I'm enjoying reading the old "flying saucers" works of the 1950s. I'm on my third book by Keyhoe.
Yet another "prequel" has become evident. He mentions a 1952-53 event in West Virginia. A bright light rapidly drops onto a hilltop. A woman and her son think there may be a fire and go to the site, where they encounter a bizarre entity that terrifies them with its appearance. A later air force investigation claims they saw an owl in the night
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And that story description rang a bell ... the Kecksburg Bell. Sounds very similar to -that- story.
And many incidents mentioned that are forgotten by today's UFO literature.
I also like that they don't use the term "UFO". That term was foisted on us by an establishment desperate to normalize this phenomena so that authority's, well, authority, wasn't eventually challenged because people realized there was something out there much more powerful than anything here on earth.
And it is becoming ever more clear the goals of early space exploration efforts were informed by worries of the "above top secret crowd". Big focus on the moon and on Mars, and I think the reason why is that the national security bunch wanted to ensure the saucers weren't based on those celestial bodies. Neatly for them, those were nearby worlds and their relative proximity provided useful cover for prioritizing the reconnaissance and exploration of them.
Yet another "prequel" has become evident. He mentions a 1952-53 event in West Virginia. A bright light rapidly drops onto a hilltop. A woman and her son think there may be a fire and go to the site, where they encounter a bizarre entity that terrifies them with its appearance. A later air force investigation claims they saw an owl in the night
. . .And that story description rang a bell ... the Kecksburg Bell. Sounds very similar to -that- story.
And many incidents mentioned that are forgotten by today's UFO literature.
I also like that they don't use the term "UFO". That term was foisted on us by an establishment desperate to normalize this phenomena so that authority's, well, authority, wasn't eventually challenged because people realized there was something out there much more powerful than anything here on earth.
And it is becoming ever more clear the goals of early space exploration efforts were informed by worries of the "above top secret crowd". Big focus on the moon and on Mars, and I think the reason why is that the national security bunch wanted to ensure the saucers weren't based on those celestial bodies. Neatly for them, those were nearby worlds and their relative proximity provided useful cover for prioritizing the reconnaissance and exploration of them.
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