The kind of material that is 100 % perfect for our library!!

The Hilary Evans collection of small booklets, documents, document collections, articles, etc. have been sorted and catalogued to our media & book library (where possible) for future retrieval. A listing of the 176 items from Hilary Evans in 2006 can be found here.

Other parts of the Hilary Evans "red boxes" will be added to our collections of clippings, magazines, magazine articles and working papers from UFO societies world-wide. This will all make the material much more retrievable for research.

First seven books in the Reader's Digest series Quest for the unknown.

UFO's: the continuing enigma, Unsolved mysteries of the past and Bizarre phenomena all include references to UFO's.

We often see these books in more or less complete lots on sale at eBay but have refrained from them due to the heavy cost of shipping to Sweden.

We also received...

Beyond the basic needs of the AFU library, which is two copies of each edition for preservation, we will soon put up about a dozen extra copies for sale on eBay to generate funds, possibly for next years' tour to Britain, when the Bords have promised us more materials from their gold-mine. To further increase the sale value of the books they were all signed by the two authors!

Included are issues of the title Saucer Forum, published first in the early 1960s by David C Jones and in the mid-1960s by Jimmy Goddard. Also photo copies of old magazines like Enigma, Axminster Light Centre Newsletter and MAPIT Skywatch to make our previous holdings of these newsletters more complete!

The donation included British. American and Canadian magazines, some of them well known to us, some completely new!!

Some of the goodies received from Ole Jonny can be seen in the picture on the right:

First in the row, a great collection of UFO Newsclipping Service's that was reported upon on our Magazine collection: USA L-Z page, only a few days ago. Now for the second part (and.. more to come!) - material that goes into our book collection, see the picture on the left.

Includes three non-UFO titles (published in 1961, 1967 and 1979) from Hilary Evans' busy pen (or type-writer, or computer..). We have a library classification LU (other books by UFO-related authors) that cares for this kind of books. The blue booklet in the upper row, The moving statue of Ballinspittle, was written by Lionel Beer, another recent donor - see below.

During their tour of Britain, Clas Svahn and Anders Persson visited Lionel Beer on November 23 and got a number of magazine items as gifts for the AFU archives, including copies of several publications that Beer has been involved with as the editor.

The stack included TEMS News (picture) which is a total newcomer in our files. Published by the Travel and Earth Mysteries Society this newsletter is nowadays edited in digital format as eTEMSNews. The paper issue seen in the picture to the left includes Lionel Beer's own "anecdotal history of BUFORA", the national group of which Beer was the first chairman.

Semic are the publishers of Clas Svahn's series of books including Det okända (The unexplained. Superna-tural phenomena in Sweden and the world, Sept. 2006) and Sekter och hemliga sällskap (Sects and secrets societies in Sweden and the world, to be published March 2007). Det Okända (below) has already sold 12.000 copies, which is an excellent result for a Swedish non-fiction book.

We have already catalogued about a dozen new books in Finnish, German, French and English related to astro-archeology, ufology & science fiction, and also a fairly complete set of the Finnish astronomical magazine Tähdet ja avarus (Stars and space), all in all 74 issues from the 1986-2002 period.

This magazine is published by the URSA Astronomical Society. It is particularly valuable since it includes a large number of colorful photographic shots of Russian satellites being launched from the Plesetsk base across the border from Finland; and also other very fine pictures of mundane sky phenomena.

Philip Creighton donated seven UFO-related books from the Gordon Creighton collection bookshelf, including the pictured two French titles - new to our library.

Our library catalogue  lists some 50 titles & editions from Jenny, or from author teams where she took part.

In the picture above (unfortunately somewhat blurred) some of the fine gifts, including a probably unique original edition copy of Elizabeth Wilcox's book on Mu (translated into Swedish in 1964 by Parthenon). All the books have now been catalogued as very welcome additions to the AFU library. Carl-Anton Mattsson has also donated 850 SEK destined for our new acquisition of compact shelves.

On November 15, Clas Svahn unloaded the first contingent of materials from Kalevi's collection.

Clas Svahn brought to AFU parts of the Mikkonen book collection (titles mainly in Finnish and German, see picture), but he had also with him Kalevi Mikkonen's clipping collection (see the Clipping collection: Scandinavia page) and a number of other gifts, collections & goodies, which will be reported here during the coming weeks!

We are in a little bit of a hurry to get all this material into our catalogs and archival systems, to free space at the area for incoming materials. We need it for further collections expected to be fetched by Clas Svahn and Anders Persson from the UK, and Norway, during this coming week. The two ambassadors   for AFU will go on a tour by car that will cover Sheffield, Manchester, London, Wales, Newcastle and Oslo.

Ole also kindly included a copy of the latest Norwegian book with a UFO-relationship: Ingen fremmed fugl   (Not an alien bird) by Norwegian contactee Bitten Pedersen (portrait below). The book is self-published (only 500 copies) with a beautiful cover (see right). It concerns Bitten's psychic / telepathic contacts with a space alien named Sasha. Bitten is writing yet another book on her contacts.

Starting this summer we have begun to catalogue the video collection (more than 500 tapes by now), a rather tedious and time-consuming project.

Several of them are completely new on the AFU library shelves. Helmér's previous donation was in April (see below).

In the picture on the right some of the new books, magazines & videos now added to the collection. We also hear from Norway that Ole Jonny is trying to secure yet another fine donation from one of the "old" Project Hessdalen investigators, so the stream of fine materials from our neighboring country will not stop!

Feindt specializes in UFO cases where UFOs arise from, or dive into, waters, or cases where UFOs are generally spotted close to waters. We Swedes could perhaps add another dimension to Feindt's studies with our "ghost rockets" (starting in 1946 and returning regularly almost every year as singular cases), which had, and have, an odd ability to put on shows over Scandinavian inshore lakes, often diving into the same with no trace left for the Swedish military to uncover (despite prolonged dive searches). 

The excellently well-kept copies will be used to complete our library collection and for sales to bring in money for new acquisitions to AFU.

On April 21 UFO-Sweden's chairman Clas Svahn met his Finnish counterpart Tapani Koivula (pictured to the left) in Stockholm, and the two agreed to a continued cooperation.

In the lower row (picture on the right) are Koivula's own two books, the one on the left a fiction novel with a title that translates as "Messages" .   In the upper row a book by Esthonian ufologist Igor Volke (left) and (right) a book titled "100 UFOs in Finland"   by a Finnish team headed by Tapani Kuningas, the editor-publisher of Ultra

We might think that many of her photos probably have common explanations, such as airplane lights, but the book gives very little information to really judge that from. This case - or cases - obviously needs a local investigation by an open-minded researcher.

Thank you Venda for donating a preservation copy to AFU of both the book and a CD with many of the photos in digital format.

Borgny Tingstedt also kindly transferred the audio tapes to eight CD discs for our collection.

The face, and all of the things on our table, have been donated by Bill Jones, via Clas Svahn. The paraphernalia will decorate and liven up empty spaces in our library shelves, awaiting a place in our future UFO folklore museum. ;-)

From left to right: UFOt ja tiedemiehet   by Finnish ufologist Björn Borg ("UFOs and the scientists", printed in just 100 copies, why not an English edition of this international compilation of no less than 1.650 scientists speaking on the UFO question? - however, an English translation of the author's similar, previous compilation "UFOs and astronomers" may be underway in the US!);

Extraterrestrial contact  - what will it mean for humanity?  (a Fund for UFO Research paper edited by Richard Hall), UFO - a special dossier with new insights  (according to Clas one of the worst   UFO documentaries ever produced), Nick Redfern's Body snatcher's in the desert   (alternative to ET to explain Roswell), the Swedish Innanför cirkeln (includes long essay on early Swedish 'contactee' Emanuel Swedenborg) and Giant UFO in the Yukon territory  by Martin Jasek (very interesting Canadian case study).  Clas Svahn also brought with him a number of other recent donations to be presented here within the coming weeks (when we have had the time to review the material and make proper presentations).

The Gross booklets have been a monumental achievement with, if I counted correctly, 112 volumes representing about 9.600 pages of reproduced texts and illustrations. AFU is missing one of the latest editions which must have been lost in the mail from the US.

The Gross series is a world-wide chronicle of the UFO era, from 1896 up to, and ending with, 1963.

This was an excellent offer. Mikhail is the chairman of the Russian Geographical Society UFO Investigation Commission   and an editor of the well-known magazine Nexus  (Russian edition). We have now received the first parcel from Mikhail (see picture above), a second and third are on their way to Sweden, and several parcels of UFO-related spare books in English have been sent across the Baltic to St. Petersburg. It seems trans-Baltic shipping takes a lot longer than trans-Atlantic shipping from the US but who cares as long as the material arrives safely?

Mikhail transcribes cataloguing data for each book, magazine, and news clip, and includes this with the material. It is then shipped to AFU associates Clas Svahn and Stefan Roslund in Stockholm. The latter knows the Russian language and has long worked as UFO-Sweden's correspondent with the former Eastern Bloc countries. From them the material will go to AFU for sorting, cataloguing and preservation with our world-wide collection. We are looking forward to a great exchange!

Two early Arcturus prints of Loren Gross 's UFO's: a history ; a complete collection of the four issues of the Italian-international UFO Phenomena   magazine; Richard Haines' Observing UFOs ; M. Minnaert's The nature of light and color in the open air; Randall Fitzgerald's The complete book of extraterrestrial encounters   (an annotated bibliography); Robert Boyd's International who's who in ufology    (1988); Two hardcovers by Robert Collyns; Brinsley le Poer Trench's The Eternal subject  ; and Arthur Bray's Canadian Science, the Public and the UFO.  All great books for our reference library!

The parcel also included Bibliovni, a bibliography on a CD disc, with scans of front pages of hundreds of French media. This is an excellent addition to AFU that will help us in our work of establishing a reference library of world-wide UFO-related literature.

Mr. Gomez also sent a copy of his own Appatitions insolites en Occitanie , which is a spiral bound 131 page booklet of regional folklore from the French province of Tarn, as compared with modern-day ufological tales (in the spirit of Vallée's Passport to Magonia). Regional UFO studies of this kind is especially valued by AFU!