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Gabriel Green (November 11, 1924 – September 8, 2001) was an American
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active from the 1950s to 1970s. During this time he claimed to be in regular contact with extraterrestrials, and founded the ''Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America''. Green had a minor political career, unsuccessfully running for
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in the 1960 and 1972 elections, and for
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in the 1962 election.


Biography


Early life

Green was born on November 11, 1924, in
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. He attended
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and Woodbury Business College. He worked as a photographer for the Los Angeles Board of Education until 1959, when he chose to focus on ufology.


Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America

After claiming he'd observed a UFO, Green became interested in extraterrestrial topics In 1956 Green founded the ''Los Angeles Interplanetary Study Groups'', which published the "semi-religious" magazine ''Thy Kingdom Come''. In 1959 the LAISG grew into the
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-based ''Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America'', with Green serving as its director. Green stated that the purpose of the AFSCA was to gain the UFO movement prestige by demonstrating its size, to pressure
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, and to "hold a national convention".The inaugural three-day convention, which Green claimed space people advised him to arrange, was marred by conflict between the attending clubs. 45 contactees spoke at the event, including
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. In 1959, Green became president of the AFSCA. At its peak, the AFSCA comprised over 5,000 members across 24 countries. The group effectively ceased to exist after the termination of its final publication in 1969, subsequently publishing only occasional information sheets. The AFSCA continued to publish ''Thy Kingdom Come'', renamed to ''World Report'' in 1959 and to ''UFO International'' in 1962. ''UFO International'' ceased publication in 1965. The AFSCA also published the periodical ''Flying Saucers International'' from 1962 to 1969. In 1967 Green published the book, ''Let's Face Facts about Flying Saucers''.


Political career

Green used his platform in the AFSCA to run in the
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, claiming to have done so at the behest of an alien named Rentan who represented the Universal Confederation of Planets. He ran under the Outer Space Party on a platform of "prior choice economics", an economic system he explained by stating "Everything is or should be the sum total of all that has gone before." Under this system, Green claimed that there would be complete abundance,
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, free college education, and the full elimination of poverty. He also advocated for the banning of
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, the releasing all government information on UFOs, and the launching manned missions to the Moon and Mars. Green dropped out of the race before the election, stating that it was difficult to run because voters had not interacted much with aliens. He subsequently endorsed
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, believing that Kennedy would release government information on extraterrestrials. Green would run in the Californian Democratic Primary for the 1962 United States Senate election on a broadly
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, pro-peace platform. While he failed to win, he accumulated over 171,000 votes and an endorsement from
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winner
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. Green would run again in the
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under the Universal Party, an outgrowth of a group run by
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. Fry was elected as Green's running-mate. The Universal Party platform was based on an economic system called "universal economics" that Green believed was used by aliens. In this system, people were allocated credits based on their contributions to society. Goods would be evenly distributed to people, but if there were a shortage of a product, it would be allocated based on people's credits. The party also planned to remove systems of
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such as the
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and replace them with
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systems. He did not expect to win the election, instead running to spread his ideas. Green was on the ballot only in
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, and lost the election after receiving only 199 votes.


Death

Green died on September 8, 2001, in
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, California. Following his death the few remaining activities of the AFSCA were suspended.


Beliefs

Green claimed that he was in frequent contact with extraterrestrials, stating he had seen over 100
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. He called these aliens "Space Masters" and the "
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". He believed that the galaxy was split into dozens of planetary
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, each with complex alliances and diverse species. However, he stated that his visits with aliens had ended by the mid-1960s. A reoccurring figure was Rentan, a 2,000-year-old, 4-foot-tall humanoid from
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who represented the Universal Confederation of Planets, possessed the body of
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, and could teleport. Green frequently lectured at UFO conferences about
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topics such as
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, channeling,
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,
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.


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