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As the first of three presents for the UFO community this Christmas, I would like to share the expert input statement below and the list of endorsements of it. The following individuals kindly agreed to my requests to endorse this statement : Dr Kit Green (formerly of the CIA), Dr Hal...

I posted 12 days ago that the New York Times was working on an article about a US government study of UFOs. That article is now online. Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program Luis Elizondo and others associated with Tom DeLonge get mentioned, but not Tom...

Further to my post a month or so ago on the exciting topic of file name formats for newspaper clippings (yawn..., I know...), I have recently been working with Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren at the AFU in Sweden on the next (more concrete) steps - including: (a) combining a few collections of...

As a bit of light planning for one aspect of Project Phoenix (a week long experiment in collaboration in ufology which I'm still aiming to do in November/December this year to tie up some loose ends, as I mentioned a few months ago), I've now started to combine some large collections of UFO...

A new scathing review of the current state of ufology by veteran Spanish ufologist Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos is at link below: UFO FOTOCAT BLOG: 2017/06/09 (For anyone not familiar with his name, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos is a Spanish researcher with over 30 years of experience in this...

During the last few weeks, I have been continuing to make requests to various researchers for permission to scan newsletters that they used to edit and seeking to get those newsletters scanned. The generally positive responses have continued. Fortunately, my cooperation with the AFU in Sweden...

I have had a run of good luck recently with requests for permission to upload material. Yet again, most of the scans have been done by our friends at the AFU in Sweden – with various (sometimes considerable) gaps filled by veteran American ufologist Barry Greenwood. Further credits for the...

Albert K Bender and Gray Barker are well known to those interested in the history of tales of the “Men In Black”. Albert Bender was the founder of the International Flying Saucer Bureau (“IFSB”). The IFSB was one of the first major UFO groups. The article on Wikipedia about Albert Bender says...

Discussions of UFOs in relation to US politics is nothing new. Calls for revelation of “the truth” and for congressional hearings regarding UFOs date back to the relatively early days of the modern UFO era. Indeed, one man sought to be elected President on the basis of – among other things –...

Wilbert B Smith (of Canada's Project Magnet) was associated with a UFO group in Canada called the "Ottawa New Sciences Club". That group published the "Topside" newsletter. Issues of “Topside” are pretty difficult to obtain so I was very pleased when, a few months ago, Canadian researcher...

John Schuessler (former International Director of MUFON, probably best known for his work on the Cash-Landrum incident) has given me permission to upload his "UFO Potpourri" and "Potpourri News" newsletters. These newsletters were mainly used to circulate press-clippings. They were generally...

Several leading Australian researchers have now very kindly given me permission to arrange for various UFO magazines/newsletters to be made freely available online. The first batch of searchable scans includes: Item 1. ACOS Bulletin (1974-1979): Index of /Downloads/Magazines/Australia/ACOS...

UFO periodicals vary considerably in their quality, appearance, scope, approach and longevity. The differences in their appearance and scope are illustrated by the latest publications in relation to which I’ve obtained permission to share online as searchable PDFs : on the one hand Harry Belil’s...

A video has gone viral on Facebook and various gullible UFO websites in the last few days showing an alien-looking entity supposedly being interviewed in 1964. One copy of the video on Youtube has approximately 0.5 million views after just a few weeks online. Whitley Strieber (author of the...

Another batch of searchable PDF versions of various UFO periodicals is now online. The publications listed below are the latest additions to the website of the AFU in Sweden. I’m grateful to those involved for granting me permissions to upload their publications and to the AFU for doing most of...

As the latest part of my little summer project which involves seeking, in conjunction with the AFU in Sweden plus various other UFO groups and veteran researchers, to make numerous defunct UFO magazines/newsletters available online (where permission/copyright issues allow), the latest uploads...

Jerome Clark’s excellent (albeit rather expensive…) book “The UFO Encyclopedia” (2nd Edition) states that Max B Miller’s magazine “Saucers” was “one of the few periodicals in which both conservative mainstream ufologists and contactees, who ordinarily occupied separate mental and literary...

Gloria Heather Dixon is the Head of the National Investigations Committee of BUFORA. (BUFORA, or “The British UFO Research Association”, is a long-standing UFO group which describes itself as “a non-cultist and scientifically evaluative organisation since its formation in 1962”). Heather Dixon...

Rick Hilberg has kindly given me permission to make his “UFO Magazine” freely available online. Rick Hilberg is a veteran ufologist (or, as he put it to me in a recent comment, an “old ufological dinosaur…”). He published “UFO Magazine” in the 1960s-1970s and is still active in ufology today...

Most members of this forum will be familiar with J Allen Hynek’s name from the assistance he provided as an astronomer to the US Air Force’s UFO investigations or from the highly respected UFO books he later wrote. Many of you will also be aware that he founded the “Center for UFO Studies”...