Max B Miller’s magazine “Saucers” (1953-60) – one of the “most interesting of the period"

[IsaacKoi]

Jerome Clark’s excellent (albeit rather expensive…) book “The UFO Encyclopedia” (2nd Edition) states that Max B Miller’s magazine “Saucers” was “one of the few periodicals in which both conservative mainstream ufologists and contactees, who ordinarily occupied separate mental and literary universes, found a home … The magazine was one of the best-edited and most interesting of the period”.

The same entry in that encyclopedia comments that Max B. Miller “managed to be friends with everyone from Donald E. Keyhoe to George Hunt Williamson, and he was the first to publish the claims of celebrated 1950s contactee Truman Bethurum”.

There are over 10 references to Max B. Miller in NICAP’s classic “UFO Evidence” (1964), in which he is referred to as the “former NICAP photographic adviser”.

Since the US Copyright Office's database indicates that this publication is now in the public domain, I have helped arrange for Max B Miller’s “Saucers” magazine to be made freely available online. Searchable PDFs of every issue of this publication are now online.

Once again our Swedish friends at the “Archives For the Unexplained” ("AFU") in Sweden very helpfully (and very promptly) did the boring job of scanning most issues of the relevant material. The 3 issues missing from the AFU’s collection were then kindly scanned by veteran American ufologist Barry Greenwood.

The combined collection of scans of Max B Miller’s “Saucers” magazine can be downloaded from this temporary link for the next week:
Saucers vol 2 no 3.pdf and 24 more files

After that, or if you only want one issue, you can obtain any of the issues of this publication from the AFU’s website at this link:
Index of /Downloads/Magazines/United States/Saucers (Max B Miller)

More specifically, the scans are:
Saucers vol 1 no 1 (Scanned by Barry Greenwood)
Saucers vol 1 no 2 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 1 no 3 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 2 no 1 (Scanned by Barry Greenwood)
Saucers vol 2 no 2 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 2 no 3 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 2 no 4 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 3 no 1 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 3 no 2 (Scanned by Barry Greenwood)
Saucers vol 3 no 3 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 3 no 4 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 4 no 1 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 4 no 2 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 4 no 3 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 4 no 4 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 5 no 1 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 5 no 2 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 5 no 3 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 5 no 4 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 6 no 1 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 6 no 2 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 6 no 3 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 6 no 4 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 7 no 1-2 (Scanned by AFU)
Saucers vol 7 no 3-4 (Scanned by AFU)