October 2022

Sunday, October 23, 2022

Collection of French UFO "catalogues"/databases from CNEGU plus more rare French UFO newsletters ("Veronica" and "Ovni-Info") added to online archive

French researcher Patrice Seray has, once again, helped obtain permission to upload UFO material and also provided relevant scans.

Firstly, Patrice has obtained permission from CNEGU to upload a collection of French UFO "catalogues" / databases and provided me with copies of them.

Secondly, Patrice has also provided scans of most issues of some rare French UFO newsletters : "Veronica" and "Ovni Info".

I have added this material to the French folder in the online archive I've been helping develop during the last few years.

Monday, October 10, 2022

PDFs - 100 searchable issues of "Meyn Mamvro" (Cornwall, UK, Earth Mysteries : "ancient stones and sacred sites in cornwall") - Cheryl Straffron

The editor of "Meyn Mamvro", Cheryl Straffron, kindly responded positively to my request for permission to add copies of that newsletter to the online archive. So, I've rendered 100 issues searchable and added them to the UK folder.

"Meyn Mamvro" is devoted to Earth Mysteries, particularly "ancient stones and sacred sites in cornwall". However, there have been the occasional article, particularly in the early days, that - as its editors put it to me - "strayed into Crop Circle and anomalous aerial territory".

Scans were already available on Cheryl's "Meyn Mamvro" website, but I thought it worth adding to the online archive as a backup and to make it more accessible. Also, the copies currently on Cheryl's website are not searchable and some of you know that I like to have material in an easily searchable format. :)

While it's not really an area I focus upon very much (with my primary focus being on UFO material), "Earth Mystery" publications that I've already uploaded (to the UK folder at the link above) 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.

Saturday, October 8, 2022

PDF: "Sequel to Scoriton" (by Norman Oliver, 1968) - Extremely rare booklet casting doubt on "notorious" and "(in)famous" UFO claim

Eileen Buckle's book "The Scoriton Mystery" (1967) detailed an investigation into the claims of Ernest Arthur Bryant to have met an Venusians in April 1965 in Scoriton, Devon (UK). One of the aliens Bryant claimed to have met allegedly gave its name as "Yamski" and implied it was the reincarnation of contactee George Adamski.

Jerome Clark, author of the impressive "UFO Encyclopedia", has referred to the Scoriton episode as "notorious" [on the UFO Updates email discussion list, on 14 February 2008]. An article on Rich Reynold's "UFO Conjecture(s)" blog in 2007 referred to the Scoriton "mystery" as "(In)famous"

The year after publication of that book, further investigations by Norman Oliver of BUFORA were detailed in his booklet, "Sequel to Scoriton". Summarising the position in the light of his father's further investigations, Norman Oliver's son recently commented that "There was little doubt that it was a fabrication and one perpetrated by individuals (whom he could not name without conclusive evidence) who should have known better, for reasons it is difficult to fathom".

Norman Oliver recently passed away. Norman Oliver's son came across some copies when sorting through his things and donated them to the AFU in Sweden. He mentioned to me that his father "spent much time and effort (as well as money!) investigating ... indeed it dominated his spare time over a considerable period".

His father apparently "upset the publishers of the book he and the late Eileen Buckle published on the story, not to mention Eileen herself, by insisting that the truth had to be told and self-publishing the sequel".

With the permission of Norman Oliver's son, this very rare booklet has now been scanned by the AFU in Sweden and I have uploaded a searchable copy to the online archive.

Given more recent debates regarding injuries possibly caused by UFO encounters, it is interesting to read in this booklet differing views as to cause and effect (if any) in relation to a brain tumour that Bryant had. Norman Oliver considered that the events were a fabrication by Bryant, and expressed the view that "worry" about being caught "caused the tumour to become active at this particular time". John Cleary-Baker (then editor of BUFORA's journal) asked "was the tumour responsible for the UFO or the UFO for the tumour?". Captain Ivan Mackay (then BUFORAs' chairman) suggested that Bryant may have had "a near sighting which may well have either caused a tumour or accelerated the growth of an incipient one".

Thursday, October 6, 2022

New folder for UFO newsletters from Luxembourg ("CLEU"), and more from Ukraine ("Fata Morgana")

Patrice Seray in France has kindly provided me with scans of the journal "Chroniques de la CLEU". CLEU was the "Commission Luxembourgeoise D'Etudes Ufologiques", a group in Luxembourg for the study of UFOs in the 1970s-1980s. This organization was part of the CNEGU, which is a UFO research group bringing together several members of other UFO organizations in the East of France. I have created a new folder for UFO magazines/newsletters from Luxembourg.

Ukrainian UFO researcher Igor Kalytyuk has provided a scan of yet another newsletter from Ukraine. This one was entitled "Fata Morgana". I will be uploading other material from Igor, including UFO material from the USSR, shortly.

Isaac Koi - New Uploads