A Philadelphia man believed an article about a message from space expressed a communist viewpoint. The FBI forwarded the magazine to its Los Angeles office.
A subscriber to a flying saucers magazine thought an article about a message from a distant planet expressed a communist viewpoint. The FBI forwarded the magazine to Los Angeles but did not investigate the organization.
FBI serial 449 in 62-HQ-83894 consists of an FBI airtel/memo dated 10/3/66 from SAC, Los Angeles (file 100-2442-40) to the Director, FBI, transmitting Issue No. 24 (July 1966) of 'Flying Saucers International,' the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. (AFSCA), 2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles, edited by Gabriel Green. The Philadelphia Division had received the magazine on 9/19/66 from Mr. Jarvis H. Cooper of the IRS, who alleged that an article on pages 2-3 'expounded the Communist Party (CP) line.' The article, supposedly received via short-wave radio by contactee Bob Renaud from 'Master Kalen-Li Retan, Head of the planet KORENDOR,' criticizes the U.S. 'Military-Industrial complex' and the Vietnam War. The remainder of the document is the magazine itself, including the AFSCA 3rd National Saucer Convention program (Reno, Nevada, July 8-10, 1966) and a multi-page collage of newspaper clippings about UFO sightings from late 1965 through May 1966 (Michigan swamp-gas, Ravenna/Portage County Ohio chase, Wanaque Reservoir NJ, Hillsdale College, etc.).
Mr. Jarvis H. Cooper, IRS, 401 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, furnished the FBI Philadelphia Division with Issue No. 24 (July 1966) of 'Flying Saucers International,' alleging that an article on pages 2-3 'expounded the Communist Party (CP) line.' Philadelphia transmitted to Los Angeles on 9/22/66, and Los Angeles reported to the Director on 10/3/66.
Article published in AFSCA magazine, allegedly written by 'Master Kalen-Li Retan, Head of the planet KORENDOR' (about 400 light years distant), received 5/4/66 by special directional short-wave radio by Bob Renaud. Message criticizes the U.S. 'Military-Industrial complex,' the Vietnam War, and discusses Korendian language, physical appearance, and prior interventions on Earth.
Portage County Deputies Dale Spaur and W. L. Neff, while investigating a routine traffic accident at 5 a.m., were alerted by radio to be on the lookout for an object. The circular object 'about 30 to 45 feet in diameter' traveled at speeds 80-100 mph; chase joined at East Palestine by Patrolman Wayne Huston. Object reportedly resembled 'the head of a flashlight, about 40 feet wide and 18 feet high.' Chase lasted ~30 minutes, ~85 miles, into Pennsylvania, with Spaur and Neff questioned by an 'Air Force colonel' in Freedom, PA.
William Van Horn (Hillsdale civil defense director) and 87 college coeds at Hillsdale College observed an object emitting 'glowing orange, red and white lights' hovering above swamp 1,000-1,500 yards from dormitory for hours. Frank Mannor and family near Dexter reported similar object in nearby swamp.
Mass UFO sightings across wide section of Western Ontario and into Selfridge AFB Michigan radar contact. Multiple variously-colored objects reported. A Thorndale mother and daughter (Wendy, 15) saw white light. Floyd Baxter, Thorndale, reported orange and yellow light moving northeast at ~1000+ feet altitude, very slow.
Six picnicking Denver teenagers (three boys, three girls, all 17) reported being 'chased for an hour by unidentified flying objects.' They observed hovering blue/red/white lights, heard 'pulsating buzzing sounds,' heard 'footsteps' on stone shelter roof, saw 'tall man, who might've been wearing a raincoat.' Car (1956 Ford) malfunctioned; radio played 'nothing but static' until they left the area.
Hundreds of witnesses, motorists, municipal officials, and police observed white/garishly bright disk (~2 feet in diameter) over Wanaque Reservoir over multiple nights. Object reportedly made 'sharp angles' maneuvers, 'almost came to rest at the top of the 1,500-foot long Raymond Dam.' Subsequent sightings in Wyckoff, Lakeland Regional High School, Houdaille pit, Ringwood Avenue overhead ridge.
Two patrolling South African police officers reported seeing a flaming 'saucer,' about 30 feet in diameter, 'shiny copper-coloured… with a slowly rotating top,' which 'took off silently at great speed with flames shooting out of its sides.' Scientists examined the spot; reported a 'six-foot wide section of the tarred road had been badly burned. Grass on either side of the highway was scorched.'
California Highway Patrolman Rex Heflin photographed a 'saucer-or-straw-hat' shaped object 'through his car windshield.'
Wall Street Journal article: 'orange fireball' sighted by residents and pilots in northern tier of states and Canada. Multiple people reported it landed Thursday night; an 11-year-old boy in Lorain, Ohio said he watched it drop into the woods. A woman in Elyria, Ohio (10 miles away) said it plunged into a vacant lot. Others said it streaked into Lake Michigan. Scientists and police combed a 15-acre area near Pittsburgh after a woman saw it 'crash to earth smoldering.' Air Force initially called it UFO, later 'thinks it was a meteor.'
Mrs. Tang reported sighting an object 'with a steel-like shell' 'shaped like a dog'; appeared to her on multiple occasions per article.
British 'Colossus of Rhodes' sighting / 'The Thing' set Britons speculating; officials had failed to explain fully.
Charley Cozens, age 13, claimed to have touched the 'antenna' of a softly-glowing 'flying ship' near Hamilton Mountain police station; was repeatedly questioned by police after a flash of electricity sent him over a fence. Phil Smith, 15, made a rough sketch.
Five-year-old Johnny Thomas (son of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge Thomas) claimed two flying saucers landed in his driveway on the north side of the home; described purple, red and orange colors; 'big fat elephant.'
Louis S. Smith family observed UFO for 10 minutes around 7:50 p.m. — 'not a star, not an aircraft.' Pulsating light, color of moonlight, hovering and moving 'around in a circle.'
Burns Aircraft plane (a chartered newspaper plane) escorted reported UFO; Dr. Asher Chapman, ophthalmologist, observed the object. Object was sighted near Stewart Air Force Base, Newburgh, NY. UFO reportedly traveled at 80-100 mph; FAA Kennedy International Airport reportedly received reports.
Pre-dawn fireball / object sighted 'about 4 a.m.' over Los Angeles area, described variously as 'puff,' 'greenish ball,' 'flat oval green object with a long tail and a light at the end.' Visible for ~half an hour from Hollywood (Sgt. David Tellotson observed over Griffith Park: 'a bright green splotch, elongated, and not blinking'). Similar fireball reported same time from Sacramento and Vandenberg AFB.
Police Constable Donald Cameron, on sick leave at home, looked out a window and saw 'six glowing objects hovering in the distance,' watched them ~30 seconds before they disappeared toward Manchester. 'They were about a mile away… white and glowing. One was bigger than the others with a cup-shaped dome.'
Rural residents reported cigar-shaped object dropping from sky; witnesses David Duncan (KGBH radio Memphis) and Mrs. Ernest Lee saw object resembling 'two parachutes.' J. W. Hatley (Brice farmer) and others watched a ~20-foot-long, 4-5-foot-wide cigar-shaped object 'apparently to have radios and about 2 small batteries on the outside.' Object 'started smoking, burst into flame and burned' without apparent cause. Four-foot strip of 'tin and aluminum' material recovered.
Gary Wilcox, 26-year-old farmer, claimed encounter with spaceship and crew; was in hayloft when he saw 'shiny egg-shaped craft' with two small humanoid occupants who 'explained their interest in fertilizer and farm chemicals' and asked him for fertilizer; while he went to get bag the ship lifted off. Story attracted continuing visitors and rumors.
Mrs. Campbell (director of Spokane unit, AFSCA) and several Spokane persons saw 'a glowing streak of blue' moving in vicinity of Browne's Mountain near city; said it 'could not have been a falling meteor or similar object, as its movement was horizontal rather than vertical.'
Wanaque sightings continued into May. Police chiefs Joseph Cisco and Bentley Spath maintained a vigil. Object reappeared 5/16/66 near Stoatsburg / Board Mountain area according to Charles Capen, former chief engineer of the North Jersey District Water Supply Commission, who reported seeing same object 'two years' previously.
Police Chief Gerald Buchert of Mantua, Ohio (8 miles north of Ravenna) said he took a picture of the object from his front yard but the Air Force told him not to release it.
Bloomingdale youths reported sighting flying saucer to Van Buren county police at the Petrik farm.
"The Philadelphia Division by letter dated 9/22/66, furnished the Los Angeles Division with Issue No. 24 dated July, 1966, entitled "FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL", which is the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. The Philadelphia Division received the magazine from Mr. JARVIS H. COOPER, IRS, 401 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 9/19/66, Mr. COOPER stated he subscribed to the magazine because his son had exhibited an interest in flying saucers and outer space. He said that on pages 2 and 3 of Issue No. 24 was an article which he believed expounded the Communist Party (CP) line."
Speaker: SAC, Los Angeles, in airtel to Director, FBI, dated 10/3/66
Why it matters: Establishes the predicate for the FBI file: an IRS employee accused a contactee article of being Communist Party propaganda, prompting interdivisional FBI transmittal.
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"The article, on pages 2 and 3, were allegedly written by Master KALEN-LI RETAN, Head of the planet KORENDOR, which was received on 5/4/66 by special directional short-wave radio by BOB RENAUD,"
Speaker: SAC Los Angeles airtel
Why it matters: FBI document references — without endorsement — a contactee claim of extraterrestrial origin for the article that prompted the file.
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"The indices of the Los Angeles Division contain no information identifiable with RENAUD, and no investigation has ever been conducted on captioned organization. No further action is contemplated in this matter by the Los Angeles Office, UACB."
Speaker: SAC Los Angeles airtel
Why it matters: FBI declined to investigate AFSCA or Bob Renaud despite the CP allegation.
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"Make no mistake. Your government is not, in the White House or the Congress. IT IS IN THE PENTAGON, AND IN THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE VAST "DEFENSE"-ORIENTED INDUSTRIES."
Speaker: 'Master Kalen-Li Retan, Head of the planet Korendor' (per Bob Renaud's relay), as published in Flying Saucers International
Why it matters: The specific anti-military-industrial passage cited by IRS informant as 'Communist Party line.'
Jarvis H. Cooper
IRS employee who furnished magazine to FBI Philadelphia Division · IRS, 401 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Page 2
Bob Renaud
young electronic-technician / contactee who allegedly received messages via short-wave radio · Page 2
Master Kalen-Li Retan
alleged 'Head of the planet KORENDOR' whose message was published · Page 2
Gabriel Green
Editor of Flying Saucers International; President, Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America (AFSCA) · AFSCA, 2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles, CA 90027 · Page 4
Helen Green
Assistant Editor, Flying Saucers International · AFSCA · Page 4
Wayne S. Aho
AFSCA convention speaker; The New Age Foundation, Inc. · Page 11
Carl A. Anderson
AFSCA convention speaker · Page 11
Orfeo Angelucci
AFSCA convention speaker · Page 11
Michael 'X' Barton
AFSCA convention speaker; Futura Press · Page 11
Wesley Bateman
AFSCA convention speaker; M.I.N.D. (Mental Investigations of New Dimensions) · Page 11
JoNell Bateman
co-founder, M.I.N.D. · Page 9
Marianne Francis
AFSCA convention speaker; Solar Light Center · Page 11
Dr. Daniel W. Fry
AFSCA convention speaker; President, Understanding, Inc. · Page 11
Calvin C. Girvin
AFSCA convention speaker · Page 11
FBI airtel header / addressee block contains usual file/routing markings; no notable witness-identity redactions visible. The named informant (Jarvis H. Cooper, IRS) is fully unredacted in this serial.
Likely reason: minimal — newly declassified per manifest description ('only minor redactions')
This is a hybrid document: a single-page FBI airtel (10/3/66, SAC LA → Director re: AFSCA magazine, file 100-2442-40, classification 'MISCELLANEOUS') wrapping an 18-page mailed-in copy of 'Flying Saucers International' Issue No. 24 (July 1966). The FBI's own analytic content is minimal (~1 page); the bulk of the document is the AFSCA magazine itself, which contains: (a) the contactee 'Korendor' message that triggered the IRS complaint; (b) the program for AFSCA's 3rd National Saucer Convention (Reno, July 8-10 1966); (c) a multi-page collage of newspaper clippings from late 1965 through May 1966 covering many famous 1966 UFO cases (Hillsdale/Dexter swamp-gas, Portage County / Spaur-Neff chase, Wanaque Reservoir, Oakland, Western Ontario mass sightings, Memphis TX, South Africa Pretoria scorched road, etc.). For corpus aggregation: distinguish FBI investigative content (page 2 only) from third-party content embedded as an enclosure. The 1966 newspaper clippings are NOT FBI investigative findings — they are reproduced press coverage. The named FBI subject of investigation was AFSCA / Bob Renaud / Gabriel Green / 'Master Kalen-Li Retan' (Korendor) for alleged Communist-Party-line content; FBI Los Angeles closed the matter with no investigation. Manifest notes 'newly declassified pages and only minor redactions' — confirmed: the IRS informant's identity is fully unredacted, and no b1/b6/b7C markings are visible in the OCR text.
Jarvis Cooper, who subscribed to the magazine due to his son's interest in space and flying saucers.
The headquarters of the Flying Saucer Clubs organization, which published the magazine, was located in Los Angeles.
The FBI's Los Angeles office stated that it had not investigated the organization and had no plans for further action on the matter.
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"We have interfered in such places as the United States, China, Russia, and on a large scale in Vietnam. This has caused no end of consternation in the local Tribunal of Planets."
Speaker: 'Kalen-Li Retan' (claimed Korendor message)
Why it matters: Claim of direct extraterrestrial intervention in Vietnam — the Cold War political content driving the IRS complaint.
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"I had never seen anything this bright before in my life,"
Speaker: Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur (Portage County, OH), quoted in UPI article on 85-mile chase from Atwater, OH to Freedom, PA
Why it matters: Iconic April 17, 1966 multi-jurisdiction UFO chase by police.
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"It looked like the head of a flashlight, about 40 feet wide and 18 feet high."
Speaker: Dale Spaur (per Robert Wilson radio account)
Why it matters: Specific size/shape estimate from a primary law-enforcement witness.
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"Spaur said the lines of the object were very distinct. "Somebody had control over it," he said. "It wasn't just floating around. It can maneuver.""
Speaker: Deputy Dale Spaur
Why it matters: Witness inference that the object was under intelligent control.
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"Police Chief Gerald Buchert of Mantua, about eight miles north of Ravenna, said he took a picture of the object from his front yard but the Air Force told him not to release it."
Why it matters: Allegation of Air Force directing a local police chief to suppress photographic evidence.
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"Buchert said it looked like "two table saucers put together.""
Speaker: Police Chief Gerald Buchert (Mantua, OH)
Why it matters: Classic 'flying saucer' silhouette description.
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"We were close, closer than I ever want to be again,"
Speaker: Deputy sheriff (Spaur), quoted in AP article on Ravenna chase
Why it matters: Witness's first-hand fear reaction.
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"There is substantial evidence we are being observed by some sort of device which is far more advanced than anything we have and is controlled by a superior civilization,"
Speaker: Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe (NICAP)
Why it matters: Public NICAP statement quoted in Western Ontario sighting coverage.
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"Of the 9,786 UFO reports made to the Air Force since 1947, 673 remain classified as "unidentified,""
Speaker: Project Blue Book spokesman, in Wall Street Journal article (Dec. 13, 1965)
Why it matters: Specific Air Force statistics through late 1965.
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"The Air Force is trying to explain something that isn't susceptible to explanation."
Speaker: I. M. Levitt, Director, Fels Planetarium, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia
Why it matters: Scientific critic of Air Force explanations.
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"All this is imagination outside the realm of science. I have examined Air Force cases and discovered that UFOs all have simple explanations in terms of well-known natural phenomena. There's not one cause, but hundreds."
Speaker: Donald H. Menzel, Director, Harvard Observatory
Why it matters: Counterpoint: leading academic skeptic.
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"These objects are unquestionably from outer space."
Speaker: Charles Maney, Defiance College, Ohio
Why it matters: Academic proponent of extraterrestrial hypothesis quoted in WSJ.
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"We have neither received nor discovered any evidence that proves the existence of intra-space mobility or knowledge of any space vehicles … evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of a threat to our national security."
Speaker: Project Blue Book spokesman
Why it matters: Official Air Force position circa late 1965.
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Dr. George King
AFSCA convention speaker; founder, The Aetherius Society · Page 11
Johannes 'Hanno' Mayberry
AFSCA convention speaker; Unified Research Center, Inc. · Page 11
Howard Menger
AFSCA convention speaker · Page 11
Laura Mundo
AFSCA convention speaker; The Interplanetary Center · Page 11
Mel Noel
AFSCA convention speaker; former Air Force Lieutenant and fighter pilot · Page 11
Sidney Padrick
AFSCA convention speaker; contactee from Watsonville, Calif. · Page 11
Chief Frank B. Standing Horse
AFSCA convention speaker; AFSCA Unit #9, Perris, CA · Page 11
Dr. Frank E. Stranges
AFSCA convention speaker; International Evangelism Crusades, Inc. · Page 11
Mollie Thompson
AFSCA convention speaker (space age songs); Darwen, Lancs., England · Page 11
Hope Troxell
AFSCA convention speaker; founder, School of Thought, Independence, Calif. · Page 11
George W. Van Tassel
AFSCA convention speaker; Ministry of Universal Wisdom, Inc., Yucca Valley · Page 11
Hal Wilcox
AFSCA convention speaker; Institute of Parapsychology, Hollywood · Page 11
Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe
retired Marine officer; director, NICAP investigations committee · Page 10
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
Northwestern University; Air Force scientific consultant on Project Blue Book · Page 10
Gerald M. Reynolds
Director of Unit 40 of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America; Binghamton/Port Dickinson NY witness · Page 10
Floyd Baxter
Thorndale-area witness who reported orange/yellow light moving northeast · Page 10
Dale Spaur
Portage County (Ohio) Deputy Sheriff who chased UFO from Atwater, OH to Conway, PA · Page 10
W. L. Neff
Portage County Deputy Sheriff, partner to Spaur during chase · Page 10
Wayne Huston
East Palestine, Ohio patrolman who joined the UFO chase · Page 16
Robert Wilson
Portage County Deputy Sheriff who took radio reports · Page 16
Police Chief Gerald Buchert
Mantua, Ohio police chief who photographed the object · Page 10
Joseph Franklin
Benton Harbor, Michigan rubbish-collection crew head who reported object · Page 13
William Van Horn
Hillsdale (Michigan) civil defense director; observed object near Hillsdale College · Page 10
Frank Mannor
Dexter, Michigan farmer who reported the swamp object · Page 10
Sheriff Douglas J. Harvey
Washtenaw County, Michigan sheriff investigating Ann Arbor / Dexter swamp sightings · Page 18
Lawrence Bressette
store operator on Kettle Point Indian Reserve; observed disc-shaped object east of Kettle Point · Page 14
Mrs. Campbell
Director of Spokane unit, Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America · Page 10
Alan Scrivner
Denver high school junior, witness in Daniels Park sighting · Page 10
Don Otis
East High junior, Denver Daniels Park witness · Page 10
Mary Zolar
East High senior, Denver Daniels Park witness · Page 10
Sheriff Maclvor
Arapahoe County (Colorado) area officer who interviewed Daniels Park teens · Page 10
Charley Cozens
13-year-old Hamilton, Ontario boy who reported touching antenna of glowing 'flying ship' · Page 13
Phil Smith
15-year-old Hamilton boy whose sketch of object accompanied story · Page 13
Louis S. Smith
father of family at North Bend who reported UFO sighting April 7 · Page 13
Johnny Thomas
5-year-old Topeka boy (son of Calvin Coolidge Thomas) who reported flying saucer landing · Page 13
James Melvin Dickerson
Bloomingdale-area witness who reported flying saucer at Petrik farm · Page 13
Estelle C. Prins
President, M.I.N.D. (Mental Investigations of New Dimensions) · Page 13
Knut Hammarskjold
nephew of Dag Hammarskjold; aviation/space writers' convention speaker who claimed flying saucers exist · Page 14
Colman VonKeviczky
UN Office of Public Information employee who proposed UN flying-saucer observation network to U Thant · Page 14
U Thant
U.N. Secretary-General to whom VonKeviczky proposed UFO observation network · Page 14
I. M. Levitt
Director, Fels Planetarium, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia · Page 14
Robert Risser
Director, Oklahoma Science and Art Foundation planetarium, Oklahoma City · Page 14
Frank B. Salisbury
Professor of plant physiology, Colorado State University · Page 14
Donald H. Menzel
Director, observatory at Harvard; UFO skeptic · Page 14
Charles Maney
Defiance College, Ohio professor of mathematics; pro-extraterrestrial origin · Page 14
Robert Hall
Sociology professor, University of Illinois at Chicago · Page 14
J. B. Hartranft Jr.
President, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association · Page 14
Vladimir Kotelnikov
Soviet academician, veteran radio engineer, age 58 · Page 13
Nikolai Kardashev
Soviet astronomer who reported strange signals from CTA102 quasar · Page 13
Mel G. Pedley
30-year-old banana grower (Australia/North Queensland) who reported flying saucer near tractor · Page 14
Della Larson
Bay Area Flying Saucer organizer; deceased 10/25/1965 · Page 9
Max Miller
former publisher, 'Saucers' magazine; editor-publisher of 'Real' magazine · Page 9
Wilbur Miller
early Flying Saucer Movement researcher; deceased 3/5/1966; co-author 'We of the New Dimension' · Page 9
Dr. Raymond Bernard
founder, Biosophical Society of Santa Caterina, Brazil; author 'The Hollow Earth'; deceased 9/10/1965 · Page 9
Maria Elliott
contactee, psychic; founder, Maria Creative Womanhood Foundation · Page 9
Elary J. Willsie
contactee, married Sophia Martinez Olivares 6/4/1966 in Los Angeles · Page 5
Buck Nelson
host, 10th Annual Spacecraft Convention, Mountain View, MO, June 25-27 1966 · Page 5
Rex Heflin
California Highway Patrolman who photographed object through car windshield (August 1965) · Page 16
Pc Donald Cameron
British police constable, Lancashire, who reported six glowing objects · Page 17
Asher Chapman
ophthalmologist; observer of UFO over Long Island Sound · Page 13
Marvin Miller
Ventura County (Calif.) witness who saw object descending toward Point Mugu · Page 18
Gary Wilcox
26-year-old farmer near Newark Valley, NY who claimed encounter with spaceship and crew (April 1964) · Page 18
Los Angeles, California, USA
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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2004 North Hoover Street, Los Angeles, USA
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Reno, Nevada (Centennial Coliseum), USA
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
Ravenna, Ohio, USA
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Atwater, Ohio, USA
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East Palestine, Ohio, USA
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Conway, Pennsylvania, USA
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Mantua, Ohio, USA
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Freedom, Pennsylvania, USA
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Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA
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Hillsdale, Michigan, USA
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Dexter, Michigan, USA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Selfridge Air Force Base, Mount Clemens, Michigan, USA
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Wanaque Reservoir, New Jersey, USA
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Ringwood, New Jersey, USA
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Daniels Park, Douglas County, Colorado, USA
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FBI Los Angeles Field Office (file 100-2442-40)
FBI · Page 2
FBI Philadelphia Division
FBI · Page 2
FBI Bureau (Director's office)
FBI · Page 2
Selfridge Air Force Base
USAF · Page 10
Lowry Air Force Base
USAF · Page 10
Stewart Air Force Base
USAF · Page 13
Vandenberg Air Force Base
USAF · Page 14
Mather Air Force Base
USAF · Page 14
Project Blue Book
USAF · Page 14
Portage County Sheriff's Department (Ohio)
law enforcement · Page 10
Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department (Michigan)
law enforcement · Page 18
RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force)
RAAF · Page 14
Spacecraft 'Tur Bulb' (claimed Venusian craft)
spacecraft · Page 16
CTA102 quasi-stellar radio source (Mt. Wilson-Palomar)
ground · Page 13
Burns Aircraft (newspapermen's plane near Stewart AFB sighting)
aircraft · Page 13
USAF jets from Cleveland-area scrambled for Ravenna chase
aircraft · Page 16
Greater Pittsburgh Airport radar
radar · Page 16
Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, USA
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Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
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Kettle Point Indian Reserve, Ontario, Canada
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London, Ontario, Canada
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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North Bend (Oregon), USA
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Topeka, Kansas, USA
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Wichita, Kansas, USA
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Bloomingdale (vicinity), USA
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Memphis, Texas, USA
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Long Island Sound, USA
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Stewart Air Force Base, Newburgh, NY, USA
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Pasadena / San Gabriel Valley, California, USA
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Point Mugu, California, USA
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Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA
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Mather Air Force Base, Sacramento, USA
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Griffith Park, Hollywood, USA
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Pretoria (vicinity main highway), South Africa
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Hong Kong
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London, England, UK
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Spokane, Washington, USA
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Newark Valley, New York, USA
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North Queensland, Australia
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Moscow, USSR
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Spokane River area, Washington, USA
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Giant Rock, California (Yucca Valley), USA
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Mountain View, Missouri (Buck's Mountain View Ranch), USA
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Mt. Shasta / Dunsmuir, California, USA
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In Philadelphia, Jarvis Cooper read an article about a message that allegedly originated from a distant planet. He believed the article expressed the views of the Communist Party—a party that supported communism.
Cooper handed the magazine over to the FBI. The article's message from space discussed the Vietnam War and the money the conflict generated for the United States. Thus, a story about a leader from a distant planet became a report on political propaganda.
In 1966, the FBI's Philadelphia office received an issue of a flying saucers magazine. Cooper submitted it to the office, explaining that he had subscribed due to his son's interest in space and flying saucers.
The article presented a message from a leader named Kallen-Li Rattan, described as the head of a planet called Korandor. According to the article, the message was radioed to a man named Bob Reno. The planet, it claimed, was approximately 400 light-years away—a distance light travels in 400 years.
The message depicted the Vietnam War as a source of economic profit for the United States. It also claimed that military factions would not allow the war to end.
Cooper believed the article expressed the views of the Communist Party. The FBI's Philadelphia office forwarded the issue to its Los Angeles office, where the headquarters of the Flying Saucer Clubs organization, which published the magazine, was located. This was the Philadelphia office's explanation for transferring the issue.
The FBI's Los Angeles office checked its records for information on Reno. No such information was found. The office stated that it had not investigated the Flying Saucer Clubs organization and had no plans for further action on the matter.
The magazine article is the sole source of the claim about the message. It is unknown whether it was actually broadcast by radio or if it originated from outside Earth; the FBI found no information on Reno and offered no alternative explanation.
In the magazine, the message came from a distant planet. In the FBI file, only a report of it remains.