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Recent donations 2005 -
thanks for your support!
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From the board of the Danish SUFOI
(Scandinavian UFO Information), December 27, 2005 |
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The second parcel
with materials from the SUFOI library (see also below!).
To the left, first row, three
Danish titles in the Erich von Däniken / astro-archeology genre.
Second and third rows, five very rare German editions from the
late 1950s by the Swiss Karl Schönenberger Verlag: "Botschaften
aus dem Weltall" by the contactee 'Karl
Michalek' (Franz Weber-Richter) and four titles
on psychic Ashtar-Sheran contacts by Herbert Victor Speer.
In the lower right a Norwegian booklet on the contactee (?)
experience of Angus Napoleon Olsson on the Faeroe
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right, a number of other sample books from the SUFOI collection,
including: Clouds of the world by Richard Scorer;
How to investigate UFOs by Bernard O'Connor; A
hardbound issue (volume 3 no. 1) of the Japanese magazine The
Flying Saucer Phenomena (1996) (left front) and a very rare
copy of Peter A. Sturrock's Report on a survey of the
membership of the American Astronomical Society concerning the
UFO problem.
A full listing of all new titles
/ editions from the SUFOI Library donation can now be found on
the Book Collection page.
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From the author Jan Bertil Heilund,
the spring of 2005 |
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related to the UFO subject do not "grow on trees", especially
here in Scandinavia!! In the spring of 2005 we received this
thesis, in book form, from the author, Jan Bertil Heilund.
The thesis was defended on May 20, 2005, at the University of
Bergen (Norway).
"Tensions, synthesis and
spirituality in the Norwegian UFO movement, especially
exemplified by the world outlook of the organization NETI"
would be our own translation of the title. As far as we can find
out there is no precise English translation, nor English
abstract, provided by the author, so you will have to do with
our own amateurish translation! |
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The thesis
focuses on the author's "inside" study of NETI, a
Norwegian counterpart of Steven Greer's CSETI group,
from which it has inherited a New Age-related outlook.
Comparison is made with more science-based, skeptical
Scandinavian groups like UFO-Norway, UFO-Sweden and
SUFOI. The author uses a wealth of materials, much of it
from the Internet plus interviews. |
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believers view themselves as members of a galactic
fellowship. This is a new type of identity and a new
kind of self-understanding created by a contemporary
mythological innovation". |
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From the board of the Danish SUFOI
(Scandinavian UFO Information), December 15, 2005 |
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Late in 2004 the
board of the Danish national group
SUFOI
decided to disband with their old library of UFO-related books
(mostly materials from the 1960's and 1970's), due to
limitations of space. AFU had the happy opportunity to make
priority bookings from a library list, before parts of the
library were offered on sale to the SUFOI membership.
The remaining about 30 items have
now been donated to AFU. Some new titles are catalogued in the
AFU collection. They include (pictured on the left) two editions
of William Corliss's Sourcebooks; Schaut empor! -
the German edition of Ray & Rex Stanford's early
contactee book; two booklets on the art of writing scientific
treatises; A Spanish UFO book by Fabio Zerpa; a German
UFO-related fiction book, |
| Mein Freund vom
anderen Stern, by Jak Lang; and a Health Research
reprint of Keely and his discoveries by Mrs.
Bloomfield Moore (originally published in 1893). All of them
just great additions to our ever growing library. Thank you so
much! |
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From Sven Andersson, November 19,
2005 |
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Falköping, Sweden, has donated yet another batch (compare March
2005 below) of about 25 books to the AFU library.
To the left some of the new
titles or new editions included with this gift to AFU. Thank
you so much, Sven! |
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From Clas Svahn, November 19, 2005 |
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Clas
Svahn recently visited Switzerland on an interview tour for his
newspaper, where he met - among others - astronaut Edgar
Mitchell and author Erich von Däniken at the
inauguration of Däniken's theme park on astro-archeology. In the
picture a selection of contemporary German language books Clas
found in a local Swiss book store and donated to the AFU
reference library. |
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From Anonymous donor in the
Stockholm area, arrived here November 19, 2005 |
| An anonymous donor
has turned over, to Clas Svahn, a collection of about
25 UFO-related books in excellent condition and 15 video tapes
(see picture). As usual the collection will be refined and
needed copies added to the AFU book and video libraries while a
few (not very many in this lot) will be put on sale. Thank you
so much! |
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From Juan Manzanares, August 28,
2005. |
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UFO-Sweden member
Juan Manzanares phoned us last winter and offered to
donate his UFO collection, before moving back to the warmer
zones of his (once) home country - Spain. Juan Manzanares
has, for decades, been a member / field investigator of
UFO-Sweden, particularly it's member groups in Falun and
Västerbergslagen. |
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Manzanares collection finally arrived at AFU on August
28, having passed through the hands of Gudrun Andersson,
Clas Svahn and, finally, Håkan Blomqvist.
Picture above: First half
representing UFO literature in Spanish, including 62 books and
hundreds of UFO-related and New Age magazines. |
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Second picture: Second half, literature in English (61 books
including a bound volume of NICAP's The UFO Evidence,
early issues of IUR, UFO-Quebec, Skylook
and MUFON UFO Journal, etc), and in Swedish (35 books,
many magazines). The collection also holds correspondence,
organizational files and clippings. Clas Svahn is processing
that part of the donation, which will arrive here later. A
magnificent donation! |
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From EcceNova Editions,
Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 2005 |
| A Ph.D. title does
not guarantee academic quality and critical sense, particularly
- it seems - when issued by American universities.
Robert Trundle received his Ph.D. from the University of
Colorado (known for Edward U. Condon's skeptical study in the
1960's). How "Is E.T. here?" could "make a study of
them [the UFOs] more acceptable for scientific,
philosophical, and theological considerations" is beyond me.
The book relies heavily on sources such as MJ-12, Corso, Lazar
and anything else from the American rumor and conspiracy
machines to, supposedly, build a case for scientific acceptance
of ET. We are pleased to have this book in our reference library
but that's as much as can be said about this otherwise sad
presentation. No reviews of this on amazon - which does not
surprise me.
Anders Liljegren |
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From Boris Jungkvist, June 2005 |
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Helge Jung
was Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish military forces
1944-1951 -- times of 'hardware war' and cold war. The AFU
library recently acquired - in the collection received from UFO
author Boris Jungkvist - a copy of this biography of the
commander of the Swedish military forces in the year of ghost
rockets and the first years of the 'flying saucers'.
UFOs are never mentioned here,
despite Jung's personal sighting of a crashing 'ghost
rocket' from his summer cottage in the archipelago. The book
draws heavily on Jung's journals, but never mentions his notes
about the sighting and the subsequently ordered submarine
investigation, by the Swedish Navy, of the crash spot. The AFU
UFO report archives has a file folder of documents and
investigations related to this search. |
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From Jean-Luc Rivera, France, May
2005. |
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exchange with Jean-Luc Rivera (against a couple of
surplus copies of Loren Gross's booklets) we have
received the Volume III (2004) of his excellent annual
compilation of fortean essays from all corners of the world,
La
Gazette Fortéenne. Volume III includes articles by
forteans like Chris Aubeck, Michel Meurger, Loren Coleman,
Peter Brookesmith, Karl Pflock, Richard Haines, Hilary Evans,
Marc Hallet, Robert Durant and Paolo Toselli.
Subjects range from lake monsters to remote viewing and, of
course, UFOs.
Non-French readers are
enlightened by five pages of English abstracts at the end.
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From Pia Andersson, April 2005 |
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Pia
Andersson, who studies and writes
about archeology at the University of Stockholm, helped us
receive a box full of free copies of this book, "Between
Thomsen and Däniken - discordant discussion on alternative
archeology". Edited by Pia, and Stig Welinder, it was
published in November 2004 by
Bricoleur Press and
has 12 academic essays that cover the problems of non-academic
archeology from the academic viewpoint, with emphasis on Swedish
archeology.
One bit of criticism: why the small print?
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From Sven Andersson, Falköping,
Sweden, March 2005 |
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Andersson owns one of Sweden's most comprehensive
collections of UFO books. Sven has been an AFU associate since
the mid-1970's. He has now donated almost 200 extra books from
his collection. Although most books are well-known for us, some
titles that provide new copies for our reference library are
pictured to the right, including Willy Wegner's two-book
history of Danish ufology, UFOer over Danmark (upper
left). |
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From Hilary Evans, London |
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With
the new century, the publication of Fortean Studies has
come to a halt and we also note that
The Anomalist has become a "free PDF download"-only
publication, but here comes a new French series of the same
kind, in the good old printed format, and with
essays by Forteans on Fortean subjects, from Bigfoot to UFOs in
history. |
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Jean-Luc Rivera, of the series
La Gazette Fortéene, with whom we have just established
a trade agreement with surplus materials from AFU against copies
of volumes III and IV of this annual publication.
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From Editions Aldane, Cointrin,
Switzerland, January 2005 |
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Editions Aldane,
a publishing company in Switzerland, managed by Alain
Stauffer and Daniel Benaroya, sent us a nice Christmas
package with the company's production --- an excellent
initiative for other publishers to follow --- to help us build
an international reference library of UFO-related literature.
In the package came two titles on
the Ummo story, the second being a CD-ROM with the third
part of Jean Pollion's book (parts 1 & 2 are in the
printed book). Also a copy of Shi Bo's
book on UFO kidnappings and disappearances from the mainland of
China. All in French. Merci bien! |
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From Antonio González Piñeiro,
Spain, February 2005 |
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Spanish benefactor sent AFU the 2nd edition (January 2005) of
this excellent bibliography of the UFO literature in Spain. 184
pages in A4 size, lists alphabetically all UFO-related books
published in Spain from 1954 and up to 2005 with colorful
reproductions of 300 covers. Includes myriads of details, from
ISBN numbers to an indicator of how much of each book concerns
"our" subject. Statistics & graphs, a chronological
cross-reference list, and a section of books in Spanish
published from other countries (South & Middle America, mainly).
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through the donations from Hilary Evans, the AFU reference
library are the proud owners of copies of 240 UFO-related books
in Spanish. This bibliography makes a wonderful tool for us! We
are very proud to own copy #20 out of a total print run of 25...
Bibliographies certainly aren't mass market productions! |
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From Loren Gross, Edoardo Russo
and Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, January - February 2005.
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Loren Gross from Fremont, California continues to
produce his booklets on the rich international(although mostly
American) UFO history. Recently AFU received yet another
donation of his two latest books (123 and 141 pages) in the
UFO's: a history series. The two new books cover the year
1960.
Loren's scarce booklets have
become attractive, produced as they are, in very limited numbers
and with a non-commercial distribution by the author to
interested parties. AFU has lost some copies, probably in the
mail from California, throughout the years. |
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| One was
the 1957: August-September book, which we have now
acquired original & copy of through the help of Edoardo Russo,
CISU,
Italy and Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos,
Foundation Anomalia,
Spain. |
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From William Wise, Norfolk, Virginia,
January-February 2005. |
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Another very valuable historical
project, with which AFU has started an exchange, is the
Project Blue Book Archive,
initiated by William Wise. The project produces scans of
microfilms from the U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book
(which ran between 1947 and 1969 and documented more than 12.000
cases). The microfilms are now digitized and stored on CD-ROM
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CD contains 400dpi scans of all images from one roll of
microfilm and costs $9.95.
AFU used surplus copies of Loren
Gross booklets (received in recent donations) as exchange
objects to acquire the first ten discs (in the picture). The
U.S. National Archives material on Projects Blue Book & Sign has
previously been stored on microfilms (of which AFU has about 115
rolls), but will now also be available in the more handy PDF
format. |
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From Liza Marklund donation,
early 2005 |
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AFU recently bought
Science fiction book review index, 1923-1973 and
Science fiction and fantasy book review index, 1980-1984,
both edited by H.W. Hall. The two thick volumes contain
tens of thousands of references to SF books, but also a number
of references to reviews of UFO-related literature. We also
recently bought An index to science fiction book reviews in
Astounding/Analog 1949-1969, Fantasy and Science Fiction
1949-1969 and Galaxy 1950-1969. Some of these SF magazines
are in the holdings of our magazine collection. |
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