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~ Donald Keyhoe (Author) "IT was a strange assignment..." (more)
Key Phrases: interplanetary answer, saucers are real, saucer scare, Wright Field, Godman Field, White Sands (more...)
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"Donald Keyhoe was there first. He didn't invent the UFO phenomenon, but he became its first authoritative private spokesman. In 1949, TRUE magazine asked aviation writer and retired Marine Corps Major Donald Keyhoe to look into the flying saucer enigma, which had burst onto the scene just two years previously. With information from his friends in the military, Keyhoe concluded that the objects came from outer space and that the Air Force was covering up the story to prevent panic.

"The article caused a sensation and a year later Keyhoe expanded it into this landmark book, THE FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL. In a personal, no-nonsense style, Keyhoe provides the details of his investigation: he talks with the witnesses, reviews the history of the phenomenon, and attempts to pry open the secrecy lid the Air Force had clamped down on the subject. Keyhoe would go on to write four more books on the subject and in 1957 he became director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, without a doubt the most influential private UFO organization of all time. But it is this book, which sold a half-million copies, that inspired hundreds of people to take up the UFO cause and established the core elements of UFO mythology, which the government has attempted to counter--unsuccessfully, I might add--to this very day."

--Patrick Huyghe, author of SWAMP GAS TIMES: MY TWO DECADES ON THE UFO BEAT

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  • Paperback: 180 pages
  • Publisher: Cosimo Classics (April 30, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1596050020
  • ISBN-13: 978-1596050020
  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,587,063 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Historical - Monumental, May 14, 2006
By Efthimios (Greece) - See all my reviews
This book is not fiction. The author researches REAL facts and sightings, and concludes that the saucers are interplanetary. Donald Keyhoe made a serious recearch, from an "inside" perspective , having some access to original military files. Before he started the research, he would not believe in the "visitors from space" answer. But checking thoroughly every other possible answer, he saw that they didn't fit in the sightings and the reports.
This book is a *must* have to anyone who wants to know the truth about the UFO phenomenon. It contains everything, from the reports and reactions to the military cover up. The *visitors* were here even before we were born. Anyone with a clear mind will see this.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Flying Saucers Are Real - Donald Keyhoe, August 10, 2005
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In the realm of UFOlogy, this book was not only one of the first, but also one of the best reports ever written on the subject. I first read it in the early 1950's, and believe me, it is perhaps the one book that fueled my interest not only in UFO's but in all forms of Fortean Phenonema, both past and present for the last fifty-three years. No fadism in the pages of this excellent tome - just cold, hard, and well researched facts about a subject that is now more popular than when this book was first published in 1950.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Flying Saucers are real, March 11, 2007
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This is a wonderful book for anyone that wants to make sense of what has been going on for long around the world. Great research book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Flying Saucers in this book rock
I read a lot of books on UFO's and it gets hard to find new information but this book offers up new data I have not seen anywhere else. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Susan E. Fenwick

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative and thought provoking
Good solid reporting on a very sensitive subject from the early days of the UFO phenomena.
Published 12 months ago by Leafhopper

2.0 out of 5 stars Worst Edition Ever!
Oh, people! I'm about halfway through this book, and while the content is interesting, this edition of the book itself is an embarrassment. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Laurie

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the books that started it all...
Donald Keyhoe (1897-1988) is one of the most prominent figures in the early history and development of the UFO phenomenon in the United States. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Commander Adama

4.0 out of 5 stars folksy but conducive of thought crystallization
I found this book unsatisfactorily casual and slap-happy for the work of putative been-there-done-that expert with such lengthy tenure in and around things ufological. Read more
Published on October 11, 2006 by Bruce D. Wilner

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent professional reportage
Written in 1950, this book cannot be said to have been influenced by the massive hype and disinformation that has surrounded the subject ever since. Read more
Published on February 6, 2005 by Christopher Locke

5.0 out of 5 stars Level Headed
Okay, so the title sounds "crazy". Read the book. One of the best books on the subject of flying saucers. Read more
Published on November 22, 2004 by Ken L. Holloway

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