March 20th is National Extraterrestrial Abduction Day. To honor those from another planet, I have a few books on the subject. My sister-in-law’s father was into the subject, and when he downsized to live with his daughter, I was given opportunity to pick up several of these books. A few are rather rare. They all have original dust jackets.
The first is the list is: “Gods From Outer Space” by Erich von Daniken, 1970. The author looks at sites around the world, and decides they must have been made by aliens. His other book ” Chariots of the Gods?” 1969 is also that aliens must have built some of these wonders, too. Then the book “The Case for the UFO, unidentified Flying Objects” by M.K. Jessup, 1955 is full of his examples of visits through the ages, using his background of being an astrophysicist. “Flying Saucers-Serious Business” by Frank Edwards, 1966, has a notice:
“Warning! Near approaches of Unidentified Flying Objects can be harmful to human beings. Do not stand under a UFO that is hovering at low altitude. Do not touch or attempt to touch a UFO that has laded. In either case the safe thing to do is to get away from there quickly and let the military take over. There is a possibility of radiation danger and there are known cases where persons have been burned by rays emanating from UFOs. Details on those cases are included in this book. Don’t take chances with UFOs.” Makes sense to me.
The next book is “Flying Saucers, Top Secret” by Major Donald E. Keyhoe, 1960. He was a retired Marine. Must listen to him. “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” by Edward J. Ruppelt, 1965. Another armed forces man-Head of the United States Air Force Project Blue book Investigating Flying Saucers. A very unusual book “UFO Contact from Undersea” by Dr. Virgilio Sanchez-Ocejo and Lt Col. Wendelle C. Stevens. Last book would be “Inside the Space Ships” by George Adamski, 1955. The author has met several aliens, and has been in their ships, according to him.
Today is also the birthday of Charles William Eliot 3/20/1834 to 8/22/1926. He was President of Harvard for many years. Collier published his recommendations for a 5 foot bookshelf, and a plan to read 15 minutes every day from it. “The Harvard Classics, The Five Foot Shelf of Books” 50 volume set, 1909.
There are 50 volumes in the series, the last volume being an index, first line of poems index, and a reading program for each day of the year. On March 20th, we are to read about Sir Isaac Newton, who died on March 20th, 1727. This was the first time I bought a set of books that was missing a volume. I bought the set from Leekley’s Book Store in Winthrop Harbor when they were closing shop. It was missing volume 17. He gave me a great deal. I was able to track down #17 about ten years later.
This has been quite a day, writing about such topics. I have spend most of the day just flipping through, rereading passages, and looking at pictures. Then I had to hurry and put down some notes and observations. I hope you have enjoyed at least the flavor of today’s topic.
By the way, What do you call a slow-moving Alien? A snail-ien.
How do alien poets write their poetry? In uni-verse.
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