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Media Interest

We should never underestimate the power of the media, or its capability to set the political agenda, even to the extent that it can drive government policy. This is as true today as it was in the post-war years. The year that ufology first really hit the headlines in the UK was 1950. Prior to that there had, of course, been coverage, but this largely concerned US sightings and the reporting was often dismissive. But on 8 October 1950 two major newspapers started a series of articles on the subject. The Sunday Express began to serialise Gerald Heard’s book The Riddle of the Flying Saucers (The book was subsequently published in the US under the title Is Another World Watching?). The rival Sunday Dispatch, a London paper, ran extracts from Frank Scully’s Behind the Flying Saucers and Donald Keyhoe’s The Flying Saucers are Real. But it was not just the media who were clamouring for answers and pressing the Government for action. Some very senior Establishment figures felt that something should be done and lobbied on the subject, sometimes openly and sometimes behind the scenes. Some of these figures were quite prepared to express openly the view that some UFO sightings might well be extraterrestrial in origin.

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