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How UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth

A Sheffield Hallam University folklorist and the UK National Archives' UFO consultant traced how the flying saucer went from a 1947 press misquote to a global cultural fixture, drawing on newly declassified British Ministry of Defence files he helped catalogue.

Author
David Clarke
Published
2015
Library rank
#89

Why it matters

Written by the academic who directly oversaw the UK's declassified UFO file releases, giving unusual archival authority.