Saucers
Tracing the Origins of Disc-Shaped UFOs
Chris Aubeck
Independently published 2023
Hb, 421pp, £28, ISBN 9798861290241
Many readers will never have known a time when the UFO phenomenon did not exist. The complex modern myth that includes government cover-ups, crash retrievals, abductions, crop circles and Men In Black feels as if it has been around forever. But, as Hilary Evans noted on the 50th anniversary of the mystery: “UFOs are a creation of our time, and when their time came, they were born.”
The modern UFO myth was created in 1947, on but how he later said they had moved “like a saucer would if you skipped it across water”.
