MAPS OF THE UNKNOWN: The Coyne Incident

Competing reconstructions of a classic UFO encounter via helicopter. From an article by Jennie Zeidman, "Zeidman on Klass on Coyne."

Featured in Fate, Volume 31 - Number 12, December 1978.

COSMIC DEBRIS: Bigfoot Clippings

Some Bigfoot newspaper clippings found inside a well loved copy of Abominable Snowman: Legend Come to Life by Ivan T. Sanderson. Our second clipping is some vintage silly season reporting from the wild old days of Bigfootery, complete with Bigfoot nesting on eggs! Meanwhile, Tom Tiede gives us a lyrical confession of his personal Bigfoot encounter.

Courtesy Pyramid Books, 1968 (original pub. 1961).

ARE THE INVADERS COMING? by Steven Tyler

 

Steven Tyler (possibly a pseudonym?) delivers a canny and practical guide to UFOlogy circa 1968, with some sharp darts directed at Ancient Astronauts and the field's credulous laundering of hoaxes and shoddy sources. The following excerpt is particularly illustrative:

Budget publisher Tower Books wraps it all up in an enticing package, with cover art of two charming and chintzy plastic flying saucers, one of them blasting its death beam down below! A strong recommendation across the board.

This title is available to read and download at archive dot org.

Tower Books, 1968

MAPS OF THE UNKNOWN: Mystery Animal Haunts

From an article by Charles Bowen, "Mystery Animals." Featured in the Flying Saucer Review, Volume 10 - Number 6, November/December 1964.

COSMIC DEBRIS: The Karma Force Field Bracelet

And Karma Ring! Your keys to throbbing vitality, another pair of wearable wonders from the House of Collingwood and pyramid guru Dr. Michael Flanagan, who seemed like quite the hustler. As for Count Stefan Colona Valuski, I have my doubts he ever existed ... 

From Fate, Volume 31 - Number 9, September 1978.

LETTERS TO THE AIR FORCE ON UFOS edited by Bill Adler

Bill Adler made a career churning out these kind of compilation books and was described as "the most fevered mind" in publishing by People magazine. You can't fault his choices for inclusion in this volume, bringing a broad spectrum of schoolkids, housewives, academics, professionals, and various cranks. Most everyone seems hopeful that the flying saucer mystery can be solved, with or without the Air Force's input, and that the most likely culprits are friendly, humanoid aliens who we should meet in the spirit of galactic brotherhood. There are a couple dissenters who have alternate theories of unknown electrical/weather phenomenon. Most of the firsthand sightings reported in the letters would qualify as Close Encounters of the First Kind, not reporting any saucer occupants, and read as honest attempts by witnesses to describe something unknown.

Available to read and download at archive dot org.

Dell Publishing, 1967

MAPS OF THE UNKNOWN: Mu Revealed

Churchward's Mu, or more properly Muror, from Raymond Buckland's Mu Revealed. Buckland published this very dry pastiche as one Tony Earll (which anagrams to "Not Really") with contributions from Professor Reesdon Hurdlop (just a silly name) and Dr. Maud N. Robat - "Robat" being Buckland's "craft name" for magick purposes.

Courtesy the Paperback Library, 1970.