On February 18, 1954, British amateur astronomer Cedric Allingham claimed to have photographed a flying saucer near Lossiemouth, Scotland, watched it descend and land, and encountered and photographed its humanoid pilot, that he identified as a Martian. The encounter became the central account of his 1954 book Flying Saucer from Mars. Allingham said they communicated primarily through gestures, drawings and a small number of spoken words. Using a diagram of the planets, he asked where the vis...