Flying Saucers Over Los Angeles

Kempton IL: Adventures Unlimited Press. Near Fine. (c.1998). First Edition. Softcover. [very slight bumping to corners of rear cover, otherwise a nice clean book, virtually as-new]. (The Mind Control/Conspiracy Series) Series Trade PB (B&W and color photos, facsimiles) Fascinating examination of the UFO craze of the 1950s, this is an enhancement/expansion of an unpublished manuscript written in 1950 by Johnson (actually a dissertation written at UCLA), which presents "a contemporaneous view of the earliest UFO excitement in 1950s America unvarnished by the accumulated speculation of [subsequent] years," as well as "one of the first analyses of the sociological and psychological dimensions of the UFO experience. Numerous original newspaper articles are reproduced in the book's appendix, and there's also a 16-page color insert of rare UFO photos and early flying saucer artwork. .