Strange, I have a couple of early UFO books by that Marine colonel, whats his name, that don’t even mention Roswell. These came out like 50 or 49, as I remember.
parsy, who also read the UFO book by Jung
Perhaps he didn’t read The Roswell Daily Record?
“Strange, I have a couple of early UFO books by that Marine colonel, whats his name, that don’t even mention Roswell. These came out like 50 or 49, as I remember.”
Roswell wasn’t a UFO sighting. It wasn’t a sighting it was crash debris, and it’s no longer unidentified (it was a top secret Mogul balloon).
http://www.roswellfiles.com/storytellers/KentJeffrey1.htm
The rest of those sightings, and many more, are quite extraordinary mysteries.
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Hamlet Act 1, scene 5
I believe the Marine was Donald Keyhoe. He wrote with a reporter named Frank Edwards. And you are right. I read a lot of that stuff as a teen, listening to Long John Nebel in NYC and Roswell was never mentioned. The earliest after Kenneth Arnold was Capt Thomas Mantell and his Mustang in Kentucky in summer 47. But that was probably a balloon