Saturday, July 31, 2021

Civil exchanges between skeptics and ufologists - Rendlesham-incident.co.uk forum (2006-2011) - PDF archive online

The Rendlesham-incident .co.uk forum operated between about 2006 and 2011. It was one of a limited number of forums on which skeptics and pro-ETH ufologists had (generally...) civil exchanges. It focused on the Rendlesham UFO incident(s).

The individuals that posted on that forum included various prominent Rendlesham researchers and witnesses. For example, John Burroughs posted on there in August 2011 that "this was a good forum to be on I enjoyed the exchanges".

Unusually, that forum also attracted some prominent skeptics. (Most UFO forums and groups are echo chambers, with only similar views being tolerated by many members...). For example, Ian Ridpath, posted in August 2011 that he had "a lot of fun", "learned a few things" on that forum and that "Although things got tetchy at times they never descended to the levels I see currently on the Justice for the 81st site, which now seems to be populated by the deluded, the dishonest and the plain demented".

That forum went offline in 2011. Thousands of posts about Rendlesham were (temporarily) lost. It appears that the binary code episode resulted in a substantial loss of serious interest in the Rendlesham incident. When I contacted one of the moderators of that forum in 2012 with a request for permission to upload an archive of that forum, he advised me not to waste time on the Rendlesham incident.

About a year after the forum went offline, one of the old members of the Rendlesham-incident.co.uk forum, “Daniel”, kindly took the time to provide me with a copy of the archives of the posts to that forum. I found the archive very useful and converted most of its contents to PDF format to make it easier to access and search (as I have done with the archives of various other UFO email discussion Lists, including UFO Updates).

The administrator's final posts on his forum (in a thread entitled "'Goodbye' - the forum's fate "Important"), indicated that he was keen for members to download a copy of the posts on the forum and try to keep the forum online.  

I thought many other people interested in the Rendlesham Forest Incident could find it useful to have a copy of the archive so shared it online in May 2012 as a PDF archive and a HTML archive via a free file sharing website. (I used a free site back then, mainly to demonstrate that the protestations by some UFO groups that they couldn't share UFO material online without more funding or technical assistance were - well - bollocks).  

Laurent Chabin subsequently let me know that he had helpfully uploaded the html archive to the ufowaves.org website (at which each page can be easily viewed online without downloading the entire archive).

For those (like me) that like to have a searchable offline PDF archive of material, the PDF archive can now be found by clicking on the image below.







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10,000+ pages of skeptical UFO discussion - James Easton's "UFO Research" forum (1999-2004) - Now online as searchable PDFs

James Easton was a Scottish UFO skeptic that operated the "UFO Research List" ("UFORL") between 2001 to 2004 , which was basically for informed UFO sceptics to discuss various issues/cases. Those skeptical discussions tended to be more detailed than the discussions of UFO issues on more recent skeptical forums like the James Randi JREF forums.

The posts to the UFO Research List included some of the most detailed public skeptical examinations of Rendlesham, Kecksburg and various other UFO incidents. Participants included many of the leading UFO skeptics of the early 2000s.

Those posts were archived on a public forum on the Yahoo Groups website in html format (with a rather horrid search interface). All content on Yahoo Groups has unfortunately since been deleted, including that archive of UFORL posts.

James Easton repeatedly posted his "housekeeping" rules which stated: "The list archives are *PUBLIC* ...".

I think that post, and other material posted by James Easton, implied permission to share material from UFORL elsewhere. I’ve tried contacting James Easton for about a decade to confirm my inference before posting a PDF archive I’ve created of posts to his group. Over the years, I've used email addresses supplied by various people and attempted to contact James Easton about this by posting in Joe McGonagle's Ufologyinuk List and contacting Ian Ridpath and others. I mentioned on Facebook and elsewhere in 2014 that no-one seems to have been in touch with James Easton for quite a few years. He may have passed away a few years before that. I posted in 2014 that I was tempted to share a PDF archive of UFORL posts to enable efficient/effective searches by other researchers, but would have prefered to have his express blessing.

Since another 7 years have passed without my being able to contact James Easton and no one has objected to my inference that James Easton impliedly gave permission for posts to be shared, and would have wanted to see this material shared and disseminated, I have now uploaded the relevant PDFs I've created. These PDFs total over 10,000 pages.

(Archived email versions of these posts were kindly supplied to me by Italian researcher Edoardo Russo about a decade ago).

By the way, in case anyone else wants to create their own PDF archive of relevant posts from Yahoo Group posts, I’ll post below the text of macros I created to tidy up the archived email versions of the UFORL archives for post-2001 and pre-2001 material respectively before converting them to PDFs.  The results are imperfect, but much more readable than the raw archived format of the emails.

Click on the image below (of James Easton) for a link to the folder containing these PDFs:








Macro to tidy up Edoardo Russo's copy of James Easton's List archives
for 2001 onwards:
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Macro to tidy up Edoardo Russo's copy of James Easton's List archives
for 1999-2000 onwards:

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Friday, July 30, 2021

New folder for UFO newsletters from another African country - "Contact (Rhodesia)" (early 1970s) now online

I have now created a new folder for UFO/Fortean newsletters and magazines from Rhodesia, adding to the (limited) material from Africa in the existing folders for Zimbabwe [which includes Cynthia Hind's "Afrinews"] and South Africa [which includes "Approach, "Skywatch", "Aquarian News", "Contact South Africa" and "Southern UFO News"].

Even among the informal network of over 100 UFO groups and researchers that assist in the scanning project, further material from African countries is very, very slim.

The first (and potentially only) UFO newsletters/magazines that I can currently upload from Rhodesia are two issues of the brief "Contact (Rhodesia)" newsletter.

This particular branch of Contact International no longer exists, but I have previously obtained permission from Contact to upload its newsletters.

The two available issues are now online, thanks to scans by the AFU in Sweden.   

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



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Thursday, July 29, 2021

"Dead of Night" magazine (UK, 1990s-2000s) - UFOs, paranormal phenomena, nocturnal entities, ghosts, cryptozoology and witches

"Dead of Night" magazine was a magazine published by Lee Walker in the United Kingdom in the 1990s-2000s.  It stated that it was "Merseyside's Premier Publication Dealing With All Forms of Paranormal Phenomena".

This magazine included articles about UFOs, paranormal phenomena, nocturnal entities, ghosts, cryptozoology and other Forteana.

In an editorial in the first issue, Lee Walker explained that the magazine "seeks to explore ALL realms of what we might term, for want of a better description, 'Strange Phenomena'". He stated that this included ghosts and apparitions, weather anomalies, corn circles and occult crimes, vanishing people, combustion and curses and jinxes and "just to round things off" a very long list of other Forteana.

A sense of humour is obvious in the editorials and the selection of some of the material covered in the magazine. One of the more lighter items in this magazine was a collection of "The Cosmic Joker's Latest Pranks", including articles about part of a man's penis being sucked off by a vaccuum cleaner and a "groom killed by stripper's boobs". 

Lee Walker has sadly passed away but his wife has kindly given permission for me to upload his magazine. She commented that Lee would have been flattered.

Once again, this publication has been scanned by the AFU in Sweden.

Click on the image below for a link to the folder containing the searchable scans of this magazine.




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4 more sets of South African UFO newsletters now online - "Skywatch", "Aquarian News", "Contact South Africa" and "Southern UFO News"

I have previously posted about the paucity of African UFO material online.  As many of you probably know, Cynthia Hind's Afrinews is already on various websites (including in the Zimbabwe folder of the online archive I've helped create in the last few years) but  until now there have been very, very few other African UFO newsletters online.

I've now uploaded another 4 sets of South African UFO newsletters, namely "Skywatch", "Aquarian News", "Contact South Africa" and "Southern UFO News".

I have added these newsletters to the South African folder, which already contained Edgar Siever's "Approach" (mentioned in one of my previous posts).

Each of these was published by Contact International (South Africa).  That branch of Contact International no longer exists, but I have previously obtained permission from Contact to make their newsletters available online.  

A touch of impatience can be detected in some of these publications, such as Elizabeth Klarer's "Contact South Africa" newsletter of November 1977, which stated "As far as I am concerned, I'm sick and tired of having to put Flying Saucers across to the ignorant public".

I'll turn to UFO material from other African countries soon. Any help getting relevant permissions would, as always, be welcome.

Once again, these scans were all provided by the AFU in Sweden. I haven't found any group in Africa yet that has an interest in preserving or disseminating UFO material. 

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




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"Approach" - $150 per issue on Amazon - rare early South African UFO newsletter (1950s-1960s) - 24 issues online

Some people have previously debated why UFO sightings appear to be rare in Africa and Asia, but without seeming to bother seeking out any African or Asian sources and material regarding UFOs (or at least not sharing any such material online). Speculating before obtaining data is a bit, well, frigging stupid.

More politely, as put by the great Sherlock Holmes (okay, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...), “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”

So, I've recently been seeking out UFO source material from Africa and Asia.

Before posting some new scans, I'll just mention again one relevant newsletter : "Approach", published by South African ufologist Edgar Sievers in the 1950s-1960s. This is a rather rare publication, with single issues on sale on Amazon for about $150 each.

One seller on Amazon has commented : "Something new and different, even for the churning and seminal UFOlogy/spirituality time period of the 50s: UFO's from a South African / Tibetan Buddhism perspective".

Scans of 24 issues are freely available at the link below, scanned by the AFU in Sweden.

Under South African copyright rules, copyright expires 50 years after the authors death. I have not found any references to Sievers (or any family) after about 1960, so presume he died more than 50 years ago. I also think, given the content of several statements in his newsletter, he wanted it made freely available.

One of Edgar Siever's editorials commented on some of the problems on ufology in the 1950s - with comments that could be echoed in relation to the UFO community today.





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








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59 issues of "Folklore Frontiers" (Paul Screeton, UK) - urban myths, rumours, conspiracy, forteana

Paul Screeton has kindly given me permission to upload issues of his "Folklore Frontiers" newsletter.

As the title of the newsletter suggests, this newsletter focused on folklore.  One issue states that the magazine covers "primarily contemporary legend (i.e. urban myths), ancient and modem traditions, rumour, conspiracy, forteana, modem culture and belief, mostly clipped from the press and commented upon here".

I have previously uploaded other material edited by Paul, including "Ancient Skills and Wisdom Review", "Terrestrial Zodiacs Newsletter" and "The Shaman" and relevant issues of "The Ley Hunter" - all of which are in the UK folder I created on the AFU's website.

The AFU in Sweden has scanned issues 1 to 60, with the sole exception if Issue 38.

PLEASE NOTE: Pictures of scantily-clad / topless women are common on the cover of this newsletter.

Click on the image below for a link to the folder containing issues of this publication. 




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"Malaysian UFO Bulletin" (1980s, Malaysia and southeast Asia) newsletter now online

The "Malaysian UFO Bulletin" was published in the 1980s by Ahmad Jamaludin, the author of several UFO books - including the recent "UFOs, Earthquakes and the Straight Line Mystery: The Answer to the UFO Enigma" (2021). 

This newsletter focused on UFO sightings from Malaysia and southeast Asia.

Material on UFO sightings from Asia and Africa are, for whatever reason(s), a relatively small part of the material currently available online (including in the online archive that I have been helping to create in the last few years).  I have recently been trying to address this by seeking to get permission to upload more material from these regions. However, I have been finding it very difficult to find knowledgeable people in large parts of these regions that have an interest in preserving and freely disseminating UFO material.    

Ahmad Jamaludin has kindly given me permission to upload his newsletter. Scans have, once again, been provided by the AFU.  (At least one issue is currently missing, but I hope to fill this gap soon).

I have added this newsletter to a new folder (in relation to Malaysia) on the AFU's website.

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




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Wednesday, July 28, 2021

"APRO Bulletin" (USA) - 250+ issues - High quality scans

APRO (founded by Jim Lorenzen and Coral Lorenzen) was one of the most prominent early UFO research groups.

In 2011, Richard Heiden and the Open Minds website helpfully made scans of many issues of APRO's "APRO Bulletin" available online (supplemented with a second batch subsequently uploaded). The original upload on the Open Minds website was accompanied by a brief article which provided some background for anyone unfamiliar with APRO or the APRO Bulletin (with some minor inaccuracies in its comments regarding APRO's files).

Some issues of the APRO Bulletin were unfortunately missing from the scans released on the Open Minds website and the scans were imperfect.

Back in 2015-2016, I therefore looked into obtaining a better set of scans.

I found that sets of the APRO Bulletin had been scanned by the AFU in Sweden, SCEAU in France, CUFOS in the USA, Open Minds in the USA and other UFO groups/researchers - but held in private.

Due to overlapping private efforts by various UFO groups/researchers that they were willing to share with me, I ended up with 8 different copies of some issues of the APRO Bulletin.

(This was the main stimulus for my seeking to do a bit to help coordinate scanning and dissemination of UFO material within the UFO community, which has subsequently paid pretty good dividends by placing an emphasis on obtaining permission to share material online so that the private reinvention of the wheel was reduced...).

As a result of the various separate scans, I was able to put together a set of the APRO Bulletin which fills in various gaps in the Open Minds collection and I think has a significantly better quality than the set their team kindly shared online.

Incidentally, I also changed the file names of each issue from the various scans provided to me to make it easier to organise the material and combine/compare different scans. (I realise that discussing file-naming may be boring to some of you but, trust me, spending time renaming the files is even more boring. But without sensible file names, even more time can be wasted looking to find relevant material in the future...).

The bulk of the scans in this collection were produced by the AFU in Sweden. Some gaps were filled by SCEAU in France and by Rob Swiatek in the USA.

No gaps in the collection are obvious in relation to the period _after_ "Volume 1, Issue 1" (and no gaps in the relevant list have been identified by Barry Greenwood, Mary Castner of CUFOS, Rob Swiatek, Rod Dyke or other collectors/researchers that kindly responded to my requests in 2016 for them to check if they had any further issues).

However, in relation to the period _before_ the "Volume 1, Issue 1" of July 1952, I and others noted that page 2 of that issue includes a section entitled "The Editorial" that begins with the following material that refers to earlier issues:

"As we go to press (or should we say mimeo) this July 15th, we have decided that it would be on­ly proper to renumber the bulle­tin issues beginning with this one, and call it Volume I, Number I, inasmuch as the old system of ditto has been discarded and we now have a mimeograph machine at our command". So far, no-one I've contacted has said that they have any of issues before "Volume 1, Number ".

Rod Dyke was able to find some further information in his "Laimon Mitris correspondence file". (Laimon Mitris corresponded with Coral Lorenzen/APRO, Adamski, Scully, Bender, Barker, et al). He found the following information regarding the earlier bulletins:

[1] A letter from Coral Lorenzen to Laimon Mitris dated June 30, 1952 noted "We have no back bulletins to issue, but the July 15th bulletin is a big one and a review from January 1952, will be included". It therefore seems that the earlier issues date back to at least January 1952.

[2] The same letter from Coral Lorezen stated "...and have purchased our own new mimeograph machine, and are looking forward to the day when we can have the bulletin printed."

[3] A 3 page undated ditto copy of the APRO Constitution noted: "Article thirteen: APRO BULLETINS: The bulletins which to begin with, will be semi-monthly, will consist of two major parts: FACT and THEORY." (NB: Rod Dyke thought she probably meant bi-monthly)

Rod Dyke also noted that the July 15, 1952 bulletin editorial (on page 2) referred after talking about the old ditto to "... the lack of disc news prior to April ...". Rod wondered whether this a reference to an April bulletin, or an March/April bulletin?

Rod Dyke's feeling was that the bulletins may have started in January 1952 and restarted with the July 1952 renumbering; thus if bi-monthly, we may be looking for just 3 ditto issues [Jan/Feb, Mar/Apr, May/Jun].

In any event, if anyone has any issues before "Volume 1, Issue 1" then I, and several others, would be delighted to hear about it.

(Since no one has seemed to object to the APRO Bulletin being on the Open Minds website, or the improved scans quietly being released on the AFU website a few years ago, I think it is probably okay for me to draw the availability of this resource to the attention of the UFO community).

Click on the image below for a link to the folder containing this set of the "APRO Bulletin".




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"Wild Places" newsletter (Kevin McClure, UK - "fairly sceptical, but ever-hopeful") featuring leading authors on UFOs, crop circles, NDEs etc now online

 

I have previously uploaded several of Kevin McClure's newsletters, including his "Abduction Watch", "Common Ground", "End Times Bulletin" and "Alien Scripture". Those newsletters are now joined by scans his "The Wild Places" newsletter.

Topics covered include UFOs, the paranormal, Near Death Experiences and crop circles. 

Kevin described himself in one issue as being "fairly sceptical, but ever-hopeful" and most of the articles in this newsletters are fairly sceptical.

Authors of articles in this newsletter include any names well known in relation to those topics, with a bias towards UK researchers. They include Jenny Randles, Martin S Kottmeyer, Andy Roberts, Peter Hough, Susan Blackmore and Hilary Evans (in addition to articles by Kevin McClure himself).

Most issues include a fairly extensive list of other newsletters that had been published on these topics recently, with Kevin McClure's comments on them. 

As I mentioned when uploading his other newsletters, Kevin McClure has not been active in ufology for many years. He gave John Rimmer of Magonia permission to put his newsletters online and John has kindly indicated that he has no objection to my putting those newsletters in the online archive I've been helping to coordinate.  Apparently, Kevin simply is not interested in ufology any more, viewing it as a subject that just keeps reinventing the wheel.

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

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




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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

22 issues of "Annals of the Enquiring" (UK, 1990s) - UFOs, Forteana, Paranormal - now online

The "Annals of the Enquiring" magazine was published in the 1990s. In addition to UFO articles, it contained material covering a wide range of Forteana, Earth Mysteries, Cryptozoology, the paranormal and "bizarrerie".

The editor of this publication was Gerry Lovell. He lived in Bangor, Northern Ireland.

I have tried to contact Gerry Lovell with a permission request, without success. However, various issues of this publication contained a statement that "right to reproduce any material" published in that publication were "freely given except where noted". I've read quite a bit of this publication and not seen any note giving any exceptions to that permission. So, while I'd prefer to have express permission from Gerry Lovell in relation to uploading to the online archive, I think it is probably okay for me to share this one.

A slightly incomplete set of 22 issues of this publication has, once again, been scanned by the AFU in Sweden.

Click on the image below for a link to the folder containing the available issues of this publication.




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APRO UFO investigator handbook (1972) - very short training guide

The APRO handbook for UFO investigations, "Recommended Procedures for APRO Field Investigators" is a rather brief (29 page) training manual for new UFO investigators.

It isn't one of my favourite manuals for new UFO investigators, as it only really addresses some things that UFO investigators should do without much training in relation to the potential explanations that should be considered or how to investigate those possibilities. Some other UFO investigator training manuals are much better in this respect.

However, it's still interesting to see what APRO viewed as important (and, by omission, what it seems to have viewed as less significant). It also contains some good general advice and a call for objective investigations.

For example, the introductory pages comment that:  

"In the past the premature, pat explanations from Project Blue Book, the court jester antics of certain scientific authorities, and the cloak-and-dagger tactics of amateur investigators have created a mystique which has had a stifling effect on objective research. Now that there is no visible 'official" project to cloud the issues, an excellent opportunity exists to re-shape public attitudes into a more positive posture". 

Most APRO publications (including the APRO Bulletin) have been made available online for many years, so I think I can share this short manual online...

The scan has, once again, helpfully been produced by the AFU in Sweden.







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"Night Search" magazine - Eddie Middleton (Tennessee, USA, 2000s) now in archive

Eddie Middleton was the host of "Night Search Radio" and a State Director of MUFON Tennessee. He also produced a short-lived magazine called "The Night Search". I have obtained 3 issues of that publication from 2008, featuring articles UFOs, Men In Black, flying creature sightings and the Paranormal.

Eddie passed away in 2017. He wife is also deceased, but his wife's sister has kindly let me know that his family would be delighted to see his work available online so I have added this publication to the online archive that I have been helping to develop.

Sandy Nichols helped Eddie Middleton with various aspects of the Night Search group in Memphis, Tennessee. Sandy has mentioned that Eddie used to come up with some good ideas for things, but he always lacked the necessary funds to keep things going. Sandy would help Eddie get things organized and out to the public like the magazine, a redo of his nightly radio show and a couple of conferences. 

Click on the image below for a link to the folder containing this publication.




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Monday, July 26, 2021

"Earth Energy" (newsletter of Joseph R. Jochmans) - "highly unusual and unique", on ley lines etc - now online

"Earth Energy" was a newsletter published by "Jalandris" (a pseudonym used by Joseph R. Jochmans).

In the first issue of "Earth Energy", he described his newsletter as "highly unusual and unique". He stated that this newsletter was going to deal with "the mysteries behind ley lines, megalithic monuments, dowsing, pyramids, bio-energy, ancient magic, geomancy, prehistoric psychic phenomena, and much more".

The newsletter was circulated for free and "Jalandris" stated that recipients were free to reprint any of the material presented in the newsletter, so I think this gives permission for me to upload copies.

Joseph R. Jochmans passed away in 2013.

I have uploaded two issues, both of which have helpfully been scanned by the AFU in Sweden.

Click on the image below for a link to the folder containing the scans of "Earth Energy".

Other leyline and "Earth mysteries" publications that I have previously helped make freely available online (in the UK folder of the AFU website) include:
(1) The first 70 issues of "The Ley Hunter" (with permission from the editors of those issues - with permission from Philip John Heselton, Jimmy Goddard and Paul Screeton
(2) "Earth" (Paul Bennett's newsletter of "Paganism, Fortean & Earth Mysteries"), with Paul's permission
(3) 121 out of 122 issues of Touchstone ("Surrey Earth Mysteries", UK, 1983 onwards), with permission from its editor (Jimmy Goddard)
(4)" Amskaya", again with permission from Jimmy Goddard
(5) "Ancient Skills and Wisdom Review", "Terrestrial Zodiacs Newsletter" and "The Shaman" with the permission of their editor, Paul Screeton
(6) "Earthquest News" and "Supernaturalist" with permission from Andrew Collins
(7) "At the Edge" with permission from Bob Trubshaw
(8) Many more general fortean publications with Earth mysteries content.




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79 issues of "The UFO Enigma" newsletter of the "UFO Study Group of Greater St Louis" (Missouri, USA) online

A couple of years ago, Joe Palermo (the former president of the American group the "UFO Study Group of Greater St Louis") kindly gave me permission to upload their newsletter "The UFO Enigma".

The AFU in Sweden scanned about 80 issues at that time. I added them to the online archive back then, but didn't want to post an announcement until I'd filled in some of the gaps. I have, however, not succeeded in obtaining any more issues - so hope that posting this announcement now of this upload prompts others to come forward with some of the missing issues.

Click on the image below for a link to the relevant folder hosted by the AFU in Sweden:



The issues currently uploaded are:

The UFO Enigma - 1982 04 - Volume 2 no 3

The UFO Enigma - 1982 09 - Volume 3 no 1

The UFO Enigma - 1982 10 - Volume 3 no 2

The UFO Enigma - 1982 11 - Volume 3 no 3

The UFO Enigma - 1983 01 - Volume 3 no 5

The UFO Enigma - 1983 02 - Volume 3 no 6

The UFO Enigma - 1983 03 - Volume 3 no 7

The UFO Enigma - 1985 03 - Volume 5 no 6

The UFO Enigma - 1985 06 - Volume 5 no 7

The UFO Enigma - 1985 10 - Volume 6 no 1

The UFO Enigma - 1985 11

The UFO Enigma - 1986 12 - Volume 7 no 4

The UFO Enigma - 1987 01 - Volume 8 no 5

The UFO Enigma - 1987 12 - Volume 8 no 4

The UFO Enigma - 1988 02 - Volume 8 no 6

The UFO Enigma - 1988 03 - Volume 8 no 7

The UFO Enigma - 1988 04 - Volume 8 no 8

The UFO Enigma - 1988 05 - Volume 8 no 9

The UFO Enigma - 1988 10 - Volume 9 no 2

The UFO Enigma - 1988 11 - Volume 9 no 3

The UFO Enigma - 1988 12 - Volume 9 no 4

The UFO Enigma - 1989 01 - Volume 9 no 5

The UFO Enigma - 1989 02 - Volume 9 no 6

The UFO Enigma - 1989 03 - Volume 9 no 7

The UFO Enigma - 1989 04 - Volume 9 no 8

The UFO Enigma - 1989 05 - Volume 9 no 9

The UFO Enigma - 1989 06 - Volume 9 no 10

The UFO Enigma - 1989 09 - Volume 10 no 1

The UFO Enigma - 1989 10 - Volume 10 no 2

The UFO Enigma - 1989 11 - Volume 10 no 3

The UFO Enigma - 1989 12 - Volume 10 no 4

The UFO Enigma - 1990 01 - Volume 10 no 5

The UFO Enigma - 1990 02 - Volume 10 no 6

The UFO Enigma - 1990 03 - Volume 10 no 7

The UFO Enigma - 1990 04 - Volume 10 no 8

The UFO Enigma - 1990 05 - Volume 10 no 9

The UFO Enigma - 1990 06 - Volume 10 no 10

The UFO Enigma - 1990 09 - Volume 11 no 1

The UFO Enigma - 1990 10 - Volume 11 no 2

The UFO Enigma - 1990 11 - Volume 11 no 3

The UFO Enigma - 1990 12 - Volume 11 no 4

The UFO Enigma - 1991 03 - Volume 11 no 6

The UFO Enigma - 1991 05 - Volume 11 no 7

The UFO Enigma - 1991 06 - Volume 11 no 8

The UFO Enigma - 1991 09 - Volume 12 no 1

The UFO Enigma - 1991 10 - Volume 12 no 2

The UFO Enigma - 1991 11 - Volume 12 no 3

The UFO Enigma - 1992 02 - Volume 12 no 6

The UFO Enigma - 1992 03 - Volume 12 no 7

The UFO Enigma - 1992 05 - Volume 12 no 5

The UFO Enigma - 1992 09

The UFO Enigma - 1993 02 - Volume 13 no 6

The UFO Enigma - 1993 04 - Volume 13 no 8

The UFO Enigma - 1993 05 - Volume 13 no 9

The UFO Enigma - 1993 09 - Volume 14 no 1

The UFO Enigma - 1993 10 - Volume 14 no 2

The UFO Enigma - 1994 03 - Volume 14 no 7

The UFO Enigma - 2000 02 - Volume 20 no 6

The UFO Enigma - 2000 03 - Volume 20 no 7

The UFO Enigma - 2000 04 - Volume 20 no 8

The UFO Enigma - 2000 05 - Volume 20 no 9

The UFO Enigma - 2000 06 - Volume 20 no 10

The UFO Enigma - 2000 09 - Volume 21 no 1

The UFO Enigma - 2000 10 - Volume 21 no 2

The UFO Enigma - 2000 11 - Volume 21 no 3

The UFO Enigma - 2000 12 - Volume 21 no 4

The UFO Enigma - 2001 01 - Volume 21 no 5

The UFO Enigma - 2001 02 - Volume 21 no 6

The UFO Enigma - 2001 03 - Volume 21 no 7

The UFO Enigma - 2001 04 - Volume 21 no 8

The UFO Enigma - 2001 05 - Volume 21 no 9

The UFO Enigma - 2001 06 - Volume 21 no 10

The UFO Enigma - 2001 09 - Volume 22 no 1

The UFO Enigma - 2001 10 - Volume 22 no 2

The UFO Enigma - 2001 12 - Volume 22 no 4

The UFO Enigma - 2002 01 - Volume 22 no 5

The UFO Enigma - 2002 02 - Volume 22 no 6

The UFO Enigma - 2002 03 - Volume 22 no 7

The UFO Enigma - 2002 06 - Volume 22 no 10

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Sunday, July 25, 2021

5 more sets of rare UFO newsletters by Allen Greenfield, USA (Saucer Album, Saucer Commentary, Aerial Phenomena Perspectives etc)

I have now uploaded a further batch of 5 different UFO newsletters produced by Allen Greenfield (further to the permission he kindly gave me several years ago).

A few years ago, Allen Greenfield kindly gave me permission to upload scans of his publications. At that time, I uploaded a batch of scans of several of his newsletters,  namely "American UFO Committee Review", "Owlexandrian Initiate", "Ufology Notebook", "UFO Sighter", "The Paraufologist" and "Look-See". More recently, I uploaded his "Alternate Horizons" newsletters.

With thanks (once again) to the AFU in Sweden for the scans, I have now uploaded the following 5 sets of Allen Greenfield's UFO newsletters:

(a) "Aerial Phenomena Perspectives"
(b) "Flying Saucer Observations"
(c) "Saucer Album"
(d) "Saucer Commentary"
(e) "Small Steps Giant Leaps"

The folders containing each of these newsletters has "Allen Greenfield" after their name in the list of publications from the USA on the AFU's website.

Click on the image below for a list of USA newsletters which I have now uploaded, including these various further Allen Greenfield newsletters.




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Saturday, July 24, 2021

"Threshold" the "Journal of Interdisciplinary Consciousness Studies" now added to archive

"Threshold" is a free online journal published by the Windbridge Research Center in the USA.  It "disseminates information focusing on interdisciplinary studies of consciousness as it relates to dying, death, and what comes next".

The website of the Windbridge Research Center states that it was co-founded by husband and wife research team Mark Boccuzzi and Julie Beischel, PhD, in July 2017. The Center "took over the peer-reviewed research on the topics of life after death and after-death communication that had been conducted at the Windbridge Institute, LLC, since 2008".

Many of the articles in "Threshold" relate to mediums, purported after-death communication and the afterlife. 

Copies of "Threshold" are already online but the Editor-in-Chief of "Threshold", David B. Metcalfe has kindly indicated that it is fine for me to add them to the online archive that I've been helping create hosted on the website of the AFU in Sweden.

Click on the image below for a link to the folder on the AFU's website containing issues of "Threshold".

 




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"The Ufology Handbook" book by Robert Moore, overview of UFO history and theories, now in the archive

Robert Moore (one of the more sensible researchers involved in British UFO research, which of course means he isn't as well known as many of his more sensationalistic/idiotic colleagues...) has kindly given me permission to make his book "The Ufology Handbook" freely available online.

Robert Moore has a long history of involvement with several of the main UFO/Fortean investigative groups in the UK, including BUFORA and ASSAP.

In "The Ufology Handbook", Robert Moore states that he "attempts to briefly outline the history of the UFO problem as well as its basic attributes; hopefully answering the majority of questions you have ever wanted to ask about this subject".

I'm not sure it can be said to really answer everyone's questions, but certainly anyone reading this concise book will thereby know considerably more than most people you will encounter in social media discussions of ufology.

Click on the image below for a link to the folder containing this book.



The table of content for this book is pasted below, to give an indication of the contents:


UFOs; the historical perspective:

The birth of modern Ufology 5

UFO's in early history 5-6

The 1890'S American airship waves 6

Foo Fighters and Ghost Rockets 6-7

America and the UFO; an overview 7-10

Civilian UFO research 10-11

Official attitudes to UFOs in the UK 11-13

UFO basics:

UFO Basics 13-14

Defining the UFO 14-15

IFO Types 16-22

The who, what and when of UFOs

Who studies UFO reports? 22-24

Who sees UFOs? 24

Astronauts and UFO's 25-26

When are UFOs usually seen? 26-27

Alleged attributes of “True UFOs”:

Basic UFO Shape Aspects 27-28

Size 28

"Soft" UFOs; the BOL connection 28

Reported UFO shapes 29-30

Alleged Surface Features 30

Colour 31

Motion 31-32

Internal motion 32

Alleged reactions and effects:

Biological reactions 32-33

"Oz Factor" manifestations 33

Mechanical effects 33

Environmental effects 33-34

"Crop Circles" 34-35

UFO Entities:

The pre-contactee era (1947 to 1951) 35-36

The contactee era (1951-1960) 36

The CE III era (1955 to 1982) 36-37

The "Abduction" Era (1982 and beyond) 37

The typical CE III event 38

Common types of UFO Entities 38-39

The Abduction Experience; an in-depth view 39-42

The quest for proof:

UFO photographs and films 42-45

Early photographs of aerial anomalies 45

Classic UFO photographic cases 45-46

Classic cinematic UFO Incidents 47-48

IFF's : Infamous flying fakes 48-49

UFO photographic cases in the British Isles 50-52

"UFO entity" photographs worldwide 52-55

RADAR and UFO's 55-58

“Angel Hair” 59

Direct physical UFO evidence 59-60

Recovered Implants & "Black Light" marks 60-61

DNA sampling 61-62

Crashed saucers 62-64

The UFO "cover up": 64-66

The wilder side; MJ-12 To "Area 51" 67-68

The government (or someone) is watching... 68-69

Recent trends in ufology. 69-72

UFO Theories: 72-73

1: The "radical misperception" hypothesis 80-81

2: Exotic natural phenomena 81-82

"electro-staging"

mirage anomalies.

3 "Unconventional Technology" 83-85

4 The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis 85-91

5: The Alternate Universe Hypothesis (AUH) 91-93

6: The Time Travel Hypothesis (TTH) 93-95

7: The Paranormal Phenomena hypothesis (PPH) 96-97

a: UFOs and "apparitional" phenomena 97-102

b: UFOs and the Collective Unconsciousness 102-103

c: UFOs and "Otherworldy" beings 103-105

Summary of the PPH 106

8: The living organism hypothesis (LOH) 107-108

CONCLUSION 109-111

References 112-114

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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

"CAUS Bulletin" UFO newsletter (USA, 1980s, Barry Greenwood and Lawrence Fawcett) - MJ12, FOIA requests etc

Barry Greenwood has kindly given permission for me to make scans of the "CAUS Bulletin" UFO newsletter (which he published with Larry Fawcett in the 1980s) available in the online archive I've been developing.  

This newsletter focused on FOIA requests and the other UFO research done by Barry Greenwood and Lawrence Fawcett, e.g. regarding MJ-12.

These scans have, once again, been produced by the AFU in Sweden.

I added another CAUS newsletter, "Just Cause", to the online archive last year in a separate folder. 

Click on the image below for a link to the folder containing issues of the "CAUS Bulletin".



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Issues of "The Ley Hunter" (UK, ley lines) edited by Jimmy Goddard and Paul Screeton and Philip John Heselton

"The Ley Hunter" was published between 1965 and 1998. Its website described it as "the longest running journal to cover the 'earth mysteries' complex of study areas (it invented the term over 20 years ago!)", including "'ley lines;, (earth tie geophysical) energies (studied from both a primary sensing - experiential - point of view and that of physical monitoring), folklore, traditional lifeways, archaeology, all aspects of geomancy or sacred geography, shamanism and other aspects of archaic consciousness, unexplained natural phenomena, and so on". 

"The Ley Hunter" was published by several editors over the span of those decades, starting with Philip John Heselton, then Jimmy Goddard. It was edited from 1969 to 1976 by Paul Screeton. From Issue 71 it was edited by Paul Devereux and its final editor was Danny Sullivan.

The first three of those editors have kindly given permission for their publications to be uploaded, so I have uploaded up to Issue 70. These issues have helpfully been scanned by the AFU in Sweden.

Paul Devereux has refused permission for his issues to be made freely available online. (Without posting the detail of the explanation for his decision, which is - of course - entirely up to him, in short Paul Devereux considers that archived copies are available to any "genuine historical researcher" and that open public posting online would "serve nobody").

Other newsletters published by Jimmy Goddard that I have previously made available online (in the UK section of the AFU's online archive) with his permission include "Anskaya", "Enigma", "Saucer Forum", "Sky Scouts" and "Touchstone".

Other newsletters published by Paul Screeton that I have previously made available online (in the UK section of the AFU's online archive) with his permission include "Ancient Skills and Wisdom Review", "The Shaman", "Terrestrial Zodiacs Newsletter".

Click below for a link to the folder containing the relevant issues of "The Ley Hunter".



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"Space Craft Digest" UFO magazine (1950s, USA) now online - warnings of other nations developing UFO technology

"Space Craft Digest" was a UFO magazine published in the 1950s in the USA by the "Pacific Lemurian Society". This publication contended that the USA should research and develop the technology used by UFOs, contending that "In the near future, someone on this planet is going to streak ahead a thousand years with one brilliant flash ... If this is not a citizen of the U.S. we may find our whole western civilization in jeopardy". 

I think this publication is in the public domain under the copyright rules that apply to unregistered material published in the USA pre-1964.

I have therefore uploaded scans helpfully produced by the AFU in Sweden.

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




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Tuesday, July 20, 2021

"Steady Signal" (Albert Budden, UK) : EM pollution and environmental health approach to UFO sightings

Albert Budden has written books (including "Electric Ufos -- Fireballs, Electromagnetics And Abnormal States" and "UFOs - Psychic Close Encounters") in which he claimed to have linked electromagnetic pollution to paranormal experiences (including UFO/UAPs, close encounters, poltergeists and visions). He claimed to have explained various popular mysteries.

Budden also sent a newsletter called "The Steady Signal" to some of those involved in ufology.

The AFU has scanned the first two (and only??) issues of this newsletter. I am unsure whether Budden's newsletter survived beyond these issues.

The first issue began by stating that "At the risk of sounding grandiose, it is clear that the fundamental approach to the understanding of a range of anomalies introduced in [his book "Allergies and Aliens"] has been recognised by a number of researchers and writers, as significant". 

The newsletter was intended to "provide information and debate on issues related to this new environmental health approach".

Since Albert Budden stated in his first issue that he hoped the editors receiving "Steady Signal" would be republish the material in that newsletter, I think he intended to make this material freely available. I have therefore uploaded the available scans.

These newsletters will probably be mainly of interest to those that have an interest in:

(1) Alleged involvement of Electromagnetic effects in UFO sightings and/or associated allegations of harm caused by UFOs, e.g. those interested in the related work of Kit Green, John Shuessler and Michael Persinger.

(2) Possible EM involvement in alleged UFO hotspots, such as Skinwalker Ranch.

(3) Albert Budden's arguments with various UFO researchers, e.g. Matthew Williams.




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Ultra-rare newsletter by early UFO contactee Orfeo Angelucci (USA, 1952/1953) now online : "most amazing and INCREDIBLE narration of all time"...

Orfeo Angelucci was one of the most prominent UFO contactees of the early 1950s.  He is described in a Wikipedia entry as "one of the most unusual" of the mid-1950s contacts who claimed to be in contact with extraterrestials.

In addition to his well-known contactee books, Orfeo Angelucci wrote a newsletter that is _much_ harder to obtain. 

An advert for this newsletter stated that it contains "the most amazing and INCREDIBLE narration of all time". It was stated to give "the keys to the entire 'flying saucer' phenomenon".

That newsletter, "20th Century Times", only appears to have survived for a single issue.  It was published in 1952 or 1953 (since it refers to events that happened in 1952, but refers to hopes for 1953).

Orfeo Angelucci appears to have sold annual subscriptions - possibly making this the first of many such newsletters that folded after receiving payments from enthusiasts...

The AFU has now scanned that newsletter and, since it is in the public domain under the copyright rules that apply in the USA to material from that time period which has now been registered, I have uploaded it to the AFU's online archive.

More about Orfeo Angelucci can be found in many books and on various websites, including on Hakan Blomqvist's blog.

Click on the image below for the scan of 20th Century Times (and, for ease of reference, the advertisement referred to above): 



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Very rare UFO booklets by Hayden Hewes (USA) now online

The widow of Hayden Hewes has kindly given me permission to upload his UFO publications.

I have previously uploaded issues of his "Interplanetary Intelligence Report" newsletter. 

Now, thanks to scanning by the AFU in Sweden of some rare items in its large UFO collection, I have been able to upload some further items.

"The Aliens", "Earthprobe" and "The Intruders" are very rare booklets co-authored by Hayden Hewes, each of which is now available as a searchable PDF. 

Click on the image below for a link to the folder containing these publications.




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"Cowflop Quarterly", "Kowflop Quarterly", "Cowflop Alert" and "Spot Report" (Robert Todd, USA, focus on Roswell and UFO documents) - good quality scans

Robert Todd was a rather under-appreciated UFO researcher, partly because he sometimes had a rather abrasive approach (including to some Government agencies that he was attempting to persuade to release UFO documents...). 

Robert Todd published a newsletter under a title that frequently underwent slight changes. Most issues were under the title "Cowflop Quarterly" but it some issues had other titles - namely "Kowflop Quarterly", "Cowflop Alert" and "Spot Report".

This newsletter focused on Robert Todd's research regarding Roswell and various UFO documents.

Some scans have been online for years, but most of them are very low resolution and (gasp! shock!) not searchable.

Robert Todd provided the master copies of his newsletters to Barry Greenwood. Barry printed and mailed them (at his own expense) along with issues of his "Just Cause" newsletter. Robert Todd also entrusted much of his early files to Barry Greenwood. Barry Greenwood has kindly scanned the master copies for me to upload them. I've enhanced the scans and rendered them searchable.

For various reasons, I'd like to see more of Robert Todd's material freely available online (not least because I found a few years ago that he had already explored some avenues that I'd considered interesting...).




 

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Another big one : Searchable scans of "Pursuit" (the journal of Ivan T Sanderson's "Society for the Investigation of The Unexplained")

Another big one...

85 issues of the journal "Pursuit" were published between 1967 and 1989 by the "Society for the Investigation of The Unexplained" (SITU).  It contained articles on cryptozoology, UFOs and many aspects of forteana and alleged anomalous phenomena by many of the leading Fortean researchers of that period.

SITU was founded by naturalist Ivan T. Sanderson in 1965, "… for the acquisition, investigation and dissemination of information on reports of all tangible items in the fields of chemistry, astronomy, geology, biology and anthropology, that are not readily explained". 

According to Encylopedia.com, "for a generation [SITU] was the leading organization pursuing research on anomalous phenomena of the kind usually associated with Charles Fort". 

Dr John Reed is the current head of SITU.  We have worked together on a few projects and he has now kindly given me permission to add scans of "Pursuit" to the AFU's online archive.  

(Dr John Reed made some scans of "Pursuit" available online for a period several years ago. The scans that have been uploaded now are new, higher resolution scans that have helpfully been produced by the AFU in Sweden).

Click on the image below for a link to the folder on the AFU's website containing all 85 issues are now online.






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"Exotic Zoology" and "Cryptozoology Newsletter" (both by Matt Bille) now online

Matt Bille has kindly given me permission to make scans of his "Exotic Zoology" newsletter (the first few issues of which were published under the title "Cryptozoology Newsletter") freely available online

Most issues have helpfully been scanned by the AFU in Sweden.

I'll try to fill in the remaining gaps shortly.

I've uploaded the available issues to separate folders for the titles "Exotic Zoology" and "Cryptozoology Newsletter" in the United States folder of the AFU's online archive of UFO/Fortean material:

https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Cryptozoology%20Newsletter%20(Matt%20Bille)/

https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Exotic%20Zoology%20(Matt%20Bille)/


Further Cryptozoological, and more general Fortean, material will be uploaded today/tomorrow.







Volume 1, 1994
* Issue #1 // New Frog Species: Rare Big Cats: The Controversial Giant Octopus
News: New species of mammals, birds, and fish
* Issue #2 // Vu Quang Ox: Is the Thylacine Extinct? : Mexico's Mystery Cat, the Onza
News: Tonkin snub-nosed monkey, Coelacanths, Loch Ness tourists, Unclassified tree kangaroo.
* Issue #3 // Crested Iguana: Steller's Sea Cow: Two-finned Dolphin
News: New muntjac, Loch Ness hoax, American coelacanth reports
* Issue #4 // New Brazilian Primates: The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker: The Valhalla Sea Monster
News: Romania's new species, More from Vu Quang, Lake monster film, Surviving ground sloth
* Issue #5 // Vu Quang Mammal Discoveries: Black-footed Ferret: Mystery Whales
News: Jamaican iguana rediscovered, New tree kangaroo found, Cougars in Vermont
* Issue #6 // Peruvian Beaked Whale: The Takahe's Reappearances: Steller's Sea Monkey: Cetacean Puzzles
News: New species of mollusks, spider, and octopus, Details on Vermont cougars, White buffalo




Volume 2, 1995
* Issue #1 // New Char from Siberia: Status of the Eastern Cougar: Unclassified Fish
News items: Biodiversity, Przewalski's Horse
* Issue #2 // The Carnivorous Sponge: Rediscovery of Gilbert's Potoroo: review of Ellis' Monsters of the Sea
News: Captive Vu Quang Ox, Strange California Fish
* Issue #3 (title changed to Exotic Zoology) // The Still-Puzzling Coelacanth: Mystery Bears of the North
News: Eastern cougar reports, "Extinct" trees, Vu Quang, Giant octopus, Thylacine sighting, Ellis answers review
* Issue #4 // More Discoveries from Vu Quang: Update on Giant Octopus
News: 1995 Thylacine sighting, Confirmed Eastern cougar from Maine, Giant flying squirrel rediscovered, New study on Loch Ness, Black-footed ferret releases
* Issue #5 // More New Brazilian Primates: Rediscovery of the King Bee: “Sea serpent”Cadborosaurus willsi
News: Rediscovery of a dolphin, Friends of the Eastern Panther, and several new species
* Issue #6 // New Species of 1995: Surviving Grizzly Bears: Explanation of the Daedalus sea serpent
News: Search for a surviving ground sloth, Status of the International Society of Cryptozoology




Volume 3, 1996
* Issue #1 // New Horses from Tibet: Guest article on Mystery elephants
News: Creation of a new phylum, for species Symbion Pandora, Subscriber Directory service
* Issue #2 // Mystery Predators of Australia: More on Symbion Pandora
Guest Book Review: Richard Ellis reviews Matt Bille’s Rumors of Existence
News: More Vu Quang discoveries, Giant squid, Eastern cougar, “Extinct” birds rediscovered
* Issue #3 // New Animals Around the World: News and Comment: Monkey rediscovery, More Eastern cougar news, Onza report, deep sea life, Skull of mystery cat, Giant marine worms, Tricolored panda
* Issue #4 // New monkey from Brazil, New potto from Africa: Cryptozoology resources on the Internet
News and Comment: Giant Squid, Strange new fly, More South American species
Review: Writings of David Quammen, including The Song of the Dodo
* Issue #5 // Rediscovery of woolly flying squirrel: More on Bardia’s elephants: Is the yeti still a mystery?
News and Comment: Unclassified bear reports, mystery shark, latest Loch Ness news
Reader response: Richard Ellis on giant squids
* Issue #6 // Rediscovery of the Congo bay owl: Yeti, Part 2, Survey of worldwide reports
News and Comment: Oliver, the strange chimpanzee; plans to revive the mammoth




Volume 4, 1997
* Issue #1 // Revival of the International Society of Cryptozoology: New photos of Bardia elephants
News and Comment: New birds, smallest frog, 1846 “wild man” article
Reader response: Debating the yeti evidence with Angel Morant-Fores
* Issue #2 // New Fish from South America: Guest Article on Report of Narwhals in the Southern Hemisphere
Cryotzoological Specimens at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum
News and Comment: “Living Fossil” Turtle: Mystery Cat Skull Analyzed: Another New Marmoset: Barbary Lion Rediscovered: Strange Carcass in Rhode Island: Lake Monster Explained
* Issue #3 // The Enduring “Sea Serpent” : News and Comment: Rare shark found: “Extinct” Crocodile rediscovered: Mainland Thylacine Reported: Reviews of Recent Novels With Cryptozoological Themes
* Issue #4 // Primate Mysteries: New Finds in Paleontology: News: More on Borneo River Shark: 459 New Mammals in 10 Years: Forest Elephant: a Separate Species? Reviews: Esau by Philip Kerr, The Unexplained by Karl Shuker: New Websites
* Issue #5 // Cryptids that Never Existed: Southern Hemisphere Beluga?: Another New Monkey: New Muntjac Deer Described: New Information on Mystery Cats: New Population of Pandas Discovered: Many New Species of Herps: Identification of the “Beast of Gevaudan”: Reviews: Fauna (new wildlife magazine), Books from The Sourcebook Project, and Monster Mysteries by John Grant
* Issue #6 // Bringing Back Extinct Species: Lake Monster from Japan: New Thylacine Research: Unidentified New Zealand “Blob”: New Species of Ray: Possible New Sumatran Ape: Cryptozoology on Television: Basic Library of Top Cryptozoology Books: Review of Karl Shuker’s From Flying Toads to Snakes With Wings.




Volume 5, 1998
* Issue #1 // The Classic Mysteries of Cryptozoology: New Mammals From South America: Rediscovery of the Indian Forest Owlet and the Madagascar Red Owl: New Bird from New Zealand: Cryptozoology Websites: Review of William Broad’s The Universe Below.
* Issue #2 // Whatever Happened to Sasquatch: Rediscovered Beetle and Mouse: The British Government and the Loch Ness Monster.
* Issue #3 // Whatever happened to Loch Ness: Bizarre New Species, the Methane Ice Worm: More on Eric Shipton and the Yeti Tracks.
* Issue #4 // The Walrus Whales (guest article): Two New Birds From South America: More News on the Sao La: Internet Cryptozoology Hoax: Solving an Old “Bodies on the Beach” Mystery: Review of John Murphy’s Tales of Giant Snakes: New Books Due for Publication.
* Issue #5 // Top Five Cryptozoological Mysteries // New Wild Pig Species // Quagga Resurrection News // Giant Squid Article by Richard Ellis // Strange New Mouse Species // New Birds From Africa // Island of New Species // Cloning and Cryptozoology.
* Issue #6 // New Coelacanth Population Found // Claimed Debunking of Patterson Bigfoot Film // Yeti Mystery Solved? // New Monkey, Salamanders, and Muntjac Deer Species // African Cryptids // Cryptozoology and Creationism.




Volume 6, 1999
* Issue #1 // Mystery whale on film // Mystery primates // New monitor lizards // Survival of the Carribean monk seal? // Estimate of sea creatures still unknown // Loch Ness investigations // Latest issue of Cryptozoology Review of Ellis’ The Search for the Giant Squid.
* Issue #2 // Updating Cryptozoology on the Internet // Rate of new mammal discoveries // Roy Chapman Andrews’ “two-finned whale” // Australian giant mantis shrimp // Giant mystery owl?
* Issue #3 // Southeast Asian Mammal Discoveries Reviewed (6-page article) // Review of Coleman and Huyghe’s The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti, and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide.
* Issue #4 // New species of coati found // What is cryptozoology? // New pygmy owl // New marmoset // New fish, sharks, and an octopus // Nessie on the Web // More mammal discoveries than ever // Annamite rabbit // Two “extinct” giant tortoise species rediscovered.



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