 Front cover | |
| Author | Kenneth Arnold and Raymond Palmer |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Coming of the Saucers: a Documentary Report on Sky Objects that have Mystified the World |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Unidentified flying objects |
Publication date | 1952 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 192 |
| OCLC | 4432597 |
| LC Class | TL789 .A7 |
The Coming of the Saucers is a 1952 book by original 'flying saucer' witness Kenneth Arnold and magazine publisher Raymond Palmer.[1][2][3] The book reprints and expands early articles the two had published in Palmer's magazine Fate.[4] The work blends first-person accounts attributed to Arnold with third-person summations of UFO reports.[5]
The book features the first publication known of the concept of a "man in black",[3] later expanded into UFO folklore by Gray Barker in his 1956 work They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers.
- ^ Arnold, Gordon (December 3, 2021). Flying Saucers Over America: The UFO Craze of 1947. McFarland. ISBN 9781476687667 – via Google Books.
- ^ Bloecher, Ted (October 9, 1967). "Report on the UFO Wave of 1947" – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Nadis, Fred (June 13, 2013). The Man from Mars: Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey. Penguin. ISBN 9781101616048 – via Google Books.
- ^ Clark, Jerome (October 9, 2003). Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters With Ufos. Citadel Press. ISBN 9780806522999 – via Google Books.
- ^ Wilkinson, Frank G. (May 28, 2017). The Golden Age of Flying Saucers: Classic Ufo Sightings, Saucer Crashes and Extraterrestrial Contact Encounters. Lulu Press, Inc. ISBN 9781387000470 – via Google Books.