Editing 1947 flying disc craze (section)

===Esoteric===
{{main|Shaver Mystery}}
[[File:Amazing Stories August 1946 back cover.png|thumb|Nearly a year before the flying disc craze, ''Amazing Stories'' featured disc-shaped spacecraft.]]
During the mid-1940s, an obscure sub-culture developed around the science-fiction magazine [[Amazing Stories]] and its tales of [[Richard Sharpe Shaver]], claimed to be non-fictional.<ref name="auto8">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-mMtqtZMoNYC|title=War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction|first=Richard|last=Toronto|date=April 25, 2013|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786473076 |via=Google Books}}</ref>  Since 1945, the magazine had published Shaver's claims to be in communication with subterranean beings concerned about atomic pollution who piloted disc-shaped craft.<ref name="auto10"/><ref name="auto8"/>

In the October 1947 issue of Amazing Stories, editor [[Raymond A. Palmer|Raymond Palmer]] argued the flying disc flap was proof of Richard Sharpe Shaver's claims.  That same issue carried a letter from Shaver in which he argued the truth behind the discs would remain a secret.<ref name="auto5">{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v21n10_1947-10_cape1736|title=Amazing Stories v21n10 (1947 10) (cape1736)|date=October 1947 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref name="auto10"/>

Wrote Shaver: "The discs can be a space invasion, a secret new army plane — or a scouting trip by an enemy country...OR, they can be Shaver's space ships, taking off and landing regularly on earth for centuries past, and seen today as they have always been — as a mystery.  They could be leaving earth with cargos of wonder-mech that to us would mean emancipation from a great many of our worst troubles— and we'll never see those cargos...I predict that nothing more will be seen, and the truth of what the strange disc ships really are will never be disclosed to the common people. We just don't count to the people who do know about such things. It isn't necessary to tell us anything."<ref name="auto5"/><ref name="auto10"/><ref name="auto8"/>