UFO International

History

Gabriel Green founded the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America (AFSCA) and published UFO International as its official journal from 2004 N. Hoover Street, Los Angeles, California 90027. Helen Green served as assistant editor. AFSCA operated as a non-profit organisation dedicated, in its own words, to "the physical, spiritual, and economic emancipation of man." Subscription was $3.00 for six issues, with AFSCA membership an additional $1.00 (including an ID card, flying saucer button, postcards, and stamps).

The publication sat firmly in the contactee tradition. Its longest running feature through the archive holdings was "The Dick Miller Story," a serialised account of claimed communications with extraterrestrial beings via ham radio, telepathy, and a home-built "light-beam" receiver. Miller's narrative, which ran across issues 10 through 17 at minimum, described receiving technical formulae, earthquake predictions, and philosophical messages from entities identifying themselves as "Sol-Tec" of Centaurus.

The final issue in the archive (No. 23, October 1965) opened with a lengthy obituary for George Adamski, who had died on 23 April 1965 in a Washington D.C. hospital after contracting pneumonia while lecturing on the east coast. Green wrote that Adamski's ashes were interred at Arlington National Cemetery as a World War I veteran. The tribute positioned AFSCA as Adamski's institutional heir, carrying forward his message about "Space People and their mission to Earth."

Content beyond the contactee core included international sighting compilations, Soviet press coverage ("Pravda Attacks" pieces tracking how the USSR handled its own UFO reports), and historical cases reaching back to the nineteenth century. The publication operated in cooperation with what it described as "Hundreds of Independent Flying Saucer Research Groups Throughout the World," though AFSCA's actual network was concentrated in southern California.