Frank Scully
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Frank Scully (28 April 1892 – 23 June 1964) was an American journalist and columnist for the entertainment magazine Variety. He is best known for Behind the Flying Saucers (1950), the first book to claim that crashed flying saucers and the bodies of their crews had been recovered by the US government. His sources were later exposed as confidence tricksters.[1]
Career
Scully studied journalism at Columbia University, worked for The New York Sun and became a regular contributor to Variety. He wrote humorous books, including the Fun in Bed series for people recovering from illness, and was active in Californian politics in the 1930s.[1]
The Aztec story
In 1949 Scully wrote two Variety columns claiming that dead extraterrestrials had been recovered from a crashed flying saucer. His 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers expanded the story, describing a crash near Aztec, New Mexico, and relying on an unnamed scientist whom he described as having "more degrees than a thermometer".[1]
In 1952 and 1956 True magazine published articles by San Francisco Chronicle reporter John Philip Cahn which showed that Scully's sources were confidence tricksters who had hoaxed him.[1] Scully nevertheless repeated material about crashed saucers in a 1963 book.[1]
Legacy
Scully was made a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by the Pope in 1956. He died in 1964.[1]
On the UAP Timeline
- Selman Graves and the Paradise Valley crash claim (October 1947) — Pilot Selman Graves says he saw a crashed craft and two humanoid bodies recovered in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
- Chuck Wade's seven New Mexico crashes (26 March 2011) — A researcher presents claims from military sources about UAP crash recoveries.
References
- Frank Scully — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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