Hakan Blomqvist tells a balanced story about a ufologist whose core views in some ways sharply varied with his own. The result: a revealing example of the results from differing approaches to a problem uncomfortable for many ufologists. Don Worley (1921- 2018) and John Keel (1930-2009), says Hakan, dealt in many of the same UFO-peripheral […]

These three posts speak to different sorts of groups interacting with humans, for purposes good or ill–at least in the strong beliefs of those who appear in the stories. Hakan Blomqvist describes a cadre of different ordinary people who had lived on Earth and were channeled by psychic medium Mark Probert. Blomqvist says these dead […]

Early contactees uniformly reported meetings with ETs looking in their physical prime–even if the space buddies were hundreds of years old. Hakan Blomqvist takes contacteeism more seriously than do most ufologists and argues such stories not be rejected out of hand. Unattractive is a good word to describe John Keel’s life at the time of […]

The late Uber-Contactee George Adamski still has some highly intelligent followers. And from the 1960s onwards these folks have sought to square some of Adamski’s more outre statements with possible realities. In this case Hakan Blomqvist ponders a possible mind manipulation program by aliens or humans, benevolent or otherwise. More interesting 1960s stuff appears in […]

Hakan Blomqvist tells an enjoyable story about how he got involved in the esoteric side of ufology and the beginnings of the AFU (now Archives for the Unexplained) and its holdings. (By the way, a Swedish mile, or mil, is currently 10 kilometers.) Continuing the archives theme, John Keel site minder Doug Skinner has posted […]

Sweden’s Archives For the Unexplained (AFU) is one of the world’s greatest resources for ufological literature, as Hakan Blomqvist’s tribute emphasizes. Particularly important is the AFU Downloads asset, which makes PDFs of more than 22,000 magazine, journal, and newsletter issues available for free. It’s worth visiting the AFU website at Archives for the Unexplained. AFU’s […]

Even those familiar with the Contactees of the 50s and 60s will find Hakan Blomqvist’s tale of the Johanssons rather challenging. It’s got John Keel’s “windows”; telepathic contacts from the “space people”; re-entering American spy satellites; Adamski-type craft making circles in the sky; shortish, large-headed entities with shining red eyes; and physical shaking and EM […]

Whether it’s reading cuneiform tablets from a Near-Eastern “dig” or finding an ancestor’s journal when going through old family records, uncovering a surprising new piece of information is a thrill. Hakan Blomqvist recently discovered something that caused him to “raise my eyebrows in astonishment.” Blomqvist’s discovery sheds more light–and engenders more questions–about the career and […]

Believing that the Esoteric Tradition ranks, along with science and religion, as one of the three intellectual forces or pillars of cultural history, Hakan Blomqvist argues that the Contactee Movement of the 1950s and 1960s “represented a unique and positive cultural impulse and a philosophy of hope for a whole generation of humanity.” Similar notes […]

John Keel has supplied considerable material to The Anomalist over the past few years, notably from the Keelian website maintained by Doug Skinner. Following Keel’s adventures with the Long Island contactees, we, as others, have wondered how Keel’s experiences affected him. Hakan Blomqvist praises the new book by Brent Raynes, John A. Keel: The Man, […]