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Keyhoe's 'The Flying Saucers Are Real' in True magazine

Cover of the book The Flying Saucers Are Real by Donald Keyhoe
Cover of Keyhoe's 1950 book, which expanded his True magazine article Donald Keyhoe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Retired Marine Maj. Donald Keyhoe argued in True magazine's January 1950 issue that flying saucers were interplanetary craft and disputed Air Force explanations. Radio and press amplified the claim, and Keyhoe expanded it into a 1950 book of the same name.

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  1. FirsthandThe Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Edward J. Ruppelt, 1956)Project Gutenberg / 1956
  2. PressScience: Visitors from VenusTIME / 1950-01-09
  3. OtherThe Flying Saucers Are Real (Donald E. Keyhoe, Fawcett, 1950)Project Gutenberg / 1950

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