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This FBI file serial is a 3 October 1966 memo from the Los Angeles office to the FBI Director about Issue No. 24 (July 1966) of Flying Saucers International, the journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. A Philadelphia IRS employee had sent the issue in, believing an article attributed to a being from the planet Korendor followed the Communist Party line. Los Angeles found no information on the article's recipient, Bob Renaud, and planned no further action. The file also contains the magazine, a convention program and news clippings.
2 TH£ W ALL STRtET JOU!tNAL Monda7', Dueli\1,er 13, 1965 New 'Fireball' R aises An Old'Ouestion: D o Flying S~ucer~ &ist? Ca,lifornian, W bo 'Tdks' to Men From the Stars, Says 'Yes'; Scientists Assail Air Force By ELLIOT C.UU.SON St4lf B•PortfT'o/ 'rla.-WA.Ll. Snt.H J'OotN.U. They•._. back. The la.teat wu sighted a few n!iht.s ago by residents and pDots ln tha north• em tier of states and Canad&. They de.scribed It·u an orange tlreb&JL The Air Forc:e~at "1lrat called lt an unidentified llylng object, but now thinks Jt was a meteor. fepme other people called It & llylng oaucer. Several people 115&)' they u.w the fireba.U land Thursday night. An U -year-old boy in Lorain, ! Ohio, says he watched 1t drop lnto the woods 1 near his home. A woman in Elyria, Ohio, 10 1 I m.ifes away, clllim.s ahe saw tt plunge tnto a vacant lol a.cross the aft"eet from her home. Others zay they aaw It slruk tllto Lake J4icb1• gan. Scien~ts and police combed a 75•a.cre area near Pittsburgh alter & woman there ~ w the object era.ah to earth 0 am0Jdel'mg." , De.spite these wttncs~s and search elforts, however. the thing hu yet to be found. In this regard_. it ls Uke all ot.t,.er unidentified flying objecll!!l, or UFO.s, which are my.aterlous be.· ceu&e.. they are-ae,m, J)ut never foun...d. • r -• ?ihatever It tuma ol!l t.o be-meteor. aat•I• !116 ,__part, hoax, ~ather odl:lity or man from . ¥at11-lt •~ In a. banner year"'tor. euch ' obje in 194.3 to evaluate re port.a of the phenomena. Vl.aJton From Outer 15p&ee Nobody knows wfiit the ob~cta a..re or where they come trom, but there ia no lack of theories -or of controversy. The A1'nal,ga.01&ted Flying Saucer Clubs of Amerlc&, Inc., lg eure the "saucers" come from outer space. Row do they know? The "apace people" have told them. Not only that, aa'.Y• Ca.brlel Green, who heads the CAU!omla group, 00 1pace people give conlaclees h\torm.at1on about Ute on other planets and aolutlons lo inffll.rmountabJe prob lems on our planet." One suggutlon allegedly made to Mr. Green in llMO by a Viail trom Al• a Centaurl, \& nearby a.tar: Run for Presl• t aa a write-In candldate. (He c&mpalgned ~ e!ly, then decided not to nm.) The NaUonal Jnveatigatlons Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), a prtvata r e aearcb organltatlon In Waablngton, doun't hold with that theory. "Wo reject re,P<>rts of noble beings landing on earth to eolve all our pro~lems,u says a spokesman. So men from Mara aro a. lol o! bunk? Not necessa.rtly, aaya the committee. It bellevu '.I Congreaslonal ln• vMtlptlon ~uld prove that UFO.a "ar e real pb;fllcal object$ ... IIDder the control of llv!ng belnp... Ao an afterthought, the 'apokeaman says: •"There are a tre.mendOWJ Dumber o! eg~ manlac1 who have 'been able to appolnt them selves expert.a 1n t.Jua tleld bees.use It's ao con• fuaed." One ma.n who's not contu.sed at all La Charles -A. ManeY, prote.uor emeritus ot phyaieti and mathematic., at Defiance, College In Ohio. Saya the professor: "TheH object.a are un,gueetlon• ably from oute.r apace.'' He bases hli reason• •~ ~ ~ "" ~• •• ~,.,,. ~•• wm- "with local electrical circuits, lndlcaU,ng to him they have "a mearis of propubion u.soelated with magnetic fields." "'Iber e1s Nothing To It'' S•m----M••~~~•••• •however. "'All lhl! ta imagination ou~1de the realm of science," .aays Donald e · Menzel, di· j rector or the observatory at Harvard "l have examined AJr Foree cues and dJ.scovered that I Ulj'Os all have simple explanations in terms of well-known natural phenomena. There'a not one ca.use, but hundreds. Some are quite epec• t&cula.r, such as reflections from fee crystal& or bright atan,, oearchllghta on clouda or blgh lly!ng spider webs. But to some people the exis tence of nyinr eaucera Is a matter of reμgtow. fanatlc:l.m,," he says. But Mr. Menzel reads more Into the Air Force data than does the Air Force It.sell. Of the 9,7M UFO reports man swamp gas :..:: ';;:° ~1~~)~.t~y~~= obJoet s!gbtlnp In the 0.1.rOit .,.._ last ·wecllman Von saucers ~eCU)arly on test Mr. Bressette reported j~t kevlczJrs, • STRANGE OBJtCr j· OVER MT. WILSO~A-2 loshgeltslttr11UJ1111ntr 8* 111m1,,_~2!_.19U There~ was SOl!f4!thlng -over There picked up "no unw,u Mount Wilson early today but al ac&IvttyH durlnr lhe ped· It didn't catch the enUre city napping. Police and n ewspaper switchboards were flooded with calls describing tbe object varlow,ly as a " puff," a "rreenlsb ball/' a "fiat oval cnen object with a long lall and a liJbt a.t the end." It was first sighted about t a.m. and remalned In view for about hall an hour. A •slm.llar fireball was sighted about the same time trom Sacramento and. trom Vanderberg Air Fo~e Bue, It was teported. Vandenberg reported no launches during lbe preceding 24 hours which inlgbt account for the pbe• Forget lt- nomenon and said radar 1 Have Enough Credibility ProbleTn.! As It ls' Ille area will be lllveollnu.l. • saucers mystert P ~3 - 66 EOPLE in North Queellfl. land are roystified by three separate reports of 'Flying Saucers. The !lrst report ca.me from a ~-I,::i~:dw1::~u~~h:1! tractor through a neighbouring property- on bis way to his own farm, beard a loud hissing noise above the noise of the tractor. Suddenly about 2S :,ards ahead of him, a blue-grey saucer shaped craft about 25 ft across, and 9ft blab, ros~ vertlcall,Y to about 60ft and travellln,: at a lerriftc speed beaaed • off in a 'oouth-westerly direction. On l.a.ns llptlon, • nest of fh.t~ecl reeds wu foud,, the cl.rele belnr about 30ft ID diameter t.n4 alnce the:n. four olhe.r neilte ~ve been found close br, some of them. newly made. , During the last eight months, oo less than seven different •~tings of F:yi.ng Saucers bava been reported In tbe North Queeasland press. Hundren In the Tully District during tbe last ff!W days to view the clrcleo which are partly hidden by dense scrub. The &AAF has lalm F.eb ' 7 1966 od. An Air Force spokesman at Vandenberg said the Air Force's '"Prolect Blue Book" omce In Washington was Investigating. An observ.er at Mattler Air Force Basl! near sacra ment.otheorlttd that the ob Jeet may have been gas re3" ldue felt trom' Ne v ad a m1ss11e flrlnp which re- flecud light. Sgt. David Tellotson, of Hollywood division: said the object here appeared t.o be over Griffith Park. "It was a bright green splotch, eJon- galled, and not bUnklng," h e said. . Tile only solid fact emerg Ing: A lot Of people.are up at • a.m.
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