“The New Ufologist” (1994-1997) - Complete set online

[IsaacKoi]

“The New Ufologist” (1994-1997) was co-edited by Jenny Randles together with various other British researchers.

That journal published articles from Jenny Randles and several other interesting researchers from England (including Ralph Noyes – formerly of the Ministry of Defence, Albert Budden, Paul Devereux, Paul Fuller, Nick Redfern and Andy Roberts) plus quite a few of the most prudent European researchers (including Anders Liljegren from Sweden, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos from Spain and Werner Walter from Germany).


A promotional item for “The New Ufologist” included the following:

The New Ufologist is different. Launched in the summer of 1994 by a group of concerned investigators it has three key aims in mind. Firstly, to produce something that reflects serious Ufology which can update objective scientific theories, without descending into pure scepticism. Plus a medium for the most important new case histories presented in depth. This without rejecting any hypothesis, but also without the need to pander to sensationalism to sell copies. It will be sensible, progressive Ufology.

Also it is free of all group structures. Although positive contributions from any organisation will be accepted, the New Ufologist has no ties with any group. Instead it will be compiled by - and for - the UFO movement, primarily in Britain, with invited contributions from Europe and the rest of the world. At open meetings all readers will be offered a say in determining the format of the next issue. This will be a truly democratic outlet.

Finally, the publication will be non-profit making. It has no members to please and no officers expenses. All income beyond that to produce and distribute the magazine will form a central research and investigation fund. Anyone can submit ideas for a research project or more work on a significant case under investigation. At the regular open gatherings you will be able to allot grants from the fund to support the best of the suggested proposals.

In other words, without creating a new group, the New Ufologist will provide a focus for your case studies and research results. It also plans to create a repository of case files, where all can share the data provided.

The publication unfortunately folded after just 6 issues. Jenny Randles took the time today to provide me with the following comments:

I think it went the way that it did because by that time (the late 90s) UFO magazines were just not viable like they used to be and the net was really starting to be the source most used for contact and information. Also UFO groups in the traditional sense were disappearing. And various of the main folks within UFO circles in the UK that had worked on NUFON, UFOIN, New UFOlogist etc had decided that they had reached an impasse insofar as expecting any breakthroughs to appear. Many of them had become increasingly of a null hypothesis perspective as well. So for many reasons the UFO network that existed in Britain in the 70s - 90s ended with the Millennium and a new looser system replaced it. The problem always was that the most die hard UFO enthusiasts believed in the least credible things and so any publication trying to eschew the wilder shores of UFOlogy was going to be the first to become an endangered species.

I recently contacted several of the people connected to The New Ufologist about putting it online. Jenny Randles kindly responded that she was “totally okay” with The New Ufologist going online and that she doubted that anyone else “would be other than delighted either”. Some others connected to The New Ufologist also gave positive responses by email and on Facebook.

So, once again thanks to our friends at the AFU in Sweden doing the boring job of scanning the relevant journals, searchable PDF versions of the complete collection of 6 issues The New Ufologist can be downloaded from this link for the next week:
New Ufologist - Number 2.pdf and 5 more files

After that, or if you only want one issue, you can obtain any of the PDFs from the AFU’s website at:
Index of /Downloads/Magazines/United Kingdom/New Ufologist