UFO Craze of 1947... Roswell?....

BOSTON SUNDAY POST, July 20, 1947

* 1947 flying discs - saucers craze
* Unidentified flying objects (UFO's)
* re. Kenneth Arnold's famous sighting 
* Roswell incident - New Mexico (12 days prior)

The top of page 5 has has two column heading: "'FLYING DISCS NEW FOLKLORE" with subhead. (see images) A somewhat lengthy editorial.
Complete with 50+ pages, light toning and minor wear at the margins, generally nice.

AI notes: In 1947, the American media and scientific community were grappling with the sudden surge of reports of “flying saucers,” sparked by Kenneth Arnold’s June sighting. Howard W. Blakeslee, the Associated Press science editor, approached the phenomenon with cautious skepticism, suggesting that many reports could be explained by reflections from distant aircraft or atmospheric optical effects, noting that clear air and sunlight could produce flashes that appeared disc-shaped from great distances. While he acknowledged that some observers, including Arnold, had genuinely seen something unusual, he emphasized that much of the hysteria stemmed from postwar anxieties about atomic energy and rocketry. Around the same period, Dr. J. L. Moreno, a Romanian-born psychiatrist and the founder of psychodrama and sociometry, was pioneering a radically different approach to human behavior, focusing on spontaneity, role-playing, and group dynamics in psychotherapy. Though Moreno’s work was entirely separate from the flying saucer craze, both he and Blakeslee were, in different ways, responding to the uncertainties of the era—Blakeslee in the scientific realm, seeking rational explanations for strange phenomena, and Moreno in the social-psychological realm, exploring how human perception, roles, and interaction shaped experience and understanding.