[Ads-l] Antedating "ufology"

[Peter Reitan]

In 2011, Bonny Taylor-Blake posted an antedating of "ufology" dated to June 17, 1956.


http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2011-October/113675.html

Ufology [OED, January, 1959]  [From the text of a display ad describing M.K. Jessup's _The UFO Annual_, The New York Times, 17 June 1956, p. 234.]  THE UFO ANNUAL belongs in the library of everyone who believes that the field of UFOlogy (the scientific study of inexplicable serial phenomena) is too vital to be sneered into oblivion or laughed out of existence.  The weight of evidence in this large volume (almost 400 pages) should finally put to rest the ridiculous contention that flying saucers are no longer with us.

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Slight antedating to June 13, 1956:

The Courier Journal (Louisville), June 13, 1956, page 9:

[In a glossary of UFO terminology] "Ufology - You pronounce this you-fology, and it is the dope on UFO's."

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