Born at the turn of the 20th Century, Morris Ketchum Jessup had a skilled mind, and by the age of twenty-six had attained a Master of Science degree in astronomy from the University of Michigan. While Jessup’s primary goal was to work in the cutting-edge field of astrophysics, he was chiefly employed as a salesman in the car industry. As the years progressed and as the 1950s dawned, however, Jessup found himself becoming more and more involved in two very different areas.
They were: (a) the mysteries of the distant past, such as the questions surrounding how the gigantic structures of the ancients – Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt being two of many examples – were constructed; and (b) the growing presence of UFOs in the world’s skies. Jessup’s thoughts and observations were extensively detailed in a number of books.
Without doubt, however, his most famous title was The Case for the UFO, published in 1955. It was a book made notable by the fact that not only were its contents groundbreaking, but it set off alarm bells within none other than the corridors of power.
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