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UFOs, Earthquakes and the Straight Line Mystery

The Answer to the UFO Enigma

Ahmad Jamaludin

Flying Disk Press, 2021

Pb, 234pp, £10.75, ISBN 9798721390159

Ufologists may remember Ahmad Jamaludin’s articles in the long-defunct Flying Saucer Review; fascinating for the rare glimpses they presented of the phenomenon in the Far East, in particular the panic among Malaysian schoolkids who witnessed tiny ‘alien’ invaders in tiny UFOs. Few of us knew that for 40 years Jamaludin also researched the early ideas linking ‘waves’ of sightings with ‘orthoteny’ (straight lines in the landscape) and radical theories about the origins of earthquakes and anomalous aerial noises. Flying Disk

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