John G. Fuller
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John Grant Fuller, Jr. (1913 - 1990) was a New England-based American author of several non-fiction books and newspaper articles, mainly focusing on the theme of extra-terrestrials and the supernatural. For many years he was a regular columnist for the Saturday Review magazine. His three most famous books were The Ghost of Flight 401, Incident at Exeter, and The Interrupted Journey. The Ghost of Flight 401 was based on the tragic Eastern Air Lines airplane crash in December 1972, and the alleged supernatural events which followed; it was eventually turned into a popular 1978 made-for-television movie. Incident at Exeter concerned a series of well-publicized UFO sightings in and around the town of Exeter, New Hampshire in the fall of 1965. Fuller personally investigated the sightings and interviewed many of the eyewitnesses, he also claimed to have seen a UFO himself during his investigation. The Interrupted Journey tells the story of the Betty and Barney Hill abduction. The Hills were a married couple who claimed to have been abducted in 1960 by a UFO in the White Mountains of New Hampshire while on vacation. The book was the first to seriously claim that competent, reliable witnesses were being abducted by UFOs for medical and scientific experiments. The book remains one of the most influential in UFO history; and has been hotly debated since its publication. Like The Ghost of Flight 401, The Interrupted Journey was also turned into a made-for-television movie in 1975.
He wrote The Pink Elephant, which opened in 1953, and Love Me Little, which opened in 1958, both on Broadway.
Fuller died of lung cancer in 1990.
[edit] Published works
- The Interrupted Journey: 2 Lost Hours Aboard a Flying Saucer, 1966
- Incident at Exeter, New York, 1966
- The Day of St. Anthony's Fire, 1968
- Aliens In The Skies - The New UFO Battle of the Scientists, 1969
- 200,000,000 Guinea Pigs: New Dangers in Everyday Foods, Drugs and Cosmetics, 1972
- Fever!: The Hunt for a New Killer Virus, 1974
- Arigo: Surgeon of the Rusty Knife, 1974
- We Almost Lost Detroit, 1975
- The Ghost of Flight 401, 1976
- Poison That Fell from the Sky, 1977
- The Airmen Who Would Not Die, 1979
- Are the Kids Alright?, 1981
- The Day We Bombed Utah, 1984
- The Ghost of 29 Megacycles, 1985
[edit] Notable newspaper articles
- "A Communication Concerning UFOs", Saturday Review, vol. 50, February 4, 1967, pp. 70-72
- "Flying Saucer Fiasco", Magazine Look, May 14, 1968, pp. 58-63
- "Aliens in the Skies: The Scientific Rebuttal to the Condon Committee Report", Putnam, 1969
