Kalamazoo Flying Saucer Study Club Bulletin

History

The Kalamazoo Flying Saucer Study Club operated from 2233 Cambridge Drive, Kalamazoo, Michigan, producing at least twenty numbered bulletins across 1957 and 1958. The club met at the Crosstown Branch of the First National Bank at 8:00 PM, with programme topics that ranged from "The Physical and the Metaphysical in Flying Saucer Research" to the latest NICAP reports. A board of directors reorganised in October 1957 to give each member "a specific title and a specific job to do."

The club's reading material reveals its orientation. Book reviews covered Dana Howard's "Over the Threshold" (a contactee narrative about a "beautiful out-of-space messenger" named Diane), John McCoy's "They Shall Be Gathered Together" (about "the Great Plan manifesting on Earth" and "New Age Work," with a special article by George Hunt Williamson on "Coming World Changes"), and Arthur Constance's "The Inexplicable Sky." McCoy pamphlets were available at meetings or by writing to UFO, 2233 Cambridge Drive. The club maintained its own lending library.

The bulletins were modest mimeographed productions, typical of the hundreds of local saucer club newsletters that circulated through the American mail in the late 1950s. Most surviving issues are image-only scans (the earliest issues yield no extractable text), suggesting they were produced on a typewriter and duplicated photographically. The club received and circulated material from NICAP (the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) alongside contactee literature, positioning itself between the serious-research and metaphysical wings of the movement without choosing sides.