“Flying Sailers”

UFO Encounters Sightings, Visitations, And Investigations The next day Arnold told his story to two reporters for Pendleton’s East Oregonian. One of the reporters, Bill Bequette, put the story on the Associated Press wires. Within days, as similar sightings erupted around the country, an anony-mous headline writer coined the phrase “flying saucers.” But that name … Read more

In The Beginning

UFO Encounters Sightings, Visitations, And Investigations The date was June 24, 1947, a Tuesday; the time, just before three o’clock in the afternoon. Kenneth Arnold, a private pilot and fire-control- equipment salesman from Boise, Idaho, was fly-ing over the Cascade Mountains searching for the remains of a lost C-46 for which a $5,000 reward had … Read more

Introduction: Reach Beyond The Clouds

UFO Encounters Sightings, Visitations, And Investigations Flying saucers, better known as unidentified flying objects or UFOs: Some people believe in their existence without question. The skepticism of others knows no bounds, and in fact the skeptics find much to ridicule in the world of ufology. But the world is full of strange and eerie phe-nomena. … Read more

Later Developments (Part 2)

COMPARISONS WITH ADAMSKI’S INITIAL ENCOUNTER The description by George Adamski of the ‘man from Venus’ he claims to have encountered in the Californian desert in November 1952 (Chapter 6) closely resembles Léger’s account. In his first book, Flying Saucers Have Landed, co- authored with Desmond Leslie, Adamski described the ‘Venusian’ as follows: His hands were … Read more

Later Developments (Part 1)

The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: Alien Base After the Liberation, Leger got a job at an American Army Air Forces unit, where some USAAF gunners told him that during several missions they were accompanied by luminous disc-shaped objects — nicknamed foo-fighters’ — which they assumed were German or Russian in origin. This conversation … Read more

Retrievals Of Craft And Bodies (Part 2)

The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: Alien Base While it is widely believed that the first recovery by US military forces of a crashed UFO took place in New Mexico in July 1947 (the so-called Roswell Incident), there are intriguing stories of UFO recovery operations some years earlier. ‘NORTH OF GEORGIA’, USA According to … Read more

Retrievals Of Craft And Bodies (Part 1)

The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: Alien Base While it is widely believed that the first recovery by US military forces of a crashed UFO took place in New Mexico in July 1947 (the so-called Roswell Incident), there are intriguing stories of UFO recovery operations some years earlier. MISSOURI, USA Raymond Fowler, a UFO … Read more

Humanoids In France

The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: Alien Base It was not just ‘foo-fighters’ that were observed during the Second World War. In the summer of 1944 a French witness claims to have observed an unknown flying machine together with its unusual occupants. Although only 13 years old at the time, Madeleine Arnoux retained a … Read more

Foo-Fighters Over England

The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: Alien Base In June 1944 the Germans began launching against London the first of their two Vergeltungswaffen (retaliation weapons) — the V-1. Dubbed ‘doodle-bugs’ or ‘buzz bombs’ by the British, the V-1 s, powered by a pulse-jet, were launched from ramps in northwestern France and directed to their … Read more

An Aerial Merry-Go-Round

The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: Alien Base During the German occupation of France, Daniel Leger, 19 years old at the time, lived in a little village in the department of Sarthe, 15 kilometres to the south of Le Mans, working at a butcher’s shop. On a hot afternoon in the summer of 1941, … Read more