Night of the Saucers. Eando Binder, 1971. It was a follow-up to the 1969 Menace of the Saucers.
"Eando" was an amalgamation of the name of two brothers : Earl and Otto Binder. By 1939 the duo known for their Amazing stories and other works, had shifted duties with Earl Writing and Otto mostly acting as manager. Read about them here.
The interesting thing about this science fiction work is the protagonist is a writer who keen logical, rationale mind, and scientific bent serve him well as he writes debunking investigations of alleged UFO encounters. The work is filled with the language and settings, obviously drawn from actual accounts, of stories of sightings from the ate 1940's up to the time of the books writing in the early 1970's. In some cases details, "explanations" and descriptions could have been ripped from the pages of Project Blue Book itself!
A modestly entertaining novel, drawn more from the creative field of 1950-1960 era space opera films and the graphic novels (comic books) both authors had once written for, it is not great science fiction. It is, however, an intriguing look at the stamp the subject of UFO's had made on the culture and imagination of mid-century American fiction.
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