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'Flying Saucer from Mars' contact book, later exposed as a hoax

Name: 'Flying Saucer from Mars' contact book, later exposed as a hoax
Start: 1954
Location: Lossiemouth, Scotland

When: 1954
Where: Lossiemouth, Scotland
Sources: 2 public sources

Astronomer Patrick Moore, whom researchers named as a likely author; he never admitted a role David Scanlan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

A book credited to Cedric Allingham claimed its author met a Martian pilot near Lossiemouth in February 1954. In 1986 researchers argued it was a spoof: Peter Davies admitted revising it and posing as Allingham, and they named astronomer Patrick Moore, who never admitted a role, as author.

Sources

OtherFlying Saucer from Moore's? (Christopher Allan and Steuart Campbell, Magonia 23, 1986) (opens in a new tab)Magonia Archive / 1986-07
OtherAllingham, Cedric (Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology) (opens in a new tab)Encyclopedia.com (Gale)

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