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The first book to appear on flying saucers – a novel – spoke of how alien crashes were staged by a “League of Scientists”, with the hope of creating world peace against a common, extra-terrestrial enemy. Is it fiction… or fact?
Bernard Newman’s “The Flying Saucer”, was published in the United Kingdom in 1948 (the US edition followed in 1950) and is believed to have been the world’s first book that tackled UFOs. Newman was a prolific author, both of fiction and non-fiction; “The Flying Saucer” sits in the former category. But since its publication, people have begun to wonder whether it was fact masked as fiction.
When he died in 1968, Newman had over one hundred titles to his name, which means he sometimes turned out four to five books per year. Under the pseudonym Don Betteridge, he also wrote a series of spy novels, and he was considered to be an authority on espionage – a passion that is also on display in “The Flying Saucer”, years ahead of the so-called “Men in Black” and decades before UFO researchers would focus on “the conspiracy” by the intelligence communities to cover-up “the truth”. [More]
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