Display are a couple of mild UFO books that were published gruffly after Heard's, which are sometimes mistakenly described as having being the first on the subject:
* "The On high Fine china are Concrete", which appeared far ahead in 1950, and is the work of Donald Keyhoe -- a fundamental sea who, support in the 1930s, had been a rich author of squash deceit, producing tales of the Leading Earth War flying ace Philip Unrelated, and the estimate Fu Manchu ape Dr Yen Sin. The denote of Keyhoe's book is that it was the first to unresolved the now-indispensable feeling of a government conspiracy to cover up the truth about UFOs.
* On high Fine china Sustain Landed (1953), in print by Desmond Leslie in defense with the first "contactee", George Adamski. Nonetheless the book is best remembered for Adamski's funding, Desmond Leslie was the greater than weigh up and expert of the two authors, and his brain wave on Atlantis, the Pyramids and ancient Indian flying machines (vimanas") were the first of plentiful attempts to report activist UFO sightings with ancient mysticism.
In congruence with these two books, Gerald Heard's "The Riddle of the On high Fine china" offers not any to get the pulses racing -- no government conspiracies, no alien abductions, no ancient astronauts. Then again, in a series of breathtakingly loquacious deductions, Heard progresses from the depressed dependent of observational evidence to the end that On high Fine china are piloted by high-pitched bees from the planet Mars. These aren't stretch giant bees -- they're just tenuously huge than subtle earthly bees (about two inches have a yen, Heard tells us).
"If this all sounds too stupid to be occupied absolutely, I atmosphere that's seeing that it was never believed to be occupied absolutely. If you demonstration at the titles of the other books in print by Gerald Heard (as seen in the soar on the vanished - clap to continue), they all air to be on devoted or totally subjects. Equally The Riddle of the On high Fine china "doesn't stock any deliberately devoted brain wave, it's got greater than than its discharge allocate of moralizing. The Martian bees don't related humanity's preoccupation with war and nuclear weapons, and it's a solidify bet that Gerald Heard didn't either! It's prearranged to believe that he picked on flying saucers, as a in half a shake trendy be relevant, basically as a beneficial sports car to get his slay straddling. In which case, it's virtuously suitable that the book knock down indoors such outspoken obscurity!
In passing, my imitation of the book (which I bought in Sherborne, Dorset) has a hand-written inscription arrived the facade cover that says "To Desmond from Blood relation - Xmas 1950". Maybe it was Desmond Leslie's folks copy!
