A naturalist and writer, Ivan T. Sanderson turns up again and again on the trail of strange creatures and unexplained craft. September 19, 1952. He arrived in Flatwoods for the North American Newspaper Alliance and found a flattened circle about 15 feet across. He came away convinced the witnesses had experienced something real. In December 1959 he told the Jerry Crew story in True magazine, and Roger Patterson read it. In 1968, as science editor of Argosy, he was alerted to the Minnesota Iceman. He also retold the USAT Delarof sphere in Invisible Residents (1970).
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Pro earlyMade the case standard unidentified submerged object material
Author who popularised the story in 1961
Pro earlyAuthor of Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life
Naturalist who said he once had a photostat of the photo and lost it
Pro earlyKept the case in his SITU files as case 54
Pro earlyRetold the case in Abominable Snowmen (1961)
Pro earlyAuthor of Things (1967), which turned the account into a cryptozoology entry
Pro earlyNaturalist; argued agogwe-type creatures were remnants of small, very old human populations
Pro earlyAuthor who published the account in Investigating the Unexplained (1972)
Pro earlyZoologist and leader of the Percy Sladen Expedition; primary witness and narrator
Pro earlyZoologist and primary witness; sole source of the account
Pro earlyAuthor; included the case in Abominable Snowmen (1961)
Naturalist and writer who interviewed the Chapmans in 1959
Pro earlyNaturalist and author who interviewed the Chapmans on 28 August 1959
Pro earlyAuthor whose 1961 book preserved Karapetyan's description
Retold the case in Invisible Residents (1970) and pointed out that the date is unclear
Pro earlyNaturalist who investigated in November 1948 and later proposed a 15 ft penguin in More Things (1969)
Investigator for the North American Newspaper Alliance
Investigator who wrote a 36-page report backing the witnesses
Author who reprinted the affidavit in Abominable Snowmen (1961)
Pro earlyAuthor of the main English-language retelling in Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life (1961)
Pro earlyCoined the term globster for this carcass in 1962
Pro earlyWriter consulted in February 1965 who proposed hoax objects and a giant synbranchid
Pro earlyCoined the word globster for the 1960 Tasmanian carcass
Naturalist and science editor of Argosy who examined the exhibit in December 1968
Pro earlyCoined the term globster