DUA6 VIMA

VOLUME ONE - OCTOBER 15, 1954 - No. 1

AS ONE OF THE SOUNDEST IN THE COUNTRY In less -than three months time something has happened in Detroit, that to hundreds of people, has organized their interests and given new incentive to a type of exploratory research long overdue. ·It begins with the recognition that many so-called UFO's (uniden

Standing Room Only, and we ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER FIFTEENTH believe it is all due to SUBJECT: "Coming World Changes!" the fact that the Flying Saucer "phenomena" epitoPLACE: Detroit Institute of Arts

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AND "NAVIGATOR" IN 1946, PRIOR TO ARNOLD 1 S MOUNT RANIER SIGHTING (Editor's Note: The following letter was given to the Chairman of the Detroit Flying Saucer Club by Mrs. May Ackerman, of 19417 Cruse Ave., Detroit 27, Michigan, who

of the United States of America CALLING ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT SECRECY IN GOVERNMENT is not an American ideal, and that public awareness is what has-;"ade our Country great, it is only'Ila.tur~that a petition "'"t,()the Honorable President of the United States, requesting that pertinent UFO info

SLIGHT, ON THE OBLONG SHAPE THAN ENTIRELY ROUND. THE BEAM was still being focused on the moon, as I stated before. Then I realized that in the middle section was.-what have been glass, as I saw SOMEONE WALK FROM THE BACK UP TO

REALIZED THAT THIS OBJECT UP IN THE SKY MADE NO NOISE WHATSOEVER. Naturally, I was puzzled for I knew when I told my friends about it they would think I was imagining it. Now, at first this queer silent object in the sky was not going very fast, but I could not help but wonder WHY this intense inter

(Signed) Mary Ackerman (Mrs. David)" (Mrs. Ackerman further stated that it was not until I@.l!Y we~s la~r that the pa~an to have, acco~ts of .people in a_l_l_parts of_the_C:orm.t.~ying they had seen ~ objects in the sky. A TV broadcast showed a~

GET UNDERWAY WITH ZEAL! By Laura Marxer in Charge of Discussion Groups and Lecture Promotion Vice-Preside~t

VOLUME ONE - NOVEMBER 15, 195, - No. 2 REVIVAL OF ''DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL" AUGURS PUBLIC INCREASED INTEREST IN U.F.O. 'S

AUGURS PUBLIC INCREASED INTEREST IN U.F.O. 'S The Twentieth Century-Fox film, "The Day the Earth Stood Still," which was first released in 1951, starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Sam Jaffe and Hugh Marlowe,

F E A T U R E S IN THIS ISSUE Donald Keyhoe Incident ... Page 2 Neighborhood Groups .... ;9

Donald Keyhoe Incident ... Page 2 Neighborhood Groups .... ;9 over 1000 Sign Petition .. Page 3 Letter to Edi tor .•...... 7 Snowy Substance analysed ..... 3 Next Saucer Meeting ..... 12 Noted Personalities visit Club 8 Recommended Reading·..... 11 , WHY WAS MAJOR KEYHQE'S APPEARANCE CANCELLED?

We wish we knew, for our membership deserves the right to know! Less than two weeks prior to the November 9th schedule,· however, just as we were preparing to release stories to the newspapers and prepare our own Keyhoe announcements,

time that John Hoffman once told a fellow worker at Spartan Radio about his first sighting_of a Saucer. "Boy, wish I'd seen one of those ships," he told Hoffman, "I'd reach for my gun and take a shot at it!" Yet the unfortunate bedlam climaxing the end of this picture is not its outstanding fact. Pe

Our petition to the government requesting that President Eisenhower release supressed U.F.O. information is implemented by the fact that private citizens everywhere appear to be making the same request. The long awaited news should break soon. A friend of ours from Flint, Michigan, whose letter appe

READING "The Vimana" who are willing to spend a little time and initiative in getting the names and addresses of like minded .individuals who are convinced that the time for vocal action is at hand.

By George Hunt Williamson (A Review of the talk presented before the DFSC)

SAUCER MESSAGE THRU SAUCER RESEAR'CH SOCIETY Although many within the Club will miss her. Laura Marxer will be leaving the DFSC for a term to accept a wider opportunity in other Saucer fields. In association with Robert Chapek and Frank Clark, the Saucer Research Society

Offi cial publication of The Detroit Flying Saucer Club. A Monthly devot ed to the "Traverse Course" - the vital pi cture about Flying Saucers as it is reliably determined . Henry Maday, Editor Publication Offices : 6432 Cass Ave ., Detroit 2, Michigan

OUTSTANDING SAUCER EXPERIENCE IN MEXICO CITY: DISCOVER MEXICAN "Adamski." Within a few short months former Detroiters and assistant

DETROIT FLYING SAUCER CLUB - - Field Lectures Following are scheduled appearances of the Staff group of our Club, and where they will be appearing to broadcast our message. February 1st - Evening - AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION, Detroit

March 9th - Evening - RESIDENT WIVES ASSOCIATION of Henry Ford Hospital - Maday and Hoffman

There was silence in the great lecture hall .•. the speaker of the evening was utterly inspired from on high . .. he had just uttered words of exceptional saucerian wisdom .•• a young man arose in the audience and questioned the validity of the statement : "Sir , I disagree with what you say, I know

by George Hunt Williamson I just returned from Arizona and California where I spent the month of December and part of January. As usual, there is much activity saucer-wise in that part of the country. First of all, the 200-inch telescope on Mt. Palomar is

to be startling, indeed. A new element called Telonium has been discovered on the Giant Rock Airport property belonging to George W. Van Tassel . It's strange quality lies in the fact that pieces of it makes the ordinary background count of radiation drop! No other element has such a quality. They m

(REEVE - Cont vd) interpreter) and a question and answer period . The hall was filled and three testimonies were given on sightings . "When Bryant got around to asking : 'How many of you have

The year of 1955 will see great strides in the resear ch f ie ld. While on the West Coast I heard and saw astound ing evidence of the advance of present s cientifi c de velopment . Another great program was started the day after Christmas

VOLUME ONE - MARCH 15, 1955 - NUMBER ONE FLYING SAUCER COUNCIL OF AMERICA FORMED Due to the success of the excellent Saucer film,

The purpose of the Council is educational throughout; in a word, to br i ng as much of the Saucer message as can be accepted, in gradual steps, to various communities of the country. The first project has been that of takine Mr . Vail's excellent picture on the road, for the Council has been granted

Saucer story, without prejudice or imaginative romancing. Its unfolding sequences have made the audiences everywhere marvel at the thoroughness and candor of the exponents illustrating the story; especially the Radar technicians, the Airline pilot from Western Airlines, the "clothesline" women in th

George Hunt Williamson Earl Nightingale, well-known TV personality reported from

TO CONTINUE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21ST Saucer devotee's and friends who listened to Bob Murphy's Breakfast Club Program at 9:30 A.M. over WJBK ten days ago, were surprisingly delighted to hear Baird Wallace and Henry Maday uphold the UFO picture as against two eminent Rocket Professors of the University

There are many minor faults not shown. A fault line is a large crack in the surface of our planet and gives under certain stress and strain. Volcanoes and mountain ranges are found along these lines. Because our earth is now entering a new area of the Universe, these lines are being subjected to gre

weather and violent quakes are usually reporte~ two or three days after a bomb has been set off. Man on earth is only beginning to understand the forces of nature behind volcanic activity and what causes earthquakes. Space people say: "If you really knew the power of a volcano, you might be able to

can be imagined! Twenty-four hours ago we were on the platform in Saginaw.o onow returned, and going over our cards of new names and addresses, who would think that our sub ject would bring people from BAD AXE, CHESANING, BRIDGEPORT, CASS CITY, BURT, ESSEXVILLE, FREEIAND, MILLTON, AKRON (Michigan, n

FOSTERS, NEW LarHROP, GRAND RAPIDS, VASSAR, ST. CHARLES, and EVEN DETROIT and CHICAGO! Not to mention t ha t MIDIAND, BAY CITY and CARO were prominently represented also . The Manager of the Civic Auditorium, in all politeness, finally had to flash the lights, for the fact that people just didn't wa

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what positive stresses are suggested as alternatives to the otherwise grim misuses of nuclear energy. By attempting to make a miniature artificial sun on earth, and harnessing the vast resources of sea water, Project Sherwood, a research started in 1951 is attempting to copy the sun's method of gene

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It has been several months since the last official program of the Detroit Flying Saucer Club was announced, and undoubtedly many of our members and their friends have wondered just what has happened. The explanation is not difficult to give. One of the best answers is that we have simply exhausted t

FINANCIAL REPORT Nine Lectures August 1954 through August 1955 -Our Club, a non-profit dedicated organization attempting to clarify and rightly interpret the inter-terrestrial picture "as it unfolds itself" -- and further determined to

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