"Playboy" and "Catholic Digest" UFO articles added : includes material by Hynek, Carl Sagan, Arthur C Clarke and other leading ufologists/scientists

"Playboy", the "Entertainment For Men" adult magazine, has featured a number of articles about UFOs (including by some leading scientists and ufologists, e.g. J Allen Hynek, Carl Sagan and Arthur C Clarke).

Hynek's article "The UFO Gap" (in the December 1967 issue of Playboy) discussed his fear that he would open a newspaper and see the headline "Russians Solve UFO Mystery". His view was the USSR "may have been studying UFOs with dispassionate thoroughness for years" and that the USA was "only now beginning to consider treating the problem seriously".  In the same article, Hynek discussed the possibility of automated cameras being used as part of a hunt for UFOs in "hot" areas. 

Another issue of "Playboy" (in January 1978) featured a "debate" about UFOs between member of the "Playboy Panel", in which many of the biggest "believers and skeptics on flying saucers" - including Phil Klass, Hynek, Vallee and others.  It's been very rare in the history of ufology to have ufologists and skeptics of this calibre engage in panel discussions of this type.  The relevant UFO material occupied over 20 pages in that issue.

I have currently uploaded searchable versions of 8 UFO articles from "Playboy", including the 2 referred to above.  

I have a further 3 UFO articles from "Playboy" that I have not currently uploaded because of the nature of the photographs of women on the cover and/or in the relevant UFO articles.   I'm not sure whether to upload those further articles from "Playboy" (or material from other adult magazines with similar images). On the one hand, I want the archive to be as comprehensive as possible (particularly in relation to articles by leading researchers/scientists in a magazine with a sizeable readership). On the other hand, I don't want to offend anyone.  

(I've previously raised this dilemma once or twice on Facebook and to the limited extent I got comments they almost universally suggested I was worrying about nothing and that no one would be offended if I simply uploaded articles which featured naked women on the cover or in the article, although perhaps any relevant post on social media should feature a censored cover or no covers).   

On somewhat safer ground, I have also uploaded 2 UFO articles from the "Catholic Digest", one of which is by a pilot entitled "The Flying Saucers I've seen" and another which argued that reports on flying saucers "add up to something more than the imagination of those who say they have seen them".

I have added both sets of articles to the folder for UFO articles from mainstream (i.e. non-UFO) publications from the USA. That folder is separate from the (much larger) folder for UFO publications that I've obtained permission to upload.