Tuesday, May 06, 2008

More Covers of Mystery

In 1953, Frank Scully's Behind the Flying Saucers was published. It told the tale of a flying saucer crash in the American desert, a tale that many debunker types assume was the origin of the Roswell crash "myth."





At another end of the saucerian rainbow, we have the breathless tales reported by Timothy Green Beckley, such as this pasteurization of saucer rumors, MJ-12 and the Riddle of Hangar 18.



After a certain point, the saucer books begin to reinforce each other with a strange resonance. Well, Joe Blow said this and that, so Moe Schmoe quotes it. Then Joe Blow quotes Mo Schmoe in HIS next book!

To quote Mr Vonnegut, and so it goes ...

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