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Donations of recently published book titles will be included here for reference - and also as a promotion of your title! As a publisher, or author, you might consider donating one or two copies of your recent book(s) for preservation with AFU...  Older books, collections and archival materials will continue to be credited on the Recent donations pages. 

From Clas Svahn, August 2008.
Bo Berg is one of the archivists of the Military Archives in Stockholm which houses, among thousands of meters of documents on Swedish war- and peace-keeping efforts since the 16th century, a few feet of documents related to the official investigations of the ghost plane waves of the 1930s and the 1946 ghost rockets.

Uniquely, Bo Berg is also a percipient of a ghost rocket! This happened in August 1980 when he visited the Muddus national park in the extreme north of Sweden. A rocket-like object crashed into a lake right in front of him.

The sighting is still unidentified by authorities and by UFO-Sweden, who have both documented the case. The story is part of this book published by the archive in 2008 and written by 18 archivists with very interesting stories to tell, based on the archives' collections. Another witness to a 1948 ghost rocket (that also crashed into water) was the then Supreme Commander of the Military, Helge Jung (picture on the right).
From different publishers and authors during Sept 2008.
In September we received four interesting new books from different publishers or authors.

From Italy's UPIAR came this catalogue of no less than 744 Norwegian photo cases, compiled by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and  Ole Jonny Braenne. This A4 publication has no paging (roughly 200, though). No less than 469 of the items come from the Hessdalen valley. Included was also the publication stored on a disc!

From Charbuy in France came another surprise parcel with Rémy Fauchereau's 50 ans de manifestations O.V.N.I. dans l'Yonne, dedicated to AFU by the author. It is a regional catalogue of UFO cases from the department of Yonne, which is part of the cental-French region of Bourgogne. Just 28 pages long but printed on glossy paper and with some very nice illustrations.
Clas Svahn bought a copy of Robert Hastings new 600 pages tome and was offered a second copy for free, for AFU's collection, if we paid the shipping cost. UFO and the Nukes. Extraordinary encounters at nuclear weapons sites is a 31 chapter book where Hastings interviews and documents sightings close to the missile bases. Roberts father worked at Malmstrom AFB in Montana where some of the intrusions occurred.
Another surprise parcel came from Bear & Company in Rochester, Vermont, publishers of Paul A. LaViolette's book Secrets of antigravity propulsion - Tesla, UFOs, and classified aerospace technology.

This is also a tome-like (500 pages) book that reviews the works of many technically-minded inventors, from Tesla to Searl. A lot of interesting material, documents and patents in this book which is the fourth by the author published by Bear (Inner Traditions).

From Luis R. Gonzalez, Malaga, Spain, May 15, 2008
Spanish ufologist Luis R. Gonzalez wrote the following on a European mailing list: "To create a custom that should be shared by all other authors, I want to donate to the libraries of the CISU and AFU repositories my book." One week later we have the book in our hands and will catalogue it for our CA (contacts - abductions) shelf in the AFU library! We can just applaud Luis's suggestion! 

The book (see left) is one in a series of skeptical books on different kinds of mysteries. (There is another one in the series by the name Los ovnis !vaya timo! authored by Ricardo Campo). 

Gonzalez, a founding member of Fundaction Anomalia (which also maintains an archive), represents the (mainly) European school who sees alternative explanations behind the UFOs than just 'simple' ETs.

"Considering its short length (156 pages), it cannot be an exhaustive and academic work; it is better described as a critical but entertaining approach to many of those details almost never mentioned in the ufological literature about the subject."

From Richard W. Heiden, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 2008
The Eagle River Historical Society of Wisconsin has produced (2007) a heavy 452 page history of the area, with focus on the latest 150 years. The Eagle River flying saucer landing    in April 1961 occupies three pages (95-97) of this tome that includes everything, and more, you've always wanted to know about the history of Eagle River.

The book was kindly bought and sent to us by our Wisconsin correspondent Richard W. Heiden, who has been a correspondent of AFU since our early years in the 1970s. Rich also included photo copies of the pages in question, meaning that AFU can easily produce second-generation copies of the pages with Joe Simonton's own story, without breaking up the book. Thank you, Rich!

 
From Clas Svahn, January 2008
Daniel Vandinja is a Swedish ex-member (even short time ex-chairman of the Swedish chapter) of the Raëlian UFO cult movement, who has now written a book that compares the Raël group with masonic orders in our history.

"I had no choice but to leave the Raëlian movement, there were simply too many similarities between the Raëlian agenda and that of the Illuminati's New World Order. Thus, in 2007, I nullified my Cellular Plan Transmission (CPT) and left the Raelian movement."

You might find his conspiracy views interesting, and if so, Vandinja's 113 page book is downloadable for free here. Clas Svahn has provided AFU with a printed copy for our shelf of Raëlian materials.
From Magnus Gustafsson, January 2008
Welcome to Sweden (despite the title only a few pages are in English, and they really are not relevant to the remainder of the book) - is an interview book with the life stories of people connected to the Swedish town of Koping. It is written by Magnus Gustafson, a local journalist.

We note the book here just because twenty pages of its contents (one of the interviews) is with Bevan Berthelsen, former chairman of UFO-Sweden. The interview provides some interesting insights into the early years of UFO-Sweden, i.e. Berthelsen's attempts (mid- 70s) to open communication lines with the secretive Swedish military during the heydays of the Cold War.

From Per-Erik Tell, Kristianstad, Sweden, January 2008
A large number of books, published in many countries of the world, touch the UFO, ET and saucer themes in subtle ways, sometimes just in a few lines, or in one or two chapters. They all contribute, however, to society's and its citizen's perceived view of 'the UFO phenomenon'.

The book on the left, Efter alla dessa år (After all these years). is a new (2007) Swedish fiction novel that tells the story of ordinary citizens who give up their old existence, take loans on the bank, and go out into wilderness to search for a crashed flying saucer..!

The book's author, Per-Erik Tell, visited AFU this summer to collect ideas for an investigative article about UFO research in Sweden. This article was published this winter in a company newsletter distributed for free on tourist charter flights to and from Sweden.
   

                                                        

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