Green, Gabriel

Gabriel Green (1924–2001) was an American UFO contactee, organiser, publisher and political candidate who became an important figure in the American contactee movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He founded the Los Angeles Interplanetary Study Groups in 1956 and the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America (AFSCA) in 1959. He also founded and edited a series of UFO periodicals, including Thy Kingdom Come, World Report, UFO International and Flying Saucers International. Green claimed to have personally encountered extraterrestrial beings on several occasions and reported contacts with beings associated with the Alpha Centauri system. His activities combined UFO contact claims with a broader programme of social, spiritual and political reform.

Biographical Data

Gabriel Green was born on 11 November 1924 in Whittier, California, and died on 8 September 2001 in Yucca Valley, California. Before becoming active in ufology, he served in the U.S. Navy during the Second World War and studied economics at Los Angeles City College. He subsequently worked as a photographer.

Green became interested in UFOs after reporting a sighting in 1956. In the same year he established the Los Angeles Interplanetary Study Groups (LAISG). The organisation was intended to bring together people interested in flying saucers and their possible implications for humanity. Green also began publishing Thy Kingdom Come, which became the organisation's periodical.

In 1959 Green founded the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America (AFSCA). The organisation developed into one of the larger organised groups within the American flying-saucer movement. An archival collection at the University of Wyoming states that AFSCA eventually had approximately 5,000 members in 24 countries. Its purpose included promoting public acceptance of flying saucers and providing information about contactee claims.

Green was not simply the president or organiser of AFSCA. He was also a publisher and editor. Thy Kingdom Come began in 1957 and was subsequently renamed World Report and then UFO International. The periodical was published under several titles between 1957 and 1965, with Green identified as its founder, president and editor. A second periodical, Flying Saucers International, continued until 1969.

The surviving publications provide an important primary source for the history of the contactee movement. They carried reports by and about contactees, accounts of alleged communications with extraterrestrial beings, UFO photographs, information about flying-saucer organisations, and announcements of conferences. The July 1966 issue of Flying Saucers International, for example, identifies Gabriel Green as editor and Helen Green as assistant editor.

Green was also active in politics. He ran for President of the United States in 1960 as a candidate associated with the United States Outer Space Party, sometimes referred to as the Flying Saucer Party. He subsequently ran for the U.S. Senate in 1962 and again for President in 1972. His political campaigns reflected his belief that the alleged extraterrestrial presence had important implications for human society and international affairs.

Contact Experiences

Green's own contact claims distinguish him from many UFO organisers who merely reported or investigated the experiences of others. Contemporary accounts describe him explicitly as a contactee. A United Press report concerning the AFSCA described Green as saying that he had met extraterrestrial beings on at least six occasions. According to the report, his most recent alleged visitor at that time was approximately four feet tall and came from the Alpha Centauri system.

Green also claimed to have seen more than 100 flying saucers. His experiences appear to have begun with his reported UFO sighting in 1956 and subsequently developed into claims of direct contact with what he called "space people." These contacts were understood by Green as part of a wider programme through which advanced extraterrestrial civilisations were attempting to communicate with humanity.

The material associated with AFSCA presents these alleged visitors in predominantly positive terms. Green believed that extraterrestrial civilisations possessed advanced knowledge that could help humanity deal with major problems such as war and social conflict. A U.S. government directory of UFO organisations compiled in the 1960s described AFSCA as a worldwide organisation devoted to informing the public about flying saucers, which it understood as extraterrestrial spacecraft, and about the alleged intention of their occupants to share advanced knowledge with humanity. The directory specifically characterised AFSCA as a source of "contactee-oriented" information, including contactee reports and recorded messages from "space people."

Green's contactee activities therefore belonged to the classic 1950s contactee tradition. The emphasis was not primarily on frightening encounters or physical abduction. Instead, the alleged extraterrestrial visitors were presented as technologically and morally advanced beings whose contact with humanity carried a message concerning human development. Green's position was broadly compatible with the worldview found in the work of other prominent contactees of the period, including George Adamski, George Van Tassel and Daniel Fry.

His publications also placed him directly within this network. Flying Saucers International published material about numerous contactees and alleged communications with extraterrestrial beings. Issues from the 1960s included reports concerning George Adamski, Bob Renaud, Woodrow Derenberger and others.

An interesting aspect of Green's case is the way in which contactee claims, organised UFO activism, publishing and politics became interconnected. He did not regard his alleged experiences as purely personal events. Instead, he built organisations and publications around the belief that extraterrestrial contact was real and that its implications should be communicated to the wider public. His presidential campaigns can be understood within the same framework.

Assessment

There is good historical evidence that Gabriel Green was a major participant in the American contactee movement and that he personally claimed extraterrestrial contact. His role as founder of LAISG and AFSCA, and as editor and publisher of several UFO periodicals, is independently documented in surviving archives. The University of Wyoming's archival description is particularly useful because it documents the development of his organisations and publications rather than relying solely on later UFO literature.

His case is typically considered credible.

Online sources

The University of Wyoming American Heritage Center has an especially useful archival description of the Gabriel Green/AFSCA material, including the chronology of the organisations and publications. https://www.wyominghistoryday.org/index.php/theme-topics/collections/items/newsletters-amalgamated-flying-saucer-clubs-america-inc-1959-1964

The IAPSOP archive provides bibliographical information and scans relating to Thy Kingdom Come, AFSCA World Report and UFO International, and identifies Green as founder, president and editor. https://iapsop.com/archive/materials/thy_kingdom_come/

The surviving AFSCA publications are also available through online UFO magazine archives, including issues of Flying Saucers International. These are valuable primary sources for Green's activities and the contactee network with which he was associated. https://www.ufomagazines.com/flying-saucers-international-gabriel-green-flying-saucers-international-no-26/

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