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Berea, Ohio resident Rick Hilberg’s fascination with the possibility of alien visitations was piqued during a debate on UFOs, held in his classroom at McKinley Elementary School in Cleveland in 1958. Hilberg chose the anti-UFO side for his presentation but gradually became impressed with the evidence on the pro side of the question, and that led him to a lifelong interest in UFOs and related phenomena. “I really got active when I began publishing a small newsletter, UFO Magazine, for fellow UFO buffs when I entered high school in 1962.” This gradually led to publishing a number of UFO and fortean publications over the years.
In 1964, he organized what would become NUFOC with Allan Manak, Al Greenfield, and Dale Rettig. In 1966, he cofounded UAPA with Allan Manak. He was an associate editor of Flying Saucer Digest from 1970-1999, at which point he took on full editorship. Rick was featured as a UFO expert on the 2009 Gray Barker hoaxer documentary, Shades of Gray.
Rick retired from active publishing in 2018 and discontinued Flying Saucer Digest at that time, which holds the record for the oldest continuously running US UFO newsletter (dating back to 1967). He remains active in CUP.
In 2019, Rick donated his UFO archives to the AFU.
Publications
- “UFO Magazine” and “UFO Magazine News Bulletin”, Self-published
- “Phenomenology”
- “Weirdology” (bi-monthly)
- MIB: A Report on the Men in Black Who Have Terrorized UFO Witnesses and Investigators in All Part of the Nation, 1968, Hilberg and Easley.
- “Flying Saucer Digest” (quarterly), Edited 1970 onwards, Self-published solely by Rick R. Hilberg 1999-2018
- Saucer Trek, 1978
- The Saucer Saga, 1992
- UFO Chronology Map Index Guide Book, 1996
- Northern Ohio UFO Casebook, 1997
- Around And About The Saucer World, Rick R. Hilberg, 1998, Self-published.
- The Forgotten Flap 1964, 2000
- The Last Great Flap: 1973-1974, 2001
- Extraordinary Happenings: 1965 Revisited, 2002
- A Ufological Snapshot 1980-1981, 2002
- UFOmation, 2002
- A Gray Barker Reader, 2003
- A Decade of Flying Saucers: 1950-1960, 2003
- 42 Years: A UFO Editor’s Retrospective, 2004
- A Gray Barker Reader II, 2004
- A Flying Saucer Scrapbook, 2005, Self-published.
- Weirdology II, 2006
- Jim Moseley and the Saucer News Years, 2007
- A Significant Ufological Year 1966, 2008
- UFOs in the Late 20th century, 2009
- The Best of the Original UFO Magazine, 2010
- Flying Saucer Digest Revisited, 2011
- A Gray Barker Reader III, 2012
- Rick Hilberg’s Book of Weirdology, 2015
- Chasing the Flying Saucers: A Chronicle of the Golden Age of UFOs, 2015, Barker, et. al. edited and introduction by Hilberg.
- Inside the Saucers, 2017. Beckley, Hilberg, et. al.
- The Collected Issues of The Journal of the Congress of Scientific Ufologist, 2020, Kindle eBook. Hilberg, Biebel, and Barker.
- Saucers and Saucerers: The stranger than fiction story of UFOs and those who chase them! 2022, Self-published. Greenfield with introduction by Hilberg.
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