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CDSC Reports

Anthony Rudmann, Capitol District Saucer Council, Schenectady, New York

United States
Country
1960
Published
5
Issues Indexed
89
Articles Catalogued

History

The Capitol District Saucer Council (CDSC) published its Reports irregularly from 142 North Brandywine Avenue, Schenectady 7, New York. Anthony Rudmann served as coordinator and editor; Raymond Jordan as Technical Advisor. Jordan held a B.S. in Physics from Siena College and had served several years in the Ground Observer Corps, qualifications that led to his appointment as head of the CDSC Screening and Tabulating Committee, charged with investigation and analysis of sighting reports.

Volume 1, Number 1 opened with a significant item dated 27 February 1960: the Air Force had issued a new warning to its commands (dated 24 December 1959, from the Air Force Inspector General) treating sightings of unidentified flying objects as "serious business directly related to the nation's defense." The CDSC reported this as an indication that "the elusive disks are no longer completely a taboo subject in the five sided structure on the Potomac" and predicted "a period of increasingly fruitful investigations."

Local Press Relations
On 10 March 1960, Rudmann publicly praised the Schenectady Gazette and Schenectady Union-Star for their coverage of the Council, singling out Union-Star staff writer Larry Hart for "a fine job of accumulating facts and excellent presentation thereof." The CDSC cultivated press relationships as a deliberate strategy, arguing that "such a sense of public responsibility by the press corps will, undoubtedly, aid materially in the solution of the problems raised by what the defense department terms a matter of grave national concern."

The "Capitol District" in the name referred to the Albany, New York metropolitan area (Schenectady being part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy urban corridor). The Council operated during the same period as several other upstate New York saucer groups, in a region that had generated significant sighting activity since the late 1940s.

From the Archive
Cross-reference with The UFO Investigator (NICAP) for the national-level organisation that groups like CDSC looked to for guidance. See also NJAAP Bulletin for another northeastern youth-led saucer group of the same era.

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