Tuesday, October 19, 2021

USA: UFO articles from "True" magazine (1950s-1960s) - Ruppelt, Keyhoe and others

"True" magazine published some of the most influential articles about UFOs during the 1950s and 1960s, including articles by Donald Keyhoe and Edward Ruppelt (particularly in the January 1950 and May 1954 issues respectively).  

The same magazine also published a significant skeptical article: J P Cahn's article "Flying Saucer Swindles" in the August 1956 issue which focused on the Silas Newton hoax.

This magazine was another of the magazines featuring UFOs in that period that was explicitly aimed at men. The title of the magazine was "TRUE : The Man's Magazine".  I'll refrain from posting here some examples of the sexist cartoons in that publication, including one of a father telling a boy "You must remember your mother is a wonderful woman - for a woman" (in the January 1950 issue that featured Keyhoe's influential UFO article). Not exactly politically correct, nor hilarious.

Thanks to Russian researcher Mikhail Gershtein and French researcher Pierre Lagrange for most of the scans of this American publication. 

I've also included some material from Jan Aldrich's "Project 1947" website in relation to two articles (marked INCOMPLETE) pending full scans being obtained.  (Jan has kindly given me permission to include some relevant material from his website in the archive, but I need to speak with Jan about the extent of that permission since I have a few ideas...).

(The publishers of True also published several issues of a publication devoted solely to UFOs, the True Report on Flying Saucers.  I'll deal with them separately).

Click on the image below for a link to the folder containing relevant articles.






2 comments:

  1. Looking from a summary of world wide UFO crashes. 1947-2021. What governments came into possession of what types of ET Tech? How did ET tech impact on international policy? Any book advice is greatly appreciated.

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