The Coming of the Saucers

The Coming of the Saucers
Front cover
AuthorKenneth Arnold and Raymond Palmer
Original titleThe Coming of the Saucers: a Documentary Report on Sky Objects that have Mystified the World
LanguageEnglish
SubjectUnidentified flying objects
Publication date
1952
Publication placeUnited States
Media typeHardcover
Pages192
OCLC4432597
LC ClassTL789 .A7

The Coming of the Saucers is a 1952 book by original 'flying saucer' witness Kenneth Arnold and pulp magazine publisher Raymond Palmer.[1][2][3] The book reprints and expands early articles the two had published in Palmer's Fate magazine.[4] The work blends first-person accounts attributed to Arnold with third-person summations of UFO reports.[5]

The book features the first appearance 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.

  1. ^ Arnold, Gordon (December 3, 2021). Flying Saucers Over America: The UFO Craze of 1947. McFarland. ISBN 9781476687667 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Bloecher, Ted (October 9, 1967). "Report on the UFO Wave of 1947" – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b Nadis, Fred (June 13, 2013). The Man from Mars: Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey. Penguin. ISBN 9781101616048 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Clark, Jerome (October 9, 2003). Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters With Ufos. Citadel Press. ISBN 9780806522999 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ 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.