As a young lad, in 1960, Sören started a UFO Society, UFO-Linköping, with his father and friends. The society existed for decades, mostly as a discussion group. But Sören and members of UFO-Linköping also visited the Warminster UFO 'window' area in England in the mid-70s. We have, previously, an archive that covers most of Sören's translation work, carefully arranged by year and month of incident:

This archive will now be completed with some 38 file folders with Sören's own originals of the same translation work, as well as clippings and correspondence. The collection also included 100-150 books and a large number of magazine folders and a saucer model built by a member of the Linköping UFO society, see pictures of it all on Håkan Blomqvist's blog here.

Some of the rarer new items can be viewed in the following two pictures. On the left, all of the magazines which were completely new, including issues of UFO-Linköping's own InterPlan (in the upper left). On the right, you can see two examples from the books & booklets: Gordon Lindsay's The riddle of the flying saucers upon Ahmad Jamaludin's A summary of unidentified flying objects and related events in Malysia (1950-1980). Sören's collection also included fairly complete runs of CUFOS and ACUFOS (Australian Center for UFO Studies) special publications which make very nice additions on our library shelves.

Some of the books are written by contactees and some are translations (of Vallée, McDonald, Bloecher) from other languages. One book is a listing of rocket/satellite launches mistaken for 'real ufos'. Catalogues of Russian witness reports, the Petrozvodsk phenomenon (1977), and an expedition to the Russian 'forbidden zone' (where paranormal phenomena are frequently reported) are the subjects for others of the 'Samizdats'. The books include original sketches of Bigfoot creatures, with footprints, and of reported phenomena in the sky. All of the books are 'handmade' with photos that were glued into the books one-by-one. An extremely rare collection which we are very proud of!

When Clas and Håkan Ekstrand visited some ten researchers in the UK, at the turn of April/May this year, they also paid a visit to Philip and got (yet another) batch of very interesting materials for the AFU inventory - some of the new things can be seen below. There were also huge heaps of magazines, which will be credited to Philip in an upcoming acquisition listing, to be published later this year. This will be combined list of every new magazine from the UK and Luis Schoenherr collections. Cataloguing takes time!

Gösta Carlsson's close encounter with what he claimed was the crew of a landed saucer happened right at the inception of the 'ghost rocket' wave, in May 1946. Clas interviewed Carlsson - famous as 'the Pollen king' in Sweden - and investigated the case for many years. The final result was the co-written book Mötet i gläntan (The meeting in the glade), published in 1995, more than ten years after the investigation had started. Clas has now deposited his interview tapes with AFU. A few of them are in the picture to the left. They came as part of a larger collection of recent & old interview

This winter his son Martin made contact with the J. Allen Hynek Center of UFO Studies, where Luis had been an associate for decades, to ask them recommend a site for preservation of his father's collection. Mark Rodeghier recommended AFU and this is why we were contacted by e-mail on March 15 and soon agreed upon a transfer of the material to Sweden. The material is a donation from Martin Schoenherr while AFU has paid for packing and shipping to Sweden. The Schenker lorry with 492 kilos on two pallets arrived outside AFU on April 30.

Håkan Blomqvist and I spent four hours that evening unpacking the 17 heavy boxes. The collection now covers five shelf sections in our 'C' facility (picture below) where it will be sorted, catalogued and added to different parts of our collections. The more personal papers, including Mr. Schönherr's correspondence binders and papers connected to his own-developed computer files of international cases will form a basic Schoenherr archive. The donation to AFU also includes computer tapes and punchcard systems, many volumes of professionally bound magazines (like FSR and UFOP-Nachrichten since the very start) or magazines carefully protected in binders (like Pursuit). As work proceeds on the collection we will certainly come back with more detailed presentations.

Håkan Blomqvist is very happy with the new donation to AFU.

We are very happy with a more complete collection of this major magazine in Portuguese. At the same time we are that most of us at AFU have to be content with looking at the pictures and the nice layout, but we are certain that in the future we will be able to help some researcher with research copies of articles from this source, too. In this case AFU paid for the shipping from Brazil to Sweden, while the magazines are a donation from CBPDV and Mr. Gevaerd. This is a model that we are happy to use in co-operation with any editor who would like to see one archives copy of their magazine be preserved.