"little green men" / "take me to your leader" origin?

[Jonathan Lighter]

The quotes around "flying saucers" meant so-called "real"  "flying saucers" (UFOs), not incontrovertibly fictional flying "saucers."

But that is a neat "illo."

JL

"Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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> Thanks, Jesse. So the phrase antedates interest in "flying
> saucers" by a number of years.
>

Interest in flying saucers goes back well before the phrase's (probable)
origins, in 1947:

http://www.frankwu.com/Paul-8.html

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