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Esotericism and the intellectual humanist
After a lifetime of travel, field investigation and study of UFO, Fortean and paranormal phenomena American journalist John A. Keel reached the conclusion shared by many researchers into these areas:...
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Understanding Sweden, Unit no. 1
One of the largest UFO contactee organizations in the 1950s and 60s was Understanding, Inc. founded by Daniel W. Fry in 1955. From a modest beginning with nine members in El Monte, California the...
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A book that will become a classic
This weekend Clas Svahn, former chairman of UFO-Sweden, presented his latest book at the Göteborg Book Fair: UFO: Spökraketer, ljusglober och utomjordingar (UFO: Ghost Rockets, Globes and...
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Visitors and donations
As usual there is a steady stream of visitors to AFU. Guiding groups and presenting all our eleven premises takes quite some time so my collegue Anders Liljegren and I use to limit the presentation to...
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What happened to Bevan Berthelsen?
This week I have arranged the organizational files of Köpings UFO-förening, one of the most active and prominent local groups in UFO-Sweden history. It was founded already in January 1973 and folded in...
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Documenting the UFO movement
From a larger cultural perspective the impact of the UFO phenomenon on society after the Second World War has been tremendous. It has engendered a military, scientific, religious and popular culture...
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Bob Rickard and board meeting
This week we had the pleasure of having Bob Rickard as a guest at AFU. He is one of our foremost donors of books, magazines and clippings on UFO and Fortean subjects. With his typical Fortean humour...
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The Howard Menger enigma
There are two basic ideas or themes presented in my latest book Gudarna återvänder. Ufo och den esoteriska traditionen (Return of the Gods. UFOs and the Esoteric Tradition). First and foremost I have...
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The worlds oldest UFO society?
As far as I am aware AFU, Archives for the Unexplained, is the worlds largest UFO/Fortean archive and library. But perhaps we also have the oldest still active UFO society in Sweden? On October 1, 1958...
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Christmas greetings
To my friends on this planet and on other planets and spheres in the multiverseI wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
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Books for the new year
Even for a librarian it is almost impossible to keep up to date with new titles, especially for me who try to follow the publishing of books relating to both UFOs and the Esoteric Tradition. Here are a...
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The fantastic world of Johny Lindell
During my many years of investigating and documenting contactee cases I have met a wide assortement of personalities, most of them sincere mystics with diverse forms of inner experiences. There has...
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Hotel Lilton revisited
A pleasant UFO-Sweden tradition is the annual board meeting at Hotel Lilton in Ängelholm. A small but very charming 19th century hotel in the center of the city. The UFO-Sweden board has gathered here...
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Four reasons for private UFO research
Many times on this blog I have referred to the diaries of Jacques Vallee, Forbidden Science, so far published in two volumes. These diaries are absolute must reading for all serious ufologists,...
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Alien encounters in Mesoamerica
When Ardy Sixkiller Clarke was a young girl in high school she was deeply fascinated by the two 19th century explorers John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood. She read their classic Incidents of...
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Daniel Fry biography
As an investigator of contactee cases for many years I have often lamented the lack of thorough research and documentation of the early classic contactees of the 1950s. There is still no biography of...
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Desmond Leslie as esotericist
In the history of the UFO movement Desmond Leslie (1921-2001) has a prominent role and it was his writings and theories that to a large extent influenced much of the 1950s and 60s ufology. The book he...
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Esoteric archives
As librarian and archivist one of my favourite movie series is The Librarian, starring Noah Wyle as the librarian Flynn Carsen. After a very special interview and scrutiny he is hired by The...
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UFO-Sweden, ideology and theories
In a recent blog post by former MUFON director James Carrion he presents some very critical views regarding the work and ideology of the organization he headed between 2006-2010. In the blog post with...
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The future of phenomena investigation
When I began my active involvement in ufology in 1970 field investigation was a relatively simple pursuit. It was not too difficult to ascertain the usual misinterpretations of planets, stars,...
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