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"At 6:30 P.M. on April 20, 1959, the body of Dr. M. K. Jessup, astronomer, researcher and writer on the subject of "Flying Saucers," was found in his station wagon in a park near Coral Gables, Florida. Medical examiners labeled the death "suicide." ... "This book does not attempt to unravel the mystery of the researcher's unfortunate passing. Instead, it is content with presenting a great many facts, along with some speculation. It is up to the interested reader or researcher to delve further into the matter, or to reach his own conclusions." - Summary by Gray Barker, from the Introduction

First released in 1957, The Expanding Case was the sequel to perhaps the most notorious book in the history of ufology: The Case for the UFO, which drew the interest of the US Navy and resulted in the infamously annotated "Varo Edition". The annotator of the Varo Edition, the mysterious Carlos Allende, claimed to have been a witness to the Philadelphia Experiment.