Kevin Randle's book on the 1964 Socorro event

Kevin Randle's book on the 1964 Lonnie Zamora/Socorro incident will arrive at my mail box, from Amazon, Tuesday, 10/17.

(Being frugal as I am wont to be, I took the extended free shipping for Kevin's book and Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, as Amazon offered a discount for taking the slower delivery time. I saved 17 cents!)

I've already read some of the book, online at Amazon, and like Kevin's recent Roswell book, Encounter... is filled with clarification of all the past clutter about the "sighting" along with new insights.

I'll not review the book, but will provide some select portions of it here. But you should grab a copy, if you think the episode is one of the better witness accounts of a strange craft, on the ground, close up and with a clue (the controversial insignia reported by Officer Zamora) to its source.

RR

Serious Air Force attention to Adamski “saucer” prototype

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Ray Palmers magazine, Flying Saucers, for February 1969 (pictured here) presented, with Palmer caveats, some “detailed” material from a man, William Clendenon, that proposed Adamski’s “chicken brooder” saucer could be manufactured and flown, as it had, according to Mr. Clendenon, attributes that were aerodynamically feasible.

While Ray Palmer confirmed his [Palmer’s] view that Adamski was, indeed, a (likeable) fraud, he offered in his pages letters from the Air Force and Hughes Aircraft, along with the United States Patent Office – a few presented fully scanned for your perusal here – that showed Clendenon’s offerings were not eschewed out of hand by either the Air Force, Hughes, of the Patent Office:

One letter (from Curtis Kelly of the Air Force’s Aero Propulsion Division) went so far as to critique Clendenon’s proposals with point-by-point rebuttals of the science and technology errors that Clendenon’s suggestions contained.

This correspondence took place in the 1965-1968 time frame. It’s a fascinating account by Palmer showing that flying saucer “nonsense” wasn’t ignored by the military or industry before the Condon Report.

The rest of Palmer’s magazine had a pithy (useless) article by Kurt Glemser about airplane crashes – not UFO crashes – and lots of goofy stuff from Timothy Green Beckley and readers.

One can see that flying saucers once had serious cachet, no matter how obtuse material about the phenomenon was.

RR