January 1950 issue; circulated in late 1949 / T045
Donald Keyhoe’s The Flying Saucers Are Real
United States publishing market
Witness account
Keyhoe’s widely discussed TRUE article argued that flying saucers were vehicles operated by intelligent visitors and that Earth was undergoing observation. It assembled reports into a technological and extraterrestrial interpretation rather than treating them as isolated curiosities. An expanded book followed during 1950.
Public record
The article itself is primary evidence of what Keyhoe and the magazine asserted. It includes confident claims about observation patterns, vehicle categories and the significance of military reports.