UFO sightings take center stage with Dark Horse Comics’ Blue Book: 1947

Go back to the beginning of the modern UFO era, with Dark Horse’s upcoming mini-series Blue Book: 1947.

Keep an eye to the sky

Are you up on your real-world UFO sightings? Maybe we should use the term “UAP” since that’s what mysterious things in the heavens are dubbed these days, but whatever you want to call them, people have been spotting strange lights in the sky for a very long time . Most of these can be explained either easily or with a little investigation, but there are more than a few cases that can’t be.

In the present time, those happenings will appear on news shows, and be discussed in the halls of government, but there was a time when they weren’t. That age saw witnesses discredited, and people who wanted answered dubbed “conspiracy theorists”. Official investigations? Only one was public to any degree, and it was Project Blue Book.

Created to explain the phenomena in down-to-Earth terms, Blue Book ended up arguably asking more questions than it answered. And in the decades since, it’s become a staple part of not just the field of Ufology, but pop culture. Comics publisher Dark Horse has run with the theme, and recently served up a mini-series of its own called Blue Book: 1961.

Now a sequel is on the way, with the creative team of James Tynion IV,  Michael Avon Oeming, and Tom Napolitano behind it. Dubbed “Blue Book: 1947”, the new mini will run five issues, and it looks like it’ll be kicking off with the famous Kenneth Arnold sighting.

Like saucers skipping

In 1947, Kenneth Arnold flew his Call-Air A-2 over the skies of the Pacific Northwest when all of a sudden, he saw a blinding flash of silver light. What followed was a bizarre and difficult to explain encounter with several flying objects that would change the course of his life forever.

Blue Book: 1947 #1 is written by Tynion, illustrated by Oeming, and lettered by Napolitano. The first issue will also include six variant covers by artists Michael Avon Oeming, Fábio Moon, Michael Allred, Cully Hammer, Joe Quinones (1:10 virgin retailer incentive variant), and Christian Ward (1:10 virgin retailer incentive variant). One additional variant cover will be revealed at a later date.

Blue Book: 1947 #1 also includes a True Weird backup story by Zac Thompson (Hunt for the Skinwalker), Gavin Fullerton (The Closet), and Aditya Bidikar.

Dark Horse Comics press release

If you’re up for another trip into the unknown, Blue Book: 1947 #1 (of 5) is set to hit stores on February 7th, 2024.