Shoot Them Down! - The Flying Saucer Air Wars Of 1952 - Paperback

by Frank Jr. Feschino (Author)

During the summer of 1952, Americans reported a record amount of UFO sightings to Project Blue Book. Frank Feschino, Jr. has written a book about the 1952 summer and America's UFO problem. He takes the reader on a journey through Blue Book's "UNKNOWN" cases and other UFO reports. He focuses on the encounters between US. fighter planes and UFOs with an in-depth historical account of the United States military's "shoot down" orders. On Sept. 12, 1952, a horrific encounter occurred in West Virginia when a 12-foot-tall being, the "Flatwoods Monster," terrified a group of Flatwoods residents after it's damaged craft landed in their town. Feschino reports on this case in great detail and has become the authority on the "Flatwoods Monster" incident. For the first time, he writes the complete version of this terrifying alien encounter...the most accurate documentation of this event in print. 90 photos, maps & illustrations.