"First peer-reviewed" UFO journal - UPIAR now online (1976-1984)

I have now uploaded the "UFO Phenomena an International Annual Review" journal ("UPIAR"), thanks to the efforts of Italian researcher Edoardo Russo in obtaining permission from the council of directors of the UPIAR Cooperative and scanning by the AFU in Sweden.

UPIAR and an associated newsletter (URIP) were published from 1976 to 1984.

Edoardo Russo has described UPIAR as "the first peer-reviewed UFO periodical".

It was later followed by some similar publications, several of which I have previously uploaded - including the Journal of Transient Aerial Phenomena, and the European Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies.

Edoardo helpfully provided the following background on UPIAR:"It was the initiative of CNIFAA (Comitato Nazionale Indipendente per lo studio dei Fenomeni Aerei Anomali), an Italian association based in Bologna. Its editors were Renzo Cabassi, Roberto Farabone, Francesco Izzo, with an international advisors board. After four yearly volumes, a quicker supplement was tried, UPIAR Research in Progress (URIP) under the editorship of Spanish ufologist Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos (1981-1984). A publishing house was created as a Cooperative society, whose members were all ufologists. It's still existing as a UFO publishing house for the Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU)".

The international advisory board mentioned by Edoardo included J Allen Hynek, Richard Haines, Bruce Maccabee, David Jacobs and others.

All four volumes of UPIAR are now online.

The first two issues of four issues of the associated newsletter, URIP, are also now online. I hope to sort out the other two issues shortly.

UPIAR also published several monographs about different aspects of UFO research. You can expect some good news about some of those in the near future.