TheFifthHorseman oftheApocalypse UFOs:AHistory
The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse
UFOs: A History 1957
December
THE FIFTH HORSEMAN OF THE APOCADfPSE UFOS: A HISTORY
1957: DECEMBER by Loren E. Gross Copyright ? 1998 Fremont CA
DEDICATION This history series is dedicated to the memory of Francis R. "Dick" Scobee of Cle Elum, Washington, Mission Commander of the space shuttle Challenger and a "shirt tail" relative
on my Mother's side of the family.
WANTED: Any material related to the summer 1947 flying saucer wave. Contact: Project 1947 Box 391 Canterbury CT 06331
"UFOs are the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse." - Dr. Lincoln La Paz
SPECIAL THANKS 1 I would like to take special notice of . Bob Gribble's gift of his newsclipping collection and source notes for the years 1800-1996. Bob wanted his material put to good use and I will make every effort to do so. Many of Mr. Gribble's items form a vital part of this booklet, as they will, I'm sure, of subsequent booklets and any revisions of previous works.
Loren E. Gross
Acknowledgments:
I would like to thank pioneer UFOlogist Vincent Gaddis for the gift of his collection of UFO newspaper clippings covering the early years of the UFO mystery; as well as George Earley who took the time and trouble to copy considerable material for ray use from his UFO files; and Stanion Friedman, who was equally helpful by permitting access to his extensive library deal ing with aerial phenomena. Furthermore, Lucius Farish has provided some vital items, good advice, and strong encouragement. Similarly, Dr. Richard Haines gave a lot of help; as did Lawrence Fawcett.
In addition, Claude Mauge of France and Hilary Evans of England provided information and newspaper clippings from Europe.
Tom Benson of New Jersey was kind enough to share some rare UFO news bul letins which might have been otherwise unobtainable.
Richard D. Kloian of Richmond, California, who conducted extensive search es of back issues of the New York Times deserves a mention; as does Edward Stewart of North Highlands7~Calitornia, who gave advice on the manuscript but most of all was instrumental in obtaining complete sets of important publica tions, hard to find microfilm, various government documents, and other items too numerous to list.
Ander Liljegren's Arkivet for UFO Forskning in Norrkoeing, Sweden, is one of the world's best sources of UFO information and is highly recommended to anyone seriously considering research into the UFO mystery.
I would also like to express my gratitude to Barry J. Greenwood who pro vided so much material from his huge UFO collection, a collection which must equal or even exceed that of any UFO organization.
Paul Cerny, active for more than 40 years in NICAP and MJFON, gave me a big stack of UFO documents from his personal files.
Another big help was the UFO collection of Les Treece-Sinclair of Elk Grove, California, which contained a number of rare items.
Considerable assistance was given by the Center For UFO Studies (CUFOS) which has an enormous UFO archive which includes the records and sighting re ports of the defunct National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (NICAP); as well as the critical "Ruppelt PapeTS."
Another source, of extreme importance, was the voluminous UFO research files of Dr. James McDonald at the Special Collections Division, University of Arizona, Tucson.
Robert J. Gribble of Seattle, Washington, was kind enough to lend copies of many newspaper clippings from his beautifully organized files. Gribble sub scribed to the Luce Press Clipping Bureau in the 1950s.
The scrapbooks of the late Leon Davidson.were put on microfilm and made ac cessible due to the efforts of Barry Greenwood.
It is suggested that anyone interested in UFOs pay a visit to the Clarks burg-Harrison Public Library, Clarksburg, West Virginia. The papers of the late Gray Barker are available for inspection there.
Other names I should mention include Roderick B. Dyke, the editor of the U.F.O.R.C. Journal which evolved into the present day UFO Newsclipping Ser vice, Dr. Willy Smith, Richard Hall, Karl T. Pflock, Domimique WeuisTein, and Dr. Michael Swords.
Finally, and most of all, I must praise Jan L. Aldrich of Canterbury, Con necticut, who is a kind of superman in the data gathering community and has generously shared hundreds of items from a vast research project currently in
progress.
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