ALIEN MEETINGS by Brad Steiger

 

Our old friend Steiger presents us with a cornucopia of bizarre beings, just a few years before Roswell and The Grays mounted their hostile takeover of Ufology resulting in the barren scene we have nowadays. There's an excellent spread of European and global encounters, many taken from The Flying Saucer Review, an especially rich source for humanoids from abroad. As befits an author with such a wide and varied career in paranormal publishing Steiger offers multiple frameworks for his Alien Meetings, adding yet more depth which would be washed away by the overwhelming abduction narrative of the 80s.

Ace Books, 1978

COSMIC DEBRIS: Bigfoot Lineup

From On the Track of Bigfoot by Marian T. Place. Courtesy Pocket Books, 1979.

MAPS OF THE UNKNOWN: Bigfoot Country

From On the Track of Bigfoot by Marian T. Place. Courtesy Pocket Books, 1979.

ON THE TRACK OF BIGFOOT by Marian T. Place

Pocket Books, 1979 (original pub. 1974)

COSMIC DEBRIS: Bigfoot Ordinance

Another piece of Bigfoot ephemera from The Search For Bigfoot, courtesy Pocket Books, 1976.

SONS OF GOD RETURN by Kelly L. Segraves

Starts off staid with a general overview of Ufology, then ramps up and hits us with the hard stuff: God and Satan, the Nephilim piloting UFOs, vegetarian Tyrannosaurs and other classic Creationist bits, and an increasingly paranoid tone warning us of Christ's impending RETURN.

Pyramid Books, 1975

MAPS OF THE UNKNOWN: Sasquatch Tracks and Sightings

From The Search For Bigfoot by Peter Byrne. Courtesy Pocket Books, 1976.

INCIDENT AT EXETER by John G. Fuller

Hard boiled journalism meets the UFO. Unlike Fuller's other UFO subject (The Interrupted Journey of Betty and Barney Hill) the eponymous Exeter incident hasn't persisted into modern Ufology's zeitgeist, though some researchers have commented on Fuller's intelligence connections and the possibility that the prolific author was running cover for more earthly operations. 

A Berkeley Medallion Book, 1966