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From the authors

American contactee George Adamski is still a popular subject in the UFO literature. We have recently received no less than three new books for our reference library from authors Tony Brunt, Marc Hallet and Gerard Aartsen.


Brunt's and Hallet's book are more critical studies of the Adamski phenomenon while Aartsen's is philosophical and celebrates the good old 'professor' as an early prophet for our planet Earth. It is written from the viewpoint of an active student in Benjamin Creme's Share International movement. Brunt's book is only available as an e-book (here) to be stored, now, on our library's e-book memory. Hallet has previously published a number of books and pamphlets on Adamski in French and an English booklet titled Why I can say Adamski was a liar. Different perspectives, indeed.

From the publishers.

UFO-Sweden, during the late 1970s was led from Köping, a small city west of Stockholm.

Like many proud communities, Köping has a very active historical committee. The Köping people publish a superbly well-produced annual book about what has happened in and around the city from recent and back to ancient times. I particularly enjoyed the fantastic photos in this book!

The 2009 year book includes a 13-page essay by Bevan Berthelsen (in the 1970s known as Thorvald Berthelsen), who was the driving force behind the Köpings UFO-förening, pioneers in Swedish ufology with their initiative for an active co-operation with the Defence authorities, production of programs on Swedish television, a national informational tour with slide presentations, an annual summer exhibition at the local museum (drawing tens of thousands of tourists to the community), and for starting the annual field investigation weekend courses, a still continuing tradition. As far as I know, UFO-Sweden is the only UFO society in the world that maintains annual field investigation training, an unbroken tradition since Berthelsen's first course in 1977!! This is a very qualified teacher-controlled education spread over 2 or 3 days.

AFU has inherited much of Bevan Berthelsen's files and, most recently, the large photographic files from the society's staff photographer, Karl-Olov Pettersson, whose pictures illustrate Bevan's written history in the book. The society was so active that Bevan had to quit it all after a few years of exhaustive work around the clock. If interested, buy the book here.

From Ignacio Darnaude Rojas-Marcos, Sevilla, Spain.

This book came in the mail from one of our Spanish contacts, Ignacio Darnaude Rojas-Marcos, who also sends us many e-book files from his country, many of them related to the 'Ummo' case.

The small book of 96 pages has two separate sections with the same text: half the book in Spanish, the other in English. The principle of cosmic elusiveness is full of Ignacio's private philosophical thoughts about the universe and UFOs and will join the many books in our Spanish section (coded OEIS) in the AFU library.

From the Swedish authors of the book

Two years before the great Swedish 'ghost rocket' wave (of 1946), one of Hitler's V-2 weapons exploded over the south-Swedish village of Bäckebo, on June 13, 1944. This small book holds the story about what

happened in the local area where the gone-astray test rocket, sent from Peenemünde, crashed, creating a 5 meter crater.

The book (title translates as: The Bäckebo bomb - memories of Hitler's rocket) was published two years ago by a Swedish team of archeologists (!) who had combed the area for remaining metal parts in the soil - and for the local folklore surrounding the crash. A very nice & well-illustrated book that we will proudly put on our 'HR' (History - Ghost rockets) library shelf along with other works touching the ghost rocket wave.

Yes, the book mentions the 1946 ghost bombs on a few pages, without going into much detail. Interestingly, Bäckebo had it's own MIB story, about mysterious men driving around in a motor hearse, complete with coffin inside (to keep rocket parts?), probably Germans out to collect crumbled rocket parts before they were found by the Swedish military.

From Rémy Fauchereau, Charbuy, France

AFU has just received the second booklet on local UFOs in the French province of Yonne, written by Rémy Faucereau and Rémi Cougvignou.

This particular book describes, in depth, eleven local observations of the luminous phenomena that crossed over France on November 5, 1990, and which resulted in a rich French literature with speculations on its origin. Hundreds of witnesses claimed they saw formations of lights, or big triangular objects, on a north-easterly trajectory, high in the sky.

Received from the author Jaako Närvä at the religious institution of Helsinki University, Finland, May 2009.

Abstract in English here.

This is probably the first doctoral thesis related to UFOs from Finland. Ufologia ja ufokokemukset uskonnollisina ilmiöinä - teoreettinen tutkimus by Jaako Närvä, was published in November 2008 by the University of Helsinki. The title translates as Ufology and UFO experiences as a religious phenomenon - a theoretical study.

This is all in Finnish (398 pages with illustrations, index and bibliography). A quick check of the bibliography confirms most ufo-related psychological and sociological sources and articles were consulted, but with one notable but sorry exception: all of the books by Jacques Vallée. Another work from the world of academia where the author seemingly has not read Forbidden Science! Well, it is a forbidden science, isn't it?

Received from Luis Ruiz Noguez, Spain, April 2009.

The author of this 212 page book, Luis Ruiz Noguez, has accumulated data and written reviews about incidents where there is a claim that 'extraterrestrials' have been photographed by camera. Ten chapters - each with a humanoid photo case - from Dorothy Wilkinson to Stella Lansing, and many obscure cases in between.

Presumably, from the title, this is the first volume in a series. A foreword by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos (FOTOCAT Project) written in February 2009. Texts entirely in Spanish. A4 size. Print-on-demand publication available from Lulu.com where you can also download it as an eBook for half-the-prize of the printed version.

From the publishers, NERUSI Editions, Nice, France, March 2009.

There are some regions of Europe where, reputedly, UFOs are more common than otherwise. We can think of several areas in Russia, the Tatra Mountains in Poland, and - of course - Hessdalen in Norway.

The high-land plate of Col de Vance in the extreme south-eastern part of France, close to the Riviera and bordering on Italy, is an area where many mysterious things seem to have happened. One of the first local examples of a UFO-related incident came from the harbor of Nice in the year 1608.

The area has been a hot spot for luminous balls, triangle UFOs and crop circles, which has interested a research group of five people who hide (with only their first names known) behind the collective ICDV author signature (Invisibles du col de Vence). They have even mounted an automatic camera to catch images of the phenomena.

Swedish freelance journalist Christina Lindqvist has interviewed the group and her report can be found in the recent 1/2009 issue of UFO-Sweden's UFO-Aktuellt.

From Luis R. Gozalez and Fundacion Anomalia, Spain, January 2009.

Fundacion Anomalia is the main publisher of serious UFO literature in Spain. Through the co-operation on the EuroUFO.Net AFU receives donations of recently published Fundacion titles, their "Biblioteca Camille Flammarion" series. In this case Vida en el univserso. Del mito a la ciencia, a broad compilation of articles on the themes of life in outer space and contacts with such life, edited by Ricardo Campo.