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Recent acquisitions 2005-2007

Bought by AFU for our reference library, Oct. 2007.
One can never be sure but this is probably the world's only UFO-related cook book. We found C.U.P.'s out of this world cook book at eBay and acquired it for 10 dollars + shipping from it's previous owner in Ohio.

The 233 pages spiral bound book was published by the Cleveland Ufology Project an organization headed by deceased ufologist Earl J. Neff, who's clipping archives was donated to AFU recently.

The cook book includes recipes of every sort of food, from soups & salads, to meat & pies.

There are even nutrition values for each recipe and - for comparison - nutrition tables for the more unhealthy 'earthly' meals you buy from typical U.S. fast food chains. We learn that a McDonald's Big Mac includes 541 calories and 31,4 % fat. The nice illustrations that start each section provide a needed link to this cook book's title & publisher: very nice drawings by Joe Gombarcik that mostly illustrate "ET's" of different shapes presenting different kinds of foods to us humans. A section at the start also includes favorite recipes provided by well known ufologists such as Andrus, Bray, Barker, (Betty) Hill, Heiden, Mundo, Neff and Stringfield. How about Earl Neff's own chocolate eclair cake or Eggs á la Moseley?

A very nice item for our memorabilia department!

Bought by AFU for our reference library, June 2007.
With lots of literature on the inner earth theory - a nice impossibility, isn't it? - in the AFU library, we thought a copy of this new (2006) French annotated bibliography would be a good investment.

Les terres creuses ('The hollow lands') by Guy Costes and Joseph Altairac lists 2.200 international references to stories and theories about inner earth worlds in fiction, fantasy and the pseudo-sciences. Each annotation is unusually detailed, sometimes running up to about one full page for an entry. There are two indexes: by author and by title, and also a chronological overview of inner earth speculations throughout our history.
Bought by AFU for our reference library, April 2007.
When saucers came to Earth   is a catalogue of Italian landings between 1912 and 1954 collected and translated to English by CISU researcher Maurizio Verga.

A more detailed review of this 259 pages book printed in European A4 format and only as 100 copies, will be published in our AFU Newsletter # 52, which is in the works. More details on this compilation here.

Bought by AFU on Arcuturs Books Inc. sale, January-February 2007
AFU has bought a number of books from an Arcturus Books Inc. "super sale", early in 2007. Some of the titles, most of them new   to our library, can be seen to the left. The books were paid for from sales of extra copies of magazines on eBay.

Bob Girard's book store is an excellent service to ufologists, see his catalog on Abebooks here or email him here to get onto his regular mailing list of current titles.

Bought by AFU through an intermediary, November 2006.
Sten Lindgren is the closest Swedish comparison to George Adamski. He has been active in Swedish contactee ifology (the study of interplanetary ships piloted by 'the Brothers') since the mid-1960s and has appeared on Swedish TV shows. His experiences have been doubted by skeptics. Sten now lives a more secluded life with few media appearances.

He recently self-published his second book (portrayed on the right), a book that was rather hard for us to come by, but we finally managed, through an intermediary.

If you read Swedish you can view more about Sten Lindgren at his web site here. 

By exchange of information with Bartosz Rdultowski, Krakow, Poland, July 2006.
Secret aircraft projects since WWII, and onwards, is a popular theme of UFO-related books on the European continent, especially Germany. AFU has barely scratched the surface of this genre.

Bartosz Rdultowski is a Polish journalist-specialist in the area, who recently contacted AFU requesting copies of a number of old articles. Some of these we were able to help with, and, as an exchange, Bartosz kindly sent us a parcel with his three books in Polish on secret airplanes (2001, upper right), secret German WWII constructions, including V-7 (2003, down left) and anti-gravitational aircraft projects (2005, down right).

The latter is a detailed presentation, to the Polish readership, of materials focusing on Bob Lazar, John Lear, MJ-12 and other secret projects of a controversial nature. Bartosz Rdultowski also kindly donated copies of three rather recent issues of the Polish magazine "UFO" - all of them with articles penned by himself. Great materials for our international collection.
Bought by AFU through eBay.
In February 2006, AFU bought the full series of William Corliss 's Sourcebooks , the first ten publications from his The Sourcebook Project.  The ten plastic binders, each with almost 300 pages of Fortean data from science publications, come from the estate of magician Marcello Truzzi  (once editor of The Zetetic Scholar ).
We are happy to own this series and are now looking for to complete our collection of other Corliss publications.
Bought by Clas Svahn, March 2006.
At a well-managed archive, "things" should never disappear. Despite this golden rule, and our attempts to keep track of things borrowed from, or temporarily taken out of the collection, it still does happen that things get lost.

Last year we spent much time searching for our copy of the video (VHS) Die Delegation , produced by Rainer Erler . This is a fine German semi-documentary / semi-fiction of the UFO and contactee puzzles. To replace the lost VHS Clas Svahn bought a recent DVD digitalization of the film as a replacement. The film has now been catalogued in the books & media collection, along with the printed book version from 1973.

Bought from Peter A. Hough, UK, January 2006
AFU is trying to establish as complete as possible a collection of British ufologist Jenny Randles' numerous well-written books. We have bought many of her titles from eBay sellers. The latest seller to us is one of Randles' co-authors (seemingly she  chooses guys with the first names Paul or Peter (!) ),  Peter A Hough who sold us three of the books he co-wrote, in the early 1990s, with Randles, all autographed by Peter. Thank you!

Counting the number of Randles books/editions/translations in our collection we now arrive at more than 50, including books in Hungarian, Lithuanian and Chinese.

By exchange with Maurizio Verga, Italy, November 2005
Maurizio Verga, leading member of the Italian national group CISU, visited AFU, in the 1990s, in the company of an Italian film team. We had the occasion to admire the effectiveness with which this Italian group is working. The Italians have done more than many other countries in the area of cataloguing and researching - to-the-bottom - their unknown phenomena.

This monograph, number 34 in the series Documenti UFO , catalogs Italian UFO landing cases from 1912 to 1954. The book has a timeline of the ITACAT project, a case listing, copies of related clippings and from Italian SF-UFO-related materials during the period, plus a review of UFO-related SF films up to and including 1954 - films that influenced some of the stories - of that you can be sure!
From Octagon Press, UK, December 2005
David Simpson was a member of the British SIUFOP   group in the early 1970s when the Warminster (Britain's Hessdalen) phenomena featured on the front pages of newspapers - even here in Sweden. The group made several experiments that involved hoaxing UFO sightings and photographs around Warminster. They fooled everyone, including the Flying Saucer Review   and BBC.  This nice little booklet of 32 pages tells the whole story.
Bought from eBay seller for the AFU reference library, November 2005
With the conclusion of the deal for buying the UFO book collection from Perry Petrakis, the number of French titles in our library will increase markedly. This has not prohibited us to buy, from time to time, new and old "OVNI-related" books in French.

One of the latest examples is this excellent title from 2003 by Bernard Thouanel, editor of the VSD   popular science magazine. Journalist Thouanel has traveled the world interviewing people related to UFO research, also in countries like the Philipines, Chile, Russia and, of course, the United States.

The heavy leaning, in this book, on old US pilot and radar reports is firmly motivated by the quality of the reports available. This is mixed with French cases, a round table discussion among French UFO-OVNI specialists, and a synthesis of the semi-official French Cometa report  ,  to make up one of best looking fact-files ever published. This is a heavy book, in weight (1.2 kilos) as well as in relevance.                           Anders Liljegren
New book bought for the AFU reference library, July 2005
In 1719, the Russian Army and Navy invaded the east coast of Sweden, including the city of Norrköping (where the AFU archives are today). Most of the city was burnt to the ground. The age-old animosity and fear for the Russians, among the Swedish populace, was rooted. In the early 20th century another Russian "menace" hit Sweden in the form of the so called "saw-grinders" that wandered around the Swedish countryside and were believed to be Russian spies. This is a doctoral dissertation by Gunnar Åselius  that penetrates this  phenomenon, decades before the ghost fliers, the ghost rockets, the saucers (sometimes rumored as Russian) and the submarine violations of the 1980s.                 Anders Liljegren
New book bought for the AFU library, June 2005
Marshal Mannerheim  was the great leader of the Finnish nation in the years between the World Wars. He kept a secret file, with the designation S-32 on the cover, of revealing, 'impossible-to-publish-at-that-time' documents. This folder was turned over to his successor in 1950, but has since disappeared. Before that, the documents were read, however, by a Finnish secret agent (who wrote a Finnish book in 1971).

The contents of the file are rumored to be secret agent reports to Mannerheim that prove that the Soviet Union was behind the 1930's ghost fliers. The flights were preparations for 'Operation Poro' (Reindeer) , a planned invasion of the north Scandinavian peninsula by the Soviets. --  Interesting but NOT the final proof of the Russian origin of ghost fliers. That proof probably has to come from a Russian archive!

Bought from Jan-Ove Sundberg, Motala, Sweden, June 2005
Jan-Ove 'Texas' Sundberg has been active in the fortean field since the early 1970s. First, as a member and investigator for UFO-Sweden , then as a publisher of mystery magazines like Det Okända, UFO-Rapport   and Arkiv-X .  In 1993 Sundberg published a book in Swedish, The Phantom Submarines , that looked at Swedish underwater
violations from a ufological perspective.  Sundberg has decided to leave ufology and concentrate on his search for lake monsters. AFU has therefore bought large parts of Sundberg's UFO-related collection, including 200 taped interviews (pictured above); his letters from John A. Keel 
(above); books and magazines; and more than 1.000 transparencies and other illustrations from his investigations of UFOs & Swedish UFO abductions, and USOs (Unidentified Submarine Objects).
Bought from Boris Jungkvist, Högsby, Sweden, June 2005
Boris Jungkvist is one of the most wellknown Swedish ufologists, with five books on UFOs to his credit. For many years Boris managed his own organizations, first UFO-Häggvik , then UFO-Luftrumsbevakning.  Boris is now retiring from ufology and gave AFU a chance to acquire his complete holdings.
 
Above, the book collection, about 550 titles on UFOs, astronomy, space and fortean subjects. To the right, Boris' correspondence and report files, video and tape libraries. A simple sorting procedure has already been accomplished and we are now boring deeper into this interesting material.
Bought from Steve Garren, USA, April 2005
We caught this interesting set of CD discs on eBay, recently. Steve Garren located - in a garage store! - the reel-to-reel tapes of 135 short documentary radio shows, UFO - Fact or Fiction , aired on radio stations throughout the US in 1975 & 1976. The shows have been professionally mastered onto CDs and are now on sale from Garren.
We bought them to Sweden for a total of 41 USD. Each show is about 3 minutes long and focuses on one or several typical UFO sightings, read from the international UFO literature. Each track is read by Jay Stanton. For instance we found the Swedish Lars Thorn  photo case as track 8, and the Norwegian Reidar Salvesen   case as the 15th track on disc 1. All witness's have been given pseudo names. There are 58 other tracks for you to explore.  Mail Garren if interested!
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