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Recent donations 2008 -
thanks for your very kind support!
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From Ole Henningsen,
Söllested, Denmark, early May 2008. |
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Henningsen is one of the most well known Danish UFO
researchers, a
SUFOI
(Scandinavian UFO Information) veteran, who personally
met George Adamski in 1963! He has skillfully
investigated and re-investigated a large number of
Danish and international cases, mainly photo cases.
Ole mailed us that a
bus tour to Finland would have him sleeping over one
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would leave a box full of materials which he had sorted
out of his personal collection.
Håkan Blomqvist
fetched the box over to the archives and we have made a
preliminary sort (May 6). The material includes a number
of books and many international magazines (see picture),
some of them 'completely new' to our inventory, such as
the MARCEN Journals on the right.
The heavy box also
included a large number of Scandinavian clippings, and
other materials, not pictured here. This material will
be sorted by country and will eventually enrich our
collections by nation and/or language, where
appropriate. Ole promises us more materials from
Denmark. The short hours Ole spent in Norrköping this
time did not allow for a face-to-face meeting, but we
hope we can meet personally in connection with a
delivery in the future and give Ole a tour of the
archives. |
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From Tony Eccles, Exeter,
UK, March 2008. |
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The front
cover of this book is a little dark to reproduce but
hopefully you can see the two triangular objects
hovering just under the heading. A different sky -
unusual sightings and strange phenomena over Merseyside
(2003) is a relatively new book kindly donated to AFU by
it's author,
Tony Eccles, who is a curator of etnography with
the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery
in Exeter.
The 127 page book
documents mostly UFO-related phenomena along the Mersey
River, and is a nice companion to Hough & Randles'
previous Mysteries of the Mersey Valley
(1993) which was already on our shelves. |
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We noted A different sky in
issue 47 of the AFU Newsletter and now finally got a copy of it
for free. Some interesting stories in it, including the local
abductions and MIB visitations that, seemingly, you can find in
almost every corner of the world.
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From Stefan Ohlsson, during
2007 |
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AFU Newsletter #45 Andreas Ohlsson reviewed
this Swedish book in more detail. This is the second
copy in our library catalogue, kindly donated by
Stefan Ohlsson, who sent us an email in
December 2007, asking if we were interested in the copy.
Of course we were!
This is one of a few
local Scandi-navian books that marginally mention the
subject of Scandinavia's ghost rockets. We are sadly
lacking a deep and thorough study of this phenomenon.
Much of the time and other resources that should, maybe,
have gone into such a study (and a study of the 1930s
ghost fliers) has gone into building of the AFU library
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title is (translated) Beyond the horizon, Sweden's
aerial reconnaissance against the Soviet Union in
1946-1952. The ghost rocket incidents
provided an early incitement for building a specialized
and very secret Swedish reconnaissance organization
against the Soviets and the book tells this story,
mentioning the ghostly rockets only on some opening
pages (21-22), of the first part. |
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From Kalevi Mikkonen,
Rovaniemi, Finland, January 2008. |
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One of
our returning Finnish contributors is Kalevi Mikkonen,
who recently sent us 17 kilos of materials, mostly in
the Finnish language, but also in German and English.
On the left, upper row,
copies of the first three issues of the long-running
yearbook published by Suomen Ufotutkijat; then
seven booklets and books on ancient (astro-)archeology
in German & English; a couple of videos; John Mack's
book on Abduction and, finally Harper's
Enyclopedia of mystical & paranormal experience.
Below, Finnish
magazines on ufology, astronomy and skepticism, that
came from Kalevi in the same parcel. |
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From Mikhail Gershtein, St.
Petersburg, Russia, January 2008. |
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We do not know whether to
call this a donation or an acquisition? We shall soon
have to open a new page under the new heading Recent
exchanges!
Our friend Mikhail
Gershtein, who really lives very close to us, but
yet 'in another world', across the Baltic Sea, is a
tireless exchange partner. This winter we sent him a 15
kilo parcel of MUFON UFO Journals from our
'archive of doubles'. On the right you can see some of
the materials Mikhail has reciprocated with. Below the
title pages of yet another unique book we've gotten from
Mikhail: the very first Czech book on UFOs authored by
Joseph Fleissig, in 1969. |
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From Acke Svensson,
Karlskoga, January 2008. |
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From Carl-Anton Mattsson,
Nyköping, January 2008 |
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left, three books donated by Carl-Anton Mattsson,
one of the proprietors of
Parthenon, a book publishing company and book shop.
The coffee-table sized book Speglingar av det
förflutna (Reflections on the past) is a basic book
about (conventional) archeology that will fill a place
in our "A" section of the new library, along with a
number of more fantastic archeological ideas. On the
right, AFU's Håkan Blomqvist and Carl-Anton
Mattsson (right) as a few of the "oldtimers" in Swedish
ufology met at AFU on January 8. (Photo by Bevan
Berthelsen).
We made a deal with
Parthenon whereby Swedish books, donated to AFU, and
which are beyond the library's requirement, will be sold
second-hand by Pathenon's antiquarian department
here and 70 % of the profit will go back to AFU.
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From Staffan Kihlström,
Stockholm, January 2008 |
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Does
books about Scientology - the modern religion started by
L. Ron Hubbard - have a place in a serious UFO research
library? With a broad horizon on the subject it does!
The one previous title on scientology that we have in
the AFU library, Have you lived before this life?,
is a witness to the obvious connections. It is full of
references to past-life stories about adventures where
people believe they have been flying about in space, in
flying saucers.
The Swedish ground-book
on scientology, on the left, has been donated to AFU by
Staffan Kihlström, workmate of Clas Svahn. The
book will be welcome on the 'RC' (Religion / Cults)
shelf of our new library. |
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From Clas Svahn, Järfälla,
Sweden, January 2008. |
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Svahn is a frequent visitor, 'collection-scout',
researcher and donor to the AFU archives. Clas is a
journalist, chairman since 1990 of
UFO-Sweden, the national research organization,
and also the vice chairman of the AFU board. His
(usually) quarterly car-loads of heavy materials, which
he has fetched along his tours all over Sweden and
Scandinavia, from retiring, or deceased, ufologists/researchers/forteans
provide us with much work and joy!
On the right, a number
of the most recent books and booklets he personally
donated to our collection on January 8, 2008. The photo,
on the left, taken in the archives, was shot on the very
same day by UFO-Sweden's previous chairman
Bevan Berthelsen. |
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