Chronicle year

1966

1966-10-03 / Los Angeles, California

On October 3, 1966, the FBI Los Angeles Division sent a memo to the FBI Director transmitting Issue No. 24 of Flying Saucers International, the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc., edited by Gabriel Green at 2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles. The magazine had been delivered to the FBI Philadelphia Division on September 19, 1966, by Jarvis H. Cooper, an IRS employee in Philadelphia, who said pages 2 and 3 contained an article he believed expounded the Communist Party line.

1966-07-08 / Centennial Coliseum, 4590 S. Virginia St., Reno, Nevada

Section 10 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 contains the program for the AFSCA 3rd National Flying Saucer Convention, held July 8-10, 1966, at the Centennial Coliseum in Reno, Nevada, along with a citizen letter and the Bureau's reply. On August 31, 1966, Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire, wrote to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stating that her first issue of the AFSCA journal "Flying Saucers International" struck her as Communist-backed.

1966-02-03 / Pentagon, Room 5D-1014, Washington, D.C.

On April 19, 1966, the USAF Scientific Advisory Board's Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book met at the Pentagon to discuss implementing its recommendation that the Air Force contract university scientists to investigate selected UFO sightings. On April 5, 1966, Secretary of the Air Force Harold Brown had accepted the recommendation and assigned General Ferguson responsibility for implementation.