Leon Davidson's flying saucer collection, 1950-1980
Leon Davidson's flying saucer collection, 1950-1980
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#0362
- Bib ID:
- 4079689 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Davidson, Leon, 1922-
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 65 linear feet (52 boxes)
- Language(s):
-
English
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- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Description
Summary
Books, magazines, newsletters, reports, pamphlets, and clippings documenting the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) or flying saucer phenomenon. Mr Davidson used this material in connection with his study for the United States Air Force, entitled "Flying Saucers: Special Report No. 14." (Oct. 1957 & July 1966)
Arrangement
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Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Leon Davidson's flying saucer collection; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Reproduction Note
Boxes 19, 20, 21 and Scrapbooks 1-73 are available on microfilm.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source of acquisition--Davidson, Leon. Method of acquisition--Gift; Accession number--M-1962.
Gift of Leon Davidson, 1962-1968 & 1984.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Processed BRC 10/--/1984.
Revision Description
2009-06-26 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Biographical / Historical
(Columbia University B.A. 1942, B.S. 1943, M.S. 1947& Ph.D. 1951).
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Pamphlets
Box 1
Barber, Adam D., "The Coming Disaster Worse than the H-Bomb"
Box 1
Barker, Gray, "Book of Adamski"
Box 1
Barker, Gray, "The Strange Case of Dr. M. K. Jessup"
Box 1
Bartsch, Leo V., "The U.F.O. that Changed My Life"
Box 1
Borderland Sciences Research Associates, Various Short Articles
Box 1
Brasington, Virginia, "Flying Saucers in the Bible"
Box 1
Davidson, Leon, "Flying Saucers: Special Report No. 14, October, 1957"(4 Copies)
Box 1
Davidson, Leon, "Flying Saucers: Special Report No. 14, July, 1966" (2 Copies)
Box 1
Grant, W.V,, "Men in the Fying Saucers Identified"
Box 1
Kachur, V., "Space Scientists and the U.F.O. Phenomenon"
Box 1
Krafft, Carl Frederick, "Glimpses of the Unseen World"
Box 1
Layne, Meade, "The Coming of the Guardiands"
Box 1
Layne, Meade, "The Ether of Space"
Box 1
Layne, Meade, "The Morley-Martln Experiments"
Box 2
Marxer, John, "Evidence in Favor of Flying Saucers"
Box 2
Mitchell, Helen and Betty, "We Met the Space People"
Box 2
McCoy, John,"They Shall be Gathered Together"
Box 2
Mundo, Laura,"Ashtar, Go Home"
Box 2
Mundo, Laura, "Cosmogony, Genesis, and Eschatology"
Box 2
Mundo, Laura, "Don't Say I Didn't Tell You"
Box 2
Mundo, Laura, "Flying Saucers"
Box 2
Mundo, Laura, "Flying Saucers and the Father's Plan"
Box 2
Mundo, Laura, "Pied Piper from Outer Space"
Box 2
Mundo, Laura, "Private Lecture for Flying Saucer Study Groups"
Box 2
Mundo, Laura, 'There is a Way Out."
Box 2
Mundo, Laura, "Truth of Consequences"
Box 2
Mundo, Laura, "The Visitor's Plan"
Box 2
Ormond, Ron, "The Power of Faith"
Box 2
Sherwood, John, "Flying Saucers are watching You"
Box 2
Michael X, "Secrets of Higher Contact"
Box 3
Book Announcements
Box 3
Book Jackets
Box 3
Convention Announcements
Box 3
Lecture Announcements
Magazines (8 Boxes)
Box 4
Air Progress (1 issue)
Box 4
Amazing (October, 1957)
Box 4
American Aviation (June, 1963 October, l954), 1963
Box 4
Chrysalis (September -October, 1964)
Box 4
Chrysalis (1964-June, 1967)
Box 4
Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory (1956)
Box 4
Dissenter/Dissinter (Vol. 1, No, 1)
Box 4
Engineering (October 13, 1967)
Box 4
Fantastic Universe Science Fiction (November, 1953)
Box 4
Fate (August, 1955-Aprll, 1959)
Box 4
Flying Saucer News (1967 ? 2 issues)
Box 4
Flying Saucers-Look Magazine (1967)
Box 4
Flying Saucers (l Issue)
Box 4
Flying Saucers-U.F.O. Reports (3 issues)
Box 5
Flying saucers-The Magazine of Space Conquest (17 Issues, June, 1957-February, 1961), 1957-February, 1961
Box 6
Flying Saucers-Mysteries of the Space Age (37 issues, May, 1961-December, 1967), 1961-December, 1967
Box 7
Flying Saucer Review (31 issues, Januarv, 1958-October, 1967), 1958-October, 1967
Box 8
Round Robin-Journal of Borderland Research (30 issues, 1953-1958)
Box 9
Round Robin-Journal of Borderland Research (22 issues, 1959-1961)
Box 10
Journal of Borderland Research-Clips, Quotes, and Comments (1953-1958)
Box 11
Pegasus (1 issue, Novemebr, 1952)
Box 11
Saucer News (2 Folders, 1960-1967)
Box 11
Saucers, Space, & Science (4 issues, October 1962-1967)
Box 11
Science & Mechanics (1 issue, December, 1966)
Box 11
Space World (1 issue, September, 1962)
Box 11
Spacecraft News (1 Issue)
Box 11
Transformation (1 issue, 1960)
Box 11
True, (1 issue, January, 1950)
Newsletters
Box 12
The Philosophical Bulletin (No, 426, 428, 450)
Box 12
Bulletin of New California Subtropical Settlement (No. 302,335,346,348)
Box 12
Circulo Da Amizade Sideral (No. 1,2,3,4)
Box 12
Civilian Research, Interplanetary Firing Objects Newsletter-Orbit,(Vol. 1, No. 1-Vol. Ill, No. 11)
Box 12
Civilian Saucer Intelligence (No. 1-27)
Box 12
Clarion Call (Vol. 1, No. 1-Vol. 2, No. 2)
Box 12
Cosmic Researcher (Vol. 1, No. 1)
Box 12
Disc Digest (Vol. 1, No. 1-Vol III)
Box 12
Dominion-American Corporation (Special Bulletins)
Box 12
Doubt (No. 39-61)
Box 12
Faith Contenders (April, 1961)
Box 12
The Flying Saucer (No. 3-10)
Box 12
Flying Saucer News (May 1958-August, 1961)
Box 13
Flying Saucer News Service (Vol. 1, No. 1-Vol, 1, No. 10)
Box 13
Flying Saucer Review (No. 6-11)
Box 13
Forum (Vol. 2, No. 38)
Box 13
Galaxy Diskpatch (Vol. 1, No. l)
Box 13
Great Western News (No. 3-9)
Box 13
International Paranormal Bulletin (No. 1-13)
Box 13
International Roundtable of the World University (1960-1961)
Box 13
Interplanetary Intelligence Report (Vol. 1, No, 1)
Box 13
Journal of Correlative Philosophy (March, 1959-June, 1960), 1959-June, 1960
Box 13
Mark Age (July I960-May 1962)
Box 13
Midwestern U.F.O. Reporter (July -September, 1967)
Box 13
Metaphysical Digest (Vol. 4, No, 5 & 7)
Box 13
New Age Expositor (No. 2, 1960-No. 2, 1962)
Box 13
New Age Newsletter, (No. 20)
Box 13
OAHSPE
Box 13
Om-on-o Gold Sector (February, 1964)
Box 13
Open Letter (July, 1960-August, 1961), 1960-August, 1961
Box 13
Ouranos Revue Internationale (No. 19,-24)
Box 14
Orbit (April I960-January 1964)
Box 14
Ray Palmer's Flash Newsletter (June, 1965)
Box 14
Planetary Center (May, 1956-February, 1966 4 folders), 1956-February, 1966
Box 15
Satellite (July -Sept, 1957)
Box 15
Saucerian Bulletin (No, 7-25)
Box 15
Saucerian (1953-1956)
Box 15
Saucers (Vol. 1, No. 2-Vol. III, No. 3&4)
Box 15
Saucer Forum (Vol. 1, No. 1-Vol 4, No. 1)
Box 15
Saucer News (No. 20-49)
Box 15
The Saucer's Report (September, 1957)
Box 15
The Saucer Sentinel (No. 8-18)
Box 15
The Science Group & The Christian (TRUTH) (Vol. 2)
Box 15
Sociedade Brasileira De Estudos Sobre Discos Voadores (No. 8)
Box 15
Spacecraft News (Vol 1, No. 1&2)
Box 15
Space Review (Vol 1, No. 1-Vol III, No. 1)
Box 15
Tee-Side U.F.O, Research Group (No. 3-5)
Box 15
Truth (No. 41, August, 1960)
Box 16
The Ufologer (Vol 1, No, 3-Vol. 2, No. 4)
Box 16
Ufology News (Vol 1, No. 2)
Box 16
U.F.O. Chile (August, 1967)
Box 16
U.F.O. Contact (March, 1967)
Box 16
U.F.O.-Critical Bulletin (Vol. 1, No. 1-Vol. III, No. 6)
Box 16
U.F.O. Journal (Vol. I, No, 5-Vol 2, No. 3)
Box 16
U.F.O. Newsletter (No. 7-13)
Box 16
U.F.O. Reporter (Summer & Spring, 1964)
Box 16
Uranus (Vol. 1, No, 1-Vol. 7, No, 5)
Box 16
Voice of Aquarius (January, 1960 & March, 1964), 1960
Box 16
World-Wide Divine Love Radiation Service (September, I960)
Bound Newsletters
Box 17
Saucer News (Vol, 2, No, 6-Vol, 6, No, 5, #12-38)
Box 17
Nexus (Vol. 1, No, 1-Vol. 2, No. 5, #1-11)
Box 17
Flying Saucer News (Summer 1953 & Summer-Autumn 1954), 1953
Box 17
Space Review (Vol. 1, No. 1-Vol. 2, No, 4)
Box 17
Flying Saucer Review (No, 7-11)
Box 17
Civilian Saucer Investigation (Vol, 1, No. 4)
Box 17
Civilian Saucer Intelligence Newsletter (No. 1-27)
Box 18
Thy Kingdom Come (No. 4-9)
Box 18
Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America World Report (No. 11-16)
Box 18
McCoy (May 17, 1957-August 27, 1957), May 17, 1957-August 27, 1957
Box 18
Ufologer (January, 1958-April, 1959), 1958-April, 1959
Box 18
Aerial Phenomenon Research Group Reporter (Vol, 1, No, 5)
Box 18
Grove Gazette (Vol. 2, No. 7)
Box 18
Cosmic Science Newsletter
Box 18
Orbit (Vol. II, No. 4-Vol. Ill, No. 12)
Box 18
Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects Newsletter (Vol, 1 No.I, Vol II, No. 3)
Box 18
U.F.O. Newsletter (No. 7-13)
Box 18
U.F.O. Investigator (Vol. I, No. 1-Vol. II No. 5)
Box 18
Satellite (Vol. 1, No. l-Vol. 1, No. 5)
Box 18
U.F.O.-Critical Bulletin (Vol. II, No. 4-Vol. Ill, No. 6)
Box 18
The Prince George Cosmic Observer (Vol. I, No, 1-Vol. I, No. 3)
Box 18
Fliegende Untertassen Revue (No. 5/6-13/14)
Box 18
New Zealand Civilian Saucer Intelligence (Vol. 4, No. 4)
Newsclippings
Box 19
Newsclippings, 1943 1954-1959), 1943
Box 20
Newsclippings (1960)
Box 21
Newsclippings (1961-1963)
Pamphlets & Transcripts
Pamphlets:
Box 22
Aurora, "Let Freedom Ring"
Box 22
Campbell, Duncan Cameron, "Truth and Flying Saucers"
Box 22
Ferguson, William, "My Trip to Mars"
Box 22
Morison, Robert, "Driving Whirlwinds"
Box 22
Schmidt, Reinhold O., "The Kearney Incident" and "To the Arctic Circle in a Spacecraft"
Box 22
Robertson, Archibald F. "A Sunday Afternoon"
Box 22
Ward, Clara Wills, "A Spirit Passed Before My Face"
Transcripts
Box 22
NBC-TV, "The Open Mind"
U.S. Aeronautical Charts
Box 23
U.S. Aeronautical Charts, 1950-1954
Box 23
Misc. bibliographies of UFO materials (gift of William S. Jone, 1979)
Periodicals and Pamphlets (1984 Gift), 1968-1978
Box 24
Aerial Research Systems' Sentinal
Box 24
Aid to Identification of Flying Objects
Box 24
Allen Body Photos
Box 24
Anomoly
Box 24
APRO Bulletin
Box 24
Asociacton Astromodelists Argentina (letter)
Box 24
Believe It
Box 24
Beyond Reality
Box 24
Boletin AAA-DIOVNI
Box 24
BUFORA Journal
Box 24
Boletin Ufologico
Box 26
Fate
Box 26
Flying Saucer News
Box 26
Flying Saucer News Catalogues
Box 26
Flying Saucer Review
Box 26
FSR Case Histories
Box 26
FSR Special lssues
Box 27
The Flying Saucer Story
Box 27
Flying Saucers by Laura Mundo
Box 27
Flying Saucers: An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book
Box 27
Flying Saucers: Mysteries of the Space Age
Box 28
Forum
Box 28
Cateway Seminars (advertisement)
Box 28
The Hefley Report
Box 28
How to Save the World by Laura Mundo
Box 28
Hudson Valley
Box 28
International Paranormal Bulletin
Box 28
International UFO Reporter
Box 29
Jim Moseley's Book of Saucer News
Box 29
Lea Extraterretrea
Box 29
Magic and Showmanship
Box 29
Marcen Journal
Box 29
The Metaphysical Magazine
Box 29
Midnight Horoscope
Box 29
Mufon Symposium
Box 29
National Radio Pulpit
Box 29
New Atlantean Journal
Box 29
The Nominal UFO Researcher
Box 29
Nyhetsblad Newsletter
Box 29
Official UFO
Box 29
"Open Letter to the Now Generation," by Laura Mundo
Box 29
"Our Trip to the Moon and Venus," by Laura Mundo
Box 30
Page Research Library Newsletter
Box 30
Page Research Library Publications and Book Catalogue
Box 30
50 Lat (Polish)
Box 30
Project Bluebook reports 1-12 (bound)
Box 30
Psychic Gazette
Box 30
"Radical Science Ideas Acquire New Journal," The New York Times, 6, June 1978
Box 30
Ray-Palmer's Newsletter
Box 30
Revelations Awareness
Box 30
Rockets Vs. Flying Saucers
Box 31
Saucer News (by various titles)
Box 32
The SBI Report
Box 32
Search
Box 33
The Secret of Success (advertisement)
Box 33
"The Secret of the Sunbeam," by Laura Mundo
Box 33
The Skeptical Inquirer
Box 33
Skylook (name changed to Mufon UFO Journal)
Box 33
Spacelink
Box 33
Spaceview
Box 33
Spectrum
Box 33
Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects
Box 33
Teoria De Procesos De Los Ovni
Box 33
True Flying Saucers and UFOs Quaterly
Box 34
UFO Monitor
Box 34
UFO-NYT
Box 34
UFO Ohio Newsletter
Box 34
UFO Prophecy
Box 34
UFO Report
Box 34
UFO Review
Box 34
UFOer Pa Radar
Box 34
Ufologisch Informatief Tijdschrift
Box 34
Ufology
Box 34
Umbral Cero
Box 34
Unifeid States of Awareness
Box 34
Urania
Box 34
The White Sands Incident
Box 34
Who is Dean Kraft
Books
Box 35
Adamski-Fort
Box 36
Fry-Leslie
Box 37
Lorenzen-Oahspe
Box 38
Ohio-Williamson
Scrapbooks
Box 39
1, 3-7
Box 40
8, 18, 24-28
Box 41
29-35
Box 42
36-37, 39-41
Box 43
42-45, 47-48
Box 44
49-52, 54-56
Box 45
57-61
Box 46
62-63, 66-67, 70-73
Printed Materials
Box 47
Books, brochures, printed reports
Files
Box 48
Correspondence, notes, annotated printed matter, 1945-1969
Box 49
Correspondence, notes, annotated printed matter, 1945-1969
Box 50
Correspondence, government reports and clippings, 1950-1979
Box 51
Correspondence, notes, annotated printed matter, 1970-1992
Box 52
Correspondence, notes, annotated printed matter, 1970-1995
List of Books
Adamski, George Flying Saucers Farewell
Adamski, George Inside the Space Ships
Allingham, Cedric Flying Saucers from Mars
American Map Company Deutschland
Angelucci, Orfeo The Secret of the Saucers
Arnold, Kenneth, and Palmar, Ray The Coiming of the Saucers
Barker, Gray The Unidentified
Barker, Gray They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers
Bender, Albert K. Flying Saucers and the Three Men
Bethurum, Truman Aboard a Flying Saucer
Bloecher, Ted Report on the U.F.O. Wave of 1947
Eisinger, Larrv The Mystery of Other Worlds Revealed
Erskine, Allen Louis Why Are They Watching Us?
Flying Saucer Review, World Roundup
Fort, Charles The Books of Charles Fort
Fry, Daniel Steps to the Stars
Fry, Daniel To Men of Earth
Fry, Daniel The White Sands Incident
Gibbons, Gavin They Rode in Spaceships
Girvan, Maveney Flying Saucers and Common Sense
Heard, Gerald Is Another World Watching?
Jessup, M.K. The Expanding Case for the U.F.O.
Jessup, M.K. The U.F.O. Annual
Jung, C.G. Flying Saucers
Keyhoe, Donald E. The Flying Saucer Conspiracy
Keyhoe, Donald E. Flying Saucers from Outer Space
Keyhoe, Donald E. Flying Saucers: Top Secret
Keyhoe, Donald E. The Flying Saucers are Real
Leslie, Desmond & Adamski. George Flying Saucers have Landed
Lorenzen, Coral E. Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space
Lorenzen, Coral E. The Great Flying Saucer Hoax
Lusar, Rudolf Die Deutsbhen Waffen und Geheimwaffen des 2 Weltkriges und ihre Weiterentwicklung
Michel, Aime Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery
Michel, Aime The Truth About Flying Saucers
Menzel, Donald H,. Flying Saucers
Maney, Charles A. and Hall, Richard The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects
N.Y. Academy of Sciences Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft
Nebel, Long John The Way Out World
Newman, Bernard The Flying Saucer
Nelson, Buck My Trip to Mars, the Moon and Venus
Nininger, H.H. Out of the Sky
OAHSPE. A New Bible
Ohio Northern University Bulletin
Prins, Ethera The Light That Must Not Fail
Reeve, Bryant and Helen Flying Saucer Pilgrimage
Robertson, Archibald F. Mohawk Trail and Apples of Avalon
Ruppelt, Edward J. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
Schonenberger, Schweizer Werlag Karl Volker der Erde
Scully, Frank Behind the Flying Saucers
Sorel, Edward Moon Missing
Stranges, Rev. Frank E. Flying Saucerama
Stringfled, Leonard Inside Saucer Post ... 3-0 Blue
Tacker, Lt. Col. Lawerence J., U.S.A.F. Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force
U.S. Air Force The Air Force Blue Book
U.S, Government Hearing before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives
U.S. Government, Space Handbook: Astronautics and its Applications U.S.S.R., No Return for U-2
Vallee, Jacques Anatomy of a Phenomenon
Wilkins, Harold T. Flying Saucers on the Attack
Williamson, George Hunt, and McCoy, John U.F.O.'s Confidential