The "S.P.A.C.E." newsletter ("Saucer Phenomena and Celestial Enigma") was edited by Norbert Gariety in 1957-1962.
The final issue (Number 71) includes a brief history of the newsletter, including a discussion of some controversy in relation to the editor's reaction to "a distinct 'pink alien' color" among "many of the contact claimants", which led him to "introduce a pro-American - Anti-Communist format into the UFO news bulletin". He recalled that this led to some subscribers that had succumbed to "brainwashing" demanding their money back and others cancelling their subscription because of his "right-wing - extremist views".
An editorial noted that the editor moderated a "one-hour Anti-Communism broadcast over Radio WMIE in Miami" each Sunday night and that dropping production of this UFO newsletter would allow him more time "to the full time job of awakening more Americans to the dangers this country faces".
70 of the 71 issues are now in my online UFO archive hosted on the website of the AFU, thanks to further collaboration with CUFOS (founded by J Allen Hynek) and particularly with George Eberhart and Mark Rodeghier.
I hope someone can supply the single missing issue (Number 33).
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