AFSCA World Report

History

AFSCA World Report launched in July 1959 as a rebranding of Gabriel Green's earlier publication "Thy Kingdom Come." Published monthly by the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America from Los Angeles at 35 cents per copy, it was designed to reach a broader audience than the "select, but important few" toward whom the predecessor had been aimed. Green announced the change as a response to the "highly successful First National AFSCA Convention" and a flood of worldwide correspondence.

The convention had generated substantial media coverage. Green and Daniel Fry appeared on the Tom Duggan Show. Green and Kelvin Rowe did the Paul Coates Show. Daniel Fry, Dick Miller, and Green went on Jack Linkletter's "On The Go." George King, Dick Miller, Fry, and Green appeared on "This Is Los Angeles" with George Walsh and Pat McGinnis. AFSCA was collecting newspaper clippings from readers worldwide to measure their media footprint.

The publication operated in cooperation with "hundreds of independent Flying Saucer Research Groups throughout the world," offering local clubs a 40 per cent profit on magazine sales in lots of 25 or more. Back issues of "Thy Kingdom Come" remained available at 15 cents each in bulk. The numbering continued from the earlier publication: the first AFSCA World Report was Issue No. 10, indicating nine prior issues under the Thy Kingdom Come banner. The archive holds issues 10 through 16, spanning 1959 to approximately 1961, after which the publication evolved into Flying Saucers International.

Content mixed convention reports, contactee accounts, television and radio appearance summaries, book reviews, and Green's "Gabriel Blows His Horn" editorial column. Green wrote in an upbeat, promotional style that treated the flying saucer movement as a quasi-spiritual crusade. "The die has been cast for those of us in the Flying Saucer Movement to exert every effort toward spreading the word to all the world."