UFO Reports

The earliest civilian reports of UFO sightings drew on military intelligence materials and set the terms for all later debates. The case is set out through two studies, first, the claim and denial of the reality of flying saucers in the early 1950s, second, the life history of the first contactee, who came to prominence in the same period.

Timothy Jenkins retired from Cambridge University in 2019. He trained at the Oxford Institute of Social Anthropology, with fieldwork in France and Britain. His research interests include moral uses of scientific discoveries and the multiple dimensions of time. He has also published Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists (2013).