ufo - UFOS at close sight: the newspapers, Maurice K. Jessup reviewed, N.Y.T. 1956

Maurice K. Jessup reviewed, N.Y.T. 1956:

This article was published in the daily newspaper The New York Times, USA, on September 16, 1956.

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To the editors:

WILLY LEY in his review [1] of "The UFO Annual" edited by M.K. Jessup [2] mentioned one story in this book of "information" about unidentified flying objects, which he did not quite believe. Mr. Ley was right in that the story "Top Secret" by David Grinnell is, and always has been, a science fiction story. It was first published in Sir! [3] in 1948, reprinted in the fall, 1950, issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and then anthologized in Groff Conklin's "Invaders of Earth." Mr. Jessup goofed all right * * *.

GEORGE W. EARLEY [4],
Bloomfield, Conn.

Footnotes:

[1]: The article is a reader's letter following a negative review of Jessup's "UFO Annual" in the New York Times.

[2]: Maurice K. Jessup (1900-1959) was an author of UFO books of the early lunatic fringe kind, most known for having publicized the so called Carlos Allende forgeries about the so-called Philadelphia experiment.

[3]: Sir! was a men's magazine, mixing adventures stories, playmates pictures and occasionally UFO stories.

[4]: George W. Earley was not a "UFO debunker". he was genuinely interested in the phenomenon and wrote a number of books about it.

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