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Clipping collection - United Kingdom

UFO Monitors East Kent (UFOMEK) - The Blue Folder

In 2005 AFU acquired a new clippings CD, "The Blue Folder"   from  UFO Monitors of East Kent (UFOMEK),  headed by Chris Rolfe.  The disc is a collection of UFO and related stories that were published by the British press between 1950 and 1953. 

The material on this disc originates from Geoff Morris  , who contacted the group in 2002. The disc auto starts and you can either    view the collection of several hundred clippings (JPEG format) in a stream, or   by selecting important cases you are interested in, from a menu. My only trouble with the CD was that I had to restart from the very beginning each time I changed to another session in Windows.

Browsing the index, the disc contains a total of more than 500 files, divided between HTML and JPEGs.   Quite a bonus is a black/white filmed interview with Captain Howard of the contemporary BOAC UFO fame!  A fine job by UFOMEK.  If interested in purchasing a copy you might contact Chris Rolfe

The Tyneside UFO Society clipping collection

In the spring of 2003, AFU made contact with Gary Anthony   and Joe McGonagle , British ufologists, which resulted in an exchange of a collection of older British magazines against copies from a news clipping collection from the defunct Tyneside UFO Society .   Gary Anthony described how the copies had been collected:

"Recently Joe McGonagle and I returned from spending some 48+ man hours working with the Tyneside UFO Society archive at City Library, Newcastle .   While there we were able to ascertain the condition of the archive, which is in a quite good state of preservation except for a news clipping collection. You will be glad to learn we were able to carefully photocopy a considerable part, amounting to around 400 newspaper and magazine clippings, mostly from the UK and dating from 1947 to 1968. (we brought back around 790 photocopies total).  We were able to take a basic inventory of the entire collection and some digital images showing volume. One of the rare items we found was a reel to reel audio tape and transcription of a lecture which George Adamski   gave to the people of Newcastle. Best Regards, Gary Anthony."

The TUFOS clipping collection was in April 2005 ordered, chronologically, into a file folder (see picture), which also includes, at the end, the transcript of the Adamski lecture.

Volume 1 Tyneside UFO Society (TUFOS) clipping collection.

Covers the period 1947-1968, about 400 pages. Photo copied from originals in scrapbook. Some articles are difficult to read because of copying effects and reduction of size. Sometimes, articles have no reference to source/date. Also included: local and international UFO sightings received and documented by TUFOS.

Examples of topics covered: 1947-1950 section: 1947 American wave, British sightings, cartoons, ice fall, 1950 British wave, radar sighting, Winston Chruchill's interest in saucer-like airplane construction, Sunday Dispatch series of article.  1951-1952: Flying pencil, Washington radar sightings 1952, Exercise Mainbrace sightings 1952, RAF investigations, Nash-Fortenberry pilot sightning, 1953:  'The Reality of Flying Saucers' by A.C.B. Lovell (The Listener, June 18), a number of articles on George Adamski´s contactee claims, Flying saucer over the Channel (British Airlines), radar sighting at 90.000 feet.  1954: Darbishire photo, mysteries on eclipse day, BOAC pilot sighting near Goose Bay, Cedric Allingham's story, "I believe in flying saucers", article by Lord Dowding.    Et cetera.

The Patrick Murray clipping collection

In November 2004, AFU received, as a donation, a British clipping collection from researcher / author Hilary Evans.

The collection comprises ten oversized clipping albums  collected during the period 1947-1972 by Patrick Murray, Curator of the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh.   The files include a poster announcing contactee George Adamski  's lecture in Edinburg on May 5, 1959, during his worldwide tour, and another poster announcing Patrick Murray 's   own lecture on January 27, 1972, the subject being "Flying saucers? The lunatic fringe?".   The collection also includes two volumes of British newspapers from the 1988-1993 period (A4 sizes in two binders) - volume 11 and 12.

A detailed volume-by-volume presentation below the pictures.

   
Volume 1 "Early flying saucers" (title on spine)

Actually not very many newspaper   clippings. Mostly ancient sightings copied from books like "Flying saucers on the Moon"   and "New Lands". About 35 pages. Glued into the book volume.

   
Volume 2 "1951 flying saucers" (title on spine)

Comprises material from the period 1948-1955, this is possibly the most valuable volume in the series.  Series of articles on UFOs by Gerald Heard   in Sunday Express  (on Mantell case, etc) and another series in the Sunday Dispatch    (early series inspired by Lord Mountbatten, see book "Out of the Shadows"   by David Clark & Andy Roberts ). Also material from other British papers like Sunday News, The Illustrated London News, Daily Mail   and Evening Dispatch.  Articles by people like Donald Keyhoe, Frank Scully, Chapman Pincher   and Bob Considine.  About 80 pages, glued to the pages.
   
Volume 3 "1956 saucers" (title on spine)

Actually covers the period 1956-1965. Articles from the UK and the US, sources like Evening Dispatch, Sunday Post, Sunday Mail, Sunday Express.   Some covered themes: Contactee George King , Harold Berney (another contactee, see clipping in the picture above).  Posters from George Adamski 's appearance in Edinburgh, poster for Edinburgh lecture by Gavin Gibbons , etc. About 60 pages, mostly loose-leafs now, but glued to the pages.

   
Volume 4 "1966 saucers" (title on spine)

John Fuller   article in Look, February 22, 1966. Articles from The Illustrated London News, Scottish Daily, New York Herald Tribune, Sunday Mirror, Science Review,  and others.   Leaflet on Anthony Brooke   lecture, Promotion and texts for CBS'          broadcast " UFO: Friend, Foe or Fantasy".    About 60 pages.
   
Volume 5 "1967 saucers" (title on spine)

Covers 1967-1972 period. Articles by John Fuller   and Erich von Däniken.   Sources: Daily Mail, Scottish Daily Express, The Listener, Sunday Mirror, Weekend, Penthouse   (series). Leaflet for Patrick Murray' s talk on "Flying Saucers - the lunatic fringe", January 27, 1972.

   
Volume 6 "Sky mysteries" (title on spine)

Covers period 1924-1972. Scrapbook with diverse mysteries: space signals, phenomena in the air, disappearances, foo fighters. About 40 pages.

   
Volume 7 "UFOs 1971-72" (title on first page)

Covers 1971-1972. British newspapers & The US National Enquirer.  Themes: UFOs and space phenomena.

   
Volume 8 Untitled.

Covers period 1973-1983. British newspapers and magazines. Clippings are glued on paper. About 50 pages.

   
Volume 9 Untitled.

Covers period 1976-1980, British newspapers and magazines. Clippings have been taped on paper, bad condition. About 50 pages.

   
Volume 10 Untitled.

Clippings from 1976. American tabloid papers and the British press. Stapled on the pages.

   
Volume 11 English newsclippings April 1988-May 1990

Copies, about 300 pages, loose pages in binder, A4 size.

   
Volume 12 English newsclippings March 1990-Dec 1992

Copies published and circulated by Quest Publications , issues 24/1990 - 61/1993, about 300 pages, loose pages in binder, A4 size.

   

 

 

                                                                             
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