The Coming of the Saucers
Front cover | |
| Author | Kenneth Arnold and Raymond Palmer |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Coming of the Saucers: a Documentary Report on Sky Objects that have Mystified the World |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Unidentified flying objects |
Publication date | 1952 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 192 |
| OCLC | 4432597 |
| LC Class | TL789 .A7 |
The Coming of the Saucers is a 1952 book by original 'flying saucer' witness Kenneth Arnold and magazine publisher Raymond Palmer. The book reprints and expands early articles the two had published in Palmer's magazine Fate. The work blends first-person accounts attributed to Arnold with third-person summations of UFO reports.
The book features the first publication known of the concept of a "man in black", later expanded into UFO folklore by Gray Barker in his 1956 work They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers.