Martians Are Watching Us Who's in All Those Saucers? By Harold Scarlett Was Jesus Christ a Martian? "It's hard to say," said Gabriel Green thoughtfully. Then he added that it certainly seems plausible. It's no trick at all to walk on water or ascend to the heavens if you have a Martian levitation belt around your waist and an anti-gravity beam to ride, Green explained. Furthermore, he said, the Martians now visiting earth on flying saucers are trying to save the earth's people from their own follies — just as the Savior was. Green can speak with some au- thority on these matters because, he says, he met and talked with a Martian once. Also a four-foot man from the Alpha Centauri star system. Also some other unearthly visitors. SOMETIMES, HE said, he met these flying saucer crewmen by telepathic appointments. These were arranged through associates of his with tele- pathic talents. "And once in a while," he said, "they would just call on the phone." Green, who lives in Los Angeles, is the head saucerer — the president — of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. Not being too telepathic, we just called Green on the phone to interview him about the recent rash of flying saucer sightings around the country. "It is a continuation of their efforts to enlighten us," Green replied in calm and cultured tones. "The current series of sightings and landings, I understand, will increase. They are not going to go away, as some members of our government would like." WHY DO THEY keep buzzing down here and scaring people? "What with nuclear proliferation growing, it seems rather obvious that unless we start resolving the present problems facing mankind, we will destroy ourselves and perhaps some of the universe along with us," Green ex- plained. "This is one of the primary reasons why the extra-terrestrials started mak- ing visitations in 1947, shortly after we developed this ability — to watch over us and if possible to impart their ad- vanced scientific, technological and sociological knowledge to help us re- solve these problems before we destroy ourselves." Green said he is trying to do his humble best to help them spread that message. "The solutions they have given," he said, "deal primarily with resolving the number one crisis, unproduction and poverty. They hope to eliminate the have-not nations . . . through superior financing. They have an advanced eco- nomic system they call Universal Economics. The economics part of it is what I personally am trying to trans- mit." HE SAID RUEFULLY, however, that the saucer clubs themselves are in an economic pinch that has prevented needed research. Green said he runs the saucer clubs out of his own home, at 2004 North Hoover in Los Angeles, "to cut down on the overhead." He said there are clubs in 50 major U.S. cities and abroad, with a total of about 3,500 members. Houston has no club, he said, but he does have some interested Hous- tonians on his mailing list. "We are a contact-oriented research group," he said, "meaning that many of our members have made actual "Parking between my hall and the press—I'd hardly call THAT intelligent life from another planet." THE SWAMP GAS IS RESTLESS TONIGHT. From B. C., the Post, May 9, 1966 physical contact with crews of these craft." Green said he has sighted 25 to 100 spacecraft around Los Angeles over the years and has met "half a dozen or so members of the crews." BUT GREEN BELITTLED his own experiences. "They're so insignificant it's hardly worth talking about them," he said. "Some of our members have actually been taken for rides in spacecraft. "I certainly wouldn't turn down a ride if it were offered me. But they've never asked me." Green said he met the Martian by appointment at a friend's home, and he looked "just like anybody you'd meet on the street." He was casually dressed, Green said, and wore a short- sleeve, shimmery, metallic-looking shirt which he said would stop bullets. All in all, a handsome chap, Green said. "I felt his hair and it was quite coarse and worn in a V-shape down to- ward the center of the forehead," Green said. "But I rather doubt all Martians wear their hair alike, any more than we do. "HE SAID THE MARTIAN canals were really canals for distributing the short water supply from their polar regions, and that the two Martian moons are really artificial satellites just like the Russian astronomers have suggested." Green said he had met the Alpha Centauri man several times — once in the Green home. "He was dressed ordinarily and was about four feet tall, although this was unusual. Most of the reports of them are that they are normal height or larger," Green said. "There was that space ship that landed near Albuquerque, for instance, with a crew of four men and five wom- en. They were very beautiful, very well proportioned. Seven to nine feet tall." Green said he had met other inter- stellar travelers but would "rather not go into the whole list." Where did they park their space ships while they were visiting him? "OH, SOMETIMES they actually park them — hang them up in the sky with a force field around them. Then they have an anti-gravity beam and levitation belts they wear around the waist to get on down to earth. "Through these, they can accom- plish such miracles as walking on water and ascending into the heavens." Green said he is 41 and was a photographer with the Los Angeles Board of Education until he resigned in 1959 to try to help the spacemen save civilization. Green said naturally he asked to take the spacemen's picture, but they refused and he abided by their wishes. "An associate of mine once tried to sneak a couple of flash pictures," he said, "but two times the flash gun wouldn't fire, even though the camera was in perfect working condition. "THAT DEMONSTRATES the pow- ers of the mind of these people. Just GABRIEL GREEN Head Saucerer like Uncle Martin on 'My Favorite Martian.' " Green said he had never seen one of the space-things beside his space ship. Then how could he be sure they weren't a hoax — practical joking earthlings just putting him on? "Oh, I wouldn't believe just anyone who walked up to me and said he was from Mars," Green replied. "But if you get a call from the White House and were told President Eisen- hower would meet you at a certain time on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, and you went there, and a man there who looked like the President called you by name, wouldn't you be- lieve he was Eisenhower?" Green said he once asked a spaceling to prove himself by disappearing. "BUT HE REFUSED and told me to walk away," Green said. "He was on a balcony five floors high, and I walked down a hallway for three or four sec- onds and turned and looked back and he was gone. There was no logical place for him to go from that balcony. Green believes the spacemen are un- doubtedly friendly, just as they profess to be, or otherwise they could have destroyed the earth long ago. "They say they want nothing from us but our friendship," he said. "They would never destroy us. This would be a violation of their code of life. They revere all living things." Apparently they do have lapses, though. "There was one division that if any nation on earth fires a nuclear war- head, it will fall back on the people who fired it," Green said. "I don't know what their latest decision has been." HE EXPLAINED that he hasn't been in contact with a spaceman for two or three years now. Green said people from many planets are visiting earth, and that accounts for the wide variety of flying saucers being sighted. One of his favorites is the Venusian scout ship. That's the one about 30 feet in diameter with the three protruding semi-spheres on the bottom and the portholes around the cabin. Green said it is operational only within 5,000 to 10,000 miles of a planet's surface. He said it comes down from a cigar-shaped mother ship that parks up there. The mother ship can make interplanetary trips. At this point we decided to end the interview. The long-distance line to Los Angeles had begun making an eerie whirrrr and then an ominous blup- blup-blup. Maybe the Martians were listen- ing in. SAUCER OR STRAW HAT, THIS FLEW IN CALIFORNIA LAST AUGUST Highway Patrolman Rex Heflin Photographed It Through His Car Windshield PAGE 6—SPOTLIGHT SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1966, THE HOUSTON POST THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1966 UFO Plays Tag With Deputies in 85-Mile Chase RAVENNA, O., April 17 (UPI) —Two Portage county sheriff's deputies followed a "bright cir- cular" unidentified object Sun- day from Atwater, O., to Free- dom, Pa., a distance of 85 miles. Deputies Dale Spaur and W. L. Neff were investigating a routine traffic accident at 5 A.M. when they were startled by noise in the air. Spaur looked for an object heading their way. Spaur, an Air Force gunner during the Korean War, said the circular object "about 30 to 45 feet in diameter traveled at speeds from 80 to 105 miles an hour." "It was about 1000 feet in the air and was extremely bright," Spaur radioed to the Portage county sheriff's head- quarters here. "I had never seen anything this bright before in my life," he told Deputy Robert Wainer via the radio. In Newton Harbor, Mich., a flying object described as so bright "you couldn't look straight at it" was sighted early Sunday near the downtown sec- tion of the city. Three rubbish collectors said they saw the object hover over a motel along the St. Joseph River. The head of the crew, Joseph Franklin, said it was about 10 blocks in the air, had a shell-like shell and looked "something like a hot dog" in shape. He said it had a brilliant light so bright he couldn't look directly at it. Franklin and his crew report- ed the sighting to police who also viewed the object. The two deputies were joined in the chase at East Palestine, O., just across the State line from Pennsylvania, by East Palestine Patrolman Wayne Huston. Huston said the object appear- ed larger than an airliner and traveled in a straight line. He said it would change altitude suddenly. "It was a funny thing," Hus- ton said, "but when the object got too far ahead of us it ap- peared to stop and wait." Wainer said at one time Spaur reported the object, which had something like an antenna pro- truding from the bottom, hover- ed above the cruiser in which Spaur and Neff were riding. Wainer said that Spaur and Neff were questioned by an "Air Force colonel" in Freedom. (Air Force Headquarters at Greater Pittsburgh Airport said it had no report on the UFO.) "The chase lasted about 85 minutes and, in that time, the object was reported seen by at least six to seven other police- men, both in Ohio and Penn- sylvania," Wainer said. Neff, a one-time flier, agreed with Spaur in the de- scription of the object and said he that it "had no wings." Wainer said the object "was caught by radar" in Pittsburgh. He said that at least seven jets from the Cleveland area headed for the object after it was re- ported. (The control tower at Greater Pittsburgh Airport said it spot- ted no UFOs on its radar screen.) A-8 Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Monday, May 11, 1966 Mysterious Sky Objects Have Texans in Dither HOUSTON, Tex., May 11 (AP) — Rural residents told of seeing a cigar-shaped ob- ject drop from the sky yes- terday and two men said it caught fire and burned with- out apparent cause. Still another farmer in the same vicinity reported he heard an explosion, looked up and saw a trail of smoke pointed to the spot about 10 p.m. David Duncan, 22, with Ra- dio Station KCOH in Hous- ton, related these details: Mrs. Ernest Lee Winter home is 5 miles southeast of here spotted something about 3½ miles distant at 10 p.m. Duncan and several friends tried to pursue the object, "cone-shaped and silver looking," in a car and it appeared to fall near the Salisbury commu- nity 5 miles south of Hous- ton. As they drew near, J. W. Hatley, a farmer in the Brice community 20 miles east of here, said three other men told of watching mysterious light in something "about 10 feet long, 4 to 5 feet wide and shaped like a cigar" plunge to earth. It bore no markings, they said, and "appeared to have "It was big enough to carry a man, and I got the feeling that it did," Hatfield recounted. Hatley and one of his com- panions went to notify au- thorities, leaving two other men on guard. The strange craft started emitting smoke 3-25-66