PDF: "UFOs - A British Viewpoint" - book by Jenny Randles and Peter Warrington

Further to my recent uploads of several UFO books by veteran researcher Jenny Randles, I have now uploaded a searchable copy of "UFOs : A British Viewpoint" co-authored by Jenny Randles and Peter Warrington (with the kind permission of both authors).

This was the first book written by Jenny Randles. It was written in 1976 to 1978 and published in August 1979.

It was also the first book in which Jenny Randles (with Peter Warrington) stated that we "really ought to redefine our terms and speak of a UAP" and then define UAPs.   Jenny recently stated to me that using "UAP" instead of "UFO" was literally the first thing they wrote about in this book as "definition of the terms of what you are investigating is always the most important starting point of research".

As indicated by the title of the book, it is focused on British sightings, but the analysis of different categories of UFO reports and of different theories regarding them is more general.

(I have a particular soft spot for this book as it was one of the first sensible books about UFOs that I bought...).

Jenny Randles and Peter Warrington, photographed in 1976 when they had just started writing this book:

Dozens more files from Grant Cameron's UFO research archives - Bob Pratt / National Enquirer, Frank Scully, Charlie Red Star, Donald Keyhoe, Roswell, Rahma and more

Grant Cameron has been busy scanning his UFO research files and has allowed me to upload them to my online archive, in a folder in his name.

The latest upload contains over 60 further files provided by Grant, including correspondence, research notes and other material relating to Bob Pratt / National Enquirer, Frank Scully, Charlie Red Star, Donald Keyhoe, Roswell, Rahma and more.

More from Grant's archives will be online in the next few days (together with, if I have a bit of luck confirming relevant permissions, further documents from other archives in the USA and Russia, and publications from skeptical organisations across Europe).

PDFs - "The Skeptic" (UK), first 100 issues : Largest single upload of skeptical material?

I think this may be the largest single upload by me so far (or anyone else, for that matter...) of material by prominent skeptics from Britain and around the world. 

I have now uploaded the first 100 issues of the British magazine "The Skeptic", thanks to scanning by our friends at the AFU in Sweden. After my pestering some of "The Skeptic" team since 2018 (politely, I hope), the current and former editors of "The Skeptic" (i.e.  Michael Marshall, Wendy Grossman, Deborah Hyde and Chris French) kindly indicated this year that they had no objection to this upload. 

As summarised on the website of "The Skeptic", that publication is "the UK’s longest-running publication offering skeptical analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and claims of the paranormal". It was founded in 1987 and continues to be published. It "has become an invaluable resource for journalists, teachers, psychologists, and inquisitive people of all ages who yearn to discover the truth behind the many extraordinary claims of paranormal and unusual phenomena".

This sizeable upload joins a host of skeptical material in my online archive hosted by the AFU.

For ease of reference, the skeptical material currently in my online archive is listed below (this material being in addition, of course, to the mass of ufological / Fortean material from other viewpoints that I have uploaded to that archive in recent years with the help of well over 100 UFO groups / researchers around the world and, of course, permission from the relevant individuals: 

(1) "Skeptic UFO Newsletter" by Philip Klass 

(2) John Rimmer's "Magonia" 

(3) Ian Mrzyglod's "Probe"  

(4) Tim Printy's "SUNlite" 

(5) "Tampa Bay Skeptics Report"

(6) "North Texas Skeptic"

(7) "South Shore Skeptic"

(8) "Arizona Skeptic"

(9) "Phoenix Skeptics News" 

(10) "Georgia Skeptics" newsletter

(11) "Bay Area Skeptics Information Sheet" 

(12) "Cincinnati Skeptic"

(13) "REALL News"  (Rational Examination Association of Lincoln Land)

(14) "Skeptical Eye" (National Capital Area Skeptics, NCAS)

(15) "Shadow of a Doubt" (National Capital Area Skeptics, NCAS)

(16) The book "Flying Saucerers" by David Clarke and Andy Roberts ("A social history of Ufology")

(17) The book "The UFOs That Never Were" by Jenny Randles, Andy Roberts and David Clarke (in my view arguably the best UFO book in the last 50 years...)

(18)   a PDF archive of about 10,000 pages of Tweets by skeptics Mick West and Charlie Wiser

(19) a PDF archive of over 4 million pages of automated transcripts of UFO podcasts and videos, including those by several skeptics e.g. Mick West. 

Incidentally, after I uploaded one of the skeptical newsletters mentioned above, I was blocked by one or two UFOtwitter users that I had never interacted with (or mentioned and, frankly, rarely heard of). This large upload of further skeptical material is, in part, my response to those individuals...  :) 

Canadian section of Grant Cameron's archives

Grant Cameron has kindly provided me with scans of numerous UFO documents, articles and notes relating to Canada. 

I have added searchable copies of those scans to the folder I created for material from Grant's research archives.

The Canadian government documents in this upload overlap with the large set of PDFs that I uploaded in 2011-2012 (outlined in my items at that time on AboveTopSecret.com entitled "Canadian disclosure: “UFO Found” and other documents/photos" and "Canadian PDFs – “At no time should it be made available to the public” + more official memos") and my subsequent items / uploads.

Grant's collection complements the official Canadian files previously available, since his research archives includes further Canadian documents, press articles, research notes, and other material.

The scans I have currently added to that folder from Grant's collection are:

1976 Ontario Triangles.pdf

1976 Triangles Case.pdf

1991 Canadian UFO survey pilots.pdf

1991 Canadian UFO survey.pdf

2023-07-25 CSiS Five Eyes letter.pdf

Arthur Bray Adamski.pdf

Brian Parks Arthur Bray.pdf

Canadian Embassy correspondence.pdf

Canadian Government Documents 1.pdf

Canadian Government Documents 2.pdf

Canadian Government Documents 3.pdf

Canadian Government Documents 4.pdf

Canadian Government Documents 5.pdf

Canadian Government Documents 6.pdf

Donald Keyhoe Wilbert Smith.pdf

Inside circle member Arthur bray phone notes.pdf

Manitoba  UFO  polls.pdf

Manitoba Cases and Notes 1.pdf

Manitoba Shirtliffe Sighting.pdf

Manitoba UFO  Material 2.pdf

Manitoba UFO Material 1.pdf

Manitoba UFO Stuff.pdf

Musgrave RCMP quote.pdf

My Father-s sighting.pdf

Ottawa Flying Saucer interplanetary society.pdf

Project Magnet 1.pdf

Project Magnet 2.pdf

Project Magnet 3.pdf

Project Magnet 4.pdf

Project Magnet Official Status 1.pdf

Project Magnet official status 2.pdf

Smith contactee.pdf

Smith contactee_page_5.pdf

Wilbert Smith draft article.pdf

Wilbert Smith GeBauer Correspondence.pdf

Wilbert Smith Mrs Swan Project Magnet_page_3.pdf

Wilbert Smith Quotes.pdf

 

Now online - Grant Cameron's UFO archive regarding President Jimmy Carter

Grant Cameron has kindly agreed that I can make available online various sections of his UFO research archives.  

I have now uploaded searchable PDF copies of Grant Cameron's material relating to President Jimmy Carter, including numerous documents, emails, newspaper articles, UFO magazine articles, UFO book chapters, archived webpages etc. 

The documents include copies of President Carter's "UFO" sighting report, discussed in many of the articles (including by skeptics) that feature in this section of Grant Cameron's research archives.

This upload also includes various articles about President Carter that used to be on Grant's old website (which I've resurrected and converted to searchable PDFs). 

Various other sections of Grant Cameron's research archives will follow in the very near future. I hope to be able to upload at least parts of the case-file archives and/or correspondence archives of several other UFO groups and prominent UFO researchers soon. (However, I really want to get back to focusing on my own UFO research behind the scenes rather than spending so much time facilitating the sharing of other people's material...).

PDF of "Phantoms of the Soap Operas" - Book by Jenny Randles on "paranormal experiences" of showbiz stars

Jenny Randles has now kindly given me permission to upload a searchable scanned copy of her book "Phantoms of the Soap Operas" - on "paranormal experiences" of showbiz stars

Probably most interesting to me, this book discusses UFO connections of several celebrities that remain famous today (e.g. William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, Bruce Willis and others) that I don't recall seeing mentioned in many other UFO books. 

This book also features:

(1) several individuals that still regularly feature in lists of celebrities that have claimed to have witnessed UFOs and/or were interested in this topic (e.g. John Lennon, Jackie Gleason, David Bowie). 

(2) numerous individuals that were celebrities in the 1960s-1970s that probably aren't as well known to most people today today (particularly stars of various British soap operas).

Jenny has mentioned to me that she "had great fun researching that book". Among other recollections, Jenny recalls "going to South Fork Ranch in Braddock, just outside Dallas and sunbathing by the pool. And going on set to Emmerdale and Brookside".

PDF of the book "Flying Saucerers" by David Clarke and Andy Roberts ("A social history of Ufology")

Two leading British UFO researchers, David Clarke and Andy Roberts, have kindly given me permission to add the a searchable scanned copy of their book "Flying Saucerers" to my online archive, hosted by the AFU.

The book has helpfully been scanned by American researcher Jeff Knox, with those scans having been subsequently tweaked by Russian researcher Mikhail Gershtein.

This book is not the typical UFO book examining a few cases. 

The introduction to this book includes the following explanation of the viewpoint of the authors: 

"... the subject of UFOlogy is not actually about UFOs. There are no UFOs to study, only reports of UFOs and the component parts of a sighting when it becomes resolved, for example an aeroplane or kite is misperceived as something extraordinary. This is a fascinating subject in itself but is the study of perception, not UFOs. If it is anything, UFOlogy is about the people who see, investigate and write about UFOs. UFOlogy is created by the interplay of these three groups and we scrutinise this complex relationship in Flying Saucerers. Of course, this labyrinthine interaction begs the question: ’Have UFOlogists created the entire UFO phenomenon themselves?’

That explanation indicates why "Flying Saucerers" is described by the authors as "a social history of ufology". 

https://isaackoiup.blogspot.com/2023/09/pdf-of-book-flying-saucerers-by-david.html