More Questions about “Cases”
ALAN writes:
Many years ago when I studied the lore and literature of the Flying Saucer Myth, one thing I observed was the enthusiasm with which Saucer Fans piled up “cases.” Whenever Joe Doakes in this town or that city said he saw a weird object in the sky and it got written up in the local newspaper, Saucer Fans claimed it as a “case.” As early as the 1960s, they talked about “computer catalogs” of thousands of such “cases.” It sounded impressive.
In 1964 a group of Saucer Researchers called NICAP published a book entitled The UFO Evidence. It was attractively printed with justified columns, charts, and graphs. It contained what were said to be hundreds of “cases” of Extraordinary Flying Objects reportedly seen by pilots, police officers, businessmen, and other sober citizens. (more…)