Whose Turn Is It? The Medium Handoffs of the ET Topic, 1752–1951
Media History / Research Reference Before Roswell: How Two Thousand Years of Alien Stories Built the American Mind Full sequence, full source lists, every verified date — books to the summer of 1947. In this piece 1. The core reframe: 1947 wasn't the beginning 2. The literature list, oldest to Roswell 3. The Great Moon Hoax, full breakdown 4. The 1897 newspaper splash 5. The Mystery Airships and their hoaxes 6. Every real-world event, sorted by credibility 7. Comic strips, full roster and rankings 8. The pulp magazines: full lineage, corrected issue counts 9. Comic books: every publisher, every issue count 10. Film, radio, and animation 11. Where it all happened: locations and settings 11b. The pattern map: what every era repeats 12. Who actually lived through it 13. Research tools, for anyone who wants to verify this themselves In June 1947, a pilot named Kenneth Arnold sa...