Random Happenstance

I know I wanted so bad to see a flying saucer when I was little, so I'm glad I didn't get this comic until recently: it would've warped my impressionable little mind. From 1974, UFO Flying Saucers #4, cover by George Wilson.

This was a lot like the issues of DC's Ghosts comic that we've seen here, featuring allegedly maybe true stories, as well as some allegedly true hoaxes. For example, in "The Mississippi Mystery" two fishermen are abducted, examined, and then thrown back like fish that were too small. The men weren't drinkers, and seem to legitimately believe that's what happened, but were they tricked somehow? Or their imaginations ran away with them?

I kind of liked "Aliens Go Home!" from the UFO Casebook, where some strange visitors are driven off by villagers throwing fruit. Another story, "The Kinross Kidnapping," surprised me by really being based on real events, as an F-89 is deployed to investigate a UFO, but disappears over Lake Superior. To date, no trace of the jet or its pilots has been found...but Lake Superior is mighty deep.

Some say flying saucer/UFO stories started fading about the exact same time everybody got a camera on their phone; implying that all those stories were crap that would've been debunked by just one person there shooting video. Which is probably the case, as much as I would personally like to believe otherwise: I'd suggest, maybe we don't see flying saucers as much anymore, because they've pretty much seen enough of us. 

 No credits this issue, but the art is probably Frank Bolle throughout.