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FBI monitoring of Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America (AFSCA) publications — 1966

~Jul 1966Los Angeles, California

⟳ Deeper read pending. This record is from the FBI 62-HQ-83894 flying-disc file, whose cursive, clippings and faint scans are under-read by automated OCR. It is flagged for a vision-transcription pass and likely undercounts what the source contains — see the documents collection note.

Analysis — our summary

The FBI Philadelphia Division forwarded to headquarters a copy of 'Flying Saucers International,' Issue No. 24 (July 1966), the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America (AFSCA), directed by Gabriel Green of Los Angeles. The journal included an article purportedly by 'Master Kalen-Li Retan, Head of planet Korendor,' received via shortwave radio by Bob Renaud. The FBI's interest was counterintelligence: assessing whether the publication contained Communist Party line content. The journal also included AFSCA convention speaker listings, UFO news clippings from various regions, and contactee accounts. No specific UAP incidents are described in sufficient detail for individual record extraction; the document is primarily a surveillance filing.

As reported — verbatim from the document

“"Flying Saucers International" (AFSCA), Issue No. 24, July 1966; article by "Master Kalen-Li Retan, Head of planet Korendor" received via shortwave radio by Bob Renaud.”

Analyst notes — caveats & confidence

This document contains no primary sighting reports. It is a civilian publication filed in FBI records for counterintelligence monitoring purposes. The OCR quality is extremely poor for the bulk of the document (latter 1,000+ lines largely unreadable). The AFSCA convention speaker list is legible. No specific incidents can be reliably extracted from the fragmentary OCR output.

Provenance

Source document65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_449.pdf

Document typefiled publication

Reporting agencyFBI

Source pages18

DeclassifiedFirst public at this release (2026)

Held classified~60 years (≥, to this release)

Extraction confidence Very lowHow cleanly this record could be parsed from the source — driven by legibility & redaction. It is not a measure of how credible or anomalous the sighting is.