A MARTIAN IN MY MAILBOX

Back in 2007, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the dawn of the flying saucer age, Spanish ufologist LUIS R GONZÁLEZ MANSO wrote in these pages about postage stamps inspired by UFOs. Now, on the 75th anniversary of the birth of the phenomenon, he re-opens his stamp catalogues to bring this philatelic story up to date.

U FOs are no longer so lavishly represented in philately. Since my previous survey in the Fortean Times special UFO issue of 2007 (FT225:48-53), there have been only three (and a half) series unequivocally centred on the phenomenon. Madagascar dedicated a block sheet to the 65th anniversary of UFOs on 8 March 2011 (rather early, as it would not be until the following year). Of the four stamps filled with saucer images and several greenish Grays, only one (top left) refers to a precise case: that of the pilot of the X-15 experimental plane. The date mentioned actually corresponds to the conference in which the pilot himself said that he had filmed two flying discs on 30 April 1962 as they overtook his rocket ship while he established a new altitude…

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