Early 1960s UFO archive of correspondence, club notes from the Flying Saucer Observer Group, newspaper clippings, and issues of Flying Saucer News and other fanzines
Lincoln Park, MI: Flying Saucer News & Flying Saucer Observer Group, 1959-1966.
A small archive from UFO enthusiast and fanzine publisher Richard "Dick" Kalamas of Lincoln Park, Michigan. He was president of the small Flying Saucer Observer Group club and publisher of the F.S.O. News, Flying Saucer News, an underground student paper from 1966 called Rebel, and the DIY science newsletter Chem; copies of which are included in the archive. Correspondence with Kalamas's friend and fellow Michigan UFO enthusiast Terry Dean is included (with two of Dean's hand-drawn "Saucer Comics"), as is a TLS from famous contactee George Adamski plus a booklet reprinting the hoax Gray Barker and Jim Moseley perpetrated on him involving the State Department, and a few other letters from others relating to UFOs and weather balloons. A little notebook entitled Club Notes has Kalamas's hand-drawn plans for rocket launches, space exploration, secret codes, and chemical recipes that are charmingly naive juvenilia. A fun snapshot of what it was like to run a UFO club and series of newsletters at the tail end of the flying saucer craze of the 1950s.
Price: $4,500