Secrets of the Shaver Mystery - Part 2

In Part 1, we traced how Ray Palmer built the interpretive framework for the modern UFO phenomenon through a pulp science fiction magazine. In Part 2, everything comes to a head!

▶ Watch Part 1 first: https://youtu.be/H8mXpJQXzqs?si=S33-LOr0DNrcCC4B

Kenneth Arnold. The Maury Island disaster. Men-in-Black. A science fiction community in revolt. And Palmer secretly building something new while his world collapses around him. This is the story of how the Shaver Mystery ended and how the flying saucer phenomenon began.

▶ Watch The Emerald Tablets and the Serpent Men 🐍: https://youtu.be/V8pRo8pcjcg?si=tHPjDDPUfQh-gAJx

🔗 My print article on this topic will appear in The Pulpster #35 later this summer: https://thepulpster.com/

🔗 PulpFest, the premier pulp fiction convention: https://pulpfest.com/

📚 Substack for deeper dives and rare text transcriptions: https://substack.com/@jeffreyshanks

Recommended further reading:

Richard Toronto, War Over Lemuria (McFarland, 2013)

Fred Nadis, The Man from Mars (Penguin, 2013)

About Jeffrey Shanks:
Jeffrey Shanks is a professional archaeologist and award-winning historian specializing in the intersection of anthropology and 20th-century pulp fiction. A leading authority on Robert E. Howard, Jeffrey is a multiple-time REH Foundation Award winner and was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for the essay collection The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales. He is a regular contributor to the Conan the Barbarian comics from Titan Comics.

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