The Flying Saucers Are Real
by Donald E. Keyhoe, Robert Pickering & Donald Donald Edward Keyhoe
- First published:
- 20th century
- Language: English
- Content type: Fiction
"The Flying Saucers are Real" by Donald E. Keyhoe is a book published in 1950 that investigated UFO reports by United States Air Force personnel and aircraft between 1947 and 1950. Keyhoe contended that the Air Force concealed evidence of extraterrestrial visits to Earth, which he claimed had increased dramatically after the first atomic weapon test in 1945. This groundbreaking work became hugely successful and popularized many ideas in ufology that remain influential today, marking the first major attempt to promote flying saucers as alien spacecraft. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Provenance
Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact.
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary and project-gutenberg matched “Unidentified flying objects” and “unidentified flying objects”. Retained metadata contains “Flying saucers” in the title, “extraterrestrial” in the description, “Flying saucers” in the description, and 4 additional metadata match(es).
- “Unidentified flying objects”· via Open Library
- “unidentified flying objects”· via Project Gutenberg
- “Flying saucers”· in title
- “extraterrestrial”· in description
- “Flying saucers”· in description
- “ufo”· in description
Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.
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Editions
Open Library reports 25 editions; 2 cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
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Open Library record | June 30, 2006 | Book Tree | English |
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Project Gutenberg electronic edition Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition. | 2004-06-01 | Project Gutenberg | English | — | Public domain (USA) |
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- Open Library reports 25 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
- Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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- openlibrary-work:OL7209777W
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