Frank Edwards (writer and broadcaster)
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Frank Edwards (August 4, 1908- June 23, 1967) was an American writer and broadcaster.
He wrote a best selling book, Flying Saucers, Serious Business, in 1966 and was a highly successful radio host. Because he would not abandon the subject of UFOs in his broadcasts, he was fired in 1954.[1] In spite of thousands of letters in protest of his dismissal, his ex-sponsor, the American Federation of Labor, stood firm. George Meany, then president of the AFL, said Edwards had been dropped "Because he talked too much about flying saucers!"
He is best-remembered for his books on various anomalous phenomena, especially unidentified flying objects. He also hosted a syndicated radio program, "Stranger Than Science." In 1959 he published a book with the same title that was largely a collection of his radio broadcasts.
It is one of the myths of ufology that Edwards died on June 24, 1967, exactly 20 years after Kenneth Arnold's famous first "flying saucer" sighting. Actually, Edwards died a few minutes before midnight, on the evening of June 23, but his death was announced at the Congress of Scientific Ufologists in New York City on June 24, 1967. The attendees were shocked into silence by the news.
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