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Periodical: Saucer Sentinel

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Saucer Sentinel, The.
Facts and Opinions of Flying Saucers.
1954--1955
Semimonthly
Saginaw, MI.
Language: English.
Editor: D.W. Oppermann, editor; C. Russell Pickett, assistant editor.
Publisher: Olimpic Publications.
No. 1, 1954-1955.
15 typewritten and reproduced pages., 20 cents, 4 months (8 issues) for $1.00.

This was an enthusiast's UFO journal, with the usual press clippings of sightings, letters from readers, and discussions of the saucer phenomena generally. It invited and carried controversial opinions, and reprinted James W. Moseley's biting expose of George Adamski from Nexus and Frank Scully's equally biting defense of his various unorthodox opinions (he calls his opponent's views "pediculous"), also from Nexus. The journal is now reprinted and available as a paperback.

Other Sources:
Issues:Saucer Sentinel N3 Oct 15 1954
Saucer Sentinel N8 Jan 1 1955
Saucer Sentinel N9 Jan 15 1955
Saucer Sentinel N10 Feb 1 1955
Saucer Sentinel N11 Feb 15 1955
Saucer Sentinel N12 Mar 1 1955
Saucer Sentinel N13 Mar 15 1955
Saucer Sentinel N14 Apr 1 1955
Saucer Sentinel N15 Apr 15 1955
Claude-Generated Themes:   Read across 1954–1955, the Saucer Sentinel leans to the OTHERWISE, contactee side of the early field — space-visitor lore and message weighed heavily alongside sighting reports and the era's rocket-and-meteoroid spaceflight speculation. A mid-1950s specimen of the contactee current that ran through the first saucer wave, the visitor as much a presence as the object.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:UFOs and Contactee Literature