Era
1930s
53 entries in the archive from the 1930s.
Biographies (21)
Aleister Crowley | Biography
Aleister Crowley, the Leamington Spa-born English occultist who joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1898, received the Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law) at the...
Annie Besant | Biography
Annie Besant, the London-born freethought lecturer, Knowlton Trial defendant of 1877, Fabian Society founding member, Theosophical Society President from 1907 to 1933, and founder...
Arthur C. Clarke | Biography
Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917 to 2008), Royal Air Force radar officer, author of the 1945 paper that specified the geostationary communications satellite, novelist of Childhood's End...
Betty Hill | Biography
Eunice Elizabeth Barrett Hill, New Hampshire social worker whose 19 September 1961 encounter on US Route 3 with her husband Barney became, through the 1964 hypnosis sessions with...
Buzz Aldrin | Biography
Buzz Aldrin (b. 1930), United States Air Force fighter pilot, MIT doctor of astronautics, NASA astronaut, Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot. Second human to walk on the Moon, 20 July...
Charles Halt | Biography
Colonel Charles Irwin Halt, USAF Deputy Base Commander at RAF Bentwaters in 1980 who led the second-night patrol into Rendlesham Forest on 27 to 28 December 1980 and dictated...
George Van Tassel | Biography
George Van Tassel, aircraft engineer turned 1950s contactee, founder of the Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention and builder of the Integratron at Landers, California.
J. Allen Hynek | Biography
Josef Allen Hynek, astrophysicist and scientific consultant to the United States Air Force UFO programmes Project Sign, Project Grudge, and Project Blue Book from 1948 to 1969....
Jack Parsons | Biography
Jack Parsons, the self-taught rocket chemist who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and ran an occult lodge out of his Pasadena house. JATO inventor, OTO magus, FBI file...
Jacques Vallée | Biography
Jacques Fabrice Vallée, the Pontoise-born French-American computer scientist, astronomer, and UFO investigator who collaborated with J. Allen Hynek across the 1960s and 1970s,...
Jesse Marcel | Biography
Jesse Marcel, intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field. Recovered debris from the Foster Ranch on 7 July 1947 with Captain Sheridan Cavitt and was...
L. Ron Hubbard | Biography
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, the Nebraska-born American pulp-fiction writer who served as a US Navy lieutenant in the Pacific theatre during the Second World War, attended the January...
Leonora Piper | Biography
Leonora Evelina Piper, the Boston-born trance medium whose eighteen-year working partnership with Richard Hodgson at the American Society for Psychical Research produced the two...
Lord Hill-Norton | Biography
Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Hill-Norton (1915 to 2004), Chief of the Defence Staff 1971 to 1973, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee 1974 to 1977, and from the late 1980s...
Marie Curie | Biography
Marie Skłodowska Curie, the Polish-born French physicist and chemist who co-discovered polonium and radium with Pierre Curie in 1898, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, won...
Nikola Tesla | Biography
Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American electrical engineer, inventor of alternating current and the Tesla coil. The wireless-power years at Wardenclyffe, the 1899 Colorado Springs Mars...
Sir Oliver Lodge | Biography
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, the Liverpool and Birmingham physicist who built the Lodge coherer in 1894 and transmitted wireless signals across an Oxford lecture-theatre before...
Otis T. Carr | Biography
Otis T. Carr (1904 to 1982), the Baltimore engineer and self-described Tesla student whose OTC Enterprises promoted the OTC-X1 flying-saucer prototype across the late 1950s,...
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd | Biography
Richard E. Byrd (1888 to 1957), United States Navy polar aviator. The contested 1926 North Pole flight, the 1929 South Pole flight, the 1934 Advance Base winter that nearly killed...
Sigmund Freud | Biography
Sigmund Freud, the Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis whose private interest in telepathy and thought-transference ran from the 1890s through to his death in London...
Thomas Edison | Biography
Thomas Alva Edison, the Ohio-born American inventor of the phonograph (1877), the practical incandescent light (1879), and approximately 1,093 patented devices across a working...
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Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories under editor Raymond A. Palmer, who from 1945 ran the Shaver Mystery, a precursor to the flying-saucer era. This page covers that period, not the magazine's wider...
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Doubt (Fortean Society)
Doubt was the journal of the Fortean Society, one of the earliest organisations to systematically collect reports of anomalous phenomena. Published from 1931 through the 1950s.
Fortean Society Magazine
The founding periodical of Charles Fort's intellectual legacy, published by Tiffany Thayer from September 1937, documenting anomalous phenomena including aerial observations,...
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, published since 1934, is the oldest surviving astronautics journal and an early home for serious writing on spaceflight and the...
Wonders
Wonders covered cryptozoology and anomalous phenomena with contributions from Mark A. Hall and other researchers, spanning material from the 1870s through the 1990s.
