Publisher's Synopsis
This book was the second nonfiction book ever published on the flying saucer phenomenon, the same year as The Flying Saucers Are Real by Donald Keyhoe. Heard's cover art matches more closely what became the popular image of flying saucers, even if his theories about the saucers' pilots were more unconventional. He gives an overview of flying saucer incidents up to the time of his writing. He starts in Cascadia with the famous 1947 Mt. Rainier sighting by Kenneth Arnold that introduced the idea of "flying saucers" to the popular consciousness and includes the less famous Maury Island Incident that preceded it by three days. Other incidents provide visual clues to the saucer pilots' interests, temperament, and nature. In particular, the Mantell Incident at Fort Knox made the visitors curious, puzzled by the "riddle of the gold" -- why are we accumulating a massive mass of that "yellow junk" in this one place? Do we eat it? Are we using it as a power source? Heard proposes that, not knowing our strange customs surrounding gold, the saucer pilots could only guess at our purpose, assuming us to be more sensible than we are. This tile has the following parts: 1. How the Saga Started; 2. What Two Passenger-Plane Pilots Saw; 3. The Tragic Chase; 4. The Phantom Hunt; 5. The Rocket Outraced; 6. Are They Seen Only in America?; 7. To 1953; 8. "Project Saucer" and Public Opinion; 9. The Whences?; 10. The Craft and Their Power; 11.The Crews and Their Views; 12. Whence? Again; 13. Were They Preparing?; 14. Why Now?; 15. Where Now?. Please copy and paste the link for our books: https: //saucerianbooks.blogspot.com/
