Flying Saucers

Canada's Secret Weapon?!?

Nope! I didn’t think so either.

I just had to buy this magazine recently, if only for the cover alone. And while I’m on the subject, there seems to be so much about UFOs going on at the moment. With the steady drip, drip, drip of disclosure, it seems they are at last being taken seriously. With that in mind, I thought I’d post some cover designs of the vintage and contemporary ufology-related books I’ve collected over the years. Also, as Sunday is Father’s Day here and in the UK, I’ll dedicate this post to my Dad, who left us in July 2024. He had a keen interest in UFOs and inspired me with the SF films he took me to see as a kid, and let me watch his favourite late-night tv show in the 1960s, The Invaders.

Dad - Robin Cook and UFO magazines, Purley, Surrey, December 2022.

Some of these are probably nonsense, and others a serious study on the subject. Some are better designed than others, but I’ll post what I have.

And the hardback edition…

The Flying Saucer Story, I remember borrowing this one a few times from our local public library as a teenager.

I had to mock up this cover from a scan because I bought the book without a jacket. This was the first to mention the mysterious MIB, Men in Black.

I love the stark graphic simplicity of this book by Aimé Michel.

Whitley Strieber’s modern classic…

And the sequel.

This one turned up signed by the author which was an unexpected surprise.

Another modern classic by Leslie Kean. My Dad said this was the best book he’d ever read on the subject.

I kept my ticket for this event hosted by the late Stanton T. Friedman, which I attended with 2000 AD’s Steve MacManus and John Tomlinson, who I might add has his own Fab Substack on here. Thinks He's Marlowe

John G. Fuller’s 1966 book The Interrupted Journey is widely recognized as the first book to document and popularize an alien abduction claim.

I have this rather ancient-looking book from 1953 back in London. According to Wikipedia ‘While the book became a massive bestseller and sparked a wave of 1950s "contactee" culture, its contents are fictional and pseudoscientific.’

Flying Saucer Review took the subject very seriously. I subscribed to this in the seventies after my own teenage encounter.

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