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FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE. By Major Donald E. Keyhoe, USMC (Ret'd.) Non-fiction. Henry Holt and Company, New York. Price $3.00
When Hamlet told his friend, "There arc more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy," he wasn't referring to flying saucers. But around the year 1600 when Shakespeare wrote the line, another civilization on another planet may have been turning out crude flying machines at the same rate that 15th Century workmen were building drawbridges and digging moats around castles.
Donald Keyhoe, retired Marine Corps Major, doesn't make this statement in his book, Flying Saucers From Outer Space, but it's one of the many impressions readers will have when they've finished reading Mr. Keyhoe's startling report on the enigma which has plagued Air Force officials since 1947.
The title connotes science-fiction reading, and will probably attract buyers who are seeking that type, but the author has taken abrupt steps in his early pages to dispel the idea that this is just another "guessing game" treatise. The sighting reports and other information on which the reader is invited to base conclusions were made available to Mr. Keyhoe by the Air Technical Intelligence Center-and the Air Technical Intelligence Center...