Remember When: Look, up in the sky! Was it a flying saucer?

Seventy-five years ago, America was talking excitedly about saucers — flying saucers, UFOs, extra-terrestrial craft or whatever you wanted to call them.

Much of the cause of this hullabaloo was a slender little just-published 25-cent paperback with a provocative cover featuring giant space ships above Earth and a promise that inside was the full story of what was really going on in the skies.

Wyoming Valley in 1950, like the rest of America, was caught up with flying saucer mania. The pages of our “Record” and “Times Leader” were peppered with reports of local people noticing strange lights or shapes in the skies.

I had been part of a crowd in our Wilkes-Barre street watching a little dark object that the neighbors (and my parents) were sure was — if not a UFO — at least something so st