THANK GOD THEY'RE STILL UNIDENTIFIED!
Sunday Express science correspondent Robert Chapman delivers this very British rundown of the flying saucer phenomenon in the United Kingdom, melding the classic UFO narrative of Kenneth Arnold through Condon with some particular UK cases. The Exeter flying cross, the Moigne Downs "craft," a silly hoax by students at Allingham, all these and more are explored by Chapman. It's a glorious time capsule and Chapman is in classic newsman mode, giving up play by play of reportage on each case. Jolly good!
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| UFOs at Stoke-on-Trent! |
That bloody Warminster Thing shows up here, last seen in The Flying Saucerers by Arthur Shuttlewood. Chapman pokes some holes in Shuttlewood's personal experiences with the Thing, but also grants that he sees Shuttlewood as a fundamentally honest person and got along quite well when they met. Our author tries to be scrupulously fair whether dealing with hoaxes, cases of mistaken identity, or the possible genuine unknown.
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| Originally published as "Unidentified Flying Objects" in 1969 |
Chapman thanks Gordon Creighton and Charles Bowen of the infamous Flying Saucer Review for quotations and material, and praises the FSR and contributors as "serious minded people." Anyone familair with the eclectic personages behind the Review may raise an eyebrow, but them's the breaks for midcentury Ufology.
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| Hardcover edition |
This book was owned by Sally Pierson.
Mayflower Books, 1977 (original pub. 1969)
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