Gabriel Green (ufologist)
Gabriel Green | |
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Born | November 11, 1924 Whittier, California |
Died | September 8, 2001 (aged 76) Yucca Valley, California |
Gabriel Green (November 11, 1924 – September 8, 2001) was an American early ufologist who claimed contact with extraterrestrials. Green was a write-in United States presidential candidate in 1960 and 1972.[1][2]


Biography[edit]
Green claimed to have graduated with a PhD in physics from UC Berkeley in 1953, and to have made several important contributions to the Standard Model of elementary particles, but Berkeley has no record of his attendance, and his actual educational background seems to have been acquired at Woodbury Business College in Los Angeles. For much of his life he worked as a photographer for the Los Angeles school system. Green is among the well-known 1950s UFO contactees – individuals who claimed to have met and talked with friendly humanoid Space Brothers from other worlds, and to have ridden in their spacecraft, or visited their planets.

He founded the California-based Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. in 1957, approximately at the same time he announced he had had a meeting with flying saucer crewmen from the hitherto unknown planet Korendor, orbiting the triple star Alpha Centauri. It has also been claimed that Korendor is orbiting the star Korena.[3] Like George Adamski and several other contactees of the period, he said he was able to maintain continual telepathic links with the wise and helpful extraterrestrials he had met. In his 1960 run for US president, he claimed to represent the Universal Flying Saucer Party, and to base his political philosophy on “United World Universal Economics.” He also ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1962 in California, claiming to have accumulated over 171,000 votes.
In 1967 he published his only book, Let’s Face Facts about Flying Saucers. In 1972 he ran again, this time in Iowa, for US president, collecting less than 200 votes. Like most, if not all of the 1950s contactees, Green was evidently far more interested in New Age and Theosophical topics such as reincarnation, channelling, Spiritualism and psychic phenomena than he was in being a prophet expounding wisdom supposedly acquired from friendly space-alien contacts. Again, like most of the other contactees, he eventually dropped out of sight, moving to the vicinity of Yucca Valley, California after his last run for president. Thereafter, little was heard of him until his death in September, 2001.
His Heart Was with the People: Gabriel Green, The UFO Presidential Candidate
And yet there is another candidate whose name will hardly be found in any history books about modern American politics but managed, nevertheless, to carve a name for himself in the annals of UFO history: Gabriel Green, who ran for United States President —twice! — at the behest of the ‘space brothers’ and the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America (AFSCA) of which he was the founder and president.

Gabriel Green (1924-2001) was a native of California and a professional photographer, who once claimed to have had over seventy UFO sightings under his belt —incidentally, Green never seemed to have attempted to take a single picture of the flying saucers his otherworldly friends drove to visit our planet, but the upside is that there’s no hoaxed photos tarnishing his record. He was the editor of a newsletter named Thy Kingdom Come, and as the name suggests Green’s philosophical ideology was a mish-mash of spirituality and Christian morals all wrapped up with a space-age veneer to better fit the times of post-war America. A nice little taste of this mindset that was so predominant in the Contactee movement can be given with the song When You See Those Flying Saucers by the Buchanan Brothers —Seriously, if you’ve never heard this song can you even call yourself a student of Ufology?
One of the most interesting aspects of Green’s philosophy —although not necessarily the easiest one to grasp— is the concept of ‘prior choice economics’, a theory developed by one Addison Brown (a.k.a. John Believer) who is said to be inspired by the “universal principles of Nature” which the people in other planets were said to follow in order to maintain themselves in harmony with the Cosmos and the Creator. Applying those principles not only allowed the space brothers to travel effortlessly from planet to travel using ‘free energy’ and non-destructive principles (Steven Greer anyone?) but when applied to economics it allowed for a fair distribution of industry-generated wealth which would cover the needs of all citizens without raising any taxes or engaging in debt, installing on Earth the closest thing to the Kingdom of Heaven in material form; all this, mind you, without resorting to the ‘godless’ ways of Communism which were counter to the universal peace message the spacemen were eager to teach us!
…Sure Gabe, whatever you say.


Another of Green’s personal beliefs, in strong alignment with protestant morals, is that “God only helps those who help themselves.” Yes, the space brothers were eager and willing to come to the aid of humankind, but not as saviors or leaders but simply as guides after we had made the earnest decision to change our negative ways and stop following the path to self-destruction. It was probably because of this that Green —at the behest of the space brothers of course— decided to join the presidential race of 1960 as an independent. Below is a paid newspaper ad that was part of his campaign, and even though Green is promoted as “the Space Age president” and there is a nice Adamski-type flying saucer on the top banner of the ad, the only reference to flying saucers one can find in this ad full of too-good-to-be-true promises — “Inspired leadership!” “Every man a Richman tomorrow!” “A passport to paradise!” “The true stairway to the stars!” — comes from AFSCA’s sponsorship. More subtly, there is also a promise for the public to be “told the truth rather than kept on planned ignorance of the most vital information of all history” (I wonder what could THAT be).

Alas, the dream of “free energy” which could bring about Utopia within our lifetimes was not enough to woo the voters —not to mention that whatever little press coverage Green managed to get in mainstream media was solely focused on his flying saucer beliefs. According to the excellent podcast episode dedicated to Green on The Saucer Life independent or “other” votes only amounted to 0.02% of the total count in the 1960 election in which Kennedy beat Nixon. Yet that didn’t seem to have discouraged Green, who ended up running for president a second time in 1972 with Daniel Fry (another famous Contactee of the saucer golden age) as his vice-president. Ironically he ended up having more votes in Iowa than in his home state of California, where they only got 21 votes.

Green’s fleeting political career fared better when he attempted to win the Democratic nomination for California seat in the Senate in 1962, though. He got much better publicity which barely touched on the topic of flying saucers, and he ended up receiving 171,379 votes which, even though they amounted to only 8% of the total, is still an impressive number for an outsider operating outside of the party structure with possibly less-to-none economic support to finance his campaign.

Gabriel Green died in Sept. 8th, 2001, just when the world wide web was beginning to change all aspects of society, including the way we choose and elect our political leaders. One can’t help but wonder: what would have happened to Green’s aspirations if social media tools like YouTube, Twitter or podcasting would have been available to him? In an age in which presidents are allowed to say the most egregious things —like how we should nuke hurricanes or inject bleach into our bloodstream — you can NO longer say in this day and age there are ideas that are too wacky for the political arena.
Whatever you may believe or disbelieve about UFOs, one inescapable truth of history is that absurd ideas can change the world, despite their basis on reality. In the XXth century the son of a wealthy land-owner named Francisco Madero launched the Mexican Revolution because he believed in spirit communication and mediumship. 10 years later on the other side of the globe, another charismatic leader changed the fate of the world when he swayed the German people with irrational ideas regarding the superiority of the Aryan race. Here I am finishing this article without any certainty on whether Gabriel Green’s story should be seen as an inspirational or a cautionary tale —there’s a certain inexhaustible optimism in him that I find somewhat endearing, and I would almost always prefer grassroot movements attempting to change the status quo from the ground up instead of “benevolent oligarchs” wishing to shape society to their whims like some fancy toy they can play with.
Because that is the way the UFO phenomenon operates.
There are certain new actors in the modern saucer scene who have made their political aspirations known through social media (the last name of one of them rhymes with “condo”). Will their small notoriety outside of UFO subgroups be enough to land them a job in Washington D.C., especially now that mainstream interest in the subject is waning? Time will tell, but in the meantime here is a piece of advice for our American readers:
References[edit]
- ^ Harnisch, Larry (August 8, 2010). “The Daily Mirror – Larry Harnisch reflects on Los Angeles history”. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
- ^ James R. Lewis (1 November 2003). Encyclopedic sourcebook of UFO religions. Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1-57392-964-6.
- ^ Louize, Lucus. The George Adamski and Howard Menger Series The Truth About the Galaxy: A Brief Summary: Also The Kors of the Alliance Are Our Friends (The Alliance Is A Different Group From The Confederation) And How Anyone Can Contact the Real Galactic Federation. Scribd.com. 2019. Pp 52. ISBN 978-1-948759-26-7
Source 3 Does Not support the statement made. The source cited originates almost entirely from Bob Renaud. Gabriel Green was not having his own contacts in the 1950s.
External links[edit]
- Ron Schuler’s Parlour Tricks: ‘Let’s Face Facts About Flying Saucers’
- Articles about Gabriel Green in the Los Angeles Times from 1960:
- Louize, Lucus. The George Adamski and Howard Menger Series: The Truth About the Galaxy: A Brief Summary Also The Kors of the Alliance Are Our Friends (The Alliance Is A Different Group From The Confederation) And How Anyone Can Contact the Real Galactic Confederation (2019)