"The Visitor" Revisited

I stumbled across a curious mention of the publication The Visitor in UFO Newsletter #7 from April 1, 1957, page 19, stating that Laura Marxer was the person who set up the organization, if not the publication itself. Mary Jane McGleish was running it at the time. Don Wysocki seemingly took it over shortly thereafter, as the May-June issue which I have shows him in charge, and McGleish is nowhere to be found. I have not heard her name before this mention and Google and newspaper searches show nothing that pertains to flying saucers, though she apparently held shortwave radio station WA8P11.

A page earlier there's a mention that Laura's group Interplanetary Foundation - while the publication didn't agree with their conclusions on flying saucers they called the newsletter "a splendid source of information" - had attempted to donate the book UFO and the Bible to the Detroit Public Library but they refused it stating, "The average person does not possess the imagination to tie together UFOs and religion." among other procedural reasons that they technically could not accept it regardless of subject matter.

The editors of UFO Newsletter compared the snub to book burning and stated that "One thing about the Nazis when they burned their books: You could see them doing it!" Which seems like an unfair statement since the library was under no obligation to carry the book and in the climate of that era, bring a book about UFOs as they related to The Bible likely would have set off a firestorm in some religious circles. I'm not one of those people who believes that not including a publication in a library is censorship and especially those in the public sphere where they are accountable to the population at large.