The Flying Saucers Are Real Major Donald Keyhoe Books
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The true story behind the strangest phenomena in history!
"During my long investigation of these strange objects, I have seen many reports verified by Air Force Intelligence, detailed accounts by Air Force pilots, radar operators, and other trained observers proving the UFOs are high-speed craft superior to anything built on Earth."
In a personal, no-nonsense style, Major Donald Keyhoe in “The Flying Saucers Are Real” 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 of UFOs.
Well known in the UFO community as an author and as the director of NICAP, Major Donald Keyhoe was a Marine pilot and established author well before the flying saucer craze of the late 1940s. He authored several books on unidentified flying objects, including the classic Flying Saucers Are Real.
When the first "flying saucer" sightings were reported in June,1947, Keyhoe, an experienced pilot, was skeptical. True asked him to investigate UFOs in 1949. He interviewed numerous pilots as well as military officers in the Pentagon. Keyhoe discovered that expert observers had seen the unexplained discs, many at close range. His article "Flying Saucers Are Real" in the January,1950 issue of True became one of the most widely read and discussed articles in publishing history, and caused a sensation. In January, 1950, the article was expanded into a paperback book. In 1957, Keyhoe became Director of the newly formed National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) in Washington, DC. Under Keyhoe's leadership NICAP gave serious publicity to the UFO phenomena throughout the 1960s and encouraged subsequent Congressional hearings.
The Flying Saucers Are Real Major Donald Keyhoe Books
My rating, here, does NOT apply to the book as originally published. If you're interested in a journalist's experience working a subject he thought he'd wind up finding a farce and laughing off - only to discover he could not debunk it the further he investigated, then this is a book for you. Keyhoe never attempts to assert what the 1940's - 1950 "flying saucers" were. In fact, he works very hard to logically determine what they could not, must not be. The story is fun and fascinating.My poor rating is to WARN that I do not recommend anyone buy this version of this book. I bought this and received a Print on Demand (P.O.D.) version (as expected), but in which some information is simply gone or so badly garbled it cannot be understood.
There are so many obvious spelling, copying, or spacing errors (and errors exist so frequently in any few consecutive pages, or so) that they actually became distracting from my train of thought as I read.
The layout is one long uniform word process document. The book’s original content’s formatting is omitted. In this print on demand version: quoted published material and titles are not set off; the actual book’s original pagination is not used; citations are not placed on the actual cited page in this version; spacing (e.g. between sentences or paragraphs) is not reproduced at all as it was in the original book, and is even sometimes added for no reason; and finally brackets are used frequently without having any purpose (for example, “[p. 71]” in the P.O.D. version would seem to indicate a reference to “page 71” but it (and other such bracketed numbers) do not correspond in either the P.O.D. version to anything, nor to the original printing’s equivalent page numbers – I checked).
Even though a customer bought this product, it seems no one proof read or checked this print on demand version for quality, comparing it to the original book it is supposed to reproduce. What I received really should be returned to Amazon for a full refund, except I wrote in it. That’s my fault.
I have purchased other print on demand books. They’ve been fine. This one is exceptional in how poorly it is executed. I wish I knew before I blew the money on it. So, I am writing this review of this product.
If you want the information Keyhoe wrote in his version of his book, then be warned. What I received is not a copy, as it is neither clear nor complete.
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The Flying Saucers Are Real Major Donald Keyhoe Books Reviews
This is a classic.
I know
I know
We use that word "classic" much too often. "Classic Coke" "Classic Rock" "Star Trek Classic" and so forth.
"Classic Coke" should be called "Original Coke" then we know where we are. It's the GOOD tasting one.
"Classic Rock". There's very little of that around. Mostly it's just old music. Yeah, I know. It brings back memories for me, too. I'll be observing my 65th birthday in a couple of weeks so I know how you feel. But, really, it isn't "classic", It's old.
As for "Star Trek Classic" I prefer the alternate designation "TOS" (The Original Series). The one with the REAL Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and the rest and not Abrams' demented reimagining.
God only knows what he'll do to STAR WARS.
But this book...THIS BOOK...should be used by every writer in the field as a model on how to cover a subject.
It is well-written, well-researched, AND firmly fastened in the TIME in which it was written.
This is very much a PRE- Space Program book about UFOs. And Major Keyhoe reminds us of just how OUTRAGEOUS the idea of "interplanetary craft" actually WAS to people back then. (It was published the same year I was born, 1950...forget Space Travel, the first JET Airliner, , the British De Havilland Comet, flew for the first time only the year before),
And the Major takes us along on his journey from incredulity through skepticism to acceptance that we are being visited by Interplanetary Craft.
And he even mentions UFO "Orbs". A fellow named Gorman had a dogfight with one. You can read all about that here.)
There are also some fascinating sections about early space flight research that WE were doing...and which show that we don't need to invoke "reverse engineering" of any spare UFOs laying about to explain how far we have come scientifically.
This is a fascinating read, and an educational one. Hope issues an improved edition soon.
I'd gladly pay for one with some photos of some of the people and sightings and so on.
In the meantime, this one is free on ....do yourself a favor and GET it!
Donald Keyhoe was a regular guest in the late 1950s on Long John Nebel's WOR overnight talk show. Some of these hours long programs are available on mp3 CDs. Just do a search for Long John Nebel flying saucers.
A bit more about this legendary host. Nebel was a self-described Master Charlatan. His predilection for topics such as UFOs, astral projection, hollow earth and alternate solar systems weren't borne of curiosity, but were rather the deliberate choices of a savvy showman who knew how to hold an audience of conspiracy theorists and believers in unlikely phenomena. Long John had the first nationwide late night show; it was taken over in the mid-'70s by Larry King. Since that time various hosts are still making hay with such AM coarst-to-coast guests as former Marine Corp aviator Maj. Keyhoe.
For believers this book is pure protein; for doubters it's gristle and fat. Where you fall in that spectrum determines whether even as a free offering you'll invest the time in reading FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL.
My rating, here, does NOT apply to the book as originally published. If you're interested in a journalist's experience working a subject he thought he'd wind up finding a farce and laughing off - only to discover he could not debunk it the further he investigated, then this is a book for you. Keyhoe never attempts to assert what the 1940's - 1950 "flying saucers" were. In fact, he works very hard to logically determine what they could not, must not be. The story is fun and fascinating.
My poor rating is to WARN that I do not recommend anyone buy this version of this book. I bought this and received a Print on Demand (P.O.D.) version (as expected), but in which some information is simply gone or so badly garbled it cannot be understood.
There are so many obvious spelling, copying, or spacing errors (and errors exist so frequently in any few consecutive pages, or so) that they actually became distracting from my train of thought as I read.
The layout is one long uniform word process document. The book’s original content’s formatting is omitted. In this print on demand version quoted published material and titles are not set off; the actual book’s original pagination is not used; citations are not placed on the actual cited page in this version; spacing (e.g. between sentences or paragraphs) is not reproduced at all as it was in the original book, and is even sometimes added for no reason; and finally brackets are used frequently without having any purpose (for example, “[p. 71]” in the P.O.D. version would seem to indicate a reference to “page 71” but it (and other such bracketed numbers) do not correspond in either the P.O.D. version to anything, nor to the original printing’s equivalent page numbers – I checked).
Even though a customer bought this product, it seems no one proof read or checked this print on demand version for quality, comparing it to the original book it is supposed to reproduce. What I received really should be returned to for a full refund, except I wrote in it. That’s my fault.
I have purchased other print on demand books. They’ve been fine. This one is exceptional in how poorly it is executed. I wish I knew before I blew the money on it. So, I am writing this review of this product.
If you want the information Keyhoe wrote in his version of his book, then be warned. What I received is not a copy, as it is neither clear nor complete.
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