Fifty years ago, an American pilot called Kenneth Arnold saw nine discs in the sky over Area 51 in Nevada, where the US military tests high-tech aircraft. The term ‘flying saucer’ was born – and with it, a whole new subculture which believes that alien life is not only somewhere out there, but also here (indeed, probably in Area 51), ready to take over the world. Highway 93 winds through the Nevada Desert. There are no cars, no houses, […] Read More
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PROJECT REDBOOK: D DELAWARE, DELAWARE BAY – Richard S. Shaver created a stir in AMAZING STORIES Magazine from 1945-1950 after sending an ms. to editor Ray Palmer [who backed Kenneth Arnold‘s investigation of the ‘Maurey Island/Tacoma’ UFO incident which also involved military industrialist agent Fred L. Crisman — who later happened to be a close associate of Clay Shaw who Attorney James Garrison accused of being the Mafia-CIA go-between in the JFK assassination], Palmer also having publicized Arnold’s own […] Read More