Akualele Research Group
For the UFO historian and sociologist the 1950s is a period of special interest. As a result of the frequent and global reports of unknown craft in the sky coupled with claims of contact with space...
View ArticleGustaf Fröding and Esotericism
In the introduction to The Philosopher´s Stone, Swedish esotericist Henry T. Laurency writes: ”There exists a vast literature of which, amazingly, the general public appears to be entirely ignorant.”...
View ArticleAdvice To A Young Ufologist
So, you want to become a ufologist, dedicating your life to researching one of the most fascinating enigmas of our time. Then you are in for a life journey of a most unusual kind and I can guarantee...
View ArticleÅke Franzén And Mothman, Part 1
Because of the renewed interest in Mothman and John Keel I have decided to translate the original interview Anders Liljegren and I made with Åke Franzén on May 19, 1973. It was published in our Swedish...
View ArticleÅke Franzén And Mothman, Part 2
This is the second part of the interview Anders Liljegren and I did with Mothman investigator Åke Franzén, May 19, 1973 and originally published in our Swedish magazine Ufologen, no 12, Nov-Dec...
View ArticleInterview With Rene Erik Olsen
Recently a deeply fascinating and challenging UFO book was published by the Danish painter, photographer and researcher Rene Erik Olsen – The George Adamski Story – Historical Events Of Gigantic...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall Of Understanding, Inc.
In the 1950s and 60s a remarkable social phenomenon emerged, basically concentrated in the State of California. It was organizations founded by UFO contactees, individuals who told of physical and...
View ArticleAlan - The Enigmatic Man From Space
Daniel Fry is one of the most well known of the 1950s contactees. Besides the ride in a saucer on July 4, 1949 he told of several messages received by an inner voice. Not until 1961 did Fry actually...
View ArticleEsotericism And The Critical UFO investigator
”I have discovered that the abracadabra of the Myster Schools is distasteful to many people who have been brought face to face with metaphysics by their interest in the Saucer phenomenon. This means...
View ArticleNotes From The Riley Crabb File
Much of my daily activity this last year has been reviewing and organizing the voluminous Borderland Sciences Research Foundation(BSRF) archive, donated to AFU in two large shipments in 2016 and 2018....
View ArticleInterview With Hilary Evans 1996. Part 1
”I don´t think I have ever seen so much UFO material in one place – and so well-organized as well.” Hilary Evans in the AFU Guest Book, October 7, 1996.Hilary Evans visiting AFU, October 7, 1996One of...
View ArticleInterview With Hilary Evans. Part 2
This is the second part of the interview Anders Liljegren and I did with Hilary Evans at AFU on October 7, 1996. In the former blog post I promised that this would be a transcription of the complete...
View ArticleGeorge Adamski - Is the Tide Turning?
One of the most influential books in UFO history is Flying Saucers Have Landed by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski. Published in 1953, it has been referred to as ”the book that was dynamite”. And the...
View ArticleThe Sten Lindgren Contact Case
In the annals of UFO history there are few issues that have created more debate, derision and enmity in the UFO community than the classic contactee cases of the 1950s. The situation is not very much...
View ArticleInterview With Glenn Steckling
Every year since 1977 UFO-Sweden has arranged a weekend field investigator seminar, educating and training both new and old ufologists from Sweden and Norway. This event is also a much appreciated...
View ArticleSven Schalin 1925-2017
Today there are not many ufologists left of the first pioneers from the 1950s. Recently the AFU board members were informed that one of Sweden´s real oldboys in our movement, Sven Schalin died on...
View ArticleContactees And Channeling
”I don´t know what has happened , George, but all the mediums have suddenly disposed of their Indian guides, etc., and have replaced them with space people traveling in Vimanas.” This is a very...
View ArticleThe MILABS Enigma
How much does the military intelligence agencies of the world´s superpowers actually know of what is going on regarding UFO contacts and abductions? I don´t mean the general intelligence agents but the...
View ArticleThe UFO Contacts Of Trevor James Constable
In reviewing and organizing documents from the BSRF archive at AFU I have now completed the file on Trevor James Constable (1925-2016), for many years associated with Borderland Sciences Research...
View ArticleSuzies Sudden Saucer
For several years I have been trying to obtain an rather unusual contactee book, Suzies Sudden Saucer, written by Dorris Van Tassel(Dorris Andre). Although it was obviously published in two editions,...
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