Scully, 'Behind the Flying Saucers'

Variety columnist Frank Scully's bestseller claiming the government recovered crashed saucers and small bodies near Aztec, New Mexico.

1950 CE · 36.82, -107.99 · status: hoax

The account

For: it was the first crash-retrieval book and its claims of retrieved craft echo in later testimony.

The sceptical view

Against: Scully's sources, Silas Newton and 'Dr Gee' (Leo GeBauer), were exposed as con men, and the story was shown to be a hoax by journalist J. P. Cahn in 1952.

Connections in the atlas

• Behind the Flying Saucers
• Aztec, New Mexico 'crash'

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Frank Scully
2. Library record (archive.org)