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Behind the Flying Saucers

Behind the Flying Saucers
"Behind the Flying Saucers. Frank Scully. The book everyone is talking about. Popular Library. Earle Bergey."

Earle K. Bergey's wonderfully frightening cover illustration of saucers in the sky and panic in the streets certainly helped to make this "the book everyone is talking about" when it appeared in 1950. But author Frank Scully's account of flying saucer crashes and dead extraterrestrials in Arizona and New Mexico was probably enough to get people talking even without the cover.

Scully wasn't the only one writing about such scary topics in 1950. Author Donald Keyhoe also argued that The Flying Saucers Are Real:

The Flying Saucers Are Real

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 raingirl
raingirl club
awesome cover!
6 years ago.
Alan Mays club has replied to raingirl club
Belated thanks! It's one of my favorite covers.
6 years ago.
 Nouchetdu38
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Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
6 years ago.
Alan Mays club has replied to Nouchetdu38 club
Thanks!
6 years ago.

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