"The Flying Saucers Are Real. Donald Keyhoe. True story behind the strangest phenomena in history! Gold Medal Book. 107. Frank Tinsley '50."

The Flying Saucers Are Real, written by Donald Keyhoe, first appeared in 1950. Frank Tinsley's dramatic cover illustration helped to convey the startling news that flying saucers (or UFOs aka unidentified flying objects) are actually extraterrestrial spacecraft.

A 1960s advertising postcard for Flying Saucers International magazine made reference to Keyhoe's book by reproducing an alleged photo of a UFO with the caption, "See—flying saucers are real!"

For another book from 1950 on the same topic, see Behind the Flying Saucers:

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"Behind the Flying Saucers. Frank Scully. The book everyone is talking about. Popular Library. Earle Bergey."

Earle K. Bergey's wonderfully frightening cover illustration of saucers in the sky and panic in the streets certainly helped to make this "the book everyone is talking about" when it appeared in 1950. But author Frank Scully's account of flying saucer crashes and dead extraterrestrials in Arizona and New Mexico was probably enough to get people talking even without the cover.

Scully wasn't the only one writing about such scary topics in 1950. Author Donald Keyhoe also argued that The Flying Saucers Are Real:

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Cover of the booklet Men from the Moon in America: Did They Come in a Russian Satellite?, by the evangelist Walter V. Grant (1913-1983), first published sometime in the 1950s.

For another out-of-this-world booklet from the 1950s, see We Met the Space People: The Story of the Mitchell Sisters.

Originally posted on Ipernity: Men from the Moon in America: Did They Come in a Russian Satellite?

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Cover of a short booklet: We Met the Space People: The Story of the Mitchell Sisters, by Helen and Betty Mitchell. Clarksburg, W.Va.: Saucerian Publications.

It's the story of two sisters who encounter space aliens in a coffee shop in the 1950s! Read all about it at the Internet Archive: We Met The Space People (1959).

For a better view of the space people and the Mitchell sisters, take a look at an enlargement of part of the illustration. Originally posted on Ipernity: We Met the Space People.

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Originally posted on Ipernity: We Met the Space People (Cropped).

For more information, see the full cover of this booklet.

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