| From
Mattias "Matte" Johansson, December 2, 2003. |
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sponsor and co-worker Mattias Johansson has donated a
brand new video machine that can also handle American NTSC
video tapes.
The gift is worth 890
SEK, about USD 125, and immediately found it's natural place
along with our collection of video tape recordings. |
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| From
Ole Jonny Braenne and Odd-Gunnar Røed, Norway, early
December 2003. |
| Ole
Jonny Braenne, our Norwegian representative and benefactor
has sent us another box of books, pamplets and magazines
from his own collection (including such rare items as ten
issues of Ray Palmer's book-magazine "The Hidden
World", Valdamar Valarian's "The
Matrix", and "A model of ball lighting" by David
Fryberger, which is an excerpt from the Proceedings of a
Hessdalen conference in 1994). There was also an unbuilt
plastic model of the Roswell UFO, for our paraphernalia
department!!
Just another week later
Ole Jonny sent yet another box with documents, fetched
by him from former UFO-Norway and Project Hessdalen UFO
activist Odd-Gunnar Røed.
The contents of this box, seen in the right-hand corner of the
picture below, was mainly correspondence files, sorted by
year, from Odd-Gunnar's period of work with UFO-Norway
and Project Hessdalen. These files will be further sorted, put
into file folders and preserved with the AFU collection. |
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| From
Hilary Evans, being catalogued in November... |
| At the AFU annual meeting
on November 22, the recent donation by London author (of
books on UFOs & the paranormal) Hilary Evans,
had been sorted alphabetically into two sections of book
shelves (picture on the right), before we start the process of cataloguing.
The cataloguing of these,
sometimes very elusive, titles in foreign languages (Spanish,
Portugese, French, Russian, etc) will be immensely helped by Hilary's
previous donation of his annotated bibliography of books
in his possession (some of them now with
us!).
It was the general opinion, at
the AFU board meeting, that this is one of the most important
donations ever to our foundation. It helps us profile the truly
international (not just Anglo-American -Scandinavian)
character of the AFU collections. We plan to publish
separate lists of the book titles and magazines received from
Hilary Evans and Philip Creighton, early in year 2004.
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| Left:
A small selection of the hundreds of new titles that
will go into our international reference
library. |
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| From
Bill Jones, Columbus, Ohio, October 2003 |
AFU has started an exchange program with William
Jones of MUFON-Ohio, who collects materials for future
preservation with the Ohio
State University
UFO collection. AFU is packing a box of (mostly) European
UFO-related materials published in English - magazines and book copies
that are surplus to our needs. AFU received a collection of tabloid
newspaper materials about a year ago, and recently Bill sent us new
boxes of UFO magazines and books, such as the ones in the picture
below. We'll try to get a meaty package away to Bill and the OSU, very
soon! Thanks!
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| From
Anders Gernandt, Arboga, Sweden, October, 2003 |
Anders Gernandt, former test pilot
and member of the Swedish parliament in the 1970's and 1980's, has
donated 67 UFO-related books from his private library to the AFU
foundation. Many of his books will come handy as the second or third
copy of that title in our reference and lending library. Thank you
very much!
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| Hilary
Evans
bids a farewell to some of his books and
magazines before going to Sweden and preservation with AFU.
Photo by Clas Svahn. |
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| From
Philip Creighton and Hilary Evans, London, October
18-19, 2003. |
UFO-Sweden's Clas Svahn and Hakan
Ekstrand fetched a
car-load crammed with gifts for AFU from the archives of Gordon Creighton (managed by
Gordon's son Philip), and from the archives of UFO
author Hilary Evans. The two collections include a
combined total of about 500 book titles (e.g. a large number of
UFO-related books in Spanish) and 1.000 magazine issues.
Below: Philip Creighton. Photo: Clas Svahn.
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| From
Lisette Larkins, sales director for Hampton Roads
Publishing Co. in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, Sept 24,
2003. |
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| We bought
one of Lisette Larkins' UFO-related books
second-hand on eBay, discovered her homepage,
and started a correspondence. Lisette kindly offered to
send us her books. We've just received three copies each
of her two books ("Calling on extraterrestrials"
(2003) and "Talking to extraterrestrials"
(2002) plus seven other UFO-related books published by Hampton
Roads Publishing. All-in-all 14 pounds of new books for
our reference library, worth their costs as new, plus 54
dollars for the shipping to Sweden, paid for by Lisette Larkin
and the publishers. We are very grateful to Lisette and to the
Hampton Roads Publishing Co. This may prove to be an
example for other book publishers around the world - a way in
which you can support a worldwide library collection of
UFO-related literature. AFU accepts and catalogues
donations of all UFO-related media - in any language! |
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| From
Ole Jonny Braenne, Oslo, Norway, Sept 18, 2003 |
| Another box
of 7 kilos from our Norwegian friend and benefactor, chairman
of UFO-Norway.
Many Scandinavian titles plus Leonard G. Cramp's
"The A.T. factor: Piece for a jig-saw, part III" and
Andrew Collins' "The second coming" - a
little off-side from the UFO subject but still mentioning the
subject and thus of interest to our reference library
collection. Takk!! |
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| From
Karyn Birkett, Traralgon, Victoria, Austrlia, Sept 5,
2003. |
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We
recently asked an Australian eBay seller if we could buy her
copy of the John Pinkney / Lenard Ryzman book
"Alien honeycomb", a sought-after book which has been sadly
missing in our library. The problem was that we are in Sweden and
the seller only wanted to sell within Australia.
Replying, Karyn
Birkett, said she was willing to donate the copy to our
archives free of charge. The copy arrived early September here
and is very gratefully accepted by us at AFU. The cheapest
copy of this title we could find on Abebooks costs 22 Australian dollars so this
was really a fine gift to our foundation. Thank you so much, Karyn!
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| From
Ole Jonny Braenne, Oslo, Norway, August 21, 2003. |
| Our
Norwegian benefactor sent us another 8 kilos box, crammed with
old and new books - see some of the new titles to the
right.
Among them three copies
of "Experimental methods for studying the Hessdalen
phenomenon in the light of the proposed theories: a
comparative overview", by Erling Strand and Massimo
Teodorani. Also two copies of the American edition
of David Langford's "An account of a meeting
with denizens of another world, 1871". And... a mint copy
of J. Richard Gott's "Time travel in Einstein's
universe".
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| From
eBay sellers and Liza Marklund, April-July 2003 |
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Since
spring
AFU has been active on www.eBay.com
buying single items and book lots from the international market.
Our focus is on
getting one cheap copy of each
UFO-related title not yet in the AFU reference library,
preferably hard covers or fine ex-library copies. This is for
future preservation. As far as we know this is the only
project of this kind, anywhere in the world. So far we have bought
about 200 titles ranging from skeptical Prometheus books to
New Age titles, like the one pictured on the left.
The scheme is sponsored by Swedish success
author Liza
Marklund. More details to follow in AFU Newsletter
#46, which will be out in August 2003.
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| From
Mário N. Rangel, Brazil, July 28, 2003 |
| AFU
received a copy of the author's 2001 study of more than sixty
Brazilian abductions. This book is published in Portuguese by
the Brazilian organization CBPDV.
Thank you very much, Mario!! |
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| From
Ole Jonny Braenne, July 3, 2003 |
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Ole
Jonny's latest box crammed with goodies sorted out from his
book & mag collection. Ole has gone back to "compact
living" (a smaller flat in Oslo) so hopes are high at the
archives for more of his fine things!! In this box, everything
from Adamski books, to Uri Geller, conspiracy & cult
material & ... John Searl's "Law of squares,
truth table. The secret of the Searl technology". Plus a
lot of magazines, from Penthouse to the Australasian
Ufologist. Thanks a lot! |
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| From
Joe McGonagle and Gary Anthony (UK), July 2, 2003 |
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is the result of an exchange with two UK researchers who have
spent days copying the archives of the Tyneside UFO Society,
a group that was operating in the 1950's and 1960's. The
archive is kept at the City Library in Newcastle
where they copied about 400 pages of clippings dating from
1947 to 1968. Lots of interesting early material here,
we will try for an archives inventory to be posted at this
site! |
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| From
Clas Svahn, May 20, 2003 |
| Clas Svahn
came by for another delivery of materials. Besides the books,
pictured on the right, the archives' collection received
a copy of the Danish SUFOI's official history 1975-2000 (in
print and on a CD); a fairly complete collection of the
Swedish science fiction magazine "Jules Verne-magasinet";
and lots of other fhings. |
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| From
Mikael Sjöberg, May 2003 |
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Three books
donated by Mikael Sjöberg for the AFU library: Jay David:
"The flying saucer reader" (copy in mint condition),
Dale
White: "Is something up there?" and Yves Naud:
"UFOs and
extraterrestrials in history, volume 2". |
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| From
Anders Liljegren April-May 2003 |
| In the picture, some of the recent
second-hand books acquired for the AFU library through eBay
auctions, including Linda Moulton Howe's "Alien Harvest", Janet
Bergmark's "In the presence of aliens", Colin
Wilson's study of alien visitations; and German
studies on UFO cults and contactee cases. |
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| From
Roger Skoog and Clas Svahn, April 11, 2003 |
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Roger
Skoog is a member of the Swedish skeptics and has written
about "The photographic picture - bearer of fact or
illusion?". Clas Svahn has edited the 17th (!)
edition of his UFO encyclopedia with a 265 items Swedish
bibliography of UFO-related books. |
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| From
Mikael Sjöberg, March 27, 2003 |
Six issues of Anglo-American
newsstand magazines previously not in our files: UFO
Confidential (Fall 1981), UFO and Alien Comix (1977), UFO
Sightings (1/1993), UFO Annual (1976) and UFO Magazine (UK, issues 2
and 4, 2000).
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| From
Skandinavisk UFO Information (SUFOI), Copenhagen, March 18,
2003 |
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| The Danish Skandinavisk
UFO Information (SUFOI) - www.sufoi.dk
- has transferred their report archive (1958-2001)
to AFU. The archive was delivered by Clas Svahn, Andreas
Ohlsson and Håkan Ekstrand, members of the UFO-Sweden board,
who met Ole Henningsen, Kim Möller Hansen and Per Andersen
from SUFOI, in Copenhagen, where the archive was turned over.
With them was also UFO-Norway's chairman Ole Jonny Braenne.
Thus it was a unique 'top meeting' of Scandinavian ufologists.
The archive measures about 4-5 meters, after unpacking and
sorting into one of our free shelves. We are currently
discussing with SUFOI how we can take care of this valuable
and unique material in the best possible way. |
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| From
Ole Henningsen, Denmark, March 18, 2003 |
Two parcels of UFO magazines.
Includes some newcomers to the AFU files, such as the Belgian Inforespace
(issues 95-103) and 15 issues of the Dutch UFO Nieuwsbrief
(1999-2002).
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| From
Bertil Anders Lindblad, March 18, 2003 |
| Clas
Svahn met and interviewed Swedish astronomer / researcher Bertil
Anders Lindblad at the Observatory of Lund (www.astro.lu.se).
Lindblad donated this unique, three-volume first (1968, U.S.
government) edition of the Condon report to AFU. The library
at the observatory has two titles on UFOs in its internet
searchable catalogue, this was not one of them! |
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| From
Ole Jonny Braenne, March 18, 2003 |
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Some
of the materials found in the latest box from Ole Jonny
Braenne, UFO-Norway. |
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| From
UFO-Sweden, February & March, 2003 |
| The
year 2000 and 2001 UFO-Sweden report archives include all
of the cases received by the national Swedish report center.
The deposition will be sorted by date and added to the
15.000+ Swedish reports already in our files. |
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| From
UFO-Sweden, March 15, 2003 |
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Another batch of books bought for money earned
from the sale of Stefan Isaksson's thesis. Titles by William Corliss (left) and Curtis
Peebles (right). Also Carol A. Honey's
"Flying saucers 50 years later", Robert Galganski's
"The Roswell debris field", and a few others. |
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| From
Clas Svahn, March 15, 2003 |
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Clas
Svahn donated a few books not previously in our
library: "Awakening. How extraterrestrial contact can
transform your life" by Mary Rodwell and
"Formerly top secret: Air Force reports of encounters
between our jets and extraterrestrial vehicles" by Stephen
Bernath. |
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| From
Carl-Anton Mattsson, March 15, 2003 |
| AFU
sponsor Carl-Anton Mattsson has donated a number of books,
including three books catalogued under the CP (channeling)
code. "Resan genom evigheten" (right) is a Swedish
original by Maini Sand, detailing images and texts
claimed to have been received from alien civilizations.
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| From
German researchers Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf,
March 2003 |
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The
AFU library has a received a gift copy of this German book,
which includes the author's theories on a very mixed bag of
subjects: human consciousness, new physics,
anti-gravitation, genetics, the 1908 Tungus phenomenon, UFOs
and UFO abductions. Main classification for our library will
be NP (physics). Check up the author's web site for more
info: http://www.fosar-bludorf.com
Parts of their web site is in English and well worth a
visit.
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| From
Swedish folklorist Ebbe Schön, February 2003 |
| Wellknown
Swedish folklore researcher Ebbe Schön has donated - via Clas
Svahn - a copy of his book on folklore in the Swedish nature,
in translation: "Fairies, trolls and talking trees".
The book includes chapters on heavenly signs, ghosts, fairies,
trolls, dragons and other spirits of nature well-known in popular belief. A welcome
addition to the TF classification (i.e. folklore) in our
reference library. |
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| Exchange
with Luc Bürgin, Switzerland, February 2003. |
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AFU
has donated copies of Swedish books to Luc Burgin, in exchange
for a copy of his book "UFOs über der Schweiz" published
in 1999. The book has a catalogue of Swiss UFO cases, and
chapters on the UFO files of the Swiss Air Force (with an
appendix of document copies), cases from the Swissair airline,
and, of course, a chapter on Switzerland's own UFO-cult
legend, Billy Meier. |
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| From
Fundation Anomalia, Feb 14, 2003. |
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donation of issues 19/20 and 21 of Cuadernos de Ufologia
completes our collection of this Spanish magazine title,
published annually, or semi-annually, in book size. |
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| From
UFO-Sweden and Stefan Isaksson, Feb 6, 2003. |
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Stefan Isaksson's
dissertation "New religious UFO movements. Extraterrestrial salvation in
comtemporary America" (see AFU Newsletter # 40) was printed by
UFO-Sweden and sold through Bob Girard's Arcturus Book Service.
The sales brought in a net that UFO-Sweden (through Clas Svahn) has
used to buy relatively new books for the AFU reference library. The
first batch of new titles was brought to us on Feb. 6 and has already
been catalogued to the collection.
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| From
Clas Svahn, Feb 6, 2003. |
Clas Svahn has donated a number
of new items from his vast collection, including: 1) an almost complete collection
of OMNI Magazine 1979-1995 (picture); 2) correspondence files including
his contacts with two Swedish contactees (1991-2002); 3) six
UFO-related book manuscripts (published / unpublished); 4) a
documentation of the Project 1947 web site; 5) a file about Sveriges
UFO-Klubb, a shortlived south-Swedish UFO group; plus.... many prints of
material available on the Internet.
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| From
Tony Walter, Feb 6, 2003. |
Clas Svahn and Andreas
Ohlsson brought the latest batch of gifts to the AFU library and
archives. From Tony Walter, an Englishman living in
Stockholm, who recently donated a large number of video tapes,
came another large collection of magazines including many BUFORA
magazines and newsletters.
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