Flying Saucer News-Service Research Bulletin
Thomas M. Comella's 1955 sister publication to the Cleveland Flying Saucer Club Bulletin
History
The Flying Saucer News-Service Research Bulletin was a research-focused civilian-research bulletin edited by Thomas M. Comella, the same Comella who ran the Cleveland Flying Saucer Club Bulletin from his Shaker Heights, Ohio address. The archive holds Volume 1 Numbers 9 and 10, dated August and September 1955, published as a double issue. The volume numbering places the publication's first issue around late 1954 or early 1955, consistent with the late-1954 founding of the Cleveland Club itself.
Comella was an unusually productive small-press editor for the period. Alongside the Cleveland Bulletin and the Research Bulletin, he was simultaneously running a column called "Saucer Roundup" in Ray Palmer's MYSTIC magazine out of Evanston, Illinois. The Research Bulletin appears to have been the longer-form, research-and-analysis venue for material that did not fit the Cleveland Bulletin's monthly meeting-report format, with the News-Service component suggesting an active correspondent network. By the August to September 1955 double issue, Comella had been operating across three simultaneous editorial venues for approximately a year.
For Comella's parallel monthly Cleveland operation, see the Cleveland Flying Saucer Club Bulletin collection. For the Palmer-imprint venue Comella's third column ran in, see the MYSTIC Magazine page. For the contemporary Ohio civilian-research operation, see Orbit (CRIFO Newsletter). The archive holds one double issue (Volume 1 Numbers 9 and 10) at this time; further issues from the 1955 run, if located, will be added.
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