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Ghost Rockets documentary
About five years ago documentary filmmakerns Michael Cavanagh and Kerstin Übelacker watched a UFO documentary on Discovery Channel where several ufologists were interviewed. Most of them spoke...
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Some further notes on Paul M. Vest
In my latest book Gudarna återvänder. Ufo och den esoteriska traditionen (Return of the Gods. UFOs and the Esoteric Tradition) and several blog entries I have advanced the theory that some of the...
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The UFO-Sweden spirit
We use to say there is a spirit of place, the special quality associated with a city or rural area. Every group and organization also creates its own, special spirit or Genius loci. The unique and...
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Humanism, skepticism, esotericism
After many years of field investigation and documentation critical and scientifically oriented ufologists, Forteans and investigators of paranormal phenomena face the dilemma of finding a tenable and...
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The Rehn - APRO correspondence
In August 1989 AFU collegue Anders Liljegren and I succeded in rescuing the exceedingly important correpondence files of Swedish UFO research pioneer K. Gösta Rehn, for many years the APRO...
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AFU - Archives for Forbidden Underground Science
No, we haven´t adopted a new name. AFU is still the acronym for Archives for the Unexplained, formerly Archives for UFO Research. But during a recent tour perusing our three libraries crammed with...
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Richard Kieninger, UFOs and the Esoteric Tradition
In the October 1970 issue of his newsletter Anomaly John Keel mentioned the contactee experiences of Richard Kieninger, founder of The Stelle Group and community Stelle, not far from Chicago, Illinois....
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"We flew in from the east" - Part 1
A few days ago I watched a documentary on the life of John F. Kennedy. In a speech in Dublin on June 28, 1963 he said: "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics, whose...
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Håkan: Did Ben Austin work at the same company as your husband?Anna: No, not at all and what would such a person be doing out there in the bush? He said he was keeping an eye on what humanity was...
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Gösta Johansson - pioneer ufologist
Most of the pioneer ufologists of the 1950s and 60s are now gone. That includes my old friend Gösta Johansson (1921-1993). He lived in Stockholm, worked as a contructional engineer and became an active...
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Marc Hallet - A Critical Appraisal of George Adamski
Mention the name George Adamski among serious, scientific ufologists and you will without hesitation get comments like: Liar, fraud, cultist, charlatan etc without much argumentation. What scientific...
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Värmland and the Esoteric Tradition
First I would like to share a beautiful and thought-provoking quote which I take to my heart as a collector of owl figurines:"Philosophy is the bird of wisdom, and the bird of wisdom is the owl. But...
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The future of ufology
On September 10 and 11th AFU was visited by Jim Semivan and Deborah Stokes from the United States. They have a long-standing interest in UFOs and the paranormal with several intriguing personal...
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What I have been trying to say
In March 2009 I started this blog in Swedish and changed to the English language in March 2013. During the first four years much new data on the history of the Swedish UFO movement, close encounter and...
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Esotericism and intellectual integrity
As a young student of Philosophy and History of Religions at Stockholm University in the 1970s one of the basic philosophical problems occupying my inquisitive mind was the intellectual and...
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Guides and mentors: Sten Lindgren
The famous Swedish philosopher Ingemar Hedenius (1908-1982) wrote a short autobiography with the pertinent title Varför blev jag den jag är? (Why I became who I am?), published posthumously in 1992. I...
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Theodore Illion as esotericist
In three earlierblogentries I have presented the fascinating life and mystery surrounding Dr. Rudolf von Linauer who claimed to have witnessed Tibetan monks lifting giant blocks of stone using sound...
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Guides and mentors: John Keel
As I mentioned in a recent blog my first mentor in the intriguing world of ufology was the Swedish UFO contactee Sten Lindgren. During the first years of the 1970s I participated in many activities...
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Guides and mentors: Sture and Turid Johansson
In my life I have met many interesting and extraordinary personalities. Some have been basically mentors and others both friends and mentors. In this last category I include the couple Sture and Turid...
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Guides and mentors: Timothy Good
To keep the chronology of the guides and mentors in my life the relevant name here should be Riley Crabb, director of Borderland Sciences Research Foundation (BSRF) 1959-1985. But as I have written...
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