UFO periodicals in the State Libraries of South Australian and New South Wales

Introduction

In a previous post, I documented a listing of UAP periodicals to be found in the State Library of Queensland. In this post, I list UAP periodicals which are held by the State Libraries of South Australia and New South Wales.

South Australia

1. Australian Flying Saucer Research Society Magazine.

Vol 6 No 2 (Jun 1972) - Vol 12 no 3 (Dec 1978.)

2. Saucer Newsletter.

Vol 1 no 1 (Dec 1966.)

3. Australian Saucer Record.

Vol 1 no 2 (2nd quarter 1955) - Vol 9 no 1 (Mar 1963.)

4. Australian International UFO Flying Saucer Research.

No 1 (Nov 1978) - issue 113 (Nov 2006.)

5. Panorama.

Vol 1 no 1 (Mar 1962) - Vol 10 no 5/6 (1971.)

6. The Journal of the Australian Centre for UFO Studies.

Vol 3 no 5 (Sep/Oct 1982) to Vol 6 no 6 (Nov/Dec 1985.)

7. Bi-Monthly UFO Report.

No 2 (Feb 1971); No 3 (Mar/Apr 1971); Aug 1971- May 1973.

8. Newsletter - UFO Research Australia SA Inc.

No 27 (Sep/Oct 1977) to Vol 6 no 4 & 5.

An unusual find

Besides the above periodicals, I found another listing, simply titled 'UFO RESEARCH AUSTRALIA.' This find consists of eight boxes of material. Besides a range of Australian and overseas periodicals, there are some interesting items. What are we to make of:

Confidential AFSRS1959 Onwards Part1
Confidential AFSRS1959 Onwards Part2
Confidential AFSRS1959 Onwards Part3
Correspondence 1973 - 1974 Part 1
Correspondence 1973 - 1974 Part 2
George Adamski File?

Who donated this material to the State Library of South Australia? There have always been rumours about the final resting place of some of the material which South Australian researcher Colin Norris left behind. Is this part of his extensive collection?

I know of no-one who has been into the State Library of South Australia, and examined these eight boxes of material. The following are the listed contents of these boxes. Naturally, I will be shortly heading of to the State Library of South Australia to take a look for myself.

Box 1

UFO Research Australia Newsletter 1982 - 1984
Newsletter : Australian International UFO (Flying
Saucer Research) 1975 - 1976, 1978 - 1980
ACOS Bulletin 1975 - 1979
Newsletter : UFO Research (S.A.) Inc
UFOIC Newsletter, 1964, 1966, 1967-1971
Australian Flying Saucer Review 1966, 1970-1972

Box 2

Australian UFO Review 1969
UFO Encounter 1976 - 1980
UFO Observer 1972
Australian Centre for UFO Studies 1980
Australian. UFO Researcher 1978
Unidentified Flying Objects Investigators
Organisation 1975
UFO Research 1979
UFO Newsletter 1976-1977
Australian UFO Report 1971 - 1973
Tasmanian Flying Saucer Observers' Association 1970 - 1976
Australian UFO Bulletin 1970 - 1977
Network News 1974 Gemini 1972
UFO Chronicle 1969 - 1970
BUFORA Journal 1975 - 1976
BUFOI

Box 3

Ancient Skies 1974 - 1975
Various Danish magazines including UFO contact
Swedish magazines:
Phenomenes Spatiaux 1971 - 1974
UFO - nyt 1972 - 1975
Lumieres Dans La Nuit 1975 - 1976
UFO information 1974 - 1975
Centre for Short-Lived Phenomena 1968 - 1974

Box 4 

Canadian UFO Report 1972 - 1974
Gosssafnog Bulletin 1979
N.I.C.A.P. Reporter 1963, 1965
Understanding 1975 UFO-mation 1959
UFO Investigator 1956 - 1965
UFO Chronolog 1969 - 1970
The Apro Bulletin 1968 - 1976
Data - Net 1967
The MUFON UFO Journal 1976 - 1977
Cos-mos 1969
Cos-mos Sirius 1971
Spacelink 1969 - 1970
Unidentified Flying Objects Investigators
Organisation 1975
Perth UFO Research Group 1955 - 1968
Bi-monthly UFO Report 1971
The Invader 1973

Box 5

Space Review 1963
Mister 1975
Flying Saucer News 1956
Interplanetary News 1969
Flying Saucers and Mysticism
New Age Prophecies
New Age Expositor 1962
Spacecraft convention 1957
The Saucers Report 1957
The Unknown 1970
UfOarb 1969
UFO Analysis & Research Bulletin Special Issue 1968
Les "Extra-Terrestres" 1974
OISC 1971
They Believe in Flying Saucers
"Constellation Orion" by B. Perkins
UFO News Special Report 1974
"If you have been left behind" by D.E. Stanton
Where will you spend Eternity?
America in Space : Venus Observed
The Voice of the House of the Hidden Places by J.E. Vener
Uranus 1961
Official UFO 1976
The Fire Came By
Algo 1975
Panorama 1968 - 1969
Central Coast Research Bureau 1973 - 1975
Australian Flying Saucer Research Society, Adelaide 1967 - 1974
File : Correspondence from Belgium
UFO News 1974
Club 1971
The Black Hole
The Loch Ness Monster
Memorial de l'office Nationale Meteorologique de France 1935

Box 6 

UFO Conference One 1975
UFO Conference Two Part 1
UFO Conference Two Part 2
Report Forms for Standardised Australian UFO Report Project
Confidential AFSRS1959 Onwards Part1
Confidential AFSRS1959 Onwards Part2
Confidential AFSRS1959 Onwards Part3
Correspondence 1973 - 1974 Part 1
Correspondence 1973 - 1974 Part 2

Box 7

Reports of sightings 1952 - 1956
Reports of sightings 1957 - 1962
Correspondence, etc.
Book Lists
NASA
Sighting Chronologies
Queensland
Victoria
Western Australia
Various reports (Australian)
UFO Info
The Australian UFO Computer File Codebook and Parameter table

Box 8 

George Adamski File
UFOCAT Australian Chronology
RAAF reports
Papers from ANZAAS - SA Symposium on "The Unidentified Flying Object
Problem"
Perth and Tasmania
Miscellaneous Australian Reports Part 1
Miscellaneous Australian Reports Part 2
Miscellaneous Australian Reports Part 3
Australian UFO Computer File

New South Wales

1. UFOIC Newsletter.

No 22 (Feb 1964) to no 50 (Jan/Feb 1977.)

2. Australian UFO Researcher.

No 56/57 (Jan/Feb 1979) to No 58/59 (May/Jun 1979.)

3. UFO Newsletter.

No 51 (May 1977) - 54/55 (Jul/Aug 1978.)

4. INUFOR Digest

Vol 1 no 1 (Jun 1995) - Vol 9 no 1 (Jul 2003.)

5. Flying Saucer Review

Vol 33 no 1 (Mar 1988) - Vol 54 no 3 (2009.)

Vol 8 no 6 (Nov/Dec 1962) - Vol 32 no 6 (1987.)

6. Australian Flying Saucer Magazine

Mar 1954.

7. Australian Flying Saucer Review

Vol 1 no 2 (Apr 1960) - Vol 2 no 8 (Jun 1965.)

8. UFO Research Australia Newsletter

Vol 1 no 1 (Jan/Feb 1980) - Vol 5 no 5 (Sep/Oct 1984); Vol 6 no 1 (Apr 1988.)

9. Australian UFO Review

No 10 (Dec 1969.)

My notes:

There seem discrepancies in some of these entries, in terms of the title of the periodicals.

"Angel Hair" - spiders or UFOs? A "new" old Australian case located.

Introduction:

In 2001 I published a catalogue and analysis of known Australian "Angel Hair" cases (click here). "Angel Hair" is the name given to falls from the sky, of a substance which carpets an area of the ground. Debate has raged over whether the falls are due to spiders, or to something connected to the UFO phenomenon.

"New" old case:

While in the South Australian State Library recently, I came across details of another Australian fall, previously unknown to me, from 1963. It was reported in the Western Australian newspaper, the "Sunday Times" dated 8 September 1963, as cited in the UFO magazine "Panorama." published by the former Adelaide group UFOPIA (Volume2 number 6 of 1963.)

The details:

At 8am on 29 August 1963, a fall of "air silk" (as the newspaper put it)  began, which lasted for two hours. Lengths of a substance up to about 30 feet (9 metres) glistened in the sunlight as they fell from the sky. The material fell over a wide area which included the locality of Cue, Western Australia (latitude 27deg 26min S; 117 deg 54 min E); Mt Magnet (50 miles - 80kms - south of Cue); and Big Bell (18 miles -29kms - NW of Cue.)

One eyewitness, Mr A N Deas, of Cue said the material had the appearance of large cobwebs and drifted in from the East on a slight breeze.

Other eyewitnesses, Mrs P Thomas and her three children, reported seeing what appeared to be two "balloons" moving across the sky at about 8.30am.

A public analyst, Mr P Asotoff, conducted a chemical analysis of the substance. He reported that the strands of the material measured 2.5 to 3 microns across. It was not synthetic; or plastic and not asbestos. He detected the presence of Glutamic acid, which is associated with silk compounds. Mr Asotoff is quoted as stating "it is spiders web."

Research:

In the analysis section of my 2001 paper, I wrote that the data on known Australian "Angel Hair" falls revealed that:

1. The geographic areas of falls clustered between latitude 25 and 38 degrees South of the equator.

Cue, WA, is at latitude 27deg 26min South, which fits in the above range.

2. The calendar months with the highest number of falls are May and August.

The Cue fall was in August.

3. All falls occurred with start times between 8.20am and 4pm and were daytime events.

The Cue event started at 8am.

4. An odd fact which I noted was that all falls which occurred in the season of winter, occurred in the morning; and all spring/autumn falls took place in the afternoon. Why this should be so is unknown to me.

The August 1963, Cue event took place in August, i.e. winter in Australia, and in the morning. Thus Cue once again fits the previously observed pattern.

5. All falls were of lengthy duration, ranging from 40 to 300 minutes.

The Cue event is reported to have taken place for 120 minutes.

6. In rural locations (Cue is rural) the air temperature at the time of the event was in the range 7.2deg C to 15.2deg C measured at the nearest meteorological observation site.

We do not have temperature details for the Cue event.

7. In all cases set in rural surroundings, the wind speed was reported to be "light" at the nearest meteorological observation site.

Cue eyewitness, Mr A N Deas reported a "slight breeze."

8. Cloud cover was 2/8 or less in 11 out of the 15 cases where this factor is known. It was a cloudless sky in 9 out of the 15 cases.

This factor is unknown for the Cue event.

9. "UFOs" were reported in 8 out of the total number of cases in the catalogue. Their shape was described as round (5 cases); elongated (1 case) with 2 shapes not known.

Cue eyewitness Mrs P Thomas reported seeing what she thought were balloons (presumably round) in the sky at 8.30am.

10. Falls were recorded over a large distance, i.e. 40-80kms.

The WA fall was reported to have been noted at places 80kms apart.

Comments:

It is fascinating, 11 years after producing a catalogue and analysis, to have located another Australian "Angel Hair" event.

The data from Cue, closely resembles that discussed in the original 2001 analysis.

Have readers of this blog come across any other Australian "Angel Hair" cases not reported in my 2001 catalogue?

The new "UFO Matrix" magazine

Dear readers

Adelaide's unusual rainy summer and below average summer temperatures continues into the sixth day. Barely 20 degrees Celsius was our maximum yesterday, so I went for a trip into the City. Border's bookshop in Rundle Mall was my target.

I was delighted to find Volume 1 Issue 2 of the new United Kingdom magazine "UFO Matrix" (click here.) I was even more delighted to note that the magazine's Australian contributors are Lee Paqui and Sheryl Gottschall of UFO Research Queensland.

Their Australian contribution this issue, is a piece on UFO Research Queensland itself as an organisation. The piece starts off telling us that UFORQ "...has recorded over 5000 reports since it was first established in 1956."

Illustrating the quality of Australian reports, are brief details of the world known 1966 Tully, Queensland, "saucer nest" case (click here) and the 1959 Boianai Mission CE3 event (click here.)

A number of other Queensland events are described, including close encounters near Brisbane and Rockhampton, of which I had not previously heard.

Besides the Australian piece, the issue contains pieces by Nigel Watson on abductions; Albert S Rosales on types of beings encountered in the UFO field; Yvonne Smith's personal journey; more from the "Alien Autopsy casebook" and much more.

The Australian price is $11.95 for a 100 page quality issue, packed with some old but much new material. In my opinion,this mag provides you with a much better coverage of world news and world class researchers than does our local "UFOlogist" (click here) so I will be spending my spare dollars on this rather than the "UFOlogist" in future.

Highly recommended reading.