Eva Gabor tells of seeing flying saucer fleet from patio of Outrigger Club in
Honolulu, Hawaii: “Well, darlings, flying saucers didn’t actually chase me,
just frightened me half to death!”
Eva Gabor and the Hawaiian Saucer Fleet
From Honolulu, Hawaii, comes this interesting report from Movieland and TV Time
magazine correspondent Joyce Becker, published in the March 1967 issue of that periodical,
“Eva Gabor: A Flying Saucer Chased Me!”
Wrote Becker concerning Eva Gabor’s visit to Hawaii to entertain sailors and soldiers on
leave from Vietnam, during a short hiatus from work on her hit television show, Green Acres, “It
was a beautiful, warm, moonlit night and the air was scented like perfume by the tropical
flowers. Eva Gabor and her then husband number four, 4 television executive Richard Brown,
were heading for the island’s posh Outrigger Club. As their car sped along the palm tree-lined
streets, Eva slipped her hand into her husband’s. She looked up into the starlit sky and took a
deep breath. ‘Darling,’ she said, in her beautiful Hungarian accent, ‘I’m so happy that we chose
to entertain our guests at the Outrigger Club. It is so perfect. We can dine out on the patio
without having to worry about anything.’ Richard Brown looked up at the sky and gently
squeezed his wife’s hand, letting her know that he too felt this was the perfect night which
nothing could spoil.”
Despite the wafting tropical breeze, the temperature was in the mid-90s, to they settled on
ordering some tall, cool drinks. The women talked about shopping and not wanting to leave the