In 1950, a columnist for Variety, Frank Scully, published a book entitled, Behind the Flying Saucers. It was an expose of a government program, funded in secret and retaining some 1800 scientists, to study the remains of three crashed flying saucers allegedly captured in the desert Southwest. This story, if true, would be the exclusive of a lifetime.

Scully laid out the information given to him by the scientist and by Silas Newton. J.P. Cahn, of the San Francisco Chronicle took an assignment from True, a men’s magazine devoted to war fiction, government expose, and other stories of interest to men, to either find the proof the tale was accurate, or that it was a complete fabrication.

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