Facets / Era / 1950s

Era

1950s

209 entries in the archive from the 1950s.

Case files (5)

Flying Saucers Over Papua | Cruttwell Report, 1960

The 56-page Cruttwell Report bound 79 sightings across Papua New Guinea between 1953 and 1959, including the Boianai close encounter of 26 June 1959 witnessed by Father William...

The Desert Center Contact | California, 1952

On 20 November 1952, the amateur astronomer George Adamski said he met a being from a 'scout ship' in the California desert near Desert Center, witnessed by six companions who...

McMinnville UFO Photographs | Oregon, 1950

On 11 May 1950, Paul and Evelyn Trent photographed a metallic disc over their Oregon farm. The negatives have survived seven decades of technical analysis. No study has...

The 1952 Pentagon Press Conference | July 29, 1952

Major General John Samford convened the largest US Air Force press conference since World War Two on 29 July 1952, ten days after the Washington DC radar contacts forced UFOs onto...

The Washington, DC Flap | 1952

On two consecutive weekends in July 1952, UFOs appeared on radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base. F-94 jets were scrambled. The sightings prompted the...

Biographies (26)

Al Worden | Biography

Al Worden (1932 to 2020), United States Air Force test pilot and Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot. The 1971 mission, the deep-space EVA on the return leg, the Apollo 15 commemorative...

Arthur C. Clarke | Biography

Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917 to 2008), Royal Air Force radar officer, author of the 1945 paper that specified the geostationary communications satellite, novelist of Childhood's End...

Barney Hill | Biography

Barney Hill Jr., WWII US Army veteran, US Postal Service employee, NAACP legal officer, and co-experiencer in the 19 September 1961 encounter on US Route 3 in New Hampshire. His...

Betty Hill | Biography

Eunice Elizabeth Barrett Hill, New Hampshire social worker whose 19 September 1961 encounter on US Route 3 with her husband Barney became, through the 1964 hypnosis sessions with...

Charles Hickson | Biography

Charles E. Hickson, Korean War US Army veteran, Jones County constable, and foreman at F. B. Walker's shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. On 11 October 1973 he and...

Christopher Mellon | Biography

Christopher K. Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush administrations. Twenty-one years on the Senate Select Committee on...

Coral Lorenzen | Biography

Coral Elsie Lightner Lorenzen, co-founder in January 1952 of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organisation, editor of the APRO Bulletin across all 258 issues and thirty-six years, and...

Credo Mutwa | Biography

Credo Mutwa (1921 to 2020), Zulu sangoma, sanusi, and one of the principal twentieth-century transmitters of southern African oral cosmology into print. Indaba My Children (1964),...

Dan Aykroyd | Biography

Dan Aykroyd (b. 1952), Canadian-American actor, screenwriter, and the contemporary inheritor of a four-generation Aykroyd family Spiritualist and psychical-research tradition....

George Van Tassel | Biography

George Van Tassel, aircraft engineer turned 1950s contactee, founder of the Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention and builder of the Integratron at Landers, California.

Hal Puthoff | Biography

Harold E. Puthoff, American physicist and electrical engineer. Scientific director of the SRI remote-viewing programme 1972 to 1985. President of EarthTech International and the...

Harry Reid | Biography

Harry Reid (1939 to 2021), United States Senator for Nevada and Senate Majority Leader from 2007 to 2015. The political architect of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification...

J. Allen Hynek | Biography

Josef Allen Hynek, astrophysicist and scientific consultant to the United States Air Force UFO programmes Project Sign, Project Grudge, and Project Blue Book from 1948 to 1969....

Jack Parsons | Biography

Jack Parsons, the self-taught rocket chemist who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and ran an occult lodge out of his Pasadena house. JATO inventor, OTO magus, FBI file...

Jesse Marcel | Biography

Jesse Marcel, intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field. Recovered debris from the Foster Ranch on 7 July 1947 with Captain Sheridan Cavitt and was...

Jim Lorenzen | Biography

Leslie James 'Jim' Lorenzen, WWII US Army Air Forces combat radio operator, civilian engineer at Holloman Air Force Base and the Kitt Peak National Observatory, and co-founder in...

Jim Penniston | Biography

James W. Penniston, USAF Security Police staff sergeant and Night 1 first responder to the Rendlesham Forest incident of 26 December 1980. Conducted a close-range examination of a...

L. Ron Hubbard | Biography

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, the Nebraska-born American pulp-fiction writer who served as a US Navy lieutenant in the Pacific theatre during the Second World War, attended the January...

Leonora Piper | Biography

Leonora Evelina Piper, the Boston-born trance medium whose eighteen-year working partnership with Richard Hodgson at the American Society for Psychical Research produced the two...

Lonnie Zamora | Biography

Dionicio Eduardo 'Lonnie' Zamora, Socorro Police Department officer whose 24 April 1964 encounter south of Socorro, New Mexico, became Project Blue Book Case 8766 and one of fewer...

Lord Hill-Norton | Biography

Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Hill-Norton (1915 to 2004), Chief of the Defence Staff 1971 to 1973, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee 1974 to 1977, and from the late 1980s...

Max B. Miller | Biography

Max B. Miller, founder and editor of Flying Saucers International and its journal Saucers, published in Los Angeles from 1953 to 1960. Organiser of the World's First Flying Saucer...

Otis T. Carr | Biography

Otis T. Carr (1904 to 1982), the Baltimore engineer and self-described Tesla student whose OTC Enterprises promoted the OTC-X1 flying-saucer prototype across the late 1950s,...

Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd | Biography

Richard E. Byrd (1888 to 1957), United States Navy polar aviator. The contested 1926 North Pole flight, the 1929 South Pole flight, the 1934 Advance Base winter that nearly killed...

Stanton Friedman | Biography

Stanton Terry Friedman, nuclear physicist who spent fourteen years on classified nuclear propulsion programmes before lecturing publicly on UFOs from 1967. His February 1978...

Travis Walton | Biography

Travis Walton, Arizona logger who at age twenty-two reported being struck by a beam of light from a hovering craft in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest on 5 November 1975....

Newsletter coverage (151)

20th Century Times

The 20th Century Times was a tabloid-format saucer publication from 2931 Glendale Boulevard, Los Angeles 39, California, priced at 25 cents per copy, covering the 1952 sighting...

AFSCA World Report

AFSCA World Report was the monthly newsletter of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, published from Los Angeles by Gabriel Green from July 1959 as a relaunch of his...

Akualele Research Group Bulletin

The Akualele Research Group Bulletin was published from Honolulu, Hawaii, and distributed through the North Jersey U.F.O. Group at Post Office Box 606, Morristown, New Jersey,...

Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories under editor Raymond A. Palmer, who from 1945 ran the Shaver Mystery, a precursor to the flying-saucer era. This page covers that period, not the magazine's wider...

Approach

Approach: a South African contactee-era monthly review, published by Sagittarius Publishers in Pretoria and edited by Edgar Sievers, running theosophical and Universal-Law...

APRG Reporter

Short-lived Los Angeles civilian research group bulletin from the late 1950s, edited by John H. Otto and his correspondents. Predates the more famous APRO and ran in parallel with...

APRO Bulletin

The Aerial Phenomena Research Organization Bulletin, published 1952 to 1988, was one of the first civilian UFO research journals. The archive holds 258 issues with 1,934 indexed...

Australian Newspaper (Advocate)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Barrier Daily Truth)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Barrier Miner)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Border Morning Mail)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Brisbane Telegraph)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Cairns Post)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Chronicle)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Daily Advertiser)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Daily Examiner)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Daily Mercury)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Examiner)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Glen Innes Examiner)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Goulburn Evening Post)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Illawarra Daily Mercury)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Kalgoorlie Miner)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Lithgow Mercury)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Maryborough Chronicle)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Morning Bulletin)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (National Advocate)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (News)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Northern Star)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Queensland Times)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Sunday Mail)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Sunday Times)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Tharunka)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Advertiser)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Age)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Argus)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Canberra Times)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Central Queensland Herald)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Courier-Mail)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Daily News)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Daily Telegraph)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Evening Advocate)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Herald)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Inverell Times)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Mail)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Mercury)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Newcastle Sun)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Riverine Herald)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Sun)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Sunday Herald)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (The West Australian)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Townsville Daily Bulletin)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Victor Harbour Times)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Warwick Daily News)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Newspaper (Weekly Times)

Australian newspaper archive

Australian Saucer Record

Quarterly journal of the Australian Flying Saucer Research Society, published from a house in suburban Adelaide and printed by the Hyde Park Press, covering nine years of...

Australian UFO Bulletin

Quarterly journal of the Victorian UFO Research Society, one of Australia's oldest civilian UFO investigation groups, covering fifty years of Southern Hemisphere sighting reports,...

Baton Rouge UFO Bulletin

The Baton Rouge UFO Bulletin was a monthly newsletter sponsored by the Baton Rouge Recreation and Park Commission from July 1957 to April 1958, written by an unnamed editor whose...

Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York

Numbered bulletins of Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York, documenting regular public meetings at Steinway Hall with speakers from science, aviation, and engineering, from...

Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York

Publications of Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York, one of the first organisations to apply systematic investigation methods to UFO reports, operating from Manhattan from...

Cleveland Flying Saucer Club Bulletin

Cleveland Flying Saucer Club Bulletin: a regional Ohio civilian-research club bulletin launched in December 1954 by Thomas M. Comella from his Shaker Heights address, framing...

Cleveland FSC Bulletin

Bulletin of the Cleveland Flying Saucer Club, a local Ohio civilian-research group of the early saucer era. The bulletin is among the rarer surviving examples of the mid-1950s...

Cosmic News

Cosmic News, a grassroots flying saucer newsletter published from Strongsville, Ohio in 1956, mixed sighting reports with contactee philosophy and practical advice for forming...

Cosmic Voice

Cosmic Voice is the official journal of the Aetherius Society, founded by George King in London in 1955. It is the primary contactee-religious organ of the post-war period and the...

CSI Quarterly

The CSI Quarterly Bulletin was published by Civilian Saucer Intelligence from Box 1971, Main Post Office, Los Angeles 53, California, running four issues from fall 1952 to winter...

Doubt (Fortean Society)

Doubt was the journal of the Fortean Society, one of the earliest organisations to systematically collect reports of anomalous phenomena. Published from 1931 through the 1950s.

FATE Magazine

FATE Magazine, founded in 1948, was the first mass-market publication to cover flying saucers seriously. It published Kenneth Arnold's original account and ran continuously for...

Flying Saucer Digest (ICARF)

The Flying Saucer Digest was the official organ of the Inter-Continental Aerial Research Foundation, edited by Phillip Pluta from 7230 Earl Avenue, Greendale, Wisconsin, and...

Flying Saucer News (Great Britain)

Flying Saucer News was an early British saucer-focused publication running from spring 1953 through spring 1956. The archive holds 9 consecutive seasonal issues. It is the earliest...

Flying Saucer News-Service Research Bulletin

Flying Saucer News-Service Research Bulletin was a small civilian investigation publication run by Thomas M. Comella out of Ohio in 1955. Two issues of the original eight-issue run...

Flying Saucer News-Service Research Bulletin

Flying Saucer News-Service Research Bulletin: Thomas M. Comella's 1955 research-oriented sister publication to the Cleveland Flying Saucer Club Bulletin, archive holding Volume 1...

Flying Saucer News

Flying Saucer News was published by James S. Rigberg from his Manhattan bookshop across nearly three decades, beginning in 1955 and running through at least 1982, combining...

Flying Saucer Review

Flying Saucer Review, published from London between 1955 and 2003, was the international flagship of civilian UFO journalism. Editors Denis Ninham, Derek Dempster, Charles Bowen,...

Flying Saucers from Other Worlds

Flying Saucers from Other Worlds was the original title of Ray Palmer's mass-market UFO magazine, launched in June 1957. It was shortened to Flying Saucers after the first year.

Flying Saucers

Flying Saucers, published by Ray Palmer from 1957 to 1976, was one of the most widely circulated UFO magazines in America. Palmer brought the subject to newsstands nationwide.

Cosmic World

American contactee-era periodical of esoteric and metaphysical material. Preserved by the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals...

Infinity Newsletter

Infinity Newsletter: a long-running American UFO and anomalous-phenomena publication established in 1945, two years before the Kenneth Arnold sighting, with the masthead motto...

Infinity

Infinity Newsletter was established in 1945 and reached its 11th year by 1956, published by Barrow Studios, covering military plane crashes, Congressional UFO legislation, creature...

Interplanetary News Digest

The Interplanetary News Digest was published from Joshua Tree, California by Genevieve A. Johnston and John Otto from 1953 to 1954, covering the contactee movement during its...

Interplanetary News-Scope

Interplanetary News-Scope: a two-page free supplement to Genevieve Johnston's Interplanetary News Digest, published from a Hollywood PO box in late 1956 and notable for the...

Interplanetary Space Patrol

Interplanetary Space Patrol: a Texas amateur-radio civilian-research organisation founded in late 1957 in direct response to the Levelland mass-sighting case of 2 to 3 November...

Kalamazoo Flying Saucer Study Club

Kalamazoo Flying Saucer Study Club Bulletin: a regional Michigan civilian-research club of the late 1950s whose membership met monthly at the Crosstown Branch of the First National...

Kalamazoo Flying Saucer Study Club Bulletin

The Kalamazoo Flying Saucer Study Club Bulletin was a mimeographed newsletter produced by a local UFO study group meeting at the Crosstown Branch of First National Bank in...

Kalamazoo Flying Saucer Study Club Bulletin

The Kalamazoo Flying Saucer Study Club published at least twenty numbered bulletins from Kalamazoo, Michigan, mixing NICAP-style research orientation with strong contactee and New...

Little Listening Post

The Little Listening Post was published bimonthly from 4811 Illinois Avenue N.W., Washington D.C. from 1954 to 1965, mixing Capitol insider observations with flying saucer news,...

The Long John Nebel Collection

The Long John Nebel Collection: 44 archived WOR New York overnight radio broadcasts from 1957 to 1968, capturing the principal national radio venue for contactees, abductees, and...

LUFORO Bulletin

Short-lived bulletin of the London UFO Research Organisation, founded 1959 and merged in 1962 with the British UFO Association to form BUFORA. The bulletin is the surviving record...

Lumières Dans La Nuit

Lumières Dans La Nuit (Lights in the Night), published from 1958 to the early 1990s, was France's longest-running UFO research journal. The archive holds 282 issues with 2,309...

Maryland Saucer Mag

Maryland Saucer Mag was the newsletter of the Civilian Research Society of Maryland, founded in Baltimore in September 1955 by Murray Shockett and twelve other citizens who...

Mystic Magazine

Mystic Magazine blended flying saucer coverage with metaphysical, occult, and self-improvement content for the 1950s commercial newsstand market.

Nexus

James W. Moseley's earliest UFO publication. Six issues across Volume 1 ran from July to December 1954, with Volume 2 beginning January 1955. Moseley renamed the title to Saucer...

NICAP UFO Investigator

The NICAP UFO Investigator, journal of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena from 1957 to 1980, was the most politically connected civilian UFO publication of...

Orbit (CRIFO Newsletter)

Orbit (CRIFO Newsletter): the Cincinnati-based newsletter of Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects, founded April 1954 by Leonard H. Stringfield, the former 5th Air...

Orbit: CRIFO Newsletter

Orbit, the newsletter of Leonard H. Stringfield's Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects (CRIFO), published from 1954 to 1957, was one of the earliest and most...

Proceedings of the College of Universal Wisdom

The Proceedings of the College of Universal Wisdom was the newsletter of George Van Tassel's College of Universal Wisdom at Giant Rock, California, published from 1953 until the...

Psychology and Saucers

Psychology and Saucers: Dr Kenneth J. Gentilli's psychological and physiological analysis of flying-saucer sightings, published in the Western Mail (Perth, Western Australia) on 19...

Round Robin

Round Robin, edited by Meade Layne from San Diego beginning February 1945, is the earliest UFO-relevant periodical in the NHI Archive. It traces the migration of one small civilian...

The Roundhouse

A monthly newsletter published by the Civilian Saucer Investigation club in rural eastern Iowa, combining flying saucer reports, Fortean phenomena, contactee news, and amateur...

Saucer News / Saucer Smear

Saucer News (later Saucer Smear), published by James Moseley from 1954 to 2012, was one of the longest-running and most irreverent UFO publications in the field.

Saucer Sentinel

The Saucer Sentinel was published twice monthly by Olympic Publications from 6 Holland Court, Saginaw, Michigan, edited by D.W. Opperman, carrying 'Facts and Opinions on Flying...

Saucer Smear

Saucer Smear, published by James W. Moseley from 1954 to 2012, was the longest-running UFO newsletter in history. Known for gossip, feuds, and honest commentary that spared nobody.

Saucercommentary

Debut issue of a short-run American small-circulation saucer bulletin from the mid-1950s. The publication appears not to have survived past its inaugural number. Preserved here as...

The Saucerian / Saucerian Bulletin

Gray Barker's Saucerian publications ran from Box 981, Clarksburg, West Virginia, beginning September 1953, mixing UFO sighting reports with the paranormal, fiction, and conspiracy...

The Saucerian

The Saucerian, edited by Gray Barker from Clarksburg, West Virginia, ran from September 1953 to early 1955 and is the publication that introduced the Three Men in Black narrative...

Saucers (Max B. Miller)

Saucers, edited by Max B. Miller for Flying Saucers International from 1953 to 1960, tracks in real time the seven-year transformation of American civilian UFO research from...

Saucers, Space & Science

Saucers, Space & Science was published and edited by Gene Duplantier from Willowdale, Ontario, Canada. It ran for 20 issues from 1957 to 1961, combining UFO case reports with space...

Search Magazine

Ray Palmer's bimonthly newsstand magazine covering UFOs, the Shaver Mystery, contactee material, occult topics and other anomalous phenomena. Began life as Mystic in 1953 and was...

SPACE Bulletin

Bulletin of the North Jersey U.F.O. Group, edited from a P.O. Box address in Morristown, New Jersey, beginning January 1957. Among the longest-running of the local...

Space Craft Digest

Space Craft Digest was published from PO Box 768, Salem, Oregon, covering Pacific Northwest UFO sightings with a strong editorial position favouring electromagnetic propulsion...

Space Review

Space Review was the official publication of the International Flying Saucer Bureau, published from Bridgeport, Connecticut by Albert K. Bender from October 1952 to August 1954....

The Spacecrafter

The monthly publication of the Spacecraft Research Association, a non-profit organisation in Phoenix, Arizona that investigated spacecraft, extraterrestrial phenomena, mysticism,...

Spaceviewer

The Spaceviewer was the newsletter of the U.F.O. Study Club of Kansas City, Missouri, edited by Dwight L. Bockman from 10915 West 57th Terrace, Shawnee, Kansas. It covered...

The Visitor

The Visitor was a mimeographed saucer newsletter issued from Belleville, Michigan, by Don Wysocki, the bulletin of a Detroit-area study group in the mid-1950s.

Thy Kingdom Come

Thy Kingdom Come blended flying saucer content with religious and spiritual themes, framing extraterrestrial contact as a form of divine intervention and social reform in 1959.

UFO Encounter

UFO Encounter was the bimonthly journal of UFO Research Queensland Inc., established 1956 and publishing from PO Box 15222, City East, QLD 4002. The archive holds issues from the...

UFO-Mation

UFO-Mation was the quarterly journal of the New York Saucer Information Bureau (NYSIB), published from PO Box 26, Planetarium Station, New York 24, New York. It ran for at least...

The Ufologer

The Ufologer was a monthly saucer magazine published by the North Jersey U.F.O. Group from Post Office Box 606, Morristown, New Jersey. It ran from June 1957 to March/April 1959,...

UFOrum

The monthly publication of the Grand Rapids Flying Saucer Club, a non-profit educational organisation in western Michigan that served as a community forum for sighting reports,...

Wonders

Wonders covered cryptozoology and anomalous phenomena with contributions from Mark A. Hall and other researchers, spanning material from the 1870s through the 1990s.

Vol. 1, No. 1, 15 July 1952

APRO Bulletin Vol. 1 No. 1, 15 July 1952. The first mimeographed issue under the renumbered series, edited by Coral E. Lorenzen from Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Contains the...