SPACE Bulletin

History

The North Jersey U.F.O. Group launched its bulletin SPACE in January 1957 from P.O. Box 606, Morristown, New Jersey. Bulletin No. 1 led with the November 1956 Homestead Air Force Base alert and a Miami radar case from December 1956, treating both as evidence that the official Air Force position (no physical evidence) understated what military and civilian observers were tracking. The bulletin's opening editorial argued from the work of Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, former chief investigator at Project Blue Book, whose 1956 book had reframed the official record for a civilian readership.

The bulletin ran as a monthly through the late 1950s and into the 1960s. It documented cases in the New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania region with close attention to radar-visual correlations, military-witness reports, and the early correspondence between civilian researchers and Air Force public-information officers. The group maintained working relationships with Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York, with the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization in Tucson, and with the smaller New England groups operating in the same period.

SPACE's editorial line was investigative rather than contactee-friendly. The bulletin printed sighting reports with witness questionnaires attached, contemporary press clippings on cases of interest, and occasional editorial responses to the Air Force's evolving public statements through the Blue Book and pre-Condon Committee period. The North Jersey U.F.O. Group remained one of the more methodologically careful local civilian organisations through the 1960s.