Tim Beckley sent me a batch of books a couple of days ago that I'll be highlighting and reviewing here, including a newly-published edition of Morris K. Jessup's The Case for the UFO.
But, if you don't have the book (which I wrote about in my The Pyramids and the Pentagon book), you'll want this version, as it's a reprint of the so-called "annotated version" that the U.S. Navy had on-file.
If you don't know the story, here's Tim to tell you more:
DID THE PUBLICATION OF THIS RARE MANUSCRIPT CAUSE FAMED ASTRONOMER DR
MORRIS K. JESSUP TO 'COMMIT SUICIDE?" Or was he murdered because of what he
knew? Only a handful of copies were originally printed on an office copier by a
private government contractor. NOW AVAILABLE AFTER NEARLY 50 YEARS. On the
evening of APril 20, 1959, an astronomer committed suicide in Dade County Park,
FLorida. Inhaling automobile exhaust fumes which he had introduced from the tail
pipe through a hose into his station wagon, he died in the same academic
obscurity in which he had lived, unheralded and almost unrecognized in his
discipline. Ironicallly, the scientists only public recognition had come from
lay people, who had read his series of four books about UFOs. Morris Jessup's
first book, THE CASE FOR THE UFO, had tended to alienate him from his
colleagues. It was a paperback edition of this volume published in 1955 that
enmeshed Jessup in one of the most bizarre mysteries in UFO history. An
annotated reprint of the paperback was laboriously typed out on offset stencils
and printed in a very small run by a Garland, Texas manufacturing company with
military ties. Each page was run thrugh the small office duplicator twice, once
with blank ink for the regular text of the book, then once again with red ink,
the latter reproducing the mysterious annotations by three men, who may have
been gypsies, hoaxters or space people living among humankind. The spiral bound
volume contained more than 200 pages ane became known as the Annotated Edition.
A reprint quickly became legend. A few civilizan UFO enthusiasts claimed to have
seen copies, but there were only known to be seventeen in existence one of which
Jessup possessed. . . but which mysteriously disappeared after his death. . .
never to be seen again. This is a once in a lifetime offered reprint of the Case
For The UFO with all the rare notes exactly as presented by these "strangers."
The big mystery is why the government would go to so much trouble to reprint a
book that had been rejected by the scientific community and further to include
mysterious letters to the author and even more bizarre annotations. This
manuscript is the first to hint at the Philadelphia Experiment, Time Travel and
other scientifically "oddities." It is a manuscript which has been long searched
for because of its quite peculiar nature and its rarity among "those in the
know." There are some who say this book is among the weirdest ever published on
unidentified flying objects. One copy is known to have been sold for $1200. This
reprint is but a fraction of the cost.This edition also contains a rare
introduction by Gray Barker.
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