Gabriel Green (November 11, 1924 – September 8, 2001) was an American early

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who claimed contact with

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. Green was a

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United States presidential candidate in 1960 and 1972. Space age president

Biography

Green claimed to have graduated with a PhD in physics from

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in 1953, and to have made several important contributions to the

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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

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school system. Green is among the well-known 1950s UFO

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– individuals who claimed to have met and talked with friendly

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Space Brothers from other worlds, and to have ridden in their spacecraft, or visited their planets. He founded the

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-based ''Amalgamated

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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

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. It has also been claimed that Korendor is orbiting the star Korena.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. Like

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and several other contactees of the period, he said he was able to maintain continual

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links with the wise and helpful

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

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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

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, for US president, collecting less than 200 votes. Like most, if not all of the 1950s contactees, Green was evidently far more interested in

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and

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topics such as

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, channelling,

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and

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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

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after his last run for president. Thereafter, little was heard of him until his death in September, 2001.

References

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

Ron Schuler's Parlour Tricks: 'Let's Face Facts About Flying Saucers'
* *[https://www.scribd.com/document/435316675/The-Truth-About-the-Galaxy 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)] {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Gabriel 1924 births 2001 deaths Contactees California politicians People from Whittier, California Ufologists Candidates in the 1960 United States presidential election Candidates in the 1972 United States presidential election 20th-century American politicians Woodbury University alumni