"Life" magazine published several articles about UFOs that gained considerable attention. The cover of the issue dated 7 April 1952 featured Marilyn Monroe on the cover and also a statement that "There is a case for Interplanetary Saucers". That article contained an article by H B Darrach and Robert Ginna entitled "Have We Visitors From Space?" which highlighted the fact that "The Air Force is now ready to concede that many saucer and fireball sightings still defy explanation".
A subsequent issues (dated 9 June 1952) contained a follow-up article by Robert Ginna which reported that the original article "provoked a tremendous barrage of letters". That article commented that many readers "expect a landing momentarily". It noted that some still argued that the saucers were "super-secret US weapons" but that the original article had "dismissed this argument on the ground that the government would hardly allow one branch of the service to spend vast sums of money on a saucer investigation which would have the primary effect of fooling another government branch even more completely than the enemy".
I have created a folder for UFO articles from Life magazine.
Click on the image below for a link to that folder.
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