Frank Scully's "Behind the Flying Saucers" was originally published in 1950 and became an instant bestseller. It was the first nonfiction hardback book published on the then quite new subject of crashed UFOs and holds up very well today after the passage of nearly 60 years.

"Behind The Flying Saucers," which has recently been reprinted by Timothy Green Beckley at Global Communications, tells the complicated story of the crash of a flying saucer in Aztec, New Mexico, in March of 1948. The ship itself was largely undamaged, but the dead bodies of 14 to 16 small aliens were reported to have been found alongside the spacecraft. The aliens were described as being like "little men," similar to the grays of our own time, which was unusual in an age when contactees would soon after be regaling the media with visits by blonde, human-looking Venusians.

Scully, a reporter at the time for Hollywood's "Variety" newspaper, came by his information in what would prove to be a controversial way. Screen legend Linda Darnell and her husband, cinematographer Peverly Marley, urged him to contact a wealthy oil man named Silas Newton, who had a story for Scully that he shouldn't pass up. Newton was well-known among the denizens of Hollywood, as was Scully, who had inspired trust in all the celebrities he wrote about for "Variety." Scully met with Newton, as Darnell had recommended, and was impressed enough by Newton's story and the testimony of a scientist named "Dr. Gee" to give the Aztec crash story a book-length treatment.

Things seemed to be going rather well for Scully as he reaped enormous book sales and brought the truth of crashed UFOs to a public eager to learn more about the mysterious craft appearing in our skies with alarming regularity. But a couple of years after the publication of "Behind The Flying Saucers," a reporter from "The San Francisco Chronicle," J.P. Cahn, who had jealously tried to buy Scully's story from him before the book's publication, wrote an expose for "True Magazine" in which he "revealed" that Silas Newton was an out and out conman and the mysterious "Dr. Gee" was really his partner-in-crime Leo GeBauer.

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