UFO Memorabilia

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While rummaging through an old hard drive, I found a few items that newbies might enjoy seeing – some old-timers have seen a few of these things from past insertions at one of our UFO blogs.

A pic of a UFO booklet that I offered free to UFO UpDaters way back when. Stanton Friedman (and others) took me up on the offer; Stan sending the postage for the mailing. He was a real gentleman. (I still have a few of the booklets around.)

And here’s a postcard response from Jim Moseley, that terrific character:

And then there are the list of sound recordings, still photos, and 8mm and 16mm films of flying saucers that people could buy from the Government Services office:

Note the sightings and their dates. They may provide leads to some interesting UFO events.

RR

Those pesky “greys” – only two movies, but lots of sightings anyway

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Here are images from and for Invasion of the Saucer Men, an almost obscure movie that can’t account for an imbedded memory to explain what alleged flying saucer witnesses think they saw near Roswell and many other places:

However, Spielberg’s 1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind was extremely popular, with the “greys” meme taking hold after it opened in many theaters, the entities of the movie filling in for Stanton Friedman and the  Roswell story-tellers' descriptions of little bodies recovered from a flying disk crash in the area:

Since the 1951 Man From Planet X was seen by few moviegoers, I suspect that the Lotti-Italy account of her experience (pictured here with a similar ship) was not the inspiration for her story, which I explained* a while back. But the illustrator of her tale may have seen it:

Some flying saucer [UFO] beings in early sci-fi movies (the 1950s) seem not to have registered as ET visitors among persons who say they encountered humanoid beings getting out of a landed flying disk or standing nearby one:

The Thing (From Another World) had humanlike form and Klaatu was a personification of an advanced human-like being but, except for some reports of ETs with facial gear and Nordic-like ETs in the lore, the greys still prevail.

The inside of Klaatu’s ship – in The Day the Earth Stood Still – does seem similar to some UFO abductee [experiencer] tales describing the “ship” they were supposedly taken to, and some UFO accounts indicated robotic-like movements of entities or robots themselves, but none like Gort:

Since movie ETs don’t seem to explain possible memory corruption or enhancement, how about TV programs in which extraterrestrials [ETs] were featured?

Here is what Betty Hill says her capturing alien looked like (after discarding her initial description of a being with a Jimmy Durante nose), alongside a TV ET (from The Bellero Shield airing from a television sci-fi series:

TV shows, of the 1950s and 1960s with alien (extraterrestrial) beings would be better as a source for UFO creatures some say they encountered, but none of those TV entities were depicted as small, frail grey-tinted humanoids.

So, the source for UFO witness reports of “greys” came from, and still come from, the Roswell tales, confabulated by various Roswellians who wanted in on the hubbub stirred by Stan Friedman and other UFO researchers after 1978, and which media accounts and ufologists continue to hype and reference by way of “grey ET” depictions.

RR