<a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ft-cover2651.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-21 alignleft" title="ft-cover265[1]" src="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ft-cover2651.jpg" alt="" width="286" height="400" /></a>Issue  265 of <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.forteantimes.com');" href="http://www.forteantimes.com/" target="_blank">Fortean Times</a> magazine features a cover article  adapted from <em><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.amazon.co.uk');" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1845298578?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stranattra-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=1845298578" target="_blank">Mirage Men</a></em><em>.</em>

<em>‘</em>Weapons  of Mass Deception’ looks at the events leading to and surrounding the  great Washington DC UFO flap of July 1952, a turning point in America’s  UFO history.

Drawing  on political and cultural history, declassified government  documents, emerging military technologies and the writings of Leon  Davidson and Edward J Ruppelt, the piece asks whether the epoch-making  sightings were deliberately engineered and, if so, why, and by who?

<em>FT  265 is available in the UK on 22 July. You can also win copies of the  book over at </em><em><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.forteantimes.com');" href="http://www.forteantimes.com/" target="_blank">Fortean Times.com</a></em>