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Another rapid reaction to Arnold’s report was that of Ray Palmer, editor of the pulp science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, who had published numerous works in the previous two years by Richard S. Shaver, beginning with ‘‘I Remember Lemuria’’ (1945). Shaver’s stories insisted that misfortunate events on the world’s surface were mostly caused by the radiation of ‘‘telaug’’ (telepathic augmentor) machines operated by underground-dwelling ‘‘deros’’ (detrimental robots) descended from servants left behind in the distant past when rival races of immortal giants abandoned the Earth. This had proved enough of a circulation booster to prompt Palmer to promote the ‘‘Shaver Mystery’’ as a revelation, and he had begun picking up other items of Fortean reportage to offer as evidence in its favour. Coincidentally, the issue of Amazing dated June 1947 was a special Shaver Mystery issue. The October issue—the first to go to press after the Arnold sightings—carried an enthusiastic editorial hailing the sighting as ‘‘proof’’ of Shaver’s claims, listing the names and partial addresses of many other people who claimed to have seen the nine ‘‘ships’’, and asking for reports of further sightings of ‘‘flying discs’’. Palmer claimed in subsequent editorials that he had received tens of thousand of responses to this contention.

Palmer used the ‘‘flying saucer’’ label for the first time in his November editorial, which fervently insisted on their reality. The magazine’s back cover often illustrated Fortean items under the general heading ‘‘Impossible but True’’, sometimes adding a Shaverian twist in the captions, and the January 1948 issue’s back cover referred to a ‘‘spaceship seen over Idaho’’ in 1910, described in the text as a ‘‘gigantic, glowing, golden disk’’—although the picture, presumably drawn beforehand, showed a conventional aircar. The editorial for that issue exhorted readers: ‘‘Don’t forget the flying saucers! Keep your eyes peeled on the skies’’. Shaver contributed a ‘‘non-fiction’’ item on the ‘‘Medieval Illicit’’, which claimed that Mars and Venus were inhabited by sadistic imperialists deeply resentful of Earth’s surface civilisations.

Arnold’s sightings were given pride of place on the cover of the first issue of Fate, a new magazine devoted to occult and Fortean subjects launched by Palmer—initially using the pseudonym Robert N. Webster—in 1948. The headline article was Arnold’s ‘‘The Truth About Flying Saucers’’ and the cover showed a flying disk looming over a civilian aircraft. Palmer then launched a new science fiction magazine, Other Worlds, in 1949, whose first issue had a cover story by Shaver; Palmer abandoned his pseudonym in its second issue, having quit Amazing Stories, and continued to run his new magazines in close association, eventually retitling the latter Flying Saucers from Other Worlds.

Gilles F. a écrit:un travail de "doctorat" en journalisme... de 1951

franck.b a écrit: Les engins d'Orson Welles en 1938 ont ils pu influencer certains (formes d'obus me semble-t-il) quant à quelques témoignages ?
Dans ce cas, l'impact immédiat sur le grand public, surtout américain est bien connu et n'a pas, j'imagine, laissé aucune traces.

PhD Smith a écrit:Le livre de Lagrange sur Wells montre que la panique est une légende urbaine après coup. Il y a eu quelque chose, mais très limitée géographiquement.

Venom a écrit: Mon objectif est de comparer ce qu'ils disent à ce que raconte Lagrange, histoire de voir si sa version des faits tient réellement la route.

PhD Smith a écrit:L'objectif étant aussi de voir s'il y a légende urbaine qui a servi la réputation d'Orson Wells.