Isaac Koi - New Uploads

Andrew Collins has kindly given me permission to upload his "Earthquest News" newsletter and the related "Supernaturalist" publication.   

Andrew Collins is described on his website as "a science and history writer, and the author of over a dozen books that challenge the way we perceive the past. They include The Black Alchemist, The Seventh Sword, From the Ashes of Angels, Gods of Eden, Gateway to Atlantis, Tutankhuman: The Exodus Conspiracy (co-authored with Chris Ogilvie Herald), The Cygnus Mystery, Göbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods, The Cygnus Key: The Denisovan Legacy, Göbekli Tepe and the Birth of Egypt and Denisovan Origins: Hybrid Humans, Göbekli Tepe and the Genesis of the Giants of Ancient America, co-authored with Greg L. Little".

One issue of "Earthquest News" stated that Earthquest was an "Essex based organisation set on promoting and studying the subject known commonly as the earth mysteries, the paranormal, and new age thought". 

That issue stated that "among the topics covered are paranormal manifestations, unusual phenomena, ancient and mystical sites and buildings, mythology, folklore, esoteric history and philosophies, understanding the mind, and developing and utilising psychic abilities". 

Issues also included material on UFOs, psychic questing, consciousness, synchronicity and Alien Big Cats. 

Scanning has, as is often the case, been done by the AFU in Sweden.

Copyright is retained by Andrew Collins and the contributing authors for EarthQuest News.

Click on the image below for the folder containing scans of "Earthquest News".

"Earthquest News" is at:

http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Earthquest%20News%20(Andrew%20Collins)/

"Supernaturalist" is at:

http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Supernaturalist%20(Andrew%20Collins)/

Allen Greenfield's "Alternate Horizons Newsletter" was dedicated to the "AR Theory" (i.e. the "alternate reality theory", which suggested that there is "some sort of 'door' between realities" and that UFOs are merely a part of this phenomenon.  

Someone contacted the AFU in Sweden recently and raised the possibility of scanning some of the UFO newsletters published by Allen Greenfield. I thought it may be helpful to post a reminder of the material that I uploaded a few years ago after Allen Greenfield kindly gave me permission to upload scans of his publications.

Those were:

American UFO Committee Review

Owlexandrian Initiate

Ufology Notebook

UFO Sighter

Paraufologist, The

Look-See

"Le Grand Contact" was a French UFO magazine, directed by Jean-Pierre Prevost in the early 1980s.

Jean-Pierre Prevost has passed away, but another French researcher Patrice Seray knew him and is sure that Jean-Pierre Prevost would fully agree to its dissemination to all.

I am grateful to Patrice Seray for providing that information and also scans of this publication, which I have now uploaded to the AFU's website.

Click on the image below for a link to the relevant folder on the AFU's website.

In 2018, I uploaded searchable PDFs of issues 1 to 13 of "Flying Snake : A Journal of Cryptozoology, Folklore and Forteana" with the permission of its editor - Richard Muirhead. Richard has now kindly agreed to my uploading issues 14 to 20 (and helpfully provided PDFs of these issues).

My personal focus remains on UFOs, but I'm happy to help those in the cryptozoology/fortean communities by getting more scans online (if relevant permissions can be obtained).

If any cryptozoology/fortean can get (or give) relevant permissions, just let me know. I can probably get scans done. Heck, I'm happy to send out further permission requests as well if those in the cryptozoology/fortean have recommendations for any newsletters or magazines in their fields that I haven't dealt with yet.  Also, of course, if anyone in those fields has done any scanning then I'd like to hear about that as well (either here or by email at isaackoi@gmail.com), since I don't want to spend my own time reinventing the wheel or cause anyone else to waste their time.

More cryptozoological newsletters and magazines will hopefully be online this week (although I'll be spending most of my spare time on UFO material). The cryptozoological newsletters covered so far are:

Alain Blanchard has kindly given his permission for me to upload "Ovni Marne" and "Mysterieux Objets Celestes" (Groupement Marnais Lumerieres Dans La Nuit - GMLDLN). 

Many thanks to French researcher Patrice Seray for liaising with Alain Blanchard and also for providing scans of most issues of this publication.  

Patrice and I will seek to fill in the gaps, but some of these issues are rather rare.  (I will try asking SCEAU).

"La Revue des Soucoupes Volantes" was published in France by Michel Moutet between 1977 and 1979. but this magazine was interesting because it was not affiliated to any particular group or opinion. It was published with professional means and sold on newsstands.

I have now created a folder for UFO newsletters and magazines from Uzbekistan. I have uploaded 2 sets of newsletters from there "UFO Chto Gde Kogda" and "UFO Mif ili Realnost". 

I have also uploaded some more newsletters from Belarus ("UFO za i protiv") and from the USSR ("Neopoznannoye v Karelii").

My thanks once again to to Ukrainian researcher Igor Kalytyuk and Russian researcher George Fedorovskiy for their advice and help liaising with UFO groups in Eastern Europe (and to Igor Kalytyuk for also supplying relevant scans).

I still have a lot more people to contact in, and a lot more to upload from, Eastern Europe but I'll probably focus on France for most of my (limited...) spare time tomorrow.  I already have a bit of a backlog of French material to deal with and some interesting related possibilities have also arisen with GEIPAN. :) 

Following the uploading last week of Russia's main UFO magazine ("Anomalija", with thanks to its editor for giving me permission for that upload), and the uploading earlier today of another 3 sets of Russian newsletters ("Chetvertoye Izmereniye", plus "Aura Z" and "Vestnik UFO"), I'm pleased to have been able to also upload today the following further 8  Russian UFO newsletters :

1. Echo Potustoronnego (Ufologists Club Penza)
2. Koltso Velikogo Svecheniya
3. Kosmicheskiy Vek
4. Novuy Vodoley
5. Stalker UFO (UFONIKS)
6. Terminator
7. Tonnel (AIAUFO)
8. Tonnel XXI (AIAUFO) 

With thanks to Ukrainian researcher Igor Kalytyuk and Russian researcher George Fedorovskiy for their advice and help liaising with UFO groups in Russia (and to Igor Kalytyuk for also supplying relevant scans), I am pleased to upload 143 issues of "Chetvertoye Izmereniye" of the Yaroslavl UFO Study Group, plus copies of "Aura Z" and also "Vestnik UFO" of the Moscow Independent Ufology Society.

These Russian newsletters will be followed by more from Russia and the USSR (and various Eastern European countries) in the very near future.

As more and more foreign UFO groups/researchers are joining my informal network, the pace of the scanning project is rapidly accelerating. Other possibilities for advancing UFO research are also being explored. My door is always open to further potential collaborations (time permitting...).

Work on sharing automated translations is also progressing, but this involves addressing some programming/AI issues.

Click on the image below for a link to the Russian folder I have created on the AFU's website.

"Paranthropology" describes itself as the "journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal". The members of Paranthropology's Board of Reviewers include numerous academics from fields that include anthropology, sociology, consciousness studies and psychology.  

I don't think I have seen any other publication in relation to the paranormal which has had as many academics apparently involved in its production.

The editor of that magazine, Dr Jack Hunter, has kindly given me permission to make copies of this publication freely available in the online archive that I have been helping develop.

Since my primary interest is in material relating to UFOs, I note that this publication has included UFO articles by some familiar names (including Thomas Bullard, Jean-Michel Abrassart and Jason Colavito) in addition to some material by various academics. 

More details about "Paranthropology", including the latest issues, can be found on its website.

Click on the image below for a link to the relevant folder I've created for these issues in the AFU's online archive.

 

With many thanks to German UFO researcher Danny Ammon for help liaising with various German UFO groups, I obtained permission some time ago to upload all the issues of GEP's magazine JUFOF that were older than 5 years.  I uploaded the first 200 issues of JUFOS at that time. Danny has now told me that I can also upload issues from 2013 to 2015 (maintaining the initially negotiated permission of uploading issues more than 5 years old).  The uploading of issues beyond a certain age allows UFO/Fortean groups to maintain exclusive access for its members to the latest information, while sharing a lot of older material freely on an online archive. I'm currently hoping to persuade a large Fortean group in the UK (ASSAP) to at least adopt a similar model if it is not willing to upload all its journals for free access. Heck, I may even have another try at persuading MUFON to release some material.

Also, Ukrainian UFO researcher Igor Kalytyuk has told me that I am now free to upload the Czech UFO newsletter "Bulleten EEAPPR", the newsletter of the Eastern European UFO Association.

I have added this material to the folders I created on the AFU's website for magazines from German and the Czech Republic respectively.

If I can find the time, I'll also upload more material from Russia later today.  I'm also hoping to obtain further permissions today to upload more material from the USA and Canada. 

Click on the link below for a list of the folders currently covered in the online archive of newsletters. (I'm working with the same informal network of 100+ UFO researchers/groups on a similar list of folders in relation to an online archive of official UFO documents from around the world).

Barry Greenwood has kindly scanned several issues of the "CAPRI News" newsletter published by the "Committee on Aerial Phenomenon Research Investigations" in the 1960s.  

The President of the "Committee on Aerial Phenomenon Research Investigations" was E J Minasian.  

This newsletter appears to be extremely rare and even the collections of Barry Greenwood, the AFU and others are incomplete.  As always, I will try to fill in the gaps. 

Volume 1 No 6 contained (at pages 5-6) a "CAPRI Exclusive", being a copy of the purported letter from Robert F Kennedy to Gray Barker dated 9 May 1968 in which Bobby Kennedy purportedly stated that he was "a card carrying member of the Amalgamated Flying Saucers Association" and that he was in favour of "more research regarding this matter".  Antonio Huneeus wrote an article entitled "Bobby Kennedy and UFOs" in 2010 which discussed whether this purported letter was a hoax by, or on, Gray Barker. (Anyone familiar with Gray Barker reading the relevant purported letter would have the same question...). I'd be interested in the background to this purported letter is more information is available. As some of you know, I have a fondness for Gray Barker and the UFO antics of him and some of his friends.

The newsletter contained a statement that the content could be reproduced, so I have made the scans available online.

Click on the image below for a link to the folder containing the existing scans.

"The Bent Spoon" was an online magazine between 2011 and 2015, founded by Nicholas Callis and Bobby Nelson.

"The Bent Spoon" was created in an attempt to address the divide between "the believers" and those "more skeptical in nature".  The introduction to "The Bent Spoon" commented that "the true believers rarely, if ever, embrace a skeptical attitude or ask tough questions of their community; instead preferring to surround themselves with like- minded individuals that reinforce their own belief systems", and the skeptics "likewise, promote science and critical thinking largely to those already open to it, or who are active participants in the skeptical community". "The Bent Spoon" was intended to be "a skeptical magazine for the true believer" with articles "critical of both believers and skeptics alike".

That polarisation between "believers" and "skeptics" within the UFO/Fortean communities (and the tendency towards researchers merely participating in echo chambers) is something that many other researchers (including myself...) have commented on over the years.

I think it would be fair to consider that "The Bent Spoon" tended more towards the skeptical end of the spectrum, but it was a noteworthy in that it least attempted to try to bridge the divide between "skeptics" and "believers" (to adopt the terminally used in that publication).   

A blog in relation to "The Bent Spoon" currently remains online and the various issues are scattered through the posts on that blog.   However, the Facebook page for "The Bent Spoon" seems to have closed over the last few years and I do not know if "The Bent Spoon" blog will remain online indefinitely. I therefore thought it making copies of this publication freely available in the AFU's online archive in a format that makes it easier to download a full set of searchable PDFs.  

I am grateful to Bobby Nelson for kindly agreed to this.

Click on either of the images below for a link to the folder containing a set of "The Bent Spoon" magazine.

Back in 2014, before I started uploading material to the AFU's website, Clifford Stone kindly gave me permission to upload searchable PDF versions of a number of "Special Reports" that he circulated relating to his requests for UFO documents under the Freedom Of Information Act (e.g. in relation to Project Moondust) in 1990s.

In 2014, I added the material to one of the free file storage websites that I used at that time to show that protests by some well-known UFO groups that they could not share material because they could not afford to pay to host UFO material were, well, rather feeble given the availability of free storage.  

Anyway, I've now added those Special Reports to the collection on the AFU's website that I've been helping to coordinate in recent years.  

The relevant "Special Reports" include:

Clifford Stone Special Report 1 - UFO Recovery Operations

Clifford Stone Special Report 2 - UFO Military Confrontations

Clifford Stone Special Report 3 - Operation Blue Fly

Clifford Stone Special Report 3a update supplement (January 1995)

Clifford Stone Special Report 4 - Military Radar Visual Cases

Clifford Stone Special Report 5 - UFO Technology

Clifford Stone Special Report 6 - Air Force investigation of UFOs

Clifford Stone response to Air Force Report on Roswell

Incidentally, Clifford Stone also gave me permission in 2014 for me to upload a DVD that he was distributing with further UFO documents.  Sadly, at that time none of the people to whom Clifford Stone  mentioned he had supplied a copy of that DVD was able/willing to transfer a copy of its contents to me (and Clifford Stone's posts on Facebook etc have been increasingly sporadic since 2014). I may try again to get a copy of that DVD soon.Click on the image below for a link to the folder containing these Special Reports.

The equivalent of 11 large boxes of the Swedish magazine "Sokaren" ["Seeker"], over 350 issues amounting to about 3.5GB, are now online. 

From its beginning in 1964 until almost its final issue in 2008, "Sokaren" was published by Svens Magnusson. Another Swedish researcher, Hakan Blomqvist of the AFU, has said that he remains "impressed by this unique cultural magazine which is an outstanding source of articles" about various topics, including the New Age, ufology, parapsychology and religion. "Sokaren" is "invaluable as a source of the neo-spiritual movements and views of life of the late 20th century".

Hakan has said that Svens Magnusson "always published both sides posts in a debate". Sven Magnusson's "balanced but critical sharpness irritated many and he received numerous criticisms from both believers and skeptics".

The "Cosmic Awareness Communications" or "Revelations Awareness" newsletter contained a wide range of New Age topics, with material on from channelling, the occult, satanism, channelling, Edgar Cayce, remote viewing and many other topics - including UFOs and aliens.

Most of the material was purportedly written by "Interpreters" that "interpret the energies as they see them in trance levels", with "Cosmic Awareness" being "the Force the expressed Itself through Jesus of Nazareth, the Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed, Edgar Cayce and other great avatars who served as 'Channels' for the 'Heavenly Father'".

This publication expressly permitted (and encouraged) reproduction.

Searchable copies of 600+ issues have now been uploaded to the AFU's website.

Click on the image below for a link to the relevant folder.

Most UFO books published in the last 70 or so years have now been scanned, as have most UFO magazines/journals/newsletters - at least in relation to material in English.  Huge quantities of English-language official documents from various countries and newspaper cuttings about UFOs have also been digitised.

Many of the main foreign-language UFO magazines have also now been scanned. However, this material is less readily assimilated by many UFO researchers (including myself) that are limited to fluency solely in English.

As some of you know, during the last few years I have been experimenting with using artificial intelligence software for various purposes in relation to UFO material (e.g. creating a UFO investigator chatbot, automating the creating of transcripts of 50,000 UFO podcasts and analysing a UFO database).  The pace of this work is somewhat slowed by the fact that I'm a just a lawyer with an interest in some technical/logic issues rather than an IT professional...

I'm currently exploring the use of artificial intelligence tools to - among other things - create automated translations of scanned foreign-language UFO books and magazines.  (Not all of us have the resources of a Robert Bigelow, able to hire people to translate foreign material for us or to write summaries of European/Russian cases and studies).

Anyway, a German skeptic kindly agreed to make his book on Roswell available online.

Danny Ammon,  a knowledgeable German UFO researcher, has described Uli Thieme's "Roswell - Ein UFO Mythos sturzt ab" ["Roswell : A UFO Myth Crashes"] as "the best source on all things Roswell in German".  

First published in 1997, more recently Uli Thieme gave permission for a second edition of his book to appear on the German "UFO Info" website.  I have now kindly been given permission by Uli Thieme to make the book available on the AFU's website as well (with many thanks to Danny Ammon for his passing on the relevant permission).

Since my German is, well, rather limited I thought I'd include this book in my current experiments with automated translations and make it available online with the German original.  

I'd welcome any comments on the (imperfect...) translation and, in particular, any pointers to any existing tools for large-scale automated translations of foreign material that could be used to translate a further sample of, say, 10,000 or 100,000 pages of foreign UFO documents/magazines.

(Personally, as with the couple of million pages of automated transcriptions of UFO podcasts and UFO documentaries that I've previously shared, I think that the results of the automated translation are useful mainly as an additional aid to locating relevant material).

Click on the image below for a link to the German original and the automated English translation of Uli Thieme's book "Roswell - Ein UFO Mythos sturzt ab" ["Roswell : A UFO Myth Crashes"]

Stanislav Ermakov has very kindly agreed to let me make scans of Russia's main UFO/Fortean magazine ("Anomalija" - sometimes referred to in the West under its translated title of "Anomaly" or "Anomalies") freely available online.

This permission was obtained during an interesting discussion accompanied by considerable quantities of Stanislav Ermakov's very tasty (and rather strong...) home-made apple brandy.

Stanislav Ermakov also kindly provided me with scans of a full set of "Anomalija".

"Anomalija" was originally published with the support of ITAR-TASS (the Russian state news agency) from 1990 to 1998. It was continued by Stanislav Ermakov and the Association of Ecology of the Unknown. A supplement to the main magazine, "Anomaly+", was also subsequently introduced.

In 2016, publication of "Anomalija" ended.

One of Russia's best informed researchers of the history of UFOs/parapsychology, George Fedorovskiy, kindly facilitated my discussions with Stanislav Ermakov. George has commented to me that "Anomalija" was, for a long time, Russia's "main popular scientific journal regularly published completely devoted to the study of anomalous phenomena". George added that the main focus was on UFOs, but that parapsychological topics were also included in each issue. He mentioned that the magazine "covered the life of a large post-Soviet community of researchers of unusual phenomena, talked about past conferences, the results of expeditions and research conducted".

I've now created a folder for UFO/fortean newsletters from Poland. The first entry in this new folder is the English-language UFO newsletter of NPN Poland, with my thanks again to Ukrainian researcher Igor Kalytyuk for providing a copy and letting me know I can upload this.  (I'm starting with an English language item, due to my own bias...).

Igor Kalytyuk has also provided me with over 200 issues of the Czech newsletters "KPUFO Informacni" and "KPUFO Informacni sdeleni ", which I have converted to PDFs for ease of access/searching. Some background on KPUFO can be found on its website at http://kpufo.eu/.

Click on the image below for a link to the list of folders for the various countries now covered by the online archive. 

"Azimut Zahad" and the "Informacni bulletin" of KPUFO SK (both Slovakian UFO newsletters) have now been added to the AFU's online archive. 

Thanks again to Ukrainian researcher Igor Kalytyuk for providing copies of these newsletters and letting me know that I was free to add these to the AFU's archive.

Click on the image below for the new "Slovakia" folder I've created today.

Igor Kalytyuk, a prominent Ukrainian researcher, has helpfully provided me with copies of the newsletters of the Czech group UFO Club Zlin and told me that I am free to upload them.

Ann Atkins and her family operated "the world famous Gnome Reserve and Wild Flower Garden" in Devon, England from 1979 until 2020. The gnomes were then relocated from the Reserve to the Merry Harriers Garden Centre, Bideford, North Devon. 

During the 1970s-1980s, Ann published the "Gnome News" newsletter. It contained news about the Gnome Reserve, folklore about Gnomes/fairies and quite a few jokes, puns and cartoons about Gnomes. 

A prominent member of the Fortean community asked if "Gnome News" could be scanned. The AFU in Sweden helpfully scanned 7 issues.  

Ann Atkin has kindly given me permission to upload "Gnome News", which are now at the link below.

I connected with Jim McClarin on Facebook today and, as some of you might guess, immediately asked him for permission to make his "Manimals" newsletter freely available online. Jim took that slightly abrupt question in good cheer and he promptly gave his permission.  

The first issue explained that the "Manimals Newsletter" ("MN") was "intended to distribute available information concerning the investigation of reported unclassified human-like creatures such as the Yeti of the Himalayas, the Kakundakari of the Congo basin, the Almas of the U.S.S.R., and the Sasquatch or Bigfoot of North America, etc".

With thanks to Jim for his permission (and thanks, once again, to the AFU in Sweden for the scans), Jim McClarin's "Manimals" newsletter is now online.

Earlier this year I contacted various leading cryptozoologists to enquire whether there were any cryptozoological newsletters that they considered would be worth preserving and sharing online as searchable PDFs, if relevant permissions could be obtained.  While my own interests focus primarily on "UFOs", I'm happy to help coordinate a bit of scanning/uploading among the wider Fortean community.

Some of those cryptozoologists did not reply at all. Tut, tut. [Only kidding. They had no obligation whatsoever to give up their time by responding. Also, I'm not as well known among serious cryptozoologists as I am among serious UFO researchers...]. 

Of the cryptozoology researchers that did respond, most mentioned the International Society of Cryptozoology's journal "Cryptozoology" and the related "ISC Newsletter" - both of which I addressed earlier this year (subject to a very small number of gaps, which I still hope to fill if there is any interest among the cryptozoology community).

Also mentioned by a significant number of those that responded was Mark A Hall's "Wonders" newsletter.

When I raised the matter of permission to make "Wonders" freely available online, one of those cryptozoologists that had kindly responded, Loren Coleman, mentioned that he already had the "sign off" from the late Mark A Hall. Loren also indicated that he supported my efforts to get more cryptozoological newsletters online.

So, with thanks to Loren Coleman (and, of course, to the AFU - which once again has scanned an entire set of this publication) "Wonders" is now online at the link below. 

An archive of Mark A Hall's former website can be found at:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100311081913/http://home.att.net:80/~mark.hall.wonders/

Paul Bennett has kindly given me permission to upload scans of his "Earth" newsletter.  This was described in some issues as a publication of "Paganism, Fortean & Earth Mysteries". It was published by Paul in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s.

Paul had previously given permission (along with Martin Dagless) for me to upload their UFO newsletter, WYUFORG News.

Once again, the scans have been done by the AFU in Sweden.

Alan Cleaver has kindly given me permission to upload scans of his "EVP Newsletter", which was devoted to "Electronic Voice Phenomena".

Alan Cleaver published EVP Newsletter when he was a teenager. Alan no longer has an interest in EVP but mentioned to me that "there's probably some important historical information in there - not least a letter from EVP pioneer Friedrich Jurgenson; quite a scoop for a wannabe journalist".

Alan Cleaver went on to become one of the founders of ASSAP. 

The AFU in Sweden has helpfully scanned most issues of this newsletter. A few gaps remain (particularly issues 1-4). As always, I'd welcome hearing from anyone that can help fill in the gaps.

The searchable scans are at the link below.