Stretching Credibility: Crashed Saucers or Grounded Research

Christopher Allan
Magonia 45, March 1993

The US UFO community, when not deeply involved in abductions seems to be truly besotted with Roswell, with three known separate groups competing in producing a seemingly endless proliferation of books, articles, symposium reports, tape recordings, TV documentaries and even in attempts to persuade Congress to hold hearings with witnesses free to testify.

Flying Saucer from Moore's?

Christopher Allan and Steuart Campbell

Magonia 23, July 1986.

In 1953 an astonished world learned that a man from Venus had conversed with a Californian guru who worked in a snack-bar at the foot of Mt. Palomar! George Adamski's unbelievable tales were made public in the second part of an otherwise undistinguished book about flying saucers by Irish writer Desmond Leslie. But this enabled the publisher to claim that Flying Saucers Have Landed. [1]