UFO Potpourri

History

UFO Potpourri operated as a press-clipping digest, assembling newspaper reports, wire service stories, and reprinted material from other UFO organisations into regular issues distributed from a PO Box in Fallon, Nevada. The earliest issue in the archive (No. 13) dates from April 1971; the latest (No. 455) suggests publication continued into the mid-to-late 1990s. The name declared the editorial philosophy plainly: this was a mixed compilation, drawing from whatever sources had produced interesting UFO material since the previous issue.

Issue No. 14 (April 1971) reprinted a full description of the Midwest UFO Network (MUFON) and promoted the 1971 Midwest UFO Conference in St. Louis. The piece described MUFON's organisational structure under Director Walter H. Andrus Jr.: State Directors, State-Section Directors, Field Investigators, Amateur Radio Communications Network, and a master case file maintained on McBee Keysort punched cards. That kind of organisational documentation, reprinted in full, is precisely what the newsletter preserved and what most other publications would not have bothered to retain.

The newsletter's numbering (13 through 455 in the archive, with gaps) implies roughly 440 issues published over its full run. At the archive's 112-issue holding, coverage is partial but spans the full publication period. The format appears to have been consistent throughout: typewritten compilation of clippings without the editorial apparatus (mastheads, contributor lists, subscription information) that characterised more formal newsletters.