A Must Read Article

[exo_doc]

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090320/BLOG32/903209969?Title=So-long-Mr-Reiss-

There's something ....well, haunting about this story. I thought some would enjoy reading this.
It's the kind of story that makes you think.

 

[Gen]

Fascinating. How sad that this man had to lead something of a double life.

I hope that his relative decides to donate his material to Anomaly Archives or to a researcher who can put it to good use. It sounds like all this good research was done at least partly in isolation.

For all we know, the UFOlogical Holy Grail may be in one of those boxes -- it may just take another set of eyes to see it.

 

[dhatz]

Gen, I understood that Mr Reiss donated his UFO archive to Billy Cox, or did I get it wrong?

The issue of preserving UFO history is very important. It's such a pity that much of it gets lost, e.g. APRO Wikimedia Error (one of the 2 biggest UFO organisations in North America during the 50s-70s) archive is inaccessible and seemingly lost.

BTW I think that UFO research had its most productive period during the 1960s and 1970s.

Personally, I'd be much more interested to have TheBlackVault scan/OCR and offer online the old newsletters of NICAP and APRO, rather than the official documents from US government (although I realise that most people think otherwise). I remember an old interview of Jerome Clark (I think in SDI) that while working on his UFO encyclopedia, he studied both "official" investigations and the archives of UFO organisations and thought the latter "were doing a much better job".