Saucerian Bulletin, The.
Latest News About Flying Saucers.
Other titles: The Saucerian
1956--1962
Quarterly (approximately)
Clarksburg, WV.
Editor: Grey Barker, Roger N. Parris, associate editor and research consultant; James W. Moseley (1962-1968, who combined this with Saucer News).
Publisher: Saucerian Publications.
Succeeds: Saucerian
Succeeded by: Gray Barker's Newsletter; Saucer News (purchased Saucerian/Saucerian Bulletin, 1962, and the combined journal then sold back to James W. Moseley in 1968)
1/1, March 1956-October 1962.
$2.00 for 6 issues.

The journal was originally started as Saucerian in 1953, and then renamed Saucerian Bulletin in 1956 with new volume numbering. Barker (1925-1984) started the Bulletin as a clearing house of saucer news, mysterious happenings and notes on the disappearances of his fellow researchers at the hands of what was beginning to be known as the Men in Black. This is the journal that the more "scientific" of the UFO journals sought to distinguish themselves from because it wholeheartedly accepted as a fact the contact of the saucerians with humans and the Super Government's efforts, through the Men in Black to suppress knowledge of them and their role on earth through the Men in Black, about whom Barker wrote They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers in 1956. This told the story of Albert K. Bender, the head of the Bridgeport, Connecticut, International Flying Saucer Bureau (to which Barker belonged) and his encounter with three Men in Black who sought to silence his researches and his Space Review newsletter. The newsletter assembled all the elements of the Hollow Earth, overarching conspiracies, secret and concealed scientific and historical knowledge, and, eventually, all the parts of the New Age synthesis, and arranged them around flying saucers. Barker branched into other and related events and in 1955 printed an omitted chapter of Lobsang Rampa's The Third Eye that the publishers of the book had omitted because it was too fantastic. Barker also published and edited the annual The Saucerian Review and was Eastern Editor for Flying Saucers and editor for Saucer News. A recent biography of Barker has argued that Barker's UFO endeavors were a hoax, perpetrated for money. James W. Moseley, Barker's friend and the publisher of Saucer News bought the journal from Barker in 1962 and then sold the combined Saucer News/Saucerian back to Barker in 1968. Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library.

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