circleville Herald</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 5, 1947</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Roswell Debris</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The now-famous headline, "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region," appeared in the </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Roswell Daily Record</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 8, 1947. However they stated, “no details of the saucer's construction or its appearance had been revealed.” </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Newspapers the next day began revealing the disappointing details.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7TJtbl0upH2KEw47Pnws4Oi6W_6YxRvpAMPiuigVtEE0rd2CzNXwYtef1YIE0V6OV-uL7nhFdxBXh9DQ5a4MkvF-QzLjo_1PybBV9942lXm7KG54VW6VGu74gOsQpyqC1AM7pN_AHA7ae7lP42DXfnDr8DKDaAmFV4WqNbnpFn8A22xrdioS7i6xER0/s1281/Durant%20Daily%20Democrat,%20July%2010,%201947.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1281" data-original-width="819" height="692" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7TJtbl0upH2KEw47Pnws4Oi6W_6YxRvpAMPiuigVtEE0rd2CzNXwYtef1YIE0V6OV-uL7nhFdxBXh9DQ5a4MkvF-QzLjo_1PybBV9942lXm7KG54VW6VGu74gOsQpyqC1AM7pN_AHA7ae7lP42DXfnDr8DKDaAmFV4WqNbnpFn8A22xrdioS7i6xER0/w443-h692/Durant%20Daily%20Democrat,%20July%2010,%201947.jpg" width="443" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Durant Daily Democrat</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 10, 1947</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcyrillZU_kAZJ7bk3U4Cwjb4krgHhllXl5jncaqye7knrcEcwRHF8gERPL3vBiaGUssqPbEGC30xA9TJtPm5msDQy7exgh7jkDdwJfKPQj6_uESGj-r536k6jW1P-Fn0auhl5csacJjwsEr2RvGsmj1OuQdKgMH2q2RC-sTw_lXCds7IRntiqvkdIIB0/s1241/1947%2007%2009%20Minneapolis%20Star,%20July%209,%201947.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1241" data-original-width="952" height="766" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcyrillZU_kAZJ7bk3U4Cwjb4krgHhllXl5jncaqye7knrcEcwRHF8gERPL3vBiaGUssqPbEGC30xA9TJtPm5msDQy7exgh7jkDdwJfKPQj6_uESGj-r536k6jW1P-Fn0auhl5csacJjwsEr2RvGsmj1OuQdKgMH2q2RC-sTw_lXCds7IRntiqvkdIIB0/w586-h766/1947%2007%2009%20Minneapolis%20Star,%20July%209,%201947.jpg" width="586" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Minneapolis Star</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Minneapolis, July 9, 1947</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Roswell Daily Record</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 9, 1947, reported that Mac Brazel had been hounded by the press over his discovery, "<a href="http://www.roswellfiles.com/Witnesses/brazel.htm" target="_blank">Harassed Rancher who Located 'Saucer' Sorry He Told About It</a>." </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The paper summarized Brazel’s description of what’d he’d found and shown Maj. Jesse A. Marcel from Roswell Army Air Field:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Brazel related that on June 14 he and 8-year-old son, Vernon were about 7 or 8 miles from the ranch house of the J.B. Foster ranch, which he operates, when they came upon a large area of bright wreckage made up on rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks. … There was no sign of any metal in the area which might have been used for an engine and no sign of any propellers of any kind, although at least one paper fin had been glued onto some of the tinfoil.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The debris was matched to other discoveries and military projects still in flight. <i>The Kansas City Times</i>, July 9, 1947, reported on a Rawin target recovered on an Adrian, Missouri farm.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0JIuqac8A5kM4v06o2wn8tXl119p35YSmQ5UdNAGgu72dsquSXEpEYf4BaGeNq3HRqwswX_fFE_btUWVi8ucMokX7WA563_Mwo7R4q0TdVLknI4vV-scvG_hk7j8kXV_orXk6h9UQc0s2tNF8aD4OMJg_d7A2ZS1wBhQselr4ns-3kPCok8Gbjfe0omM/s869/1947%2007%2009%20Kansas%20City%20Times%20July%209,%201947.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="470" height="801" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0JIuqac8A5kM4v06o2wn8tXl119p35YSmQ5UdNAGgu72dsquSXEpEYf4BaGeNq3HRqwswX_fFE_btUWVi8ucMokX7WA563_Mwo7R4q0TdVLknI4vV-scvG_hk7j8kXV_orXk6h9UQc0s2tNF8aD4OMJg_d7A2ZS1wBhQselr4ns-3kPCok8Gbjfe0omM/w433-h801/1947%2007%2009%20Kansas%20City%20Times%20July%209,%201947.jpg" width="433" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Kansas City Times</i><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 9, 1947</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Corpus Cristi Caller</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 10, 1947, reported:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>Like New Mexico Saucer – </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The “rawin” – radar wind – reflector attached to the Navy weather balloon above, is the same type of apparatus which a New Mexico rancher picked up earlier this week, believing he had found one of the much-publicized flying discs which have been plaguing 44 states of the nation. Miss Mary belle Kuegle, Wave aerologist first class, holds the device which normally rises to a height of 50,000 feet before the balloon bursts and the rawin falls to the earth, aided by a parachute. (Official U.S. Navy photograph.)</span></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX_uu6o8fZBQdwhwzHKVXlD4Qi00Pz5RUlfkIiUGGhAkYNJNhO4-N2SmP7-8KjtNlTyYBAsM6plrSoLZemS7BulyqXo9ZcoeU7zofbEtwxXkhrcJ2VdS9Q2KT0Cy1rpNibswnTU4y79UKsaDtDSRzmgy9P1tmunCVsI9ifjiPOW8s7GHRktIo_0ig2vVk/s1540/1947%2007%2010%20Corpus%20Cristi%20Caller%20July%2010,%201947.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1540" data-original-width="621" height="1084" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX_uu6o8fZBQdwhwzHKVXlD4Qi00Pz5RUlfkIiUGGhAkYNJNhO4-N2SmP7-8KjtNlTyYBAsM6plrSoLZemS7BulyqXo9ZcoeU7zofbEtwxXkhrcJ2VdS9Q2KT0Cy1rpNibswnTU4y79UKsaDtDSRzmgy9P1tmunCVsI9ifjiPOW8s7GHRktIo_0ig2vVk/w437-h1084/1947%2007%2010%20Corpus%20Cristi%20Caller%20July%2010,%201947.PNG" width="437" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Corpus Cristi Caller</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 10, 1947</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">What is a Rawin? From Captain Joseph A. Pechman’s article in Air Corps, from </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Journal_of_the_United_States_Artillery/1n2CY4kPV3QC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA2-PA29&printsec=frontcover" target="_blank">The Coast Artillery Journal</a></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, May/June 1946:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Radar made possible the determination of upper winds under most conditions of clouds or poor visibility. Wind data are obtained by an SCR-584 [radar unit] tracking the flight of a free balloon to which is attached a metal, foil-covered paper reflector capable of reflecting the radar signals back to the radar. Direction and speeds of the winds for various altitudes are evaluated on the basis of the horizontal projection of the flight of the balloon. This procedure is called ‘RAWIN’, a term combining the two words, ‘radar’ and ‘wind’.” </span></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRPGFLmvsUDsCUm1EeUFbrHIdCPCPjIakr9usomgr1V_LbG_KOG4fWDLtx0pmvBkVDA_XiKAWHc4w3ng2eMUzzLQ3qJGMGr3WgDXpI1VHua3W9khghgL8F94buTiPhMJDVJj3axAQ1SjS5eFmM9nyXsC4ElBMu4I5BRNjS38FOhM1KTE5YvE9PZmEX_VM/s1118/Rawin%20Launch.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1118" data-original-width="700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRPGFLmvsUDsCUm1EeUFbrHIdCPCPjIakr9usomgr1V_LbG_KOG4fWDLtx0pmvBkVDA_XiKAWHc4w3ng2eMUzzLQ3qJGMGr3WgDXpI1VHua3W9khghgL8F94buTiPhMJDVJj3axAQ1SjS5eFmM9nyXsC4ElBMu4I5BRNjS38FOhM1KTE5YvE9PZmEX_VM/w400-h640/Rawin%20Launch.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Launching and tracking a rawin target.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Civilians were not only mistaking Rawin targets for flying saucers on the ground, but also in the sky. The United Press story in the </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/p/pressandsunbulletin10jul1947.htm" target="_blank">Press and Sun Bulletin</a> </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(Binghamton, NY), July 10, 1947, the US Navy disclosed that their balloon launches had led to saucer reports.</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"></div></span><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Disc? Tsk, Says Navy</div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Saucy Soaring Saucers Sinking</b></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Practical jokers continued to have a high time with flying saucers today as the navy advised the more serious-minded "eyewitnesses" that what they saw in the sky was only weather observation devices. It cost the navy $25 to assure itself. Lt. Rell Zelle Moore, naval air station aerology officer, launched a "ray winds" weather device is a $25 "operations saucer" at Atlanta, Ga. As the helium-filled balloon carrying a tin-foil screen soared over Stone Mountains, calls poured into Atlanta newspapers reporting "flying discs." The 4-by-10 foot screen looked like a round aluminum disc at a high altitude. "People are only just beginning to see these things aloft," said Lt. Comndr. Thomas H. Rentz.</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p></div></blockquote><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/p/gastoniagazette10jul1947.htm" target="_blank">The Gastionia Gazette</a></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (NC), July 10, 1947 feature more from the Naval officer:</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">HAS OPINION ON FLYING SAUCERS</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Naval Officer Believes Flying Discs Are Tinfoil Screen Used In Weather Balloons To Reflect Radar Rays And Detect Wind's Velocity</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ATLANTA, July 10 -- UP -- Lieut. Commander Thomas H. Rentz of the Atlanta Naval Air Station said today he believed the "flying saucers" reported over the country were tinfoil screens used in weather balloons. </span></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Roswell tinfoil episode was forgotten, but the International News Service (INS) article from April 10, 1949, published under such titles as “Secrecy Shrouds ‘Saucers’ Probe,” mentioned Roswell in passing:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“… the USAF has sorted out the vast number of fantastic and imaginative reports received... Another incident resulted in ‘exile’ for an Air Force public relations officer in the West. This enthusiastic gentleman, without prior reference to Washington, announced to local newsmen that he had found a ‘flying saucer’.” </span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Saturday Evening Post</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, April 30, 1949, featured the first of two parts of a skeptical article by Sidney Shallet, “<a href="https://www.nicap.org/articles/ShalettsArticle1.pdf" target="_blank">What You Can Believe About Flying Saucers</a>.” It included a section on rawin targets as UFOs:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">In addition to the 25 per cent or more bona fide cases of mistaken identification that can be blamed on astronomical phenomena, a large percentage can be accounted for by weather-observation and radar-target balloons. . . . The most common sources of innocent deception in the balloon field are the so-called RAWIN (radar-wind) target balloons. The balloons generally are white, and at 40,000 to 60,000 feet where they usually operate, they are invisible to persons on the ground. Dangling below each balloon, however, is a six-cornered "target" of aluminum foil, strung out on kitelike sticks. Radar operators on the ground track these aluminum targets for weather information. The targets oscillate and gyrate in the wind, and sunlight glinting from these shiny, wind-tossed objects can create a perfect illusion of a flying saucer. Movies of airborne RAWINs were taken for me, and in some shots the oscillating aluminum targets appeared perfectly round. </span></blockquote><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Further Sightings in the Fifties</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Around the USA, saucer reports kept being reported and sometimes, physical evidence was found. Here’s our two last entries that made the papers.</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Captured Saucer of Concord, Pennsylvania</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On March 28, 1950, an unnamed farmer spotted a UFO descending and land in his field. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">He reported the object, and it was subsequently carried to the Concord School where it was on display for the 300 students there and the general public. The <i>Chester Times</i>, March 29, 1950, reported the mysterious object was: </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Four feet across at its maximum width, it was constructed of white and silver paper, on a thin wooden frame. Only identifying features on the strange-looking star shaped object with the numerals 1040. Obviously severed heavy strings were attached to a metallic ring on the object, indicating that a balloon had been hooked up to the ‘What-is-it.’ The balloon apparently broke loose when the strings gave away and it continued its flight. The farmer who first sighted the object reported this morning that spinning in the late afternoon sunlight, it gave every appearance of being a huge disk as rays were reflected from the white and silver body of the object.” </span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Local Weather Bureau, Army officials, and scientists were consulted, but they could not initially identify the object’s origin. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqzKKQYHEBtvKIFRw6PIEWKP2gh4sDk5InkHpmZYrKl46mHAh_kwT8dbJguWDhIA5zsSseftzhDqUm3jkeMm06zl3nxEdQy6LI18Yzs4eplihcfw1MOlbtuTYyF60ssFeqD-46UPdc7Lhoi4b4Za1GNtrPMHmJ-zGGjPAzL0rN139DlXb_0yEpNiLmDRM/s1398/1950%2003%2029%20Delaware%20County%20Daily%20Times%20March%2029,%201950.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1398" data-original-width="784" height="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqzKKQYHEBtvKIFRw6PIEWKP2gh4sDk5InkHpmZYrKl46mHAh_kwT8dbJguWDhIA5zsSseftzhDqUm3jkeMm06zl3nxEdQy6LI18Yzs4eplihcfw1MOlbtuTYyF60ssFeqD-46UPdc7Lhoi4b4Za1GNtrPMHmJ-zGGjPAzL0rN139DlXb_0yEpNiLmDRM/w604-h1080/1950%2003%2029%20Delaware%20County%20Daily%20Times%20March%2029,%201950.png" width="604" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Chester Times</i>, March 29, 1950</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">The next day continued</span> <span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">the drama, “Concord’s ‘Flying Disc’ Subject of Much Speculation”</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiOhf8OVGCt-TAhDedl3h2Y3m1dJ5mRq7jrPhKSU-v-WeIBRyDcpwpwObyX35nMXnunK4s1ZDRpc6ze5L7C5x7otzN3DfK-ziLEkTGi9b8OTI2l_B3lmHfyJaJAi0pI8IZPUiRdDR4dazmdeJlm8vf1lr7QZXIEqV-X3gPDu030G2xBvmYHknlD0tsXyk/s854/1950%2003%2030%20Chester%20Times%20page%201,2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="854" data-original-width="493" height="879" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiOhf8OVGCt-TAhDedl3h2Y3m1dJ5mRq7jrPhKSU-v-WeIBRyDcpwpwObyX35nMXnunK4s1ZDRpc6ze5L7C5x7otzN3DfK-ziLEkTGi9b8OTI2l_B3lmHfyJaJAi0pI8IZPUiRdDR4dazmdeJlm8vf1lr7QZXIEqV-X3gPDu030G2xBvmYHknlD0tsXyk/w508-h879/1950%2003%2030%20Chester%20Times%20page%201,2.png" width="508" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Chester Times</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, March 30, 1950</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A subsequent story in the </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Chester Times</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, April 8, 1950, reported that the “kite-like affair” had been identified, “investigation disclosed [it] to be a corner reflector radar target.” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Horton Disc of 1953</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A UFO was seen in the skies of Atlanta, Georgia on July 6, 1953. The next morning, near the Fulton County Airport, Ralph Horton recovered an unusual flying object that had crashed on his lawn. From </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Atlanta Constitution</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 8, 1953: </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Experts Tuesday were as baffled as ever about the multi-colored, cone-shaped ''thing" that dozens of Atlantans saw moving across the twilight sky around supper-time Mondav. The experts didn't think the ‘thing’ was the kite-shaped, balloon-bearing apparatus Ralph Horton found Tuesday morning in his front yard near the County Airport. U. S. Weather Bureau officials said Horton's find apparently is a ‘ra-wind,’ an instrument used to plot wind currents in the upper air. Such an instrument, they explained, would have been released by the Air Force at 4 p.m. and would not have remained aloft as long as 7:15 p.m. when Atlantans all over the city reported they saw the ‘thing.’”</span></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwsSNcu5Cz8NNu2Uz8cizGuZLwu5xX7R6o4Sao74iOuJ2gqunCUtnfSy8bOhbI1VDrZqI1WU939qerkJkPN7pTGIQ8wAof0bhRbEHVcplmN2LGqxlQAx0i0Lrpm4xj6Bsr2E-Cy08Ro32B4gosMhOcPDEWPaxwZfaq3SMOsk1z42ygAqJp6HPYqHy_ZEA/s2397/1953%2007%2007%20Atlanta%20Constituition%20July%208,%201953.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2397" data-original-width="819" height="1248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwsSNcu5Cz8NNu2Uz8cizGuZLwu5xX7R6o4Sao74iOuJ2gqunCUtnfSy8bOhbI1VDrZqI1WU939qerkJkPN7pTGIQ8wAof0bhRbEHVcplmN2LGqxlQAx0i0Lrpm4xj6Bsr2E-Cy08Ro32B4gosMhOcPDEWPaxwZfaq3SMOsk1z42ygAqJp6HPYqHy_ZEA/w425-h1248/1953%2007%2007%20Atlanta%20Constituition%20July%208,%201953.jpg" width="425" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Atlanta Constitution</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 8, 1953</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> By this time, such discoveries were common. Once the Weather Bureau identified it as a rawin target, no investigation by Project Blue Book – or anyone was conducted. Until… </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Working on a proposed flying saucer book, James Moseley made a cross-country trip in 1953-54 tracking down UFO witnesses. In Georgia, he found the Ralph Horton article in the files of the </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Atlanta Constitution</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. Moseley with Karl Pflock described what he did next in his 2002 book, </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Shockingly Close to the Truth!: Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">: </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Of course, I lost no time getting out to see Horton, who obligingly hauled the saucer out of the woods behind his house, where he tossed it after the excitement had died down. ... I photographed Horton with the saucer which he then offered to me. I took it with thanks. Unfortunately, it got lost in the shuffle over the years.” </span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSFeH_3Z5-BXqyVByu0_Jr5evyU9NMaPpc_V-wQdoUWwg7FIOBiSsgt_pYSvA9YWPUKmiq5L4PECG5rj1fLFVWZ1AZAGy0vvdbXCSzzoYBC_-TZvvvAMGSuis5mu1t_ocYE406OmJ55unbrzlPgH7nneF7nhw4pkn3jadgVpJFyG0HfkefUNyEPg-E8Vk/s944/Horton%20UFO.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="720" height="617" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSFeH_3Z5-BXqyVByu0_Jr5evyU9NMaPpc_V-wQdoUWwg7FIOBiSsgt_pYSvA9YWPUKmiq5L4PECG5rj1fLFVWZ1AZAGy0vvdbXCSzzoYBC_-TZvvvAMGSuis5mu1t_ocYE406OmJ55unbrzlPgH7nneF7nhw4pkn3jadgVpJFyG0HfkefUNyEPg-E8Vk/w470-h617/Horton%20UFO.jpg" width="470" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ralph Horton and his discovery. Photo by Jim Moseley </span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Crashes of <a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-first-ufo-lawsuit.html" target="_blank">other military or meteorological balloon packages</a> have resulted in other “crash-retrieval” cases, from the famous to the forgotten. While no single answer has been found for the flying saucer mystery, sightings and discovery of rawin targets added to the confusion, becoming part of UFO legends and history.</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>. . .</b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><br /></p></div>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-13077228616186780812023-06-22T08:43:00.000-05:002023-06-22T08:43:14.632-05:00 The UFO Crash-Retrieval Story Returns<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_yn7KkphYIBU9hdjHenv77mMElQrcH4p4JDfqJZLvj0l7f5ZBPQHJLDWb2hFV-opB2rQ21LxByGfuqk9n7_SrrcGA38q7AtuEOQQ1wx7LlrATm8YL_HHC6BFY7Or1TsKVDDGaKwFS3tY05nPtuZesTKUcXzUZXrWLRLPQc9Sk9VVJA5IzAjnz3orR/s825/UFO%20Crash-Retrievals.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_yn7KkphYIBU9hdjHenv77mMElQrcH4p4JDfqJZLvj0l7f5ZBPQHJLDWb2hFV-opB2rQ21LxByGfuqk9n7_SrrcGA38q7AtuEOQQ1wx7LlrATm8YL_HHC6BFY7Or1TsKVDDGaKwFS3tY05nPtuZesTKUcXzUZXrWLRLPQc9Sk9VVJA5IzAjnz3orR/w640-h334/UFO%20Crash-Retrievals.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Avrocar standing in for a captured spaceship.)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Flying Saucer crashes started making the news in the summer of 1947. Most were small discs thrown by pranksters or pieces of equipment launched by the military. Later, stories of the U.S. military recovering alien bodies from flying saucers surfaced, and they refuse to go away. Here’s a look at the top examples and how history was made.</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-f06ccc4d-7fff-3549-05ec-a2b8052fb465"><span style="font-size: medium;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Roswell, New Mexico, 1947</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The headline on the </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Roswell Daily Record</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, July 8, 1497, stated: “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region.” The terminology “Unidentified Flying Object” had yet to be established, so flying disc or saucer was commonly used, no matter the shape involved. The article contained no description of the object, as “no details of the saucer's construction or its appearance had been revealed.” Later accounts described the recovered object to be “remnants of a tinfoil covered box kite and a rubber balloon.” At the time, there was no discussion of alien bodies recovered in connection to Roswell. That changed with the involvement of imaginative ufologists in 1978.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1949: The Story of a Saucer Crash in Aztec, New Mexico, 1948</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Frank Scully was a Hollywood gossip columnist, with "Scully's Scrapbook" dishing up Tinseltown gab for </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Variety</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> magazine. Scully was also a reviewer of literature and wrote a few books of his own. His October 8, 1949, column, and a follow-up on November 23, 1949, described on the discovery of flying saucers and the bodies of the sixteen little men inside, “these Saucerians are from three to three and a half feet tall,” charred black due to a fatal atmosphere leak. The presumed Venusians were identical to humans except in stature. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeyaBhcaK1X5DcfqSnk89GVgFp_5I1-vQPSUUEFtyX59Yd4vs0hLpigDUe7tpZAaMik9Z0rGIoDTNj6J4-tzDEKgjjHK6ZyVap8MtNK7OIpQeQKE5RhitPP-NXWah2WOsH_G3PkeM8yuQ/s729/Screen+Shot+2018-05-03+at+4.04.48+PM.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="729" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeyaBhcaK1X5DcfqSnk89GVgFp_5I1-vQPSUUEFtyX59Yd4vs0hLpigDUe7tpZAaMik9Z0rGIoDTNj6J4-tzDEKgjjHK6ZyVap8MtNK7OIpQeQKE5RhitPP-NXWah2WOsH_G3PkeM8yuQ/w640-h364/Screen+Shot+2018-05-03+at+4.04.48+PM.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silas Newton, Frank Scully, and the book they made.</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In Scully’s subsequent bestselling 1950 book, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Behind the Flying Saucers</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, he revealed his primary source to be <a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/10/scientist-predicts-et-contact-fbi.html" target="_blank">Silas M. Newton</a> and quoted “the scientist I have called Dr. Gee,” who told him, “We took the little bodies out, and laid them on the ground… examined them and their clothing… They were normal from every standpoint… [not] ‘midgets’…’perfectly normal in their development.” Silas Newton’s story spread by word of mouth, and by early 1950 there were several versions of the story circulating, as seen in this Associated Press story from March 10, 1950. Ray Dimmick said the saucer pilot’s tiny body was “embalmed for scientific study.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzQdVw_7E8a_2ms3-d1qXXl3uqej-DU11k6CQOO-OgY0W3kYUWY4RqujuMUBDoBW5DxPZEtPa-agj0F6E-AEUs60lKhAWnh3WqUT0ouSsD7OrTVyZ27lKjwphGE8DXAVAImavYoeigtLZy6g9k83Pw3Jfz_OtgLh9qkHwFKV3vq-73VgB-U-lyv1tJ/s1146/Gimmick.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="1146" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzQdVw_7E8a_2ms3-d1qXXl3uqej-DU11k6CQOO-OgY0W3kYUWY4RqujuMUBDoBW5DxPZEtPa-agj0F6E-AEUs60lKhAWnh3WqUT0ouSsD7OrTVyZ27lKjwphGE8DXAVAImavYoeigtLZy6g9k83Pw3Jfz_OtgLh9qkHwFKV3vq-73VgB-U-lyv1tJ/w640-h304/Gimmick.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110797869/mexico-flying-saucer-crash-george-t/" target="_blank">Associated Press story from March 10, 1950</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This was the original crash-retrieval story, establishing all the classic elements: a saucer with small alien bodies captured by the US military, the scientific examination of the spaceship's exotic light metal, advanced technology, and the deceased crew it contained. Just as importantly, it introduced the US government as the villain in the story, with their policy of denial and cover-ups of UFO evidence. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5jkpN_BnCdhW6_6k5M9E21a_mZ4n43Nzwo6ufCX0yOU1USh6jHUy7F-3Mh0vlQR01c7eYKcpfefcj8Ha2LSwxFVloKAhlxvNnCOct25A1PM2E2vjYRjUvdTISBavYrmsuWys9iY6Wz3o1YXPj2V6Wv6C4BhAfpxcn3Cs_5wWrVyezCMD-CRmRX2awqjo/s966/Weird%20Science.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="966" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5jkpN_BnCdhW6_6k5M9E21a_mZ4n43Nzwo6ufCX0yOU1USh6jHUy7F-3Mh0vlQR01c7eYKcpfefcj8Ha2LSwxFVloKAhlxvNnCOct25A1PM2E2vjYRjUvdTISBavYrmsuWys9iY6Wz3o1YXPj2V6Wv6C4BhAfpxcn3Cs_5wWrVyezCMD-CRmRX2awqjo/w640-h274/Weird%20Science.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> From EC Comics' <i>Weird Science-Fantasy</i> #25, "Flying Saucer Report"</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Silas Newton flying saucer story has been continually retold since its inception, with some details added or subtracted and names and locations altered to fit the storyteller's purpose. Concerned citizens who heard the tales contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who had agents collect information on Silas Newton the stories he originated. Skipping ahead a few decades, the resulting FBI files were later </span><a href="https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread689049/pg1" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">mistakenly or falsely presented</a><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> as substantiation of the crash stories. A sensational FBI memo from 1950 was discovered by ufologists in 1977. It stated:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><blockquote>“An investigator for the Air Forces stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico.”</blockquote></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The fuss was over nothing. <a href="https://vault.fbi.gov/hottel_guy/Guy%20Hottel%20Part%201%20of%201/view" target="_blank">The Guy Hottel memo</a> was an FBI agent’s report on a rumor repeated by an informant. The material itself was just a variation of Silas Newton’s hoaxed flying saucer crash story. But getting back to the 1950s…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Flying Saucer Hardware</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Around 1952, “The Wright Field story” was a tale circulating among UFO researchers that a captured flying was held in secret in Dayton, Ohio, at what is known today as Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The story turned out to be another imitation of the Aztec yarn, but along the way it was taken seriously by Bill Nash, a commercial pilot who became a prominent UFO activist. Based on the rumors, during a lecture, Nash told the audience, "the Air Force has collected hardware from outer space." When a reporter in the audience published Nash’s speculative remarks, it became headline news.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnyzIZCloQBQu8JBy5vRHrofn4MlFG_Lpd8CDDhrKv5n8GMleQb0os9hHHr2HEzEr3-kV13INQ8caOFGC6UkKRah2KfUiV4nmZQkjv5qeaEo3Fju4sZiickmz4DYhSwLeDuq08pHB1nV4/s718/The+New+London%252C+Conn.+Day%252C+Mar+23%252C+1954.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="673" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnyzIZCloQBQu8JBy5vRHrofn4MlFG_Lpd8CDDhrKv5n8GMleQb0os9hHHr2HEzEr3-kV13INQ8caOFGC6UkKRah2KfUiV4nmZQkjv5qeaEo3Fju4sZiickmz4DYhSwLeDuq08pHB1nV4/w600-h640/The+New+London%252C+Conn.+Day%252C+Mar+23%252C+1954.jpg" width="600" /></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Pentagon denied having any such thing. Confronted with demands to substantiate his claim, <a href="https://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/nash_hull_letters.htm" target="_blank">Nash admitted</a> he had no tangible evidence, saying that it was only “my opinion… there must be some vestige of truth in the oft repeated rumor that the Air Force has a saucer or parts thereof in their possession.”</span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In Search of… Pickled Aliens</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The frequent repetition of the Aztec story and variant rumors prompted Ed Sullivan to write the article, “To the Man with the Pickle Jar” in the </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/CSI%20Quarterly/CSI%20Quarterly%20-%201952%20Fall.pdf#page=5" target="_blank">Civilian Saucer Investigation Quarterly Review</a></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/CSI%20Quarterly/CSI%20Quarterly%20-%201952%20Fall.pdf#page=5" target="_blank">, Sept. 1952</a>.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“CSI has received hundreds of letters from people seeking the facts behind reports of crashed flying saucers, unknown metals… and the little man from outer space preserved in a pickle jar. … We ask you to beware of the man who tells you that his friend knows the man with the pickle jar. There is good reason why he effects an air of mystery, why he ‘has been sworn to secrecy’ – because he can't produce the friend – or the pickle jar.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Crashed Saucers Fly Again</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The 1960s were a particularly active time for UFO stories but during the lulls, ufologists found something exciting by digging into the past.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aurora, Texas 1897</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the mid-1960s, ufologists latched onto one of the forgotten newspaper tales of airships during the 1890s. The </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dallas Morning News</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, April 19, 1897, p. 5, featured “A Windmill Demolishes It" written by S. E. Haydon, a sketchy account of how a metallic “airship” crashed into a windmill and exploded. The pilot’s disfigured remains were recovered, thought to be "a native of the planet Mars.” The story was journalistic fiction, common in those days. Jerome Clark wrote the UFO section in </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Encyclopedia of Hoaxes</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (Gordon Stein, 1993), summarizing the Aurora tale among the other “hoaxes and jokes about extraterrestrial aeronauts [that] continued into the 1897 phase of the airship saga.” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie7_kUfv7EBTmdEV2Gt58IS92c5_D2h6gOQuY3WUENFoB8IH73zYZ13sf1RZ-YJqbglgdCDkDoiiwIPb4tIg7aMoTW-z1cCivvXVrVGCtYFdXcZmUJHLLlkgKCR70ZapAq0AUEz2HSbC3JzdjAx4o6QkGbbe53NmfjTZOBEQTaFmWEvXzrNu7eLJ3T/s505/Aurora%201973.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="505" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie7_kUfv7EBTmdEV2Gt58IS92c5_D2h6gOQuY3WUENFoB8IH73zYZ13sf1RZ-YJqbglgdCDkDoiiwIPb4tIg7aMoTW-z1cCivvXVrVGCtYFdXcZmUJHLLlkgKCR70ZapAq0AUEz2HSbC3JzdjAx4o6QkGbbe53NmfjTZOBEQTaFmWEvXzrNu7eLJ3T/w640-h428/Aurora%201973.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href=" https://web.archive.org/web/20150905111907/http://www.mufon.com/uploads/2/5/2/2/25220163/aurora_tx_news_clippings.pdf" target="_blank">MUFON’s Newspaper clippings on the 1970s Aurora investigation</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Martian crash story received widespread publicity again in 1973 when ufologists wanted to exhume the non-existent alien body for examination. The hype over Aurora tale rehabilitated the topic of crashed UFOs and set the stage for a revival.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Saucers in Hangar 18</span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Ex-science fiction writer <a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/05/robert-spencer-carr-and-hangar-18.html" target="_blank">Robert Spencer Carr</a> lived in Clearwater, Florida, taught a university writing class, and had been a member of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) since the 1950s. He became more active in ufology in the 1960s, and in the 1970s he began reviving the Aztec tale of captured saucers and alien bodies. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmJEQGpdwksk6JDuBz7gxwVlqiSTRdqSjQYkDYO3q9czbhyUzW9CAUpEKxgTyz-Z3-Fvw8AT8fNY-RFJbz7YNWF9ST7oSTgGElFQrDGRVjcgWo6DNrUHTw3oeIpCpQLfNiIt6j7XwQViY/s1600/The_Tampa_Tribune_Oct_16_1974_Robert+Carr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="1600" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmJEQGpdwksk6JDuBz7gxwVlqiSTRdqSjQYkDYO3q9czbhyUzW9CAUpEKxgTyz-Z3-Fvw8AT8fNY-RFJbz7YNWF9ST7oSTgGElFQrDGRVjcgWo6DNrUHTw3oeIpCpQLfNiIt6j7XwQViY/w640-h252/The_Tampa_Tribune_Oct_16_1974_Robert+Carr.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Tampa Tribune</i>, Oct. 16, 1974</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When the press finally noticed, newspapers mistakenly thought these were new claims. </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Tampa Tribune</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Jan. 16, 1974, reported:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“One of the best-kept secrets of the United States Government is that in Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, there are two flying saucers of unknown origin, a University of South Florida instructor said yesterday.”</span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Carr’s revival of Aztec inspired Leonard Stringfield to become a specialist in pursuing UFO crash-retrieval stories. An article on Stringfield‘s public library lecture promoting his 1977 book, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Situation Red</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“…Stringfield, a thin, goateed man with glasses… used to debunk reports of encounters with "humanoids," but no longer. About 1600 reports, some from ‘top military people in high positions,’ made him think otherwise. There is strength in numbers. ‘I now believe that they have had humanoids, little creatures three to four feet tall, in an underground research facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. I have seen the autopsy reports.’"</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13404386/the-cincinnati-enquirer/" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Cincinnati Enquirer</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, Nov. 20, 1977</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9wMxYFEzx8Qizv8UY4xWAAszTOKO8FsMiqDuSpDhvv6g-Oa9psbRscGzbSX3PWo3nv7_I-bK04n-QfTc2TXV8RC1SmIIwvPgA8qdZZcum4lCy0-DI367Is3XVzQ9Hjr9FwH0zMgi9xc0/s652/Stringfield.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="652" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9wMxYFEzx8Qizv8UY4xWAAszTOKO8FsMiqDuSpDhvv6g-Oa9psbRscGzbSX3PWo3nv7_I-bK04n-QfTc2TXV8RC1SmIIwvPgA8qdZZcum4lCy0-DI367Is3XVzQ9Hjr9FwH0zMgi9xc0/w400-h300/Stringfield.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Stringfield published UFO crash stories by the dozen, but none of them caught until…</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Roswell Reborn</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Thanks to the influence of Carr and Stringfield, Stanton T. Friedman was drawn into the UFO crash business. On Feb. 20, 1978, Friedman was on his UFO lecture tour in Louisiana, when he was told about a man in the area who said he’d once found pieces of a flying saucer. Friedman called <a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/12/roswell-majors-testimony.html" target="_blank">Jesse Marcel</a> the next day, to hear the Roswell story most of us have come to know. Unfortunately, Marcel couldn’t remember the date or some of the people’s names, and he provided no documentation. Friedman listened with interest, but in his line of work, you hear a lot of stories, so it went nowhere.</span><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/12/roswell-majors-testimony.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Things got interesting on Oct. 24, 1978, in Bemidji, Minnesota, when Friedman heard a second-hand story that provided the dead aliens for the Roswell story. From Dava Sobel, 'The Truth About Roswell', </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/OMNI/1995%2000%2000_OMNI%20-%20OMNI%20-%20Roswell%20issue.pdf#page=5" target="_blank">Omni</a></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/OMNI/1995%2000%2000_OMNI%20-%20OMNI%20-%20Roswell%20issue.pdf#page=5" target="_blank">, Fall 1995</a>:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“The crashed saucer and its alien crew were the gifts of Vern and Jean Maltais, who attended a Friedman lecture, and stayed late to tell him a flying saucer story related by their late friend, Grady ("Barney") Barnett. …The Maltais couple couldn't remember what year the crash might have taken place, and Barney was long dead [1969], so there was no way to find out. …That was enough for Friedman to go on...”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSPiVf16OO6tmgmDa_f2jTeBjCuA70xyz5QTBme3q3M461xUBQel1uYCf1eqSyCsMx6WbXhENRvZVXG9UGG-DBLlT775wVCa7OMKdHbLGfBN0qn_S15yt25adDNtOpqbWnFoZ4Kaw9QPs/s816/Screen+Shot+2018-05-08+at+7.33.09+AM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="816" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSPiVf16OO6tmgmDa_f2jTeBjCuA70xyz5QTBme3q3M461xUBQel1uYCf1eqSyCsMx6WbXhENRvZVXG9UGG-DBLlT775wVCa7OMKdHbLGfBN0qn_S15yt25adDNtOpqbWnFoZ4Kaw9QPs/w640-h370/Screen+Shot+2018-05-08+at+7.33.09+AM.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The problem was that there was no documentation, just what the couple thought they remembered Barnett saying. Secondly, the Barnett story hadn’t surfaced until after Silas Newton’s Aztec saucer hoax had been widely publicized. Nevertheless, Friedman passed it to Charles Berlitz and William Moore for their 1980 book, <span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Roswell Incident</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">:</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“In February 1950… Barnett told his friends an extraordinary story. …Barnett claimed to have personally witnessed a flying-saucer crash in the Socorro area — that he had seen it and seen dead bodies that were not human beings. Then the area was quickly sealed off and the bodies and wreckage removed by the military.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Finally, some documentation emerged. The opposite really. Barney Barnett's wife Ruth kept a detailed diary of the couple's doings in 1947.</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1lzdPxcGEVTCz-dwApEtLmsTwepmAdyUUeCCFTrrFCg4rvD-sf8Zpdpho_oMiAxVmqJ_JpKZIO5YW1erkj6gYR0qRv5K9PT60wO42f1ES8dSr35UyhDeUNlYOVceLFIE_tRXCXnQV3NGHgXqLzUeJ2SEk09R-Bo7_44mH2rxBdl1l6pIw-DmKNIGg/s823/Ruth%20Barnett's%20Diary.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="823" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1lzdPxcGEVTCz-dwApEtLmsTwepmAdyUUeCCFTrrFCg4rvD-sf8Zpdpho_oMiAxVmqJ_JpKZIO5YW1erkj6gYR0qRv5K9PT60wO42f1ES8dSr35UyhDeUNlYOVceLFIE_tRXCXnQV3NGHgXqLzUeJ2SEk09R-Bo7_44mH2rxBdl1l6pIw-DmKNIGg/w640-h560/Ruth%20Barnett's%20Diary.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> <a href="http://www.cufos.org/books/Plains_of_San_AgustinR.pdf" target="_blank">The Plains of San Agustin Controversy, July 1947: Gerald Anderson, Barney Barnett, and the Archaeologists</a> (June 1992).
</span><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There was nothing whatsoever about the crash of a flying saucer, or of him sharing such a story with friends or family. With the Barney Barnett story discredited, it was eliminated from the Roswell lore. Without alien bodies, there would have been no book to ignite the Roswell legend. Rather than scrap the aliens from the story, ufologists replaced it with other anecdotes that surfaced after the publication and promotion of the Roswell book.</span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Regardless of the frequent rewriting of the Roswell story, it picked up steam and eventually became not only the most famous saucer crash story, but the legend that to dominate the entire UFO franchise. </span><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Crashed Saucers and Pickled Aliens</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2021/02/george-w-earley-on-rational-study-of.html" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">George Earley</a><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> was an aircraft engineer, a writer, a lecturer, a Fortean, and a prominent member of NICAP. As a strong advocate for the scientific study of UFOs, Earley felt the resurgence of the crashed saucer tales was a distraction from genuine research of the subject.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCveIv-DLfX74bMady67kTkSouH4bxT0Qe51z4bGHOhBfqIeADyI9zn5DGceuTK4tlaO6WX22WeMiRO_DNFUgaEfHDEnZcOtMUXi15SmuPgxm4s6b6UsoyFa7f9kEr9HoxgSk6xG-H8EX4_rqEXwfwqHrdpooEdUkv2Oi0HsJHlAcuHu4oRYO_Brod/s600/Fate%20March%201981%20Earley%20Pickled.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="491" data-original-width="600" height="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCveIv-DLfX74bMady67kTkSouH4bxT0Qe51z4bGHOhBfqIeADyI9zn5DGceuTK4tlaO6WX22WeMiRO_DNFUgaEfHDEnZcOtMUXi15SmuPgxm4s6b6UsoyFa7f9kEr9HoxgSk6xG-H8EX4_rqEXwfwqHrdpooEdUkv2Oi0HsJHlAcuHu4oRYO_Brod/w640-h524/Fate%20March%201981%20Earley%20Pickled.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(reprinted in <a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/CUFORG%20(Bonnie%20Wheeler)/CUFORG%20-%20Vol%202%20No%2006%20-%201981%2006.pdf#page=41" target="_blank">Cambridge UFO Research Group, June 1981</a>)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">His two-part article, “Crashed Saucers and Pickled Aliens” in </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fate</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> magazine, March and April 1981, examined the accounts, where they fell short, and the physical impossibility of some of the claims. The reported saucers were too large to be carried by plane or train, secretly or otherwise. What about trucks?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Such saucers, assuming they were truck-mounted, would have required the removal of every roadside tree and telephone pole, plus many houses, stores and other buildings. After all, it wasn't until we built the interstate highways that our major traffic arteries stopped going directly through the heart of every city, town and hamlet. And don't forget those many one-lane country bridges.”</span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL5U--KIHvPrzekGAAekZI_PSrdvfIplZ-9IPY_3vO3KRRg7gRa1X3RN8pwC7V0RKS1wIHhYSTDcmUsXi2L1g8903UWVDytItF9YsHSLIvHJjoCpHJ5V6_DKxWRixGkQP4tw4OH7ckgjTOFzo1VrUkWbz18FJ0CIhSrJ_uDzU_EVRW_iPTn3Iuq0Lx/s751/Trucks.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="751" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL5U--KIHvPrzekGAAekZI_PSrdvfIplZ-9IPY_3vO3KRRg7gRa1X3RN8pwC7V0RKS1wIHhYSTDcmUsXi2L1g8903UWVDytItF9YsHSLIvHJjoCpHJ5V6_DKxWRixGkQP4tw4OH7ckgjTOFzo1VrUkWbz18FJ0CIhSrJ_uDzU_EVRW_iPTn3Iuq0Lx/w640-h362/Trucks.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Earley consulted a former Navy physician who had extensive contacts throughout the medical fraternity, both civilian and military. The doctor was “unaware of any alien autopsy activity. When we consider the number of persons who would be involved in such activity, it seems improbable that a secret of this magnitude could be kept for as long as 30 years.” Based on his analysis of the shortcomings of the evidence and the impractical elements involved, Earley concluded the UFO crash-retrieval stories were bunk:</span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I hold this negative view despite my firm conviction that the interplanetary-origin theory of UFOs deserves a far better hearing than it has received to date. But we do that theory a disservice if we base it on flimsy evidence and credulous acceptance of every attractive tale that comes along. ... As an investigator you are called upon to collect </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">verifiable</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> evidence.”</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Instead, we keep getting spins on the same old saucer story.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP66BHgLkn9-q3FUAu-Af2EGfN9doj7SsMLO1skIjoiczgDg5pbhovd9hpV78NWzGloD_ribGLyCeAv5TJl2hI1GI0jez1DupqZvDqadtBFE-Ksw9o7LltBlyGlYTRueCQBgOSppkj-SEwk9ZhlBG0vUFm1xnu5Ksf-zhJfW-DdaiwXdFdj3ynVkEL/s704/Behind.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="543" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP66BHgLkn9-q3FUAu-Af2EGfN9doj7SsMLO1skIjoiczgDg5pbhovd9hpV78NWzGloD_ribGLyCeAv5TJl2hI1GI0jez1DupqZvDqadtBFE-Ksw9o7LltBlyGlYTRueCQBgOSppkj-SEwk9ZhlBG0vUFm1xnu5Ksf-zhJfW-DdaiwXdFdj3ynVkEL/w309-h400/Behind.JPG" width="309" /></span></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. . .</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For a look at other historic captured UFO Crash-Retrieval tales, see:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVKK1iAnh5WZ9Qt3LhQGSTUuDNogtxR64kSCXfxcPeO5zIvOTpdKvcDyJE7yrTdbnRaZei9GGX498TduzgA4x2t1fwO-i2P4y0kmuJ9XZpV6DroNhSV3qyw575tj9Zq8IyVn1w_ypEQb4/s825/Hangar+18+Header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVKK1iAnh5WZ9Qt3LhQGSTUuDNogtxR64kSCXfxcPeO5zIvOTpdKvcDyJE7yrTdbnRaZei9GGX498TduzgA4x2t1fwO-i2P4y0kmuJ9XZpV6DroNhSV3qyw575tj9Zq8IyVn1w_ypEQb4/w400-h209/Hangar+18+Header.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/06/captured-ufos-and-building-hangar-18.html" target="_blank">Captured UFOs and Building Hangar 18: A Chronology</a></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><br />Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-63615288654255321512023-06-08T08:00:00.017-05:002023-06-08T08:01:35.059-05:00The First Flying Saucer Invasion Movie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheBYdCB25hZn6K_JXVZjrrMyqcgdI4SBKu79Fn1tz3LIeWQb8Y6CCYzPMlVFPigiNqkVJef2H72ofloSslOjLpmaQVnfaIyPw4wtQPKIhmQTbu5RZeJgBxdN4U5q4GWv-W7on-2DLzPVBQJjvSQlluD7o9UsgEtJwfwvy6DZ5d6UVpXT58pmLqLZHt/s825/Flying%20Disc%20Man%20from%20Mars.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheBYdCB25hZn6K_JXVZjrrMyqcgdI4SBKu79Fn1tz3LIeWQb8Y6CCYzPMlVFPigiNqkVJef2H72ofloSslOjLpmaQVnfaIyPw4wtQPKIhmQTbu5RZeJgBxdN4U5q4GWv-W7on-2DLzPVBQJjvSQlluD7o9UsgEtJwfwvy6DZ5d6UVpXT58pmLqLZHt/w640-h334/Flying%20Disc%20Man%20from%20Mars.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The public’s fascination with the flying saucer mystery began with the media coverage of Kenneth Arnold’s sighting of nine UFOs on June 24, 1947. At the time, the notion taken most seriously was that flying saucers were technologically advanced aircraft, either developed by the USA in secret or from an enemy nation. The super-aircraft idea was not so far-fetched, and it had already been done in the movies.</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-fd97fe44-7fff-9c39-96a5-822838db886a"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Three World War II movie serials from Republic Pictures paved the way for the saucer invasion movie. </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spy Smasher</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was released in April 1942 and featured an exotic Nazi aircraft in chapter 4, “<a href="https://dai.ly/xtvy2z" target="_blank">Stratosphere Invaders</a>.” (<a href="https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Spy_Smasher_(Serial)_Episode:_Stratosphere_Invaders" target="_blank">Link to synopsis</a>.)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghe2iNdOiavDB872cFDtik6RQ-uL1MD0niUF0B28_jOf4s1o-LwYK2I8MmsBh32sKVb6uemWY5Ogix7B_ryOkEjwTwHwhcovlbTKRk6weScMOwYZbvvWyAF0xopTrB5Td_9Js9QquhB3hdxRnvGpRve7Ya9uJGt8djkpr4Qs8rnW9VRLUpkQQ-fIMB/s1000/Spy%20Smasher%20Bat%20Plane.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghe2iNdOiavDB872cFDtik6RQ-uL1MD0niUF0B28_jOf4s1o-LwYK2I8MmsBh32sKVb6uemWY5Ogix7B_ryOkEjwTwHwhcovlbTKRk6weScMOwYZbvvWyAF0xopTrB5Td_9Js9QquhB3hdxRnvGpRve7Ya9uJGt8djkpr4Qs8rnW9VRLUpkQQ-fIMB/w640-h480/Spy%20Smasher%20Bat%20Plane.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The special effects for Republic were made by Howard and Theodore Lydecker, and they built a life-sized prop and miniature for the villain’s aircraft. The Bat Plane was a silver blunt manta-shaped flying wing capable of near vertical takeoff and landings, but it was strictly of terrestrial origin. </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRlZz-I94BsSR1rdtVVJX_m2Rs7MLmgMRPxEbu5F5C3JTYqOxGTO4nXtrQWZ4qhhRPUt0B2juePy2Mnb1f1k2YX3IeZJUAek7N7056U0b-tQQG07UOsOWIw7pLWXOQ95zkZyyt9XXG2lhsPDeWsnqjVReOFwkphAUnqUuYK1oY7crvieKl5Y767Hme/s447/Spy%20Smasher.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="447" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRlZz-I94BsSR1rdtVVJX_m2Rs7MLmgMRPxEbu5F5C3JTYqOxGTO4nXtrQWZ4qhhRPUt0B2juePy2Mnb1f1k2YX3IeZJUAek7N7056U0b-tQQG07UOsOWIw7pLWXOQ95zkZyyt9XXG2lhsPDeWsnqjVReOFwkphAUnqUuYK1oY7crvieKl5Y767Hme/w640-h492/Spy%20Smasher.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Spy Smasher lived up to his name and managed to destroy the weapon by the chapter’s end, and the story moved on to other fights.</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But the Bat Plane would fly again.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOZFOH5pGRAGD8hNTKPf4mVdHXwh6dVOyVs1-ALIWUgizJdVZE2-lPmvQTq7WuzZMVDUyhel0EyFycr1wE9wNPl5QIvRKRs29oLW_ZLk2cJiDzAk0nY49ZX5kZM7hR7OYmmQ4Wq8xPJnsRNXCYvfy0DbYoOdycVGGdAP95M1lZFPfWZIFBvNxp640X/s564/King%20of%20the%20Mounties%20Poster.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="380" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOZFOH5pGRAGD8hNTKPf4mVdHXwh6dVOyVs1-ALIWUgizJdVZE2-lPmvQTq7WuzZMVDUyhel0EyFycr1wE9wNPl5QIvRKRs29oLW_ZLk2cJiDzAk0nY49ZX5kZM7hR7OYmmQ4Wq8xPJnsRNXCYvfy0DbYoOdycVGGdAP95M1lZFPfWZIFBvNxp640X/w432-h640/King%20of%20the%20Mounties%20Poster.jpg" width="432" /></a></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to Republic serial historians, the full-size prop was remodeled for another serial released later the same year, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">King of the Mounties</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Chapter one was titled, “Phantom Invaders,” with Canada under siege from unexplained explosions, soon revealed to come from bombs dropped by a silent silvery unidentified aircraft. </span></span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNh8bVNT11mYMTEZcZXmPwMViegWYL1G9FvinmL2H3-uo3BUboMnM4CyFLJmYf5IXJKPPPy-eGIFqnE47uBzZCUtJ4dDJMwRXZk-anstM_GYP0IR_ug5MKlrTNCdScRZtBKiu3H3zpR8wxd3yo6zzY8W-SuR7GwpP4DLa8SJ764rWgofqhRE0EjfMK/s685/King%20of%20the%20Mounties.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="583" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNh8bVNT11mYMTEZcZXmPwMViegWYL1G9FvinmL2H3-uo3BUboMnM4CyFLJmYf5IXJKPPPy-eGIFqnE47uBzZCUtJ4dDJMwRXZk-anstM_GYP0IR_ug5MKlrTNCdScRZtBKiu3H3zpR8wxd3yo6zzY8W-SuR7GwpP4DLa8SJ764rWgofqhRE0EjfMK/w544-h640/King%20of%20the%20Mounties.jpg" width="544" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">King of the Mounties</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, “<a href="https://youtu.be/7v63Qfmyefg" target="_blank">Phantom Invaders</a>” on YouTube</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We learned it was the “Falcon,” a technologically advanced boomerang-shaped plane from Japan. It took 12 chapters, but Sgt. Dave King defeated the enemy spies. The Bat Plane would be seen again, but before that, there was an alien invasion.</span><span><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Purple Monster Strikes</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was a 1945 Republic movie serial, and it started with a UFO crash. It happened near where a scientist was developing an interplanetary “jet plane.” He rushed to investigate the crash and found the pilot had survived. It was a man from Mars who revealed, “We've watched the progress of your work and I've come to you for help... I’m very anxious to see the plans for your jet plane.” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi77l34SoL1n_NRtF_8wrPX1LWzyY3QQXR1wsDbNOe_9sVCLlNhcSaqYHEmRy7hI5ea8Scm-gvENBCxPJohC7Vf6r--Vfc2MtfD-0sR9Pxi_JW6LzAIxNrS944Te7lQMLdfBTyzkmFwqDX5iV5TyEXqA2jNwRKJKpXcVpTBx062NSrAnQD-MBN1uFsA/s763/The%20Purple%20Monster%20Strikes.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="763" data-original-width="573" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi77l34SoL1n_NRtF_8wrPX1LWzyY3QQXR1wsDbNOe_9sVCLlNhcSaqYHEmRy7hI5ea8Scm-gvENBCxPJohC7Vf6r--Vfc2MtfD-0sR9Pxi_JW6LzAIxNrS944Te7lQMLdfBTyzkmFwqDX5iV5TyEXqA2jNwRKJKpXcVpTBx062NSrAnQD-MBN1uFsA/w480-h640/The%20Purple%20Monster%20Strikes.jpg" width="480" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On YouTube: </span><a href="https://youtu.be/ZADaiJ56fyg" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Purple Monster Strikes</span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The friendly act was dropped and “The Purple Monster" soon revealed he came to conquer Earth: </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">“The invasion is only being delayed because of our inability to build ships who could land safely and return to Mars. Your plans have supplied that mean.” The Martian had the alien ability to kill then inhabit a body, and he used the scientist’s corpse as disguise to complete the spaceship plans. However, he’s discovered along the way. When he launched the ship for Mars our hero managed to use Mars’ technology against him to shoot it down. </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(<a href="https://thepulp.net/thatspulp/2016/12/02/the-purple-monster-strikes-a-serial-in-15-chapters/" target="_blank">Link to synopsis</a>.)</span><a href="https://thepulp.net/thatspulp/2016/12/02/the-purple-monster-strikes-a-serial-in-15-chapters/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">That was the end of the Martian invasion – until…</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Coming of the Saucers</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The notion that flying saucers were secret advanced aircraft was popular from the outset in 1947. As months and years went by without it being proven, the man-made idea began to lose some luster. Another early idea, primarily promoted by cranks, was that saucers were from Mars or another planet. In the meantime, the first few appearances of flying saucers in low budget movies depicted them as man-made secret weapons. Donald Keyhoe’s 1950 article and later book, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Flying Saucers Are Real, </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sold well enough to prove that the public would buy the idea of UFOs as spaceships from other planets.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Republic went to work, retooling some footage and gear from previous films. The Purple Monster’s costume was used for another Martian invader. An old prop was recycled for the first flying saucer from outer space in the motion pictures. It was a “semi-disc,” a bat-like wing like one <a href="http://www.nicap.org/470624ranier_dir.htm" target="_blank">Kenneth Arnold reported</a>, or the one seen in the <a href="http://www.nicap.org/470707phoenix_dir.htm" target="_blank">William Rhodes photos</a> from 1947.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE19Vxz8pwBhiyi7FvUq3SSsIM9esQBstPN1x_UlIrIQsuFapd_JatZilLmXZDubs-jl7JC1wG1AtN7FatwZBVAZZG6vWYDRp0XKvgIa9uv_m5W68dX6vSKGMJecvsvDY5Kbp43r5M3_pf2cgN7bxCDIXzRCLlgis_WcL5DgZ1LeeKk1QMiMS_q4tA/s450/Arnold%20-%20Rhodes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="450" height="558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE19Vxz8pwBhiyi7FvUq3SSsIM9esQBstPN1x_UlIrIQsuFapd_JatZilLmXZDubs-jl7JC1wG1AtN7FatwZBVAZZG6vWYDRp0XKvgIa9uv_m5W68dX6vSKGMJecvsvDY5Kbp43r5M3_pf2cgN7bxCDIXzRCLlgis_WcL5DgZ1LeeKk1QMiMS_q4tA/w640-h558/Arnold%20-%20Rhodes.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Menace from Mars</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In Oct. 1950, Republic released </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flying Disc Man from Mars</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the first alien invasion "flying saucer" movie. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoQfCHsdIT2MGZ28F0HozK4y-5aFa1oh8o5AaBKx25waBvi7U1A0pnp_p13UQoRu8rRJuRCPCPWLZe-LliP2A8Gx3hZQ0WGUUmugcfiOarnb74fYFfO2vI3zWF2V-wUx9cXXJWWpjpDXgBgRvNOuM_XGZLZXEksHoAtgWbuKk8pbH9bonHVZTFtQm6/s401/Flying%20Disc%20Man%20-%20ad.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="300" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoQfCHsdIT2MGZ28F0HozK4y-5aFa1oh8o5AaBKx25waBvi7U1A0pnp_p13UQoRu8rRJuRCPCPWLZe-LliP2A8Gx3hZQ0WGUUmugcfiOarnb74fYFfO2vI3zWF2V-wUx9cXXJWWpjpDXgBgRvNOuM_XGZLZXEksHoAtgWbuKk8pbH9bonHVZTFtQm6/w478-h640/Flying%20Disc%20Man%20-%20ad.jpg" width="478" /></a></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In chapter one, “Menace from Mars,” a UFO had been seen around the factory where scientist Dr. Bryant was working on an atomic-powered weapon, a “radar ray gun.” He told his security man, Kent Fowler, that someone was spying on the project.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“I know all this talk about flying saucers and discs sounds like hysterical illusions, yet every night I pick up that image at from 60 to 80,000 feet elevation then it descends vertically to 30,000 thousand feet and stays in the same place for an hour or more. Do you know of any plane that can do that?”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The heroic Kent Fowler took the gun on his plane and shot down the intruder. Dr. Bryant rushed to where the UFO crashed and he made contact with a survivor. Mota from Mars told him:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Ever since you people started working with atomic power and explosives, we have been watching you closely. We keep large atomic-powered patrol ships permanently stationed just outside your field of gravity and we make our closer inspection in small flying discs such as the one I was flying when you had me shot down.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The small saucer was a semi-disc, portrayed by the Bat Plane prop last seen in </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">King of the Mounties</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy2yDpsadc2glbPOeeSCboQwDX3eIMeXDaVZeZknNqY8Y5H_sHjw31ObmBbeG1slAi4HQpSbX3J6480s8pPGLpQ93dO-PB8ld_E6mPfY0ANVgUR7cpgLwZeSPORLc27C_YKlJkkyNUjJPTRzNIeF0BLJ399cVXZmDVbdTNovenU_s9f9iQ3tSeHYfS/s825/King%20of%20the%20Mounties%20Plane.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy2yDpsadc2glbPOeeSCboQwDX3eIMeXDaVZeZknNqY8Y5H_sHjw31ObmBbeG1slAi4HQpSbX3J6480s8pPGLpQ93dO-PB8ld_E6mPfY0ANVgUR7cpgLwZeSPORLc27C_YKlJkkyNUjJPTRzNIeF0BLJ399cVXZmDVbdTNovenU_s9f9iQ3tSeHYfS/w640-h334/King%20of%20the%20Mounties%20Plane.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mars was worried by what we savages were doing. Mota said,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“With unlimited atomic weapons your people might easily end by destroying this world which would be fatal to the whole solar system including our own planet. So I am here to see that your world is put under the control of a supreme dictator of the universe.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Bryant (who’d been a Nazi sympathizer) kept the secret and went along with the plan. He hired two henchmen and their little gang put things in motion for a management change for our planet. Mota built a replacement “semi-disc” craft and they relocated to an abandoned Martian base in a volcano.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHNSjJMhilOkOKXNfxIFCKtHNHbVIL315nVJv965ioa-Hkb_ps5dYl1X_AOwqdlBYNtP4MfZIhwXdytgRlDZvlie8nmC1zTT8CTxLMbBTm4fhyODJ7QExtzQRttFk9Mo0mQGPR3M0dauLd1ahhrD0C7fsjqc_p7HSlsm0uNbVGcDhrGuYCodvpydrE/s859/Mota%20and%20Disc.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="859" data-original-width="602" height="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHNSjJMhilOkOKXNfxIFCKtHNHbVIL315nVJv965ioa-Hkb_ps5dYl1X_AOwqdlBYNtP4MfZIhwXdytgRlDZvlie8nmC1zTT8CTxLMbBTm4fhyODJ7QExtzQRttFk9Mo0mQGPR3M0dauLd1ahhrD0C7fsjqc_p7HSlsm0uNbVGcDhrGuYCodvpydrE/w504-h720/Mota%20and%20Disc.jpg" width="504" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mota and the semi-disc</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Chapter 3 ends with a scene reminiscent of the 1948 Thomas Mantell incident. Kent Fowler took his plane to chase Mota’s disc high into the air, but he lost consciousness from lack of oxygen. His engine failed and the plane crashed. This being a movie serial cliffhanger, he revived and bailed out just in time. Fowler went on to defeat the enemies in their volcanic lair, save the girl and even capture the Martian saucer. Unfortunately, it was damaged, but before it exploded, Kent and Helen bailed out just in time.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>In the discussion afterwards, Kent mourned that all details on the Martian technology perished in the volcano. Helen said, “Well, it’s just as well. Those weapons were too dangerous anyway.” </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">(</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070807102824/http://serialexperience.com/showarticle.php?fldRecNum=287" style="white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">Link to synopsis</a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Todd Gault)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There wasn’t much of an alien nature in the serial other than Mota’s Martian clothing and saucer. Mota never called for reinforcements from the large Martian “patrol ships permanently stationed” above the earth. We were never shown those, so maybe that was a bluff, not a plot hole. Story wise, things would have worked as well if Mota was a foreign conqueror with a super plane. Like a lot of movies, the most exciting part was the theatrical poster with its imaginative depiction of the Martian flying saucer invasion that never happened in the film. </span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVs2hCmqEXggl8FRd1WN0WHyJL6RUD2RJ2-Laqva7JBkfJ0nsottv9V4mlOMke4HYZEU_MoSG31M0rM-VAD2-Ph5keJ8pf_6rfSYDlJ4XkF-GbNIo2IlhInxpORcESpjqIyXwVN42BtvTgqDi3tm1PHzNrJLWogiIA4SgZAmDFmrR4Dkk45gE2M6HP/s1506/Flying%20Disc%20Man%20from%20Mars%20poster.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1506" data-original-width="1000" height="806" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVs2hCmqEXggl8FRd1WN0WHyJL6RUD2RJ2-Laqva7JBkfJ0nsottv9V4mlOMke4HYZEU_MoSG31M0rM-VAD2-Ph5keJ8pf_6rfSYDlJ4XkF-GbNIo2IlhInxpORcESpjqIyXwVN42BtvTgqDi3tm1PHzNrJLWogiIA4SgZAmDFmrR4Dkk45gE2M6HP/w534-h806/Flying%20Disc%20Man%20from%20Mars%20poster.jpg" width="534" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3VipYOnR4&list=PLzQilUo7t5VXBkeuxi-eGHiczxUtfrX6E" target="_blank">Flying Disc Man from Mars</a> </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on YouTube</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3VipYOnR4&list=PLzQilUo7t5VXBkeuxi-eGHiczxUtfrX6E" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.272; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The next year, feature-length motion pictures got into the UFO business, but Mota eventually flew again in a rerelease. In 1958,</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was edited down to a 75-minute movie, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Missile Monsters</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to be a double-feature with </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Satan’s Satellites</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.272; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.272; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-JH4tw9me-xoL1yQA2QS5ytCChBUjDvV7WTGCMtBEJdx-r3jrIKAUkkRrJtRyImWWS8-spvdPsf4eilXOHAXkfn9XdLNDqFcl9PELUHAM6vbpsR3X6t5YYXIGacrV9LGwxHyXHFLqPiduyBOUxUaWXEQyAB0nF0JqC5yU3NEOV4mmqYWgeSu1z0rF/s894/Missile%20Monsters.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="894" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-JH4tw9me-xoL1yQA2QS5ytCChBUjDvV7WTGCMtBEJdx-r3jrIKAUkkRrJtRyImWWS8-spvdPsf4eilXOHAXkfn9XdLNDqFcl9PELUHAM6vbpsR3X6t5YYXIGacrV9LGwxHyXHFLqPiduyBOUxUaWXEQyAB0nF0JqC5yU3NEOV4mmqYWgeSu1z0rF/w640-h496/Missile%20Monsters.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.272; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIosNIB1TLRjAI1Od0W-FsDH0FmjFP795c3kd8534IKxsCKT7zViCa4mpSFRjy2cdaC887roEYpf45kQDW8L-xomSCP1Ie9T3X_laXXw11lUzHPir1xBHtIs8Kz3dSly8zM_5WVOhsHsTqsGIuYeuIU5BG9PlzLgIgb8aKA_15eLADIA1YnXATxHWX/s1208/Satan%E2%80%99s%20Satellites.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="1208" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIosNIB1TLRjAI1Od0W-FsDH0FmjFP795c3kd8534IKxsCKT7zViCa4mpSFRjy2cdaC887roEYpf45kQDW8L-xomSCP1Ie9T3X_laXXw11lUzHPir1xBHtIs8Kz3dSly8zM_5WVOhsHsTqsGIuYeuIU5BG9PlzLgIgb8aKA_15eLADIA1YnXATxHWX/w640-h502/Satan%E2%80%99s%20Satellites.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.272; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p>The trailer for </span><span style="font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">Missile Monsters </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">advertised a UFO dogfight: </span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.272; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">"For the first time on the screen, men battle a disc plane in the clouds. You'll be thrilled by this amazing, incredible prediction of things to come." </span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.272; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">False advertising, by 1958 it was old hat. But in 1950, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flying Disc Man from Mars</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was ahead of all the rest in bringing aliens and UFOs together in the movies.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. . .</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">For a look at how the first popular depiction of aliens coming to prevent Earth’s atomic self-destruction, see our 5-part examination of the influential 1948 short story, “The Outer Limit” by Graham Doar:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9r7WmalUXwvlSCih_aTKjkfjoBiaH9cMWuPfWTelyH_ekkHAjUs4njjRJiFwjyMYY3AF-jp1D86rvjSWwysMZD6ck8mXhSp8jHHFg_nOmCrft9fMOQXXMApS3_-hetFSDoZYtiMQYy4/s695/GiuE8JJXZcRI.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="695" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9r7WmalUXwvlSCih_aTKjkfjoBiaH9cMWuPfWTelyH_ekkHAjUs4njjRJiFwjyMYY3AF-jp1D86rvjSWwysMZD6ck8mXhSp8jHHFg_nOmCrft9fMOQXXMApS3_-hetFSDoZYtiMQYy4/w640-h424/GiuE8JJXZcRI.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.272; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2017/09/flying-saucers-atomic-bomb-and-doomsday.html" target="_blank">Flying Saucers, the Atomic Bomb and Doomsday: The Outer Limit</a> (Part 1 of 5)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><br />Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-49086939256763694872023-05-25T08:16:00.002-05:002023-05-26T08:10:57.848-05:00Einstein, the Evangelist and UFOs<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">There’s always more to the story than we hear. The article below has pieced together new information, but there’s undoubtedly much that was never published in newspapers or public documents.</span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-26ca6ef1-7fff-1b84-ab75-c0437fac562c" style="font-size: medium;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzWrGxS8eVpE0gtjmESrFRiGEuESu5iTT6pHvG0QT9wTYbIlrbb1VTpZzUMPMLGQTeLwxXSgdldYBI8ntQV3OKK8jGEoCKv81aLz2tSHd7KF1Bk6oQ3_R10OaaXurVCRpNzA34Hl7Xbla9UWU4ZDNmUJhuL2hMm1FHzThzLVPNRKPTSlD0_AqlNJIN/s744/Einstein%20UFO%20Gardner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="744" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzWrGxS8eVpE0gtjmESrFRiGEuESu5iTT6pHvG0QT9wTYbIlrbb1VTpZzUMPMLGQTeLwxXSgdldYBI8ntQV3OKK8jGEoCKv81aLz2tSHd7KF1Bk6oQ3_R10OaaXurVCRpNzA34Hl7Xbla9UWU4ZDNmUJhuL2hMm1FHzThzLVPNRKPTSlD0_AqlNJIN/w640-h370/Einstein%20UFO%20Gardner.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>Einstein, the Evangelist and UFOs</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Georgia; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Decades before flying saucers, Albert Einstein believed there was something out there. The </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">London Daily Mail</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, January 31, 1920, printed his thoughts about the possibility of radio signals coming from the planet Mars.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>“There is every reason to believe that Mars and other planets are inhabited,” answered the professor. “Why should the earth be the only planet supporting human life? It is not singular in any other respect. But if intelligent creatures do exist, as we may assume they do elsewhere in the universe, I should not expect them to try to communicate with the earth by wireless [radio]. Light rays, the direction of which can be controlled much more easily, would more probably be the first method attempted.”</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijWA1cBk7jpL2_4lXm6R3gnzwvZgqQraOOqLhWoJ_7vM4RfInGtsndkgaqgSSpfuc7ZYqTnusbxS20zSE7ilh7p9dqtUw84p81zu0wo5mj4NNq0kbNMdUCJsTkl4RNZ9-z1JwFfjOw2bM9rr3L8N6fCA9Uo8MY0pwsg3NeT-m_vrzWX0Qy66FiVI4w/s623/1961%20Saturday%20Evening%20Post.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="623" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijWA1cBk7jpL2_4lXm6R3gnzwvZgqQraOOqLhWoJ_7vM4RfInGtsndkgaqgSSpfuc7ZYqTnusbxS20zSE7ilh7p9dqtUw84p81zu0wo5mj4NNq0kbNMdUCJsTkl4RNZ9-z1JwFfjOw2bM9rr3L8N6fCA9Uo8MY0pwsg3NeT-m_vrzWX0Qy66FiVI4w/w400-h336/1961%20Saturday%20Evening%20Post.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Albert Einstein 1878-1955</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In early July 1947, the press reached Albert Einstein in Princeton, New Jersey, to ask for his thoughts about the flying saucer controversy. He hadn’t heard about it, and Einstein had nothing to say on the topic. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgvajw5yJmkGwxpfjhZSiMHO0tJo5fh7Ya7ZgLNZ53izfN83pXVHhF0kQ8YtEVhWt_NId5F3oNBila_z2DtkG1Sc1Egt9tOpA1XNRVsOmEeoIZsbYlGdr06W8qZJn5GCxBh-6VJU-kmIZoTVFhKjviVHcOc02hSCjKKX3X9m5GjCNBYXO0Zn_RlJBm/s560/1947%2007%2008%20The%20Democrat%20and%20Leader.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="560" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgvajw5yJmkGwxpfjhZSiMHO0tJo5fh7Ya7ZgLNZ53izfN83pXVHhF0kQ8YtEVhWt_NId5F3oNBila_z2DtkG1Sc1Egt9tOpA1XNRVsOmEeoIZsbYlGdr06W8qZJn5GCxBh-6VJU-kmIZoTVFhKjviVHcOc02hSCjKKX3X9m5GjCNBYXO0Zn_RlJBm/w400-h335/1947%2007%2008%20The%20Democrat%20and%20Leader.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Democrat and Leader</i>, July 8, 1947</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The professor had other problems on his mind.</span></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKDjb3k72f-MqiMOR4cKZmO9HhvrXn6xIHsQiJgOqlSqoi4OtQ1tG5FsbMJgIAZWJdY7avRq642Q5eRkD7Fs43oyAi1YH_NAg2jOb5bWTNsjrTBCMVCeRoEJqlt3xHXh2jE5Sm5vfeZfOnlw11xeYqUrleltI6jE8xv2dzuRYhOQVpfsdupU4u_yUJ/s723/1947%2008%2004%20Alliance%20Times-Herald.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="723" data-original-width="406" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKDjb3k72f-MqiMOR4cKZmO9HhvrXn6xIHsQiJgOqlSqoi4OtQ1tG5FsbMJgIAZWJdY7avRq642Q5eRkD7Fs43oyAi1YH_NAg2jOb5bWTNsjrTBCMVCeRoEJqlt3xHXh2jE5Sm5vfeZfOnlw11xeYqUrleltI6jE8xv2dzuRYhOQVpfsdupU4u_yUJ/w360-h640/1947%2008%2004%20Alliance%20Times-Herald.JPG" width="360" /></a>,, </span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alliance Times-Herald</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, July 4, 1947</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">There were some <a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/10/did-albert-einstein-visit-roswell.html" target="_blank">goofy tales circulating</a> in 2021 that Einstein’s “no comment” was a cover-up. Instead, Einstein and a teenaged female student supposedly traveled to Roswell, NM to examine aliens from a crashed UFO. Enough of that. Let’s talk about some Einstein UFO-related business that actually happened.</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7vzTWkuypvcIOJ-aKCOWmIYAItdTE5prTr6QgnlZiHJTJBnY_NGaKQI_WnS2p1JF9ss30fwOuPxZq2M3IU1pQR4QvgUMW6XxBBUNHKHjGaaQ8t5nEW02AS3cvCCK9X7yW9VzAXy3rs--uT228aFj85GWdAWiLOyUAUGSTABwP_qjcftz_fDbUJyeC/s825/1949%2012%2027%20Centralia%20Evening%20Sentinel%20Dec.%2027,%201949.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="825" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7vzTWkuypvcIOJ-aKCOWmIYAItdTE5prTr6QgnlZiHJTJBnY_NGaKQI_WnS2p1JF9ss30fwOuPxZq2M3IU1pQR4QvgUMW6XxBBUNHKHjGaaQ8t5nEW02AS3cvCCK9X7yW9VzAXy3rs--uT228aFj85GWdAWiLOyUAUGSTABwP_qjcftz_fDbUJyeC/w640-h384/1949%2012%2027%20Centralia%20Evening%20Sentinel%20Dec.%2027,%201949.png" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dec. 27, 1949 – Newspaper front pages carried headlines about Einstein and flying saucers, but not together in the same story. Einstein had announced his “generalized theory of gravitation,” and in </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">True</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> magazine, Maj. Donald Keyhoe had sensationally stated that “The Flying Saucers are Real.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The exchange didn't receive media coverage, but in late November, a boy asked Einstein about UFOs, according to <i>The Ultimate Quotable Einstein</i>, edited by Alice Caprice:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhowSBs2imyvQu9sg9cHzNp22EvfVOB5jan0cVDOtYIFjzyhXl1BADeraq5x7evsYeIHyzVV4ck6kgZxzZ1zCiV4hrsTXasLs6CLbzF-jSAp8yNsm9W5n8XQLZ7mxCx67qXFpfJ7jwyYuevt5aqH94aXtEwtY99xUKODPF70Q1YUl-XYiToVhyhhU6-/s516/Einstein%201950.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="516" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhowSBs2imyvQu9sg9cHzNp22EvfVOB5jan0cVDOtYIFjzyhXl1BADeraq5x7evsYeIHyzVV4ck6kgZxzZ1zCiV4hrsTXasLs6CLbzF-jSAp8yNsm9W5n8XQLZ7mxCx67qXFpfJ7jwyYuevt5aqH94aXtEwtY99xUKODPF70Q1YUl-XYiToVhyhhU6-/w553-h226/Einstein%201950.JPG" width="553" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speaking of science fiction...</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Einstein was also busy promoting peace and advocating a one-world government. In 1950 he appeared on television warning against the dangers of poisoning from atomic war, saying, “…there beckons more and more and more general annihilation.” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizXH_q9hptuOBhQAluEW8eGVO4xAIVzd6VCIUZv1GQw1ABLKwR8U9xxn8zIXhoEOEwmu-s4j8oN5rVjYIq5wXznG5AMQ_fOH-1rOS9C5UM0166maH7V42KlmLcjlKepIfCYUScyseUnE7AIOTOi-EMkgCQycKer-VLGzlY8INyhBRvy41O1U2wr05h/s825/Day%20the%20Earth%20Stood%20Still.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="825" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizXH_q9hptuOBhQAluEW8eGVO4xAIVzd6VCIUZv1GQw1ABLKwR8U9xxn8zIXhoEOEwmu-s4j8oN5rVjYIq5wXznG5AMQ_fOH-1rOS9C5UM0166maH7V42KlmLcjlKepIfCYUScyseUnE7AIOTOi-EMkgCQycKer-VLGzlY8INyhBRvy41O1U2wr05h/w640-h422/Day%20the%20Earth%20Stood%20Still.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpkm2xokYyrj9LSfe-PvN4M2hFDe4VIGgs8mtWqiLv7Kksz_SRh69FHoPlndtsUHOhgKaqBa934VPtmzCIYl-MUNCMG9G_UHheaAz4IWZDfvC0DGO7JBgUW-6y1xF9wbNcrlaEQu-RcI15yVwb5k17GVz6FSMVIpbOTqWeHtTAyNeeiXmxV8fnIUF3/s319/1951%20DTESS%20film%20review.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="319" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpkm2xokYyrj9LSfe-PvN4M2hFDe4VIGgs8mtWqiLv7Kksz_SRh69FHoPlndtsUHOhgKaqBa934VPtmzCIYl-MUNCMG9G_UHheaAz4IWZDfvC0DGO7JBgUW-6y1xF9wbNcrlaEQu-RcI15yVwb5k17GVz6FSMVIpbOTqWeHtTAyNeeiXmxV8fnIUF3/s1600/1951%20DTESS%20film%20review.JPG" width="319" /></a></span></div><span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The danger of atomic war annihilation was at the heart of the classic 1951 film </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Day the Earth Stood Still</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, where a flying saucer landed with a warning from space. Klaatu sought the help of “the smartest man on earth,” physicist Dr. Jacob Barnhardt, played by Sam Jaffe, whom reviewers noted was “obviously based on Prof. Albert Einstein.” Months later, someone consulted the real-life Einstein about flying saucers.</span><span style="font-weight: 700;"> </span></p></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UFOs and the</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gardner Evangelist Crusade</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>Louis Albert Gardner was from Eugene, Oregon, and worked as a weaver before serving in World War II, “under the command of General Douglas MacArthur.” His 1940 documents show his employment as a ship fitter, but after the war he found a new career. The 1950 Census shows he was living in San Francisco at the time, age 38, unmarried, employment: Evangelist. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEissjkAsF8HxH2ng91ppk8M4zhxMJYR9o50IzzGQ5xbPTQYA2mGsL7lDPMAlHjmP1SbZUhewpebXKWhXXZpnpq_pORWEmWL4E874US2uthAtvYHbfRoee_WCHYo04ftWAzc1cGbg6KhZPD12wuuXG_MWqf7rE9CjBSP2XS2goMNZnnhpwK4azTnzQt2/s598/1951%2008%2023%20South%20Gate%20Press.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="301" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEissjkAsF8HxH2ng91ppk8M4zhxMJYR9o50IzzGQ5xbPTQYA2mGsL7lDPMAlHjmP1SbZUhewpebXKWhXXZpnpq_pORWEmWL4E874US2uthAtvYHbfRoee_WCHYo04ftWAzc1cGbg6KhZPD12wuuXG_MWqf7rE9CjBSP2XS2goMNZnnhpwK4azTnzQt2/w322-h640/1951%2008%2023%20South%20Gate%20Press.JPG" width="322" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The South Gate Press</i>, Aug. 23, 1951</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>Gardner said he was with the Baptist Evangelist Church in Portland, Oregon, but most of his preaching was in California. He called his one-man traveling ministry the Gardner Evangelist Crusade. Gardner’s advertising said he “puts America’s news in sermon,” and one of the topics he chose to exploit was flying saucers, which was peaking in 1952.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At this point, we’ll let Gardner tell the story himself. He was among the many speakers at “the World' s First Flying Saucer Convention” held by Flying Saucers International on August 16-18, 1953, at the Hollywood Hotel in California, and his lecture was printed in Max Miller’s, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Saucers%20(Max%20B%20Miller)/Saucers%20vol%201%20no%203.pdf" target="_blank">Saucers</a></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Saucers%20(Max%20B%20Miller)/Saucers%20vol%201%20no%203.pdf" target="_blank">, Dec. 1953</a>:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifl6Z56YIyXqk385SfrVvZVt0sxcfmQ3jAfeoFIM33Pk__55VcD_sYE_PRtN66XqBKu8HcbrCU7D9VK5olGR_Y9jXYc_ZAdGABZJRnyGsCMXzoMYsKoHe9O9ITMLWZ9dpM-IF3dTYDc8s9Y48eOjmchfJndRMwuU4-lGZikrz5lN4zuloDqJLuiydQ/s1172/Saucers,%20Dec.%201953.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="1172" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifl6Z56YIyXqk385SfrVvZVt0sxcfmQ3jAfeoFIM33Pk__55VcD_sYE_PRtN66XqBKu8HcbrCU7D9VK5olGR_Y9jXYc_ZAdGABZJRnyGsCMXzoMYsKoHe9O9ITMLWZ9dpM-IF3dTYDc8s9Y48eOjmchfJndRMwuU4-lGZikrz5lN4zuloDqJLuiydQ/w400-h243/Saucers,%20Dec.%201953.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>My Opinions on Flying Saucers by Rev. Louis A. Gardner</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>WE HAVE OFTEN HEARD WORLD leaders, statesmen, politicians, writers, journalists and television and radio commentators refer to Joseph Stalin, of the Soviet Union, as an "enigma inside a riddle wrapped up in a mystery" because of his mysterious nature and past finding out. This description is certainly applicable to the mystery surrounding the "Flying Saucers" that have been seen by scores of competent observers in mass flight in the skies over Mexico and the length and breadth of the U.S.A. since 1947.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>While in the United States Navy stationed in Japan, under the command of General MacArthur, I saw first hand what the Model 'T' A-bomb did to the city of Naggasaki, Japan. I made up my mind then and there that anything the human brain was capable of thinking up is possible.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>I now believe flying saucers are more than a remote possibility and could conceivably come from outer space, that is, other worlds such as Mars or Venus, which along with the Sun, Moon and other planets, comprise our solar system.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>If these sightings had been made only during the War with Japan, when Japan was sending their deadly balloons across the Pacific to our West Coast, we could lay the flying saucer dilemma to war phobia, optical illusion, or general fear. But when these objects 1n the sky have been in mass formation and flight almost three years after cessation of hostilities - no wonder the major newspapers, periodicals and magazines have devoted millions of dollars worth of space trying to arrive at a satisfactory explanation of the flying discs.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>JULY OF 1952 I WAS preparing a talk dealing with the controversial flying saucers. I was seeking the best scientific knowledge. I thought of Dr. Einstein, but again thought it futile to write such a prominent scientist.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>At long last, I have learned that the only sure way to get needed information and material is to go to the very top authority. I could never understand telling some secretary my problem, only to have the secretary answer with a silly grin: "Well he is busy for the day " or "Will be back next week" when you know full well that he is sitting just inside the door.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So I went to the top. I wrote to Prof. Einstein, Advanced Study of Higher Mathematics, Princeton University. July 23rd, '52, I received an air mall letter, on Dr. Einstein's own letter head, and signature, verifying that those people saw </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">something</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Of course I regarded it quite an honor and privilege to receive any kind of answer from such a renowned and eminent scientist as Dr. Einstein.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>Here are the exact excerpts or the questionnaire I sent Dr. Einstein:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span></span></span></p><blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>“Do they originate in outer space?"</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>"Do they come from other worlds, such as Mars or Venus?"</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>“Do they come from our military rivals?"</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>“Are they the product of our own Air Force experiment?”</span></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>HERE IS DR. EINSTEIN'S letter to me, a letter that was printed perhaps in the newspapers of every civilized city and town in the world. Columbia Broadcasting System's television show, It's News To Me, thought the Einstein letter of such interest that they used it on their entire television hookup, including Los Angeles, California, which was viewed by millions of TV fans.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>Here is the Professor's thoughts on the subject of flying saucers:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span></span></span></p><blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>"July 23, 1952</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>"Dear Sir:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Those people have seen </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">something</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. What they saw I do not know and I am not curious to know.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span></span></span></p><blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>Sincerely yours, Albert Einstein</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>Mr. Louis A. Gardner</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>911 West 7th Place</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>Los Angeles 14, Cal."</span></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLZH9uGekJI2mHRiQLfUftGbubffRl6mG7ozczO8lmn4rWoD7p0eDb4oK_ySSAUtgMInB1PFCSg8kXpybx2dpub3gghkZVxbd3jEfDgFk-ZE1BvjcQtw97C8cNmPm9y_ctjq4yNh10Sobt9EJ1pMUfXB5VP-gsNYr2fGpC5rFkXm0ojNy1i_zvW-yn/s570/1952%20Gardner%20-%20Letter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="570" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLZH9uGekJI2mHRiQLfUftGbubffRl6mG7ozczO8lmn4rWoD7p0eDb4oK_ySSAUtgMInB1PFCSg8kXpybx2dpub3gghkZVxbd3jEfDgFk-ZE1BvjcQtw97C8cNmPm9y_ctjq4yNh10Sobt9EJ1pMUfXB5VP-gsNYr2fGpC5rFkXm0ojNy1i_zvW-yn/w640-h400/1952%20Gardner%20-%20Letter.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">AUGUST 1ST, 1952, I WAS walking along Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, with an associate of mine, Miss Frances Coyne, who is associated in the Gardner Evangelistic Crusade. I was telling her about the Einstein letter, and the publicity that the television, radio and newspapers were giving the subject, when I happened to look up at the moon, and near it I saw what appeared to be a huge red ball. I called it to the attention of those on the street. It seemed to linger near the moon and then just move back in the depths of space. I was reluctant to call the press, because of the publicity I got earlier that week, when I asked but didn't get an explanation on the flying saucers from Dr. Einstein.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>However what I saw was so real, that in about five minutes I called the newspapers to report what I had seen. And sure enough five minutes before my report a young amateur astronomer, Frank Acuna, saw the same object as he was studying the moon through his telescope at the same place at the same time 8:15 p.m.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b>. . .</b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>What became of Einstein and the Evangelist Afterwards?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>The story of Gardner’s letter from Einstein made a big splash in the news, just as he said. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOdqlHmSQIR-WhQ4NMIiIaXNeip9KfFs4dBBApiOPb0XO34g72OHZWhE2TvNv8aEsQHmmw0gYWheIQiG35TFpdbVTGbPP7Nou6g-5gpbtjqAU7tqtpd03knIeVbMttmCx_shxxnKE78sRxhNhotdwvh5SAJqS25zivupL-RCNePQGVQAb8Ai1JcVnN/s603/1952%2007%2030%20July%2030%201952%20Einstein.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="603" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOdqlHmSQIR-WhQ4NMIiIaXNeip9KfFs4dBBApiOPb0XO34g72OHZWhE2TvNv8aEsQHmmw0gYWheIQiG35TFpdbVTGbPP7Nou6g-5gpbtjqAU7tqtpd03knIeVbMttmCx_shxxnKE78sRxhNhotdwvh5SAJqS25zivupL-RCNePQGVQAb8Ai1JcVnN/w640-h552/1952%2007%2030%20July%2030%201952%20Einstein.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;">The press characterized Einstein’s reply as him being unconcerned or uninterested in flying saucers. Perhaps the professor just didn’t want to get involved in the controversy.</p></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>Einstein couldn’t be bothered by saucers and continued to work on a unified field theory up until his death in 1955.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUcDzGrOK_tXRzRP8o9S0afU_yXK-LOFvr1O1NEq-S9IYG5bUXCB-Ih84HsfyoSF0ir9okdni0mDc1CFWnVNK91RgpWnc8fbtgGgMxGEZ9N-JJG68-2RYM9uSN8yYHlbQ8tNPXBOFiQdy5IkWx15Hzw5_wWYuYj64darLSKQQcF_GXCjgL4QhEq4E-/s807/1953%2003%2018%20The%20Herald.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="807" data-original-width="761" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUcDzGrOK_tXRzRP8o9S0afU_yXK-LOFvr1O1NEq-S9IYG5bUXCB-Ih84HsfyoSF0ir9okdni0mDc1CFWnVNK91RgpWnc8fbtgGgMxGEZ9N-JJG68-2RYM9uSN8yYHlbQ8tNPXBOFiQdy5IkWx15Hzw5_wWYuYj64darLSKQQcF_GXCjgL4QhEq4E-/w420-h444/1953%2003%2018%20The%20Herald.JPG" width="420" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Editorial from </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Herald</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Rock Hill, SC) March 18, 1953</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As for Rev. Gardner, his claim of seeing a UFO in California skies on Aug. 1, 1952, was reported in the media at the time. Reports of UFOs in the area were made by other witnesses and were filed to <a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/6994245/lancaster-calif-blank-page-1-project-blue-book-ufo-investigations" target="_blank">Project Blue Book</a>.</span><a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/6994245/lancaster-calif-blank-page-1-project-blue-book-ufo-investigations" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfRvUc1VWyhHGa8MzRXvpDN86cSOa-xejiaWolYEMCtI1MHfi9_0ogeTbzuwdiNDHpjXIVM76tZaQemtvrej46cFgitCqBKAl51UG5-HbcU_VXknqSlUP0CRAu4qNUJLjopzq4iPatB0q51IHUX3_azTBO-pns3yQtGRHHIRRdO9iesyayaLu08Ilp/s810/1952%2008%2002%20Los%20Angeles%20Mirror%20Aug.%202,%201952.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="282" height="706" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfRvUc1VWyhHGa8MzRXvpDN86cSOa-xejiaWolYEMCtI1MHfi9_0ogeTbzuwdiNDHpjXIVM76tZaQemtvrej46cFgitCqBKAl51UG5-HbcU_VXknqSlUP0CRAu4qNUJLjopzq4iPatB0q51IHUX3_azTBO-pns3yQtGRHHIRRdO9iesyayaLu08Ilp/w245-h706/1952%2008%2002%20Los%20Angeles%20Mirror%20Aug.%202,%201952.jpg" width="245" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Los Angeles Mirror</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Aug. 2, 1952</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Gardener spoke for four nights in Spokane, Washington, on topics including, “The Truth to Date About Flying Saucers” and on the danger of the H-bomb, “America Wake Up or Blow Up.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAcjn0JWNWF-nrCBCoqzR8hwaM8ZXFFD9moBoylHLxj67xNUo57EO65eeOib7vSA96I_FYf5PE24h34gj0c8pO9_4CtrmbbTpAa0W2zzlpoljslBSRledL5R_geTSeZoRgsRqw7VJS9yIiQMUk1Sq9tuaZfmJUmdJUgmLrBJ9PV6Bdqg8tCBfgWBId/s864/1952%2008%2030%20The%20Spokesman-Review.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="864" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAcjn0JWNWF-nrCBCoqzR8hwaM8ZXFFD9moBoylHLxj67xNUo57EO65eeOib7vSA96I_FYf5PE24h34gj0c8pO9_4CtrmbbTpAa0W2zzlpoljslBSRledL5R_geTSeZoRgsRqw7VJS9yIiQMUk1Sq9tuaZfmJUmdJUgmLrBJ9PV6Bdqg8tCBfgWBId/w640-h326/1952%2008%2030%20The%20Spokesman-Review.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Spokesman-Review</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Aug. 30, 1952</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Rev. Gardner had achieved some minor fame due to his reply from Einstein. He’d also became a UFO witness, included saucers in his sermons, and was a lecturer at the big Hollywood convention in 1953. Gardner could have easily developed a lucrative career as a UFO lecturer and author. Instead, he was busy with distractions that earned him a rap sheet with the FBI.</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>Hitting the Skids</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>Gardner continued his Evangelism and had written and copyrighted at least two publications. He was married around this time, and had he ambitions to take the Gardner Evangelist Crusade. </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1954, when Gardner was arrested for stealing donations for the blind, and the police search uncovered dozens of items he’d shoplifted from drugstores.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>From <i>The Daily News</i>, April 27, 1954:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>Evangelist Arrested on Theft Count</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>The Rev. Louis A Gardner, 42, an evangelist who conducts church revival meetings hereabouts on the theme, “Strike It Rich,” yesterday was arrested on a charge of stealing charity donations for the blind. Reverend Gardner was captured by Inglewood police officers William Sidall and Charles Devereaux, and waitress Pauline Alexander after a three-block chase from King's Restaurant, 200 N. Market Street. During the Sprint the Reverend Gardner threw away a box containing the donations for the blind which he had allegedly taken from the cashier's desk of the restaurant after having a cup of coffee there. At the police station the Reverend Gardener's pockets were found to contain $242 along with 25 ballpoint pens, 14 packages of razor blades and numerous newspaper clippings telling of revival meetings he had conducted in Los Angeles churches. He lives at 911 7th Pl., Los Angeles.</span></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>Another paper's coverage: </span></span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVNRTvU8w9HTUjUWRaVMTMQPUOx0vAenIoVovQwDBDP5pfj8nxWYwQzBJsCS7QwFbroNgozwimCf3TbycEe8OfHlplhDblq5VDVhTmxkNBdN3klbgZvPLDEnMk5WhVlJkfZw6q9EmkAMezOjy7alfDPybpdAfBaxeFM7MQ0PqPMcHdsN_ny906Ud86/s644/1954%2004%2027%20Los%20Angeles%20Daily%20Times.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="538" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVNRTvU8w9HTUjUWRaVMTMQPUOx0vAenIoVovQwDBDP5pfj8nxWYwQzBJsCS7QwFbroNgozwimCf3TbycEe8OfHlplhDblq5VDVhTmxkNBdN3klbgZvPLDEnMk5WhVlJkfZw6q9EmkAMezOjy7alfDPybpdAfBaxeFM7MQ0PqPMcHdsN_ny906Ud86/w534-h640/1954%2004%2027%20Los%20Angeles%20Daily%20Times.JPG" width="534" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <i>Los Angeles Daily Times</i>, April 27, 1954</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">There was no record of a court date or conviction, so Gardner may have only paid a fine at the worst. To avoid the bad publicity, he preached for a while as Rev. L. Albert Gardner and moved away from Los Angeles, relocating to an apartment in Berkley, CA. Not much else is documented on him until he was arrested for theft in Oakland.</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv4RZgIhc_x-WSL0YsDFfURmcC1TL6dyvABcNUDd4iD7XL4WrKcuaO13AIGItcWb55DWOiCohNCkw4LalPV-VEn1oSL2nTHde4zV5h1pJo0wOYxdNY1AkaV6klJ5PLwPw3pvWXUPQlh1qipBhsEEc8lpNBoaODRpdcV6OXdzgRIhcVW0gMxpe2Gnm5/s650/March%20of%20Dimes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="650" height="493" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv4RZgIhc_x-WSL0YsDFfURmcC1TL6dyvABcNUDd4iD7XL4WrKcuaO13AIGItcWb55DWOiCohNCkw4LalPV-VEn1oSL2nTHde4zV5h1pJo0wOYxdNY1AkaV6klJ5PLwPw3pvWXUPQlh1qipBhsEEc8lpNBoaODRpdcV6OXdzgRIhcVW0gMxpe2Gnm5/w640-h493/March%20of%20Dimes.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;">“The minister’s downfall came when he ordered a milkshake in a restaurant at 5492 College Ave. then allegedly snitched a March of Dimes can as he left. Mrs. Bee Stair, the restaurant proprietor called the police. Before a police car caught him two blocks away, the Rev. Mr. Gardner had stolen a second polio fund can from the Chimes Market [down the street].”</p></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh--bXMB4kXkmbDy92EQ_yZgs7DUxVj9beSkpY7VuICnEtCvOO8IMBreBU9nSzJ2SDGveL0nJxEKB8ur3FeLUHoMeibNGkJEgerm28OEGuiIvpIr3VPawhCIuftntmnzSInZgfzE1zQvJJEpsnjLLtczaJiF6tYmrLcwyRpRbIMR2f7VKAf6a6I2-k3/s1068/1956%2002%2009%20San%20Francisco%20Examiner.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh--bXMB4kXkmbDy92EQ_yZgs7DUxVj9beSkpY7VuICnEtCvOO8IMBreBU9nSzJ2SDGveL0nJxEKB8ur3FeLUHoMeibNGkJEgerm28OEGuiIvpIr3VPawhCIuftntmnzSInZgfzE1zQvJJEpsnjLLtczaJiF6tYmrLcwyRpRbIMR2f7VKAf6a6I2-k3/s16000/1956%2002%2009%20San%20Francisco%20Examiner.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The San Francisco Examiner</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Feb. 9, 1956</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The strange thing was that Gardner had $2,041 in money orders and cash in his wallet from lectures and Bible sales. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Gardner pleaded for mercy saying he needed the money to buy a tent for his ministry. “I never did anything like this before. Absolutely never. I don't know why I did it. I walked in there. The can was there. I just took it.”</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>There were other crimes that did not make the papers: “…a check with FBI officials revealed Gardner’s partial record includes burglaries and mail theft as well as minor offenses.” This time, Gardner went to jail. </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The story was picked up by the Associated Press and carried in many papers throughout California.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVLTLiaQOWYfjp8PfolVSER_IY0tQQvAhddCzXPm9ta8mvufisHYt38EqahDuayuW8vp_KETeIXFK-Ucs-u20hITMFDdvr-cxbqgw0wwKyK-jm_Cs5Vh7HcDF0Ngm5JlgFqP5AyCAQzhh3R5xgDJ9QuQsjWNYEwhKwnSyjpWRADlDwnKV9HWG5Ke6l/s642/1956%2002%2014%20Oakland%20Tribune,%20Feb.%2014,%201956.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="367" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVLTLiaQOWYfjp8PfolVSER_IY0tQQvAhddCzXPm9ta8mvufisHYt38EqahDuayuW8vp_KETeIXFK-Ucs-u20hITMFDdvr-cxbqgw0wwKyK-jm_Cs5Vh7HcDF0Ngm5JlgFqP5AyCAQzhh3R5xgDJ9QuQsjWNYEwhKwnSyjpWRADlDwnKV9HWG5Ke6l/w366-h640/1956%2002%2014%20Oakland%20Tribune,%20Feb.%2014,%201956.jpg" width="366" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Oakland Tribune</i>, Feb. 10, 1956</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gardner "told police at the time that he stole because he lost $14,000 in the uranium market." </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Some other UFO-related folks that took big financial hits in the uranium market were Richard Shaver and Kenneth Arnold. There is no record of them turning to criminal behavior, however.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>After Rev. Gardner was punished in California, he left the state. From then on, either he stopped stealing, didn’t get caught, or his crimes didn’t make the newspapers. He lived for a short while in Chicago, Illinois, then moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Besides his evangelistic preaching, he kept busy with soliciting donations, distributing Bibles, and the occasional publicity stunt.</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLOEvocYIAQBLSNDdxv3YFIYuz2_NRmR5x7G2aNHAe0WfJzTiss6Aewa7IRIvOYEtftzXT0btcABU88_AXWijSqnxZqv3TZkJuyLthEcajum6Imq-uYialRMSfEc352BWOfrnTDr3knSeEoZ6aIOH1eMvWRw8TfDN1_zSeBb24H1gAywrkJHvkX1-m/s568/1960%2005%2025%20Chicago%20Tribune.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="340" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLOEvocYIAQBLSNDdxv3YFIYuz2_NRmR5x7G2aNHAe0WfJzTiss6Aewa7IRIvOYEtftzXT0btcABU88_AXWijSqnxZqv3TZkJuyLthEcajum6Imq-uYialRMSfEc352BWOfrnTDr3knSeEoZ6aIOH1eMvWRw8TfDN1_zSeBb24H1gAywrkJHvkX1-m/w240-h400/1960%2005%2025%20Chicago%20Tribune.JPG" width="240" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Chicago Tribune</i>, May 20, 1960</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA3HRHWAZJjto9g3uY7cvO8WXXTGbYyRSTgEjhTZMs_fhkeQEJFLqkOVa6YvXmTa0DV6p_FRlu-USF-2xUuStFWfGRvQ-IY_rSc7dEFbFCcoKMggG7NQWlB3anf342cdZUnP1axzgNLG1b1-XOCI8twVTue21DPUEGvHcxMmMYLFkpSIlxSRX-RxMb/s551/1963%2009%2014%20Star%20Tribune.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="229" data-original-width="551" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA3HRHWAZJjto9g3uY7cvO8WXXTGbYyRSTgEjhTZMs_fhkeQEJFLqkOVa6YvXmTa0DV6p_FRlu-USF-2xUuStFWfGRvQ-IY_rSc7dEFbFCcoKMggG7NQWlB3anf342cdZUnP1axzgNLG1b1-XOCI8twVTue21DPUEGvHcxMmMYLFkpSIlxSRX-RxMb/w400-h166/1963%2009%2014%20Star%20Tribune.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Star Tribune</i>, Sept. 14, 1963</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh13wAlIQBBZWSR5jPdNufK2tuAo-RMqLT7HRoaV9ESs66CN-zhaMMpfJrjI0r9yt6SZfKphlS9nyCFvBI50-eFJVY7Z-yC7_X2h-b5SfwdUKgsggKH3SxGqRCB_kdKjkCP80jiAdM7gcJXFHsaw0ubdv83bHQyU1nKAExdStHlDynZEYO2MFoYW5GA/s747/1964%2001%2025%20The%20Minneapolis%20Star.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="411" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh13wAlIQBBZWSR5jPdNufK2tuAo-RMqLT7HRoaV9ESs66CN-zhaMMpfJrjI0r9yt6SZfKphlS9nyCFvBI50-eFJVY7Z-yC7_X2h-b5SfwdUKgsggKH3SxGqRCB_kdKjkCP80jiAdM7gcJXFHsaw0ubdv83bHQyU1nKAExdStHlDynZEYO2MFoYW5GA/w352-h640/1964%2001%2025%20The%20Minneapolis%20Star.JPG" width="352" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The Minneapolis Star</i>, Jan. 25, 1964</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHu27cgIoc_mLU6F12cC_7l3JWkTXUbGOxH4jz3-3mQ_3eVI5zVQXPQ2cmcY4W3XenFjKw9nkybT047EgY-MW7reasiXwXprzrLvRVmR407LVxdFT5U3Nv40-HKf-vPuptuNKMwlUCWthlRnkPawxPVCqQ0UhrRbWETFI95ff4Zivta730bCodbtRg/s371/1964%2003%2007%20Minneapolis%20Star.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="371" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHu27cgIoc_mLU6F12cC_7l3JWkTXUbGOxH4jz3-3mQ_3eVI5zVQXPQ2cmcY4W3XenFjKw9nkybT047EgY-MW7reasiXwXprzrLvRVmR407LVxdFT5U3Nv40-HKf-vPuptuNKMwlUCWthlRnkPawxPVCqQ0UhrRbWETFI95ff4Zivta730bCodbtRg/w400-h240/1964%2003%2007%20Minneapolis%20Star.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The Minneapolis Star</i>, March 7, 1964</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLqNx7AWsEmjvOKKYND_SzRL9XlsRKMR_sbbVC0stsyAEAlEXpTY7Jl2MDoz0pq_3w9mXj_1dpo7A0IlaW-7U5_kg0lM-gKI7WI_fZzYESTiyDg46gzqQLg3hMBiWocB_s1_0c6UYmRxnYIX8RpJf_6688pe4jvGM3BEN6SxJtVy9YLaV0GladcXmj/s613/1964%2003%2008%20Minneapolis%20Tribune.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="288" height="447" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLqNx7AWsEmjvOKKYND_SzRL9XlsRKMR_sbbVC0stsyAEAlEXpTY7Jl2MDoz0pq_3w9mXj_1dpo7A0IlaW-7U5_kg0lM-gKI7WI_fZzYESTiyDg46gzqQLg3hMBiWocB_s1_0c6UYmRxnYIX8RpJf_6688pe4jvGM3BEN6SxJtVy9YLaV0GladcXmj/w210-h447/1964%2003%2008%20Minneapolis%20Tribune.JPG" width="210" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Minneapolis Tribune</i>, March 8, 1964</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVRjW06gSuMZCf-F5dw024uoTH9pD6oFGZIpoihl5NEykt4qI-VxIzTr4jgdWoOrw1_AZOD8Xydsc67uteahyAkNTB2UfxbQzIVDQnkIB-OrgG9EwCgTLvuxIkw_FCam-oX2mjNcjUgX-yZCEhuMxv7IvaLJbyv8X-ylIW0nffvfewmK8U_PLYE3G9/s844/1964%2004%2016%20Star%20Tribune.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="431" height="717" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVRjW06gSuMZCf-F5dw024uoTH9pD6oFGZIpoihl5NEykt4qI-VxIzTr4jgdWoOrw1_AZOD8Xydsc67uteahyAkNTB2UfxbQzIVDQnkIB-OrgG9EwCgTLvuxIkw_FCam-oX2mjNcjUgX-yZCEhuMxv7IvaLJbyv8X-ylIW0nffvfewmK8U_PLYE3G9/w365-h717/1964%2004%2016%20Star%20Tribune.JPG" width="365" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Minneapolis Tribune</i>, April 16, 1964</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We were unable to find any further trace of Rev. Gardner, but if he was still alive and preaching in 1966, he would have almost certainly included flying saucers in his sermons during the public’s outrage over the “swamp gas” fiasco. Nevertheless, Gardner’s name still comes up frequently in UFO literature for Einstein’s reply to his 1952 letter.</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Einstein and Beyond</b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsUMpDE0x6IKVAkFg2fwiYViA-pIo0eUGL93ulTQ1XKWP6EXQHCUN6e-tZNhNdACXCyiHUp_-QHD7mdSp9saIPkLjQn5aQJLhfmtJDc4AgxNUI30ZBpqve5W6KvdKY9Rm0y0hqCCTygVMTODlgtQ2UnDPccMgaeMBjU8NS2KyC1s0CEiw4cVHBrbcM/s683/CE3K.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="683" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsUMpDE0x6IKVAkFg2fwiYViA-pIo0eUGL93ulTQ1XKWP6EXQHCUN6e-tZNhNdACXCyiHUp_-QHD7mdSp9saIPkLjQn5aQJLhfmtJDc4AgxNUI30ZBpqve5W6KvdKY9Rm0y0hqCCTygVMTODlgtQ2UnDPccMgaeMBjU8NS2KyC1s0CEiw4cVHBrbcM/w640-h352/CE3K.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Albert Einstein was never closely associated with flying saucers, but in the 1977 film, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Close Encounters of the Third Kind</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, the aliens return people they’ve abducted over the decades, all as young as when they were taken. A scientist notes, “They haven't even aged. Einstein </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">was</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> right.” The team leader replies, “Einstein was probably one of them.”</span></p></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDOCfiUjBwMBEDGv9FgixkEg_bbvpSr6ZusqgyiXCuS9Zb4ADdn5gPew2LHn5nY3jvbz_-orscwHBKjWBLYLNvTE7iaCSE1ZnVSpAIGUvMxpQp_a7WNWvcahlQXDuEoAw6IsX3Rx3-oRdpA9RCKuYWFGZjaMobWXh6IdgZ6RLan8rIovDbzlyWG7mA/s761/Beyond%20Einstein.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="761" data-original-width="624" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDOCfiUjBwMBEDGv9FgixkEg_bbvpSr6ZusqgyiXCuS9Zb4ADdn5gPew2LHn5nY3jvbz_-orscwHBKjWBLYLNvTE7iaCSE1ZnVSpAIGUvMxpQp_a7WNWvcahlQXDuEoAw6IsX3Rx3-oRdpA9RCKuYWFGZjaMobWXh6IdgZ6RLan8rIovDbzlyWG7mA/w525-h640/Beyond%20Einstein.JPG" width="525" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> NASA honored the professor in a 2003 publication relating to space science and exploration. From </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://pcos.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/Beyond-Einstein.pdf" target="_blank">Einstein and Beyond</a></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: “A century ago, Albert Einstein began creating his theory of relativity -- the ideas we use to understand space, time and gravity.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Getting back to UFOs. It is documented that the professor was asked twice about </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">flying saucers</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> but chose not to be drawn into the controversy. This perhaps proves that Albert Einstein was indeed the smartest man on Earth.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We’ll close with an imaginative painting from Hajime Sorayama.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQzdetFTaHEkVkqEsopYm94HhJExDLJa-0B_EMDGP9LVw_8cYH9JPrJv0y3vaIRRat4AhKdDjS-Z8-ZHnFtAS7NBrLKlIs2yuysNoAHXogj0SVR31ExKNnL84WqhOI3tHKhqhLg7mVevgGV7LpmnXxh5DgaZUM4z1W9Qcz-BQbImXwhh0hPj3tHOI9/s932/Hajime%20Sorayama.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="659" height="755" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQzdetFTaHEkVkqEsopYm94HhJExDLJa-0B_EMDGP9LVw_8cYH9JPrJv0y3vaIRRat4AhKdDjS-Z8-ZHnFtAS7NBrLKlIs2yuysNoAHXogj0SVR31ExKNnL84WqhOI3tHKhqhLg7mVevgGV7LpmnXxh5DgaZUM4z1W9Qcz-BQbImXwhh0hPj3tHOI9/w533-h755/Hajime%20Sorayama.jpg" width="533" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Albert Einstein & UFO, 1975</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p></span></div></div>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-42835543419120006852023-05-11T10:53:00.001-05:002023-05-11T10:53:20.674-05:00Flying Saucers 1952: Product Engineering<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrxGVvLBfgZRGhKt91ZtI5WIWiQme-soThg-8XttMmUPepx-aM7ln8HF99gZRXum6D8fLZbfghN6Y_IdWa_Do7JZ9X_3DOxdjLt0XD2ISSzClTgaHw9j5t2ES7nxW_diTWXpcGfO4Y4CqbaoySYuS4q68hI_ftkxon5YouyaPTpoUE5Yh2weG69Swj/s825/UFO%20-1952.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrxGVvLBfgZRGhKt91ZtI5WIWiQme-soThg-8XttMmUPepx-aM7ln8HF99gZRXum6D8fLZbfghN6Y_IdWa_Do7JZ9X_3DOxdjLt0XD2ISSzClTgaHw9j5t2ES7nxW_diTWXpcGfO4Y4CqbaoySYuS4q68hI_ftkxon5YouyaPTpoUE5Yh2weG69Swj/w640-h334/UFO%20-1952.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Product Engineering</b> was published by McGraw-Hill, with the focus was on technological developments in the field of Design and Engineering. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfLQEGpfgN_JT3skhqcfmvCjJv9Asysg2i5aVeVBlwjkUm--k7FukSUAM7WBuW8xI4xwDYvNsQ0kil4r2_D9HtFiUdqFzenDwbD60oIavZorc_Ts3qVn2oq7_kYARqRXqXSQQrrM1GHhTFxFeY-x5ged4EzLZam2PDy5ye0hxZU7U6JHUeQbwR8y62/s1121/Product%20Engineering.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1121" data-original-width="856" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfLQEGpfgN_JT3skhqcfmvCjJv9Asysg2i5aVeVBlwjkUm--k7FukSUAM7WBuW8xI4xwDYvNsQ0kil4r2_D9HtFiUdqFzenDwbD60oIavZorc_Ts3qVn2oq7_kYARqRXqXSQQrrM1GHhTFxFeY-x5ged4EzLZam2PDy5ye0hxZU7U6JHUeQbwR8y62/w381-h500/Product%20Engineering.jpg" width="381" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1952, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">the UFO controversy made national headlines, and e</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">ditor George F. Nordenholt included one article strayed from their usual topics, addressing the saucer flap and the </span><span>prevailing</span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>theories<span style="font-family: inherit;"> about it. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The original article was not sourced or illustrated, so we’ve gathered some pictures and references to flesh things out.</span></p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">From <b>Product Engineering</b>, The McGraw-Hill magazine of design engineering, Oct. 1952, pg. 199:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKQBwUZn3hZ1Yvdd_PJIbPmZUf-z9AzGWodAi23PJepi_ccA-PPgjojl2HKc0C73gHSXuomZrBK-LPNmViTj8tXMEYmGDudLPj-uL1nOL2X8j88RaAvMnqyTu8oAGHKS-WCHq-oedJGqRHa7i2Usha85qmVHinX2YMC9AUPTAuAczbilSXCcEedieD/s241/Chills%20Flying%20Saucer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="217" data-original-width="241" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKQBwUZn3hZ1Yvdd_PJIbPmZUf-z9AzGWodAi23PJepi_ccA-PPgjojl2HKc0C73gHSXuomZrBK-LPNmViTj8tXMEYmGDudLPj-uL1nOL2X8j88RaAvMnqyTu8oAGHKS-WCHq-oedJGqRHa7i2Usha85qmVHinX2YMC9AUPTAuAczbilSXCcEedieD/w311-h280/Chills%20Flying%20Saucer.jpg" width="311" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Cool Weather Chills Flying Saucer Reports</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">WASHINGTON— The passing of summer's hot humid weather put a temporary end to the flood of flying saucer reports and gave added impetus to the belief that the unknown phenomena sighted in many parts of the United States are the result of temperature inversion in the air. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOi7DfiZMEwycmKC0LOjewovXW3xhz0xXPajGHxjD9rYTFmSIpoez6qINnmgazUP6NYvBpNka6dkNfJgYWng99spvGSs0x4HaklQQgJCL7W_BD1xCwdXls8Y8UJyEwoPdPqGS2qaX4CdRpWyKTLUKNXFP2Ss4nv1XXK1XBQShheMomfubLBChDHRqW/s625/1952%20Menzel%20-%20Look.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="625" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOi7DfiZMEwycmKC0LOjewovXW3xhz0xXPajGHxjD9rYTFmSIpoez6qINnmgazUP6NYvBpNka6dkNfJgYWng99spvGSs0x4HaklQQgJCL7W_BD1xCwdXls8Y8UJyEwoPdPqGS2qaX4CdRpWyKTLUKNXFP2Ss4nv1XXK1XBQShheMomfubLBChDHRqW/w640-h374/1952%20Menzel%20-%20Look.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.project1947.com/fig/look61752.htm" target="_blank">The Truth About Flying Saucers</a> by Dr. Donald H. Menzel, <b>Look</b> magazine, June 17, 1952<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Harvard astronomer Dr. H. D. Menzel suggests that the flying lights are caused by the total reflection of ordinary light sources such as headlights. He explains that normally the temperature of the air declines about 3.5 F per thousand feet of altitude. But under certain conditions, layers of air at higher temperatures get sandwiched into the cold air, causing what is known as temperature inversion. Because of the difference in density, the inversion layer has a different index of refraction than the cooler air, and lights from the ground are totally reflected back down by the layer. As a result, observers away from the source see the lights apparently in the sky; and since both the layer and the source may be moving, the flying saucers perform incredible movements. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Menzel has built a laboratory apparatus in which he can set up an inversion layer of air and make phenomena similar to flying saucers.</span></span><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Ionization Theory</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Another explanation was propounded by a scientist at the Fort Belvoir Engineer Research and Development Center. He reported that when ionized balls of air are injected into rarefied air, the balls glow. In addition, they move about in an eccentric manner at high speed. Again, he was able to build a laboratory apparatus that would produce this phenomenon. It's quite likely that both of these theories are required to explain all the flying saucers that have been reported by credible observers. Most scientists who have studied the problem feel that the blundering manner in which the Air Force attempted to pass off the reports as imagination only added to the confusion and convinced the public that the Air Force was trying to cover something up.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_m9mBkE32W2QVR4TjiaTFYJh_XKjGgiVu4AJny3kxsZR1X2N_k3K3bZqUO-N4QKdlKwvHeN-xvogDDqU38yROJFOZ-UlUb5f49f0ZlWyQuG68rBjXuZPX3evFg55Ls23Viu3YLejk6pqY1yZ4QttGu90k7qZyIAhh3RsCGDU4YDGtG4EK-SLCjqdu/s450/1952%2008%2008%20Daily%20Courier%20Aug.%208,%201952.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="450" height="639" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_m9mBkE32W2QVR4TjiaTFYJh_XKjGgiVu4AJny3kxsZR1X2N_k3K3bZqUO-N4QKdlKwvHeN-xvogDDqU38yROJFOZ-UlUb5f49f0ZlWyQuG68rBjXuZPX3evFg55Ls23Viu3YLejk6pqY1yZ4QttGu90k7qZyIAhh3RsCGDU4YDGtG4EK-SLCjqdu/w640-h639/1952%2008%2008%20Daily%20Courier%20Aug.%208,%201952.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Daily Courier</b>, Aug. 8, 1952</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/afTrBLzr6bc" width="433" youtube-src-id="afTrBLzr6bc"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Physicist Noel Scott - Newsreel footage</span></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">When August dogdays hit Washington, a flood of visual and radar flying saucer reports forced the Air Force to tell all they know about the subject. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnOfJS0G3BWqCh3Zm5JYGYM9VbEsdMEl0VIRiB3DmdsZl8U8AxXpoLYdG7AaLiAOaMAoXq9pY_CoSyc9D7B_h9RIBesjAkz-_bngb64FcigUVNpPf2DmH_0Je3yniYvUUWYGDewerz4yWWNaARO31sUFAxF9Uwwv358dpR1aCSI3qHUtuFkRXpSxFT/s701/Gen.%20Samford%20-Washington%20Radar.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="701" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnOfJS0G3BWqCh3Zm5JYGYM9VbEsdMEl0VIRiB3DmdsZl8U8AxXpoLYdG7AaLiAOaMAoXq9pY_CoSyc9D7B_h9RIBesjAkz-_bngb64FcigUVNpPf2DmH_0Je3yniYvUUWYGDewerz4yWWNaARO31sUFAxF9Uwwv358dpR1aCSI3qHUtuFkRXpSxFT/w640-h398/Gen.%20Samford%20-Washington%20Radar.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The solid official viewpoint was expressed by Major General John A. Samford, Chief of Air Force Intelligence. General Samford said, "We have received many reports of incredible things from credible sources. But there is nothing to indicate that the things seen or reported to have been seen in the skies are vehicles, material things, missiles, or anything else that might comprise a threat to this country." The chief of intelligence added that about 20 percent of the reports cannot be explained. The remainder can be associated with jet planes, balloons, or some other object. Now the Air Force admits that the unaccounted-for 20 percent of the flying saucers are not imagination; they claim they are optical, climatic, or atmospheric phenomena.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Old Stuff</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to saucer experts, the non-existent flying objects are not new. They have been reported since biblical times. There was a similar rash of reports in this country about 1846 and nothing came of these flying mysteries at that time. </span><span>The Air Force has been investigating the current version since 1947. To date, nothing tangible has come from them since nothing has ever been recovered from a crash. </span></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2q2nSfcbil7MfOVS8ireiJHavzW_UxcFLxMDz9snIEEGCVLP9H0YGtnwL--Az3QlmVD9vUktgrE5mqtFom78yNMxGjFiy8YWUqV8qMoScuZSsp5PBcz6su5hlKlNGyCVDOPAp9Z9jTPIm2nEeYCDUqP5Ib-J0QZciI1lzWJfVMtZ52K1nCdRYDEsg/s956/The%20San%20Francisco%20Call,%20Nov.%2023,%201896.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="956" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2q2nSfcbil7MfOVS8ireiJHavzW_UxcFLxMDz9snIEEGCVLP9H0YGtnwL--Az3QlmVD9vUktgrE5mqtFom78yNMxGjFiy8YWUqV8qMoScuZSsp5PBcz6su5hlKlNGyCVDOPAp9Z9jTPIm2nEeYCDUqP5Ib-J0QZciI1lzWJfVMtZ52K1nCdRYDEsg/w640-h389/The%20San%20Francisco%20Call,%20Nov.%2023,%201896.png" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The San Francisco Call</b>, Nov. 23, 1896</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Recent radar sighting of flying saucers adds little information to that already gathered, because radar experts are used to their equipment picking up ghosts. Best example: During World War II a Navy task force off the coast of Alaska fired over 1,000 rounds of ammunition at an enemy picked up on radar. When the enemy didn't fire back, the Navy discovered their radar had picked up reflections from fog banks. Some specialists feel that radar waves can be reflected by the inversion layer just as light waves are; this would produce pips on radar scopes where no pips should be. However, the flying saucer mystery has not been dispelled to the satisfaction of everybody. People still hold on to their pet theories, such as: </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEYbPXOSVGzYwDHcOAqMGEJNWhGshh3lFVCbyS5zjpcP7GVxJAuaqZaCnAY7bYO5q71Zux9NDqWZauAhFj7YmlyMrKj3VdfzbtfNdZkFXE7KBScF9sPPC46eoRMfyeqJAN0LKRs-MulhgppQ9JXPtj7JnSqH9WZyJyTB9BnXzyEulrr1ZuawIqSCQM/s670/Leon%20Davidson.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="670" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEYbPXOSVGzYwDHcOAqMGEJNWhGshh3lFVCbyS5zjpcP7GVxJAuaqZaCnAY7bYO5q71Zux9NDqWZauAhFj7YmlyMrKj3VdfzbtfNdZkFXE7KBScF9sPPC46eoRMfyeqJAN0LKRs-MulhgppQ9JXPtj7JnSqH9WZyJyTB9BnXzyEulrr1ZuawIqSCQM/w640-h334/Leon%20Davidson.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1. One investigator, a chemical engineer by profession and a saucer expert by avocation, claims that the saucers are actually guided missiles that belong to the Navy. His reasoning: most reports come from areas close to naval installations and the saucers travel courses of established radio lanes where radio beams would be helpful to Naval Scientists in flight control.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Visitors from Space?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">2 Another expert figures that the saucers are from outer space, visitors from another planet. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIXrkbzIxWDdvl90X0TVbH25pcf3SBLfJI3uIqqDxZpvQCh_hn5G0_9qnchfeBnRjtm2AueQph64fQzM9NvCUONWkThMJH7trlxTTEIwWJAPuXvPP_ONC-02pJ_Kvcxy0h9TSwZGFLL7vNlKDWJGxk2Or7LFw5aAwbiOqC9lw-bxFFA8KXhxNbd4Zu/s1064/George%20Adamski,%20Mothership,%20March%205,%201951.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="1064" height="469" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIXrkbzIxWDdvl90X0TVbH25pcf3SBLfJI3uIqqDxZpvQCh_hn5G0_9qnchfeBnRjtm2AueQph64fQzM9NvCUONWkThMJH7trlxTTEIwWJAPuXvPP_ONC-02pJ_Kvcxy0h9TSwZGFLL7vNlKDWJGxk2Or7LFw5aAwbiOqC9lw-bxFFA8KXhxNbd4Zu/w640-h469/George%20Adamski,%20Mothership,%20March%205,%201951.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">George Adamski, Mothership, March 5, 1951</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In his opinion, they are guided missiles controlled from a mother space ship that operates in outer space— much like our idea of a satellite vehicle. Reason: reports of saucers seem to come in groupings that have a frequency of about every six months. Something that indicates the earth is in the correct phase of its orbit that would permit a space ship to approach. The same expert claims that the saucers are unmanned and are therefore capable of sudden terrific changes in direction and speed that would certainly crush a human through "G" forces. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Still another school of thought tries to explain the larger flying saucers like the one sighted by an airlines pilot a couple of years ago. Explanation: manned scout ships from a main space vehicle.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nicap.org/480724chiles_dir.htm" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="674" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZVKR5gDeOjGqMQcFSaxD8gqwjZGUxNg4u6V9M6Ypd3rcf8qKsrFyYDBP7MrRSuxkHOg6sS0TxQ9HDrXwMD0LQA3MbVCh1C-NTYRGST2OmR-gbZmZ2dyoeqcBbdnNtRhbXS-IZ15LOxGBb/w489-h410/Screen+Shot+2015-01-04+at+11.15.19+AM.jpg" width="489" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.nicap.org/480724chiles_dir.htm" target="_blank">Chiles-Whitted Case, </a></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.nicap.org/480724chiles_dir.htm" target="_blank">July 24, 1948, </a></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.nicap.org/480724chiles_dir.htm" target="_blank">Montgomery, Alabama</a><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The airlines pilot (on an Atlanta run) described the object as "a long cigar-shaped vehicle with a double row of lighted windows." </span></p></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4. According to another former flyer who has made a study of saucer reports, the so-called saucers are not really saucer-shaped. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">They have the configuration of an egg and fly with the larger end forward. </span></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglDJi0mA0zWEEyK9y2mPnTyuH1ekayvv8HuFG3VbA1MYUglykd2ho1avsVwU_hJFg3Ns6K3oBQp2lYo0TroG_Pe8f5FLd-dn3jd2Lm0R1iGwh1PWFIqFvr7X-rTyJz9SCdJJp1qNisbAV-CXcCjeHXviy13A3Nes5i16r_d-Iv_-bV0EOshs268MOE/s362/Revised%20ilustration%20from%20Fate%20magazine,%20Nov.%201954.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="362" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglDJi0mA0zWEEyK9y2mPnTyuH1ekayvv8HuFG3VbA1MYUglykd2ho1avsVwU_hJFg3Ns6K3oBQp2lYo0TroG_Pe8f5FLd-dn3jd2Lm0R1iGwh1PWFIqFvr7X-rTyJz9SCdJJp1qNisbAV-CXcCjeHXviy13A3Nes5i16r_d-Iv_-bV0EOshs268MOE/w400-h331/Revised%20ilustration%20from%20Fate%20magazine,%20Nov.%201954.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Revised illustration from <b>Fate</b> magazine, Nov. 1954</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">5. A Los Angeles engineer and former Air Force pilot reported seeing a flying saucer that split in half and both halves kept right on flying. He estimated that the saucer was cruising at about 30,000 ft. when the fission occurred.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Air Force Says No</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Air Force counters space traveller claims with the observation that the objects do not follow a reasonable pattern and they fly in a haphazard manner apparently without purpose. Therefore, they could not be intelligently controlled. Saucer hunters expect that there will be more reports of the flying oddy-gwoddies, probably when the temperatures start rising again. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqqMg-D80492fgLNuRk5ovmH79j829ze0dsKlhHug-vPLZGlGL5nBWPxWxGa5TmCp3-xJ3682lu8HwkFleBLmn0BxA6pKD46KMLAjdB8d73AFEHrwgbngofE5gEsmYvm_Ff87rvb0n33WOYvlBn_nZfIv9PHgfOKHeBswhL9Ml2UQuyHoFUbUgx7Tf/s828/Gen.%20Vandenberg.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="828" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqqMg-D80492fgLNuRk5ovmH79j829ze0dsKlhHug-vPLZGlGL5nBWPxWxGa5TmCp3-xJ3682lu8HwkFleBLmn0BxA6pKD46KMLAjdB8d73AFEHrwgbngofE5gEsmYvm_Ff87rvb0n33WOYvlBn_nZfIv9PHgfOKHeBswhL9Ml2UQuyHoFUbUgx7Tf/w507-h435/Gen.%20Vandenberg.jpg" width="507" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Time</b> magazine and <b>The Times</b> (Shreveport, LA) July 31, 1952</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">General Vandenberg, Air Force Chief of Staff warns against auto-suggestion. He feels that many people see flying saucers because they want to see them.</span></p></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>. . .</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>Project Engineering</b> did not explore the UFO topic any further. </span><span>The author of the article was not identified, its possible he pursued the topic elsewhere.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div><br /></div>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-25250826973946559572023-04-27T10:20:00.001-05:002023-04-27T10:30:27.856-05:00The Legend of the President and the Alien Bodies<p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKyM9bCdoDPCS07St8qhwOYi65n2DGH-AIgmljFIuYLIkxA9q9arr504UVORNYUKmxk-m0xdTaAw20Jr1UHJRzKAVVmbgVPb_aL0FduVlUAe02e5imEMzF_qPX5mlBr4-oeoQ_gc4QKfZ-7BTQtQEk0wn1vL8M3ctjukIeFEBVhTmeC9ZmpyJhUUlE/s825/The%20Legend%20of%20the%20Alien%20Bodies.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKyM9bCdoDPCS07St8qhwOYi65n2DGH-AIgmljFIuYLIkxA9q9arr504UVORNYUKmxk-m0xdTaAw20Jr1UHJRzKAVVmbgVPb_aL0FduVlUAe02e5imEMzF_qPX5mlBr4-oeoQ_gc4QKfZ-7BTQtQEk0wn1vL8M3ctjukIeFEBVhTmeC9ZmpyJhUUlE/w640-h334/The%20Legend%20of%20the%20Alien%20Bodies.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The study of UFOs has long struggled with the problem of anecdotal evidence, rumors, and hearsay – and their constant repetition. One such story persists: The tale of the President showing his celebrity friend alien bodies from a UFO crash.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-a19b7b7f-7fff-694c-9de4-04a3ca8b1a22" style="font-size: medium;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When a scoundrel comes dragging in late one night, his suspicious wife wants to know where he’s been. He tells her the President sent him to a secret lab at an Air Force base to see aliens from a crashed flying saucer. The greatest UFO story of all time, or a rejected sitcom plot</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">?</span></p></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The original story comes entirely from a single source, not the people supposedly involved. We’ve constructed a chronology of events and profiles of the players to put the story in context. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a lengthy examination is </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">divided into three main parts to trace </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">the creation and spread of the legend.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a19b7b7f-7fff-694c-9de4-04a3ca8b1a22" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"></span></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 1983 Original Story by Beverly Gleason.</span></p></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 1992 Rewrite by Larry Warren.</span></p></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 2003 Mix-up by Beverly Gleason.</span></p></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The main players in the story:</span> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFBAhnb5i87sbsW4JMp6hqsPsk7CmTZS-lpEHMTKW6hqur1H7T9sJMDIr9PsHHXzkqwDuV2atLnuoA44JORW9n-Vm-bCVZ2cnYkvM-tuQUvDplmrXPMV4N4vlE-RtsrU0Aee2llpqidPhs3ao8ilD0N3-1RN8bQd5KAjoBtMTb8Oz9pG3K8KV-9Eb2/s894/Cast%20of%20Characters.png"><img border="0" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="790" height="473" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFBAhnb5i87sbsW4JMp6hqsPsk7CmTZS-lpEHMTKW6hqur1H7T9sJMDIr9PsHHXzkqwDuV2atLnuoA44JORW9n-Vm-bCVZ2cnYkvM-tuQUvDplmrXPMV4N4vlE-RtsrU0Aee2llpqidPhs3ao8ilD0N3-1RN8bQd5KAjoBtMTb8Oz9pG3K8KV-9Eb2/w418-h473/Cast%20of%20Characters.png" width="418" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 700;">First Contact: President Nixon</span></span><p></p></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) was elected the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969-1974. While there are no documented comments of substance by President Nixon on the UFO topic, on July 22, 1969, he did make some <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Department_of_State_Bulletin/xWQVuKqd76sC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Foreign%20exchange%20students&pg=PA111&printsec=frontcover" target="_blank">remarks about space</a> travel and extraterrestrial life. Addressing 2,000 American Field Service exchange students from 60 countries on White House lawn, he said:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"…I am sure that those in this audience… will agree with me, in the year 2000 we will, on this earth, have visited new worlds where there will be a form of life. I know this will happen… this is the kind of world I would like to see and the kind of exploration of that new world that I know all Americans want."</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Richard Nixon had served as Vice President to Dwight D. Eisenhower and ran to succeed him in 1960, backed by Hollywood supporters who formed a “Celebrities for Nixon Committee.” That presidential run failed, but Nixon would try again later. Comedian Jackie Gleason started out as a New Deal Democrat but evolved into an aggressive Republican and publicly endorsed Nixon’s candidacy for the 1968 presidential election.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSHckhBT5Y-CvaNe4sZSlpt8A4UvBlIl7hw2p73aUHaCd5EJOmd9K3UfHFtzZzhloNbXzbO6ZSWDjhu2Mz1VAnbVxlxDRxPbfC_NZkkddpp5iZqaCW9qSSpmbxFsJEFATXHj-k_LKWOGE-cdiB7MN2I6C7HyijQPSvEiNC0KBfv325doiwnQTqKSWn/s546/Detroit%20Free%20Press%20Oct.%2016,%201968.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="546" height="604" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSHckhBT5Y-CvaNe4sZSlpt8A4UvBlIl7hw2p73aUHaCd5EJOmd9K3UfHFtzZzhloNbXzbO6ZSWDjhu2Mz1VAnbVxlxDRxPbfC_NZkkddpp5iZqaCW9qSSpmbxFsJEFATXHj-k_LKWOGE-cdiB7MN2I6C7HyijQPSvEiNC0KBfv325doiwnQTqKSWn/w640-h604/Detroit%20Free%20Press%20Oct.%2016,%201968.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before Hangar 18, the 18th hole.<i> Detroit Free Press</i>, Oct. 16, 1968</td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When he became president, Nixon bought vacation property Key Biscayne (near Miami). On his frequent visits, he’d take Air Force One into Homestead Air Force Base, then go by helicopter to his compound, known as the Florida (or Winter) White House. While there, Nixon occasionally played golf, and a few of those games were with his supporter Jackie Gleason.</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Student of the Paranormal and UFOs</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jackie Gleason (1916-1987, born John Herbert Gleason) became known as “The Great One,” a beloved television entertainer almost as famous for his lavish lifestyle as for his comic genius. Gleason was a versatile performer of many talents, from slapstick to drama, and lauded for his ability to ad lib before a live audience.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8LTfD9bbU1GX5DjMU76y1E5h8Qk_zDEOQ-t36HExy9GcyvjOQBmwDKkAmyG4Cp7VuTaFhBa29yGz_Pi7Xohb-4hPJCYIW3dws4p4qe0vToGg4wX3O_ZvE1HM3BT8NjTMK-NHfysMFzxyWBp_LeAQwc0Z14sYU8VN5nU9AvTCiWgb1H6X0tmPCna-G/s656/Gleason%20magazines.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="656" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8LTfD9bbU1GX5DjMU76y1E5h8Qk_zDEOQ-t36HExy9GcyvjOQBmwDKkAmyG4Cp7VuTaFhBa29yGz_Pi7Xohb-4hPJCYIW3dws4p4qe0vToGg4wX3O_ZvE1HM3BT8NjTMK-NHfysMFzxyWBp_LeAQwc0Z14sYU8VN5nU9AvTCiWgb1H6X0tmPCna-G/w640-h440/Gleason%20magazines.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gleason had a lifelong interest in the paranormal and he voraciously read about psychic phenomena, reincarnation, and related topics. He built a library containing thousands of volumes, and a significant part of the collection consisted of newsletters, magazines, and books on flying saucers. In our examination, we’ll look at quotes from Gleason on his thoughts about UFOs before, during, and after the time of his alleged encounter with extraterrestrials.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The Latest on the Flying Saucer” was an article in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Saturday Review</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Feb. 26, 1956, and it included a section where the magazine asked five writers and prominent personalities in UFOs to answer two questions: “Have you yourself ever seen a flying saucer? What do you believe is the origin and intent of the saucers?” Jackie Gleason replied:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I have never seen a flying saucer anywhere personally but have read published flying saucer literature. Most of this literature is ridiculous, but amongst the trash are some undeniable points that cannot be refuted even by the United States government.” He concluded by saying, “I am not sure where they originate but it is almost certain that their jumping off place is the moon. I think that their purpose in visiting us is to get geographic information and to find out all they would have to contend with if they decide to make an absolute communication with us.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">During this time, Gleason persuaded CBS to give him acreage and build a mansion with a television studio in Peekskill, New York. The “Round House,” designed by Gleason, and inspired by his interest in flying saucers, was completed in 1959.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis0RmpEwwxIDQ8Rw3nZBfbpw8fFtjwXBi1VoH9fdCAQFN_jIqGq9uOL_SpwuqQ0-V7GVMh1RnF9coMToDd003JBRBCGadLtu93etbkPu6ZPQCylkfa6dd1k-GsZg7Gv0JcjRgFYi7tNXLJf4Rj8dy64pYfC-zjxmjcDmbPDDpLwnxGRcB1hQaKVH3z/s591/Flying%20Saucer%20House%20-%20Jackie%20Gleason.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="591" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis0RmpEwwxIDQ8Rw3nZBfbpw8fFtjwXBi1VoH9fdCAQFN_jIqGq9uOL_SpwuqQ0-V7GVMh1RnF9coMToDd003JBRBCGadLtu93etbkPu6ZPQCylkfa6dd1k-GsZg7Gv0JcjRgFYi7tNXLJf4Rj8dy64pYfC-zjxmjcDmbPDDpLwnxGRcB1hQaKVH3z/w449-h398/Flying%20Saucer%20House%20-%20Jackie%20Gleason.jpg" width="449" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gleason had read and liked </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, by Gray Barker, but on Nov. 19, 1958, he <a href="https://archive.org/details/TheLongJohnNebelCollection/LongJohn+Nebel-1958+11+16+Jackie+Gleason.mp3" target="_blank">called into the Long John Nebel radio show</a> and got into a pointed conversation with the author over his sensationalism and exploitation of the UFO topic. In a subsequent show, Gleason called in to challenge the outlandish claims and evangelism of Contactee George King of the Aetherius Society. He asked, “Why do we need a spiritual message from someone in a flying saucer?” Hearsay wasn’t enough for Gleason, and he wanted King to produce concrete evidence. King refused and hung up when Gleason said, “I think you’re a phony!”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1961, Gleason was featured in two magazines in connection with UFOs:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Great One was pictured with a flying saucer on the cover of the March 1961 issue of Harvey Kurtzman’s </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Help!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> humor magazine. “Jackie Gleason Says: Why go to Venus? Venus is Here.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjSRA-QX1TJmZcsLK9zTB-uVVdvLfpNJYjsx68bPbfRb-4-vf3fByqYgvXCboUUBLJFvBYFrgri4MJs_pBgrAyeMDEqTakt5F1XVjnR3QmKG3g6MV6yXXcxxSPPFzX075ZB-OwIWbiGv0ZLIyGCP7xHfjoY6WTK-vwmu3aIuh8wOw1S0uf490lHUQk/s969/Help%20May%201961.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="969" data-original-width="739" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjSRA-QX1TJmZcsLK9zTB-uVVdvLfpNJYjsx68bPbfRb-4-vf3fByqYgvXCboUUBLJFvBYFrgri4MJs_pBgrAyeMDEqTakt5F1XVjnR3QmKG3g6MV6yXXcxxSPPFzX075ZB-OwIWbiGv0ZLIyGCP7xHfjoY6WTK-vwmu3aIuh8wOw1S0uf490lHUQk/w488-h640/Help%20May%201961.jpg" width="488" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0B77-9ZmIGtbvX6bkXCMlQ2RpRG1vIFWVS-2_2wApd7vb8TIvq0e8r92qzhiD3VOD_uoIaZXPVLV3-c1_u2OVzjrCllaBV6lYEJ8Bl-67sbyl6VxHh6BJ_kVWa6UKwVZa3DRf_ft0N2eAt_RsYuq7KAAXA7Eb4jaLOiM_Bi3Hs0STvZfMCnAHhWpZ/s607/Argosy%20March%201961.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="607" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0B77-9ZmIGtbvX6bkXCMlQ2RpRG1vIFWVS-2_2wApd7vb8TIvq0e8r92qzhiD3VOD_uoIaZXPVLV3-c1_u2OVzjrCllaBV6lYEJ8Bl-67sbyl6VxHh6BJ_kVWa6UKwVZa3DRf_ft0N2eAt_RsYuq7KAAXA7Eb4jaLOiM_Bi3Hs0STvZfMCnAHhWpZ/w497-h358/Argosy%20March%201961.jpg" width="497" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Argosy</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, March 1961, “’Flying Saucers Are Real!’—Jackie Gleason” written by Long John Nebel, contrasting Gleason’s views with that of the US Air Force. According to the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.openminds.tv/pdf/apro/apro_jan_1961.pdf" target="_blank">APRO Bulletin</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, “While it appeared to be an endorsement of the interplanetary theory, the Nebel story was actually a semi-humorous tongue-in-cheek dissertation on Mr. Gleason's interpretations of UFO evidence.”</span><a href="https://www.openminds.tv/pdf/apro/apro_jan_1961.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gleason subscribed to many UFO publications. When a column by Bob Consadine quoted Jackie on his belief in extraterrestrials, it gave NICAP the opportunity to brag about his membership in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UFO Investigator</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> June-Sept. 1963.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVZmDXrSx5Plgik6HjMs8xv6jj7uv-gEhcNgy3ktuiiGMVxHJy0ZcefdOonEunKsv6BNYFYC0DMS1-I8G5Tm7b1EQH1od3YGvLn8YD7tyYOVTRP49YIU6wwrH0pFKSvO7NXwQNMwZFar63ZEcuFVhfw235iOnaqy3lolMzKQNgual-jnMdT_mE5ySC/s511/UFO%20Investigator%20June-Sept.%201963.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="511" height="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVZmDXrSx5Plgik6HjMs8xv6jj7uv-gEhcNgy3ktuiiGMVxHJy0ZcefdOonEunKsv6BNYFYC0DMS1-I8G5Tm7b1EQH1od3YGvLn8YD7tyYOVTRP49YIU6wwrH0pFKSvO7NXwQNMwZFar63ZEcuFVhfw235iOnaqy3lolMzKQNgual-jnMdT_mE5ySC/w449-h409/UFO%20Investigator%20June-Sept.%201963.jpg" width="449" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_wFv3eK_y0rsmxGNph6ADtizwZYrLo0L18cLz2hnqUpjwaB69aQSCS8RSqCv24_iiN8bOKnniRCeMM-5NHY58bizt5FFMdwUTPYUSbrdvJwRl6f4a5HEbn9vuA6J2rHpVmdTkcIYS7uV7YBkyBU1Y-E0LD8dnP1hqG6KdibtRXL-iO1CjKmbmdBUI/s681/Exploring%20the%20Unknown%20March%201960.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="481" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_wFv3eK_y0rsmxGNph6ADtizwZYrLo0L18cLz2hnqUpjwaB69aQSCS8RSqCv24_iiN8bOKnniRCeMM-5NHY58bizt5FFMdwUTPYUSbrdvJwRl6f4a5HEbn9vuA6J2rHpVmdTkcIYS7uV7YBkyBU1Y-E0LD8dnP1hqG6KdibtRXL-iO1CjKmbmdBUI/w361-h510/Exploring%20the%20Unknown%20March%201960.jpg" width="361" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A profile on Jackie Gleason and his paranormal beliefs from </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Exploring the Unknown</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> magazine was reprinted in the <a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Panorama%20(Stone)/Panorama%20-%20Vol%2003%20No%2003%20-%201963.pdf#page=10" target="_blank">Australian UFO newsletter </a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Panorama%20(Stone)/Panorama%20-%20Vol%2003%20No%2003%20-%201963.pdf#page=10" target="_blank">Panorama</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. As for UFOs, Gleason believed in the probability of life on other worlds, but did not find the Contactee stories credible. Gleason said that if he made contact, the first thing he’d do was ask the aliens for proof he could show others, “or else I would keep my mouth shut.”</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Gleason made a big move in 1964. Back in 1957 he’d taken some time off from television and visited Florida and took up golf, developing a passion to be "the best." He was so devoted to the game that he left his New York saucer home behind, and persuaded CBS to relocate him and his television show to Florida in 1964. He lived there for the rest of his days.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfI9_Or3hjHWbqwFVv0oPCH9phkdfP34y0o2wji3aSKa283oSM4kjIaIVG9hXwRPkDP27Lv7-uyHBPAGDRybejkIIIWhqSA0gnLNyOsBZYkNJwSjuVDemuu2MNTw8n-QSzFnEefmUwaiPzO5HKP4tT13-S3V5FmRShUacKCiUCF06OIM0IprNWUEBZ/s587/1971%20Beyond%20magazine,%20November%201969.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="587" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfI9_Or3hjHWbqwFVv0oPCH9phkdfP34y0o2wji3aSKa283oSM4kjIaIVG9hXwRPkDP27Lv7-uyHBPAGDRybejkIIIWhqSA0gnLNyOsBZYkNJwSjuVDemuu2MNTw8n-QSzFnEefmUwaiPzO5HKP4tT13-S3V5FmRShUacKCiUCF06OIM0IprNWUEBZ/w428-h363/1971%20Beyond%20magazine,%20November%201969.JPG" width="428" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Getting back to UFOs, it was not a big part of his public persona, but Gleason occasionally spoke about his interest. <a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Data%20Net/Data%20Net%20-%20No%2028%20-%201969.pdf" target="_blank">The</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Data%20Net/Data%20Net%20-%20No%2028%20-%201969.pdf" target="_blank"> National Enquirer</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Data%20Net/Data%20Net%20-%20No%2028%20-%201969.pdf" target="_blank">, Aug. 3, 1969</a>, quoted him as saying, "I believe in extrasensory perception, telepathy, clairvoyance, unidentified flying objects, and a lot of other things that cannot be easily explained.” Adding, “I've been interested in the supernatural for about 30 years and I've got over 4000 books on psychic phenomena. I've done a lot of reading on the subject." </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/la.wan.3538/posts/2135801273328792" target="_blank">Beyond </a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/la.wan.3538/posts/2135801273328792" target="_blank">magazine, November 1969</a>, “Jackie Gleason Heads the List of Entertainers Who Believe in the Supernatural” by Robert Warner, seems to have been based on the same interview.</span></p></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Ex-Wife Files</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdT88q5myPY1Kosqh4MMpvWRAYlh-aeB8L2M5v36B6tOfZHwCfmTCcr-BJCY-KFjsklaYcQr6m7FtpkVEPw8XAG7C_m3zauOHdHK0WqV4Glml7osbpqVISbq5AVY475eMvo_SB3gTphuzUOsiwS-t7ruy-I2uZX-nSzjnsnU1bBUCcJesotfAstsR2/s1280/Married.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1031" data-original-width="1280" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdT88q5myPY1Kosqh4MMpvWRAYlh-aeB8L2M5v36B6tOfZHwCfmTCcr-BJCY-KFjsklaYcQr6m7FtpkVEPw8XAG7C_m3zauOHdHK0WqV4Glml7osbpqVISbq5AVY475eMvo_SB3gTphuzUOsiwS-t7ruy-I2uZX-nSzjnsnU1bBUCcJesotfAstsR2/w400-h323/Married.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1968, Gleason met Beverly McKittrick, a divorced secretary from Baltimore, 17 years his junior. Gleason had been separated from his first wife since 1954 but she didn’t agree to a divorce until 1970. Immediately afterwards, Gleason married Beverly on July 4, 1970, however, things fell apart quickly. Friends said the two had nothing in common besides golf and drinking, and Beverly was said to be “possessive and consequently mistrustful.” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvQqkMS6jqxUnjm4Tlh_aNXTYUxL6MxtYk94CeH0LlM5QrfBsASudI_XXg01hCRKnXJoF8R3GZZNcZm9ZCfiA7R9fTuiynpbV5z3CyBRBmUGIFOljZos9E3v4NMEzGGb1nrkx_wHGOi2frXgzrkR2VcUGQWiOiMAEW2d-r5kShPnjG4dLiUQtYfqm_/s570/Beverly%20and%20Jackie%20Split.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="570" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvQqkMS6jqxUnjm4Tlh_aNXTYUxL6MxtYk94CeH0LlM5QrfBsASudI_XXg01hCRKnXJoF8R3GZZNcZm9ZCfiA7R9fTuiynpbV5z3CyBRBmUGIFOljZos9E3v4NMEzGGb1nrkx_wHGOi2frXgzrkR2VcUGQWiOiMAEW2d-r5kShPnjG4dLiUQtYfqm_/w400-h259/Beverly%20and%20Jackie%20Split.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The other bad news came when </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Jackie Gleason Show</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was canceled by CBS in 1970. Jackie’s next big play would come due to his love for golf.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic came about in 1972 when developers courted him to lend his name to the golf tournament. He agreed and they furnished him with a magnificent lakeside house on one of the fairways. Once remodeled to Gleason’s specifications with a grand bar and pool room, the home was valued at two million dollars.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMtP6a7vWi1QLjVsZPvS6-bV7BW3lSEl6XzUg0XJfzUHhrclx2huZOuZWqXVWIPQtXrc9jthSogGhsqfXSCgZmtDa0K7PsSGZgOFpSGecdTHUny-Q8R1CYJztMYdLOqvtN8qdQx9H9hCIP70YHdxlu24zlbvjjw4tuLzaTKZrABFGoxNvzSf5q9w6/s662/Glea%20Manor%20-%20Rebuilt.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="539" data-original-width="662" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMtP6a7vWi1QLjVsZPvS6-bV7BW3lSEl6XzUg0XJfzUHhrclx2huZOuZWqXVWIPQtXrc9jthSogGhsqfXSCgZmtDa0K7PsSGZgOFpSGecdTHUny-Q8R1CYJztMYdLOqvtN8qdQx9H9hCIP70YHdxlu24zlbvjjw4tuLzaTKZrABFGoxNvzSf5q9w6/w640-h522/Glea%20Manor%20-%20Rebuilt.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Ufologists would later claim that something extraordinary happened with Gleason between 1973 and 1974. With that in mind, let’s look at the documented events of those days. President Richard Nixon made an appearance at the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic golf tournament on Feb. 19, 1973. Gleason drove the President in a golf cart to the 18</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> hole, where Nixon gave a short speech.</span></p></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">More importantly, 1973 saw a romantic reunion. Jackie Gleason had fallen in love with <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1565416/jackie-gleason-and-marilyn-taylor/" target="_blank">Marilyn Taylor</a> around 1950, but they couldn’t be together since his first wife refused to give him a divorce. Marylin wed George Horwich in May 1962, but he died in 1973. According to Marylin’s son, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jackie-gleason-embraced-lasting-success-on-the-honeymooners-never-regretted-playing-ralph-kramden" target="_blank">Craig Horwich</a>, “When he found out my mom was now widowed and living in South Florida… He wooed and reunited with her.” Inconveniently for Jackie, he was still married to Beverly. According to what Beverly would later say, one night in 1973, Jackie was out late one night and came home with an unbelievable story about where he’d been. More on that later.</span><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gleason’s Two UFO Sightings</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jackie Gleason from </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The National Enquirer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> May 20, 1973 (as quoted in From </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Research%20Newsletter%20(Lore)/UFO%20Research%20Newsletter%20-%201973%2006%2007%20-%20Vol%2003%20No%2003.pdf?#page=7" target="_blank">UFO Research Newsletter</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Research%20Newsletter%20(Lore)/UFO%20Research%20Newsletter%20-%201973%2006%2007%20-%20Vol%2003%20No%2003.pdf?#page=7" target="_blank"> June/July 1973</a>):</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"I not only believe that UFOs exist. I know they exist. And the U.S. government knows they exist, too, because I was told so privately by a government official back in 1948. I believe we are being studied by visitors from other planets." Gleason also discussed his two UFO sightings, one in London in 1965, and another one a few years later near his home in Florida, both were bright objects maneuvering at a velocity “that would be impossible for any flying object known to man.”</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Resignation, a Divorce, a Marriage, and a Comeback</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">President Nixon found himself increasingly busy with the Watergate scandal and resigned from office on August 9, 1974. As a byproduct, a new phrase was coined to describe the alleged U.S. Government UFO cover-up, the “Cosmic Watergate.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jackie Gleason wrote the introduction for the 1974 biography by Donald Bain, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Biography/Long-John-Nebel-Bain-1974.pdf" target="_blank">Long John Nebel: Radio Talk King, Master Salesman, and Magnificent Charlatan</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Gleason shared his thoughts on UFOs:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“…it's my belief that we are currently hovering on the edge of probably the greatest story since earth began. I think oceans of bilge have been printed about planetary visitors but I think we are indeed being visited and that there is powerful actually, indisputable-evidence of this. I believe our government is aware of it and is building up greater knowledge about it, but is puzzled and frightened at the prospect of sharing its knowledge. Astronauts have confided to me that they've seen flying saucers; I'm sure they confided it in higher channels, too.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">With Marilyn in the picture, Gleason filed to divorce Beverly in Sept. 1974. After a long contentious year, it was finally granted on Nov. 19, 1975, Beverly wanted the Inverrary house, but Gleason refused. Instead, they finally agreed on her taking some personal property and a lump sum payment. Jackie and Marilyn were married the next month, on Dec. 16, 1975.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgQ04EdYS9iy_-kE4MyOFt0y48H2FqLtLZGnPXzOcPP53dTi7JZdWDd9iDfucOmHdk2BevSnyy5NxcIscM_h2YPCQhpjIT0MWsxg35CN9zdHj5TTCldIww9nMRqAKoFBh9ws2BqKRmjq7Bcz2NwBhfbdhqMb7cAeBnQXiep1iitr-t5OZ0WzoVCKhi/s441/1975%20-%20Married.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="413" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgQ04EdYS9iy_-kE4MyOFt0y48H2FqLtLZGnPXzOcPP53dTi7JZdWDd9iDfucOmHdk2BevSnyy5NxcIscM_h2YPCQhpjIT0MWsxg35CN9zdHj5TTCldIww9nMRqAKoFBh9ws2BqKRmjq7Bcz2NwBhfbdhqMb7cAeBnQXiep1iitr-t5OZ0WzoVCKhi/w375-h400/1975%20-%20Married.JPG" width="375" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jackie Gleason went back to acting after a long break in 1976, appearing in the first of four </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Honeymooners</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> specials on ABC. In 1977, Gleason returned to movies, playing Sheriff Buford T. Justice in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smokey and the Bandit</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. It was a hit, and it revived his career, giving him as much work as he wanted from then on.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJg3-4RXTNIM9NZEtQBSm-o88F3RN3mzaRWjahcu7CDy3zfuylEI6oSWjLh5kKpiknOW5wHZ2zkv6BqFUnnckILTAjyx-CRf5LJfklBPOVHSQ-Lr1IBp44HoC18pkfPvCqotMEERkl7itbBmq2rsarJwSJ-4_xAOWKiAFmOp_8Mqoqy9SnoyOn8GN8/s507/Tomorrow%20Feb.%201978.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="507" height="489" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJg3-4RXTNIM9NZEtQBSm-o88F3RN3mzaRWjahcu7CDy3zfuylEI6oSWjLh5kKpiknOW5wHZ2zkv6BqFUnnckILTAjyx-CRf5LJfklBPOVHSQ-Lr1IBp44HoC18pkfPvCqotMEERkl7itbBmq2rsarJwSJ-4_xAOWKiAFmOp_8Mqoqy9SnoyOn8GN8/w584-h489/Tomorrow%20Feb.%201978.png" width="584" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jackie Gleason appeared on the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tomorrow Show</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with Tom Snyder on Feb. 22/3, 1978. Gleason briefly discussed UFOs, according to Donald Dewey’s article in the airline magazine </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TWA Ambassador</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Nov. 1988 (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">reprinted in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Missing%20Link%20(Aileen%20McGilton%20Garoutte)/Missing%20Link%20-%201989%2004%20-%20no%2078.1.pdf?#page=6" target="_blank">The Missing Link</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Missing%20Link%20(Aileen%20McGilton%20Garoutte)/Missing%20Link%20-%201989%2004%20-%20no%2078.1.pdf?#page=6" target="_blank"> April 1989</a>)</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">. “UFOs: A Proposal for Thinking about the Unthinkable'' reported that Gleason said "that Washington had absolute proof of the existence of alien beings..." When asked what his sources were, he named ex-president Richard Nixon, Neil Armstrong, and Pentagon officials. Gleason believed the U.S. government insisted on secrecy about UFOs because if the truth were known, “the world economy might go to hell.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcTuP5NN0Ny1AGxyKxSj3namSS4m_7ylLdOMYPXjsasj5-fgULyC2xxMl1YZn2FIHJslEpiW9Yduf8UzrEu5ee1-1ewZgkiwLEqB0u-k1ibkUM52EI4BrZ_VN7Ak46l9qrco5ZvJrRGnGFV6b1kVF71fdVZDfO_ilY5TSlO54w0VnR9o026t1yRh_U/s730/1978%20Tomorrow%20-%20The%20Missing%20Link%20%201989.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="730" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcTuP5NN0Ny1AGxyKxSj3namSS4m_7ylLdOMYPXjsasj5-fgULyC2xxMl1YZn2FIHJslEpiW9Yduf8UzrEu5ee1-1ewZgkiwLEqB0u-k1ibkUM52EI4BrZ_VN7Ak46l9qrco5ZvJrRGnGFV6b1kVF71fdVZDfO_ilY5TSlO54w0VnR9o026t1yRh_U/w640-h396/1978%20Tomorrow%20-%20The%20Missing%20Link%20%201989.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gleason was watching the skies. Later in 1978, while working on the play </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Sly Fox </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in California, Gleason told director Arthur Penn about his belief in a government UFO cover up, and how he frequently stayed up most of the night searching the sky with a telescope for signs of aliens. Penn said, "He was not in fear of them. If anything, I had the sense that he probably longed for them.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 1983 Original Story by Beverly Gleason</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZRBFPt_t-WqwPCkoDY7ncPRYqch-vHoE0anuQNJNp2uswT3i2x2vbqVOtNsw2FAlx2VPNKA69EKYLE3K3gDwfZ0S5P4sGxUXq-b5WZnQqLnGLjxdMbu7xw5xSYgyjG5IJgMxtQ6RWNKfZibZeszvvl4woiDpCi9F2QjwN03vj1w-xrX4JRabWwVlj/s561/1983%20Nixon%20Arrange.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="561" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZRBFPt_t-WqwPCkoDY7ncPRYqch-vHoE0anuQNJNp2uswT3i2x2vbqVOtNsw2FAlx2VPNKA69EKYLE3K3gDwfZ0S5P4sGxUXq-b5WZnQqLnGLjxdMbu7xw5xSYgyjG5IJgMxtQ6RWNKfZibZeszvvl4woiDpCi9F2QjwN03vj1w-xrX4JRabWwVlj/w640-h224/1983%20Nixon%20Arrange.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Tabloid: She Said He Said</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sensationalist press was once known as yellow journalism, but thanks to the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Enquirer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the term was replaced by tabloid journalism. The paper was the subject of Jack Vitek’s 2008 book, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Godfather of Tabloid</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, where he said that by the 1980s, the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enquirer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “was a pariah to TV and film stars… Celebrity quotes in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enquirer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> stories were mostly ‘as told to a friend,’ a hearsay standard of truth too sloppy for the mainstream press.” </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enquirer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> reporters’ jobs depended on them delivering a stream of new celebrity scandals, and under pressure, “…some reporters resorted to desperate and dubious means. …many of the paper’s best stories came from fired butlers and maids” who could be paid tens of thousands of dollars. The paper “existed in the legal gray zone between harmless fiction and legally actionable lies.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><a href="https://youtu.be/ET6efuLRRWk" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/ET6efuLRRWk" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="302" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ET6efuLRRWk" width="363" youtube-src-id="ET6efuLRRWk"></iframe></span></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">1983 </span><span style="font-style: italic;">National Enquirer </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">30-second TV commercial</span><a href="https://youtu.be/ET6efuLRRWk" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></a></div></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">August 1983: Jackie Gleason was back in the news, starring in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smokey and the Bandit Part 3</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, but one magazine featured him on the cover about something else.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyD6s1TjeCjlkzmr_unnYCVZr-0XAjLxhjlH9z6ocFoeXEE595K0knuDcaHHAmeB2u3HXvPDSmG_J9Ki7_7Ev4g6YTFc9Iyh6XBzeLExMSiQeoboG9C1N_7Vv6oMDPtCmM8lffQHFUc7otFHFUR3nDVhjxa5iFgFr0k54veoYeLECC2IhU156aTQUO/s1000/The%20National%20Enquirer%20August%2016,%201983%20clipping.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="1000" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyD6s1TjeCjlkzmr_unnYCVZr-0XAjLxhjlH9z6ocFoeXEE595K0knuDcaHHAmeB2u3HXvPDSmG_J9Ki7_7Ev4g6YTFc9Iyh6XBzeLExMSiQeoboG9C1N_7Vv6oMDPtCmM8lffQHFUc7otFHFUR3nDVhjxa5iFgFr0k54veoYeLECC2IhU156aTQUO/w640-h406/The%20National%20Enquirer%20August%2016,%201983%20clipping.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beverly McKittrick was interviewed for the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Enquirer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Aug. 16, 1983, but it was published as a first-person account by “Beverly Gleason” about a book she was supposedly writing. Her story opened with a scene that supposedly took place sometime in 1973 at their Inverrary home, some ten years before.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One night near the end of their marriage, Jackie was out late, and Beverly was worried. At about 11:30 p.m. she heard him coming in. “I jumped to my feet and asked, ‘Where have you been?” As her story goes, he replied, “I’ve been at Homestead Air Force Base… I've seen the bodies of some aliens from outer space… the President arranged for me to be escorted in there and see them.” He didn’t know their origin. "No one would tell me the full details, but a spacecraft has obviously crashed near here. When I arrived at the base, I was given a heavily armed military escort and driven to a building in a remote area. We had to pass a guard at the door, then were shown into a large room. And there were the aliens, lying on four separate tables. They were tiny – only about two feet tall – with small bald heads and disproportionately large ears. They must have been dead for some time because they'd been embalmed."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The article’s introduction stated: “Gleason declined repeated attempts by </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Enquirer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to interview him about the book.” In this original version of the story, President Nixon was not present for the events. Nixon’s only role was in arranging Gleason’s trip to the base. There were no claims about seeing UFO wreckage.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs-rzC47dtQaE39lCOUDwOq_EeEAtbnPdBo2Kg7ZBAiXMBG-bRuR7qLLhBojuqss6eiawpA9EeDxDPf1OyKCQ4WkPSPXIVayGWrh1VGd6JqUxFjSJU9c4t4XcahpbBGV4hgqNWUDoo2UJ9Pk5HKks5BP1mpcX6M_syIvHfG7gxRHsO-P5QZ5KHhyo5/s1305/The%20National%20Enquirer%20August%2016,%201983%20pg%205.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1305" data-original-width="1000" height="734" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs-rzC47dtQaE39lCOUDwOq_EeEAtbnPdBo2Kg7ZBAiXMBG-bRuR7qLLhBojuqss6eiawpA9EeDxDPf1OyKCQ4WkPSPXIVayGWrh1VGd6JqUxFjSJU9c4t4XcahpbBGV4hgqNWUDoo2UJ9Pk5HKks5BP1mpcX6M_syIvHfG7gxRHsO-P5QZ5KHhyo5/w562-h734/The%20National%20Enquirer%20August%2016,%201983%20pg%205.jpg" width="562" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We only located one newspaper that took any notice at the time, in Bob Talbert’s chatty column in the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Detroit Free Press</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Nov. 25, 1983, “Jackie Gleason’s Shock – Dead Aliens.” It was sourced not from the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enquirer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> directly, but from someone who’d read it, the owner of the new age Mayflower Bookstore in Berkley, Michigan.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRaMfBCUw5ux36h76_-627v_mEn1AamqZOyEUg1NGE0K17n8IOBq5orPTF-qZeagx0r6EnBc44yWpaV9oOX5UTgsj9py-DOCGglBT_iDTS6brKCv1voV6Z8bE5DcPcKQL5xYD4QOM4P_uJfYKLZKi6L9G72ysvo_PEHvptrtGFiHTxYgrv5ufpKtan/s394/1983%2011%2025%20Detroit%20Free%20Press,%20Nov.%2025,%201983.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="394" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRaMfBCUw5ux36h76_-627v_mEn1AamqZOyEUg1NGE0K17n8IOBq5orPTF-qZeagx0r6EnBc44yWpaV9oOX5UTgsj9py-DOCGglBT_iDTS6brKCv1voV6Z8bE5DcPcKQL5xYD4QOM4P_uJfYKLZKi6L9G72ysvo_PEHvptrtGFiHTxYgrv5ufpKtan/w400-h370/1983%2011%2025%20Detroit%20Free%20Press,%20Nov.%2025,%201983.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ufologists took note of the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enquirer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> story. Publications mentioning it included: the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MUFON UFO Journal</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> July 1983, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APCIC%20clipping%20service/APCIC%20-%20Vol%2008%20No%2008%20-%201983.pdf#page=8" target="_blank">Aerial Phenomenon Clipping Information Center</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(APIC), Aug. 1983, reprinted the article with some photos deleted. Late to the party were Borderland Sciences Research Foundation’s, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Round Robin</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Nov-Dec. 1983, and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fate</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> magazine in their Jan. 1984 issue.</span><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APCIC%20clipping%20service/APCIC%20-%20Vol%2008%20No%2008%20-%201983.pdf#page=8" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Gleason story appeared in a book the next year, but not one about UFOs. It was cited as an example of tabloid journalism in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Sweeps: Behind the Scenes in Network TV</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, by Mark Christensen, Cameron Stauth, 1984.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Nearly as powerful a venue in the television press as </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TV Guide</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enquirer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a vital outlaw force that doesn't even have an office in L.A., but depends upon largely anonymous staffers and a vast network of paid informants to bring its readers news they are likely to read absolutely nowhere else. Like the story about Jackie Gleason in the issue that was then on the stands. According to his ex-wife Beverly, the Great One came home one evening in 1973…”</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQKonolAQEmSUwomFnOMqmvKG1CGTBoYZ0vZiD_0bmOvwJowt-qNjQtpNcwOtBR90L36ktSVwnbX-VuXmEpWRPYnJzEDS-oyqUfLOAUcSUu0EEmTFykSwtf1FOO3vXCfWAuBmtVVHq9cyq5siEYqypKtbuCUAzO1ur8neJyFZIiXRvnTeYXGsrgd1T/s626/Sweeps%201984.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="219" data-original-width="626" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQKonolAQEmSUwomFnOMqmvKG1CGTBoYZ0vZiD_0bmOvwJowt-qNjQtpNcwOtBR90L36ktSVwnbX-VuXmEpWRPYnJzEDS-oyqUfLOAUcSUu0EEmTFykSwtf1FOO3vXCfWAuBmtVVHq9cyq5siEYqypKtbuCUAzO1ur8neJyFZIiXRvnTeYXGsrgd1T/w640-h224/Sweeps%201984.png" width="640" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In early 1985, Larry W. Bryant (</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1938-2020) </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS) attempted to find out if the Gleason story was true. He placed this ad in the MacDill Air Force Base newspaper "The Thunderbolt" asking for information f</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rom </span><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122288271/just-whats-up-with-little-green-men/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Tampa Tribune</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, March 15, 1985</span></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Were you stationed at Homestead AFB back in the seventies when Richard M. Nixon allegedly allowed entertainer Jackie Gleason to view a repository of UFO artifacts (including some of their alien occupants). If so we need your testimony in preparation of our suit… about that and other aspects of the Cosmic Watergate."</span></blockquote></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi83xXTYIAmyl-eGAwAo2ETzpKGD3SKxkk7yiKt9ml42Yteuiv7JBTWO0so2heo5KAkNbMwMA-SuGjONFL135hSQfUyYQEZ8cmLfBaB6F_oNpOi9toOP5fFAL9d8mLn8qGK1ywaQgOF4ToF4Si2UDm_0d8W1Da4-yUpiZPcfC0ksg5D0jZsn1Ff7YF-/s358/Larry%20Bryant.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="358" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi83xXTYIAmyl-eGAwAo2ETzpKGD3SKxkk7yiKt9ml42Yteuiv7JBTWO0so2heo5KAkNbMwMA-SuGjONFL135hSQfUyYQEZ8cmLfBaB6F_oNpOi9toOP5fFAL9d8mLn8qGK1ywaQgOF4ToF4Si2UDm_0d8W1Da4-yUpiZPcfC0ksg5D0jZsn1Ff7YF-/s320/Larry%20Bryant.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Larry Bryant</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bryant later disclosed the results of his efforts in the <a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201987%2008%20-%20no%20217.pdf#page=12" target="_blank">Alexandria, Virginia, </a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201987%2008%20-%20no%20217.pdf#page=12" target="_blank">Journal</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201987%2008%20-%20no%20217.pdf#page=12" target="_blank">, July 9, 1987</a>:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “I sent a freedom-of-information request to Homestead to gain access to all official records pertaining to the repository and to Gleason’s visit. Word came back… no such records… no record of any visit there by Gleason.” He received no response from his letter to Gleason but said, “I did learn that he had been approached by a third party in the film industry. At this confrontation, Gleason chose neither to confirm nor deny the story, saying that he’d prefer not to discuss it at all.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">That seems to have been true. There’s no documentation or credible account of Gleason acknowledging the story in any way.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In May 1985, Pocket Books released a paperback book, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Enquirer UFO Report</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, “based on articles previously published in the National Enquirer.” It contained many tales such as the Eisenhower legend, “Secret meeting between space visitors – and U.S. President!” For whatever reason, the story about Jackie Gleason did not make the cut.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gleason’s last known mention of UFOs was in conversations with his biographer James Bacon for the 1985 book, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How Sweet It Is: The Jackie Gleason Story</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Gleason himself wrote the introduction, and Bacon said, “I owe it all to Jackie Gleason himself, who first asked me to write this book. He cooperated graciously and honestly…” Other than a passing reference to the “flying saucer” house, it contained a single page mentioning UFOs. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx8NrDnxEj3FuMCg33EfR6TFwQHA3KjVkuPhK6nr2QImgjcnJPTpzkeLJBmd3i-W4_oUP5DEOFJsBwmLTSt3hFFUFgIDbDOXF5Y1dmqQPOsZskHs_I7cJm5wlPrFMxj-jDjmFezI_NaxvAHeGJz5Y72iA_ffHh1WbD5g0pl9vshvSEIpO0qF2v69AA/s641/1985%20Bacon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="641" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx8NrDnxEj3FuMCg33EfR6TFwQHA3KjVkuPhK6nr2QImgjcnJPTpzkeLJBmd3i-W4_oUP5DEOFJsBwmLTSt3hFFUFgIDbDOXF5Y1dmqQPOsZskHs_I7cJm5wlPrFMxj-jDjmFezI_NaxvAHeGJz5Y72iA_ffHh1WbD5g0pl9vshvSEIpO0qF2v69AA/w640-h344/1985%20Bacon.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bacon wrote, “Gleason believes in these strange lights from another planet.” He quoted Gleason describing a scene at Toots Shor's Restaurant in New York, a conversation with skeptical reporter Bob Considine about the Foo Fighters seen during the mid-1940s:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“‘There would be these little lights traveling at great speeds around our aircraft in World War Two. …Considine and I were having a hell of an argument about this one day. I told him that four presidents of the United States had told me about these UFOs and no one knows what the hell they were. General Rosie O’Donnell [Emmett O'Donnell Jr.], then head of our strategic air Force, overheard us and said, ‘Jackie’s right.’ That’s all he said and it shook up Consadine.” </span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first UFO book we located to address the Gleason legend was a brief twisted account in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The UFO Conspiracy: The First Forty Years</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Jenny Randles, 1987:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“…according to sources at Muroc Air Force base, [President] Eisenhower went there and saw dead aliens! Comedian Jackie Gleason also later told his wife (and she said he was ashen-faced and seemed to be serious) that his friend Eisenhower had let him in on the truth, and shown him the proof of UFO reality. Stories like these are all very well, but they are just stories.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Without corroboration, the story about Gleason was being relegated to UFO trivia.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 1992 Rewrite by Larry Warren</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Corroboration by Repetition</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE0TYtgSwnGZ5Syj1bWY2sRh4MMcb3hRYrRbkeN-nA6FDm6YKNuCNqggWpTeCtm0b40hpFmv14KPzLPY3VbhMirjSvMSJWZ-wZzi4igm_tPWAjDiQ8xunRJNOPICOVg4SkLjEtXpjOnwjPFAZFbpaC_ciwsYDDLevoYWArLKW4e-_F9l4ZR0R06Ium/s561/1987.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="561" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE0TYtgSwnGZ5Syj1bWY2sRh4MMcb3hRYrRbkeN-nA6FDm6YKNuCNqggWpTeCtm0b40hpFmv14KPzLPY3VbhMirjSvMSJWZ-wZzi4igm_tPWAjDiQ8xunRJNOPICOVg4SkLjEtXpjOnwjPFAZFbpaC_ciwsYDDLevoYWArLKW4e-_F9l4ZR0R06Ium/w640-h220/1987.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Death and Tabloids</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jackie Gleason had faced serious health problems since 1978, eventually leading to his death from cancer at the age of 71 on June 24, 1987. He was laid to rest in a mausoleum at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Cemetery in Miami.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOOhDUUjGtHXrEb4bziRtmvRfpmURQJB6sHf6HeTu58ilbxpNEwQ8GHfbwNBUb5xFkCa8q3N7yWjQDs_byacQvH-BpuGwOaWEVzOC7XO6BjfgIQ_97sTXoRX2OXO149b2IvEhXVL5HHvO37j6qtvT40DcLZ_v8vgsCAx_W_ehGD473fMls8bgF1Piv/s731/Shepherd%20Johnson.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="731" data-original-width="575" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOOhDUUjGtHXrEb4bziRtmvRfpmURQJB6sHf6HeTu58ilbxpNEwQ8GHfbwNBUb5xFkCa8q3N7yWjQDs_byacQvH-BpuGwOaWEVzOC7XO6BjfgIQ_97sTXoRX2OXO149b2IvEhXVL5HHvO37j6qtvT40DcLZ_v8vgsCAx_W_ehGD473fMls8bgF1Piv/w504-h640/Shepherd%20Johnson.png" width="504" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">The steps say, “And Away We Go.” Photo by Shepherd Johnson</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Most media coverage of Gleason’s passing was respectful, however, his death brought a round of UFO exploitation stories in the tabloids.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">June 29, 1987: “Jackie Gleason and the space aliens” was the lead feature on “Page Six,” the gossip column by Richard Johnson for the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Post</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> daily tabloid. It was responsible for the story morphing to include Richard Nixon in a co-starring role – and connecting it to Roswell. Johnson recycled the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enquirer </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">story about “the late, great Jackie Gleason,” but it grew in the retelling. Beverly’s unpublished book was said to describe “a bizarre trip Jackie took with the then-President in 1973… to see what she says were the bodies of four dead space aliens,” which ufologist Mike Luckman said, “were probably the same ones that the Army recovered in 1947 at [Roswell], N.M. We want to establish that link.” Johnson concluded with the line, “We were unable to reach Nixon for comment, and Gleason is doubtless communing with celestial beings who don’t need any UFOs for transportation.”</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc482k0zg9O25XUP10LYxzLmHZ5ilunpDAVYw8IPKXrmqOkCu9o63Nv8Jq8LqnfyIHhvzTy60XPyWXsIiBAY7xZTQxwehyNBjuaNpFrWnKvtjFRqoflLdwR8zIYfAqiD9aq_sqb6mk7gv9p57I_j7m10ov2ix1H-anermsoFoxfrq9Y65KnvFMA-X-/s1250/1987%2006%2029%20New%20York%20Post.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="1250" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc482k0zg9O25XUP10LYxzLmHZ5ilunpDAVYw8IPKXrmqOkCu9o63Nv8Jq8LqnfyIHhvzTy60XPyWXsIiBAY7xZTQxwehyNBjuaNpFrWnKvtjFRqoflLdwR8zIYfAqiD9aq_sqb6mk7gv9p57I_j7m10ov2ix1H-anermsoFoxfrq9Y65KnvFMA-X-/w640-h278/1987%2006%2029%20New%20York%20Post.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE_8PynO5vUWN5FYpMGcN9muizUgQq1Mdfw_6LsMX9gPGl4MJHtlOnj4xZVCDDtdS4vVV9kJvte7aFAJ7CyfZeilT-roGTR0JrCaFchf1WrPh8v4Nj6BaZUd8mAJ62i2ERyr2Lr93QQYCTAXHX7nrHPn8j14I_izAt3KfcBPAvoz00T4dULuCKii2P/s623/1987%2007%2003%20The%20Times-Tribune%20Scranton,%20PA%20July%205,%201987%20clipping.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="623" height="554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE_8PynO5vUWN5FYpMGcN9muizUgQq1Mdfw_6LsMX9gPGl4MJHtlOnj4xZVCDDtdS4vVV9kJvte7aFAJ7CyfZeilT-roGTR0JrCaFchf1WrPh8v4Nj6BaZUd8mAJ62i2ERyr2Lr93QQYCTAXHX7nrHPn8j14I_izAt3KfcBPAvoz00T4dULuCKii2P/w640-h554/1987%2007%2003%20The%20Times-Tribune%20Scranton,%20PA%20July%205,%201987%20clipping.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Times-Tribune</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Scranton, PA) July 5, 1987</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A careful reading of the reading of the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NYP</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> story shows that it contained </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">no</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> new information from Beverly, it only drew from the 1983 account and added some imaginative or fanciful interpretations, along with wild speculation from a ufologist. The story was repeated or recycled by other tabloids and picked up in some “straight” newspapers as well. It was the cover story of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">News Extra</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> July 14, 1987:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAYIaBq5BeJoSOhz0ckuzbg6GLpAsngtVXpMR0InJUO1ozUFEDaF6fCyJCJNfWOk8LiWLixMxg8cLbq4XzrYn-YRStjctaAnEKs-b0UeGQCwnP2bUKxtq3ad1yjENJqVpvMCMRlotw1ymkx6hXf0MDH-deK-cHiUS63nU7BDE_fkjerCrJdWgpQz3L/s723/News%20Extra%20July%2014,%201987%20covers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="723" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAYIaBq5BeJoSOhz0ckuzbg6GLpAsngtVXpMR0InJUO1ozUFEDaF6fCyJCJNfWOk8LiWLixMxg8cLbq4XzrYn-YRStjctaAnEKs-b0UeGQCwnP2bUKxtq3ad1yjENJqVpvMCMRlotw1ymkx6hXf0MDH-deK-cHiUS63nU7BDE_fkjerCrJdWgpQz3L/w443-h349/News%20Extra%20July%2014,%201987%20covers.jpg" width="443" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Richard Johnson’s </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Post</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> story was also reprinted in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The MUFON UFO Journal</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, February 1988, and mentioned in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fate</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> magazine, Feb. 1988, “What did Jackie Gleason See?” Debunker Robert Sheaffer wryly commented on </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The New York Post</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> story in his “Psychic Vibrations” column in<a href="https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1988/01/22165259/p24.pdf" target="_blank"> </a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1988/01/22165259/p24.pdf" target="_blank">Skeptical Enquirer</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1988/01/22165259/p24.pdf" target="_blank">, Winter 1978-88</a>:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It might seem unlikely that a president would take a comedian into an ultrasecret area to gawk at the remains of a flying-saucer crew, but the apparent absurdity of it does not automatically refute the claim. For all we know, at this very moment President Reagan may be escorting Chevy Chase and Pee-Wee Herman into a high-security hangar to view the little bodies.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alien Bodies from Roswell?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Connecting the story to Roswell was a fanciful stretch. The Gleason story supposedly took place in 1973, several years before the story of aliens at Roswell surfaced, but only was published afterwards. Tales of embalmed remains or “picked aliens” dated back to 1949/50, but frozen alien bodies were more in vogue since the 1970s. However, the descriptions in the story are a bit off-model compared to most UFO tales of big-headed, big-eyed aliens.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVDJbVF3_Qk5N4SR2Zid6FzdjQD29yO1YjYtUHDGygFX1iunzMIiQ_o60kUx7jCTRaGeVPqM9RWNUxHlWuGzv_gI6NWfwBacEiaxt1hq4DNDH4YQPc9-VPu3eTNikjBuBQpqxgfNm-73qvfF2nodR17mbncOdEq67cieXuntm7pRV9PvgHMjtOzblR/s997/The%20Aliens%20-%201970.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="997" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVDJbVF3_Qk5N4SR2Zid6FzdjQD29yO1YjYtUHDGygFX1iunzMIiQ_o60kUx7jCTRaGeVPqM9RWNUxHlWuGzv_gI6NWfwBacEiaxt1hq4DNDH4YQPc9-VPu3eTNikjBuBQpqxgfNm-73qvfF2nodR17mbncOdEq67cieXuntm7pRV9PvgHMjtOzblR/w640-h494/The%20Aliens%20-%201970.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEify9VzmIJaohCF2go0P0S5Ni0Im8ge2Owgw6xmNOSt5211-XlifoTPz10NTacn8FaDo_HYajdChtaBWlLMwrImYNYrkyAYjKeZXuhfAfJkc9LEJkPAwqVLQcQjYT41Tye8fn2-b1LQntga8_NucXfkzNyqfKGxKW0dp2Z2m-rkDdNfi4caO1LfA9i2/s855/Goblin%20-%20Yellow%20Kid.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="855" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEify9VzmIJaohCF2go0P0S5Ni0Im8ge2Owgw6xmNOSt5211-XlifoTPz10NTacn8FaDo_HYajdChtaBWlLMwrImYNYrkyAYjKeZXuhfAfJkc9LEJkPAwqVLQcQjYT41Tye8fn2-b1LQntga8_NucXfkzNyqfKGxKW0dp2Z2m-rkDdNfi4caO1LfA9i2/w640-h412/Goblin%20-%20Yellow%20Kid.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Kelly–Hopkinsville and the Yellow Kid comic character from the 1890s.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At “only about two feet tall,” these were about the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">smallest</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> little men ever reported. Their other distinguishing feature was their small heads with big ears. The most famous little men with big ears were from the Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter, but they were described as strange goblin-like creatures. Mentioning Roswell helped sell the yarn. It worked, and the legend was repeated and retold like a UFO campfire story.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Several early 1990s books covered Beverly’s basic story. UK ufologist Jenny Randles included the yarn in her 1990 paranormal book, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phantoms of the Soap Operas...and Other Showbiz Enigmas</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (but failed to identify the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Enquirer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as the source). She also included a discussion of Larry Bryant’s attempts to verify things. Similar coverage appeared in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alien Liaison </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(aka</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Alien Contact</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) by Timothy Good, 1991, and in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UFO Encounters and Beyond</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Jerome Clark, 1993. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Fabulist, or Apocrypha Now</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The legend received yet another spin in 1992 due to it being retold in a book, the story of someone who’d allegedly heard the story from the Great One himself. Larry Warren claimed to be a witness to the Dec. 1980 Bentwaters/Rendlesham Forest UFO incident. Under the pseudonym “Art Wallace,” Warren’s account was included in a few pages in the book by Larry Fawcett (1939-2010) and Barry Greenwood, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Clear Intent</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, released in the spring of 1984. Serious doubts about Warren’s credibility arose when others documented to be present spoke up, calling his sensational account (and alleged involvement) into question. Nevertheless, he continued to receive the support of the UFO community.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B000APJFWY/about">Timothy Green Beckley</a> (1952-2021) was a publisher of outlandish schlocky paranormal literature and he featured “<a href="https://uforeview.tripod.com/gleason.html" target="_blank">Jackie Gleason & The Little ‘Men From Mars’</a>" in his 1992 book, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UFOs Among the Stars</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfIatpgB0i24chju5ekfoNW9p7SuMrqy7RUT35omweHKQGNxR_CVkd1mKD3LiVhz-ngcQp0t0l3RHY1-9hUU5sQzxm2fO39BXv_8LbmdUeZXxPKkz9iFnU-PxO5YJURDTnKpYl1PT6c-f5SXaht2AODLuz7hpMjUv-lQxC8v2yVpFVheGj1N_Udvu/s1100/UFOs%20Among%20the%20Stars%20-%20Beckley.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1100" data-original-width="765" height="739" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfIatpgB0i24chju5ekfoNW9p7SuMrqy7RUT35omweHKQGNxR_CVkd1mKD3LiVhz-ngcQp0t0l3RHY1-9hUU5sQzxm2fO39BXv_8LbmdUeZXxPKkz9iFnU-PxO5YJURDTnKpYl1PT6c-f5SXaht2AODLuz7hpMjUv-lQxC8v2yVpFVheGj1N_Udvu/w515-h739/UFOs%20Among%20the%20Stars%20-%20Beckley.jpg" width="515" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">It was an account based on Larry Warren’s alleged meeting with Gleason to hear the story in May 1986. “I was living in Connecticut… I was told that Gleason would like to talk with me privately in his home in Westchester County…” After getting acquainted, Gleason supposedly told him about an event, “back when Nixon was in office…” Warren’s tale:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Richard Nixon showed up at Gleason’s house around midnight... no secret service agents with him or anyone else... Gleason got into the President’s private car and they sped off into the darkness – their destination being Homestead Air Force Base.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Warren said Nixon showed Gleason “the wreckage from a flying saucer,” then the mangled remains of child-sized alien bodies with “three or four fingers on each hand” stored in “six or eight of what looked like glass-topped Coke freezers.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Larry Warren’s story contradicted Beverly’s account in several substantial details. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">It also complicated things by having Nixon sneak away from 24/7 Secret Service protection. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Worse, it contained a fatal flaw. Warren supposedly went to Gleason’s Westchester County home in May 1986, but Jackie sold his New York house in 1964 and moved to Florida for the rest of his life.</span></p></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nevertheless, this purported corroboration of the story refreshed it, and was the turning point in its transition from tabloid trash into “proper” UFO lore. It began creeping into more legitimate books and publications, then spread unchecked when the public embraced the internet, repeated in thousands of places. We’ll look at examples of the most interesting, significant, or influential presentations. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During the X-Files and Alien Autopsy Era</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Richard Nixon didn't say about UFOs anyway, and never commented on the tale of alien bodies. He died on April 22, 1994, but it had no impact on the transmission of the legend.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On Sept. 9, 1994, John Lear appeared on<i> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtFedAItK60&t=1111s" target="_blank">Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell</a></i>, retelling Warren's yarn with a few embellishments. Nixon and Gleason "finished their golf game they went over and got in the Presidential helicopter and they went to Homestead Air Force base" to see the alien bodies in "one of the places that they had the cryogenic storage and display for people who are authorized to see the displays like certain world leaders."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Rocky Mountain News</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Denver, CO), Aug.17, 1995, published a story on MUFON’s “Field Trip to Roswell, N.M.,” where they said, “In Roswell, rumors persist of alien bodies recovered from the site and autopsied. …The bodies are rumored to remain in a secret location. One legend has it that Richard Nixon got drunk with Jackie Gleason one night and took him to see the tiny corpses.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At least two books exploiting the popularity of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The X-Files</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> television show included Beverly’s version of the Gleason legend without mentioning Warren. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">X-Rated: The Paranormal Experiences of the Movie Star Greats</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Michael Munn, 1996, and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The X-Files Book of the Unexplained</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Jane Goldman, 1997, which said Gleason, “…chose neither to confirm nor deny it. Spokespersons for Homestead AFB denied everything.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvP0JfWokJCqr5EhSyR2VhFlsZRa2FT6BX2n_4hLcfNdSxzwFkUadOHNdCacDY0eJyh0f-IYL08uW9Sb68S3FCyUDiNZnrkCmO8CqZGEf3kLP6uU5_uleSPm9UvxqL6i2UTZ0Wu4ijpbcZhI7YgEX0kIH65xNRSC1VcfA2cZXnVltu6w9leMRAIJD_/s752/X-Files%201997.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="752" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvP0JfWokJCqr5EhSyR2VhFlsZRa2FT6BX2n_4hLcfNdSxzwFkUadOHNdCacDY0eJyh0f-IYL08uW9Sb68S3FCyUDiNZnrkCmO8CqZGEf3kLP6uU5_uleSPm9UvxqL6i2UTZ0Wu4ijpbcZhI7YgEX0kIH65xNRSC1VcfA2cZXnVltu6w9leMRAIJD_/w640-h476/X-Files%201997.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jim Marrs, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alien Agenda</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 1997, said of the legend, “According to Gleason's second wife, Beverly McKittrick…” Ignoring the inconsistencies between the versions, Marrs said, “This story was confirmed by Larry Warren…”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beyond Roswell: The Alien Autopsy Film, Area 51, & the U.S. Government Coverup of UFOs</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Michael Hesemann and Philip Mantle, 1997, gives three pages to the McKittrick and Warren accounts.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The March 1999 issue of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/UFO_Potpourri_No_423/mode/2up" target="_blank">UFO Potpourri</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, newsletter published by John </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Schuessler</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (deputy director of MUFON, science board member of Robert Bigelow’s NIDS) featured a reprinting of the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Post</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> story from 1987, “Did Jackie Gleason See Dead Aliens?” Schuessler was interested in the story and felt it was worth verifying. “I have heard this story debunked in past years, however, I have never seen any evidence of an in-depth investigation of the story.” Schuessler recommended several lines of inquiry.</span><a href="https://archive.org/details/UFO_Potpourri_No_423/mode/2up" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conspiracies, Lies and Hidden Agendas</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Mick Farren, 1999, had a section on the yarn, citing Beverly’s story but mentioning Warren’s aliens “stored in refrigerated containers.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2002, UFO historian Jerome Clark shared a refreshingly down to earth anecdote about the Gleason legend at <a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Discussion-Lists/UFO%20UpDates/2002/UFO%20UpDates_2002_10_October.pdf" target="_blank">Errol Bruce-Knapp’s </a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Discussion-Lists/UFO%20UpDates/2002/UFO%20UpDates_2002_10_October.pdf" target="_blank">UFO UpDates</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> email list. He said that around 1985, an employee from Gleason's office called the CUFOS office and asked Sherman Larsen about the status of Jackie’s subscription to International UFO Reporter. He said:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“…Larsen couldn't resist asking about the story that Nixon had shown Gleason alien bodies. Gleason's spokesman said that was a fiction that an ex-wife had made up to get attention and sell her book. On the other hand, one of Gleason's biographers claims that it was probably a tall tale JG concocted to tell his wife, to explain away a tryst with one of his girl friends. …the story should be regarded, in my judgment, as little more than yet more saucer folklore.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhPV74_kqWgRPoDEeJ9r7CIfGUnEeyPueDks9yhQXOeyKm5LMvNCNQcFPT8FO5JQxpKSCTpS1c-R8TqjSC_hhReoFQM4O5fFeroP0clg0pvGfMccZAuHMxK40jFPKbtDuc3E12QUC0l05X1OUEV8NMzcFXXMI0GtoB9FXqrYrfZx1YYsBT9ctF68MC/s531/2002%20UFO%20UpDates%20-%20Jerome%20Clark,%20Oct.%209,%202002.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="531" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhPV74_kqWgRPoDEeJ9r7CIfGUnEeyPueDks9yhQXOeyKm5LMvNCNQcFPT8FO5JQxpKSCTpS1c-R8TqjSC_hhReoFQM4O5fFeroP0clg0pvGfMccZAuHMxK40jFPKbtDuc3E12QUC0l05X1OUEV8NMzcFXXMI0GtoB9FXqrYrfZx1YYsBT9ctF68MC/w640-h482/2002%20UFO%20UpDates%20-%20Jerome%20Clark,%20Oct.%209,%202002.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">UFO UpDates - Jerome Clark, Oct. 9, 2002</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /> </span><p></p><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 2003 Mix-up by Beverly Gleason</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Corrupting the Record</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHb7df-rCMhV4_UcW4evHC2gVQhKDGKONqLTMgj4AgfRPiKnVdlWmyj9RgCn8UFjCASnreXoXs39d-55Gp74p_95x7_erdy83TCjI420ZOAFcAn4SJzTkJL2xceOrLmk9HSkiyrm_HmXcgKfAOU58aGptM_riAftAPnUPVe-jYwyaq4MwfKkKtlcTu/s485/Kenny%20Young.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="410" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHb7df-rCMhV4_UcW4evHC2gVQhKDGKONqLTMgj4AgfRPiKnVdlWmyj9RgCn8UFjCASnreXoXs39d-55Gp74p_95x7_erdy83TCjI420ZOAFcAn4SJzTkJL2xceOrLmk9HSkiyrm_HmXcgKfAOU58aGptM_riAftAPnUPVe-jYwyaq4MwfKkKtlcTu/w339-h400/Kenny%20Young.jpg" width="339" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Only two UFO researchers made significant attempts to verify the story Larry Bryant in 1985, and <a href="http://www.ufowatchdog.com/kenny_young.htm" target="_blank">Kenny Young</a> (1966-2005), who interviewed Beverly McKittrick by telephone in 2003. The below is from </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“<a href="https://kenny.anomalyresponse.com/jgleason.html" target="_blank">Interview with Beverly Gleason</a>” by Kenny Young, July/Aug. 2003 from his site </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UFO Research</span>.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Esquire</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Magazine interviewed me after our separation," she said, "and I talked about how Jackie told me about seeing dead aliens in Florida. I think it was sometime in '74 when this happened. When I said that it was because he told me." She went on to say, "We were on the verge of divorce, but everything was okay until it came out in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Esquire.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">" Beverly described how the article was the cover feature, Jackie was picture along with some text regarding UFOs.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQMO-9DmeaiidyG-1BJPw6T9ZO9jQ3S9C_aRLmLqC7jiqKkxA3SVYciO3y7l5Z7jXemGq1gTXsCzAEk4G0hgNoaH6-_9g2EJhDlSqUg5_8r3VyRsq3apLUKUAvpsv34JWPG_QTvRHCjOtlqsHvCVVIwR2slrGd0Omz6N7KTVMgIX5twTEaS-OybTW/s565/Esquire%201974.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="420" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQMO-9DmeaiidyG-1BJPw6T9ZO9jQ3S9C_aRLmLqC7jiqKkxA3SVYciO3y7l5Z7jXemGq1gTXsCzAEk4G0hgNoaH6-_9g2EJhDlSqUg5_8r3VyRsq3apLUKUAvpsv34JWPG_QTvRHCjOtlqsHvCVVIwR2slrGd0Omz6N7KTVMgIX5twTEaS-OybTW/w351-h472/Esquire%201974.jpg" width="351" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/esquire/10" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gallery of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Esquire</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> magazine covers</span></a><a href="https://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/esquire/10" style="text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She had the sequence of events and the decade wrong, also there was no such </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Esquire</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> interview, she misremembered the name. The article was published eight years after her divorce from Gleason, the magazine was the</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> National Enquirer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> August 16, 1983.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another detail shifted. In Beverly’s sentence recapping the tale, Nixon is along for the ride. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Jackie had been out very late one night I did not know who he was with. …he said he had been in South Florida with President Nixon to see some dead aliens there and I believed him, he was very convincing.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all the discrepancies, we must evaluate the following with equal caution. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“After the interview was published, Jackie was upset about the story being public. He called and said he didn’t appreciate me giving the interview, and that’s when I started to wonder if the story was ‘iffy.’ …I wondered if it was really true, I mean… I believed it the whole time. I bought the story hook, line and sinker. But if it was true, then why did he get so upset about it?” </span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She said her doubts grew, “…in the years afterward I began to ask myself if any of this could really be true or if he was just telling me that… perhaps having been ‘out’ with someone?” Beverly’s book was never published because she had abandoned writing it.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unfortunately, the errors and contradictions in the new interview added to the confusion. Nevertheless, it was widely seen as her confirmation of the old story. Ufologists started quoting the interview and citing the nonexistent 1974 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Esquire</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> interview.</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adding a Date to the Legend</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About the same time some ufologists erroneously moved the date of the legend to 1974, a date in 1973 was pinpointed. When a writer focuses on the interactions of U.S. Presidents and the UFO topic, there’s virtually nothing when it comes to Richard Nixon. To fill that void, they turn to the rumor about Jackie Gleason. Grant Cameron posted an article on Nixon at his now defunct </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Presidential UFO</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> site in 2002, later updated to include the Larry Warren story. In the section, “Jackie Gleason, Richard Nixon, and the Florida Aliens,” Cameron said, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In February 1973 President Richard Nixon took a trip to Florida. On February 19, 1973, according to White House Records, the President met on the 18th green at the Inverness Golf and Country Club with Jackie Gleason. … If some rumored stories are to be believed, Nixon also came to Florida in 1973 to show Jackie Gleason bodies that were not from this planet.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thereafter, many UFO writers cited the date Feb. 19, 1973, as if it had been established by Beverly as part of the story. The “<a href="https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/virtuallibrary/documents/PDD/1973/094%20February%2016-28%201973.pdf" target="_blank">Presidential Daily Diary</a>” does document Nixon’s brief visit to the golf club as part of his day but suggests nothing more.</span><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grant Cameron gave the talk on Nov. 16, 2003, in Nevada. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://lasvegasweekly.com/news/archive/2003/nov/27/feature-believe/" target="_blank">Las Vegas Weekly</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> said, “Ryan Wood set up this UFO Crash Retrieval Conference… 200 people showed up… One of the most interesting parts of the weekend seminar was Grant Cameron's rushed presentation about what the various presidents have said or known about ETs.” Cameron summarized the Nixon-aliens yarn and said, “Gleason was shaken up about it." From the text of the lecture at Cameron's <a href="https://presidentialufoblog.wordpress.com/2018/06/10/presidents-and-crashed-flying-saucers/" target="_blank">current site</a>:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Three separate people claim to have been told the story by Nixon. (Bill Knell, Larry Warren and Beverly Gleason)… There is very little supporting evidence other than what [they] claimed Gleason told them about the event. In only the last few months Mrs. Gleason has reconfirmed the story she told so many years ago as being true.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Mutual UFO Network’s (MUFON) annual MUFON Symposium for 2004 was held July 16-18 in Denver, CO: "Unconventional Flying Objects - The Body of Technological Evidence." Director John Schuessler spoke first and incredibly, the Jackie Gleason legend was cited by </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">three</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the twelve speakers. Stephen Bassett and Paul Davids both briefly mentioned Gleason, but Grant Cameron discussed “key witnesses who should be testifying under oath” about UFOs. He suggested Beverly Gleason, summarizing the tale and saying, “Mrs. Gleason has been very open about this… she has stood by her story, first told many years ago.”</span><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another Alleged Ear Witness</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A less-famous version of the Gleason story surfaced from Bill Knell in the early 2000s, another ufologist with a shady reputation. In Knell’s “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051103230911/http://www.ufoguy.com/" target="_blank">Jackie Gleason’s UFO Encounter</a>” he backdates his alleged meeting to hear the story from Gleason to 1982, before the publication of Beverly’s </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Enquirer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> story. In this tale, sometime in 1971 President Nixon arranged things for Gleason, but did not accompany him. Knell gives the location as MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where Gleason was shown “a large piece of a broken disc just floating a few feet above the floor,” and told, “This material is from Roswell.” Instead of four bodies, in Knell’s version, Gleason was shown the remains of three, “The beings were about four to five feet tall…[they] had large oval eyes, grayish skin and looked male.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhii9dyieynWG0vvQfVGUJW8yxhWIgMPxBkfaR3qQgqpCFKLxvVG_OcFg_i2ZdbP8qYKQR2dJHbWysN_wKJXgksa8PWZTfhcEnBud6KV7X3PBozlrX_ssCc1XWm8YZ9034HppYvSJpOMTqb6NAA40Y2Zf6q6kk3SApHMizkkxU714-r2RKyk4Ub7EI6/s477/2008%20Bill%20Knell%20-%20Coast%20To%20Coast%20AM.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="286" data-original-width="477" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhii9dyieynWG0vvQfVGUJW8yxhWIgMPxBkfaR3qQgqpCFKLxvVG_OcFg_i2ZdbP8qYKQR2dJHbWysN_wKJXgksa8PWZTfhcEnBud6KV7X3PBozlrX_ssCc1XWm8YZ9034HppYvSJpOMTqb6NAA40Y2Zf6q6kk3SApHMizkkxU714-r2RKyk4Ub7EI6/w440-h264/2008%20Bill%20Knell%20-%20Coast%20To%20Coast%20AM.JPG" width="440" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Bill Knell on <i>Coast to Coast AM</i>, July 8, 2008</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like Larry Warren, Bill Knell has been found to have serious <a href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/2011/03/criminal-actions-of-bill-knell-again.html" target="_blank">credibility problems</a>.</span><a href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/2011/03/criminal-actions-of-bill-knell-again.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The legend continued to be retold in books, magazines and online features. Sometimes with newly-invented details. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bill Birnes, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 2004, contained an interesting embellishment saying that, “The president arranged for Gleason to be flown by helicopter to Homestead” AFB to see the alien remains.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Larry Warren's version was fused with bits from Beverly McKittrick’s 2003 account in “<a href="http://www.rense.com/general70/gleason.htm" target="_blank">Jackie Gleason's Trip To The Alien Morgue</a>” by Marty Murray published at the (now defunct) site MortysCabin.net on April 9, 2006. It was widely copied and shared to UFO internet sites.</span><a href="http://www.rense.com/general70/gleason.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPY7nq2pxAYRwiO9qGGOrk-vXwt-0Z2MsGRELyurvVsvME6EcMxLFKNgj5KcA6l5S1Nx9LQRRFFsnbfxNRhhRgd1vT0LibjJIGyESAD9IOUB-Dk5WMQ5_p4_uixz0nW4kFC8dm8--GNHroB9zyEPCEvMDc12VcmhfLfjho4PTq0_eQmyHO-Id9_WJI/s476/Dolan%20-%20UFOs%20and%20the%20National%20Security%20State.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="476" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPY7nq2pxAYRwiO9qGGOrk-vXwt-0Z2MsGRELyurvVsvME6EcMxLFKNgj5KcA6l5S1Nx9LQRRFFsnbfxNRhhRgd1vT0LibjJIGyESAD9IOUB-Dk5WMQ5_p4_uixz0nW4kFC8dm8--GNHroB9zyEPCEvMDc12VcmhfLfjho4PTq0_eQmyHO-Id9_WJI/w400-h373/Dolan%20-%20UFOs%20and%20the%20National%20Security%20State.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Nixon, Gleason and the Alien Bodies” was Richard Dolan’s blending of the tales of Beverly McKittrick and Larry Warren in his 2009 book, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UFOs and the National Security State, 1973-1991. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The book was well-regarded at the time, considered a highly credible scholarly history of UFOs.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An outright fictional take. In 2010, Jeff Spevak wrote a short story based on the legends, “<a href="https://www.jeffspevak.com/and-away-we-go/" target="_blank">And Away We Go</a>,” an imaginary conversation between Jackie Gleason and astronomer Carl Sagan.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzEgba4mBoM4oYxV_J5vVWsXpbwfY_FsvqUXHoZI6Jgysr6o5N2jMcjIZcOBHvRm0nAi3EKBt12BMAzgcDvUP-nulXjj2EouxPmFZWIVeVj10Ue3oQgh3Thbp1Mw_YDSHkdqJl4FEaE96UmrbUtstk4YSlOAmku5SAiQcpgWdvMXAZVsxEcd1poOkB/s634/2010%20Open%20Minds.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="634" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzEgba4mBoM4oYxV_J5vVWsXpbwfY_FsvqUXHoZI6Jgysr6o5N2jMcjIZcOBHvRm0nAi3EKBt12BMAzgcDvUP-nulXjj2EouxPmFZWIVeVj10Ue3oQgh3Thbp1Mw_YDSHkdqJl4FEaE96UmrbUtstk4YSlOAmku5SAiQcpgWdvMXAZVsxEcd1poOkB/w640-h412/2010%20Open%20Minds.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Open Minds</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> site published</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“<a href="https://www.openminds.tv/gleason-ets/5978" target="_blank">Jackie Gleason says Nixon showed him ETs</a>” by Alejandro Rojas Oct. 12, 2010, and cited Beverly’s imaginary </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Esquire</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> story and the Larry Warren yarn.</span><a href="https://www.openminds.tv/gleason-ets/5978" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They gave the Gleason story got another spin in</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Open Minds UFO Magazine</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> #9 – Aug./Sept. 2011, “Hollywood Stars and UFOs.”</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihSqBJpyziuVLG1mAnXNO4G9i-GMsIzKIWH7fj34-NWVw2Xz_Tv0r7Taz1j1tmykxQM4h7bcqMuH4iu_BOlAd20dyf0N3ErvtcS5dKgv19tIaP9WVd-6-26die-Mwyex3m_9INLh6d3ySS4CNH6-x5YaWaUdHz-qnOyyNQsg1NPJRC31wIrOnUydD3/s570/A.D.%20After%20Disclosure%20by%20Richard%20Dolan%20and%20%E2%80%8EBryce%20Zabel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="570" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihSqBJpyziuVLG1mAnXNO4G9i-GMsIzKIWH7fj34-NWVw2Xz_Tv0r7Taz1j1tmykxQM4h7bcqMuH4iu_BOlAd20dyf0N3ErvtcS5dKgv19tIaP9WVd-6-26die-Mwyex3m_9INLh6d3ySS4CNH6-x5YaWaUdHz-qnOyyNQsg1NPJRC31wIrOnUydD3/w400-h359/A.D.%20After%20Disclosure%20by%20Richard%20Dolan%20and%20%E2%80%8EBryce%20Zabel.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A.D. After Disclosure</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel, 2012. The authors’ introduction states, “The day will come when humanity reviews its history…” Discussing the Gleason-Nixon tale they say, “Events that seem like conspiratorial fantasy in a world without UFOs might seem credible in a world where their reality is confirmed.”</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8YtYjexi0XXBV8NPzPG-RRr7qKCsKrot0U7P7p5x9y-vQs8rWsn03-8ENGXAEED38CniBiOXE57K8cvS4FPNhIPAPRoE0N4Qc5qLvH3hB-Ov6viqe1BQJTfajzFBMbvebESgvjL8mMcfMy-iQ5O0s9slGDhXrkO35ToiFb7JzVXUnNz_wW9D1KQhj/s867/Unsealed%20Alien%20Files%20-%20Aliens%20and%20Presidents.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="683" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8YtYjexi0XXBV8NPzPG-RRr7qKCsKrot0U7P7p5x9y-vQs8rWsn03-8ENGXAEED38CniBiOXE57K8cvS4FPNhIPAPRoE0N4Qc5qLvH3hB-Ov6viqe1BQJTfajzFBMbvebESgvjL8mMcfMy-iQ5O0s9slGDhXrkO35ToiFb7JzVXUnNz_wW9D1KQhj/w504-h640/Unsealed%20Alien%20Files%20-%20Aliens%20and%20Presidents.jpg" width="504" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The half-hour UFO television series syndicated by Tribune Broadcasting covered the Gleason legend in a segment in one episode of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unsealed: Alien Files</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, S1, E12, “Aliens and Presidents,” which aired Feb. 9, 2013. Bill Birnes (publisher of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UFO Magazine</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) recounted the story as allegedly told to Larry Warren. The narrator closed the segment by saying, “The U.S. Presidency holds many secrets. We may never know for sure if the tale of Nixon and alien bodies is true.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Debunkers seldom acknowledged the Gleason yarn, but a rare skeptical article attempted to untangle the fiction at the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Skeptoid Blog</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in “<a href="https://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/08/richard-nixon-jackie-gleason-and-some-dead-aliens/" target="_blank">Richard Nixon, Jackie Gleason and Some Dead Aliens</a>” by Mike Rothschild, April 8, 2013. It’s a good overview based on the facts available at the time, noting, “Where the story really starts to fall apart is Beverly Gleason's interview with </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Esquire</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.” Later, “The Larry Warren element of the story is equally problematic.” </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sadly, the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Skeptoid</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> article couldn’t turn the tide and the schlock kept recycling.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimfXJpCoKUyjgyjUPqcGy9L6Y4LQHe-mVDgUuSnOwEpNyzzPwgtz2AE2Z8xSb-Gl51OTOxmQpK9cB85lHTpiBkTA9NGuPYyi4E6o_rGIvICO0jbUSrXcUVCbioTrEKjDgpMRUXHAyMvHZ7bXl7p0N3XEMgvw-2Wcu-cgEM5pp-F4S8v2gSfeplu0rn/s681/John%20McNeil%20-%20Michael%20Schratt.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="681" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimfXJpCoKUyjgyjUPqcGy9L6Y4LQHe-mVDgUuSnOwEpNyzzPwgtz2AE2Z8xSb-Gl51OTOxmQpK9cB85lHTpiBkTA9NGuPYyi4E6o_rGIvICO0jbUSrXcUVCbioTrEKjDgpMRUXHAyMvHZ7bXl7p0N3XEMgvw-2Wcu-cgEM5pp-F4S8v2gSfeplu0rn/w400-h320/John%20McNeil%20-%20Michael%20Schratt.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael Schratt included the the Larry Warren story (along with imaginative illustrations by John McNeil) in his lectures on </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/375855384/Retrievals-of-Third-Kind#" target="_blank">Retrievals of Third Kind</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Dec. 2013.</span><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Making History</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hangar 1: The UFO Files</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> debuted on the History Channel on Feb. 28, 2014, allegedly based on case files from MUFON. The tease for the first episode, “<a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3kqh7w" target="_blank">Presidential Encounters</a>,” was: “President Nixon shares disturbing evidence of extraterrestrial visitors with a celebrity friend.” Reviews were mixed.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4oPCk3BdqDGJevDoeyWRIIlWexT3ZLx6gjjWDmkldrG6VULTLl4uTfKRYnMxwPFxjCyHH6MFGJ_6qRVzjndfmxM2NaRdviWnwgvxQ8vMnPpT2apE50bVZyJZywF9_5KYdHBRjE2zES-ZkYGRpws59snkFb4cKrGeqWqDnkeWgfcTsztrtWUTu8OnG/s912/Hangar%201%20Grant%20Cameron.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="912" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4oPCk3BdqDGJevDoeyWRIIlWexT3ZLx6gjjWDmkldrG6VULTLl4uTfKRYnMxwPFxjCyHH6MFGJ_6qRVzjndfmxM2NaRdviWnwgvxQ8vMnPpT2apE50bVZyJZywF9_5KYdHBRjE2zES-ZkYGRpws59snkFb4cKrGeqWqDnkeWgfcTsztrtWUTu8OnG/w640-h436/Hangar%201%20Grant%20Cameron.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In Jason Colavito’s </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-hangar-1-ufo-files-s01e01-presidential-encounters" target="_blank">Hangar 1</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-hangar-1-ufo-files-s01e01-presidential-encounters" target="_blank"> review</a>, he said, “How do I even try to dignify this claim? It comes from the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Enquirer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, back when it published fake stories later given to the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weekly World News</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.”</span><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-hangar-1-ufo-files-s01e01-presidential-encounters" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic2yVDjDWvo5i4edRlLohvBU5w1owPcYpL7NgDj_8Tfds780-nsYBYq1CISWH3y-yUF-Rn2v9CbgNNzfVdELPlA17kXwn0Hpv8FT3r8R78QyrLfnHidN59wzXTZLWXpbUUaVBeFb5coSLX4Dqln_y-9qWlhZhNlEJN85iHemgTIU-1ExqqkLxBJrdp/s748/Weekly%20World%20News.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="748" data-original-width="651" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic2yVDjDWvo5i4edRlLohvBU5w1owPcYpL7NgDj_8Tfds780-nsYBYq1CISWH3y-yUF-Rn2v9CbgNNzfVdELPlA17kXwn0Hpv8FT3r8R78QyrLfnHidN59wzXTZLWXpbUUaVBeFb5coSLX4Dqln_y-9qWlhZhNlEJN85iHemgTIU-1ExqqkLxBJrdp/w558-h640/Weekly%20World%20News.jpg" width="558" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Legacy of the legend? The <i>Weekly World News</i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To capitalize on the post-2017 UAP boom</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Hangar 1</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was repackaged as a collection of History Channel specials, the first episode recycled as </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ukbpt" target="_blank">UFOs the White House Files</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, first broadcast. Dec. 6, 2019.</span><a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ukbpt" style="font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilyFBDOa9A7-80xNAUa6-Q3VnHnpWqUMIgkkH6arausxtafxk-mnN5DNAvyccVOjRrujoWvfbT0EpPu3GpTTfh-2N_HKTRjvi0fg_ZEKNw1Hb7eaEFK4Tv5llcclA9iS8Tb-ya2rgIGrGRBTgpK_2pXR4wevVPqgFNrpXlVokDlxjzqJ6sJu31Rd7t/s825/UFOs%20the%20White%20House%20Files.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="825" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilyFBDOa9A7-80xNAUa6-Q3VnHnpWqUMIgkkH6arausxtafxk-mnN5DNAvyccVOjRrujoWvfbT0EpPu3GpTTfh-2N_HKTRjvi0fg_ZEKNw1Hb7eaEFK4Tv5llcclA9iS8Tb-ya2rgIGrGRBTgpK_2pXR4wevVPqgFNrpXlVokDlxjzqJ6sJu31Rd7t/w476-h357/UFOs%20the%20White%20House%20Files.jpg" width="476" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Larry Holcombe's </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Presidents and UFOs</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 2015, like most published accounts, contains no original research on the story. It presented an unsourced recap of the legend, stating that Beverly had been interviewed by </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Esquire</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, then summarized Larry Warren’s version of the yarn.</span><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Return of the Fabulist</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Backing up a bit to 1997: Larry Warren and Peter Robbins co-wrote the book, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Left at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of the Bentwaters-Woodbridge UFO Incident, Its Cover-Up and Investigation</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The book covered the Rendlesham case as part of Larry Warren’s life story, and it included many incidental anecdotes about his celebrity and UFO-related interactions. However, his alleged meeting with Jackie Gleason was not included. From </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Left at Eastgate</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Warren’s description of the 1983 talk show featuring an author discussing his case:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“On Christmas Eve, my mother and I watched [Larry] Fawcett promote </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Clear Intent</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on the Merv Griffin Show. …some of the audience laughed, and Zsa Zsa Gabor feigned surprise.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZC_lvz2q5Visp6NZNtXasmTcxBEXV3xcD8XSJjDvcdNYjpQmt1muguGTL0ELYg_X1upNgs4eAUUySsxanYIIO57U9dlcivkWywTyczk7l8ItSkYc8sFD3CiGGi1I68-NeBqJ4hy9r9FeLydXCGGkV6VaJCa7Kdp6ca3hUUto1nN06MpsMHnQfqrO/s590/Merv%20Griffin.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="149" data-original-width="590" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZC_lvz2q5Visp6NZNtXasmTcxBEXV3xcD8XSJjDvcdNYjpQmt1muguGTL0ELYg_X1upNgs4eAUUySsxanYIIO57U9dlcivkWywTyczk7l8ItSkYc8sFD3CiGGi1I68-NeBqJ4hy9r9FeLydXCGGkV6VaJCa7Kdp6ca3hUUto1nN06MpsMHnQfqrO/w640-h162/Merv%20Griffin.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That episode actually aired on July 31, 1984. The newspaper listing for that day from the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tampa Bay Times</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: “</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Merv Griffin</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: “Guests: Robert Sam Anson (Exile), Zsa Zsa Gabor, actor Jack Wagner, author Larry Fawcett (Clear Intent).” For Dec. 31, 1983, depending on the market, a rerun of Merv Griffin’s Christmas special aired, or shows with Phyllis Diller, Dirk Benedict, Jane Russell or others. Warren was either mistaken or making things up.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Larry Warren’s tale about meeting Jackie Gleason was recycled for the 2015 book by Timothy Green Beckley, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Shirley MacLaine Meets the Pleidians</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. To promote it, Beckley appeared on </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Coast To Coast AM</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> with host George Noory on June 16, 2015. Larry Warren joined halfway into the first hour and talked about the story for 12 minutes. His disjointed account was interrupted by Noory and Beckley prompting him to cover details he omitted.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCxEoNTN7HvqyHgZ5SAlLRS-ra0JqSquT2iNIVdNIFdxfP2Ig0Rp8vCeW-8OCMZpOXtan7eKOPN181Oym-DJN-kNCz_lLp6Nu1KSGNKfrkfY6cWezatCDTJF8IaOJc5b_6_V3xW94TsCbASHMNs0BB3zB7IPFdOcwlJuSq18l8fNyUUI5LU3enOuIT/s653/2015%20Beckley%20article.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="653" height="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCxEoNTN7HvqyHgZ5SAlLRS-ra0JqSquT2iNIVdNIFdxfP2Ig0Rp8vCeW-8OCMZpOXtan7eKOPN181Oym-DJN-kNCz_lLp6Nu1KSGNKfrkfY6cWezatCDTJF8IaOJc5b_6_V3xW94TsCbASHMNs0BB3zB7IPFdOcwlJuSq18l8fNyUUI5LU3enOuIT/w640-h516/2015%20Beckley%20article.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Warren said it started when the publisher of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Clear Intent</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> booked Larry Fawcett on a talk show, and he went, too.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We ended up doing the Merv Griffin show. … I was able to go out to LA [Los Angeles] and do this thing with Merv. …Zsa Zsa Gabor was on the show… But Jackie Gleason was doing a commercial of some sort in this facility… Larry met him during this period… this all connects to the Westchester County UFO overflights… in 1984. … During this period, I don’t know if this was before or after that… Larry invited me to [Gleason’s house] near Briarcliff Manor, which is Westchester County, New York… [Jackie Gleason] wanted to meet me… Not his house in Florida… the circular thing, he had a normal kind of home… And I spent a day with the guy and Larry and some other people... </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Tim [Beckley] was the first guy, and Peter [Robbins] I told about this, and Larry mentioned it a few times.”</span></blockquote><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He said Nixon and Gleason were “close friends” and played golf together. “Nixon got away from his secret service” and drove to pick up Gleason at his house, then took him to Homestead AFB. “…something had crashed in Florida… and they had the wreckage and apparently nonhuman beings in temporary… like Coca Cola, the old freezers… to keep these things on ice. And he was shown a dead – a body or bodies of a nonhuman being. He didn’t see wreckage of anything.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDpXaUMKp5MQ7Jg0b9XxXn-ppeTSGLXP6RrEyHGB8e7qYeF4fCNaczZWWyjKfVS0VnhBFCb0OnkOq7FNGMnLZe1xByKGllzaxoKR_bdD4Z43AXa7B-aC6HVMtkXeqm2Dy_ThVAZE5eNh-fsXk3Oh6pJTY-fX2a8YjsD-xjI2lZzLGk0HRWJ4oYH4fC/s897/Nixon-Gleason%20Drawing.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="897" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDpXaUMKp5MQ7Jg0b9XxXn-ppeTSGLXP6RrEyHGB8e7qYeF4fCNaczZWWyjKfVS0VnhBFCb0OnkOq7FNGMnLZe1xByKGllzaxoKR_bdD4Z43AXa7B-aC6HVMtkXeqm2Dy_ThVAZE5eNh-fsXk3Oh6pJTY-fX2a8YjsD-xjI2lZzLGk0HRWJ4oYH4fC/w512-h384/Nixon-Gleason%20Drawing.JPG" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Unrelated illustration, artist and source unknown.)</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Warren said “he was the first to go on record” with this, and the ex-wife’s story came out later in the tabloids, he thought. “[Gleason] died in 1986, though I was on record before that.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instead of the private meeting in the 1992 published account, Warren was accompanied by Larry Fawcett and “some other people.” The only part of the story that resembles reality is that Fawcett did appear on the Merv Griffin show on July 31, 1984, however, Warren was not with him.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Afterwards, Beckley wrote an article on the show that was widely circulated over the internet, “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150630142124/https://journal.com.ph/editorial/mysteries/and-away-we-go-the-night-jackie-gleason-saw-the-corpses-of-the-little-men-from-mars" target="_blank">And Away We Go… The Night Jackie Gleason saw the corpses of the Little Men from 'Mars.'</a>” Beckley said, “Warren reiterated on </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coast to Coast AM</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> – almost exactly what he had said for the pages of my book.” </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yahoo News crafted an article based on Beckley’s book on Nov. 27, 2015, “<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-movie-stars-who-believe-in-ufos-163459679.html" target="_blank">The Movie Stars Who Believe In UFOs</a>.” It stated that when Beverly went public with the story, “it upset [Gleason] so much that he swiftly divorced her. Maybe he was just worried the Men in Black would come after him?”</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Trouble with Larry</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Larry Warren generated controversy over the years, but things came to a head in 2017. Evidence of <a href="https://sacha-christie-infomaniachousewife.blogspot.com/2017/06/peter-robbins-statement-regarding-larry.html" target="_blank">fraud on several fronts</a> surfaced, and Warren’s coauthor Peter Robbins essentially <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ufo-expert-accuses-co-author-10527844" target="_blank">disowned their 1997 book together </a>(</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Left at East Gate</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) saying, “I felt I had proved enough to myself of Larry's account and details surrounding it that he was telling the truth. And I feel now that in part that was not the case and there was an intent to deceive.” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2ffC79JUFwLa5Qokop5GmjYWgrK5YD3UeOdlxjtmM3JSOUcs9rNbWllzq1QbUz9Ei8RPP3AKa2AKg6OrvYdJmhjopFZuRXs2-pn7BzSYWF6VKO8hKh_8vhx_Ak1pGKLjyDah7Y1wb_aslZvFfszx6u3ijty-Cwg57ZUFMtXweO515x-0zzPaYc8XL/s785/Larry%20Mirror.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="785" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2ffC79JUFwLa5Qokop5GmjYWgrK5YD3UeOdlxjtmM3JSOUcs9rNbWllzq1QbUz9Ei8RPP3AKa2AKg6OrvYdJmhjopFZuRXs2-pn7BzSYWF6VKO8hKh_8vhx_Ak1pGKLjyDah7Y1wb_aslZvFfszx6u3ijty-Cwg57ZUFMtXweO515x-0zzPaYc8XL/w449-h219/Larry%20Mirror.jpg" width="449" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ufo-expert-accuses-co-author-10527844" target="_blank">The<i> Mirror</i>, May 30, 2017</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The publisher withdrew the book and </span><a href="http://cosimoblog.blogspot.com/2017/10/announcement-left-at-east-gate.html" style="white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">stopped publishing</a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> it. Celebrity UK ufologist Nick Pope had once endorsed it saying, “This book is dynamite.” After seeing the evidence of Warren's “bogus claims of friendships with various celebrities” and “various lies and frauds,” </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/nick.pope.1428/posts/pfbid02vWzj96i2xFKaWXGdreR26RwuZuthgay5cZmahdeMNK91dtsT5TynZGwfnXWm6YR1l" style="white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">Pope concluded</a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">, “The verdict from the wider UFO community is clear: the Larry Warren story is officially dead.” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Somehow, the loss of credibility did not extend to Larry Warren’s version of the Gleason-Nixon-aliens story. Without his "corroboration" and embellishments, the story should have reverted to what it was in 1983, tabloid hearsay. Instead...</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Legend Lives On</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fortean Times</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, May 2018, “<a href="https://archive.org/details/fortean-times-03.2018/Fortean%20Times%2005.2018/page/29/mode/2up" target="_blank">The Entertainer, the President and the Aliens</a>” was Brain J. Robb’s attempt to straighten out the story. He essentially leaves it an open question: “Why does this tale persist, when it is a house of cards built upon the flimsiest evidence?”</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglUNo8iGRLsjRwFC3GrbbJYgqn3O6gZU59RPEznGakChMxICJxpTN7QiI7XVE9hmjkAoUYWX5da32ia0mPZP3ZvzkltrezTTCXEOLGm0RowPpL6YFitvfRXdP9HgxPJhgtpWUcCI78KrX2LzMUDnhswW7oEKWg-XiinKtHuykiHAwBvtP91nxA-1XK/s701/Fortean%20Times%20May%202018.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="549" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglUNo8iGRLsjRwFC3GrbbJYgqn3O6gZU59RPEznGakChMxICJxpTN7QiI7XVE9hmjkAoUYWX5da32ia0mPZP3ZvzkltrezTTCXEOLGm0RowPpL6YFitvfRXdP9HgxPJhgtpWUcCI78KrX2LzMUDnhswW7oEKWg-XiinKtHuykiHAwBvtP91nxA-1XK/w502-h640/Fortean%20Times%20May%202018.JPG" width="502" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cover illustration by Alex Tomlinson</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bill Birnes included the Larry Warren story in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UFOs and The White House</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 2018.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nick Redfern repeated the tale credulously in</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 2014, then skeptically in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cover-Ups & Secrets</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in 2019, saying, “Did McKittrick lie? No... I would not be surprised if Gleason told Beverly the story exactly as she remembered it, but perhaps he told it as a joke. One that has been taken seriously by his wife.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Ancient Aliens</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> featured a segment on the tale in the April 18, 2020, episode, “<a href="https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/viewtopic.php?f=1474&t=55926" target="_blank">Aliens and the Presidents</a>.” It referenced “an article written by Beverly Gleason,” but all the details were derived from the Larry Warren version.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB23jTo1oIa6qBwsCDTWAGOVDxeIWjDhqZiEMHrVDy5Jb5NhK0AQY_4S5FkWP0ThunSaOU55TJCj9zmNVJDVnbKEOmZ1XzidPxI8zk9d6v7YwbLNSvEn3cQCgCqhdNktfAsSu_2r3MgVqukUNjBiAkBo1kABbLYoUsGIoTpVPM3gySs1EV2YPfBIzk/s879/Ancient%20Aliens.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="879" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB23jTo1oIa6qBwsCDTWAGOVDxeIWjDhqZiEMHrVDy5Jb5NhK0AQY_4S5FkWP0ThunSaOU55TJCj9zmNVJDVnbKEOmZ1XzidPxI8zk9d6v7YwbLNSvEn3cQCgCqhdNktfAsSu_2r3MgVqukUNjBiAkBo1kABbLYoUsGIoTpVPM3gySs1EV2YPfBIzk/w640-h294/Ancient%20Aliens.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Stephen Bassett began the tag-team storytelling by saying, “Nixon and Jackie Gleason... they were very good friends…” Bill Birnes said Gleason was shown “alien artifacts, pieces of a UFO and a dead alien in cold storage.” Grant Cameron claimed, “I actually got the interview with Beverly Gleason. We actually interviewed her. She stayed to the story.” The segment concludes with Bassett saying, “This is extremely important, because it indicates that, almost certainly, Nixon was fully briefed on the E.T. issue.” Then the narrator said, “Is it possible that the incredible story is true? UFO historians suggest that Nixon's actions led to a clampdown on the information shared with future presidents and what they were allowed to say publicly.”</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjIwbBiex_CwCCpwu9facQxd5oeL4I3eoA2l58ER6HI5wpqIaw1mDFLgluJnEbTcD_ePqgx_FkWoNX1Pe_gvYfC501-H1_TRsWLEbNdGQBRITjJuuKTW5KkqjIJaCFt6cxrx0R93FQ-cuM7IhNEossTzPkPCKsPGLV8mx8CwVMLoMnFRRtg-zv24C3/s693/Bryce%20Zabel%20-%20Twitter%20Poll.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="693" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjIwbBiex_CwCCpwu9facQxd5oeL4I3eoA2l58ER6HI5wpqIaw1mDFLgluJnEbTcD_ePqgx_FkWoNX1Pe_gvYfC501-H1_TRsWLEbNdGQBRITjJuuKTW5KkqjIJaCFt6cxrx0R93FQ-cuM7IhNEossTzPkPCKsPGLV8mx8CwVMLoMnFRRtg-zv24C3/w640-h522/Bryce%20Zabel%20-%20Twitter%20Poll.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">On Jan. 31, 2022, Bryce Zabel said in a Twitter poll about Presidents and UFOs: “Now we come to the story that people who study ufology love to tell… [Nixon] shows Gleason a collection of dead alien bodies that are suspended in some kind of liquid solution.” Zabel, who <a href="https://twitter.com/hollywoodufos/status/1288167264718528512?s=20" target="_blank">believes</a> “the Gleason/Nixon story is quite likely true,” <a href="https://medium.com/on-the-trail-of-the-saucers/our-2022-twitter-polls-about-presidents-and-ufos-1440db0086d0" target="_blank">polled Twitter</a>: “Did President Richard Nixon show a retrieved saucer and alien bodies to comedian Jackie Gleason?” 591 responded, about 250 voting yes, which he said, “gave support to the story’s truth with a plurality of nearly 43%.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Larry Warren told his Gleason story again in a June 3, 2022, <a href="https://youtu.be/zmVbRBKUOLs?t=4545" target="_blank">podcast interview</a>, essentially repeating his 2015 tale from </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coast To Coast AM</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">., but with a few additional details and revisions. In this version, the Gleason-Nixon event was in 1969, and Warren said the alien bodies were in actual “red Coca-Cola machines… freezers… big red coolers with Coca-Cola on the side.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNwBW76Dj3o2yqG9gxkk0Qymsqs84elH4pBHDZGJ-Eg6DW7Io2EGkq7gcNJ80OKumScwqgB0b6yfssjz6cH83zXgjtEaQGuP50qvxdsi7RKtZ6TgLsTFBCK1XyQSuhnG4oxdUqYGmcTuwlRdEN0WbPR0sH1jH2G-54p5qmGSDue7xPILy_7Ce2xZl-/s1058/James%20Fox%202022.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1058" data-original-width="739" height="672" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNwBW76Dj3o2yqG9gxkk0Qymsqs84elH4pBHDZGJ-Eg6DW7Io2EGkq7gcNJ80OKumScwqgB0b6yfssjz6cH83zXgjtEaQGuP50qvxdsi7RKtZ6TgLsTFBCK1XyQSuhnG4oxdUqYGmcTuwlRdEN0WbPR0sH1jH2G-54p5qmGSDue7xPILy_7Ce2xZl-/w470-h672/James%20Fox%202022.jpg" width="470" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Nixon Showed Jackie Gleason 100% Definitive Proof of Aliens"</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UFO filmmaker James Fox was on a <a href="https://youtu.be/0FcDeQc34iE" target="_blank">podcast interview</a> in Sept. 2022, and told a story about Jeff Sagansky (president of CBS 1990-94, producer of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I Know What I Saw</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). Fox said Sagansky told him that he was friends with Jackie Gleason, and Jackie Gleason told him, “Jeff don't ever believe anyone that tells you that UFOs are not real. I had 100% definitive proof.” Fox said Gleason “was somewhat nebulous as to exactly what happened, but he said… ‘UFOs are real, they're here, it's a fact.’ So [Jeff] said he would always remember that encounter with Gleason.” [Fox repeated the Gleason bodies anecdote.] “That's </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">probably</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> what Gleason was referring to, I would imagine…he didn't say to Jeff, you know, ‘Nixon showed me the bodies,’ he just said, ‘I had definitive proof.’”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jackie Gleason: Back in Show Business</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.searchlightthemovie.com/" target="_blank">Searchlight</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a forthcoming short independent film from writer and director Owen Royce, who pitches it by saying, “I came across a story too good to be true, involving Richard Nixon and Jackie Gleason. … I had to make this story into a short film. It gave me characters, drama, comedy, and some aliens to top it off. What more do you want in a film?”</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilfd6mFkhLLSZUmrDMxhD4dQl-_1jBU8YNB6-MJj7HwIprLvfLT68aFyWyqW4ftwh_rGOU3og-t4wKlz32IdMOBu4OirCe-yvWKOZW9K3E5dmJ25ElBanAtED03-X3X_lBwKMsb8LV7ORn-_gAvECCVLsfL2BR0mCcpyG8guMlE45fg9asmyWvlC5n/s858/Searchlight.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="858" height="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilfd6mFkhLLSZUmrDMxhD4dQl-_1jBU8YNB6-MJj7HwIprLvfLT68aFyWyqW4ftwh_rGOU3og-t4wKlz32IdMOBu4OirCe-yvWKOZW9K3E5dmJ25ElBanAtED03-X3X_lBwKMsb8LV7ORn-_gAvECCVLsfL2BR0mCcpyG8guMlE45fg9asmyWvlC5n/w640-h453/Searchlight.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/579849801" target="_blank"><i>Searchlight </i>trailer</a> <br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgT7nUKQqd3dSpOMJP5RQ1wBfH1wekksRrcC4Il6LeUb5tmRo6QWZielR1y6BJ7dTCpceDtRLNBD1qSaPzNyN0eNjfd4wr70es4-TyEPLwVyJ8JJfmH54L4MivvLiucagLr53drvdGsiiZ5rWW3zntF2wp5Q_d4dV53xud-khNShsDwUdCFjMBtuJG/s825/Agents%20of%20Blue%20Book.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="555" data-original-width="825" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgT7nUKQqd3dSpOMJP5RQ1wBfH1wekksRrcC4Il6LeUb5tmRo6QWZielR1y6BJ7dTCpceDtRLNBD1qSaPzNyN0eNjfd4wr70es4-TyEPLwVyJ8JJfmH54L4MivvLiucagLr53drvdGsiiZ5rWW3zntF2wp5Q_d4dV53xud-khNShsDwUdCFjMBtuJG/w640-h430/Agents%20of%20Blue%20Book.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Agents of Project Blue Book</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Thrillorama Films also has a Gleason-related project, and has posted a video on YouTube of: “A sneak preview of the work in progress, ‘Agents of Project Blue Book.’”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://youtu.be/S0qYdciz97c" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="362" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S0qYdciz97c" width="436" youtube-src-id="S0qYdciz97c"></iframe></a></span></div><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Agents of Project Blue Book</span></div></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Final Gleason Interview</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jackie Gleason only lived another four years after the tale of him seeing alien bodies was published. Larry Bryant was apparently not the only ufologist to attempt to reach Gleason about the story. Leonard Stringfield (a specialist in UFO “crash retrievals” and pickled alien yarns) also received no reply from him. Gleason’s employee told CUFOS it was fiction. Gleason himself made a few comments afterwards about UFOs, but he never publicly acknowledged Beverly’s </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Enquirer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> story in any way.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic6ZzjwvMW-rkJzl-cqCxaqRyR5xmAaybbP5YcEvDGtaiM34mzK4b9YVnCmSCxigmxG4iZJmfYRRhagLqlGB086ybtYWdOE0Hd7NDz3zPZ_dpRLJ6So136PLSaEbMTlR-4R9f6De-7-HT6j6oG2ensFszAV9CcE7BSqzU75vnvbFr88egXQr5ccl8c/s781/Playboy%20Aug.%201986%20interview.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="781" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic6ZzjwvMW-rkJzl-cqCxaqRyR5xmAaybbP5YcEvDGtaiM34mzK4b9YVnCmSCxigmxG4iZJmfYRRhagLqlGB086ybtYWdOE0Hd7NDz3zPZ_dpRLJ6So136PLSaEbMTlR-4R9f6De-7-HT6j6oG2ensFszAV9CcE7BSqzU75vnvbFr88egXQr5ccl8c/w640-h430/Playboy%20Aug.%201986%20interview.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jackie Gleason’s last major interview appeared in the August 1986 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Playboy</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> magazine, where he spoke to Bill Zehme. If the topic of UFOs came up, it didn’t make the final cut. Gleason was asked about his epic career as an entertainer, his personal life, and his reputation as a hard-drinking philanderer.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Well, you never try to buck legends. That's an impossibility. You let them go and they finally die out. But the more you deny a legend, the healthier it gets.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. . .</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Jackie Gleason Collection</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2fYxy1BjAm78gtAmK2IzCTPbUry8k_USyCcK8C42Nf5AjEK20sjDzsdkR6SHImvSgN3cnWW6iTnv_BaAjk8nzA2akrdx9BvXTEywiG3VTTr4o2wCMV8rkUB8mdXoA9hWgpGSUjARWuatQiOya51LdYPvoHSJATYbfztWa3Rc0T0epVjkANL9FLbSQ/s918/1988%2010%2026%20The%20Miami%20News,%20Oct.%2026,%201988.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="546" height="765" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2fYxy1BjAm78gtAmK2IzCTPbUry8k_USyCcK8C42Nf5AjEK20sjDzsdkR6SHImvSgN3cnWW6iTnv_BaAjk8nzA2akrdx9BvXTEywiG3VTTr4o2wCMV8rkUB8mdXoA9hWgpGSUjARWuatQiOya51LdYPvoHSJATYbfztWa3Rc0T0epVjkANL9FLbSQ/w454-h765/1988%2010%2026%20The%20Miami%20News,%20Oct.%2026,%201988.jpg" width="454" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12072107/the-miami-news/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Miami News</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Oct. 26, 1988</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnqfuEgA2FI0wPXI08db4jxUvfZxYtCg-B0qYXaTpeuHl6R4mCHK-ia8tueZUbA0naiVRGJL90lUnn1499SYjwJH6V5h4SQL7FWw77xj9FLVLy4pHTYZ3E2DxAjKCG1XH2x7bV8a5Tka8Z04BaKpWTbkLwsUe7GgvZWgQZW_NxReGpi-cDqYhafQ33/s1409/Gleason%20Library.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1409" data-original-width="650" height="987" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnqfuEgA2FI0wPXI08db4jxUvfZxYtCg-B0qYXaTpeuHl6R4mCHK-ia8tueZUbA0naiVRGJL90lUnn1499SYjwJH6V5h4SQL7FWw77xj9FLVLy4pHTYZ3E2DxAjKCG1XH2x7bV8a5Tka8Z04BaKpWTbkLwsUe7GgvZWgQZW_NxReGpi-cDqYhafQ33/w456-h987/Gleason%20Library.jpg" width="456" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marilyn Gleason donated his collection of paranormal literature to the <a href="https://scholar.library.miami.edu/gleason/" target="_blank">University of Miami Library</a> in 1988. Their site says, “the gathering of these materials represents the life-long accomplishment of an individual who found the scholarly and popular literature of parapsychology a fascinating and entertaining subject. … approximately 1,700 volumes of books, journals, proceedings, pamphlets, and publications… on such topics as: witchcraft, folklore, extrasensory perception (ESP), unidentified flying objects (UFOs), reincarnation, mysticism, spiritualism, mental telepathy, the occult, ghosts, clairvoyance, cosmology, demons, hypnosis, life after death, mediums, psychical research, voodooism, and others.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12072107/the-miami-news/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jackie Gleason and Aliens on Screen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jackie Gleason kept his interest in aliens and flying saucers separate from his screen work, but there were at least two exceptions:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1951, a </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cavalcade of Stars</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> comedy featured Gleason in a skit called the "Son of The Thing" based on the movie, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Thing from Another World.</span><span style="font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="323" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RJiXusMLRJc" width="388" youtube-src-id="RJiXusMLRJc"></iframe></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Honeymooners</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> episode, “The Man from Space” on November 5, 1955. Ralph Kramden hoped to win the cash prize for a costume contest. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8rn3mBsCfJ6wT7cOIDrDmQd4-4WQw_fjWBIdp8sC06tmeuKVAP-OUZslJn3-JavtFm4R0SsV9j0bX5YydY55-VYRmkIddBAm5biQLzUMcLHP0hQXccLryZYgq1PSN8EyDZ88GijgT9qeHgFkZ997hwgRlgBQ0Tq9lRVZm9jupoB5_rIWjBdu10TD8/s640/The%20Man%20from%20Space.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8rn3mBsCfJ6wT7cOIDrDmQd4-4WQw_fjWBIdp8sC06tmeuKVAP-OUZslJn3-JavtFm4R0SsV9j0bX5YydY55-VYRmkIddBAm5biQLzUMcLHP0hQXccLryZYgq1PSN8EyDZ88GijgT9qeHgFkZ997hwgRlgBQ0Tq9lRVZm9jupoB5_rIWjBdu10TD8/w375-h281/The%20Man%20from%20Space.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Alice is puzzled by the costume, he said:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“What am I supposed to be? The Man from Space! …aren't you up on current events, don't you read the papers, don't you read comic books? That's the trouble with you, you don't know the latest developments.” When Ed Norton was surprised by the costume, he said, “Oh, it's you Ralph. Boy you had me scared… I thought we were being invaded!”</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="333" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pe0PYRdrJWc" width="400" youtube-src-id="pe0PYRdrJWc"></iframe></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many thanks to the following for supplying information and resources:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Martin Kottmeyer, Isaac Koi, Danny Miller, Jeff Knox, Steven Greenstreet, Jerome Clark, and Shepherd Johnson.</span></p><br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /></div>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-2788028280513013712023-04-14T08:47:00.000-05:002023-04-14T08:47:23.575-05:00Alex Tremulis, Flying Saucers and Aliens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ8xsx1j_hUUXp6Nv1FJjV-01hSi2l3uMoaSx-3etou4-aBQE_teZ--unk-wPT10eGAaq7ztgz8xZzYcs5vTuQ8ezcsTBLU2ZbAr2bae1EL32yYsJDA9tGghyqSyGEtszAnDSHrBqNHqr_dqMd3JISAeJyzsriDs51bYCBg9UP4g4CNuBglLZ1va1q/s825/Tremulis%20Flying%20Saucer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ8xsx1j_hUUXp6Nv1FJjV-01hSi2l3uMoaSx-3etou4-aBQE_teZ--unk-wPT10eGAaq7ztgz8xZzYcs5vTuQ8ezcsTBLU2ZbAr2bae1EL32yYsJDA9tGghyqSyGEtszAnDSHrBqNHqr_dqMd3JISAeJyzsriDs51bYCBg9UP4g4CNuBglLZ1va1q/w640-h334/Tremulis%20Flying%20Saucer.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Alexander Sarantos Tremulis (1914-1991) started his 45-year tenure as an industrial designer in the automotive industry in 1933, where he worked for renowned companies such as General Motors, Tucker, Kaiser-Frazer, and Ford. However, Tremulis' career took a detour in 1941 when he joined the U.S. Army Air Force at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio during World War II. At Wright Field, he utilized his design skills to aid in aircraft development and refined his sleek aerodynamic designs by testing his models in wind tunnels.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj86-vcTsYOWct2J9YKYvQSL-8t6npsmf0ewfsUNSrszbcNbNLegBWq2lPEGD5EVLWTsNH_f2GQFUTpEUWqbm5zOFy-4BUQ8UPSoTvHbc_uITZm8G4fvsjew1i3uqg_geAHgqvB_TAQRm8DHB9k5t9neEYaP2lVmmM2gbIJC6A2YEPRkOZr3qvVtFAO/s850/Alex%20Tremulis%20AF%201942%20-%201944.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="850" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj86-vcTsYOWct2J9YKYvQSL-8t6npsmf0ewfsUNSrszbcNbNLegBWq2lPEGD5EVLWTsNH_f2GQFUTpEUWqbm5zOFy-4BUQ8UPSoTvHbc_uITZm8G4fvsjew1i3uqg_geAHgqvB_TAQRm8DHB9k5t9neEYaP2lVmmM2gbIJC6A2YEPRkOZr3qvVtFAO/w640-h452/Alex%20Tremulis%20AF%201942%20-%201944.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: times;">After the war, he returned to automobile design, and brought some of the same principles forward, striking aerodynamic forms for the roadways. </span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1-wDowmhEWOIwcWUBNRvh1F_pBtQAxw_VemBsCW8oLaIyt0KK4fbibFTt4msx1W9QqpwwqKZV5PcDI8VCYo5ARHpezFZ5Bo2DD94G-d5QnEov5to0zLWeQ1dxWq0feGd7OrN76PgofCVoertxJIGHxNxNKxT1eyFimFu93fM-6p2VFZ4UQx0IC_qs/s720/Tremulis%201948.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="720" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1-wDowmhEWOIwcWUBNRvh1F_pBtQAxw_VemBsCW8oLaIyt0KK4fbibFTt4msx1W9QqpwwqKZV5PcDI8VCYo5ARHpezFZ5Bo2DD94G-d5QnEov5to0zLWeQ1dxWq0feGd7OrN76PgofCVoertxJIGHxNxNKxT1eyFimFu93fM-6p2VFZ4UQx0IC_qs/w400-h375/Tremulis%201948.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">However, our focus here is on the early flying saucer era and how Tremulis was part of it. </span><span style="font-family: times;">The Dec. 1983 </span><b style="font-family: times;">Road & Track</b><span style="font-family: times;"> magazine featured a retrospective of Tremulis’ career: </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“While he was at Wright Field, Alex made the first drawings of a proposed flying saucer, and it resulted in considerable consternation. A rumor started to the effect that a flying saucer had crashed in Mexico and two bodies measuring 29 in. had been removed from the wreckage and taken to Wright Field. This was nonsense, but it started all the flying saucer interest that has lasted to this day.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Tremulis became involved in the UFO topic before any of the books about flying saucers were published, and the closest thing to magazine on the subject was <b>Fate</b> from Ray Palmer. Until Frank Scully published <a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/02/operation-hush-hush-ufo-crash-and-et.html" target="_blank">Silas Newton’s hoaxed Aztec flying saucer crash story</a> in late 1949, there wasn’t much talk about saucer occupants or depictions of them in them outside of science fiction. However, when the news of "little men" from Venus surfaced, it received significant media attention, and Tremulis, like many others, believed there was some truth to the story. The saucer men in the Aztec story were just miniature humans, but Tremulis imagined the occupants would have to be far more alien. He put some thought into it and made illustrations of what a spaceship and first contact with the race who flew them would look like. He wrote the article, “Maybe We Are Being Shot At – Who Knows?” (reprinted at the Gyronaut X-1 site). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Tremulis started the article by mentioning that on March 9, 1950, he heard a radio broadcast about a saucer crash landing and a midget pilot. He also showed familiarity with early UFO events, such as those chronicled by Charles Fort.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“I, for one, have never been of the opinion that we earthlings enjoyed a monopoly of all the brains in the solar system. Many strange happenings dating back as far as 1870 have not been thoroughly explained to my satisfaction. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">… From the fragmentary evidence that I have at my disposal, mainly reports in the newspapers, I have attempted to sketch my conception of such a space vehicle. … In my opinion, there is nothing wrong about the configuration of a so called disk that does not apply to good aerodynamic law. ... The propulsion units must no doubt be of a highly developed form of nuclear energy in order to have the apparently limitless range of millions of miles.”</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi517qwZ4nHMxCapZ_3lh9ROTipETNE7a_zEsbV-8zKxCxgX5316oVEI2Ip3MPMBnkk49VYup5zU1eDLbApnOtKzo-FFOyggtwv1-ryxyz57Wb27_xCjcef9_YbUe33KR5r0ANiQBqWI9UwpqsVgDQneIr8RDpz6ltYUFg4vSnOe9Yg7d70NfzD2X0X/s750/Tremulis%20Saucer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="750" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi517qwZ4nHMxCapZ_3lh9ROTipETNE7a_zEsbV-8zKxCxgX5316oVEI2Ip3MPMBnkk49VYup5zU1eDLbApnOtKzo-FFOyggtwv1-ryxyz57Wb27_xCjcef9_YbUe33KR5r0ANiQBqWI9UwpqsVgDQneIr8RDpz6ltYUFg4vSnOe9Yg7d70NfzD2X0X/w640-h462/Tremulis%20Saucer.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">His sleek disc had a thin body propelled by rocket thrusters. In the center of the disc, an alien pilot sat at the controls in a dome with an antenna on top.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As for the saucer’s occupants, he speculated:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“Perhaps these strangers at the moment on their reconnaissance flight are afraid of us and are reluctant to land. … They no doubt at our first meeting will have facilities in the way of unique instruments where our first words will be instantly decode into their language.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmiqyreRxyEiOpnGfJEHq9YDL-Nt7aiLdvThcpAvNARVa4qYeI9djGk6Hi4vu-_X-3PkFCF9UWyRJS8Qgg1Qqs0UbEPvtBP3uR5RL9nZSGJbd_BlRj178_bYyNhs6pPoFwY88h00xzXjkywYQbGx2xg6vKsL5DZzCT1axnDZEIM9PxlJhRkCZkuX3M/s524/Tremulis%20-%201952%20Revision.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="524" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmiqyreRxyEiOpnGfJEHq9YDL-Nt7aiLdvThcpAvNARVa4qYeI9djGk6Hi4vu-_X-3PkFCF9UWyRJS8Qgg1Qqs0UbEPvtBP3uR5RL9nZSGJbd_BlRj178_bYyNhs6pPoFwY88h00xzXjkywYQbGx2xg6vKsL5DZzCT1axnDZEIM9PxlJhRkCZkuX3M/w640-h422/Tremulis%20-%201952%20Revision.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">His illustration showed two human men, perhaps a scientist and Air Force officer seated at a large table. On it stood two small humanoids, distinctly alien figures, one wearing a device on his head, part of the translation machine the other helped operate. From the machine produced something like a ticker tape for the humans to read. </span><span style="font-family: times;">Joel Carpenter had this to say about Tremuilis’ pioneering illustration of aliens:</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj38ETBV6q2dUUxvY4zpNSEkBLiX8wMSoLfuv86LVqB1HiqhIcplJ3SHuWb7NsnzeSCR2Q9o2_KYrDUEygvy-we-3GKEwaI9WJBBhosB84HcuoT3YKNIuaxeVH0ilVFIbPxoikZjRUGjp05AxfDgJk4XhBbJCZlcD8blCbPJlaoeM89v5zRP_1eERTa/s400/Alien%20Detail.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="338" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj38ETBV6q2dUUxvY4zpNSEkBLiX8wMSoLfuv86LVqB1HiqhIcplJ3SHuWb7NsnzeSCR2Q9o2_KYrDUEygvy-we-3GKEwaI9WJBBhosB84HcuoT3YKNIuaxeVH0ilVFIbPxoikZjRUGjp05AxfDgJk4XhBbJCZlcD8blCbPJlaoeM89v5zRP_1eERTa/w365-h432/Alien%20Detail.jpg" width="365" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“The facial features of the ETs are extremely intriguing. To modern eyes, they look exactly like the ‘standard Grey alien’ described in recent abduction literature, with their large heads and wraparound eyes. Their boot-belt-and-tunic outfits are dated and science-fiction-clichéd, but the overall impression is rather arresting.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-kvMzuayv3OdoqQRf106j_Jnr1F2ciQMmNKbzcUFXCzsUL-8fKjcqj7ct822LAi4FIGfGYrpWA6zsMkQE-t7veAijvrxz0F42rZft7_irGi-A4YZo43REeSLjAr8BjgY25RWKLtK7XMKJsBCMsDzvn_zyMIhPwIZZNLjSzcQXqCiSQ7TlBbHeJuX/s832/1950%2004%2006%20Alex%20Tremulis.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="748" data-original-width="832" height="576" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-kvMzuayv3OdoqQRf106j_Jnr1F2ciQMmNKbzcUFXCzsUL-8fKjcqj7ct822LAi4FIGfGYrpWA6zsMkQE-t7veAijvrxz0F42rZft7_irGi-A4YZo43REeSLjAr8BjgY25RWKLtK7XMKJsBCMsDzvn_zyMIhPwIZZNLjSzcQXqCiSQ7TlBbHeJuX/w640-h576/1950%2004%2006%20Alex%20Tremulis.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Tremulis submitted his saucer artwork to <b>The Chicago Tribune</b>. It was published and syndicated to papers across the U.S. in March of 1950.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Kaiser-Frazer featured his spaceship concepts in <a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/02/operation-hush-hush-ufo-crash-and-et.html" target="_blank"><b>K-F News</b>, June 23, 1950</a>, with further details about Tremulis’ thoughts on the saucers and the little men. “[T]he reason many people figure the disks are piloted by small men, he says, is because normal size human beings could not withstand the strain of such violent maneuvers as the discs reportedly go through.” </span><span style="font-family: times;">As for his saucer design, he said it was more than a fantasy:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“The flying disc which he sketched from the witnesses’ description is capable of flight. In fact, he says he could make a scale model of it that would fly. The tapered surfaces are not unlike those of some of our latest jet aircraft and the saucer shape would make hovering in a stationary position possible.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_50rs6aks2-Q8cI5XSuLqFx5C8jlyVoA3tluLFjoc5tgXSa11ELoW_XOSrf8YB_ywDJL6wpAnEHvgKbj3mR8WGwa-jxTaKsbFnRkMG22q1thS_jptNEn4Lb8iB3DwPAVkOGq9-DbyG1EOUcxko0cf4c_9thrw7veXDeBwzk5Te3VdYFxNAYYll2OF/s1100/Tremulis%20Saucer%20Reprints.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="1100" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_50rs6aks2-Q8cI5XSuLqFx5C8jlyVoA3tluLFjoc5tgXSa11ELoW_XOSrf8YB_ywDJL6wpAnEHvgKbj3mR8WGwa-jxTaKsbFnRkMG22q1thS_jptNEn4Lb8iB3DwPAVkOGq9-DbyG1EOUcxko0cf4c_9thrw7veXDeBwzk5Te3VdYFxNAYYll2OF/w640-h296/Tremulis%20Saucer%20Reprints.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Tremulis’ art was featured in not only in newspapers, but reprinted in magazines, and in <b>The Coming of the Saucers</b> by Kenneth Arnold and Raymond Palmer, 1952, on page 187.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Flying Saucers for Automobiles</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">On January 27, 1951, Tremulis filed a design <a href="https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/88/65/80/9be31a151465c3/USD164461.pdf" target="_blank">patent application</a> for an automobile hood ornament based on his flying saucer illustration. It was granted on Sept. 4, 1951, to Alexander S. Tremulis, and to Peter S. Pagratis & Associates.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXh-PjG78qoZUjQmhl8N5Ujdxg-_31j-WpZ3DRUYAINoGgMPEIGkdS6YQViHvCp1fGlGFT0SR6PfL71irOWPXOCET5PU9f5UhJz5wRyChJw5SfOpoLXYJaQ4P0cTLuNPFkpnEnMlKjPc2ZHjx253hOObmebpnnOCG7Ihf3VhxvsR4w52uNQ7YGMrLS/s530/Saucer%20Hood%20Ornament.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="530" height="604" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXh-PjG78qoZUjQmhl8N5Ujdxg-_31j-WpZ3DRUYAINoGgMPEIGkdS6YQViHvCp1fGlGFT0SR6PfL71irOWPXOCET5PU9f5UhJz5wRyChJw5SfOpoLXYJaQ4P0cTLuNPFkpnEnMlKjPc2ZHjx253hOObmebpnnOCG7Ihf3VhxvsR4w52uNQ7YGMrLS/w640-h604/Saucer%20Hood%20Ornament.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzu9HFVmlixKfVt1NRy7FUQXirz3O5OHSgGUdkuTaUyuPSEeZz2Yhe0hBZahP6L50kR30EdQ1Dx4AuUdFuVQMz5KZAcpDS-Xp1IuERQkruADUemFEdkubkheOU1k5YYH0C_xjuG2RiTMFgN4C4h0LBJZrTsTrP_3_hGcbzS468xMd6mR8PnWUaYXce/s536/Tremulis%20Hood%20Ornament.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="532" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzu9HFVmlixKfVt1NRy7FUQXirz3O5OHSgGUdkuTaUyuPSEeZz2Yhe0hBZahP6L50kR30EdQ1Dx4AuUdFuVQMz5KZAcpDS-Xp1IuERQkruADUemFEdkubkheOU1k5YYH0C_xjuG2RiTMFgN4C4h0LBJZrTsTrP_3_hGcbzS468xMd6mR8PnWUaYXce/w398-h400/Tremulis%20Hood%20Ornament.JPG" width="398" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRu9z3B3UdB99lzSW8KMpgGkYq1K_zsSCfWG_xAE_SR31-QSaNr3dCzYomNHva5X4KztoElN0_FZy9f_N6_QCY9Xk4MaOH3w4LpI-FVDxoDmL_Gx491-PBTOwMq5GkpHvLdjg1nwMxS494Zj5orh0FX9qgAmo-SWsg_baSjLd27iWom-6_lDjCukwJ/s825/Alex%20Tremulis%20-%20Flying%20Saucer%20Hood%20Ornament.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRu9z3B3UdB99lzSW8KMpgGkYq1K_zsSCfWG_xAE_SR31-QSaNr3dCzYomNHva5X4KztoElN0_FZy9f_N6_QCY9Xk4MaOH3w4LpI-FVDxoDmL_Gx491-PBTOwMq5GkpHvLdjg1nwMxS494Zj5orh0FX9qgAmo-SWsg_baSjLd27iWom-6_lDjCukwJ/w640-h334/Alex%20Tremulis%20-%20Flying%20Saucer%20Hood%20Ornament.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The body of the saucer was chrome, the dome was either yellow, green, or blue, lit by an electric light bulb. The product was a hit and sold well for about two years. Fortune Manufacturing sold about 4,000 of the saucer ornaments, before ceasing operations, 146,000 short of the goal. The site, <a href="https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2009/07/30/it-came-from-alex-tremulis#comment-5915095180" target="_blank">Automobilia: “It Came From... Alex Tremulis?”</a> features the story from his partner about how their saucer product came to be - and how it all came to an end.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In 1950, Peter S. Pagratis was “a struggling engineering student at the Illinois Institute of technology,” new to the automobile hood ornament business. He set out to design one to capitalize on the flying saucer fever but was having trouble. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“One day however, there was a full page rendering of Alex Tremulis' flying saucer in the Chicago Sun Times. … I phoned Alex and said: ‘if you want to be a 50%-50% partners, I will have your Flying Saucer design made into an automobile hood ornament.’ We became partners and I sold the design on a cash & royalty basis to Fortune Mfg. Co. in Chicago, who were thrilled with the design. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Flying Saucer hood ornament became such a huge hit, the Mfg. put on a second shift to keep up with sales demand. Things were looking great when I received a distressed phone call from the Mfg. owner lamenting ‘We are out of Business!’ The Korean War had just started and the US Gov. just allocated Chrome and Zinc to the war effort (the principle components of hood ornaments). What a let down that was for us all! It was such an unexpected and abrupt end to Flying Saucer Hood Ornaments.”</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>You Can Take the Boy out of the Saucer…</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In 1952 Tremulis had left Kaiser-Frazer and was designing futuristic show cars for Ford, For Christmas, he added hieroglyphics to the bottom of his alien drawing and translated the ticker tape for us: </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyN10T9tAIEWakc0Jn-1fSXJVXLUNqJE_UDTXtzlR3ELL8fOrK7lYEBrvOj8YX2r8LhX3MIoDBVj6IB9R4x5U9HirBbEbxNpmbwlLfsW4hie_v157Ktp2oZztJ7_XdLOHwlifbzyhbE18Ej90f9b5-DjuENLw0KEonzJnnEdw_-ujLsUslUdxcjIDd/s672/Xmas%20Greetings.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="132" data-original-width="672" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyN10T9tAIEWakc0Jn-1fSXJVXLUNqJE_UDTXtzlR3ELL8fOrK7lYEBrvOj8YX2r8LhX3MIoDBVj6IB9R4x5U9HirBbEbxNpmbwlLfsW4hie_v157Ktp2oZztJ7_XdLOHwlifbzyhbE18Ej90f9b5-DjuENLw0KEonzJnnEdw_-ujLsUslUdxcjIDd/w640-h126/Xmas%20Greetings.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i><b>“All Space Beings Send Xmas Greetings To All Ford Employees. [signed] Gort.”</b></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The front page of <b>The Des Moines Register</b>, October 11, 1953, featured an excerpt from by Donald Keyhoe’s book, <b>Flying Saucers From Outer Space</b>. The illustration to accompany it? Tremulis’ flying saucer.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEGZp-muMJ9bIjcsOm2OJ89ruE4zE-zjgLdd83n7Avro2xUBMc-XovdFl2AVUVggdNt12OJFPIcRcellrzI2TnhRajRfLVYBxMYvfNqF4XhH3sJAgN19t0-C-rVf6n2rJ6zT4ZmJ9yR_iVVRahHqHRRno6loGLQfMlqwey9CL-4i0nyFh-o8GuIEXq/s1064/The%20Des%20Moines%20Register,%20October%2011,%201953.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="517" height="801" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEGZp-muMJ9bIjcsOm2OJ89ruE4zE-zjgLdd83n7Avro2xUBMc-XovdFl2AVUVggdNt12OJFPIcRcellrzI2TnhRajRfLVYBxMYvfNqF4XhH3sJAgN19t0-C-rVf6n2rJ6zT4ZmJ9yR_iVVRahHqHRRno6loGLQfMlqwey9CL-4i0nyFh-o8GuIEXq/w388-h801/The%20Des%20Moines%20Register,%20October%2011,%201953.jpg" width="388" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the UK, his artwork was among the material under examination by the British Flying Saucer Bureau.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP892IoqcMlULxpnj6GBWB2Y9TjJJ9anORT41rUXKzu2Xa_i9cGSOBGLxABB5-mMn-rQOQ1hFa3Zgdmug_MmNjXjc86tAhfhucxE8pvo9cc8jl4vVDbVE7H5kHR9Jx98_TYbLRbKOu3STrvlx4GI0giBzDe8WgnzQ13-waSSGH8tN5bEw56cfv3Vuy/s722/1953%2011%2020%20The%20Bristol%20Evening%20Post%20Nov.%2020,%201953%20-%20Tremulis.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="722" data-original-width="658" height="459" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP892IoqcMlULxpnj6GBWB2Y9TjJJ9anORT41rUXKzu2Xa_i9cGSOBGLxABB5-mMn-rQOQ1hFa3Zgdmug_MmNjXjc86tAhfhucxE8pvo9cc8jl4vVDbVE7H5kHR9Jx98_TYbLRbKOu3STrvlx4GI0giBzDe8WgnzQ13-waSSGH8tN5bEw56cfv3Vuy/w419-h459/1953%2011%2020%20The%20Bristol%20Evening%20Post%20Nov.%2020,%201953%20-%20Tremulis.JPG" width="419" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Bristol Evening Post</b>, Nov. 20, 1953</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Columnist <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12086555/detroit-free-press/" target="_blank">Inez Robb’s Oct. 18, 1956, article</a> said the Ford Motor Co. had not built a flying saucer yet, but they had a “Buck Rogers division” and its “chief ‘space man,’ dreamer and Buck Rogers” was Alex Tremulis, who was developing “Nucleon, the projected atom car.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">There’s a passage on flying saucers from the 20011 book, by Arvid Linde, </span><b style="font-family: times;">Preston Tucker and Others: Tales of Brilliant Automotive Innovators and Innovations</b><span style="font-family: times;">. We were unable to find anything to confirm it but did find supporting evidence that proves Alex Tremulis worked with models in his career, owned a camera, and had a sense of humor.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Tremulis was a bit of a jester, and enthusiastic ufologist, too. ... It is rumored that a certain amount of UFO photographs that were ‘leaked’ to the press, were actually the creative work of cheeky Alex Tremulis. He often authored photo-collages that depicted UFOs over popular places in America. It is just possible that Tremulis is one of those responsible for the UFO-mania of the 1950s, and the hobby ufologist who still keep old newspaper cuttings with information about odd flying objects are simply naive victims of the fun-loving Tremulis.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After the hood ornament venture, Tremulis was out of the flying saucer business. Nevertheless, he had permanent influence on the way we visualize UFOs and aliens. Some people have speculated that his space disc design inspired that of the starship Enterprise from <b>Star Trek</b>. Whatever the case, Tremulis continued to design futuristic vehicles that looked like they could have come from outer space.</span></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGiqdY4RR2gcib2eMA38i4RCuBDQtz4wSwN55E5KIftCLQYX6KhjgQw8M39IOE13ONczBcL5qoI6mlCddA-_nc4ZZNk33U09swnY3xNtK24CGa-gqI1jP35HhLCj11x5Rh9VPj8F75M5vgdcUXRQ5wR2hVSaIlKnh_a9ak5cNAlr5yilnopl0IRxO1/s649/Ford%20Gyron%20-%201961.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="649" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGiqdY4RR2gcib2eMA38i4RCuBDQtz4wSwN55E5KIftCLQYX6KhjgQw8M39IOE13ONczBcL5qoI6mlCddA-_nc4ZZNk33U09swnY3xNtK24CGa-gqI1jP35HhLCj11x5Rh9VPj8F75M5vgdcUXRQ5wR2hVSaIlKnh_a9ak5cNAlr5yilnopl0IRxO1/w395-h400/Ford%20Gyron%20-%201961.jpg" width="395" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><a href="http://oldconceptcars.com/1930-2004/ford-gyron-concept-car-1961/" target="_blank">Ford Gyron (1961)</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSgdIUuUDh9y-f21IF_Q2nLpeAImO1pKLk9cGZYmbltqwbhacse5lKstD9g2tm6X1-0z_1Zpl3oyaHp7Cu_lPm_N2ttkwETVYFEnjgRVEHOTvr97_yDVF9WLix_sup4axW0V0wfEivfWnj7fJPGgOZtCugeyowcxk0u-D4fKcYdwTZ3zCAnxvrV4M_/s1189/Gyro-X.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1189" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSgdIUuUDh9y-f21IF_Q2nLpeAImO1pKLk9cGZYmbltqwbhacse5lKstD9g2tm6X1-0z_1Zpl3oyaHp7Cu_lPm_N2ttkwETVYFEnjgRVEHOTvr97_yDVF9WLix_sup4axW0V0wfEivfWnj7fJPGgOZtCugeyowcxk0u-D4fKcYdwTZ3zCAnxvrV4M_/w640-h360/Gyro-X.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Tremulis died December 29, 1991, at the age of 77. His impact on the perception of UFOs as being structured spacecraft from other worlds has been under-appreciated. However, when he was honored in a tribute by </span><span style="font-family: times;">the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), freelance writer Deke Houlgate asked:</span></span></p><p><i style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">"Do we have Alex Tremulis to thank for 40 years of speculation over space visitors?"</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>. . .</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For Further Reading</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Alexander Sarantos Tremulis (1914-1991) <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5817812/alexander-sarantos-tremulis" target="_blank">Obituary - Bio</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Alex Tremulis Automotive Hall of Fame Induction Video</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="343" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CvcK6a1s808" width="413" youtube-src-id="CvcK6a1s808"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Joel Carpenter’s site, <b>UFX</b>: <a href="http://ufxufo.org/tremulis/tremulis.htm" target="_blank">Archetypal Engineering: Alex Tremulis: Saucer Designer </a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Gyronaut X-1</b> site: <a href="https://www.gyronautx1.com/live-updates/alex-tremulis-flying-saucer-catalyst-for-the-1950s-ufo-craze?fbclid=IwAR3MF1cZEjkvaKDuaGEjwoNz4PiXHWtqBiBcbDSmQ-TVTnEsD_zFP2qDUbM" target="_blank">Alex Tremulis' Flying Saucer: Catalyst for the 1950's UFO Craze</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-38376337811969672812023-03-02T10:30:00.006-06:002023-03-02T10:30:00.180-06:001947: The Unsolved Mystery of Discs Over America<p></p><span style="font-size: medium;">A U.S. dollar in 1947 had some nice purchasing power. A buck could buy a couple of movie tickets, dinner out for one, or a sack of groceries. Another option was to spend it learning about the secret behind flying saucers.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieB70OF15DauTePp0XIjkbrExAA1WDG-klQCa5dBb8QbyqU4wkVkguhARosXO56BlZWFtTz4bS5SP050KjplgXQZjJW5nLG1FqBXWgtug1Q6qqpB3uN_zPKW4MZ0UtCCQIvhbS7irz240nF2Rbi49ZrMA8Av74XKAzXaQKLyHsqiOygJS0QKtOoTxy/s825/Discs%20Over%20America.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieB70OF15DauTePp0XIjkbrExAA1WDG-klQCa5dBb8QbyqU4wkVkguhARosXO56BlZWFtTz4bS5SP050KjplgXQZjJW5nLG1FqBXWgtug1Q6qqpB3uN_zPKW4MZ0UtCCQIvhbS7irz240nF2Rbi49ZrMA8Av74XKAzXaQKLyHsqiOygJS0QKtOoTxy/w640-h334/Discs%20Over%20America.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Photo borrowed from the unrelated <a href="http://www.nicap.org/470707phoenix_dir.htm" target="_blank">Rhodes Photo Case of July 7, 1947</a>.)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span><p><span style="font-size: medium;">An item was widely circulated in newspapers in several states across the USA during August and September of 1947. It looked like a short news article about an organization located in Illinois, but was actually an advertisement.</span></p></span><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUWta_poC-yX8KtyVtCDorkD64t5k3EPl35riLwG3aaP_AwiibuaBcCZaDGoO5h7cD6r-l7h4n2dGsnJUIylO9rVHioXUHroIHfukmnWiNQFgyviC16NIjRkfA_rHlGplq8JIL9FoPjI0RILMqFEHxk3jt5Lx94BMXT8-qNHdk2uX5HWoDBaAhi8EB/s800/RskP2Xw3BWXt.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="800" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUWta_poC-yX8KtyVtCDorkD64t5k3EPl35riLwG3aaP_AwiibuaBcCZaDGoO5h7cD6r-l7h4n2dGsnJUIylO9rVHioXUHroIHfukmnWiNQFgyviC16NIjRkfA_rHlGplq8JIL9FoPjI0RILMqFEHxk3jt5Lx94BMXT8-qNHdk2uX5HWoDBaAhi8EB/w522-h291/RskP2Xw3BWXt.jpg" width="522" /></a></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>DISCS OVER AMERICA</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The most amazing event in history is the appearance of unexplained discs over America. Their explanation is necessary to every Man and Woman in this country. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The amazing explanation involves not only the discs alone . . . but it answers the greatest and most potent of mysteries,— </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Why do anthropoid apes sit spellbound before two crossed sticks? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Why do children draw an arc one third of the way up a sheet of paper when confronted with the idea of death? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">What is the meaning of the twenty eight fires that struck at the exact center of the American population? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The answer to these questions is the most important information you have ever received. Send one dollar now for your copy of the survey “Discs Over America.” Mail to des Arc Foundation, Lake Forest, Ill. </span></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ5yrFsps-mFt2kzWnGVdC7x2q4vWjsj4-1XB6ZzLT83y4awIFy0mF1nh_gj9gAZwfp2JY33HGvNdJ6p0CC_ALASMPJjVT_thqygj43OaMn2Z3piDWl5v3rtr5l8LTy-FlzyF4ZgesiaLpp-Jt8XURr5S4AG9y3PKalCjRlopVnlD7ROS3IM3BHZzu/s683/Discs%20Over%20America%20Ads.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="683" height="602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ5yrFsps-mFt2kzWnGVdC7x2q4vWjsj4-1XB6ZzLT83y4awIFy0mF1nh_gj9gAZwfp2JY33HGvNdJ6p0CC_ALASMPJjVT_thqygj43OaMn2Z3piDWl5v3rtr5l8LTy-FlzyF4ZgesiaLpp-Jt8XURr5S4AG9y3PKalCjRlopVnlD7ROS3IM3BHZzu/w640-h602/Discs%20Over%20America%20Ads.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Gp5aArvuzYUUrIHr_l9oyWBAUp2Vfsxel7Nqc1fHh_cj55h-4cZJ4616KBBb_xPR8r9AKJxboO028Zv-6aMnVwZ0bo2js2LanSjaonk75g_p83NWpmej6L1KbX7N4GPcyepkzH_sRdYm-O1tFs4oC_lcUxuVKpHXmAN6GrgLgJgTqo8arn2K63kY/s642/Discs%20Map%20(2020_12_11%2014_20_22%20UTC).png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="642" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Gp5aArvuzYUUrIHr_l9oyWBAUp2Vfsxel7Nqc1fHh_cj55h-4cZJ4616KBBb_xPR8r9AKJxboO028Zv-6aMnVwZ0bo2js2LanSjaonk75g_p83NWpmej6L1KbX7N4GPcyepkzH_sRdYm-O1tFs4oC_lcUxuVKpHXmAN6GrgLgJgTqo8arn2K63kY/w640-h432/Discs%20Map%20(2020_12_11%2014_20_22%20UTC).png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">States where the advertisement is known to have been published.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>After the run of that ad, there was nothing else. </span><span>We were unable to locate a copy of the pamphlet or whatever “Discs Over America” was. </span><span>The tone of the text sounded like it was from a New Age religious organization. We’ve contacted UFO historians and religious scholars, but no information on "des Arc Foundation" has been found anywhere, and there’s no mention of the publication anywhere else. However, s</span><span>ome valuable information was located, thanks to TK of the </span><a href="https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">Kook Science Research Hatch</a><span>, material presented in our next section.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The FBI and the United States Post Office</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">While the ads were still circulating, Chicago Post Office Inspector T. H. Barkow sent a note to the FBI on September 19, 1947, asking for any information on “[Redacted], formerly of Lake Forest, Illinois, who may also have given a Chicago address at various times," in connection with an "Alleged violation of Section 2350, P. L. & R. by des Arc Foundation, sale of information on flying discs." </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1wkf3Fya3-VYc4qf417G-ZHQFLxV1UOoqoUxbXPQbx07Gyu3W0G6FVNDhJ4HRmgjHKZJlqGSPXhZ1xxZApKodlddnuAmXxU-ki5KMu4oftaH1n6gsFP7OCebJNFzWxsi4ffuXDCMjmNeOk6_gJrmul0LlKx4PSv4GuMsWBgU5gxQ39ZHCn8Bv-DoG/s749/1947%20Post%20Office.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="749" data-original-width="619" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1wkf3Fya3-VYc4qf417G-ZHQFLxV1UOoqoUxbXPQbx07Gyu3W0G6FVNDhJ4HRmgjHKZJlqGSPXhZ1xxZApKodlddnuAmXxU-ki5KMu4oftaH1n6gsFP7OCebJNFzWxsi4ffuXDCMjmNeOk6_gJrmul0LlKx4PSv4GuMsWBgU5gxQ39ZHCn8Bv-DoG/w528-h640/1947%20Post%20Office.jpg" width="528" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The FBI responded saying they could not help without more data about the suspect. “You are advised that an effective search cannot be conducted... on the basis of the name only. If you are able to furnish the physical description of [Redacted ] or other means of identification... a search will be conducted in an effort to furnish you with the information desired.”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpMKpC6Nfg4s2wteUuuBewTuRbqSAG6lBqOLcLeemDHNMDDDlc0MtJlvMVfC6HC3mQ3L2xbJ-uVqdvBux5vBcP1hrlWtR6vhsBeU3Qk5XQWM77n3gzyACubE27BgH9xq_8DwzaYhc115JpA16h9Qpz9ti6hl8nUg41eE-FF87658v8T9c-zHiE3KM0/s808/1947%20FBI.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="645" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpMKpC6Nfg4s2wteUuuBewTuRbqSAG6lBqOLcLeemDHNMDDDlc0MtJlvMVfC6HC3mQ3L2xbJ-uVqdvBux5vBcP1hrlWtR6vhsBeU3Qk5XQWM77n3gzyACubE27BgH9xq_8DwzaYhc115JpA16h9Qpz9ti6hl8nUg41eE-FF87658v8T9c-zHiE3KM0/w510-h640/1947%20FBI.jpg" width="510" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://vault.fbi.gov/UFO/UFO%20Part%204%20of%2016/view" style="font-size: large; text-align: left;" target="_blank">See the FBI file on pages 8-9 of this collection.</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The FBI records show nothing else. Postal Statute Section 2350 related to schemes “to defraud or to obtain money by means of false or fraudulent representations.” </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibrmydP7mwf6DmXN4DztEuClKvbPPq14aLcQOty4b9Ked5Ggjes_Kz97-gHE-1s585xYedHfgCIHlCuyvC0yWqQjcGOXWdk-hIJCYRXLRvBFJsIGLJ_zdSHdkNaS35Yl29eU4Ylca5qObTKETG4aTMVAZpLUkbjroVF9MeQxxGeMdDQHK1Jv6N8_FF/s587/U.S.%20Congress%20Committee%20Hearings%201935.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="587" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibrmydP7mwf6DmXN4DztEuClKvbPPq14aLcQOty4b9Ked5Ggjes_Kz97-gHE-1s585xYedHfgCIHlCuyvC0yWqQjcGOXWdk-hIJCYRXLRvBFJsIGLJ_zdSHdkNaS35Yl29eU4Ylca5qObTKETG4aTMVAZpLUkbjroVF9MeQxxGeMdDQHK1Jv6N8_FF/w561-h215/U.S.%20Congress%20Committee%20Hearings%201935.jpg" width="561" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><p>It may be that the U.S. Postal Service stepped in and shut down the “Discs Over America” enterprise for fraud. Hoping to the Post Office had files with further details, I submitted a FOIA request. Sadly, the response was unfavorable: </p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“We regret to advise that any investigatory records which may have existed during the period 1947 regarding the individual in question would have been destroyed in accordance with the prescribed records retention schedule of the U.S. Postal Service.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Unsolved Mystery of des Arc Foundation</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">What was des Arc Foundation? The bit about “anthropoid apes sit spellbound before two crossed sticks” sounds like a dig at Christianity. The part about children drawing an arc “when confronted with the idea of death” sounds like it had a religious or metaphysical message. As for twenty-eight fires “that struck at the exact center of the American population,” we at least know what event was being described, one from June 21, 1940, at Odon, Indiana. <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113572798/28-fires-at-the-hackler-farmhouse-in/" target="_blank"><i>The Buffalo Evening News</i>, (New York) Dec. 6, 1941</a>, carried a story on freak accidents, noted, “At Odon Ind., the farm home of William Hackler caught fire 28 distinct times in one day.”</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQHPay7C6zrlzmRqrsaRbHi-RNp_ulhGIjqj2P6wAaoa6tJvSSQwLjVkUujSpkVasDO7ln12OuS8JaGQfqdfkR_hxbylSZM1BcyaRe2iRrOXNa5k6x1XjB6r5th7PRGEyIpl6GdjJ4RKxAFDVS0O2s83pooxuQq5p4pGgcuWsF9MSACKb1XPr4iogB/s932/The%20Buffalo%20Evening%20News,%20Dec.%206,%201941.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="561" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQHPay7C6zrlzmRqrsaRbHi-RNp_ulhGIjqj2P6wAaoa6tJvSSQwLjVkUujSpkVasDO7ln12OuS8JaGQfqdfkR_hxbylSZM1BcyaRe2iRrOXNa5k6x1XjB6r5th7PRGEyIpl6GdjJ4RKxAFDVS0O2s83pooxuQq5p4pGgcuWsF9MSACKb1XPr4iogB/w386-h640/The%20Buffalo%20Evening%20News,%20Dec.%206,%201941.jpg" width="386" /></a></div><span><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The 2019 story, “<a href="https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-28-fires-of-odon-5314f8b62e28" target="_blank">The 28 Fires of Odon</a>” by Dale M. Brumfield, has more details about the Hackler incident. Some newspapers reported on Fortean-type speculation that the fires were caused by the house's position in "the center of a strong magnetic field where static electricity prevailed.” The Hackler story was exploited in an advertising campaign by the Travelers Insurance Company, <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7118985/the-des-moines-register/" target="_blank">appearing in papers</a> and <i>Collier’s Magazine</i>, April 19, 1941:</span></p></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipIiUaw8MoA6YaDQsP5BlP0N6dG65PxXiVn2EiyfBB4N7gX_8QkHXTQhgryrS_MDOUr5Zs31xqBmn3i1vo9R4-C--PAjPMFJo4cu0OC-IAwFgnXS-Za7EfJZ69hPlijnD8ssmbHBeLwpXRXv5_6Rpcyt-8hqNZsQS2l_PSd4z-mizoNtkDAlqMc4e6/s624/Colliers's%20Weekly.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="624" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipIiUaw8MoA6YaDQsP5BlP0N6dG65PxXiVn2EiyfBB4N7gX_8QkHXTQhgryrS_MDOUr5Zs31xqBmn3i1vo9R4-C--PAjPMFJo4cu0OC-IAwFgnXS-Za7EfJZ69hPlijnD8ssmbHBeLwpXRXv5_6Rpcyt-8hqNZsQS2l_PSd4z-mizoNtkDAlqMc4e6/w493-h420/Colliers's%20Weekly.JPG" width="493" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Was des Arc Foundation genuinely investigating the flying saucer mystery, and “silenced” by the government? Or was it a bogus organization by a charlatan to capitalize on UFOs to peddle some spiritual hokum? Without more information, we’re left guessing.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">If you have any leads on des Arc Foundation, “Discs Over America,” or the person or organization behind it, please contact us at <i><a href="mailto:sentry579@gmail.com" target="_blank">The Saucers That Time Forgot</a></i>. </span></p><div><br /></div></div>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-24914090398385318482023-02-21T15:42:00.002-06:002023-03-17T09:52:10.124-05:00Engineering Flying Saucers<p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvDAeJ6-ICkMm-E1vU2_TmUMRjzrNdvfpZh1tyUiCn8sx4e4366CyI5qhAOpszqUIh-ykWa8uLWahHhTxiJh-Inx-4F_-pkXjWwRglXMY6qYtkIvL6FX0ivObJsQ-2F4qgG9q3nmd1UBoBfZa3GMNMyONquowQK3u1ltwUY-VQpGsqDdz2njz3-MeL/s825/Engineering%20Flying%20Saucers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvDAeJ6-ICkMm-E1vU2_TmUMRjzrNdvfpZh1tyUiCn8sx4e4366CyI5qhAOpszqUIh-ykWa8uLWahHhTxiJh-Inx-4F_-pkXjWwRglXMY6qYtkIvL6FX0ivObJsQ-2F4qgG9q3nmd1UBoBfZa3GMNMyONquowQK3u1ltwUY-VQpGsqDdz2njz3-MeL/w640-h334/Engineering%20Flying%20Saucers.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There were circular winged aircraft before the sighting of flying saucers in 1947. At least two of them were later the cause of some confusion. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz7Z5RiFTUDZGTPmph-Srjqqcub-CmP_wXnJM5lCDaTuCuKa2VYsWuCOgOlQOc6Dh0mK8vSLZWEWvBg5ufiOCWaL0om9VamoDb87zpRd5DlS0q9YEERMew_080Q7GhJmOTYIUYx4kS9Fs/s800/1940.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="800" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz7Z5RiFTUDZGTPmph-Srjqqcub-CmP_wXnJM5lCDaTuCuKa2VYsWuCOgOlQOc6Dh0mK8vSLZWEWvBg5ufiOCWaL0om9VamoDb87zpRd5DlS0q9YEERMew_080Q7GhJmOTYIUYx4kS9Fs/w400-h259/1940.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Jonathan E. Caldwell invented the Roto-Plane around 1937, but after the crash of a test flight he abandoned the project. Later the prototypes were found in a barn and <a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-other-air-force-captured-flying.html" target="_blank">mistaken for flying saucers.</a></span></p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">In 1942, Charles H. Zimmerman built a single-wing circular airfoil, the Chance Vought V-173, nicknamed </span><a href="https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/aircraft/incredible-plane-v-173-flying-pancake/" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">the Flying Flapjack</a> <span style="font-family: times;">(or </span><span style="font-family: times;">Pancake). </span><span style="font-family: times;">This propeller driven disk-shaped plane was tested in 190 flights up until March 1947. </span></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3sCK1K8AevxzveysCyJqNIfTT2CsE9g0WSp3sq4XsP8LLvb1WOO9plveaDIXTzurWkBMbBwgC6uhSCZULe4ZLgabIh05TA_4fWebXxBBhyxR3y1iVuNWCMzlPd3KjoaDu6uvoqo_0sxgHU75vqI9HCl2Fi2IbLRzxFY-5PF7HuzEcnuPP25igO16l/s546/1947%2007%2006%20The%20Los%20Angeles%20Times%20July%206,%201947.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="546" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3sCK1K8AevxzveysCyJqNIfTT2CsE9g0WSp3sq4XsP8LLvb1WOO9plveaDIXTzurWkBMbBwgC6uhSCZULe4ZLgabIh05TA_4fWebXxBBhyxR3y1iVuNWCMzlPd3KjoaDu6uvoqo_0sxgHU75vqI9HCl2Fi2IbLRzxFY-5PF7HuzEcnuPP25igO16l/w457-h306/1947%2007%2006%20The%20Los%20Angeles%20Times%20July%206,%201947.jpg" width="457" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Los Angeles Times, July 6, 1947</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivobFLzevLKGEcmFlNCHRSEqiP_0KosmaspYUp2WU7-smvD1Y_UAuFB-Rzrtjr0CUWfry0dAC1fzJWVDLjjb2LrJvTt03JkuChlJjVEcSsBFAM3MilFg_PeWtwgl0TN8SaVoGwwbB0IOI/s927/1947+07+05+Daily+News+_NAVY+planes+Flapjacks.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="679" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivobFLzevLKGEcmFlNCHRSEqiP_0KosmaspYUp2WU7-smvD1Y_UAuFB-Rzrtjr0CUWfry0dAC1fzJWVDLjjb2LrJvTt03JkuChlJjVEcSsBFAM3MilFg_PeWtwgl0TN8SaVoGwwbB0IOI/w468-h640/1947+07+05+Daily+News+_NAVY+planes+Flapjacks.jpg" width="468" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Daily News, July 5, 1947</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After the reports from Kenneth Arnold and others of disc-shaped unidentified flying objects, many inventors were inspired, challenged to build their own flying saucers. Here’s some notable examples from our files. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Engineering Flying Saucers: The First Ten Years</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Dr. Kay’s Revolutionary Disc</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Dr. Eugene W. Kay was a Russian-born inventor and aeronautical engineer who lived in Glendale, California. He and a partner applied for a helicopter patent in 1946. https://patents.google.com/patent/US2521012A/en?inventor=Eugene+W+Kay </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Saturday Night Uforia included Dr. Kay’s press coverage extensively in the 2015 article, Saucer Summer Reading Fest (part five), but below are some of the highlights.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum5.html</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A nationally syndicated photo in January 1950 debuted Dr. Kay’s invention:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“… a flying saucer that he built himself and that he believes will revolutionize aviation. His 41-inch, 20- pound test model rises from the ground and spins in a 36-foot circle... U.S. Air Force officials recently watched a test flight of Dr. Kay's revolutionary disk.”</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5lifL101tdU7bm3XkXvrl-9tLsUtQn1EWVkHNZuBiaiu8eV1qb0NDU0ETR8GWdnd4ti1NNpkoM5-S8hkQr9RghiqLrZEBorS3g-wXVbwH4vkAFzaQP-hKwJ9b3aqOTB1llzdDbHs_v1IlPyJAPM7C7QaNPmJpHJ_nq3w5DSWX4COm9hCwz4w8upw3/s760/1950%2001%2016%20The%20Orlando%20Sentinel%20Jan.%2016,%201950%20E.W.%20Kay.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="698" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5lifL101tdU7bm3XkXvrl-9tLsUtQn1EWVkHNZuBiaiu8eV1qb0NDU0ETR8GWdnd4ti1NNpkoM5-S8hkQr9RghiqLrZEBorS3g-wXVbwH4vkAFzaQP-hKwJ9b3aqOTB1llzdDbHs_v1IlPyJAPM7C7QaNPmJpHJ_nq3w5DSWX4COm9hCwz4w8upw3/w429-h466/1950%2001%2016%20The%20Orlando%20Sentinel%20Jan.%2016,%201950%20E.W.%20Kay.JPG" width="429" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Orlando Sentinel Jan. 16, 1950 </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">More press followed. <b>Parade</b> magazine, April 9, 1950, ran a pictorial feature on his invention and reported: “The Kay ‘saucer’ is actually a 41-inch circular aluminum disk with eight slotted vanes like fan blades. A midget motor spins the vanes and also powers a propeller for forward motion.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Then in May, <b>Flying</b> magazine and <b>Popular Mechanics</b></span><span style="font-family: times;">.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh50hMRZMX4a0rgCuBi_hwSruWFYqOy74Fq7kz62JIKNROYTDquWFktHDJIsdREH9OTnQnaSlP9WTMbzwS6HjQJwKr-gP6FoyjNmvsew51suuLZl-dugirrl5vKqSW9RhVbMiceFCmC8b1a8hB6vLGGyCP6rbc1rxJ3lxP6CkeTcrs1DA5Mvt-WljC5/s660/Flying%20magazine,%20May%201950.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="660" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh50hMRZMX4a0rgCuBi_hwSruWFYqOy74Fq7kz62JIKNROYTDquWFktHDJIsdREH9OTnQnaSlP9WTMbzwS6HjQJwKr-gP6FoyjNmvsew51suuLZl-dugirrl5vKqSW9RhVbMiceFCmC8b1a8hB6vLGGyCP6rbc1rxJ3lxP6CkeTcrs1DA5Mvt-WljC5/w400-h350/Flying%20magazine,%20May%201950.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Flying magazine, May 1950 </span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpBzf4ct5cPbrKAH6rkiUQVBt630a12fTcBazEC5ABWffb-jxiV9GQX29xbvqLQewSexXn1coyPI2G4I8017SRbPTQgu07D2A89wbF4Nz-1F8TFJOTKnSsZJzX4YQ6k_hHgGQEwZnQq5ddMDaddKrXU5urKKinaSu6pD1FfySNJYbCggf_q_nR_k6g/s615/Popular%20Mechanics%20May%201950.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="615" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpBzf4ct5cPbrKAH6rkiUQVBt630a12fTcBazEC5ABWffb-jxiV9GQX29xbvqLQewSexXn1coyPI2G4I8017SRbPTQgu07D2A89wbF4Nz-1F8TFJOTKnSsZJzX4YQ6k_hHgGQEwZnQq5ddMDaddKrXU5urKKinaSu6pD1FfySNJYbCggf_q_nR_k6g/w640-h472/Popular%20Mechanics%20May%201950.png" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Popular Mechanics, May 1950 </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That was the end of the press for the invention, partly due to the research being cut short. Dr. Kay died on Oct. 8, 1951, at the age of 66. The last we could find of Dr. Kay’s saucer was in Billboard magazine, Dec. 5, 1953. William Shilling was a booker in New York supplying talent and exhibits (like Hitler’s limousine) for sportsmen's shows. Kay’s flying saucer was added to his collection of attractions, but Shilling died of a heart attack in 1956. Its final fate is unknown.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>The Flying Saucer Air Bus</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A stunning color illustration of a flying saucer was published in October 1950, for <b>Science and Mechanics</b> magazine, Dec. 1950, painted by <a href="https://pulpcovers.com/tag/arthurcbade/" target="_blank">Arthur C. Bade</a>. It was for the cover story, a three-page article written by George F. Miller, “Will ‘Flying Saucer’ Buses Lick Traffic Congestion?” The article began:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"Designed as a practical approach to some of tomorrow's transportation problems - especially through crowded cities and suburbs - the Air Bus, shown on the cover of this issue and the accompanying photos, incorporates a number of features regarded by aviation authorities as highly desirable. For commuting by air, it offers many advantages."</span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4jvMSZDmOjdQ7JKRfN7gGY5-zNVZo_YrduRJy_SGrxY7sAEgC3qZYcfhHR4VjCpKawEBpXnHDfA932uhgHGo6Np7wUHeRXWDbxx3AXx5h-SFsADu92Ta4p3NoSPG2Oz82T45MBtumLiU2RfBgpq3J7TJAHN7biR4M2kFUUQJeiaQD4aiAmzhJAY0k/s775/Miller%20-%20Air%20Bus.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="704" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4jvMSZDmOjdQ7JKRfN7gGY5-zNVZo_YrduRJy_SGrxY7sAEgC3qZYcfhHR4VjCpKawEBpXnHDfA932uhgHGo6Np7wUHeRXWDbxx3AXx5h-SFsADu92Ta4p3NoSPG2Oz82T45MBtumLiU2RfBgpq3J7TJAHN7biR4M2kFUUQJeiaQD4aiAmzhJAY0k/w582-h640/Miller%20-%20Air%20Bus.jpg" width="582" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Miller briefly discussed the reality of UFOs:</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“At first glance, today's skeptic would say, perhaps, “Oh that's just another wild dream resulting from too much talk about ‘flying saucers!’ That is untrue. Many authorities still do not admit the existence of flying saucers, even where good descriptions have been supplied by persons who have claimed to see the strange craft. But no one can deny that the reported shape of a flying saucer would be airworthy if properly designed. We believe the air bus design, on which patents are pending, would be flyable and qualified aeronautical engineers who have checked our calculations agree.”</span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqga0AH1x5eFx2WFVZihTn6svmd7CikkRCNVnapOxZBWJ5h6bs2bRfqfAJgBRpHAhCh5s1K8IH2NvuKLtNv87AwD3SCYYRLYRYTBFQDrPVWdQzqafua6uwu5J0kl6EeyyDRLMcBSs1KPbJzZmwBaGuIUj2OGC5fgpXfmoc40_4um5b3yz8YDVg7GTU/s738/Science%20and%20Mechanics%20Dec.%201950%20cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="520" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqga0AH1x5eFx2WFVZihTn6svmd7CikkRCNVnapOxZBWJ5h6bs2bRfqfAJgBRpHAhCh5s1K8IH2NvuKLtNv87AwD3SCYYRLYRYTBFQDrPVWdQzqafua6uwu5J0kl6EeyyDRLMcBSs1KPbJzZmwBaGuIUj2OGC5fgpXfmoc40_4um5b3yz8YDVg7GTU/w450-h640/Science%20and%20Mechanics%20Dec.%201950%20cover.jpg" width="450" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Air Bus was designed to be 65 feet in diameter and 10 1/2 feet high, and weigh from 80,000 to 110,000 pounds. It would fly passengers at 90 to 175 miles an hour, lifted by three counter-rotating pairs of 14-foot diameter rotors. Each rotor pair would be driven by a pancake-type 2,400 horsepower engine. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Newspapers picked up on the story and widely printed a black and copy of Arthur C. Bade’s painting with a summary of Miller’s article. </span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifCQmMN7udvaN8YSB5sbYgmGSpoGPsBmce2PMkC-di_8araIQfDchuCXDJ0u5_Eq_UxUoTSMsy-Gt37Ydhr6hb0gd_h3SpuOCjLgq9g4dEkw_5yiZzHmNXp9av_lv93up8YBTmB7RR3uBSEbbwenrZbpLHfsF9oBVEoJCLHCF1ITUb0-XTineJFy4r/s612/1950%2011%2028%20FS%20Bus%20George%20F.%20Miller.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="435" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifCQmMN7udvaN8YSB5sbYgmGSpoGPsBmce2PMkC-di_8araIQfDchuCXDJ0u5_Eq_UxUoTSMsy-Gt37Ydhr6hb0gd_h3SpuOCjLgq9g4dEkw_5yiZzHmNXp9av_lv93up8YBTmB7RR3uBSEbbwenrZbpLHfsF9oBVEoJCLHCF1ITUb0-XTineJFy4r/w351-h494/1950%2011%2028%20FS%20Bus%20George%20F.%20Miller.jpg" width="351" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b><blockquote><b>CITY "SAUCER"</b> The "flying saucer" will come into its own one day as the solution to traffic congestion in most U.S. cities, thinks designer George F. Miller of Chicago. Above is Miller's conception of a saucer-shaped, 100 passenger air bus that would carry city commuters at 90 to 175 miles an hour. Miller's idea was presented in Science and Mechanics magazine.</blockquote></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We had no luck find a patent for the Air Bus, but George Francis Miller did file a copyright for his article.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The First Sports Model</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In November 1950, U.S. newspapers carried an exciting photo of a dynamic disc-shaped object built by aviation engineer, Nick Stasinos.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxYlkkX-biVUmaCKhXliWlLUOcs1mapDWvSJcu6V8yIlVf0ZqUOnxKJRWhBmkC5TZwzx7Gj95N6M3qlk81Moa4uB-sJXS0l4RCj2Ku-3GaxmGZZ3Uq_nhxUUiRJwR1I3eBSJWFL69uhff_CL8cywL_269d6abYylcW1hLYwQXR9-8crHNOmEYMhcRd/s622/1950%20Stasinos%20-%20Flying%20Nov.%201952%20-%20Nick%20Stasinos.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="622" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxYlkkX-biVUmaCKhXliWlLUOcs1mapDWvSJcu6V8yIlVf0ZqUOnxKJRWhBmkC5TZwzx7Gj95N6M3qlk81Moa4uB-sJXS0l4RCj2Ku-3GaxmGZZ3Uq_nhxUUiRJwR1I3eBSJWFL69uhff_CL8cywL_269d6abYylcW1hLYwQXR9-8crHNOmEYMhcRd/w442-h429/1950%20Stasinos%20-%20Flying%20Nov.%201952%20-%20Nick%20Stasinos.jpg" width="442" /></span></a></div><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: times;">“Non-Flying ‘Flying Saucer’</b><span style="font-family: times;"> - This model ‘flying saucer’ was built by Nick Stasinos of Inglewood, Calif., on order for a New York museum. The craft, called the ‘Experimental NS-97,’ shows two main jet installations in the center section and eight turbo-jet ports on the outer revolving disc. Considered aerodynamically practical, the saucer is not scheduled for production now"</span></span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtwLCSmCJtaDZ-9dyo7mOoraImlcADc43miuTTk5gcJKVvlb-fPt4ALqkxzEeYlTe1q8mlmlYD34GExUIxnsK7uW6X3K6Z1zbakhay8hHEnpN-kgu3LeDskYOHsrw3G_V0oL0DLIZMrAMzOV_PEZWyIyLijtdaR-NikLWtOqGOO-LWr0L6Ckfah86h/s737/1950%2011%2028%20NS-97.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="737" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtwLCSmCJtaDZ-9dyo7mOoraImlcADc43miuTTk5gcJKVvlb-fPt4ALqkxzEeYlTe1q8mlmlYD34GExUIxnsK7uW6X3K6Z1zbakhay8hHEnpN-kgu3LeDskYOHsrw3G_V0oL0DLIZMrAMzOV_PEZWyIyLijtdaR-NikLWtOqGOO-LWr0L6Ckfah86h/w640-h400/1950%2011%2028%20NS-97.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The unnamed customer was Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum in New York City. Like many others, the final fate of Stasino’s saucer is unknown.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Flying Further into the </b></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Fifties</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In Frankfurt Germany, a propeller-driven flying saucer was designed by Walter Otto Galonska, as shown below in this 1951 news photo.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUT-uoL9Clfl-rzgzrq6f_aqL4ujUj7NsdmXGVeAyr5qYO3N9oPMgQ1ewCk_oS_162-EostF9XFxl2beeCkDBJOBJbZvpAa_grA4ca99-9muiFU92jMEYGIvEm7w-FQWgYMdZJCRiNCw8kbvUBgyLyM4g5F36Hd4b_Lb84DjEfYwLDA_VPBEPxToH6/s712/1951%2001%2002%20Press%20and%20Sun-Bulletin%20-%20Acme.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="623" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUT-uoL9Clfl-rzgzrq6f_aqL4ujUj7NsdmXGVeAyr5qYO3N9oPMgQ1ewCk_oS_162-EostF9XFxl2beeCkDBJOBJbZvpAa_grA4ca99-9muiFU92jMEYGIvEm7w-FQWgYMdZJCRiNCw8kbvUBgyLyM4g5F36Hd4b_Lb84DjEfYwLDA_VPBEPxToH6/w560-h640/1951%2001%2002%20Press%20and%20Sun-Bulletin%20-%20Acme.JPG" width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Press and Sun-Bulletin</b>, Jan. 2, 1951 - via Acme Telephoto</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Engineers and artists had some high-flying expectation for man-made saucers, but the product never quite lived up to their dreams. Alexander Leydenfrost was an illustrator for pulp science fiction magazines before going to work for</span><b> Life</b><span style="font-family: times;"> magazine. His work there rarely gave him the opportunity to revisit spaceships and such until <b>Life</b> magazine, May 31, 1954.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“The U.S. is seriously considering building a flying saucer… designed by a shy, 35-year-old English-born engineer named John C. M. Frost… It is the outgrowth of a saucerlike craft called ‘Project Y’ which Frost designed for his employers, A. V. Roe Canada Ltd.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR2C1Q10ITxx0ugpDfz7LP3o2-ajI07MQKMDgapAiM5pQkn0J1XgnwYmgxc0SfPy_LQPMvjvoWYrbv6MNz7V98vzLhhnuZSKTyCpAQvMNIOj5cnfCOy9YHlQWnY37JB0P7PDZu6FWKi41SWYvMbd9l6wiVH8l4ylS46K215zQNTwY8PLVOzjXeq3zL/s1507/1954%20Life%20May%2031,%201954%20AVRO.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1507" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR2C1Q10ITxx0ugpDfz7LP3o2-ajI07MQKMDgapAiM5pQkn0J1XgnwYmgxc0SfPy_LQPMvjvoWYrbv6MNz7V98vzLhhnuZSKTyCpAQvMNIOj5cnfCOy9YHlQWnY37JB0P7PDZu6FWKi41SWYvMbd9l6wiVH8l4ylS46K215zQNTwY8PLVOzjXeq3zL/w640-h440/1954%20Life%20May%2031,%201954%20AVRO.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GlMEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA18&dq=%22a%20v%20roe%22%20flying%20saucer%20life%201954&pg=PA18#v=twopage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Life magazine, May 31, 1954</span></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">At Fort Hood, Texas, the U.S. Army's private Larry G. Anderson was building and launching his own flying saucers.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgLEghnQddjYBlotgAh2LN8wakE1H3eQ2q1SxiPlaYKUCa7F0g02zLjr_DE24svyJ7L_sdOvf1ks4A3piyjrRM6o2teMR6gBVX4N9vnSGOZx5WncHWN_e0j4nl0s3MJ-riD3qrQ193p3bS7qmBTLoMcYCrNHr1st_to_cQmzUbV-jNlb003aoACN1l/s646/1955%2009%2005%20The%20Miami%20Herald%20Sept.%205,%201955%20-%20Anderson.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="439" height="772" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgLEghnQddjYBlotgAh2LN8wakE1H3eQ2q1SxiPlaYKUCa7F0g02zLjr_DE24svyJ7L_sdOvf1ks4A3piyjrRM6o2teMR6gBVX4N9vnSGOZx5WncHWN_e0j4nl0s3MJ-riD3qrQ193p3bS7qmBTLoMcYCrNHr1st_to_cQmzUbV-jNlb003aoACN1l/w523-h772/1955%2009%2005%20The%20Miami%20Herald%20Sept.%205,%201955%20-%20Anderson.jpg" width="523" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKw4bBtliRCCRVFI1RhFK15frPscm1WUKoCOB86-kGFEZnn3C54V1qIvkL50BUTvcG-6OEPAl2zXUEgbhDmNmik__jkMDWMuSuzjyjoOT0SnXLN6E_8TgP_fFBfb4Dq_H-voApNTD1Egerqtrk_53XQaA8nZXt2VUHgj83TItOOvFzlUkuHRoktYm0/s704/1955%2008%2025%20The%20Austin%20American,%20Aug.%2028,%201955%20-%20Anderson.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="594" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKw4bBtliRCCRVFI1RhFK15frPscm1WUKoCOB86-kGFEZnn3C54V1qIvkL50BUTvcG-6OEPAl2zXUEgbhDmNmik__jkMDWMuSuzjyjoOT0SnXLN6E_8TgP_fFBfb4Dq_H-voApNTD1Egerqtrk_53XQaA8nZXt2VUHgj83TItOOvFzlUkuHRoktYm0/w540-h640/1955%2008%2025%20The%20Austin%20American,%20Aug.%2028,%201955%20-%20Anderson.jpg" width="540" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><b style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Chrysler’s Saucer Spaceship</b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Lovell Lawrence Jr, an assistant chief engineer at Chrysler Missiles Operations, publicized his concept for a nuclear-powered “flying saucer.” </span><span style="font-family: times;">It was featured in an Associated Press story carried in </span><b style="font-family: times;">The Bridgeport Post</b><span style="font-family: times;">, Dec. 30, 1956. Lawrence was confident the spaceship could be built and said, “Space travel is inevitable, and the only question is when.” </span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-IZO-u8KvtET3X8lDMuAUJjj17zOcDlMKCJ1M3HKlZJPtChI9WiBVn6fadLltJAZ2UIoPgigwX36n7ESI_ILru8C3o1kYLNhlVfuC_j7bOCPFe8I_0nm6-vPgB0qXBjpjAIJqM0XTxYHv2Koh-VIosCc1QpsxVfLW5If9BhhA0UktZCQNs7Nv7i5u/s664/Lovell%20Lawrence%20Jr%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="664" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-IZO-u8KvtET3X8lDMuAUJjj17zOcDlMKCJ1M3HKlZJPtChI9WiBVn6fadLltJAZ2UIoPgigwX36n7ESI_ILru8C3o1kYLNhlVfuC_j7bOCPFe8I_0nm6-vPgB0qXBjpjAIJqM0XTxYHv2Koh-VIosCc1QpsxVfLW5If9BhhA0UktZCQNs7Nv7i5u/w400-h271/Lovell%20Lawrence%20Jr%201.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbLMqxvziTofrl2E74IYxBT0N8zIE1coicmV9NH3yegLJbX8KKIm_z3HIDHY4diDOWFFQsKXARXr8X87nPykVJHehWQtgTaFa3b3Acfa6HnXjzYbfG86c6ElLqLswb_GQyN5gDgqKS2Ot2TjWj8VX1HZoGwXDZFGC2w8sWP8_gZA3WvrUWLbPzzh5f/s751/1957%2003%2026%20San%20Bernardino%20Sun,%20%20March%201957.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="751" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbLMqxvziTofrl2E74IYxBT0N8zIE1coicmV9NH3yegLJbX8KKIm_z3HIDHY4diDOWFFQsKXARXr8X87nPykVJHehWQtgTaFa3b3Acfa6HnXjzYbfG86c6ElLqLswb_GQyN5gDgqKS2Ot2TjWj8VX1HZoGwXDZFGC2w8sWP8_gZA3WvrUWLbPzzh5f/w640-h518/1957%2003%2026%20San%20Bernardino%20Sun,%20%20March%201957.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">San Bernardino Sun, March 1957</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYs8lBAWY3oGVuD8QyIpLO9Y44EO97cBYs3XvlpyCVlmy_20q9G-BZ-TrSYzud7lDNYK8hEiIA-TJooIhVYtHnYAqtMOrhxqWSO8HqIiNhEav8muJL2RHJFQyvoAh_MghWVsicFCcXjgVNKgH9oNddHajR4H6SAwribOOaGhKNB_RU5rD4Bt30n9ky/s685/Lovell%20Lawrence%20Jr%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="685" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYs8lBAWY3oGVuD8QyIpLO9Y44EO97cBYs3XvlpyCVlmy_20q9G-BZ-TrSYzud7lDNYK8hEiIA-TJooIhVYtHnYAqtMOrhxqWSO8HqIiNhEav8muJL2RHJFQyvoAh_MghWVsicFCcXjgVNKgH9oNddHajR4H6SAwribOOaGhKNB_RU5rD4Bt30n9ky/w400-h271/Lovell%20Lawrence%20Jr%202.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Check the links below for further information on </span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Lawrence's </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">concepts.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3234377/the-bridgeport-post/" target="_blank">The Bridgeport Post, Dec. 30, 1956: …Space Ships May Make it Possible</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=2740" target="_blank">Aerospace Projects Review Blog: The Chrysler Saucer</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">That concludes this look at plans and attempts to build man-made flying saucers. Be sure to check our past articles for more </span><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/search/label/Man-Made" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">disc engineering attempts</a><span style="font-family: times;">, and keep watching the skies.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/search/label/Military%20Project" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="356" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-wXLxhlCJXdzmCZq2Ze7W4Hgr6513fPqyzpI3pKPDUO51WP4ZwrFRpZ0WkW6Zgy-EhPyrMwWW8ZTiqjNuAgRrUjyxB1mEoXVa1BcG1LGXlm1MpwzkAQeZvCVDqSwJRzzOB61KSpdEsCKoV970Cvrp5hy_UDMOZd8yPDNCOlG3G_eJP3PJG9ozyV0P/w275-h275/STTF%20Button%20(2020_12_02%2016_05_45%20UTC).png" width="275" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><div><br /></div>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-53467242636865628812023-02-16T11:00:00.000-06:002023-02-16T11:05:00.963-06:00Flying Saucers from Montana: The Leonard Grayson Story<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKvqQYUUvLpTTJVs7BMSn8RJVVW1NBrNGgcMHvkll7fjx5w12inE5aIUIFDELyQGItDcUUIlzk0GD82nuChZqW6MEAYpIkmhca4W9EkTR3Nm_wgk1Ms1cKuGWLbcdB8UhxJWilxtKdueh32mMcGnw1UfnVouao78yBrJu7d4-P6nBm6rKPO5bZcFYH/s825/Leonard%20W.%20Grayson.jpg" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKvqQYUUvLpTTJVs7BMSn8RJVVW1NBrNGgcMHvkll7fjx5w12inE5aIUIFDELyQGItDcUUIlzk0GD82nuChZqW6MEAYpIkmhca4W9EkTR3Nm_wgk1Ms1cKuGWLbcdB8UhxJWilxtKdueh32mMcGnw1UfnVouao78yBrJu7d4-P6nBm6rKPO5bZcFYH/w640-h334/Leonard%20W.%20Grayson.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">On Feb. 22, 1966, a call alerted authorities to the discovery of a flying saucer in a wooded area near Shelton, Washington. The “Thing” was left in place, but photographed and examined. Guesses ran wild as to what it was, where it came from, and why it was there. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkJcM2tos2cMGRBJeiPm42DMPW3W80vYHoHi1_UAMAmaYcXUP_ahNJM3W9St9_yudcgtxzESBhK22gjvNFFfQG_PJ8b4dctIXxsP1lngPHvExfHoh7veQSOb0R3mCBwv3ajVkwT2D2YipG_EvXXmdie3B-yaUHu3Fx47Hzfzr3AAl78oPSwZX1AGXt/s751/1966%2002%2023%20The%20Olympian%20Feb.%2023,%201966%20photo.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="692" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkJcM2tos2cMGRBJeiPm42DMPW3W80vYHoHi1_UAMAmaYcXUP_ahNJM3W9St9_yudcgtxzESBhK22gjvNFFfQG_PJ8b4dctIXxsP1lngPHvExfHoh7veQSOb0R3mCBwv3ajVkwT2D2YipG_EvXXmdie3B-yaUHu3Fx47Hzfzr3AAl78oPSwZX1AGXt/w590-h640/1966%2002%2023%20The%20Olympian%20Feb.%2023,%201966%20photo.JPG" width="590" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The object was a strange craft, about as tall as a person, with a diameter of over 12 feet. Reserve Sheriff Deputy Chuck Shelton examined the object and reported that it sat on a pair of steel rails and was powered by a Ranger aircraft engine, equipped with two acts of rotor blades, 12 to a set. “In paint partly obliterated are the words Grayland (or Grayson) Aircraft Manufacturing Company.” The saucer was apparently made in the U.S.A. <b>The Daily Olympian</b>, Feb. 23, 1966, playfully asked:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“How did the Thing get where it is in the woodlot of A. D. Hunter who lives part of the time in California and the rest of the year on his Matlock Ranch? Did it fly? Was the pilot a man – or a jolly green giant?” The story went on to say that there was a shortage of information; the Sheriff and his deputy were both out of town, and Mr. Hunter hadn’t been heard from. “So there it sits. A Thing from Detroit, or Disneyland - or Outer Space.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Three days later, A. D. Hunter returned and discovered there was a fuss over the discovery on his property. It turned out the flying saucer speculation was right. He was able to identify the Thing as a flying disc prototype built a few years prior by inventor Leonard. W. Grayson. Hunter was quoted as saying, “I really don’t want the hovercraft, but since it was a pilot model, my brother-in law didn’t want to scrap it, so he hauled it to my place about three years ago.” He said Grayson had moved to Montana and was manufacturing an improved version of the aircraft.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">That wasn’t quite the end of the Thing, though. Or the career of its inventor. Leonard W. Grayson’s career is like many others, in that we have only bits here and there of what the media printed about him. No doubt, there’s more to the story than we’ll ever know. It’s not recorded what Grayson thought about UFOs and aliens, but it’s well-documented that he built and flew flying saucers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">A Wheel in the Middle of a Wheel</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Leonard William Grayson was born on July 21, 1918. He didn’t have a degree or attend college, but he had served as a corporal in the US Army during World War II as an instrument technician. Afterwards, he returned to civilian life as a working family man in Cascade, Montana. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTgOdGuG-P7CgegMotMUpcXjAr9wS07Ic28cvPH8KuUMrQe-rrIwhiHUGDQmfLqSnW7zBz6YHZwqNGRIf7RHI3vfNVCbOEcuICyZV41qCKM35uZMAxG_66rnoNife18z8CQ-nBigahWQc-KE8XEAhvmk61ej1KeyJd3ik65FvPjntTAK3pVUglgkdO/s755/1965%20%2006%2006%20Great_Falls_Tribune%20MT%20Jun_6_1965%20cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="546" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTgOdGuG-P7CgegMotMUpcXjAr9wS07Ic28cvPH8KuUMrQe-rrIwhiHUGDQmfLqSnW7zBz6YHZwqNGRIf7RHI3vfNVCbOEcuICyZV41qCKM35uZMAxG_66rnoNife18z8CQ-nBigahWQc-KE8XEAhvmk61ej1KeyJd3ik65FvPjntTAK3pVUglgkdO/w462-h640/1965%20%2006%2006%20Great_Falls_Tribune%20MT%20Jun_6_1965%20cover.jpg" width="462" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While employed as a railroad agent telegrapher in 1954, he had a “Eureka’ moment:</span></span></p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“All at once those wheels were going around me. Just floating around me. I hadn't been consciously designing a vertical lift machine and it was amazing how the whole thing fell into place… within a few minutes… the whole design was formulated, and I drew a sketch of it.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Working in his spare time in his garage, Grayson designed and constructed several flying disc models, assisted by his wife Lucy, their two sons, Richard, and Tom. Meanwhile, in his day job, he was employed over the next few years as a carpenter, and a civil engineer technician.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Grayson’s design featured two non-axial, counter-rotating rings, to which blades for propulsion were attached. It generated a vertical lift that acted both as a rotor craft and a jet. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">His first successful working model was completed in 1956, a 30-inch diameter model, powered by a 3/8 horsepower electric motor. He filed a patent for his “Disc Shaped aircraft” on Oct. 10, 1955, saying the vehicle “may be employed with equal facility as an aircraft or as a land vehicle for traveling on the highways.” The patent was granted on May 3, 1960.</span></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8bpRBkpPzXyWKMIC3unHLk29_jlW_NaEvYxylVp4JGaZf8V3kvcVs4LXRaKssbS2Z2DZkgPJNGKRlhzjqDy_eS98u6zyA1QyjL_0nKaLTCtZnl2di9r7ikzoHg8QnmqIEcTP0kanaJdXpp6BbfB2i2an6ysIYA8fLkLAQvYqW5Fc-JHyyfDAGfI46/s831/1955%20Patent.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="831" data-original-width="723" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8bpRBkpPzXyWKMIC3unHLk29_jlW_NaEvYxylVp4JGaZf8V3kvcVs4LXRaKssbS2Z2DZkgPJNGKRlhzjqDy_eS98u6zyA1QyjL_0nKaLTCtZnl2di9r7ikzoHg8QnmqIEcTP0kanaJdXpp6BbfB2i2an6ysIYA8fLkLAQvYqW5Fc-JHyyfDAGfI46/w556-h640/1955%20Patent.jpg" width="556" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US2935275A/en" target="_blank">Disc Shaped Aircraft</a> (link to patent.)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">While waiting for the patent, Grayson began construction of a manned 21-foot, 1,600-pound test model powered by a 165-horsepower aircraft engine he’d bought for fifty dollars. He and the family briefly lived in Shelton, Washington, and that’s where he completed the disc and conducted test flights. It flew, but only a few feet off the ground, enough to satisfy him that with the proper facilities and financial backing it could be built and even scaled up for passenger flight.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA4Tzyczrp3iDVZiyQJmrfSOYlMnHP1GqhRN-K1qCNkczSe4GwQ0Z5dTSrr_Tukw05GFSc1jwbkOWayoDE7BIK4OUTZ257q5v8ghzfzjG7iFtjWLbqcNYXPLCCOcOtvhSsVIEnLGn8Vr4T8YPr0Y02cbiou8HWwgNspifRefeQScm5ejHkUWam7RyV/s1130/1965%20%2006%2006%20Great_Falls_Tribune%20MT%20Jun_6_1965_b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="1130" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA4Tzyczrp3iDVZiyQJmrfSOYlMnHP1GqhRN-K1qCNkczSe4GwQ0Z5dTSrr_Tukw05GFSc1jwbkOWayoDE7BIK4OUTZ257q5v8ghzfzjG7iFtjWLbqcNYXPLCCOcOtvhSsVIEnLGn8Vr4T8YPr0Y02cbiou8HWwgNspifRefeQScm5ejHkUWam7RyV/w640-h260/1965%20%2006%2006%20Great_Falls_Tribune%20MT%20Jun_6_1965_b.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Caption for 1965 article:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“21-Footer – This 21-foot model Grace-N-Air was built by Grayson in a garage at his home in Cascade. He began building the machine in March, 1959, and had it ready to get off the ground by July, 1960. Here the vehicle is shown as it was beginning to rise off the ground in a test. The outside duet, or framework is made of aluminum. Grayson was operating this machine which was powered by a 165-horsepower airplane engine. This picture was taken in Cascade [probably Shelton, WA] in the summer of 1960. This model since has been dismantled and is stored in a Seattle garage.” </span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">(That caption was off, as we know the location was actually a heavily wooded field, where it was discovered as the Thing.)</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Around 1963, the Graysons moved back to Montana and set up house in Bozeman. By 1965, Grayson was satisfied with the performance of his smaller models and began aggressively campaigning for his invention to be noticed by private industry and the US military. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The Billings Gazette</b>, May 24, 1965, ran a story on the first Montana Inventors Congress. The second-most popular invention:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“…was a flying saucer built by Leonard Grayson of Dillon. Grayson said his Grace-N-Air Flying Saucer could be built with a 500-foot diameter and could carry 500 passengers. The one Grayson had on display is three feet in diameter and is powered by a five-horsepower electric motor… He said it will travel 60 miles per hour and that a larger model could go at least 300 mph.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">More publicity followed. <b>The Great Fall Tribune</b> Sunday magazine, <b>Montana Parade</b>, June 5, 1965, cover story was “Dillon Inventor’s Disc-Type Aircraft New Flying Concept,” story and photos by Clyde Reichelt.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBZ06J0cgwEge6y77WeFp7gwQ42wwa7lStFM11kxgb8vdQBAqlRH0sVGj8yJSatQQYpTZLpH0Tkj18BJlbKh_LZthx2fluGTRZRpzgb748-WaoY2OR0-DQf5YU69N7T7RwxhYib_EnorphIg4X8v3PPdFx1Dg2f2H_EoX0XqlO2kOISt4kV5zwmnlk/s1735/1965%2006%2006%20Great_Falls_Tribune%20MT%20Jun_6_1965_d.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBZ06J0cgwEge6y77WeFp7gwQ42wwa7lStFM11kxgb8vdQBAqlRH0sVGj8yJSatQQYpTZLpH0Tkj18BJlbKh_LZthx2fluGTRZRpzgb748-WaoY2OR0-DQf5YU69N7T7RwxhYib_EnorphIg4X8v3PPdFx1Dg2f2H_EoX0XqlO2kOISt4kV5zwmnlk/s1735/1965%2006%2006%20Great_Falls_Tribune%20MT%20Jun_6_1965_d.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKZjVvO3IdOiEhDQdmxUP60qzf0Jm8gSdZm4K2Iff1IE5eVKSZLkfMmF5xNZzIxBzlupsEv2DgsP1vV4FgdCChEWOaAMaTgi-zEcQWI8NCEEAdmvQT8n9mUJzI7bU5e_FD5Wmj_mesFzmDh0DrUwhJvVZ3ZFsosaKWD4DO_pCboekHkArHvRzXYs3s/s1770/1965%20%2006%2006%20Great_Falls_Tribune%20MT_Jun_6_1965_a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1770" data-original-width="1158" height="925" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKZjVvO3IdOiEhDQdmxUP60qzf0Jm8gSdZm4K2Iff1IE5eVKSZLkfMmF5xNZzIxBzlupsEv2DgsP1vV4FgdCChEWOaAMaTgi-zEcQWI8NCEEAdmvQT8n9mUJzI7bU5e_FD5Wmj_mesFzmDh0DrUwhJvVZ3ZFsosaKWD4DO_pCboekHkArHvRzXYs3s/w604-h925/1965%20%2006%2006%20Great_Falls_Tribune%20MT_Jun_6_1965_a.jpg" width="604" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1735" data-original-width="1156" height="928" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBZ06J0cgwEge6y77WeFp7gwQ42wwa7lStFM11kxgb8vdQBAqlRH0sVGj8yJSatQQYpTZLpH0Tkj18BJlbKh_LZthx2fluGTRZRpzgb748-WaoY2OR0-DQf5YU69N7T7RwxhYib_EnorphIg4X8v3PPdFx1Dg2f2H_EoX0XqlO2kOISt4kV5zwmnlk/w617-h928/1965%2006%2006%20Great_Falls_Tribune%20MT%20Jun_6_1965_d.jpg" width="617" /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Grayson’s invention was not built for space travel, and he didn’t bill it as a flying saucer. In March 1966, press about the UFO sightings in Dexter, Michigan, got the flying saucer fever going again. If the press was short on UFOs stories, they could run pictures and stories of Grayson’s discs. Apparently, he didn’t discourage them. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0GlLR92yeVZAlr1xJzQZAmrjBLIBeyCXMFvXdNGHEShLeSr5TB4hHBsfsZed-GVgvtrYSpjXGe3GyvEZ1YwQPraGouqXVEa7buqFHhlu_Dr_Ja_wm1hbfffETZWbXbev-sJWuK9fLvE5w6h_W_c0ZA42zoUC8pm6t44o516RIBIzqZ0Xkgwx9EnJg/s650/1966%2005%2013%20The%20Exponent,%20May%2013,%201966.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="650" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0GlLR92yeVZAlr1xJzQZAmrjBLIBeyCXMFvXdNGHEShLeSr5TB4hHBsfsZed-GVgvtrYSpjXGe3GyvEZ1YwQPraGouqXVEa7buqFHhlu_Dr_Ja_wm1hbfffETZWbXbev-sJWuK9fLvE5w6h_W_c0ZA42zoUC8pm6t44o516RIBIzqZ0Xkgwx9EnJg/w640-h512/1966%2005%2013%20The%20Exponent,%20May%2013,%201966.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://arc.lib.montana.edu/msu-exponent/objects/exp-057-25-001-012.pdf" target="_blank">The Exponent, May 13, 1966</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In June 1966, Montana State University film students, Tom Gordon and Don Tone made a short 16 mm color movie documenting Grayson’s aerodynamic concepts and inventions. The film included an animated sequence to illustrate the potential of the invention at a larger scale for applications such as those of conventional aircraft, including commercial transportation. The movie was granted a copyright in 1967, and Grayson exhibited the film at his public appearances and in meetings with prospective customers.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9IKUpl5GAni0_heyA43QStRaI8DzxuwXnPeOxofYdjm9HEX5Np6_9gx--4viY2gPnoduKLGqOyvqGyuVFJMOBElXOHvxLdeuZCW7yDPYElZT-fZ8x22EET5hQ0sEJ0CeJaRP-cmTtavmdOHO4sGU5PjY5TEMcCZiMqjpQuUuMCLjKn3fJs25-FdD0/s501/1967%20Copyright%20catalog%201967.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="501" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9IKUpl5GAni0_heyA43QStRaI8DzxuwXnPeOxofYdjm9HEX5Np6_9gx--4viY2gPnoduKLGqOyvqGyuVFJMOBElXOHvxLdeuZCW7yDPYElZT-fZ8x22EET5hQ0sEJ0CeJaRP-cmTtavmdOHO4sGU5PjY5TEMcCZiMqjpQuUuMCLjKn3fJs25-FdD0/w439-h217/1967%20Copyright%20catalog%201967.jpg" width="439" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">GRACE-N-AIR. Leonard W. Grayson;. 22 min., color, 16 mm. <br />© Leonard W. Grayson;; 8Jun67; MU7837. </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Grayson was seeking a contract with the U.S. government, but figuratively speaking, when the phone rang, it was the flying saucer people.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Saucer Clubs and Conventions</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We don’t know exactly when Leonard Grayson had his first contact with UFO buffs, but he was approached by Wayne. S. Aho, director of the New Age Foundation of Seattle, Washington. Aho had been lecturing on UFOs for years and claimed to have had contact with aliens. He had become a perennial guest at Contactee conventions, first an advocate for UFO “Disclosure,” then transitioning to a more spiritual and religious figure, promoting peace and harmony through alien teachings or whatnot. Aho had been involved with some shady characters, and narrowly avoided prosecution for the sale of bogus stock in the <a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-life-and-legend-of-otis-t-carr-part_5.html " target="_blank">Otis T. Carr spaceship business</a>. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR1jtDYs6F1kgE3bq0byo-5BH-4ombgn1K-DJhI_uREJFtoA7sWTk1ALROPlw7z0b4FViO6xvdIkN8ujRvOxqcaNTp4gmeQJez3MxzQDDeZWVjgOH1jiWLiCcyDIXFctTeJwYQxur6M5U/s825/Wayne+Aho+OTC+Ceremony.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="825" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR1jtDYs6F1kgE3bq0byo-5BH-4ombgn1K-DJhI_uREJFtoA7sWTk1ALROPlw7z0b4FViO6xvdIkN8ujRvOxqcaNTp4gmeQJez3MxzQDDeZWVjgOH1jiWLiCcyDIXFctTeJwYQxur6M5U/w508-h239/Wayne+Aho+OTC+Ceremony.png" width="508" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The New Age Foundation held a UFO convention near Mt Rainier each year. Aho must have seen the February news about the “Thing” in the woods, and obtained permission from Grayson to have the prototype moved to Eatonville and the Flying M Ranch, the site of the convention. It was held July 15-17, 1966. The Associated Press published with some inaccurate details about Grayson and his work:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Flying saucer fans gathered here for the fifth annual Interplanetary Age Convention... The fans also peered at a machine that once rose 15 feet… The machine, now a jumble of twisted metal and pipes was built by a Montana State University professor. Its counterrotating blades provided the lift. Wayne Aho, a retired major, believes the object will someday be enshrined in a museum.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Instead, after the convention, thieves stole the Grayson saucer’s 165-horsepower engine. What happened to the Thing after that is lost to history.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD7lu2U4G52BMaOAYSxb9HwhBGjq9PM1c5ezy1Dy65zSvVnJ_by6-78GrTOuWtDCMznm-pZ_e0kIhAbVaHGFxwJxrn3MXXOr1Idft4hmwMz0Dp_UxZtEKfUMhoLObahpv27MDffqyhb0W8EOvhcLWUH0CHm_BZCECa9uZikhDktqwsi6VKyNr27lM9/s484/1966%2008%2020%20The_Billings_Gazette_Aug_20_1966.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="277" height="451" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD7lu2U4G52BMaOAYSxb9HwhBGjq9PM1c5ezy1Dy65zSvVnJ_by6-78GrTOuWtDCMznm-pZ_e0kIhAbVaHGFxwJxrn3MXXOr1Idft4hmwMz0Dp_UxZtEKfUMhoLObahpv27MDffqyhb0W8EOvhcLWUH0CHm_BZCECa9uZikhDktqwsi6VKyNr27lM9/w258-h451/1966%2008%2020%20The_Billings_Gazette_Aug_20_1966.jpg" width="258" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Billings Gazette, Aug. 20,1966</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Space Research Inc. hosted a “Space Age conclave” on UFOs on Aug. 20-21, 1966, in Spokane, Washington. About 15 speakers were presented, Wayne. S. Aho, Lenora Croft, and Leonard Grayson gave a “demonstration of an earth-type flying saucer principle.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The “Big Sky Research Group” club led by Mrs. Dorothy Hankins in Billings, Montana, invited Grayson to lecture for them and present his film as soon as it was completed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrL_GlAqG_FWsGFnXai2DpSykB3d7ZRzLZrENqOg9w80BTBUmMI2DVIX2IJDNRLfzMnBxxsJ8LkxuD2oYOvlI-ocwrKLRLmPPHsE8vTN2Bn8qsKMjkGX_etXmStXTTvDc_2n56XU22gY4r8DOY0Cjz_n2zjdnIPGURFMqYriAq6tgqE30eS4TIYimy/s765/1967%2005%2006%20Colorado%20Springs%20Gazette-Telegraph%20Colorado%20Springs,%20May%206,%201967.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="481" height="740" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrL_GlAqG_FWsGFnXai2DpSykB3d7ZRzLZrENqOg9w80BTBUmMI2DVIX2IJDNRLfzMnBxxsJ8LkxuD2oYOvlI-ocwrKLRLmPPHsE8vTN2Bn8qsKMjkGX_etXmStXTTvDc_2n56XU22gY4r8DOY0Cjz_n2zjdnIPGURFMqYriAq6tgqE30eS4TIYimy/w465-h740/1967%2005%2006%20Colorado%20Springs%20Gazette-Telegraph%20Colorado%20Springs,%20May%206,%201967.JPG" width="465" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph Colorado Springs, May 6, 1967</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Grayson demonstrated his invention and won a 1967 inventor's prize.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">"Leonard W. Grayson, Bozeman inventor of the ‘flying saucer’ which won him the sweepstakes award of the Inventors’ and Manufacturers’ exposition at Missoula Saturday. The affair opened Friday. Grayson, formerly of Antelope, now working for the railroad at Cascade."</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Saucer%20Scoop/Saucer%20Scoop%20-%20vol%202%20no%2003.pdf#page=8" target="_blank">Saucer Scoop, June 1967</a>, reprinted a news item on Grayson’s entry into the Inventors Congress.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNIa8kjfopLohu1FLcWcTNHnjkLdro6AnTOqvNRIl3k6jjsdy9WPAKyHATSbaUpH0rc2K-BKnsUDrxVK2a1oqTrmk3QOpvq6fud0m8ICDf-IynDG4SSguNAPi1Yn2Y2zTdSbXHliJWEqmszvcmB57K_8kGDp9hmv1-tb0AXr-rKojGHxEylv1V8OxB/s689/1968%2007%2017%20The_Missoulian_Jul_17_1968.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="689" height="562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNIa8kjfopLohu1FLcWcTNHnjkLdro6AnTOqvNRIl3k6jjsdy9WPAKyHATSbaUpH0rc2K-BKnsUDrxVK2a1oqTrmk3QOpvq6fud0m8ICDf-IynDG4SSguNAPi1Yn2Y2zTdSbXHliJWEqmszvcmB57K_8kGDp9hmv1-tb0AXr-rKojGHxEylv1V8OxB/w640-h562/1968%2007%2017%20The_Missoulian_Jul_17_1968.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Missoulian, July 17, 1968</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In 1968, Leonard Grayson was billed as the main speaker for the seventh annual Northwest UFO-Space Convention held in Eatonville, WA, by Wayne Aho’s New Age Foundation. He demonstrated his saucer model and flight and showed the movie, “Grace-N-Air.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">As far as we can tell, that was Grayson's final UFO conference. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Growing Pains</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">At some point, Grayson stopped using his electric motor-powered saucer and began exhibiting a 34-inch model, its blades powered by air piped in from an external air compressor. The photo below is from a demonstration on Aug. 23, 1969 in Denver, Colorado.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpkt_UDKr7fU4avVVK-QORKDPU5ghXh0JM1O9t4hJoXvuAh9BKet-J9KQoqNj-wjoG1j6bw1pxBPOOYCC2_FezKjnHihk9FWtrRsrE5GIZlXWk_I3FWusuTr_UHX4qUPDYMeBbOX9EHFXGiKBbQwulDtQunl5paaxyOvwgOtMwwR5jQ3J1BGaTu5v5/s567/1969%20-%201973.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="567" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpkt_UDKr7fU4avVVK-QORKDPU5ghXh0JM1O9t4hJoXvuAh9BKet-J9KQoqNj-wjoG1j6bw1pxBPOOYCC2_FezKjnHihk9FWtrRsrE5GIZlXWk_I3FWusuTr_UHX4qUPDYMeBbOX9EHFXGiKBbQwulDtQunl5paaxyOvwgOtMwwR5jQ3J1BGaTu5v5/w640-h454/1969%20-%201973.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Where the press is concerned, 1969 to 1973 were fairly quiet years for Grayson. Perhaps coincidentally, those were bad years for the UFO business in general.) In 1970, the Graysons moved to Hamilton MT, where they ran the Town Pump service station. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">While developing a commercial model airplane version of the saucer to promote the project and raise funds, “… he sold stock to friends and formed a closed corporation. According to Grayson, when the friends became directors, they decided the idea was too big for one man and tried to wrest his patents away from him. The directors complained to the Security Exchange Commission (SEC) and an injunction was placed against further work on the Grace-N-Air. Grayson was cleared of charges by the SEC in 1975 but his work was held up for five years.”</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0uCHBPDryEX9kSWhnMHXn77y48j34i8T9Y2y3WalzoAh5PbeEMbAriR4C-HGbi15s9vE_LDtY6U7l1tMOXybBa_YcQZ5H8J55PLYV67TkvSHvVJsRbITmNjHbFaQnGzgG8RJ1xGK1n4B8zE4LLjMe9GHXdcvXwSY9p0p0en9g6QDZW6SWCYyuFHWk/s551/1974%20Patent.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="472" height="441" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0uCHBPDryEX9kSWhnMHXn77y48j34i8T9Y2y3WalzoAh5PbeEMbAriR4C-HGbi15s9vE_LDtY6U7l1tMOXybBa_YcQZ5H8J55PLYV67TkvSHvVJsRbITmNjHbFaQnGzgG8RJ1xGK1n4B8zE4LLjMe9GHXdcvXwSY9p0p0en9g6QDZW6SWCYyuFHWk/w378-h441/1974%20Patent.JPG" width="378" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">U.S. Pat. No. 3,845,670; Issued Nov. 5, 1974</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Grayson continued to promote the Grace-N-Air concept and film in public, for local officials, the Ravalli County Fair in Montana, wherever he could. </span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitZITDM_9z20tn24jZXEEVSStJCxXzT_xgLWmktIX4tQa_KHYUZf_ueYy0loxEUmauN_TPSfnpZCnru4y8ElUV2tiXnLmCi6f5Y8at7tXRRpOWcfTfc7qk_gLCPk7OmadmpJ3eulY01qxk5CtFinNIcVWVojWobNLR36CR_-06Zg23P4CDuXPGHBDf/s1100/1974%2002%2024%20The_Missoulian%20MT_Feb_24_1974.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1100" data-original-width="555" height="815" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitZITDM_9z20tn24jZXEEVSStJCxXzT_xgLWmktIX4tQa_KHYUZf_ueYy0loxEUmauN_TPSfnpZCnru4y8ElUV2tiXnLmCi6f5Y8at7tXRRpOWcfTfc7qk_gLCPk7OmadmpJ3eulY01qxk5CtFinNIcVWVojWobNLR36CR_-06Zg23P4CDuXPGHBDf/w410-h815/1974%2002%2024%20The_Missoulian%20MT_Feb_24_1974.jpg" width="410" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The_Missoulian, Feb. 24, 1974</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHsuUhOhoBIWMrV5Hl0TYJK5COvGXM9YWQ0pkfBwwQdoNSE84c8YMhVfh6vJiviBmTYEU_I3w18b9SEgP3_rMeIJYnRysTgKeTxMw9g8HZCAd-tNHrTYquajKFu_6cOSfC9ov8ING5c45Tb0WQDR3yWlEkZ1U4qufmwCidf4dOayjgXLqoODgBA1x-/s480/1974%2008%2027%20Ravalli_Republic%20MT%20Aug_27_1974.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="376" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHsuUhOhoBIWMrV5Hl0TYJK5COvGXM9YWQ0pkfBwwQdoNSE84c8YMhVfh6vJiviBmTYEU_I3w18b9SEgP3_rMeIJYnRysTgKeTxMw9g8HZCAd-tNHrTYquajKFu_6cOSfC9ov8ING5c45Tb0WQDR3yWlEkZ1U4qufmwCidf4dOayjgXLqoODgBA1x-/w314-h400/1974%2008%2027%20Ravalli_Republic%20MT%20Aug_27_1974.jpg" width="314" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Ravalli Republic, Aug. 27, 1974</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXJQO22Fy37Ztugm0-ak9YBuIhJsh0RMFj1tfKoPPJ_iCwoA_5iibJZoFct-jtR5S-T_r0JqRMOTlun5kX3ChPpWRDahcBtumjTUr58INKKyv2tZBgxNMbA8_N8jWczNpJA0tN_2xmMqBom7oTWf1LHltn9E7oCuC1OBVsdm2iwbg5QkaEeaSatb71/s759/1976%2007%2030%20Ravalli%20Republic%20July%2030,%201976%20A%20photo.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="759" height="596" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXJQO22Fy37Ztugm0-ak9YBuIhJsh0RMFj1tfKoPPJ_iCwoA_5iibJZoFct-jtR5S-T_r0JqRMOTlun5kX3ChPpWRDahcBtumjTUr58INKKyv2tZBgxNMbA8_N8jWczNpJA0tN_2xmMqBom7oTWf1LHltn9E7oCuC1OBVsdm2iwbg5QkaEeaSatb71/w640-h596/1976%2007%2030%20Ravalli%20Republic%20July%2030,%201976%20A%20photo.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116987230/hamilton-inventor-to-demonstrate-his/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Ravalli Republic, July 30, 1976</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 1975 he began working on a 20-foot manned fiberglass model that he hoped would eventually be mass-produced for commercial vehicle sale. The Grayson Research Institute, incorporated March 1, 1976</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Things picked up for the UFO biz in late 1973 with the Pascagoula abduction story, and newspapers needed saucer stories again. Grayson was featured in <b>The Missoulian</b>, Oct. 16, 1977, updating his business efforts, and he received some prime time television exposure.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJi0YILqCILpZBoRQ2namO0SuzGdltDoCybNfxNTPsUa9_7D58szIPR-7PEinhTDVNc8sWkYyo8raXRFhywjAW0QtBllWtr2f_1rVG-YJUUYenboUypboUhqr3lPyi7J5b4zS6jYKhxESGWzohiZDyHUD8F_Y5X25BfXX39tuy_BPFB0shPNGcibuo/s2852/1977%2010%2016%20The_Missoulian%20MT_Oct_16_1977.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2852" data-original-width="1720" height="947" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJi0YILqCILpZBoRQ2namO0SuzGdltDoCybNfxNTPsUa9_7D58szIPR-7PEinhTDVNc8sWkYyo8raXRFhywjAW0QtBllWtr2f_1rVG-YJUUYenboUypboUhqr3lPyi7J5b4zS6jYKhxESGWzohiZDyHUD8F_Y5X25BfXX39tuy_BPFB0shPNGcibuo/w571-h947/1977%2010%2016%20The_Missoulian%20MT_Oct_16_1977.jpg" width="571" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The <b><a href="https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7790&context=studentnewspaper" target="_blank">Montana Kaimin</a></b>, May 24, 1978 (University of Montana student newspaper) reported in “Leonard Grayson’s inventions are getting off the ground” by Judy Casanova:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Grayson is an independent inventor and he and his wife have made four trips to Washington, D.C., at their own expense, to get the military interested in the concept of the Grace-N-Air. In February, Grayson was invited to the Defense Department in Washington, D.C. to make a presentation of the Grace-N-Air. … the Grace-N-Air has received national news coverage by NBC. Grayson said, "This may open some more doors to us."</span></blockquote><p></p><p><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></b></p><p><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Final Flight</b></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Richard L. Weir also lived in Montana and was friends with Grayson. They shared similar backgrounds and interests, and Weir devised a “Rotary Foil Type Aircraft” and applied for a <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US3122342 " target="_blank">patent in 1957</a>, granted in 1964. Weir owned a Cessna 182 plane and was an experienced pilot, often accompanied on flights by his wife Mary. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On Feb. 19, 1980, Mr. and Mrs. Weir were joined by Leonard and Lucy Grayson on a fight to Mesa, Arizona to visit relatives. When they failed to arrive, their plane was reported missing. Severe winter weather delayed the search, but on Feb. 27, Civil Air Patrol and National Park Service searchers found the Cessna below the north rim of the Grand Canyon. The plane had crashed after hitting a tree, and all four aboard were killed.<br /><br />Here's a link to the </span><a href="https://ravallirepublic.newspapers.com/clip/55038949/ravalli-republic " style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Richard and Mary Weir Memorial</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> article. Below are the obituaries for </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Leonard and Lucy Grayson.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPGOl3xbYN-7RK-VodKqQ9X2qcaoYpr1Z7LV8bSLYYXPNYZ9k2D7OuZeCN9XXfJ9hpCRrcuYJof0-AdcoMaXrXupWUSEeoEbj_9wC41RcM8wmRiLRivCjj1DG0O7mN4AdD21CfD4o2b3bw6RQuDAud5Z7XnW1YIfCaJPuoujKbYD5RlCZOJ54dQckB/s761/1980%2003%2005%20The%20Missoulian%20March%205,1980.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="761" data-original-width="438" height="829" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPGOl3xbYN-7RK-VodKqQ9X2qcaoYpr1Z7LV8bSLYYXPNYZ9k2D7OuZeCN9XXfJ9hpCRrcuYJof0-AdcoMaXrXupWUSEeoEbj_9wC41RcM8wmRiLRivCjj1DG0O7mN4AdD21CfD4o2b3bw6RQuDAud5Z7XnW1YIfCaJPuoujKbYD5RlCZOJ54dQckB/w477-h829/1980%2003%2005%20The%20Missoulian%20March%205,1980.JPG" width="477" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">The Missoulian, March 5, 1980</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">We were unable to locate any information on what became of Grayson's film, "Grace-N-Air" or if copies still exist. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Leonard Grayson is seldom mentioned in UFO literature and history. A rare exception was in the </span><a href="http://www.nicap.org/jufoh/JournalUFOHistoryVol2No1.pdf" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;" target="_blank">Journal of UFO History</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">, Vol. 2 No. 1, March-April 2005, “US Patents for Disc Aircraft.”</span><div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQiUD8olOva0im09a6YFU31G_A1LPrM9fo5WMOPnZutsucEzMDRhjxoIhOllQTWwPk0Px7EjWuPP-CNesxfyR1H1OgRO9YHcLR-W1Hup0befQL7OCTkoUBJ91Mq5bsFILCFTG_7-VyN3Nj-Nu6wvVDny0YDZdODKmzNFS_Mb-5INMWLUTdopzFHfk4/s618/Journal%20of%20UFO%20History,%20March-April%202005.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQiUD8olOva0im09a6YFU31G_A1LPrM9fo5WMOPnZutsucEzMDRhjxoIhOllQTWwPk0Px7EjWuPP-CNesxfyR1H1OgRO9YHcLR-W1Hup0befQL7OCTkoUBJ91Mq5bsFILCFTG_7-VyN3Nj-Nu6wvVDny0YDZdODKmzNFS_Mb-5INMWLUTdopzFHfk4/w389-h400/Journal%20of%20UFO%20History,%20March-April%202005.jpg" width="389" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">We have to wonder, what might have happened if the U.S. government or industry had ever made an attempt to produce a fully realized Grayson aircraft. With the advances in material construction and aviation technology in the decades since </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Leonard</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> Grayson’s passing, how high might the Grace-N-Air fly today?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>. . .</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Thanks to <b>STTF</b> co-founder Claude Falkstrom for the primary research on this report. Also, thanks to researchers Roger Glassel and Jeff Knox for providing supplementary material.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>P.S. </b></span><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Other Flying Saucer Discoveries</b></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Most discoveries purported flying saucers turn out to be phonies or junk that never flew. Some of them have been from balloon-borne packages, intended for anything from weather study to espionage platforms. Besides Grayson’s Thing, there was one other discovery of a real disc-shaped aircraft. It was found in an old tobacco barn near <a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-other-air-force-captured-flying.html" target="_blank">Baltimore, Maryland in 1949</a>.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-other-air-force-captured-flying.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwOXYW3FlddZxFKZYazNPx4rTFWsjZ-YRhG0v8MSARctQFRuodq-VhO_VBvZfSLPuyZy6dIbWXB-dj-q_EB46Tf4S-RfiCpqC90EJbGr1CQVA4MRn1kHHho5My_WiyNKS5h-sUsXvj1Y0/w472-h247/Saucers+of+Glen+Burnie.jpg" width="472" /></span></a></div></div>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-59209389655938849982023-02-02T08:01:00.001-06:002023-02-13T07:17:09.140-06:00Noah Clubb and the UFO Crash Retrieval Case<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHgCKbQMZ9yp4djQX7rnHiADxoUAef6h9G1IqwoD5QPX_KcYdU7pMddZHJnSa_TxOMssqdWWhohHZOKhh3zVmNdyctxsuMAdCOcVFfCHV6inKLIhM1YyqU8v-pQaf7RRrzEmtd2jQ5bvSmlwu94XGncHy5D3sckx1E_v-rvkNHimo0lbsiutX_grOF/s825/Noah%20Clubb%20-%20Crashed%20Saucer%201949.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHgCKbQMZ9yp4djQX7rnHiADxoUAef6h9G1IqwoD5QPX_KcYdU7pMddZHJnSa_TxOMssqdWWhohHZOKhh3zVmNdyctxsuMAdCOcVFfCHV6inKLIhM1YyqU8v-pQaf7RRrzEmtd2jQ5bvSmlwu94XGncHy5D3sckx1E_v-rvkNHimo0lbsiutX_grOF/w640-h334/Noah%20Clubb%20-%20Crashed%20Saucer%201949.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><p>There’s a UFO crash retrieval case that’s been forgotten. In April 1949, newspapers reported that fragments from a flying saucer had been recovered, and were being examined by the Air Force. </p></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrsILBk5_3QH4xxNXN75v2vPr0C1vigHDDJyjCGKVfvJlvX-kHelmmyyLhmg_uO3HsiaM_BjhhZu9URlGdAy_6SbLwlCvjDQYSkZN5DEpq4riwKDV85zWSWUTPiy0J31BLcv_XHideTjhA9wXOmxicfPutfpZ9JiRuA2XO2k4E3fzkUd8cFQ-4opDY/s697/Colorado.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="697" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrsILBk5_3QH4xxNXN75v2vPr0C1vigHDDJyjCGKVfvJlvX-kHelmmyyLhmg_uO3HsiaM_BjhhZu9URlGdAy_6SbLwlCvjDQYSkZN5DEpq4riwKDV85zWSWUTPiy0J31BLcv_XHideTjhA9wXOmxicfPutfpZ9JiRuA2XO2k4E3fzkUd8cFQ-4opDY/w400-h203/Colorado.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><p>The story begins like another you may have heard, with a rancher finding some strange metal debris from the crash of an unidentified flying object. While riding on horseback in late April 1946, rancher Noah L. Clubb was in an open, rocky treeless terrain 6 miles south-southwest of Delta Colorado when he made a discovery, but it wasn’t made public until three years later. Clubb was 55 years old at the time, a respected citizen and family man, not prone to foolishness. After seeing the constant news coverage about flying saucers, he came forward with what he’d found, and dutifully reported it to the authorities. The story as disclosed in the United Press article from April 7, 1949: </p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Flying Disc Segments Recovered in Colorado</b> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">MONTROSE, Colo. (UP) Air force intelligence men have recovered two segments of what may have been one of the flying discs that caused widespread speculation during the summer of 1947, and have supposedly been seen during the last few days. One of the segments was in the possession of Noah L. Clubb of Montrose, until he was requested Tuesday to turn it over to the intelligence men. The intelligence men were reported to have spent two days scouring a mile square section of rugged country about 15 miles west of Delta, where a second and longer segment was reported found. Pieced together the segments evidently were part of a wheel-shaped instrument about four feet in diameter, the rim being of aluminum construction. It was slightly less than two inches across and one inch thick. On the inner edge of the wheel, at intervals of about three inches, were tube-like wicks about two inches long and of brass construction. Each wick, which witnesses said might have been fuel feeders, bore an even number.</span></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD4UiJGZCWt-Z7gYDK6qK1I-M_-hlikYX1Ph56deVacbA_iST6OWRlcb7YTeQ7EYntC69iLt1JIJIOknBs391kLoAJLu155qjtDDvG098eSOQc6rU8qD9cU27IaJAUeqwco-tUKPeUzhnYVx3KvUS5dj3Up-5Q0p12C9BQ-xfXi_crixAJisQv-We4/s1000/Noah%20Clubb%20-%20Flying%20Disc%20%201949.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="536" height="737" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD4UiJGZCWt-Z7gYDK6qK1I-M_-hlikYX1Ph56deVacbA_iST6OWRlcb7YTeQ7EYntC69iLt1JIJIOknBs391kLoAJLu155qjtDDvG098eSOQc6rU8qD9cU27IaJAUeqwco-tUKPeUzhnYVx3KvUS5dj3Up-5Q0p12C9BQ-xfXi_crixAJisQv-We4/w396-h737/Noah%20Clubb%20-%20Flying%20Disc%20%201949.jpg" width="396" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span>Another version from the </span><i>Santa Cruz Sentinel</i><span>, April 7, 1949.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq7k_t8-YnqaS6ROGFMsYZsVvqyIGzcUxmjuI3kvtvYEqveiFttZTzbal71B5lUfUSgD4jBkMXYPfu3hSHb892Hg6vM9ql016Q2E-7PiFO9CH9JiMeQHvDo7_HxG0QyyWE8CG0zeYMDKrI1faF4L90oHWz15U5pjvJu7I77OikgltrAtBOrUVZzD4k/s767/Santa%20Cruz%20Sentinel,%20April%207,%201949.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="767" data-original-width="303" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq7k_t8-YnqaS6ROGFMsYZsVvqyIGzcUxmjuI3kvtvYEqveiFttZTzbal71B5lUfUSgD4jBkMXYPfu3hSHb892Hg6vM9ql016Q2E-7PiFO9CH9JiMeQHvDo7_HxG0QyyWE8CG0zeYMDKrI1faF4L90oHWz15U5pjvJu7I77OikgltrAtBOrUVZzD4k/w253-h640/Santa%20Cruz%20Sentinel,%20April%207,%201949.JPG" width="253" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><p>It seems too close in time for it to be coincidence, but the same month, the FBI was also being questioned about the recovery of a flying saucer, one said to be made in Japan.</p><p><br /></p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Believe It or Not!</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://www.jimramsburg.com/believe-it-or-not.html" target="_blank">Robert Ripley</a> was the creator of the famous </span><i>Ripley's Believe It or Not!</i><span> newspaper panel series, then brought the franchise to radio, then as an NBC television show in March 1949. </span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilmZNue1XDQa75vsflgbdzisE9qmgMS7iJL1Wg0x-foxfTXMTxSR2fjBShUpP-dQTDaYNpkb8nITarqcjEDc7QfoPki-QdAkwnryaZjL6unP3u4uwzigW5sbKb8hgPA1td7Ot7P_07KrckV89T_dZMAULVURqtaUmrcsqjJo1leUIw7V4ndpNtEJuO/s586/Ripley%20Winchell%20Hoover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="586" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilmZNue1XDQa75vsflgbdzisE9qmgMS7iJL1Wg0x-foxfTXMTxSR2fjBShUpP-dQTDaYNpkb8nITarqcjEDc7QfoPki-QdAkwnryaZjL6unP3u4uwzigW5sbKb8hgPA1td7Ot7P_07KrckV89T_dZMAULVURqtaUmrcsqjJo1leUIw7V4ndpNtEJuO/w475-h353/Ripley%20Winchell%20Hoover.jpg" width="475" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><p>On April 13, 1949, Ripley sent a Western Union telegram to radio commentator Walter Winchell: </p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Have the only authentic Japanese flying saucer ever recovered in this country. … Would like very much to have you join me on the Believe it or Not television show next Tuesday April 19th NBC network 9:30 to 10:00 PM and give your comments on the flying disc and your exclusive knowledge…”</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Winchell forwarded the telegram to the FBI with the handwritten note:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“To J. Edgar Hoover – True?” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">FBI files contain an Office Memorandum. Subject: Flying Discs. To: Mr. [Redacted], From: [Redacted] 26 May 49. An FBI agent consulted Colonel [Redacted] of USAF Office of Special Investigations (OSI) about a recovered saucer. For whatever reason, the results were negative:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“He advised he would check with the authorities at right field to determine if any information is available concerning the recovery of a Japanese flying saucer. Colonel [Redacted] has now advised that there is no information available in any arm of the Air Force to the effect that any flying saucers of any kind have been recovered in the United States.”</span></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1sDcJ-7KEsGehdoUkQvFjrYGVWJLymEdfTQMw48ne-ZsI9gO4oAGYqTt-aLvoIdrya-GD0xsBwwSEkmI_OiiVv5hifcgdU1VWiFVF_kpXIg3YiCwNO4BhPAB-0DVt_TCMd3G7ZY28lxOR07KVvG12tj-mL9RFsl7EiV-loSbLtMwNqfsHUaTPTt4j/s1055/FBI%20Walter%20Winchell%201949.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="1055" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1sDcJ-7KEsGehdoUkQvFjrYGVWJLymEdfTQMw48ne-ZsI9gO4oAGYqTt-aLvoIdrya-GD0xsBwwSEkmI_OiiVv5hifcgdU1VWiFVF_kpXIg3YiCwNO4BhPAB-0DVt_TCMd3G7ZY28lxOR07KVvG12tj-mL9RFsl7EiV-loSbLtMwNqfsHUaTPTt4j/w640-h412/FBI%20Walter%20Winchell%201949.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;">FBI “Unexplained Phenomenon” files pages 26 and 27 of, “UFO Part 6”</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;"><a href="https://vault.fbi.gov/UFO/UFO%20Part%206%20of%2016/view#document/p26" target="_blank">https://vault.fbi.gov/UFO/UFO%20Part%206%20of%2016/view#document/p26</a></span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;"><a href="https://vault.fbi.gov/UFO/UFO%20Part%206%20of%2016/view#document/p27" target="_blank">https://vault.fbi.gov/UFO/UFO%20Part%206%20of%2016/view#document/p27</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Robert Ripley died weeks later of a heart attack at the age of 59, on May 27, 1949. </span><span>We found no mention elsewhere of Ripley presenting a Japanese flying saucer anywhere, so apparently his plans did not come together. </span><span>Read on to see how his claims may have been connected to the UFO parts discovered</span><span> by Noah Clubb.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Back to the Saucer Debris Investigation</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Like with the Roswell flying disc story, the mystery of Clubb’s saucer was solved in one day. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnxd51rqV2yFBFRZ-VSrqh8_2GUZ-QbdWrk-4y7AXXOaaSrLIHAfSrNzZVfOYeOKGzZbG9YDhaAODMELqOsttS1MsWNItNnemE67Nv3_eh0znb_b7qYhdaTlsYFNLONgpE17yJV5ArEpiaYTDH2-GG0n-TPKqH63H3xuR6T7-HtKuWBOysjOY1mMNH/s813/Project%20Grudge%20Photos.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="813" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnxd51rqV2yFBFRZ-VSrqh8_2GUZ-QbdWrk-4y7AXXOaaSrLIHAfSrNzZVfOYeOKGzZbG9YDhaAODMELqOsttS1MsWNItNnemE67Nv3_eh0znb_b7qYhdaTlsYFNLONgpE17yJV5ArEpiaYTDH2-GG0n-TPKqH63H3xuR6T7-HtKuWBOysjOY1mMNH/w640-h366/Project%20Grudge%20Photos.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: start;">Project Blue Book file: </span><a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/6793032" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank">4 April 1949, X Delta, Colorado</a><span style="text-align: start;"> </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">From page 5 of the April 8, 1949, Phoenix, <i>Arizona Republic</i>:</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Relic Is Identified As Jap War Gadget </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">DENVER, Apr. 7 (AP) That "whazzit" found in Southwestern Colorado wasn't a forerunner of a new war. It was a relic of the old one part of a Japanese incendiary balloon. So said Maj. Lester J. Seibert of the Lowry Air Force Base office of special investigation Thursday. Noah Clubb found the curved, hollow piece of metal near Montrose Wednesday. Knobs protruded from the inside of what looked like a small portion of a wagon wheel.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As is often the case, the hype gets the newspaper front page, but the disappointing correction that follows gets lost deep inside. Far more people saw the initial story than the news it was solved.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiNgbhHFnEmoxOwnMEyvp14m0vk7T6fykK49WEnD5JJk3jiUN1jVNysy3HeNkAVkwxB7oGQSgjbTsT9NT8_oDDjyr0TrcNnwkZ9ACzo5HZJSTdk6U2VjXui7IAXu8xUOvEYgzbk1OabNf8in09iPLO-2UzRkRPlPgZnLE_FBtmD79VXkcMsjS0L1Rh/s240/Japanese%20balloon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="75" data-original-width="240" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiNgbhHFnEmoxOwnMEyvp14m0vk7T6fykK49WEnD5JJk3jiUN1jVNysy3HeNkAVkwxB7oGQSgjbTsT9NT8_oDDjyr0TrcNnwkZ9ACzo5HZJSTdk6U2VjXui7IAXu8xUOvEYgzbk1OabNf8in09iPLO-2UzRkRPlPgZnLE_FBtmD79VXkcMsjS0L1Rh/w320-h100/Japanese%20balloon.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Project Blue Book files state that the Air Force investigators recovered about half of the device and shipped them to Wright Field to be photographed and examined. The fragments were determined to be: “Definitely identified as ballast ring from a Japanese incendiary balloon.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Noah Clubb was named, but his discovery was discussed in “Something in the Sky,” for Daniel Lang's “A Reporter at Large” column for the <a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/New%20Yorker/1952%2009%2006_New%20Yorker_Lang.pdf" target="_blank">Sept. 6, 1952, New Yorker Magazine</a>. (Later collected in his 1954 book, <i>The Man in the Thick Lead Suit</i>.)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>For a time in the spring of 1949, it looked as though a Colorado rancher had been harboring a piece of a flying saucer for three years. Back in April, 1946, the rancher, riding his horse on </span><span>a high, rocky mesa, had come across a bit of tattered rigging attached to a steel ring. He took it back to his house, tossed it into a closet, and forgot about it. Then, belatedly reflecting on the wave of saucer sightings, he recalled the contraption in his closet. He showed it to two friends, one of whom, an omniscient type, stated definitely that it was part of a flying saucer. ‘I've seen too many saucers not to know one when I'm holding one in my own hand,'’ he said. The rancher forwarded his find to Wright Field, where it was identified as a remnant of one of the incendiary balloons the hopeful Japanese dispatched across the Pacific during the war in an effort to start forest fires.</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Pre-Saucer US Government Cover-Up</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In 1944-5, over 9,000 incendiary balloons were launched from Japan’s island of Honshu. The balloons travelled at a high-altitude across the over the Pacific Ocean carried by the high-speed currents of the jet stream. <i>Fu-go: The Curious History of Japan's Balloon Bomb Attack on America</i> by Ross Coen provides more information. The balloons were fusen bakudan (balloon bombs), but the Japanese Imperial Army gave them the code name fu-go. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“Measuring over 30 feet in diameter and filled with hydrogen… Each balloon carried four incendiary bombs and one thirty-pound high explosive bomb, all designed to drop in a timed sequence once the vehicle had completed its transoceanic voyage…” </span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH3HioO3QuhwhXz1sXp0ptJimdv7GqkZYtT5YReZbOgJtFrMdSL3_npJrwm6kwdSDdUpj9GX_0yKoXZtQQs8zMGpyqyYRQjIBreZ1Yoiy_6xPr8FKY-O4r3DR8YYi-ggdiVMYdoLP0VkJenf45hmWCbBa8fisYDpn2-oqX5LDIGNXgg53irA94k0c9/s888/Fu-go%20exhibit.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="888" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH3HioO3QuhwhXz1sXp0ptJimdv7GqkZYtT5YReZbOgJtFrMdSL3_npJrwm6kwdSDdUpj9GX_0yKoXZtQQs8zMGpyqyYRQjIBreZ1Yoiy_6xPr8FKY-O4r3DR8YYi-ggdiVMYdoLP0VkJenf45hmWCbBa8fisYDpn2-oqX5LDIGNXgg53irA94k0c9/w640-h392/Fu-go%20exhibit.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">These balloon flights resemble later UFO events in a few ways. There was a government policy of secrecy, and it had two goals, prevent the Japanese military from getting valuable targeting information, and to avoid a public panic. Western Air Command held meetings with civilian pilots who were asked to report sightings to the military while remaining silent to the general public. Many confirmed sightings were reported, but there were also many false ones, the most common cause for which was the planet Venus. One report not made public at the time, was from a credible witness reported a relatively incredible thing. A woman in Selawik, Alaska claimed to have seen a balloon in the middle of the night from which “Little Men came down a ladder to the earth.” The local Alaska Territory Guard searched the area but found nothing.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw1ifVlabVMezNf2a3r6YBoqyP_1GJnbPuqLE4_wizXZKIY5OBzWU3_WvvEJdfToTqFT24Ex1NvAone7p_htOr4wr700DQTwvTIi2uA3U0bOksv9jOvNXg1L_a2K-StIz_y3Np4z-YA877oIOtFBhclxfHl-7fucnyUxrczJYMuQ6FQnPBQ6BI1dR3/s789/Fu-go%20and%20Payload.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="789" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw1ifVlabVMezNf2a3r6YBoqyP_1GJnbPuqLE4_wizXZKIY5OBzWU3_WvvEJdfToTqFT24Ex1NvAone7p_htOr4wr700DQTwvTIi2uA3U0bOksv9jOvNXg1L_a2K-StIz_y3Np4z-YA877oIOtFBhclxfHl-7fucnyUxrczJYMuQ6FQnPBQ6BI1dR3/w640-h386/Fu-go%20and%20Payload.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Of the thousands of fu-gos launched, only about 300 were known to make it to North America, most in the U.S., some seen or discovered in Canada and Mexico. Most of them caused no harm, with one notable exception. On May 5, 1945, Bly, Oregon, minister Archie Mitchell, his pregnant wife Elsie, and five children from their Sunday school class were on a morning picnic. As Mitchell parked the car, the others found a strange balloon on the ground. The bomb it carried exploding and all six people were killed. The site of the tragedy is now marked by the <a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5374039.pdf" target="_blank">Mitchell Monument </a>to honor the only Americans killed by enemy action during World War II in the continental United States. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Noah’s discovery has been forgotten for the most part by ufologists, but Rick Hilberg included a partial account of his story in “Saucer Fragments” in </span><a href="https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Flying%20Saucer%20Digest%20(UAPA,%20Hilberg)/Flying%20Saucer%20Digest%20-%20No%20015%20-%201970.pdf#page=5" target="_blank"><i>Flying Saucer Digest</i>, Fall 1970</a><span>.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHUCoMSdjj5o3ubIoOKMb6TtR8UUKr5JFIUcWsL97ceWNlVl1YQTzakmP0_2KY8i7rOJFWIYrkC8P4dRBIQh39ESGIM9N0hjyZGXCpd747N28vM5JQZKhXgYzl9W9vbkMHHQKmLUZU_NDpHvm4j8364wgrUFBM7fBF_8_epZo_CbRPBJ83lyfXG8su/s753/Flying%20Saucer%20Fall%201970.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="753" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHUCoMSdjj5o3ubIoOKMb6TtR8UUKr5JFIUcWsL97ceWNlVl1YQTzakmP0_2KY8i7rOJFWIYrkC8P4dRBIQh39ESGIM9N0hjyZGXCpd747N28vM5JQZKhXgYzl9W9vbkMHHQKmLUZU_NDpHvm4j8364wgrUFBM7fBF_8_epZo_CbRPBJ83lyfXG8su/w467-h308/Flying%20Saucer%20Fall%201970.jpg" width="467" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As far as we can tell, Noah Clubb lived a full life thereafter away from the flying saucer business. He died on the morning of Nov. 15, 1970, at the age of 76.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEHf5dN2edVuG-D7pQ6w92vwEDCK8bYe4rSMionbLl0eJcxip_BAxJoyTmXdUhIrYIKzh8liORVWHyOiP1ZUU53NkzC2IfHkflNcaCwIQRkEmNNl_POgUNLQ-rflthPxFFWDfJEge4rW_JxgAVbkpJGpTv5jLIGHqpqC_8jIYTm0vsyvePHkyaUchQ/s836/The%20Daily%20Sentinel,%20Nov.%2016,%201970.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="836" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEHf5dN2edVuG-D7pQ6w92vwEDCK8bYe4rSMionbLl0eJcxip_BAxJoyTmXdUhIrYIKzh8liORVWHyOiP1ZUU53NkzC2IfHkflNcaCwIQRkEmNNl_POgUNLQ-rflthPxFFWDfJEge4rW_JxgAVbkpJGpTv5jLIGHqpqC_8jIYTm0vsyvePHkyaUchQ/w570-h492/The%20Daily%20Sentinel,%20Nov.%2016,%201970.jpg" width="570" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>. . .</b></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Months after Noah Clubb's discovery, a few miles south of Baltimore, Maryland, the Air Force was called out to investigate the remains of flying saucer discovered in a barn.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-other-air-force-captured-flying.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2JSHGpckOtWDQB6f4ORzU4hQ0Np8JUbcE8AMDhlTh03ME1-YhozsbUJHYJaIuUZePW87A6D45OIKehbsVW-cvRN7fSPHA6_p7DgDOeU9oHeUaU9kCqoiNO5BNlWhVQtass0t5le3Ppf--FwCipXW6H24Sby5h_T9Df7hSs530u8PfBuhKSpkmuyDs/w486-h254/Saucers%20of%20Glen%20Burnie.jpg" width="486" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-other-air-force-captured-flying.html" style="color: #32ff86; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The OTHER Air Force Captured Flying Saucer Retraction</span></a></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8574854931901227262.post-23342546096305211022023-01-15T11:17:00.005-06:002023-02-13T13:48:30.428-06:00UFO Exploitation: The 1956 Texas Photo Fumble<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Dateline: August 1, 1956, Location: near Amarillo, Texas</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjursIqGtIlnQya1TUWfLqK1k4pjI799hOK8941bFAcqtUJOYoT5ZKPLcxiKDrAQSHefUhBdR64ndYe3cF8Yh2vJVquYlaCvWXNHzwdRCkhL4A2AVH5SxpOEN2PAI0fgoQjJ1H9dwNOQI_TOjG8fHcz3zLbYubGWa3kK1a9Wt48mlTjEZZi7ziVa7xn/s825/J.G.%20Kirby%20UFO%201956.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="825" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjursIqGtIlnQya1TUWfLqK1k4pjI799hOK8941bFAcqtUJOYoT5ZKPLcxiKDrAQSHefUhBdR64ndYe3cF8Yh2vJVquYlaCvWXNHzwdRCkhL4A2AVH5SxpOEN2PAI0fgoQjJ1H9dwNOQI_TOjG8fHcz3zLbYubGWa3kK1a9Wt48mlTjEZZi7ziVa7xn/w640-h334/J.G.%20Kirby%20UFO%201956.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">J. G. Kirby was in his mid-thirties, he'd started a family after his stint as a bomber pilot with the Eight Air Force during World War II. Kirby was considered an expert in rare gems and minerals, writing about one of his rock-hunting discoveries in the article "90 lb. Texas Plume Agate Found,” for The Lapidary Journal. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqvOZO_hq1_qyBOx1qZz5tHIff1SrVnr5pkBA4-zz29kaSVlPFxO-nDNiixz_-shmwBhBuoI1nySSBiumLO9WG2KQsLARdwHwN5fF1p8VVxZinLKYxBxFZ7dY5Lnk1qjfqyPG9CIObJZR-D2F7C3jpQ88j59A3xPhTqjg4bSVuznzqntACtOESCJbR/s443/Kirkpatrick%20Sixth%20Ferrying%20Group%20Yearbook.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="363" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqvOZO_hq1_qyBOx1qZz5tHIff1SrVnr5pkBA4-zz29kaSVlPFxO-nDNiixz_-shmwBhBuoI1nySSBiumLO9WG2KQsLARdwHwN5fF1p8VVxZinLKYxBxFZ7dY5Lnk1qjfqyPG9CIObJZR-D2F7C3jpQ88j59A3xPhTqjg4bSVuznzqntACtOESCJbR/w312-h381/Kirkpatrick%20Sixth%20Ferrying%20Group%20Yearbook.jpg" width="312" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unconfirmed, but likely photo of our J. G. Kirby</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. and Mrs. Kirby and two their two children had been on a rock-hunting expedition in Colorado. During the long overnight drive home, they saw and photographed a UFO in the pre-dawn hours of August 2, 1956. Once home, he developed the film and reported the sighting to the authorities. Excerpts from the Air Force report dated Aug. 23, 1956, Unidentified Flying Object (UFOB):</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Kirby advised that on 1 August 1956 as he was returning to Dallas, Texas from Colorado Springs, Colorado, via Amarillo …he noted a bright green trajectory in the sky… from an object… </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The phenomenon appeared to be the [angular] size of a grapefruit and appeared in brilliance equal to the ignition of phosphorus, giving a brilliant beam of light both above and below the phenomenon itself, but never both beams simultaneously. … The object was observed intermittently by Kirby and his wife between Amarillo and Memphis, Texas. Kirby related that they departed Amarillo at 0400 hours and arrived at Memphis at 0615 hours.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“The object appeared to be extremely navigable, inasmuch as it appeared in various places in the cloud formation… upon his arrival at Memphis, Texas, the formation had begun to disintegrate. As daylight approached, the phenomenon appeared to be ascending into the heavens, where it was the approximate size of a star and no longer visible through the clouds… in his [wartime] experience with aircraft, weather conditions, etc., he had never observed anything comparable with this phenomenon.”</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1GqRZLzNjmWOefkfCpUyuw0OpmhwIjNG7qrml5M5VNa1zFMJCMJihbzQ-dcUZgx2QXDZrO1ETzcXjiIPg6fZZ3yuokmaEtcW2W2yX-UsrIUdVfXiZSWeO9ySm4Qx1IkxRV6vkiB6dU8BRTORMWpMeRRtGm8BoNrQ4mhoHrBhUHlYFSoSUiBj6yvUX/s765/Kodak%20620.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="765" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1GqRZLzNjmWOefkfCpUyuw0OpmhwIjNG7qrml5M5VNa1zFMJCMJihbzQ-dcUZgx2QXDZrO1ETzcXjiIPg6fZZ3yuokmaEtcW2W2yX-UsrIUdVfXiZSWeO9ySm4Qx1IkxRV6vkiB6dU8BRTORMWpMeRRtGm8BoNrQ4mhoHrBhUHlYFSoSUiBj6yvUX/w479-h252/Kodak%20620.jpg" width="479" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Kirby photographed the object with a Kodak 620 camera, according to the later Associated Press story, "</span><span>shot a </span><span>whole roll of film</span><span>." He turned over two photos for analysis, but retained the negatives, so they were not examined.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For some reason this the report was “pigeonholed” in Fort Worth, Texas at the Office of Special Investigations at Carswell Air Force Base until the end of the year. It was the newest of six “OSI UFOB Reports” ranging from Feb. 1954 to Aug. 1956, finally forwarded to Project Blue Book on Dec. 26, 1956. Capt. George T Gregory noted in a memorandum, “the very late date of receipt makes investigations or conclusive analysis difficult, if not impossible.” Still, they gave it a shot, and their analysis determined: </span></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">“A microscopic examination discloses that the photo is not ‘doctored’ and apparently not an emulsion flaw. The absence of any horizon, objects or perspective for contrast or comparison purposes makes analysis somewhat difficult. In the opinion of this office… the trail shown here appeared to be similar to those left and the wake of missiles.” However, the analysis noted, “the closest missile launching site to the observer’s location is white sands, New Mexico, a distance of approximately 300 miles from Amarillo."</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">No conclusion was reached beyond the suggestion the photo was either of a missile trail or a hoax. Independently, Joseph J. Keeley, Security Officer for the University of Michigan Engineering Research Institute, volunteered analysis from a faculty member, who noted that Kirby was a lapidarist, and he was, “of the opinion that it is a trick photograph made with stones.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Disclosure to the Public</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Once the Project Blue Book investigation was done, Kirby released the photo to the press, who reported, “he said authorities told him only recently he no longer had to keep the photo and story quiet.”</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6W3Lh8AkjV4oFFSM91Txik9UQ52Hxd5spVg2PKroMiGL5z36qpF5qvez72oXwViTdjy0A_YsQNLkuKkGv1MEmsdruKL8SiefahfdBnrqP8s_2dcAjRnPRbUB7PyryH0lvyAyVrnEpDEA6Toicb7GfFWe7fDxtuFsO9XfP6CV1BBBJWxchKl7P4spU/s788/AP-%20Worchester%20Gazette,%20Nov.%205,%201957%20(2022_07_19%2020_55_26%20UTC).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="680" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6W3Lh8AkjV4oFFSM91Txik9UQ52Hxd5spVg2PKroMiGL5z36qpF5qvez72oXwViTdjy0A_YsQNLkuKkGv1MEmsdruKL8SiefahfdBnrqP8s_2dcAjRnPRbUB7PyryH0lvyAyVrnEpDEA6Toicb7GfFWe7fDxtuFsO9XfP6CV1BBBJWxchKl7P4spU/w552-h640/AP-%20Worchester%20Gazette,%20Nov.%205,%201957%20(2022_07_19%2020_55_26%20UTC).jpg" width="552" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX_A5TvtCbMET2x0nCyUpZDL_HuRDaqX1XY6xuRAZag7aAGclwjYLzwjDl_12FdnoLX_0O2s-vTVDXxMuxHPxbad7brPwBcx8J_iYIRtcEr1FivczgKe2GLLoxKvWs137p-9IbsxZsC67oZWQwXs-L4Jofn4If4uS_qpQtFUpnyz8QN0cr569TloLt/s893/The_Eagle%20Nov_11_1957.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="893" data-original-width="220" height="851" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX_A5TvtCbMET2x0nCyUpZDL_HuRDaqX1XY6xuRAZag7aAGclwjYLzwjDl_12FdnoLX_0O2s-vTVDXxMuxHPxbad7brPwBcx8J_iYIRtcEr1FivczgKe2GLLoxKvWs137p-9IbsxZsC67oZWQwXs-L4Jofn4If4uS_qpQtFUpnyz8QN0cr569TloLt/w210-h851/The_Eagle%20Nov_11_1957.jpg" width="210" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Eagle</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, Nov. 11, 1957<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Texas Bank and Trust in Dallas seized on the opportunity to exploit the publicity. They created an exhibit in their drive-in lobby and advertised in the <i>Dallas Morning News</i>, Nov. 4, 1957. Air Force files mentioned only 2 photos, but the bank claimed to have 6:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>See First Actual Pictures of Unidentified Flying Object</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">Sighted near Amarillo August 2, 1956, and held secret until now. Actual photographs by a Dallas resident as seen in yesterday's front page. Described by the U.S. Air Force as a “navigable object,” these 6 pictures which have been closely guarded for the last year will be on display beginning this morning in Texas Bank’s Drive-Through Auto-ramic lobby.</span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglqp1TdlI4iYdHeyMt56O8X4XtlEowmCNrbCdIIw7mjtgT7wL6Xyk2VEB6d2qeTj58jCerDfHsEB4XDFcjuDrsuHgMqsWMw0W1tRsFPCHw9rrlser-H3zz4FOZtM-7fR3_efH0IiqNokI5GlZJ0oZe-c0T2tQ_LjHN4XwDzG6g5mwYzCAV5p6SoTTx/s796/Texas%20Bank%20and%20Trust.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="796" data-original-width="784" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglqp1TdlI4iYdHeyMt56O8X4XtlEowmCNrbCdIIw7mjtgT7wL6Xyk2VEB6d2qeTj58jCerDfHsEB4XDFcjuDrsuHgMqsWMw0W1tRsFPCHw9rrlser-H3zz4FOZtM-7fR3_efH0IiqNokI5GlZJ0oZe-c0T2tQ_LjHN4XwDzG6g5mwYzCAV5p6SoTTx/w630-h640/Texas%20Bank%20and%20Trust.jpg" width="630" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.cufos.org/UFOI_and_Selected_Documents/UFOI/003%20JANUARY%201958.pdf#page=22" target="_blank">NICAP’s The UFO Investigator, Jan. 1958</a>, got overexcited about the secrecy aspect of the photo in their article, “Air Force Denies UFO Witnesses Muzzled Despite Order in Dallas.” Wanting to expose the cover-up, they said, “NICAP requests that anyone who has been silenced in regard to UFO information who is not in the armed forces send the details to this Committee.”</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsnSEYYvY4462w3m8MI_P5_6dUirINpiDv7uOrrN80c0v6_VhZOnAK1GKYsSwUEM9nu6HBC7iY_buz3UyOqqIwV_OXCV1Rf5vkhKnAU9Qm16l2t9m9SowaGO2kLjl-rqPIrHnkN0qs08Q__9CoO4CdwIesraMBRdroHOta2CiFQ5FahKizRfx_EuO9/s787/NICAP.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="611" height="515" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsnSEYYvY4462w3m8MI_P5_6dUirINpiDv7uOrrN80c0v6_VhZOnAK1GKYsSwUEM9nu6HBC7iY_buz3UyOqqIwV_OXCV1Rf5vkhKnAU9Qm16l2t9m9SowaGO2kLjl-rqPIrHnkN0qs08Q__9CoO4CdwIesraMBRdroHOta2CiFQ5FahKizRfx_EuO9/w399-h515/NICAP.JPG" width="399" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The inaccurate accusations of secrecy were repeated by George D. Fawcett a few years later in “The Flying Saucers are Hostile,” in Ray Palmer’s, <i>Flying Saucers</i> magazine, Feb. 1961.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd--j_T2NizbEGO3gMlom8wiWD11eQ9V7AxKjwZikw8xsatL1HJhpSpDz33Mk7Hd_96wTvzHXaFUgBgoxZkY9EjCV9Z6sQ36eaGQT0avZ4uzugPi5bwNa-UuqW8L3ONLeOFxekGGvsE95J-NTwyUam4EQOjHqQQb2_G_29J4mbwfhEEBCnbOdy-WoS/s600/Flying%20Saucers%20Feb.%201961.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="422" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd--j_T2NizbEGO3gMlom8wiWD11eQ9V7AxKjwZikw8xsatL1HJhpSpDz33Mk7Hd_96wTvzHXaFUgBgoxZkY9EjCV9Z6sQ36eaGQT0avZ4uzugPi5bwNa-UuqW8L3ONLeOFxekGGvsE95J-NTwyUam4EQOjHqQQb2_G_29J4mbwfhEEBCnbOdy-WoS/w281-h400/Flying%20Saucers%20Feb.%201961.jpg" width="281" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In response to a 1960 inquiry about the case, Maj. Lawrence J. Tacker replied: </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“The Air Force file carries no conclusion on the photograph taken by Mr. J.G. Kirby near Amarillo, Texas on 2 August 1956. Not knowing what radiation vapor is, it is the Air Force opinion that some spokesman at the time speculated that the object was an irradiated vapor trail and was probably miss-quoted.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Air Force is not aware of any release date for the photograph taken by Mr. Kirby. The original was in the hands of the owner and he was free to do with it as he pleased.”</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>There was a white lie in there. At the time, </span><a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/04/ufos-crime-and-punishment-unfinished.html" target="_blank">Air Force policy</a><span> prohibited them from labeling witnesses as hoaxers. The case card for the Project Blue Book 26-page file summarized the case:</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Extenuating circumstances. No reference point in photo. Suspected hoax.”</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/6788179" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="922" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbclwAsSPlKLE_HvmwdCBFdKbBqVLKxLqDp9Zl2YVSY2RSjZXuFv-Ufcmyb6tmmZI-fOAorlUOjvFITY_gyxcvtfaNvvb3hYQ7DEmkq-A24Up1vuUY7pH_O8hbGKw8LyjCiO5hhDjgcd4FKZjAvTrFZLAOfS35b7058-1tQgKFQcjsJz70HVytyUJw/w640-h404/Project%20Blue%20Book%20-%20J.G.%20Kirby%20UFO.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/6788179" target="_blank">The Project Blue Book 26-page file</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>By the time the Air Force </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span>received the Kirby photos and the other cases in that delayed package from OSI in </span></span><span>Fort Worth, Texas, they had newer active investigations that demanded their time. They were busy with 1957 cases that had had exploded in the media, like the <a href="http://www.nicap.org/571102levelland_saucedo_dir.htm" target="_blank">Levelland, Texas UFO</a>, and the close encounter in Kearny Nebraska, reported by <a href="https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-trial-of-ufo-gold-digger.html" target="_blank">Reinhold O. Schmidt</a>. The Kirby case and the others got shortchanged due to </span><span style="text-align: center;">“Extenuating circumstances."</span></span></div><p></p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div>Curt Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773941506205598439noreply@blogger.com4