Franco Marcucci launched a project to revamp the historic collection of six books about “UFOs in Italy” which were produced by SUF (Sezione Ufologica Fiorentina) since 1975, covering the whole XXth century.
The first volume of this new series titled “UFO Target: Italy” (497 pages) has just been published, covering the years from 1900 to 1954, thus joining and updating the first two ones of the old series.
Since July 2nd, the full 4 hour recording of the unprecedented UAP debate hosted at the French Parliament on June 29th is available in several languages.
It was edited and published by German journalist Robert Fleischer on his ExoMagazin TV YouTube channel, with both subtitles and a spoken translation in English, as well as in several other languages, thus allowing anybody to follow the full event. You only have to choose to proper language from the settings.
Taking the opportunity of the UAP debate hosted at the French Parliament on June 29th (where as many as four EuroUfo.net members were among the speakers), several ufologists converged to Paris on the previous weekend.
As usual, several private meetings and dinners were organized, involving more than 30 fellows coming from all over France as well as from Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland.
Saturday work meeting at SCEAU headquarters in Vincennes, scanning old documents and periodicals (left to right: Raoul Robé, Laurent Chabin, Philippe Drab, Gilles Durand, Bruno Mancusi, Patrice Galaceros, Jean Mazzesi).
One of Sunday meetings in Paris (Jean-Pierre Rospars, Edoardo Russo, Francisco Mourao Correa)
From Sunday UFO dinner (Laurent Chabin, Michel Coste, Charles-Maxence Layet)
Partial view of Monday EuroUfo lunch, waiting for the UAP Colloquium
Partial view of Monday EuroUfo dinner, after the UAP Colloquium (left to right: Robert Fleischer, Carlo Epifanio, Christian Peters, Philipp Luettmann, Philippe Ailleris)
Tuesday meeting (Francisco Mourao Correa, Carlo Epifanio, Pierre Lagrange, Edoardo Russo)
On June 29th, the Victor Hugo room in the French Parliament building in Paris hosted an unprecedented UAP symposium, organized by deputies Arnaud Saint Martin and Pierre Henriet. A detailed account was published on UAP Check website.
Here let us just be proud that, out of ten speakers who were in the room, as many as four have long been EuroUFO.net members. And we can say that they made the difference. Kudos to Philippe Ailleris, Pierre Lagrange, Gilles Munsch, and Michael Vaillant.
On June 24th the new book by Spanish researcher Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos was published: “UAPs: the XXI Century UFOs” is a 729 page summa of Ballester’s 60 years of active ufology.
It can be read as an updated analysis of UFO paths in this new century, but it’s also a reverse tour beginning with the famous UAP videos of the U.S. Air Force, AARO reports, NASA investigation and the Congressional hearings, and then looking back on decades of UFO research, showing how it has remained trapped in a sensational media loop full of imminent revelations, which never come to anything.
Ballester Olmos emphasizes that it is easy to be fascinated by the extraterrestrial myth; however, to progress it is necessary to abandon any indulgence and apply to this topic the same falsifiability criteria ruling any scientific discipline. That is the real challenge in the study of unidentified objects and anomalies in general.
With a foreword by Pedro Duque, astronaut and former Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, the book is available from the publisher (Reediciones Anómalas) and from Amazon.
Third volume in the “Flying Saucers from Naziland” series by Maurizio Verga, this book is comprehensive account of one of most bizarre and persistent modern myths.
Drawing on forty-five years of independent research, primary sources never before available to English-speaking readers, personal correspondence, rare ephemera, and documentation painstakingly traced to its origins, the author reconstructs the entire genealogy of the Nazi UFO legend — from its obscure postwar beginnings to its spectacular present-day life in popular culture, conspiracy networks, and far-right ideology.
How did a handful of dubious press stories from the 1950s mutate into a fully developed mythology, complete with secret spacecrafts Vril and Haunebu, an occult “Vril Society” of female mediums channeling messages from Aldebaran, hidden bases in Antarctica, and an alternate cosmology fusing Third Reich nostalgia with New Age spirituality? Who were the real people behind the myth?
Five different threads are developed across nine chapters:
– The bifurcation of the mythology into an esoteric-religious branch and a secular-technological branch
– The retroactive generation of fake documentation, drawings, dossiers, and “archives” manufactured decades after the war and presented as authentic
– The cross-pollination among a small network of authors who cited each other to create the illusion of independent corroboration
– The escalation from contained pseudo-historical claims to a totalizing cosmology connecting Nazi technology, ancient civilizations, and interstellar contact
– The unbroken thread of far-right ideological commitment running through the mythology from the 1950s to the present day
400 pages with a detailed chronological outline and a comprehensive bibliography, available from Amazon
The Ukrainian Scientific Research Center for Analyses of Anomalies Zond published a special issue issue of scientific articles about “Anomalous Phenomena: Methodology and Practice of Research”, devoted to the topic of studying anomalous phenomena using scientific methods, for the 20th annivesary of SRCAA Zond, under the editorship of Artem Bilyk.
Besides Artem Bilyk and Igor Kalytyuk fom Ukraine, a few EuroUFO.net members from other countries contributed with articles or with editorial work: Philippe Ailleris from the Netherlands, Jochen Ickinger from Germany, and Clas Svahn from Sweden.
The 240 page volume is written in two languages (Ukrainian and English) and is now available for free from SRCAA website
A paper copy can also be purchased by writing to: srcaa@zond.kiev.ua
EuroUfo.net + UAP Check monthly Zoom Meeting on June 18th had the UAP Coalition Netherlands as a guest.
It is not a typical UFO organization but a sort of lobbying group, with the aim of “reducing the stigma” about our topic within public administration offices. At the same time, they are suggesting and practicing a completely different operating method from the wild American “disclosurists”.
UAP Coalition’s chairman, Joachim Dekkers, presented the UAP Coalition, its goals and activities. The video recording of his presentation may be watched on EuroUFO YouTube channel.
A private discussion then followed with the attending fellows from 11 different countries.
This book compiles the correspondence between Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Eduardo Buelta, pioneer of ufology in Spain and one of the first in the world to suggest a correlation between UFO waves and the opposition phase of planet Mars
This is the third volume in a series of correspondence compilations with early Spanish ufologists, following the previous ones (with Antonio Ribera and with José-Tomas Ramirez y Barberò).
The book (138 pages in large format, in Spanish) is also including all Buelta’s historical articles published in the CEI Bulletin (journal of the Centro de Estudios Interplanetarios, in Barcelona). It can be ordered from UPIAR Store.
Giancarlo D’Alessandro, who’s long been operating the UFO Museum in Bagnoregio (Italy), has just released the new, enlarged edition of his “PhilCat”, the International Catalogue of UFO/alien-themed postmarks.
This third edition is a 841 page, large format book, reproducing in full colour the whole collection of all known philatelic objects, which may be seen at the museum.
