Saturday, October 9, 2021
Russia's "UFO Tayny Neopoznannogo" magazine now online
Thursday, September 30, 2021
"UFO Investigators League Field Manual" (1979) now online
The "UFO Investigators League Field Manual" (1979, by Timothy Green Beckley and Harold Salkin of the UFO Investigators League) is now online.
The UFO Investigators League was founded by Timothy Green Beckley in the early 1970s. Tim sadly passed away in May 2021. A few years ago, Tim kindly gave me permission to upload his out-of-print UFO publications and I have previously uploaded various newsletters he published, including "Inner Light", "Interplanetary New Service", "Searchlight", "UFO Review" and "UFO Sightings".
This field manual is the latest in a series of publications I have helped get online intended for the training of new UFO investigators (e.g. APRO's Field Investigators Handbook and Robert Moore's "The Ufology Handbook"). This particular manual is one of the briefer manual's for UFO investigators, being only 10 pages long. It includes advice on the "challenge, hard work and adventure" ahead of those that have decided to become UFO field investigators. The manual suggests that "You will meet interesting people, go to intriguing places, and perhaps even come up with some new evidence that will help solve the ever-expanding mystery of the skies".
My thanks to Matthew Riot for scanning this item extremely promptly.
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
"Journal of Vampirology" (USA, 1980s, John Vellutini) now online
Scans of 10 issues (out of 19 that were published) have been produced so far by the AFU in Sweden.
As some of you know, my personal interest is primarily in UFO publications/material but I don't mind doing a bit of work to help get other Fortean material online. (The AFU has a collection of material that extends beyond UFOs and has been willing to scan and host material on, for example, crop circles, cryptozoology, folklore, "Earth Mysteries" and other topics - where I have been able to obtain permissions from relevant editors/groups).
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Rare USA, 1960s "Controversial Phenomena Bulletin" and "Probe" UFO magazines (Joseph Ferriere) now online
Joseph Ferriere, an American UFO researcher, edited the "Controversial Phenomena Bulletin" and its continuation under the title "Probe" in the 1960s.
A friend of Joseph Ferriere, Paul Eno, has commented that Joseph L. Ferriere (1939-2012) "was a respected broadcaster, UFO researcher, writer, publisher and a true gentleman".
In addition to various interesting articles, these magazines included a considerable number of photographs of UFO researchers and witnesses from that era (including material from August C Roberts).
Matthew Riot has commented that "Controversial Phenomena Bulletin" has "some some awesome old art".
I have been trying to contact members of Joseph Ferriere's family for the last two or three years with permission requests to make this material available online. Yesterday, his grand-daughter kindly let me know that I can go ahead.
Matthew Riot has helpfully scanned 5 issues of "Controversial Phenomena Bulletin". That publication is rather rare (with the AFU's huge archive in Sweden only having 2 issues, which it has also kindly scanned). The AFU has also scanned 8 issues of Joseph Ferriere's subsequent "Probe" magazine.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
More French PDFs - SERPAN newsletters and reports
La SERPAN (the "Societe d'Enquete et de Recherche sur les Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non-identifies") published a newsletter and several reports in the early 1990s, including a report on the Trans-En-Provence case.
Patrice Seray, the French UFO researcher, not only provided me with scans of those newsletters and reports but also obtained permission from Eric Maillot and Gilles Musch for me to make the scans available online.
I have now added this material to the France folder on the AFU's website.
"MUFON Medical Committee Newsletter" online
This adds to the material that I've helped make available online, or hope to make available in the future, by various UFO researchers in relation to alleged biological effects associated with UFO sightings. That material has included, for example, the NICAP "Special Report" on "Strange Effects from UFOs" which I have previously uploaded with permission of Gordon Lore, thanks to a scan by Barry Greenwood. That contained an early catalogue of UFO cases with alleged physiological effects. Obviously, some of the more recent work by Kit Green, John Schuessler, Richard C Niemtzow and others that I've been looking into during the last few years is more extensive, but I like tracing the history of a research topic.
A scan of that issue has helpfully been provided to me by Matthew Riot. Click on the image below for a link to the relevant folder.
John Schuessler has previously kindly given me permission to upload his "UFO Potpourri" and "Potpourri News" newsletters. I uploaded over 140 issues of those publications in 2016, with thanks to the AFU in Sweden for scanning those publications.
(I may try again to get some further permissions for more MUFON publications soon. Since getting permission from MUFON HQ a couple of years ago to upload MUFON state/specialist newsletters where the relevant entity gives permission, I've helped get online the newsletters of MUFON Arizona, MUFON Colorado, MUFON Georgia, MUFON Massachusetts, MUFON Michigan, MUFON Minnesota, MUFON Missouri, MUFON New Hampshire, MUFON New Jersey, MUFON New Mexico, MUFON New York City, MUFON Ohio, MUFON Pennsylvania, and MUFON Tennessee).
Gaps filled in several rare French UFO newsletters - "Echo du CERPA" and "Vimana"
"Vimana" gaps : Guy Tarade kindly gave me permission to upload his "Vimana" magazine in 2018 (thanks to Edoardo Russo and Bruno Mancusi for their help liaising with Guy). A total of 7 issues were provided at that time by Patrice Seray, Pierre Lagrange and the AFU, which I uploaded in 2018. Patrice Seray has now obtained and scanned a further 5 issues.
"Echo du Cerpa" gaps : I received permission from Bernard Hugues of CERPA Marseille to upload "Echo du Cerpa" in 2018 (along with Univers Ovni and AMA). Gilles Durand of SCEAU kindly provided one issue of "Echo du Cerpa" at that time (which I uploaded in 2018). Patrice Seray has now provided a further issue (Issue No 1).
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