Gabriel Green (ufologist)

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Gabriel Green
Portrait of Gabriel Green (pre-1959).png
Green before 1959
Born(1924-11-11)November 11, 1924
Whittier, California
DiedSeptember 8, 2001(2001-09-08) (aged 76)
Yucca Valley, California
Occupations
  • Photographer
  • President of the AFSCA
  • Public speaker
Known for Contactee
Political party
  • Outer Space Party [a]
  • Universal Party
Other political
affiliations		 Democratic

Gabriel Green (November 11, 1924 – September 8, 2001) was an American UFO contactee active from the 1950s to 1970s. During this time he claimed to be in regular contact with extraterrestrials, and founded the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. Green had a minor political career, unsuccessfully running for President in the 1960 and 1972 elections, and for Senate in the 1962 election.

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Biography

Early life

Green was born on November 11, 1924, in Whittier, California. He would attend Los Angeles City College and Woodbury Business College. [2] He worked as a photographer for the Los Angeles Board of Education until 1959, when he chose to focus on ufology. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America

After observing a UFO, Green became interested in the extraterrestrial. [7] In 1956 Green founded the Los Angeles Interplanetary Study Groups, which published the "semi-religious" [8] magazine Thy Kingdom Come. [5] In 1959 the LAISG grew into the California-based Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, with Green serving as its director. [2] [8] [5] Green stated that the purpose of the AFSCA was to gain the UFO movement prestige by demonstrating its size, to pressure congress, and to "hold a national convention". [5] The inaugural three-day convention, which Green claimed space people advised him to arrange, was marred by conflict between the attending clubs. 45 contactees spoke at the event, including Daniel Fry. [9] In 1959, Green became president of the AFSCA. [2] [8] At its peak, the AFSCA comprised over 5,000 members across 24 countries. [10] [5] The group effectively ceased to exist after the termination of its final publication in 1969, subsequently only publishing occasional information sheets. [5] [7]

The AFSCA continued to publish Thy Kingdom Come, renamed to World Report in 1959 and to UFO International in 1962. UFO International ceased publication in 1965. The AFSCA also published the periodical Flying Saucers International from 1962 to 1969. [5] [7] In 1967 Green published the book, Let's Face Facts about Flying Saucers. [2]

Political career

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A newspaper advertisement for Green's 1960 presidential campaign

Green used his platform in the AFSCA to run in the 1960 United States presidential election, [8] claiming to have done so at the behest of an alien named Rentan who represented the Universal Confederation of Planets. He ran under the Outer Space Party [a] on a platform of "prior choice economics", [1] [6] an economic system he explained by stating "Everything is or should be the sum total of all that has gone before." [11] Under this system, Green claimed that there would be complete abundance, universal health care, free college education, and the full elimination of poverty. [1] He also advocated for the banning of atmospheric nuclear testing, [3] the releasing all government information on UFOs, and the launching manned missions to the Moon and Mars. [1] Green dropped out of the race before the election, [8] stating that it was difficult to run because voters had not interacted much with aliens. [12] He subsequently endorsed John F. Kennedy, believing that Kennedy would release government information on extraterrestrials. [13] [6]

Green would run in the Californian Democratic Primary for the 1962 United States Senate election on a broadly left-wing, pro-peace platform. While he failed to win, he accumulated over 171,000 votes and an endorsement from Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. [3] [5] [6]

Green would run again in the 1972 United States presidential election under the Universal Party, an outgrowth of a group run by Daniel Fry. Fry was elected as Green's running-mate. [14] [6] The Universal Party platform was based on an economic system called "universal economics" that Green believed was used by aliens. In this system, people were allocated credits based on their contributions to society. Goods would be evenly distributed to people, but if there were a shortage of a product, it would be allocated based on people's credits. [4] The party also planned to remove systems of representative democracy such as the electoral college and replace them with direct democracy systems. [14] He did not expect to win the election, instead running to spread his ideas. [4] Green was only on the ballot in Iowa, [15] and lost the election after receiving only 199 votes. [16]

Death

Green died on September 8, 2001, in Yucca Valley, California. Following his death the few remaining activities of the AFSCA were suspended. [5]

Beliefs

Green claimed that he was in frequent contact with extraterrestrials, [17] stating he had seen over 100 flying saucers. [6] He called these aliens "Space Masters" and the "Great White Brotherhood". [5] He believed that the galaxy was split into dozens of planetary confederations, each with complex alliances and diverse species. However, he stated that his visits with aliens had ended by the mid-1960s. [17] A reoccurring figure was Rentan, a 2,000 year-old 4-foot tall humanoid from Alpha Centauri who represented the Universal Confederation of Planets, possessed the body of Jesus, and could teleport. [18]

Green frequently lectured at UFO conferences about New Age topics such as reincarnation, channeling, Spiritualism, past life regression and psychic phenomena. [2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Also referred to as the Flying Saucer Party [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Havel 1996, p. 192.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Lewis 2002.
  3. 1 2 3 Godwin 1972, p. 147.
  4. 1 2 3 "Flying Saucer Clubs head contends for presidency". The Daily Review. March 4, 1972. p. 6. Retrieved February 23, 2025– via NewspaperArchive.com.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Clark 2018.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sachs 1980, p. 129.
  7. 1 2 3 Melton 2001.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 Jacobs 1975, p. 106.
  9. ↑ Duncan, Ray (Jul 11, 1959). "Saucer Clubs Smile Inside, Fight Outside". Pasadena Independent. p. 1. Retrieved February 23, 2025– via NewspaperArchive.com.
  10. ↑ Godwin 1972, p. 148.
  11. ↑ "Choice of Spacemen Tosses Hat". The Bakersfield Californian. August 10, 1960. p. 3. Retrieved February 23, 2025– via NewspaperArchive.com.
  12. ↑ "Space Age Candidate Withdraws". The Bakersfield Californian. Oct 24, 1960. p. 1. Retrieved February 23, 2025– via NewspaperArchive.com.
  13. ↑ "Flying Saucer Club 'Swung it to Senator'". The Oakland Tribune. Nov 12, 1960. p. 2. Retrieved February 23, 2025– via NewspaperArchive.com.
  14. 1 2 Havel 1996, p. 251.
  15. ↑ "McGovern, Nixon no different? Try these!". Independent Press Telegram. Nov 5, 1972. p. 69. Retrieved February 23, 2025– via NewspaperArchive.com.
  16. ↑ Havel 1996, p. 252.
  17. 1 2 Godwin 1972, p. 149.
  18. ↑ Godwin 1972, p. 147–149.

Citations

  • Clark, Jerome (2018). "Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America". The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning (3rd ed.). Detroit: Omnigraphics. p. 99. ISBN   978-0-7808-1659-6.
  • Godwin, John (1972). Occult America. New York: Doubleday. ISBN   978-0-38503-662-7.
  • Havel, James T. (1996). U.S. Presidential Candidates and the Elections. Vol. 1: The candidates. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA. ISBN   978-0-02-864622-0.
  • Jacobs, David M. (1975). The UFO Controversy in America. New York: Indiana University Press. ISBN   978-0-25319-006-2.
  • Lewis, James R. (2002). "Green, Gabriel". UFOs and Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Mythology. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. p. 139. ISBN   978-1-57607-265-3.
  • Sachs, Margaret (1980). The UFO Encyclopedia. New York: Putnam's. ISBN   978-0-399-12365-8.
  • Melton, J. Gordon, ed. (2001). "Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America". Encyclopedia of occultism & parapsychology. Vol. 1 (5th ed.). Detroit: Gale Group. pp. 35–36. ISBN   978-0-8103-8570-2.
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