Albert K. Bender Speech From 1967
The largest (best attended) indoor UFO convention in US history took place on the weekend of June 24, 1967 in the Hotel Commodore in New York City. Organized by UFO researcher James Moseley, speakers included John Keel and Roy Thinnes, who was the star of the popular Invaders TV show. Tim Beckley recalls:
There were quite a variety of speakers like Venus from the planet Venus, Dr. Frank Stranges, Howard Menger, and in fact Dr. Condon of the infamous Condon Report was there. He was in the audience taking notes.
Another personality who “appeared” so to speak, was Albert K Bender, famous for his founding of the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB), and his book on the Men In Black enigma. Due to unspecified fears or some other reason, he sent a tape recording of his presentation which was played to a room full of eager listeners.
Bender described his MIB experiences, the history of the IFSB and curiously, his growing contactee-type experiences which were going to be part of a book that publisher Gray Barker was going to release. The book never saw the light of day. Barker described it as “not good enough to do anything with.”
It was to be titled The World Of Kazik, which was the planet from which Barker claimed his aliens hailed. Bender described the utopian society of the Kazikians, the natural wonders of the planet, as well as a “gas” which periodically enveloped the whole globe, killing all living things except the lucky who happened to be underground at the time.
This recording has been floating around UFO circles for decades, but I have not seen it posted online before. The snippet of introduction at the beginning is the voice of Gray Barker. Have a nice weekend!
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Jun 26 2009 
June 27th, 2009 at 1:45 am
This is awesome Greg. “Flying Saucers and the Three Men” is one of the oddest books I’ve read.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Maybe it was not Kazik but Kashiik, and Bender was being abducted by wookies!
July 1st, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Firkon,
I think it was ghost- or rewritten by Gray Barker.
July 1st, 2009 at 4:03 pm
RPJ,
I’m pretty geeky, but not enough to remember the name of the wookie planet!