Saucer Attack!: Pop Culture in the Golden Age of Flying Saucers

by Eric Nesheim, Leif Nesheim

Saucer Attacks! captures images of the UFO phenomenon from the golden age of flying saucers, beginning in 1947 with the infamous "Roswell Incident, " and taking readers into the prosperous post-war years, when it seemed that the night skies were riddled with inexplicable phenomena. Teeming with 200 images from a variety of sources, Saucer Attacks! is a compendium of everything related to a time when the imagination ran wild.

Genres: History

128 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1997

Reviews

[Fraser Sherman]

Coming out on the 50th anniversary of Keith Arnold's UFO sighting (his description of them flying like saucers skipping over the water gave us the "flying saucer" term) this covers the basic UFO events and personalities of the 1950s and '60s. However it's stuff I already knew and this is way too light on analysis, relying on photos (movie posters, comic-book covers, toys) to show the saucers' impact.