[Ads-l] antedating "ufologist"

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

_Detroit Free Press_ 13 Nov 1956 p 1 col 2
"They meet to debate mystery sightings, attend lectures by visiting Ufologists (experts on Unidentified Flying Objects.)"


Surrey, Brit. Col., Canada _Surrey Leader_ 11 Dec 1958 p 16 col 2
"Hence the "experts" call themselves Ufologists, and their study ufology."



> 
> Ooh, here's a very slight antedating (May, 1959) for "ufologist" ...
> 
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2011-October/113675.html
> 
> -- Bonnie
> 
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 1963: OED
> >
> > 1960, transcript of radio show _Washington Viewpoint_ (Dec. 20), in
> > David Michael Jacobs _History of the UFO Controversy in America_ (Bloomington:
> > Indiana U. P., 1975) 176: [A] small group of euphologists who have a
> > typewriter and read a newspaper account of the thing, and -- you see,
> > you really can't compare.
> >
> > Jacobs interposes [_sic_] after "euphologists."
> >
> > JL


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