The First UFO Fan Club (that I know of, anyway)

Hi all,

I was just reorganizing my den, and ran across some very old UFO fan club
newsletters. In "The Complete Book of UFO", it states that the first UFO
fan club was the American SHADO-USECC (United States East Coast Control),
which started in 1979. However, this isn't true at all, because there was
another club, the American SHADO-USCC (United States Central Control) which
had already produced 49 newsletters by 1979! In fact, SHADO-USCC's first
issue was way back in October 1973.

Here is a scan of the first page of the first issue:

http://ufoseries.com/temp/uscc1.jpg

And here is a scan of the first page of the 24th issue, which features a
letter from Ed Bishop:

http://ufoseries.com/temp/uscc24.jpg

Note that Ed remembers TIMELASH being the final UFO episode filmed, but it
appears that has been disproved in the years since.

Anyway, back to sorting...

Marc

> And here is a scan of the first page of the 24th issue, which
> features a letter from Ed Bishop:


That letter from Ed was quite a find, Marc! Thanks for sharing!

How odd it feels to hear of these two fan clubs so many years later! I knew
nothing of them at the time and would have gone to the ends of the Earth to
join had I known they existed! As a kid, I thought I was the only person in
the world who thought the UFO show was spectacular. I was introduced to UFO
fandom only in 1995 with my introduction to the Internet. I wonder how many
other people like myself are still out there unknowing of the fandom UFO has
cultured over the years.

Thanks for sharing these Mark.

Mary

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Subject: [SHADO] The First UFO Fan Club (that I know of, anyway)



Hi all,

I was just reorganizing my den, and ran across some very old UFO fan
club
newsletters. In "The Complete Book of UFO", it states that the first
UFO
fan club was the American SHADO-USECC (United States East Coast
Control),
which started in 1979. However, this isn't true at all, because
there was
another club, the American SHADO-USCC (United States Central Control)
which
had already produced 49 newsletters by 1979! In fact, SHADO-USCC's
first
issue was way back in October 1973.

Here is a scan of the first page of the first issue:

http://ufoseries.com/temp/uscc1.jpg 

And here is a scan of the first page of the 24th issue, which
features a
letter from Ed Bishop:

http://ufoseries.com/temp/uscc24.jpg 

Note that Ed remembers TIMELASH being the final UFO episode filmed,
but it
appears that has been disproved in the years since.

Anyway, back to sorting...

Marc



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> Here is a scan of the first page of the first issue:
> http://ufoseries.com/temp/uscc1.jpg
> Wasn't this the same one run by Jim Main?

No, Jim Main started SHADO-USECC in 1979. This is
SHADO-USCC (note that lack of an "E" in USCC), which
existed from 1973 to 1979. They put out about 50
newsletters, and several large fanzines. I *think*
Jim started SHADO-USECC when SHADO-USCC started
getting unreliable.

Marc

Amelia and Marc,
SHADO-USCC was the work of Dale Jones. Dale was a diabetic like
myself and Helen Weber. She carried on the fan club even after she went blind.
The club newsletters became unreliable after her death when her roomate took
over in 1980. There was a move to keep the club running by members like Tracy
Doughery and Jacqui Droz who started SHADO-HQ by buying the club but the roomate
wouldn't hear of it and the group faded into non exsistance.

James K.


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There were a lot of us who formed little "Clubs" with five or six people in them. I did the same thing for Trek. We even had our own fanzie, which was a royal pain to minograph. No scanners or internet back then.