Here come the Men in Black! This is the book wherein Gray Barker introduces those sinister black suited creeps that have since become a UFOlogical standby. Barker certainly knows how to turn a phrase, and he weaves a twisted web of intrigue out of the flying saucer freakshow of the mid-50s. It's a worldwide whistlestop tour which includes the Flatwoods Monster, various contactees, the paranoid sexual miasma of the Shaver Mystery, and a detour into Hugh Auchincloss Brown and his theory of Catastrophic Pole Shift. The cure for which, by the by, is a flurry of H-Bombs a la Toho Studio's super science disaster epic Gorath. Brown's theory would later be the subject of a 1970s doorstopper disaster novel, The HAB Theory.
Barker includes a useful appendix of UFO books, and a condensed summary of the Shaver Mystery in case you missed the jist. This Tower Books reprint features a lovely impressionist cover of headlights on the highway. Available to read and download at archive dot org.
Tower Books, 1967 (original pub. 1956)
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