Isaac Koi - New Uploads

Thursday, February 24, 2022

2,000+ cool images of strange/novel aircraft (from Michael Huntington's "Clandestine airspace" archive) + small Python/Selenium coding challenge

I’d like (ideally with a bit of help from others, particularly those with a bit more coding experience – probably, but not necessarily, with Python / Selenium…) to develop a new archiving method for UFO material. This relates to images of UFOs/IFOs and related information. I think this possibility has considerable potential to help improve some aspects of UFO research. It’s worth a try anyway...

In short, I’d like to combine code that enables reverse image search results to be generated from locally stored images with code that enables the taking of snapshots of webpages.

Since both sets of codes already exist, I’m hoping that combining the two will be relatively simple (famous last words, I know…) and allow the batch creation of an archive of the results of reverse image searches on tens of thousands of UFO/IFO images.

To help with testing of code for this idea, I've created a folder on the AFU’s website containing the photos from one of Michael Huntington's Facebook albums ("Clandestine Airspace"), with his kind permission. That album includes over 2,000 images – most of which are, I think, pretty cool.

I think that a discussion forum, rather than social media or this blog, is the best venue to push this idea forward - so have posted more details on the AboveTopSecret.com discussion forum at this link : "UFO / IFO images : Coding challenge - batch reverse image searches (Python / Selenium?)".

I'll post more about this project here at a later date ... if it works.

Monday, February 21, 2022

PDFs : "Alien Digest" (1990s), published by Ron Rummel. (Ron and his friend Phil Schneider both appear in lists of "suspicious" deaths of UFO researchers)

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.

Thursday, February 17, 2022

UFO articles from mainstream USA magazines : Some collections expanded (e.g. "Male"), some other gaps filled (e.g. "Look", "Life") - mainly with John Keel articles

Further to my recent uploads of UFO articles from various mainstream magazines from the USA, I've now been able to obtain a number of articles to fill in gaps in those collections - including the previously uploaded collections explicitly aimed at men.

A significant number of these gaps have been filled due to the efforts of a new contributor to the UFO archive: Jerry Hamm. (Jerry's Scribd page includes many UFO articles, with a focus on material by John Keel, and he has kindly said that I can use his scans to fill in gaps in my online archive).

For example, the collection of UFO articles from "Male" magazine has now increased from a single article (which was included in a mass of material kindly provided by Russian researcher Mikhail Gershtein) to a total of 11 articles. Conversely, Jerry's collection includes two UFO articles from "Men" magazine - so I've created a folder for the "Men" magazine and started looking for additional material from it (and uploaded a UFO article provided by Mikhail Gershtein to a folder for a sister publication, "Men Annual").

Jerry Hamm's contributions have also fixed a few smaller frustrating issues. For example, my previous upload of a collection of 11 articles from "Life" magazine included an incomplete copy of one article (1966 04 01_Life) - which I've now been able to replace with a complete copy. Similarly, the collection of UFO articles from "Look" magazine includes a better copy of one of those articles.

Although the informal network contributing to the online archive now comfortably exceeds 100 UFO groups/researchers, each additional contributor potentially results in an ability to fill in more gaps and/or obtain permission to upload more material - or identifying further potential sources of material...

Several French researchers, particularly Pierre Lagrange and Patrice Seray, have also been continuing to help to fill in gaps in the magazines from the USA e.g. of Look magazine articles.

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

PDFs: "SAGA" magazine UFO articles - mainly by John Keel (1960s-1970s)

Over 50 UFO articles were published in SAGA magazine in the 1960-1970s (as well as separate UFO publications also published by SAGA - particularly the SAFA Special UFO Report, the SAGA UFO Annual and the SAGA UFO Report).

Russian researcher Mikhail Gershtein kindly provided me with scans of many SAGA articles about UFOs. While looking to fill in gaps, I found that Jerry Hamm had helpfully uploaded many articles from SAGA magazine to his Scribd page. Jerry has helpfully indicated to me that he has no objection to my using his scans to fill in gaps in my online archive.

I have now uploaded searchable copies (adding them to the section I created for UFO articles from mainstream magazines in the USA, which is separate from the much larger section for UFO periodicals).

Many of these SAGA articles about UFOs were written by John Keel (including a regular column entitled "Ancient Astronauts, Modern Mysteries"). Other contributors included Brad Steiger, Otto Binder and contactee Ted Owens.

I'll paste below a brief indication of the SAGA articles included in this upload.

1967 02 00_SAGA - John Keel - UFO Kidnappers

1967 06 00_SAGA - John Fuller - Moon craters or secret UFO bases

1967 10 00_SAGA - John Keel - UFO Agents of Terror

1968 01 00_SAGA - John Keel - Strange Messages From Flying Saucers

1968 04 00_SAGA - John Keel - Secret UFO Bases Across the US

1968 06 00_SAGA - Brad Steiger - Unidentified Underwater Saucers

1968 07 00_SAGA - John Keel - UFO mysterious gas attacks

1968 10 00_SAGA - John Keel - Mothman Monster

1969 09 00_SAGA - Ahearn - Mankind children of the planets

1969 11 00_SAGA - Otto Binder - Underground Saucer Bases

1969 12 00_SAGA - Otto Binder - Electromagnetic Test or Extraterrestrial Maneuvers

1970 01 00_SAGA - Otto Binder - Liquidation of the UFO Investigators

1970 04 00_SAGA - Roy Norton - Herbert Schirmer worlds most incredible UFO

1970 08 00_SAGA - Otto Binder - Ted Owens Spokesman for the UFOs

1970 09 00_SAGA - Otto Binder - Ted Owens UFOs Mission to Earth

1971 03 00_SAGA - Otto Binder - Ted Owens Flying Saucer Missionary

1971 04 00_SAGA - Otto Binder - Ted Owens flying saucer prophet of doom

1972 02 00_SAGA - Ted Owens - Communicate with UFO Space Intelligences

1973 04 00_SAGA - John Keel - Americas Unrecognized UFO Experts

1973 06 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1973 07 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1973 08 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1973 09 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1973 10 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1973 11 00_SAGA - John Keel - Mystery of the Alien Submarines

1973 12 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1974 01 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1974 03 00_SAGA - Goodavage - Discoveries on the Moon

1974 05 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1974 06 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1974 07 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1974 08 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1974 10 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1974 11 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1974 12 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1975 01 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1975 02 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1975 03 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1975 04 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1975 05 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1975 05 00_SAGA - John Keel - The UFO Silencers

1975 06 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1975 07 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1975 08 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1975 09 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1975 10 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1975 11 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1975 12 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1976 01 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1976 02 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1976 03 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1976 04 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1976 05 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1976 06 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1976 07 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1976 08 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1976 09 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1976 10 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1976 12 00_SAGA - John Keel - Ancient Astronauts Modern Mysteries

1979 07 00_SAGA - The UFO Papers

Monday, February 14, 2022

PDFs : Canadian UFO/paranormal magazine "The Canadian Communicator" (Brian Vike, 2002-2003) added to archive

This morning, a researcher (Bob Spearing) mentioned to me a reference to a Canadian UFO/paranormal newsletter that neither Bob nor I could recall seeing: The Canadian Communicator. It was published by Brian Vike in 2002-2003.

I've now obtained permission from Brian Vike to add searchable copies of that newsletter to the online archive I've been building. I've also obtained copies of all 4 issues of that publication from links given on Brian Vike's blog.

This newsletter included articles by Brian himself, Stanton Friedman, Dennis Balthaser, William F Hamilton III, David Sereda, Craig R Lang and others. Most of the articles relate to UFOs, with some on crop circles, Sasquatch sightings, lake monsters, the Mothman and other paranormal topics.

I've created a new sub-folder in the directory for UFO periodicals from Canada in the online archive and added all 4 issues to that folder.

Sunday, February 13, 2022

UFO researchers 1950s-1990s - photos from archives of Rick Hilberg (USA) : Hynek, Gray Barker, John Keel, Betty Hill and many others

Rick Hilberg, the veteran UFO researcher in the USA, has kindly given me permission to upload copies of photos from his archives of various UFO researchers. Many of these photos were taken at the "Congress of Scientific Ufologists" and "National UFO Conference" events. Most date from the 1950s to the 1990s.

I've created a new folder for material from the archives of Rick Hilberg and uploaded two copies of the photos to that folder. Those two copies are: unedited originals (to preserve the original versions) and copies with labels added giving the names of those in the photos (for sharing on Facebook/Twitter etc, which would strip off the file names giving relevant details).

For ease of browsing, I've also added the labelled copies to an album on Facebook.

Rick Hilberg has previously kindly given me permission to upload various UFO newsletters that he published, which can be found in the folder for UFO newsletters from the USA in the online archive that I've helped create. Those newsletters include: "The Flying Saucer Digest", "Lo!", and Rick Hilberg's "UFO Magazine".

These photographs include:

1.       Allan Manak, Donald Keyhoe - 1964, Earl Neff front yard
2.       Allan Manak, Jim Moseley, Rick Hilberg, Carol Hilberg - 1994 National UFO Conference, Cleveland
3.       Allen Greenfield, Gene Steinberg - 1976 Mysticon, Cleveland Ohio
4.       Betty Hill - 1980 National UFO Conference, New York
5.       Charles Berlitz - 1990 National UFO Conference, Miami Beach
6.       Connie Menger, Howard Menger - 1990 National UFO Conference, Miami Beach
7.       Dale Rettig, Gene Steinberg, Allen Greenfield, Rick Hilberg - 1965 second Congress of Scientific Ufologists, Cleveland
8.       David Halperin - 1965 Glassboro New Jersey landing site
9.       David Halperin, Yonah Fortner, Allen Greenfield, James Moseley - 1965 Congress of Scientific Ufologists
10.   Edward Biebel, Antonio Huneeus, Rick Hilberg - 1990 National UFO Conference, Miami Beach
11.   Edward Biebel, James Moseley, Carol Hilberg - 1990 National UFO Conference, Miami Beach
12.   ELIOTT~1
13.   Frank E Stranges - 1990 National UFO Conference, Miami Beach
14.   Gene Steinberg, Rick Hilberg, Curt Sutherly, Bob Easley - 1975 Mysticon, Parma Ohio
15.   Gray Barker - 1968 National UFO Conference, Cleveland Ohio
16.   Gray Barker - 1980 National UFO Conference, New York
17.   Gray Barker - 1980 October, Pittsburg
18.   Gray Barker - promoting his 1956 book
19.   Gray Barker, Allan Manak - 1971 National UFO Conference, Cleveland Ohio
20.   Gray Barker, Mike Mann, Jim Moseley - 1965 Congress of Scientific Ufologists
21.   Howard Menger
22.   Jim Moseley, Allan Manak - 1994 National UFO Conference, Cleveland Ohio
23.   Jim Moseley, Miss UFO - 1980 National UFO Conference, New York
24.   Jim Moseley, Tom Benson, Rick Hilberg - 1980 National UFO Conference, New York
25.   John J Robinson, Joyce Manak, Allan Manak, Rick Hilberg - 1966 National UFO Conference, Cleveland
26.   John Keel - 1980 National UFO Conference, New York
27.   John Keel, Gray Barker, Jim Moseley - 1967 Congress of Scientific Ufologists
28.   John Timmerman, Rick Hilberg, J Allen Hynek - 1978 UFO meeting in Lima Ohio
29.   John Timmerman, Walt Andrus - 2000 MUFON Symposium, St Louis
30.   Laura Mundo, Yonahd Fortner, Larry Blazey, Allan Manak - 1965 Congress of Scientific Ufologists, Cleveland
31.   Otic Carr, Gray Barker
32.   Rick Hilberg - 1970s National UFO Conference bathtub of beer
33.   Rick Hilberg - 2018
34.   Rick Hilberg - 2021
35.   Rick Hilberg with parents - 1952
36.   Rick Hilberg, Allen Greenfield - 1966 Atlanta radio interview
37.   Rick Hilberg, Edward Biebel, J Ralph Jarret - 1969 WCHS TV, Charleston West Virginia
38.   Rick Hilberg, J Allen Hynek - 1979 UFO lecture, Lima Ohio
39.   Robert Easley, Allen Greenfield, Jim Moseley, Curt Sutherly - 1994 National UFO Conference, Cleveland Ohio
40.   Ronald Pelger, Rick Hilberg - 1970 late fall National UFO Conference, Cleveland Ohio
41.   Stanton Friedman, Robert Sheaffer, John Keel, Rick Hilberg - 1980 National UFO Conference
42.   Thomas Wertman and wife, David Halperin, Tim Beckley, Allen Greenfield, Bob Easley, Jeremie Hilberg, Rick Hilberg - 2015 National UFO Conerence reunion, Cleveland
43.   Tim Beckley - 1966 Congress of Scientific Ufologists, Cleveland
44.   Tim Beckley, T Allen Greenfield - 1994 National UFO Conference, Cleveland
45.   Wendele Stevens, Jim Moseley, Rick Hilberg, William Moore - 1981 National UFO Conference, Green Bay Wisconsin
46.   William Moore, Tim Beckley, Rick Hilberg, Jim Moseley - 1979 National UFO Conference, Green Bay Wisconsin

Saturday, February 12, 2022

UFO articles from "73 Magazine" for Amateur Radio enthusiasts (1960s-2000s) - Wayne Green's UFO editorials, UFO Net, and Project Starlight

"73 Magazine" (1960-2003) was an amateur radio magazine which published many technical articles and lengthy editorials. A considerable number of the editorials in "73 Magazine" written by its founder and publisher, Wayne Green, over the span of several decades featured discussions of conspiracy theories and UFOs. Those editorials prompted at least one reader to write in to the magazine to complain that "When I buy a ham magazine I couldn't care less about UFOs, ESP, NOE. cold fusion, or regular reruns of your trials and tribulations in the music publishing business. I want to be fully informed on the latest state of the art in ham radio".

The articles in "73 Magazine" featured repeated discussion of using amateur radio networks to enable those interested in UFOs to communicate information, including alerting others when something is spotted and enabling "scientific teams to know immediately where a UFO has been spotted and where it is heading". One article suggested that nothing "other than amateur radio could fit the bill". Wayne Green's own UFO amateur radio network [UFO Net], and other similar UFO networks (including one run by MUFON) and UFO radio shows (e.g. by Art Bell) featured repeatedly in this magazine.

Other UFO articles included an item on Ray Stanford's Project Starlight and one featuring schematics for a UFO detector.

Mikhail Gershtein, the Russian UFO researcher, had previously kindly provided me with scans of 3 articles from "73 Magazine". Looking into those articles, I found that the entire collection of "73 Magazine" has been made freely available online so I downloaded 514 issues and searched them for the keyword "UFO". Unfortunately, due to the imperfect nature of the Optical Character Recognition used in relation to those scans, many of the hundreds of searchable results were irrelevant - but I picked out over 40 relevant items and extracted them to add to my searchable collection of UFO material.

Click on the image below for a link to the relevant folder I've created in the online archive for UFO articles from "73 Magazine".

I'll paste below a brief indication of 43 issues of "73 Magazine" featuring discussions of UFOs.

1966 01 00_73 Magazine - Editorial

1966 03 00_73 Magazine - Letter regarding editorial

1966 05 00_73 Magazine

1967 12 00_73 Magazine - Data Net

1968 04 00_73 Magazine - UFO Net

1968 05 00_73 Magazine - UFO Net

1968 06 00_73 Magazine - UFO Net

1968 08 00_73 Magazine - UFO Net

1968 09 00_73 Magazine - UFO Net

1968 10 00_73 Magazine - UFO Net

1968 12 00_73 Magazine - UFO Net and acceptance

1969 01 00_73 Magazine - Russia

1970 10 00_73 Magazine - UFO Cartoon

1971 08 00_73 Magazine - DX from the stars

1973 08 00_73 Magazine - UFO net

1975 04 00_73 Magazine

1977 04 00_73 Magazine - Walt Andrus - MUFON

1978 12 00_73 Magazine - Project Starlight

1979 12 00_73 Magazine - Cincinnati UFO Net

1980 04 00_73 Magazine - Radio hams

1980 08 00_73 Magazine - UFOs again

1983 03 00_73 Magazine - Editorial

1986 05 00_73 Magazine - Aliens land

1989 04 00_73 Magazine - SETI and UFOs

1990 04 00_73 Magazine - MUFON net manager

1995 06 00_73 Magazine - Comment on editorials

1996 01 00_73 Magazine

1996 03 00_73 Magazine - Editorial

1996 06 00_73 Magazine - Wayne Green editorial

1996 10 00_73 Magazine - Editorial

1996 12 00_73 Magazine - HALO balloon UFO

1997 02 00_73 Magazine - Colombia

1997 10 00_73 Magazine - Editorial

1998 01 00_73 Magazine

1998 05 00_73 Magazine - Editorial

1999 02 00_73 Magazine - UFO Detector

1999 03 00_73 Magazine - David Jacobs

1999 05 00_73 Magazine - War of the Worlds

1999 06 00_73 Magazine - War of the Worlds

1999 09 00_73 Magazine - Art Bell

2000 12 00_73 Magazine - Editorial - SETI

2001 08 00_73 Magazine - UFO Watchtower

2002 02 00_73 Magazine - Coast To Coast