Flying Saucer Pilgrimage by Bryant and Helen ReeveĪ charming glimpse into the early days of the UFO culture, when the lines between spiritualism, occultism and ufology were largely indistinguishable. In a revised edition, published in 1960, Ruppelt was more dismissive of the subject. Ruppelt documents shifting Air Force attitudes to the phenomenon, which ranged from aggressive denial to apparent endorsement of alien visitation in an infamous 1952 Life magazine article. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J RuppeltĪn insider's account of the crucial, early days of the UFO story, by the man who headed the US Air Force's official UFO investigation from 1951 to 1953. Here, in chronological order, are 10 that I can recommend as either informative, entertaining, puzzling or all three at once." 1. I'm not sure how many UFO books have been written since then, but I'd guess that it's well over 1000. "The first book about UFOs as we know them was The Flying Saucer, a 1948 novel by British former spy Bernard Newman. A tiny few UFO reports also still present us with genuine mysteries. They remind us that the Unknown and the Other are still very much at large in our modern world, and provide us with a fascinating glimpse of folklore in action. "The UFO arena acts as a kind of vivarium for a range of psychological, sociological and anthropological experiences, beliefs, conditions and behaviours.
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