It is generally a good idea to return to the classics in any genre. This also goes for UFO literature. Rereading a book, or reviewing old documents after ten or twenty years is a rewarding experience. You will discover new data and ideas you didn ́t notice before. The reason, of course, is that you are, in many ways, not the same person reading the book the second or third time. Hopefully you have advanced in knowledge, experience, intellectual and spiritual discernment. A good starting point is to reread the contactee classics material of the 1960s, in order to understand the deeper mystery involved in what happened during that era. The 1960 book entitled: Flying Saucers And The U S Air Force, by Lt. Colonel Lawrence J. Tacker was "anti-UFO," but it is essential because it contains many items of interest, including a collection of letters from civilians and a reproduction of Air Force UFO regulations and press releases. The author was the official Air Force spokesman on UFOs in 1960 at the Pentagon4. This book was published at the same time as Donald Keyhoe's Flying saucers: Top secret (1960) and Keyhoe is mentioned several times. This book is a facsimile reproduction of the original printed text in shades of gray. Because this material is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protect, preserve and promote knowledge in the world. This book has been formatted from its original version for publication. IMPORTANT, although we have attempted to maintain the integrity of the issues accurately, the present reproduction could have missing and blurred pages poor pictures due to the age of the original scanned copy. Because this material is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protect, preserve and promote knowledge in the world. Please copy and paste the link for our books: https: //saucerianbooks.blogspot.com/

Max Miller edited a UFO magazine, "Saucers," in the 1950s. Flying Saucers was released in 1957 in a magazine format. It has many photographs and is very well written in a balanced manner. Miller held memberships in the British Planetary Society, the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, the Meteoritical Society, Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New Zealand, and the American Rocket Society. Chapter 1: Flying Saucer History - a succinct summary of pre-1947 UFO reports, drawing partly on research into vimanas by Desmond Leslie and Harold Wilkins. Chapter 2: World Opinion - investigates Project Blue Book. Miller states how he attempted to discover its then current statues and how many reports it was receiving, and of how he got no answers. Chapter 3: Space Travel and the UFO - Project Magnet, Project Vanguard, Einstein's Unified Field Theory and gravity research are covered, and there is discussion of the research of Morris Jessup, Aime Michel, Leonard Cramp, and T. Townsend Brown, plus William Lear's arguments on why UFOs exist. Chapter 4: Space Communication and Detection - covers findings of Francis Galton, Tesla, Marconi, and John Otto, who attempted space communication on air on the radio in October 1955. Wilbert Smith provides a lengthy statement on how and why Project Magnet went underground. Chapter 5: Mars, The Mystery Planet - investigates the findings from the likes of John O' Neill, Gerard Kuiper, and Robert Richardson concerning strange things seen on or over Mars. Chapter 6: The Worldwide Enigma - mention is made here of Leonard Stringfield's research, plus a detailed account of a sighting over White Sands in 1949, Operation Mainbrace sightings, British astronomer H. Percy Wilkins' sighting, the 1953 incident where a UFO reportedly damaged a sign board, and angel hair. Chapter 7: Contactee Stories - the 1950s was the era of the contactees, and some of these, such as Truman Bethurum, are discussed. Chapter 8: New Light on the UFO - key points of Edward Ruppelt's "The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects" are discussed. Also included is the report on how U.S. Navy pilots were ordered to "shoot to kill" if UFOs were encountered, in July 1956. There is more on Project Vanguard, a project to send twenty satellites into space to study UFOs, in response to Earth reportedly being under constant surveillance. Chapter 9: The Problems Today - correspondence between Donald Keyhoe and Air Force Major General Joe Kelly is included, in which topics such as Blue Book Report 14 and regulations to prevent public disclosures of UFO incidents. An indispensable publication for anyone wishing to research UFOs.

Flying Saucers Over the White House is the story of Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, a US Air Force officer who researched UFO sightings in the 1950s and made a concentrated effort to convince the United States Air Force that UFOs exist. Ruppelt, who coined the term 'UFO', headed "Project Blue Book," an assignment designed by the United States government to investigate and report on the existence of unidentified flying objects and their link to extraterrestrial beings. Ruppelt dissected the evidence, separating chance sightings of ordinary objects from true UFO sightings. He eventually wrote The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, summarizing his findings. In Flying Saucers Over the White House, Bennett examines the life of this "founding father" of ufology, analyzing the evidence and the U.S. government's reporting of this phenomenon for a new generation of readers. COLIN BENNETT has written several books, including The Entertainment Bomb, *Looking for Orthon*, and Politics of the Imagination, which won the Anomalist Award for Best Biography in 2002. After leaving school to become a professional musician, Bennett returned to college to study English at Balliol College at the University of Oxford. He wrote several plays that were performed in London before reinventing himself as an electronics engineer and founding a consulting agency. Bennett currently resides in London where he continues to write and discover new interests.

The Flying Saucers Are Real by Donald Keyhoe, printed in 1950, is one of the first books investigating numerous encounters between the United States Air Force fighters, personnel, and other aircraft and UFOs between 1947 and 1950. The author contended that the Air Force was investigating these cases of close encounters, with a policy of concealing. Keyhoe also said that Earth had been visited by extraterrestrials for two centuries, with the frequency of these visits increasing sharply after the first atomic weapon test in 1945.

Project Blue Book was a U.S. government investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects - UFOs. One of the men working on the project was decorated U.S. Air Force officer Edward Ruppelt, and this book contains the findings. The ideas surrounding UFOs were stoked by popular imagination; flying saucers, alien visitation or even abduction, and strange phenomena such as lights or aircraft moving rapidly in the sky. Following World War II, the idea that aliens were regularly appearing in spacecraft, coupled with abundant reports of unexplained objects in the sky, prompted a series of investigations by governments. Project Blue Book was among the most notable, led by Josef Allen Hynek and staffed by officers such as Edward Ruppelt - both of whom were open-minded when identifying these unusual phenomena. Ruppelt's explanations are thorough, explaining what he and his team uncovered in detail over the course of 1952-1954. Finding nothing conclusive in support of UFOs as alien spacecraft, he quotes fellow officer Andy Flues: "Even taking into consideration the highly qualified backgrounds of some of the people who made sightings, there was not one single case which, upon the closest analysis, could not be logically explained in terms of some common object or phenomenon."

Flying Saucers Over the White House is the story of Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, a US Air Force officer who researched UFO sightings in the 1950s and made a concentrated effort to convince the United States Air Force that UFOs exist. Ruppelt, who coined the term 'UFO', headed "Project Blue Book," an assignment designed by the United States government to investigate and report on the existence of unidentified flying objects and their link to extraterrestrial beings. Ruppelt dissected the evidence, separating chance sightings of ordinary objects from true UFO sightings. He eventually wrote The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, summarizing his findings. In Flying Saucers Over the White House, Bennett examines the life of this "founding father" of ufology, analyzing the evidence and the U.S. government's reporting of this phenomenon for a new generation of readers. COLIN BENNETT has written several books, including The Entertainment Bomb, *Looking for Orthon*, and Politics of the Imagination, which won the Anomalist Award for Best Biography in 2002. After leaving school to become a professional musician, Bennett returned to college to study English at Balliol College at the University of Oxford. He wrote several plays that were performed in London before reinventing himself as an electronics engineer and founding a consulting agency. Bennett currently resides in London where he continues to write and discover new interests.