Ron Rummel published the "Alien Digest" newsletter in the early 1990s.
Most of the references to this newsletter are in the context of Ron Rummel's death in 1993. That death features in many lists currently online of allegedly "suspicious" and "mysterious" deaths of UFO researchers. Those lists typically also include Phil Schneider, a friend of Ron Rummel (and also collaborated with Ron on this magazine).
Online searches for their two names together will find many such lists of "suspicious" deaths of UFO researchers, some of which were on Ryan Sprague's "Somewhere in the Skies" podcast in an episode entitled "If anything happens to me, Investigate".
Some websites further imply that this newsletter was the cause of Ron Rummel's death.
For example, Project Camelot's website states:
"Ron Rummel, ex-Air Force intelligence agent and publisher of the Alien Digest, died on August 6, 1993, having allegedly shot himself in the mouth with a pistol. Friends say, however, that no blood was found on the pistol barrel and the handle of the weapon was free of fingerprints. In addition, according to information now circulating, the suicide note left by the deceased was written by a left-handed person. Rummel was right-handed. Perspiration on the body smelled like sodium pentothal, or so it is alleged."
"The Alien Digest ran to seven limited issues, all now very hard to acquire. One thing is certain: Rummel's magazine was touching on sensitive and unpalatable issues such as the predator/prey aspect of the alien/human relationship, and the use of humans as food and recyclable body parts. It is worthy of note that one of Rummel's friends was Phil Schneider, and the two had been collaborating".
Similarly, the Burlington News website has published a letter by Phil Schneider's ex-wife, Cynthia Schneider Drayer, which includes the following about Ron Rummel:
"I believe the main reason why Philip began to lecture was due to the "murder" of his friend Ron Rummel. Ron was found in a park in Portland in Sept. 1993. The police believed that he had committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth. However, if you read the detectives report, there is blow-back blood on Ron's hand, but NO BLOW-BACK BLOOD ON THE GUN. The only way this could happen is if Ron had wiped the gun off AFTER he had shot himself in the mouth. Ron, Philip, and 5 other people had been collaborating on a little magazine called "The Alien Digest". It was starting to get a fairly wide circulation, when Ron was found in the park. Philip felt that his friend had been murdered, and decided that it was time to get everything out into the open, so he began "spilling the beans", and ripped up his security clearance card. Pufori, through Jeroen Wierda, is one of several agencies and individuals that have taken up the call for justice in Philip's death".
4 issues of this newsletter has been uploaded to various websites (including the Project Camelot website, Scribd and elsewhere), so I presume it's okay to add them to the online archive. A couple of websites refer to up to 7 issues, so there may be an additional few issues - but none of the usual suspects have those issues in their archives.
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