In the top picture 60 kilos (130 pounds), 659 items in all, received from Rod, crowned by the rare and expensive very first issue of Fate Magazine. Second picture shows the file of UFO Newsclipping Service's and the third photo originals and copies of the rare early Fortean magazine Doubt, all received from Rod Dyke. Great acquisitions! 

Included were two new skeptical books published in Norway (see our Recent books section for more details); three New Age / ancient archeology books by Elisabeth van Buren; 'Swedish Folktales & Legends'   by Lone Thygesen Blecher and George Blecher; 

This time he has donated a series of eleven booklets produced by the QDW Australia movement,, writings copyrighted between 1992 and 1997. 

To the left 'UFO and the human civilization',  edited by Xi Yongjun, an uncritical presentation of second-hand data on UFOs, some of it even from American tabloid articles.  To the right, also an uncritical exposé, 'Meetings with flying saucers / PM of extraterrestrial life in the 20th century', edited by Zaoyu Feidie.  Excellent examples of how the international UFO folklore now spreads to millions of people in the East.  We can also see that printing techniques in mainland China (these books are from years 2000, 1998 and 1997) have not reached 'western' quality. Pictures are very badly reproduced, sometimes just dark spots. 

Added on February 15:  This past week AFU got the 98th and 99th booklets in the series: "Supplemental notes" (for 1959) and a binder "Materials received too late to be included in the original editions or in the supplements", sort of a supplement for the supplements. The latter ends with a listing of all the 99 titles published in the series. We are sadly missing three   of the booklets (covering parts of 1956 and 1957). This is absolutely basic stuff!! Great achievement!  

Added on February 21:  In an email to AFU, Loren Gross writes, modestly: "To give credit where credit is due, the vast majority of the good stuff in my monographs was due to the efforts of people like Barry Greenwood and Jan Aldrich.  The only claim to fame I may have is the sorting, typing, & printing (plus paying the cost).  The real strength of my history series has been the extensive quoting of original material regardless of copyright.  That fact forbids commercial publication. Researchers (for whom the monographs were meant) prefer the original text (I might add that when I express my own opinion in the monographs, I'm not always right!)". 

The CD includes 101 recordings and more than 8 hours of MP3 files related to ufological people & topics, from the Orson Welles episode, before WWII, up to the Killian and Gill cases in 1959. Being eager to bite my teath into this huge material, I must try immediately to restore the sound system in my PC that crashed some time ago!  I am particularly curious about "Ghost rockets of 1946" an interview with Sven Ahman... Sounds extremely interesting to a Swede!  Thanks so much, Wendy!!!  AFU would need "a Wendy of our own" to care for, catalogue, and digitize our 2.000+ audio recordings, many of them probably fading away on low-quality audio cassette tapes from the 1960s & 1970s.