Beyond Earth Man's Contact with UFOs Author:Ralph Blum, Judy Blum Are we being visited by Intelligent Extra-Terrestrial Civilizations? If so, does the US Government know about it? Free-Lance writer Ralph Blum with his wife Judy Blum started researching those questions in early February 1973 for Cosmopolitan magazine. In August 1973, they turned in their Cosmo article [published in February 1974] and continued ... more »working on the story for a two-hour NBC News television report called a “White Paper.” Then on October 12, 1973, they learned of the story of Charlie Hickson via a UPI report. Hickson reported being kidnapped by robots and brought aboard what seemed to him to be a spacecraft. After they released him, the craft flew straight up into the night sky.
Immediately, Ralph Blum flew to Mississippi to interview Charlie Hickson. The Charlie Hickson story became the anchor and primary focus of BEYOND EARTH: Man’s Contact with UFOs. NBC did not to do the UFO program, deciding to create a Watergate program instead. The Blums’ used their work to create this book, published in 1974.« less