Washington Saucer Intelligence

History

Washington Saucer Intelligence operated as the DC-area's small civilian-research bulletin in the early 1960s, on the model of Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York and the other regional groups of the period. The surviving October to November 1964 issue documents cases under investigation in the DC, Maryland and Virginia region during the year that followed the Washington Saucer Working Group's 1952 radar flap, the most famous local case in DC-area UFO history.

The bulletin's full publication run is not preserved in this archive. The single October to November 1964 issue is the documentary trace, and the absence of earlier or later issues is itself part of the record. Many comparable regional bulletins of the 1960s have either disappeared entirely or survive as fragments in private collections. The DC group's relationship to the larger NICAP organisation, also Washington-based, is not directly evident from the surviving material; the two operated within a few miles of each other but the bulletin does not record formal coordination.

The 1964 issue's contents follow the conventions of regional civilian-research bulletins of the period: a digest of recent local sightings, brief commentary on national developments in the field, and meeting-related notices for members of the local circle. Its survival is owed to the work of preservationists who have catalogued single-issue artefacts of the period rather than treating them as too thin to retain.