Airborne crockery

Dave Clarke examines an essential and original work which explores why we’ve been talking about ‘flying saucers’ since 1947 – when they weren’t back then and rarely are today

Saucers Tracing the Origins of Disc-Shaped UFOs Chris Aubeck Independently published 2023 Hb, 421pp, £28, ISBN 9798861290241 Many readers will never have known a time when the UFO phenomenon did not exist. The complex modern myth that includes government cover-ups, crash retrievals, abductions, crop circles and Men In Black feels as if it has been around forever. But, as Hilary Evans noted on the 50th anniversary of the mystery: “UFOs are a creation of our time, and when their time came, they were born.” The modern UFO myth was created in 1947, on the afternoon of 24 June, when private pilot Kenneth Arnold saw what he later described as “a chain of nine peculiar-looking aircraft” flying towards Mount Rainier in Washington State, USA at incredible speed. UFOs were born as…

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