Position Statement

Maximum I would like to announce that the AFU ability today in the long run arrange on the new phone call for the world. At the rear loads of months of brainstorming we swallow now fixed to swap our phone call from "Records for UFO Revise "to "Records for the Unexplained". We tried loads of combinations of UFO, fortean, paranormal etc but that precluded our enormous collections of myths, psychology, esoterica and mysticism so unreadable was found to be the best top-drawer as we pleasing to enfold our acronym AFU. According to the grapevine it was our major source, Hilary Evans, who first optional a new phone call for the world. I custody that he now in his first-class earnest council house is persuaded that we followed his intentions.

More than a few of the shelves at the Hilary Evans archive, AFU

In 1980 one of the first comprehensive encyclopedias on UFOs was published, condensed by Ronald D. Story. An significant chunk of the encyclopedia was biographical entries on most of the first age group ufologists, plus a "job indicate". This is regularly harmed in other encyclopedias on UFOs and the paranormal but of thought-provoking moment as soon as studying the theories and history of objects by the way our subjects. As my blog is now in english I feign it right to present a sans job indicate for my part apiece as to my views on UFOs and UFO research and the first-class introduce concealed subjects.

UFOs and UFO research

At the rear first-class than forty existence of get in the UFO fight apiece as a vista investigator and aid at AFU my conclusions are that the rather few real and unreadable UFO phenomena are a hodgepodge of loads of individual phenomena of at liberty birth. More than a few are probably abnormal electrical discharges and secret military craft or spy weaponry. My be taught of immediate encounter and forcible contactee cases assurance the track that we are not alone on this planet. I persist an available watchdog whether the reported types of entities and intelligences model on Rummage, are from diverse planet or parallell world (bulk). In my put to the UFO enigma I try to hit it off to the "third way ufology", formulated by Clas Svahn, for example 1991 director of UFO-Sweden: neither inexperienced look at nor debunking scepticism but an available watchdog to speckled theories and claims based on clever investigation and empirical data.

Such as makes me possibly whatever thing of an witness among classic "numerical" ufologists is my engagement in the philosophical and existential implications of UFO and paranormal phenomena connected plus a lifelong engagement in theosophy and the concealed foundation. Authors and researchers such as Jacques Vallee, John Keel, Allen Hynek, Andrew Tomas, Meade Layne, Riley Crabb, Lucis Farish, Timothy Able swallow been a brawny concept. Be attracted to british architect and philosopher Colin Wilson I be in awe of the educational witness and iconoclast who makes his or her own waves in the ocean floor irrespective of what is regarded as mentally or industrially literal. A favourite quote from Jacques Vallee's really nice "Restricted Science II "may well be a motto: "... the history of ufology duty be placed internal an concealed context... The UFO opposite, the big business of parapsychology, are central to this source of revenue. Looking for the given isn't exact a numerical project; it's a expedition, an initiation, an enigma like that of the Sphinx."

Theosophy and esotericism

As a whole university learner in 1976 I corresponded plus a very sagacious, old british man, ufologist and esotericist T. Bryon Edmond. His put to the concealed foundation has encouraged me for multitude existence. He wrote: "Frankly I am nonbeliever, but I permit Theosophy in the interim what it answers first-class questions in a cheap and numerical way than any other religion or thinking that I narrate of." This may well be a column of my own put to this introduce big business. Frankly a humanist I treasure the concealed foundation as an stimulating enthusiastic gall or avant-garde exemplar. And the best exponents of the concealed foundation are in my system of belief Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Henry Weapon Olcott, Annie Besant, Charles Leadbeater, Gfrey Hodson, Alice Bailey and swedish esotericist Henry T. Laurency.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

The prerequisite philosophical opposite is of course whether it is sufficient or acceptable, as an educational, to faithful in the interim permit the concealed worldview? I crash into the reductionist, materialist exemplar intellectually beyond the pale. The brawny enigma of feeling, the well documented cases of UFOs and paranormal phenomena plus confident folks medium experiences are for me clear indications of loads of factors x in the existential equation. I am what's more attentive in the concealed foundation what of the historical friends to the UFO fight and that very regularly the dreadfully type of phenomena are reported in apiece an concealed and ufological context.

Finally I set down the last sound to that captivating cultural witness and iconoclast Meade Layne, founder of "Borderland Sciences Revise Relations" (BSRA) in 1945. In his magazine Set Robin he on one occasion wrote:

"Set Robin does not indicate to talk about the case for important medium endeavors. It is written for empire who otherwise narrate and permit such equipment. If empire don't purloin in fortitude and notice, in materialisation, apports, levitation, ectoplasmic phenomena and so on - that is all bona fide - but let them go to the ten thousand books small business plus such subjects. I don't set down a taunt what they purloin. If you were publishing a newsletter on chemistry, you wouldn't make for sceptics who be unsure that H (hydrogen) and Cl (Cloride) attitude merge. We swallow a brawny deputation of not clear-cut facts, net yet customary by "formalized" science, although renowned to thousands of individual scientists. Present-day are methods of work which are authentic and numerical, but motionless unmentionable by formalized science."