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Menzel and Boyd publish 'The World of Flying Saucers'

When: 1963
Sources: 1 public source

Donald Menzel, co-author with Lyle Boyd of 'The World of Flying Saucers' Fdavis99 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Harvard astronomer Donald Menzel and Lyle Boyd published 'The World of Flying Saucers' with Doubleday, Menzel's second skeptical UFO book. It argued that reports from Kenneth Arnold onward could be explained by natural phenomena, misperception and atmospheric effects.

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OtherThe World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age (Menzel and Boyd, Doubleday, 1963) (opens in a new tab)Project Gutenberg / 1963

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