Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Before Kenneth Arnold's (1947) sighting : Collection of material on "aerial mysteries of the 19th and early 20th centuries" : "The Airship File" by Dr Thomas Bullard

Dr Thomas Bullard has now kindly given me permission to upload his collection of material entitled "The Airship File".  The title page indicates that this publication is "A collection of texts concerning phantom airships and other UFOs, gathered from newspapers and periodicals mostly during the hundred years prior to Kenneth Arnold's sighting".

This publication including a short introduction summarising research into "aerial mysteries of the 19th and early 20th centuries", with the bulk of the 407 pages of this publication being devoted to presenting the text of relevant articles from newspapers and magazines.  

The short introduction gives Dr Bullard's view that "the old reports contained which were equally as remarkable as the similarities and thereby cast doubt on the ready identification of airships with modern UFOs" although he also notes the airships sightings "... resemble the modern UFO phenomenon too closely for us to deny a kinship of some kind".

Dr Bullard's introduction also called for "researchers all over the world to join in an effort to pool our already extensive findings".  Those words, written in 1982, could equally well be written now (forty years later, in 2022). In the intervening decades there have been some efforts to pull together source materials on early "aerial mysteries" of the type requested by Dr Bullard (notably by the historical research group Magonia Exchange, an international archival project founded by researcher Chris Aubeck). However, the material that has been pulled together is (to a large extent) still not readily available to other researchers, despite the ease with which material can now be shared online as searchable PDFs. 

I have added a searchable PDF copy of Dr Bullard's "The Airship File" to my online archive, together with copies of three subsequent supplements by Dr Bullard (helpfully provided to me by Jeff Knox).




 

 

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Thursday, December 8, 2022

PDF - Published / funded by Robert Bigelow's NIDS : "Best UFO Cases - Europe" by Illobrand von Ludwiger (with added information regarding NIDS)

In 1998, Robert Bigelow's NIDS (the "National Institute for Discovery Science") published the book "Best UFO Cases - Europe" by Illobrand von Ludwiger (the founder of the Mutual UFO Network - Central European Section, MUFON-CES).  That book included forewords by Dr John Schuessler, Dr Bruce Maccabee and Dr Richard Haines of NARCAP and the contents listed below.

Dr John Schuessler's foreword concludes by stating that "Illobrand von Ludwiger combines all of the better attributes of scientist, investigator and researcher in bringing us this excellent view of the European UFO situation. He concludes the book by profusely referencing every section of the book to source documentation so the reader may go to the source. I hope this is just the beginning and we will be seeing similar documentation of UFO activity from other parts of the world in the near future". 

A couple of years ago, Illobrand von Ludwiger kindly kindly gave me permission to upload this book (thanks to help liaising with him from the German group IGAAP, particularly from Frank Schäpel). He also helpfully provided some comments about his interaction with Robert Bigelow and NIDS, which helped me with some research I was doing at that time into the UFO research funded by Robert Bigelow and the UFO evidence he had purchased.  Most of his comments are included in an additional section at pages 7-10 of 198 in the PDF I have now uploaded.  

Since the book was published by NIDS (which has been defunct for several years), I thought I should get permission from Robert Bigelow before making the book freely available in my online archive.  After trying to get that permission for the last 2 years via various mutual contacts, this week I had more success during an exchange of emails with Colm Kelleher (currently involved in Robert Bigelow's new Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies). During this exchange, I asked if he or Robert Bigelow had any objection to my objecting the book and very promptly obtained a favourable response. I also asked about some further NIDS material and again very promptly got a positive response which included "we are fine with you archiving it", so I'll be uploading some more NIDS material shortly. 

I have now added the book to my online archive.

1. EARLY REPORTS ABOUT UNUSUAL PHENOMENA OVER EUROPE 

2. DIFFERENT SHAPES OF UFOs SEEN OVER GERMANY

3. TRIANGULAR OBJECTS OVER EUROPE

4. THE APPEARANCE OF OBJECTS WITH A COMPLEX STRUCTURE AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS

5. EARLY ENCOUNTERS WITH LANDED UFOs AND THEIR OCCUPANTS IN GERMANY

6. UFO LEFT METALLIC PIECE IN SWEDEN

7. PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE

8. TRACES OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS ON MILITARY RADAR DEVICES OVER CENTRAL EUROPE

9. DEVELOPMENTS AND USE OF HIGHLY SENSITIVE MAGNETIC FIELD DETECTORS

10. PHYSICAL INTERACTION OF UFOs ON THEIR SURROUNDINGS

11. HYPOTHESES ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF UFOs





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Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Now online - "Monumental" and "mammoth" UFO abduction catalogue/database + analysis by the "most credible" abduction researcher: Dr Thomas E Bullard's "UFO abductions: The Measure of the Mystery"

Following recent discussions I have had with researchers Jeff Knox and Theo Pajimans, I recently sought permission from Dr Thomas E Bullard to upload a searchable scan of his two-volume work, "UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery" (1987), which he has now kindly permitted. Volume 1 is a 414-page comparative study of abduction reports, with Volume 2 containing a 449-page catalogue / database of UFO abduction cases

The author of the leading encyclopedia on UFOs, Jerome Clark, has said that "Bullard's work is, in my judgment, the most important yet done on the abduction phenomenon, and it is fundamental to any understanding and discussion of same" (Jerome Clark, UFO Updates Discussion List, October 1997) and "Nobody has ever written more intelligently, more knowledgeably, and more even-handedly than Bullard on the abduction phenomenon" (Jerome Clark, UFO Updates Discussion List, October 1999). Clark has made other comments over the years on material written by Eddie Bullard,  including the views that it is "the best piece of writing I've ever seen on the subject anywhere", contains "insightful analysis" and "an intelligent, balanced discussion devoid of the sort of polemics that dominate the abduction debate".  

Veteran UFO researcher Jan Aldrich has referred to Dr Bullard as "the most credible" investigator of the abduction phenomena (Jan Aldrich, UFO Updates Discussion List, October 1997).

UFO researcher Jim Speiser has said "UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery" is a "monumental two-volume, 673 page work by a folklorist who set out to show that abductions were nothing more than 20th century fairy tales. He admits he failed. Anyone who says we're not trying to take an empirical look at this subject should get a load of this" (Jim Speiser, 1989, ParaNet File Number 00098).

Jim Speiser has also said the research in Dr. Thomas E. Bullard's ".... mammoth 600 page opus ... shows that there is not much evidence to support the contention that individual regressionists have an influence on differences between accounts, nor does hypnosis seem to be a factor in general" (Jim Speiser, 1989, ParaNet File Number 00217).

I don't mean to give the impression that everyone has agreed with all of Thomas E Bullard's conclusions.  For example, skeptic Peter Brookesmith has said "I think Ed Bullard is wrong in almost everything he's said about the relationship between folklore and ufolore." (UFO Updates Discussion List, October 1997). Earthlights researcher Paul Devereux has said Bullard "can be seriously, indeed fatally,  faulted on methodological and logic grounds, and I'm sure someone will do so before too long." (UFO Updates Discussion List, November 1997).  

Incidentally, some of the more more scholarly articles debating who is right in relation to various abduction issues were published in journals/magazines which are not yet online, which someone really should try to sort out... 

In addition to obtaining permission from Dr Bullard to upload this work, FUFOR (which originally published this work) also helpfully gave permission. Jeff Knox provided scans of both issues. 



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Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Over 62,000 pages of the best of UFO Twitter - Archiving UFO Twitter as searchable PDFs

Thanks to code developed by a fellow Twitter user ("QEDJoe"), over 60,000 pages of material from UFO Twitter are now freely available online as searchable PDF documents in the UFO / Forteana archive I've been helping develop that is hosted on the website of the Swedish AFU.   

(The code to archive Twitter posts as PDFs developed by QEDJoe is now also freely available online and may also be of interest to those outside the UFO community since it could be applied to other material as well...).

Frankly, I'm not the world's biggest fan of Twitter or the discussion of UFOs on it. I find too many of the posts about UFOs on Twitter are extremely polarised, to the point that those posts don't really contribute to the discussion. Polarisation in discussions of ufology has been a problem for decades, but Twitter appears exacerbate this issue. Also, the restriction on the length of posts can get in the way of providing supporting references or follow-through on the points being made.

But ... the discussion of UFOs on Twitter is now a significant part of the culture of modern ufology, so someone should be making a bit of an effort to archive it. Also, many links have been posted on Twitter that may be difficult to find in the future without preserving these posts. Furthermore, the speed of communication and the size of the community on Twitter mean that it has the potential (although, sadly, this potential is rarely fulfilled...) for issues to be examined in depth relatively quickly.

So, during the last few months I have been keen to archive at least a sample of posts about UFOs on Twitter. I found some code online which was intended to parse Twitter archives into text files and was able to adapt it to work on an archive of my own Tweets to convert them to PDFs (after overcoming an encoding issue with the original code). Unfortunately, the code would not work on archives of tweets provided by some other researchers that kindly offered to act as guinea pigs.

The effort to archive Twitter material relating to UFOs (and, potentially, other topics) was given a _major_ boost recently when someone with considerably more computer coding skills than me kindly agreed to help out. "QEDJoe", a physicist with an interest in Forteana, very promptly sorted out the code I had been struggling with, getting it to work and then making some improvements. Crucially, he also stuck around to deal with some issues that arose with material provided by other researchers. That persistence eventually paid off and the code now seems to be able to cope with any Twitter archive I've thrown at it recently.  

(Some formatting issues could be the subject of improvement at some point in the future, e.g. producing the archive in chronological order or addressing a few remaining encoding issues).

Anyone can duplicate or extend this mini-project (or apply it to non-UFO material). The instructions for using QEDJoe's code are included at the link to that code above. Basically:

(1) The relevant Twitter user needs to request that Twitter provide them with a copy of the material they have posted there. This should take a minute or so, with some brief instructions with screenshots at the link below: https://twitter.com/isaackoi/status/1573650114417250304…

(2) About 36 hours later, the relevant Twitter user will get an email letting you know that the archive is available in about 24-36 hours. That person will need to download it and either process the contents themselves _OR_ send a single file ("tweets.js", in the "data" folder provided by Twitter) to an archiver (**NOT** the full archive which includes their private Twitter messages etc...). (If the Twitter user wants to, they can rename the file extension for that single file from .js to .txt then open it to see the content, which is a set of their tweets and related links etc). When sending that single file to an archiver, problems can sometimes be encountered attaching the file to an email (in which case the file can be sent using a free file sharing website, such as Wetransfer.com). 

(3) The archiver then needs to install and execute QEDJoe's code at the link above (folllowing the instructions that accompany that code). That code is run from the Command Prompt (run cmd), execute the relevant Python code, including give the path to the twitter archive file and the name to be given to the relevant PDF [e.g. : python -m tweets2pdf -f tmw.js -p "Tweets - Mick West.pdf" -i]


Twitter can, of course, be searched using the search function on that website. But I find searchable PDFs to be useful for searching (in addition to preserving the material), since it is possible to use free PDF software to give more control over a search, e.g. searching for two words where they appear in the same paragraph or excluding a result if a further keyword is present.
The nuanced control of searches available in relation to PDF material means that UFO research can be conducted more efficiently and effectively. Since most people interested in ufology have limited time (including me...), having tools that enable more efficient research is pretty important to me. More effective research within ufology would also be, well, rather nice to see.

I have reached out to some of the people active on Twitter whose posts are largely confined to UFOs/Forteana and, in my highly subjective view, are among the more interesting or useful posters on these topics on Twitter.

(There isn't an easy way to exclude certain material from a user from the archiving process, so I did not include various people whose UFO material I would have liked to include but who also post a considerably proportion of non-UFO material on their Twitter account).

The initial batch of UFO Twitter material now online using QEDJoe's code - thanks to the cooperation of the various researchers listed below - includes the following:



Tweets - Aaron Gulyas (@saucerlife) 1,222 pages

Tweets - Alejandro Rojas (@alejandrotrojas) 4,161 pages

Tweets - Bob McGwier (@BobMcGwier_N4HY) 4,210 pages

Tweets - Bradley Johansson (@bradjohansson21) 1,176 pages

Tweets - Charlie Wiser (@likeitmatters3) 1,562 pages

Tweets - Chris Rutkowski (@ufologyresearch) 844 pages

Tweets - Curt Collins (@CurtCollins579) 616 pages

Tweets - Dan Zetterstrom (@TheZignal) 5,857 pages

Tweets - Daniel Miller (@SicCoP1) 2,841 pages

Tweets - Frank Stalter (@UfoSunday) 1,214 pages

Tweets - Giuliano Marinkovic (@OmniTalkRadio) 4,805 pages

Tweets - Isaac Koi (@isaackoi) 212 pages

Tweets - Jake Mann (@itsredactedjake) 1,191 pages

Tweets - Jay Austin (JayMatthewsMMA) 2,309 pages

Tweets - Jeff Knox (@mrjeffknox) 2,170 pages

Tweets - Joe Murgia (@TheUfoJoe) 7,384 pages

Tweets - Jonathan Davies (@IWANTTOKNOWUK) 5,120 pages

Tweets - Keith Basterfield (@KeithBasterfie1) 177 pages

Tweets - Michael Huntington (@MHuntington7) 3,284 pages

Tweets - Mick West (@MickWest) 9,417 pages

Tweets - Nick Coffin (@InvNightSchool) 1,176 pages

Tweets - Steve Long (@UAPorSAP) 1,308 pages

Total Pages 62,256 pages











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Now online - about 3,000 pages of President Clinton White House UFO documents (Rockefeller initiative etc), from Grant Cameron's archives

A couple of months ago, Grant Cameron kindly shared about 2,000 pages of UFO material relating to President Clinton's administration with me. I usually aim to get such material online fairly quickly, but it's taken me a bit of time to organise that material and fill in some gaps. In any event, I've now been able to upload over 3,000 pages of material to a new section for documents relating to President Clinton's administration (in the folder I created for material provided by Grant Cameron from his UFO research archive).

Some documents relating to UFOs are available on the official website of the President Clinton Library.  However, those are a relatively small fraction of the UFO material relating to the Clinton White House administration. 

A bit more material (about 167 pages) of the UFO documents obtained by Grant Cameron relating to President Clinton's White House administration are already available on Steven Bassett's website. 

However, in addition to the material recently provided to me by Grant Cameron, I recalled seeing a considerable volume of further Clinton UFO documents on Grant's old "Presidential UFO" website.  That website is, however, no longer online. Unfortunately, a lot of the material I recalled was not in the material Grant recently provided to me. So, I put a bit of time and effort (okay, it turned out to be a large amount of time and effort...) into recovering about 900 pages of documents from the various partial copies of Grant's old website on Wayback Machine's Internet Archive (using the wayback machine downloader software I have previously mentioned, using the command "wayback_machine_downloader http://www.presidentialufo.com/ --to 20180611"). I then reorganised those documents and trying to fill in some gaps. Most recently, I have then attempted to combine Grant's old collection with the further material he made available to me.


The material has two sources and I have organised the material into these two categories :

(1) Responses to FOIA requests made by Grant Cameron, particularly to his request to OSTP with the reference FOIA 01 22 (which included over 80 documents, some of which were over 100 pages long).

(2) Photographs of documents at the President Clinton Library, taken by Grant Cameron.


I think most of the interesting material is from the former source, i.e. the FOIA responses.


The material obtained by Grant Cameron in response to FOIA requests include a considerable volume of material relating to the Rockefeller Initiative. Sorted into chronological order, those documents include:

0 - index - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 00 - annotated 2 pages

0 - index - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 00 6 pages

1993 03 29_Henry Diamond to Mike Kowalok - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 01 4 pages

1993 04 21_Laurance Rockefeller to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 02 2 pages

1993 05 26_John Gibbons to C. B. Scott Jones - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 03 1 pages

1993 08 04_Laurance Rockefeller to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 04 2 pages

1993 08 25_Thomas W. Shubert, Lt Col, USAF to Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 05 6 pages

1993 11 12_Henry Diamond to Sue Bachtel - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 06 2 pages

1993 12 00_FUFOR The Roswell Events (Congressional Staff Briefing) - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 07 159 pages

1994 01 21_Schiff GAO Audit - Newspaper Cuttings - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 08 7 pages

1994 02 14_Laurance Rockefeller to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 10 4 pages

1994 02 17_C. B. Scott Jones to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 11 13 pages

1994 03 29_John Gibbons to USAF Secretary Sheila Widnall (Fax Transmittal) - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 12 5 pages

1994 04 26_Laurance Rockefeller to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 13 2 pages

1994 05 24_USAF Secretary Sheila Widnall to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 14 3 pages

1994 05 26_C. B. Scott Jones to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 15 29 pages

1994 06 01_C. B. Scott Jones to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 16 2 pages

1994 06 13_C. B. Scott Jones to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 17 35 pages

1994 07 27_Anne Bartley to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 18 7 pages

1994 08 09_Barbara Ann Ferguson to Samuel M. Sherman - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 19 5 pages

1994 08 11_C. B. Scott Jones to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 20 3 pages

1994 08 19_John Gibbons to Laurance Rockefeller - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 21 1 pages

1994 08 19_John Gibbons to Senator Claiborne Pell - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 22 1 pages

1994 09 01_John Gibbons note of call with Sidnall's office - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 24 1 pages

1994 09 05_John Gibbons to Laurance Rockefeller - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 25 2 pages

1994 09 08_Roswell Press Release - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 26 2 pages

1994 09 23_Don Berliner to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 27 4 pages

1994 09 26_The Roswell Incident, The USAF, and the New York Times by Stanton T Friedman - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 28 28 pages

1994 11 10_James McAndrew, 1st Lt., USAFR to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 30 2 pages

1994 12 02_C. B. Scott Jones to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 31 26 pages

1994 12 08_Laurance Rockefeller and Henry Diamond - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 33 1 pages

1994 12 09_Laurance Rockefeller to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 34 2 pages

1994 12 13_C. B. Scott Jones to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 36 4 pages

1994 12 15_C. B. Scott Jones to Sue Bachtel - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 37 13 pages

1994 12 15_Patti Solis to C. B. Scott Jones - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 38 1 pages

1994 12 21_William M. Webster to C. B. Scott Jones - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 39 1 pages

1994 12 26_C. B. Scott Jones to Elisabet Sahtouris - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 40 3 pages

1995 02 09_C. B. Scott Jones to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 41 2 pages

1995 03 31_C. B. Scott Jones to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 42 3 pages

1995 04 11_Laurance Rockefeller to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 43 1 pages

1995 04 12_Jack Kriethe to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 44 2 pages

1995 04 26_John Gibbons to William Hunt - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 45 1 pages

1995 04 29_C. Richard Farley, Jr. to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 46 17 pages

1995 05 01_C. Richard Farley, Jr. to Commandant, US Coast Guard - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 47 59 pages

1995 05 11_Robert G. Teets to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 48 28 pages

1995 05 25_Robert G. Teets to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 49 1 pages

1995 06 09_Tanya M. Felder, OSTP to Sue Bachtel - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 50 1 pages

1995 06 12_Robert G. Teets to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 51 6 pages

1995 07 05_John Kriethe to Tanya M. Felder - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 52 3 pages

1995 08 04_John Gibbons to Laurance Rockefeller - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 53 2 pages

1995 08 17_C. B. Scott Jones to Representative Steven Schiff - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 54 10 pages

1995 08 23_C. B. Scott Jones to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 55 23 pages

1995 08 23_Laurance Rockefeller to President William J. Clinton - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 56 6 pages

1995 09 09_Neil Freer to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 57 10 pages

1995 10 13_James M. McCampbell to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 58 14 pages

1995 11 00_Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document by Don Berliner - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 63 129 pages

1995 11 01_Henry Diamond to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 61 3 pages

1995 11 01_Sue Bachtel to Elizabeth Haviland - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 60 4 pages

1995 11 08_Henry Diamond to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 62 4 pages

1995 11 21_Stan Gordon to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 64 6 pages

1996 02 05_Laurance Rockefeller to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 65 2 pages

1996 02 24_Robert G. Todd to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 66 25 pages

1996 02 27_USAF Secretary Sheila Widnall to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 59 2 pages

1996 02 29_Laurance Rockefeller to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 68 41 pages

1996 03 01_USAF Secretary Sheila Widnall to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 67 55 pages

1996 06 06_Henry Diamond to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 69 3 pages

1996 06 10_David Reynolds to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 70 1 pages

1996 07 10_Bruce Maccabee to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 73 2 pages

1996 09 03_Philip Mantle to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 71 2 pages

1996 10 17_Laurance Rockefeller to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 72 16 pages

1997 01 02_Bruce Maccabee to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 73b 11 pages

1997 02 28_Robert G. Todd to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 74 10 pages

1997 03 29_C. Richard Farley, Jr. to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 75 1 pages

1997 04 18_Barbara Ann Ferguson to Samuel M. Sherman - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 76 2 pages

1997 04 18_Jonathon Foster to Samuel M. Sherman - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 77 3 pages

1997 06 18_Jonathon Foster to Samuel M. Sherman - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 78 2 pages

1997 06 20_USAF Secretary Sheila Widnall to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 79 2 pages

1997 08 12_Barbara Ann Ferguson to Robert G. Todd - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 80 2 pages

1997 08 22_Barbara Ann Ferguson to Robert W. Boyajian - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 81 4 pages

1997 08 25_Barbara Ann Ferguson to Michael Filipic - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 82 3 pages

1998 01 15_Richard F. Haines to John Gibbons - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 83 16 pages

1998 05 27_Barbara Ann Ferguson to Carolyn Price - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 84 3 pages

1998 06 23_Barbara Ann Ferguson to Robert W. Boyajian - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 85 3 pages

1999 04 17_Barbara Ann Ferguson to Andrew Sparkes - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 86 3 pages

2001 02 07_Barbara Ann Ferguson to Grant Cameron - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 87 2 pages

2001 06 12_Barabara Ann Ferguson to Grant Cameron - OSTP - FOIA 01 22 - item no 88 2 pages

Total Pages 944 pages



As for the material photographed by Grant Cameron from files at the Clinton Presidential Library, I have created the following searchable PDFs of those images:

Clinton Library - File 2006-0474-F --- UFO 829 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0476-F 150 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0477-F --- Belfast trip 29 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0478-F --- Belfast trip 8 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0480-F --- Laurance Rockefeller 90 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0482-F 38 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0483-F 55 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0484-F 14 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0488-F 12 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0489-F --- Steven Spielberg 164 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0490-F 7 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0497-F 49 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0498-F 11 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0501-F 5 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0502-F 8 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0503-F 4 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0504-F 3 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0505-F 2 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0506-F 6 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0507-F 8 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0526-F 36 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0527-F --- Area 51 328 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0533-F 13 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0537-F 21 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0543-F 2 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-0550-F 12 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-1877-F --- Movie Contact 9 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-1878-F --- Allan Hills meteorite 33 pages

Clinton Library - File 2006-1879-F --- Carl Sagan 149 pages

Clinton Library - File 2008-0359-F --- Joe Firmage 51 pages

Clinton Library - File 2009-1055-F 22 pages

Miscellaneous 83 pages

Total Pages 2251 pages




The combined total from these total sources is a bit over 3,100 pages. I am still missing a few pages, but I hope to add those shortly.



Here are a few sample pages:

As requested by the CIA's Dr Ronald Pandolfi, Dr Bruce Maccabee prepared this briefing for President Clinton's science advisor, Dr John Gibbons. He notes some investigators had concluded that there has been "a compartmented study of debris and bodies" from at least one UFO crash.






"Roswell Declaration" signed by former astronauts Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper, stating they support a request for an Executive Order "declassifying any U S Government information regarding the existence of UFOs or extraterrestrial intelligence".












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Thursday, December 1, 2022

Second pile of Soviet material on UFOs and "Non-Recurrent Ultrafast Phenomena" now online (1980s-1990s)

Further to my upload earlier this week, another pile of Soviet material from the USSR on UFOs and "Non-Recurrent Ultrafast Phenomena" is online today, thanks to help from Ukrainian researcher Igor Kalytyuk in obtaining material from across Russia and Eastern Europe and in securing permissions from various UFO researchers and groups.  

This new upload includes 25 issues of "M-skyi treugolnik" ("M-sky Triangle"), plus issues of "UFO mif ili realnost" ("UFO Myth or Reality") and "Neperiodicheskiye bystroprotekayuschiye yavleniya v okruzhayuschey srede" (""Non-Recurrent Ultrafast Phenomena"). 

("Non-Recurrent Ultrafast Phenomena" is a new term to me which I don't recall previously hearing in my interviews of Russian UFO researchers, to be added to the plethora of terms used in the West in relation to UFOs, UAPs, AAVs, LITS etc...).

This upload adds to Soviet material that Igor and various researchers in Ukraine and Russia, particularly George Fedorovskiy and Mikhail Gershtein, have previously helped me obtain and share online.

I'll get back to uploading UFO material in English very shortly...




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