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True magazine exposes the Aztec crashed-saucer story as a con

When: Sep 1952
Where: Aztec, NM
Sources: 2 public sources

Writer J. P. Cahn's True magazine article showed that the crashed-saucer tale in Frank Scully's bestseller traced to Silas Newton and Leo GeBauer, the book's 'Dr. Gee'. Their 'alien' metal tested as ordinary aluminum, and both were arrested that fall in an oil-detector fraud case.

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PressThe Press: Flying-Saucer Men (opens in a new tab)TIME / 1952-10-27
OtherExcerpts from 'The Flying Saucers and the Mysterious Little Men' (J. P. Cahn, TRUE, September 1952) (opens in a new tab)Patrick Gross, ufologie.patrickgross.org / 1952-09

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