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Behind the Flying Saucers

By: Frank Scully
Narrated by: David Gilmore
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In October and November of 1949, Scully published two columns in Variety, claiming that extraterrestrial beings were recovered from a flying saucer crash, based on what he said was reported to him by a scientist involved. His 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers expanded on the theme, adding that there had been three such incidents in New Mexico and one in Arizona, including one that crashed near Aztec, New Mexico, in 1948 that was 100 feet in diameter. The saucers supposedly worked on magnetic principles. In the book, Scully revealed two sources to be a Silas Newton and a scientist named "Dr. Gee". Sixty thousand copies of the book were sold.

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I really wanted to like this book, and had looked forward to reading (or listening to) it for quite some time. I'm a 'fan' of the UFO genre and journalist Frank Scully's late 1940's publication seemed to hold a lot of credence among certain well known figures in the field. The X Files author even used the name Scully in recognition, as you may know.
But I found the book waffly. Very crypto. Endless quoting and cross referencing between a minestrone of characters packed with a lot of very 1940's or 50's sounding journalist waffle filler. A man sat bashing away on his typewriter in a smoky room, cigarette endlessly hanging from mouth, bottle of whisky on table, and perhaps even a Beatnik buzz pill or 2 to keep him up typing all night. That's how it felt to me.

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