In 1959 and 1960 "Space Craft Conventions" featuring "contactee" speakers were held at the Indian Christian Camp and Mission, on the old H.L. Land place, northeast of Sapulpa. The conventions were the brainchild of a local minister, Chief Frank Buckeye Standing Horse, an Ohio born Ottawa Native American who, under both the label of "Bishop" and "Reverend", served as pastor of the Holy Church of God Church located on the campgrounds.
Special speakers the first year included Buck Nelson from Missouri, Truman Bethrum from California and Wayne S. Aho from Oklahoma City/Washington. The next year a "second annual" event was held at the end of July in 1960.
Chief Frank B. Standing Horse was born in Ohio in 1892 and died in 1977 in Riverside County, California. In 1956 near Sapulpa, he had a sighting of a cigar shaped object, and in 1959 he had the first of his "contactee" visitations , July 12, 1959, where he was taken on rides to other worlds on a series of space craft. He claimed trips to the Moon, Mars, Venus, "Clarion" and the distant edge of the galaxy world of "Orion."
The object used in that trip was 250 feet in diameter and 28 feet high, with a crew of three beings aboard who very "just like us."
To date, the next unidentified flying object "conventions" or "conference" would not be until 1973 when Hayden Hewes and his organization the IIUFOB hosted "serious" speakers to address the scientific aspects of sightings as well as the experiences of people. Guest speakers then will include nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman in Oklahoma City.
From research by Marilyn A. Hudson for her sequel to SOONER SAUCERS : OKLAHOMA UFO'S 1947 to 1969 (2020) to be called SOONER SAUCERS, VOL. 2.
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