On A 1940s Desert Highway

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 While I ponder the mystery of why this blog has over 81K views world wide and yet not a single copy of the CE3K/Entity books will sell......  

I am still looking at a report mentioned by Donald Keyhoe in one of his books. I think it was likely trashed and CUFOS in the United States has no Keyhoe correspondence and no one knows where it all went. 

Basically, between 1947-1950, a seemingly respectable couple were driving along a desert highway and "claim they were kidnapped" by entities from a UFO.  Keyhoe wrote in a tone that made it clear how crazy he thought this sounded (so who did he think was piloting his flying saucers from space?!!)  

This is important for a number of reasons.

1.  Based on recorded testimony there appear to have been several on board UFO experiences between 1947-1951 well before Antonio Villas Boas (1957) and the Hills (1961) which debunkers continuously state (incorrectly) "created the UFO abduction myth".

2. 1947 was far from a time when "everyone" knew about flying saucers. This factor as well as that Boas and the Hills could not have influenced people over a decade before their encounters adds strength to a report.

3. Keyhoe himself confirms that this was a post(?) 1947 account sent to him in a letter so the account was known about (but dismissed) at the time. This is not someone who "waited" 50, 60 or even 70 years to speak out about their experience which was not even documented in a diary or any form of private document at the time that could be analysed. 

4. It would be the first (known) reported on board experience from the United States  and that would make it a big and very important footnote in history.

Although I am still trying I suspect that the letter was probably "junked" as later ones might have been if others had not taken the lead at NICAP.

Here is the quote and I thank "UFOnauter" for poking my memory on this (I had forgotten): Fying Saucers From Outer Space",  page 224:

"Letters from readers of my book and articles gave me another cross-section. Most of those who had seen saucers were soberly concerned, though only a few admitted any fear. Some showed the effect of certain scare stories published since *47. One of these stories reported that a nurse and a salesman, driving along a desert road, had been kidnapped by spacemen."

If anyone has any leads or if people in the US know that the account may have been printed somewhere else at the time PLEASE let me know!