The Saucer Fleet
©2008 Jack Hagerty and Jon C. Rogers
ISBN 978189495970-4
2001 - A Space Odyssey · 20, 157, 165
20th Century Fox · 14-16, 18, 21, 44, 48, 79,80, 86, 120, 157, 197, 240, 241, 254, 259,265, 271
A —
A movies · 82, 157, 159, 163, 199
Abbot and Costello Go to Mars · 120, 125, 140,157
Adamski, George · 51, 204, 211, 217, 280, 294, 296
Adler, Allen · 157, 158, 161, 162, 165, 166,192, 198
Advanced Technology · 29, 162, 207, 242, 244
Air Force · 2, 9, 11, 80, 93, 95, 107, 212, 241
Aircraft
Airlock · 190, 191, 249, 252, 255, 258, 263, 264, 271,272, 273
Aliens · iv, 1, 23, 44, 114, 116, 118, 119, 122, 155,162, 194, 204, 205, 209-217, 223-226, 237, 239,246, 248, 280-283, 290, 294-298
Alland, Bill · 123-125
Allen, Irwin · 16, 21, 44, 143, 160, 192, 201,235, 242-245, 248, 250, 253, 278, 284
Alpha Centuri - See Outer Space, Alpha Centuri
Alpha Centuri · 236, 240, 241
Alpha Control · 241, 242, 243, 250, 253
Altair · 162, 164, 166-169, 179, 180, 190, 193, 198
America · ii, 3, 10, 21, 46, 51, 77, 82, 115, 136,154, 280, 294, 296, 298, A1
American Broadcasting Co. (ABC) · 10, 280,281, 283, 284, 290
Apollo · 30, 202, 240, 251, 282
Area 51 · iii, 1
Armstrong, Neil (Astronaut) · 239
Army · 11, 16, 24-28, 31, 48, 79, 80, 86, 94, 95,97, 102, 107, 109, 203, 207, 208, A2
Arnold, Kenneth · 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, A3, A4
Artificial Gravity · 68, 242, 252, 253
As Extraterrestrial Spaceships · ii, iv, v, 1, 9, 294-298
Asimov, Isaac · 161, 198
Associated Press (AP) · 3, 4, 5
Asteroid Belt - See Outer Space, Asteroid Belt ·
Asteroid Belt · 235
Astounding · 14, 161
Astrogator · 168, 179, 180, 181, 194-197, 249, 252,254, 263-265, 273
Asylum Home Entertainment (The)· 118, 119
Atomic · 2, 3, 12, 86, 87, 90, 98, 252, 297
Atomic Clock · 252
Atomic Engine · 91, 242, 259
Atomic Motors · 251, 252
Atomic Physics
Australia · 46, 236
Austria · 2
B —
B movies · 82, 120, 153, 157, 159, 165, 198,199, 205
Baby Saucer · 61, 75
Barron, Louis and Bebe · 88, 164-166
Bartholomew, Robert · 5
Baruch, Bernard · 2
Bates, Harry · 14, 15
Batman · 21, 240, 280
Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (The)· 200
Behind the Flying Saucers · 11
Bellerophon · 168, 171, 174, 177, 198, 203
Bequette, Bill · 4, 5
Black & White · 30, 156, 239, 242
Blaustein, Julian · 14-18, 20, 25, 26, 28, 43,85
Bloch, John W. · 283
Bombs
Books
Books, Comic · ii, 7, 8, 46-48, 75, 155, 235, 278, 297
Bruce Gentry · 8, 298
Buck Rogers · 48, 106, 107, 182
Burroughs B205 · 250, 253, 272
C —
C3PO · 169
C57-D · 44, 143, 162, 166, 175, 179-182, 191,192, 194, 209, 215, 216, 224, 248-250
Cal Tech (California Institute of Technology) · 81, 162
Callaghan, George · 122-125
Canada · 4, 5, A1
Cape Canaveral · 282
Capra, Frank · 79, 199, 200
Chariot · 236, 245-248, 259, 275-277
China · 2, 3, 282
Cinefantastique · 14, 17, 20, 43, 77, 79, 80-83, 85,86, 88, 89, 158, 159, 162, 164-166, 174, 175,179, 180, 206
Cinemascope · 157, 165, 194
Clarke, Arthur C. · 29
Clash of the Titans · 203
Close Encounters of the Third Kind · 68, 96, 101,298
Cohen, Larry · 281
Cold - See - Cold War·
Cold War 114, 211, 280, 297, A1
Color · 30, 56, 239, 284
Columbia · 8, 199, 205
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) · 20,30, 44, 78, 79, 235-237, 239-241, 278,282
Communicator · 52, 57, 62, 169, 170, 175
Communism · 2, 3, 12-14, 16, 52, 53, 62, 75, 280,281
Composers
Computer
Conrad, Mikel · 9, 10
Conrad, Mikel · 9, 10
Conrad, Mikel · 9, 10
Contactees · 51, 294
Cosmopolitan · 77
Creators of,
Creber, William · 248, 249, 250, 252
D —
Dateline Danger · 48
Day the Earth Stood Still (The)· 14-44, 85, 86, 93,114, 157, 166, 194, 199, 205, 206, 209, 211,213, 236, 239, 246, 294, 298
DC-3 · 131, 132
Death · 122
Defoe, Daniel · 235
DeMille, Cecil B · 77, 78, 80-82, 87, 89, 117.
Destination Moon · 15, 44, 76, 79, 89, 101, 113,157, 213, 276
Digital · 252
Directors
Disney Studios · 21, 46, 47, 82, 88, 122, 124,164, 180, 225, 233-236, 238
Disney, Walt - Imagineering (WDI) · 233, 234
Disney, Walt - Imagineers · 225
Disney’s California Adventure (DCA) · 233, 234
Disneyland · 225-227, 232, 233, 298
Douhet, Giulio · 2
DuBois, Gaylord · 46
E —
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers · 8, 16, 44, 86, 87,106, 114, 116, 180, 194, 195, 199-224, 294,298
East Oregonian · 3-5
Edison, Thomas Alva · 77
Einstein, Albert · 16, 104
Eisenhower, Dwight · 85
Electromagnetic pulse EMP · 103
Energy · 209
England · 3, 10, 23, 76-78, 80, 81, 83, 117
Epidiascope · 97, 140, 213
Europe · 3, 5, 23, 46, 48, 78, 236
F —
Fear · 1, 296
Filmfax · 42, 121-127, 161, 198, 205
Fluoroscopic Ray Projector · 52, 56, 62, 68
Flying · 3, 8, 297
Flying Disc Man From Mars (The)· 11, 298.
Flying Saucer · ii-v, 1, 3-14, 35, 42, 45, 49, 50, 51, 52,55, 56, 58, 61, 62, 72, 75, 80, 81, 83, 84, 120,152, 162, 166, 182, 191, 194, 199, 204-208, 217,226, 227, 232-234, 240, 248, 254, 264, 265, 277,280, 281, 283, 285, 290, 293-298, A2-A5
Flying Saucers Are Real · 11
Flying Saucers from Outer Space · 204
Flying Saucers Have Landed · 294
Flying Wing · 9, 86, 98, 113, 116
Forbidden Planet · 44, 82, 88, 89, 135, 143, 153,157-199, 206, 209, 215, 224, 237, 245, 248,249, 252, 276, 291, 294, 297
Force Fields · 87, 106, 107, 115, 126, 164, 169, 180,191, 197, 198, 208, 209, 212, 214, 215, 217, 245
France · 4, 23, 76, 94, 283
G —
Gallup Polls · 7, 11, 297
Geddes, Norman Bel (Industrial Designer) · 159
Gemini · 248
Gemini XII · 236, 248, 249, 254, 255, 258, 263-265, 271-274, 276
Generated Imagery-CGI · 118, 119, 196, 224
Germany · 3, 46, 48, 133, 153
Ghost Rocket · 2, 3
Gillespie, Arnold ‘Buddy’ (Special effects) · 159, 162,164, 165, 215
Gluons · 104, 105
Gold Key (Publisher) · 235
Gordon, Bernard 224
Gort · 18-24, 26-30, 35-44, 102, 239
Guided Missiles · 3, 121, 232, 233
Gurr, Bob · 225, 226, 228, 229, 232-234
H —
Harryhausen, Ray · 8, 16, 44, 79, 80, 86, 116,117, 154, 194, 196, 199-206, 215-218,223, 224
Haskin, Byron · 80, 82-87, 89, 90, 96, 101
Hearst · 77
Heat · 14, 19, 20, 22, 24, 27, 43, 53, 84, 87-89, 93-95, 97, 99, 100, 102, 103, 108,112, 119
Herrmann, Bernard · 20, 23, 42, 44, 201, 239, 246.
Hibernation · 241, 245, 272, 294
Hollywood
Hollywood
Hollywood · 8, 9, 11-13, 16, 44, 77, 98, 121, 128, 152-154,164, 165, 179, 198-200, 218, 223, 265, 272,275, 277, 282, 297
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)· 12, 14
Hovercraft · 225, 226, 228
H-R diagram · 166
Huebner, Mentor (Production Illustrator) · 159, 160
Hume, Cyril · 159, 161, 166, 192, 197, 198
Hydroponic Garden · 245
HyperDrive · 166, 180, 193, 243, 253
Hyperspace · 168, 171
Hysteria · 2, 5, 9
I —
ICBMs · 50
Independence Day · 1, 3, 68, 116, 224, 298
Independent
Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) · 118
Interocitor · 126, 127, 130-135, 137, 140, 246
Interstellar Cruiser
Invaders (The)· 21, 114, 280-298
Iron Curtain · 3, 46
It Came from Beneath the Sea · 200
Japan · 153, 293
Jason and the Argonauts · 202, 203
JD-2 · 2
Jones, Raymond F. · 121, 122, 132, 136
Jupiter · 232
Jupiter 2 · 143, 192, 209, 237, 239-241, 244,246, 247-255, 258, 259, 263-265, 271-279
Just Imagine · 157, 165
K —
Keyhoe, Donald · 9, 11, 204, 297, 298
King Kong · 199, 200, 201, 203
King, of the Mounties · 12
Kinoshita, Bob · 160, 192, 237, 248, 249, 252
Kiosk · 30, 36-41
Klaatu · 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 24-31, 35-37, 39-44,85, 86, 166, 194, 205, 214-216, 224, 239
Korean · 11, 12, 15, 50
Krell · 135, 162, 164, 168, 173-179, 194, 196, 198
Kubrick, Stanley · 20, 157, 174
L —
Laemmle, Carl · 120
Lagrange, Pierre · 4
Laser Pistol · 244-247
Lebeck, Oscar · 45-50, 55, 56, 58, 75
Lonergan, Arthur · 159, 162, 163, 165, 180,192, 252
Los Angeles Daily News · 5, 11
Los Angeles Examiner · 5
Los Angeles Times · 9
Lost in Space · 21, 89, 143, 153, 160, 192,197, 209, 235-279, 281, 282, 284, 291,294, 298
Lowell, Percival · 76, 77
Lucas, George · 82, 153, 157
Lyndon, Barré · 80-82, 91, 101, 107, 114
M —
Magazines
Magnetic drive · 251
Magnetic field · 30, 212, 216, 217, 251
Mancini, Henry · 128
Maneuvering jets · 65, 264
Manhattan Project · 94, 101, 132
Marines (USMC) · 86
Mars - See - Outer Space, Mars ·
Mars · 11, 12, 22, 42, 76-78, 84, 85, 89, 90, 92, 95-97, 113-115, 117, 118, 121, 180, 205, 224, 251
Mars Attacks! · 155, 224, 298
Martian War Machine · 102, 108, 109, 112, 205
Martians · 27, 76-89, 93-99, 101, 102, 106, 107,112-119, 155, 298
Martin, Lock · 18, 22
Martin, Quinn · 280, 281, 283-285, 290
Mayer, Louis B. · 120
McCarthyism · 14, 50, 280, 281, 283
McWilliams, Alden S. ‘Mac’ · 45-50, 55, 56, 58, 68,75
McWilliams, Alden S. ‘Mac’ · 45-50, 55, 56,58, 68, 75
Meador, Joshua (Disney Effects Animation Supervi-sor)· 164, 174, 175
Mechanics Today · 294
Mechanix Illustrated · 3
Mesons · 104, 105
Metaluna - See: Outer Space, Metaluna ·
Metaluna · 122, 124-128, 136, 137, 139-145, 151,153, 155
Metalunans · 130, 136, 137, 139, 140, 142, 153,195
MGM · 46, 90, 120, 157-160, 164, 165, 173,182, 192, 194, 195, 197, 216, 252
Model B-9 Environmental Control Robot · 160,192, 237-249, 265, 274, 278
Monsters · 12, 13, 25, 60, 123, 124, 158, 164, 178,179, 190, 192, 193, 198, 201, 236, 237, 239, 240,244, 282, 297
Monsters from the Id · 158, 164, 177-179, 192, 193,198
Moon - See - Outer Space, Moon ·
Moon · 58, 59, 89, 202, 227, 282
Morgan valves · 227, 230, 232
Movie
Movie Serials · 8, 9, 11, 12, 281, 297
Movies
Museums · 22, 23, 196, 197, 198, A4, A5
Mutant · 123, 124, 141, 142, 155
Mystery Science Theater 3000 · 116, 155,156, 278
N —
NASA · 115, 202, 226, 248, 279
National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) · 235, 239,282
National News Services
Nations
Navy · 3, 10, 11, 107, 167, 211
Nayfack, Nicholas · 158-160, 165, 192, 197,198
Neon · 160, 163
Networks
New York Post · 8
New York Times · 2, 3
Newman, Bernard · 11
Newman, Joseph · 121-124, 127, 155
News Media
Newspaper adventure strips · ii, 8, 45, 50, 51, 55,56, 59, 61
Newspaper Reporters
Newspapers
Nike · 214
North, Edmund H. · 15, 19, 42, 43
Nozaki, Albert (Al) · 82-86, 89, 90, 102, 107,119, 205
Nyby, Christian · 13
O —
Other
Outer Space · ii, iv, 12, 14, 20, 68, 77, 89, 194, 204,214, 235, 240, 273, 294, 296
Outré · 42, 80, 89, 205
P —
P-80 Shooting Star · 207, 214
Pal, George · 76, 79, 80-82, 84-90, 93, 96,101, 102, 107, 113-119, 126, 157, 166,169, 196, 199, 213
Panic · 1, 5, 214, A1
Paramount · 1, 77, 79-82, 85-87, 89, 90, 97,101, 116, 118, 119, 199
Parents Magazine · 46, 47
Parsons, Louella · 9
Pearson, Drew · 23, 25
Pearson’s · 76-78
Pendragon Pictures · 117, 118
Planets - See - Outer Space, Planets
Planets · 24, 26, 28, 30, 45, 59, 65, 68, 75, 90,103, 122, 166, 193, 225, 235, 251, 293
Poland · 3
Producers
Project Blue Book · 280
Project Saucer · 9, 11
Pythagoras · 45
Quarks · 105
R —
Radar · 23, 30, 59, 168, 175, 181, 183, 194, 196, 197,208, 214, 252, 272, 273,
Radarscope · 253
Radio · iv, v, 2, 6, 13, 14, 20, 23, 25, 26, 29, 59, 76,78, 79, 81, 85, 89, 93, 98, 103, 107, 114, 115,121, 123, 128, 129, 154, 172, 210, 211, 214, 215,237, 239, 242, 244, 246, 247, 253, A3
Ray ·
Ray Bradbury · 44, 121, 199, 200, 204
Reidel, Richard · 124
Republic · 8, 11, 122
Rintels, David · 282
RKO · 79, 80, 89, 203
Robby · 158-165, 169-175, 177-179, 181, 195-198, 237-240
Robots · 159, 161, 197, 235, 237, 238, 240, 241, 243-248
Rocket Drive · 251, 255
Rocket Jetpack · 244, 246
Rockets
Rocketship X-M · 15, 20, 156, 157, 205, 279
Roddenberry, Gene · 14, 193, 235, 239
Roswell incident · 11
Russian Venera probes · 296
S —
Sam Katzman · 8, 205
Saturn - See - Outer Space, Saturn ·
Saturn · 85, 90, 162, 280
Saucer Attack · v, 7, A1
Saucer Fleet (The)· iii, iv, 5, 54, 55, 65, 214, 224,A3
Scare, v, 296, A1
Schary, Dore (MGM Head) · 158, 159, 163-165, 192
Sci-Fi Authors
Screenwriters
Scully, Frank · 11, 51, 296- 298
Sears, Fred F. · 205
Secret agents · 50, 52, 53, 75, 281
Secret Projects · 3
Septa Productions · 157
Series
Serviss, Garrett P. · 77
Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (The)· 201
SF Pulps · 47, 77, 106, 121
Siodmak, Curt · 204
Skiff, Nolan · 4, 5
Skyhook · 207-212, 215, 217, 223, 224
Sound · 217
South America · 46
Soviet Union · 2, 3, 9, 11, 53, 65, 75, 280, 282
Space 1999 · 235
Space Liner · 53, 57, 58, 60, 61, 65, 68, 72, 195.
Space Patrol · 10, 182, 238
Space Pod · 240, 248, 249, 251, 254, 259,275-277
Space Program
Space Station · 51-53, 56, 57, 61, 65, 68, 72, 75
Space Travel · 50, 121, 143, 293, 298
Spaceship Handbook · ii, 15, 76, 85, 120, 157,169, 227, 238, 279
Spacewalk · 243
Special Effects · iv, 8, 10, 17, 22, 35, 79, 82, 83, 86,87, 117, 120, 124, 125, 157-159, 163-165, 174,195, 199-201, 227, 238, 255, 281, 283, 290
Spielberg, Steven · 1, 92, 96, 101, 117, 118,155
Spinner, Anthony · 281, 282
Spock · 14
Standard class · 61, 62, 65, 68
Star Trek · 14, 21, 48, 90, 107, 128, 143, 153,167, 172, 193, 197, 235, 238, 239, 240,278, 281, 282
Star Wars · iv, 48, 128, 153, 157, 169, 203, 238
Starlog · 82, 84, 85, 89, 90, 93, 116, 180, 237,238, 240, 241, 278, 280-283
Stein, Herman · 128, 161
Stellarscope · 136, 137, 139, 140, 141, 143
Stevens, Leith · 88, 89
Stinson Voyager · 135, 142, 144, 152, 153
Strentz, H.J · 5
Studios · 8, 88, 122, 165
Superman · 7, 8
Sweden · 2, 3
T —
T-33 Shooting Star · 128
Tasmania · 76
Technicolor · 87, 88, 98, 127, 140
Television
Tempest (The) -Shakespeare · 157, 158, 198
Terra - See - Outer Space, Terra ·
Terra · 45, 46, 49, 50, 52-61, 65, 68, 72, 75
Terrans · 49, 50, 53, 54, 55, 59, 61, 62, 68
Theremin · 20, 29, 42, 128
Thing! (The)· 12, 13
This Island Earth · 114, 120-156, 195, 199, 246,249, 294, 298
Thrilling Wonder Stories · 121
Tiomkin, Dimitri 20
Tokamak fusion generator · 30
Toys, Frisbee · 6
Tractor beam · 122, 126, 152, 244
TRUE · 9, 10, 11
Truth about the Flying Saucers (The)· 296
TV · iii, v, 10, 12, 21-23, 25, 30, 44, 48, 56, 57, 59, 60,84, 85, 88-90, 114-116, 128, 153-156, 161, 166,172, 182, 192, 194, 195, 197, 202, 209, 211, 224,235-237, 240, 241, 246, 248, 254, 264, 265, 273,275, 278-284, 291, 292-298
Twenty Million Miles to Earth · 201
Twilight Zone · 154, 155, 194-197, 224, 236
TWIN EARTHS · 45-75, 298.
Types
U —
UFOs · ii-v, 1-11, 13, 49, 142, 143, 162, 201, 204, 208,216, 224, 255, 280, 282, 283, 294-298, A4
United Artists · 122
United Features Newspaper Syndicate · 45, 56
United Nations · 2, 12, 55, 68, 215
United Press (UP) · 3, 5, 9
Universal Studios · 22, 89, 120, 123-128, 140,144
Universal-International · 120, 123-125, 155
US Military
V —
V1 · 2, 3
V2 · 3, 90, 207
Vacuum tubes · 29
van Lamsweerde, Frans · 122, 124
Variety · 9, 10, 128
Venus - See - Outer Space, Venus
Venus · 90, 139, 154, 201, 280, 294
Videophones · 53, 75
Vietnam · 280, 282
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea · 31, 44, 235,248, 278.
Vulcan · 14, 140, 282
W —
Wallace, Henry · 2
War
War of the Worlds · 1, 27, 59, 76-119, 123, 125,126, 140, 155, 157, 166, 203, 205, 211, 213,214, 224, 298, A1
Warner Brothers · 46, 78
Washington DC · 16, 35, 52, 116, 119, 128, 204, 206,211, 214, 224
Weapons
Welles, Orson · 20, 23, 78, 79, 82, 89, 115, 123, 199,206, 224, A1
Wells, H. G. · 1, 59, 76-84, 87, 97, 99, 101-104, 107, 114-117, 119, 155, 202
Wheeler, Lyle · 16, 17, 29, 30, 31, 40, 41
When Worlds Collide · 76, 80, 82, 93, 101, 113,157, 169, 213
Wilcox, Fred McLeod · 159, 198
Williams, John · 44, 238, 246
Wincelberg, Shimon · 237.
Winchester Pictures Corporation · 12
Wise, Robert · 15-21, 23, 26, 42-44, 93
World War II · 1-3, 11, 16, 47, 48, 79, 81, 85, 90,97, 120, 121, 154, 162, 199, 297, A5
World War III · 2
Writer
Writers
Wyss, Johann · 235, 236
XF5U · 3, 11
Yugoslavia · 2
Zanuck, Darryl · 15, 16, 20, 21, 120