Isaac Koi - New Uploads

ATS ("AboveTopSecret") was a very popular UFO / conspiracy discussion forum until the rise of Facebook, Twitter and other modern social media.  ATS has been in a downward trajectory for a few years due to that competition.  During the last week or two, ATS has appeared to teeter on the brink of collapse. All users were locked out of their accounts. The current owner appears to have disappeared and failed to sort things out. It seems that it's only due to the work of a few active volunteers on ATS, particularly "Djarums", that access has been restored for some members. 

It's rather unclear if ATS will survive for much longer.

I've archived about 100 of my more substantial UFO threads from ATS as searchable PDF documents.  I've also archived over 60 UFO threads by Karl12 after he gave me permission to do the same with his UFO threads.  

I'm tempted to widen the archiving effort of UFO threads from ATS given the recent failures in relation to ATS and the risk that it may go down permanently, possibly soon.  I did want permission from the new owner (and I've requested permission on ATS several times during the last few years, without any objection but no clear consent - although some of the moderators of ATS have helped me develop code to archive ATS threads as searchable PDFs...).    

The archiving code that I've developed (with help from ChatGPT and some other members of ATS, particularly "Drewlander") iterates through a list saved in a file called "thread_details.csv" and creates a PDF of each thread in that list (as in the samples at the link above). That file listing threads can be used to store a list of relevant threads, in the format:

THREADNUMBER,NUMBER OF PAGES,AUTHOR - BRIEF TITLE  [with no spaces after each comma]

e.g. :

1308154,14,Karl12 - New And Revised UFO Quote Directory

1278525,3,Karl12 - Highly Dubious USAF UFO Explanations

1231535,4,Karl12 - Early UFO Saucer Reports

841422,5,Karl12 - UFOs and falling leaf or pendulum motion

1171896,3,Karl12 - UFOs and Colour Change

878723,7,Karl12 - Electromagnetic Effects Associated with UFOS

460705,4,Karl12 - UFO OVNI Shapes

1233389,6,Karl12 - UFO Time Anomaly Research

505080,9,Karl12 - Unusual reports of UFOs taking on water

1261532,7,Karl12 - UFO Faerie Lore Connection

1273353,3,Karl12 - UFOs And Stopped Clocks

1271101,2,Karl12 - UFO Animal Reaction Research

1263051,3,Karl12 - UFO  Cryptid Research

898220,6,Karl12 - UFO Light Beam Cases

1286201,3,Karl12 - UFO Pilot Under-Reporting Bias

900175,5,Karl12 - Missing Gun Camera UFO Footage

513308,10,Karl12 - UFO Government Documentary Evidence - Greenewald

I posted the relevant code and a brief bit of background in a blog post a while ago (before the most recent technical/hacking problems with ATS): 

https://isaackoiup.blogspot.com/2023/04/some-abovetopsecret-ufo-threads.html

If other members of ATS want (and, ideally, give their permission), I can expand this archive.  If anyone wants particular threads added, it would be helpful if they provided their list of requests in the same format as that used to list threads above (since I can then quickly paste that list into a file to be iterated by the code I've developed).