Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Soviet UFO Newsletters (USSR, 1990s ) now online - UFO Realnost, UFO Express and Mir neizvedannogo ("World of the unknown")

Ukrainian UFO researcher Igor Kalytyuk has previously helped me obtain UFO material from Russia, Ukraine and all across Eastern Europe, and helped obtain permissions to upload this material. 

Igor has now helpfully provided me with scans of 3 more sets of UFO newsletters published in the USSR in the 1990s: UFO Realnost ("UFO Reality"), UFO Express and  Mir neizvedannogo ("World of the unknown").  

I have added searchable PDF copies of these items to the USSR folder in the online archive of (free) UFO/Fortean newsletters I have been helping to create.




Monday, November 28, 2022

PDFs: More French UFO newsletters from SCEAU (gaps filled in collections of French publications SPICA and Ovni-Info)

Gilles Durand and others at the French UFO group SCEAU have worked to fill in some gaps in some French UFO newsletters (namely SPICA and Ovni-Info 34).

Most issues of SPICA had previously been provided by another French researcher, Patrice Seray. Patrice also obtained permission from Christian Morgenthaler of SPICA (which stands for "Sciences et Phenomenes Insolites du Ciel et de l'Aeronautique") and the associated board of directors for me to upload issues of SPICA. SCEAU has now helped add Issue 17 of SPICA, which I think was the final issue and the only one previously missing.

Ovni-Info 34 is rather rare. I had previously only managed to obtain 2 issues (both from Patrice Seray). Thanks to SCEAU, a further 4 issues are now online.

(Some French UFO researchers are better than those in most other countries at working together to help fill in gaps in material held by their colleagues and obtaining permissions to share that material freely online, without any drama...).



Friday, November 11, 2022

Another French UFO "catalogue"/database now online - "Catalogue Veronica" (retyped by Patrice Seray)

French UFO researcher Patrice Seray has previously helped obtain permission to make a considerable volume of French UFO material freely available online, often also providing scans of that material.  At times, Patrice appears to have been involved in a friendly competition with SCEAU and some other French UFO groups and researchers to see who could contribute the most to this free online UFO archive. 

Patrice Seray has now provided me with another French "catalogue" / database ("Catalogue Veronica"), this time associated with the French newsletter "Veronica" which was the subject of a previous post.

Patrice had to retype all 108 pages of this PDF to make this old French "catalogue" readable.

I have added this material to the "Veronica" folder in the French section of the online archive I've been helping develop during the last few years.  

EDIT TO ADD : A fellow British UFO researcher, Michael Hudson, has helpfully provided an automated English translation of the French-language "Veronica" UFO catalogue - which I have now added to the "Veronica" folder.