| From
Clas Svahn, Dec 15, 2002. |
Clas Svahn and colleagues Håkan
Ekstrand, Mats Nilsson and Andreas Ohlsson came by the
archives while going back from a meeting of the UFO-Sweden board in
the south-Swedish town of Ängelholm. They brought a number of
goodies: A binder with manuals of ten early defence radar systems
(copied at the Swedish defence); a DVD recording from the recent
UFO-Sweden field investigation training course; 26 audio
tapes from Erik Fredriksson (Solna Astronomiska Förening): a
copy of the Japanese UFO-Noah battery lighter, in the shape
of a classical 'Adamski scoutship'; an audio tape of a Swedish TV
documentary on UFOs in May 1968, donated by Boris Jungkvist ;
the Fitzgerald Report by Robert J. Durant (exchange
with Bill Jones. Ohio); a copy of Colin Bennett's Politics
of the imagination (on Charles Fort), donated by Svahn; and lots
of other things. We almost lost our breath!
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| From
Jacques Scornaux of SCEAU, France, Dec 6, 2002. |
| SCEAU
(Sauvegarde, Conservation des Études et Archives
Ufologiques) is the French counterpart of AFU. Collections
are gathered by SCEAU and preserved with the French National
Archive. This means they are spread throughout France. The
(semi-annual?) Bulletin Annuel publishes minute
detailed inventories. Issue no. 5 includes the files of well
known ufologists like Michel Monnerie and Michel
Figuet. |
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| From
Ole Jonny Braenne, Oslo, Norway, Nov 30, 2002 |
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| Another
15 kilos of books and magazines including the latest issue of
UK's UFO Magazine; a copy of Out of the shadows
by David Clark and Andy Roberts; Paul
Devereux's book Stone age soundtracks; issues of VSD
(French commercial UFO mag); UFO-Norway's own FOIA CD-ROM disc;
many issues of La Chronicle de la CLEU (Luxemburg); MUFON
UFO Journal and early Birdsall's Quest publications;
plus many, many other goodies including Earl Nelson's There
is life on Mars, published in 1955. Thanks so very much! |
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| From
L.S. and I.N. (Norrköping), Nov 17, 2002. |
Three
second-hand IKEA Billy shelves, donated (I.N.) and bought at a very
cheap price (L.S.). The two white shelves will be used for our
expanding video library, the brown probably for some theme
collection of library books. |
| From
Clas Svahn, Nov 17, 2002 |
Five
CD-ROM:s crammed with audio recordings of the "Märklich" program
series on Radio Stockholm, a weekly show running since
January 2002, co-produced by Clas. |
| From
the publishers of Lumières dans la Nuit, Saint-Julien-l'Ars,
France, Nov 5, 2002 |
A
complete set of nine issues (numbers 357 --> 365) of Lumières
dans la Nuit, Revue d'Ufologie. AFU previously owned 173
issues of this great investigative journal, founded by Raymond
Veillith and now edited by Joel Mesnard. Merci bien! |
| From
Ole Jonny Braenne and UFO-Norway, Oct 31, 2002 |
One
heavy package (15 kilos?) crammed with magazines and books from
Mentz Kaarbø, Finn Kalvik and Braenne's own collection. We've
already sorted out the new book titles for our 'UFO folklore'
library, such as William Baldwin's CE-VI, close
encounters of the possession kind, David Fasold's The
discovery of Noah's Ark, the Danish translations of Josef
Blumrich's Kasskara book (on Hopi Indian traditions) and of the Vitko
Novi contactee case from Peru. Also a very appreciated copy of Walter
Webb's Buff Ledge book, one of the very best books on
abductions. Thanks again! |
| From
Clas Svahn, Oct 27, 2002 |
Three
packages of audio tapes, hundreds of them. This is mostly
interview tapes from Svahn's own investigations of Swedish UFO
cases. Labeled, but needs an inventory (database) and to be
cross-referenced with our UFO reports collection. We think 'TapeAvailable'
would be an appropriate field name for a new and expanded ScanCat
database. |
| From
Mats Nilsson and Enköping-Sala UFO-förening, Oct 27,
2002 |
A
much needed labeling machine. We can now quickly manufacture
self-adhesive labels (for our shelves, binders, etc) without
starting the computer and word processor. A very nice gift.
Thanks very much! |
| From
Enköpings UFO-förening |
Historical
files and economy papers, providing a detailed history of this UFO
society, now merged with the UFO society in neighboring town Sala. |
| From
Loren Gross, Fremont, California, Oct 15, 2002 |
Yet
another supplement in the UFOs: a history series: 1954 September.
France and Europe is heading for the great wave of
landings.... And yet another supplement in the series (1954:
January-May) arrived here October 31. And... a third (1954:
June-August) was found in our mailbox on November 14. A
productive man! |
| From
Willy Smith, Unicat Project, Miami. Florida, Oct 15,
2002 |
Two
copies of Smith's book On pilots and UFOs, a collection of
interesting cases from the Blue Book file and the Spanish Air Force
records, published in 1997, a title that was new to the AFU
library! Foreword by Richard E. Haines. Presents and analysis
ten cases. |
| From
the heirs of Bernd Schumann, Helsingborg, Sweden, Sept 24, 2002 |
A
collection of 84 video tapes for our video tape
reference library. For the most part the collection consists
of recorded documentaries and programs from Swedish, Danish
and German television. Also some commercial documentaries and a copy
of the German SF film Die Delegation. Bernd Schumann was one
of the early Swedish ufologists and for decades (1950's, 1960's,
1970's) the Swedish representative of the German UFO-Nachrichten
contactee-oriented magazine and a translator of Swedish reports into
the German language. Donation comes via Clas Svahn. |
| From
Berit Bergqvist, (Sept 24, 2002) |
Three file folders
of organizational materials, especially materials from Västerbergslagens
UFO-förening, a UFO-Sweden member group. Also fine additions to
our collection of newsletters 'UFO-Nytt' from that society, of
which she is a longtime member. 20 used books: one new title for our
library, several second/third library copies, five titles for
our AFU Antikvaria lists (Norwegian, Swedish, English). Donation
comes via Clas Svahn |
| From
Bill Jones, Sept
24, 2002 |
A collection of
about 250 original newspaper clippings from the National Enquirer,
National Tattler, Midnight, Globe, People and Christian
Science Monitor, received via
Clas Svahn. The Enquirer material covers the 1967-1978 period
and provides telling examples of modern UFO folklore. |
| From
Clas Svahn, Sept 24, 2002 |
Several
files of material from FOI, the Swedish Research Institute of
National Defence. 1) Copies of letters and reports to FOI (1990's up to
2002), will be integrated with our reports files; 2) Copies from a
file folder "Radar echoes" recently found at FOI (1950s -
1965), will be integrated with our reports files: 3) Copies from
file folder about unsolved metallic findings on a field in
Västergötland, 1958. |
| From
Mentz Kaarbö, Bergen, Norway, August 2002 |
Five
postal packages (about 50-60 kiloes) of magazines and books. Most
part of this donation is the result of the magazine exchange between
the Nordic UFO Newsletter, published by Nordic UFO Groups 1981-1988,
and UFO groups world-wide. The collection comes from the
newsletter's editor Mentz Kaarbö of Bergen, Norway via Ole
Jonny Braenne, chairman of UFO-Norway. Mag collection was integrated
with the AFU master collection, and updated in our database,
during August, creating also a large number of duplicates. One of
the main new acquisitions were a large number of issues of the
German CENAP Report.
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| From
Ole Jonny Braenne, Oslo, Norway, August 2002 |
Also in the boxes from
Ole Jonny Braenne were a number
of (mostly recent) UFO-related books, now added to our reference
library, e.g. Gregory Kanon: The Great UFO hoax (1997); Odd-Gunnar
Röed: Norske naerkontakter av 3.grad (1994); Gary Hyland: Blue
Fires. The lost secrets of Nazi technology. (2001); David Hatcher
Childress. Technology of the Gods (2000); Nancy Red Star: Star
ancestors. Indian wisdomkeepers share the teachings of the
extraterrestrials (2000): Edgar Allen: De waarheid over UFO’s
(Dutch book magazine, 1979?); "Flying saucers over
America" (Newsclipping archives from Steamshovel Press,
undated) and Daniel Browning: UFO propulsion report 1995. Some fine
additions! Thanks!
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| From
Dan Eklund, Växjö, Sweden, July 2002 |
AFU
supporter Dan Eklund has donated copies of the
following new titles: A.G.W. Cameron: Interstellar
communication, a collection of reprints and original contributions
(1963); Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew: Blind man’s
bluff. The untold story of American submarine espionage (1999)
(added to AFU’s submarine theme collection); Richard F.
Haines: CE-5. Close encounters of the fifth kind. 242
case files exposing alien contact (1999) and Clifford E.
Stone: UFO’s are real. Extraterrestrial encounters
documented by the U.S. Government (1997). Wonderful additions to our
library!
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| From
Bertil Schalén, Lund, Sweden, July 2002 |
Bertil
Schalén, a student of occultism and UFO cults, kindly donated
postage when we bought, at very friendly prices, two titles from his
second-hand book list: Lewis, James R. (ed.): The Gods have
landed. New religions from other worlds (1995) and Robert
Jackson: UFOs (1996). Find '' BAGS'
at: http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46117970/sales/dungeon.html
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| From
Tony Walter, Stockholm, June 16, 2002 |
Tony
Walter kindly donated some of his UFO material including a copy
of Steuart Campbell "Close encounter at Livingston"
(BUFORA publication, 1982) -- new to our reference library -- and a
collection of 33 video recordings. Donation comes via Clas
Svahn.
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| From
Loren Gross, Burbank, California, repeated donations during
2002. |
Seven
recent new supplements to Loren Gross's series "UFOs: a
history": 1952 July 21st July 31st; 1952
August; 1952 September-October; 1952 November-December; 1953 January
- February; 1953 March-July and 1953 August-December. Probably more
to come! Wonderful pioneering work!
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| From
Stefan Roslund, Stockholm, Sweden, June 16, 2002 |
| Stefan
Roslund, Russian-speaking member of UFO-Sweden, donated a
collection of seven UFO-related books in the Russian language,
complete with western transcriptions of the authors names and
titles! Will be catalogued for our 2002 book acquisition list.
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| From
Edoardo Russo, Italy, Spring 2002. |
Edoardo
Russo, CISU, Italy, kindly sent AFU copy of the Argentinean
doctoral thesis in social psychology "Psicoaxiosociologia del
fenomeno OVNI" by Roberto E. Banchs. Also
the 1990 dissertation "Flying saucers and the new
angelology: Mythic projection of the cold war and the convergence of
opposites" by Robert Pearson Flaherty at University
of California. Russo also sent a batch of copies of Chilean UFO
magazines. We owe him and the Italians a lot!
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