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 A Letter from Coral Lorenzen, May 21, 1966. The “long, rather chatty” missive from Lorenzen to Keel gives valuable insight into where the APRO co-founders’ respective heads were on the purposes of those behind the UFOs. CBC News has a piece on an Archivist Delighted to Comb through Mountain of Late UFO Researcher’s Records. Provincial Archives of New Brunswick archivists discuss the huge collection of the late Stanton Friedman, whom we learn started the donation “in the months leading up to his death.” We learn that Friedman was more of a “stacker” than a “filer”–an observation conjuring up memories of college profs’ offices. And though archivist Joanna Aiton-Kerr says that letters written to Friedman indicate Stan was well-regarded, an embedded interview with summer students working with the materials informs us that he would get “Death threat letters from aliens.” And Nick Redfern’s been heavily into various archives about George Adamski and His 1959 Trip to New Zealand. More interesting material on the 50s contactees and government surveillance. (WM)

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