Jingszo !

This article originally appeared in The Skeptic, Volume 4, Issue 6, from 1990.

There seems little doubt that the late Ray Palmer was, if not the ‘father of flying saucers’, then at least the midwife who assisted at the birth of the most intransigent mystery of this, or any other century.

The parameters he ably established when he first espoused the ufological cause by publishing I Did See The Flying Discs by Kenneth Arnold in the pages of the first issue of his brand new magazine Fate in 1948, still have considerable influence today – especially in America where the ‘Aliens from Space Syndrome’ has gained a new lease of life by the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act.